Cards for Her Cause!

SU Comfort Cafe DP, Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, "Trust God" sentiment and Butterfly Punch.  Also used Marianne Creatables edge die, EK Success Scalloped Oval, and MS butterfly punch.

Hello All,

My niece is going to be in a Craft Fair the weekend of July 7 and I ofered to donate some cards for her booth.  She is raising money for her "Rabbit Society" friends.


Along with the lead card above, these are some of the cards I'm sending her way:


 

Bunny is negative of a die cut bunny using retired, green Sizzix Bunny die, sentiment is Papersmooches, DP is SU Comfort Cafe.  Faux stitching doodling and rhinestone for accents.

SU new Storybook Friends on watercolor paper, colored with SU watercolor crayons

TH Rosettes die, Tilda Swirl die by Poppystamps, Paper Smooches sentiment, Prima DP, matching center button made with Epiphany Crafts punch

Spellbinders Tattered Roses dies, Tilda Swirl die by Poppystaps, Paper Smooches sentiment, Prima DP

Sizzix Tattered Roses and Tilda Swirl die cut.

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!
 

Love You Dearly

 Hi Friends,

Here's a stack of cards and alterables that I've been working on recently. I've had an unusually large influx of stamping and crafting goodies come in and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed!!  But in a good way of course LOL!! 

The lead card is part of my experimenting with punching aluminum soda cans.  Although I'm not posting much displaying my recent fascination with altering soda cans (I've ravaged tons of cans recently!!), these first few items are just a sampling.  The leaf stem in the card above is a negative die cut popped up over Kraft printed DP.  The tin flowers were made with a very old, retired Sizzix green die. 

For these framed flowers, I stamped an "Aladine" background stamp called "Fleurineux" (purchased from Frantic Stamper) onto white CS.  The leaf and stem are from SU's "Sweetheart" set.  I placed the stamped background under the framed glass, then used my hot glue gun to attach the tin flower and the orange Prima "Sculptured Flowers" on top of the glass. 

Next, back to a little more traditional card making...

The fabulous rose on this card is from SU's new Stippled Blossom set, it's a 2-step style set.  I first stamped the solid rose in Snow Cap (by Ranger) and then over-stamped the white rose with Cherry Cobbler using the 2nd step of the stamp set.  I created this for the IC over on SCS that I'm hosting this weekend.  My inspiration piece was this "Organic Fabric Suitcase" from My Sweet Muffin.  Come on over and join me!!

I made this card for my dad for Father's day. I recently went to a Scrapbook Convention where I stock up on Tim Holtz dies.  This year I snagged lots of vintage style dies.  This card is made with the TH Large Vintage Fan.  I die cut the fan twice; once using a silver reflector CS piece and a second one using Chocolate Chip CS. 



I cut away the blades from the Chocolate Chip diecut and popped it up over the silver diecut using a fun "Wobble" disk.

I hand wrote the sentiment that says "I'm a big fan" on a scrap piece of DP and and inside I stamped the sentiment that says "Forever" by Paper Smooches.  I loved making this card!!

This robot card was way too easy.  The robot is a chipboard sticker by KaiserCraft.  I doodled around it and added some old "transistors" that I had stashed away for eons.  (I don't know why I had them, I just did!!  It must have been one of those "I might need these some day".)  Anyhow, they worked out perfect for this card. I just bent the wire ends and inserted them like brads into the card 

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!
 

Vintage and Washi

Hi Friends,

I was able to get some new dies this past week that I've been budgeting for for quite awhile!  I was all ready with design and papers, just waiting to get my hands on these dies!

This lead card is inspired by a card I found on Pinterest (click here) by Mona.  The die used here is border die #LR0202 from Marianne Designs.

I die cut two separate boarders and attached them to a 6-3/4 x 5-1/4" card base that I scored at 1-1/4 and 5-1/2.  That gave me a standard sized gate-fold card once I attached my two border pieces.

From there, I added a background piece (Graphic 45 "A Ladies Diary" collection) on the inside and adhered Prima flowers, a Kaiser Paper Bloom flower, butterflies by Cheery Lynn Designs "DL112 Exotic Butterfly Small" and some pearly swirls by Queen and Co.









Next is card using Heartfelt Creations "Tattered Blossoms" set.

This Spellbinders set comes with 5 dies, which I left adhered to the card that they came on.  I ran the card with all 5 dies still attached to it and my DP through the my Big Shot twice, to get all the flowers cut at once.  That made for quick and easy cutting!

I sponged the cut flowers with TH Walnut Ink.  After that, it was just a matter of "stirring" them from the back side so the leaves curled up.  I turned them over, stacked them and glued the centers together. I stacked the 3 larger-sized flowers to create my big flower and the two smaller-sized flowers to create the smaller flower.  The center of the big flower is a silk flower from a bouquet I bought at HL. 

The leafy stuff is another die from Cherry Lynn Designs, #B118 "Pair of Ferns".

The stamped image in the background is Hero Arts "Timely Bird".  The pearls are Queen and Co.  The bow is made of a fiber ribbon that came in a craft package from Ten Second Studios.

Finally, this much simpler card using Washi tapes.  (I had to check out what the fuss was all about!)

I got my rolls from Queen and Co.  Just some basics, a dotted, a a striped and a plaid.  The strip with little flowers came from Creek Bank Creations.

So this card is what seems to be the "obligatory" first card everyone makes with their first new Washi tapes until they figure out what other designs to make with it.  I added a chipboard heart from Emma's Shoppe collection and embellished it with a button and some bling.

If you want to see an "expert" using Washi Tape, check out Michele Woerner's blog -- I was inspired by her creative cards using the tapes and just by coincidence this month her Washi tape card made the cover of CardMaker Mag! (Congrats to you my friend!!)  Now THATS talent!!

Many thanks for stopping by!