Prettiest Snowflakes

I love mixing colors on a card and stamping snowflakes is the perfect time to use that combo.

 I have a thing for snowflake stamps and snowflake dies so I knew I needed this set from Tim Holtz.  Each one is so lacy.  Each snowflake was inked with Distress Stamp pad inks on watercolor paper then I spritzed the images with water so they would end up a little "messy".  

 I stamped the sentiment first and embossed the black ink with clear embossing powder so the ink wouldn't run as I added the other colors.   I added dot accents here and there with Stickles.  

My card fits this Color Throwdown challenge.

Plus I thought it fit the Time Out challenge.  I know they are circles but I thought the way they were scattered reminded me of this photo.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Unscripted sketch time

Any excuse I can get, I will use a sketch to create a card.  That is why I love being part of the Unscripted sketch blog and the Card Positioning Systems sketch blog.

 I didn't share my Unscripted sketch card with you last week so today I am going to share last weeks and this weeks together. 

This sketch was a bit of a challenge, but it was fun to stack the cut out leaves and butterflies from the Little Yellow Bicycle papers.  Notice the pretty punched corners on the light blue paper, LOVE that look.

The leaves and the butterflies are both in pieces of the patterned papers.

And, here is this weeks card.

Arielle from the Wax Fruit Company let the team use one of her digital stamps if we wanted. I just love what she creates so I found this fun.

I opened a Word document and inserted the little birdhouse image.  I sized it to the size I wanted to use and the I printed it three times. Once on plain white cardstock, once on the brick patterned paper by My Little Shoebox and again on the text print patterned paper by My Mind's Eye.  I used portions of each of the tree print outs to paper piece my design together for my card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 116 – MAGIC MOMENTS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Twig and Elizabeth Park/Little Yellow Bicycle and Double Dot/BoBunny
Word stickers – Cosmo Cricket
4-in-1 punch - Kreaxions
White Enamel Accents
Foam tape – 3M

SKETCH 117 – SEASON’S GREETINGS card
Materials list:
Digital stamp – The Wax Fruit Company
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – My Little Shoebox, Die Cuts With a View and My Mind’s Eye
Copic markersRub-on sentiment – Paper Smooches/EAD Designs
Glitter Glue - Stickles
Foam tape – 3M

KWdesigns Color Inspiration #50

Guess what we did yesterday??? I just had to share this photo first.

I didn't start playing with these color challenges until just recently and I can tell you, they are so much fun. This week is #50!

Each combo usually takes me "out of my box" because I never stopped to put those particular colors together. For this one this week, it was a real challenge to add the brown in with the other colors.

It was fun to find this adorable patterned paper by We R Memory Keepers that had most of the colors needed and to use that as my base piece.

The chipboard piece was covered with this cute woodgrain patterned paper and I accented that with Cinnamon Stickles. The birds are rub-ons by Luxe and I just rubbed them onto yellow paper. The card base is dot paper by Bo Bunny Press.

I wanted to keep real simple with this card and in order to get that brown in, my card base is brown Core'dinations cardstock. The rub-ons are also brown.
I simply cut thin, uneven strips from the other colors to finish off my color scheme.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

LOVE BIRDS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned Paper – Cosmo Cricket, We R Memory Keepers and Dot paper/Bo Bunny Press
Rub-on – Luxe
Buttons
Chipboard frame – Jenny Bowlin
Chipboard leaf – ColorBok
Martha Stewart Border punch
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Stickles
Ribbon
Copic Markers
Foam tape – 3M

SO HAPPY TOGETHER card
Materials:
Cardstock
Rub-on greeting – Deja Views
Flower ribbon trim
Mini glitter brads – We R Memory Keepers
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Machine Sewing
Swiss Dot embossing plate - Cuttlebug

Santa's Workshop

This is a very simple Christmas decoration. It is about 10" tall and has a ribbon so that it can hang on the wall or a doorknob.
It is a wonderful, vintage image that I purchased at The Vintage Workshop. I love that place! They have so many great images for all occasions. You buy a set and then download that. You can now print the images as many times as you want which is great for mulitiple cards. One way you buy them is that you print them in their actual size, the other way to buy them lets you be more creative with the images.

I printed this image on Worldwin's Treasures paper. The reason I picked this particular paper is it has a slight texture so my finished project looks like it is printed on canvas and the inks from my home printer look just amazing on this paper. I did glue that to chipboard to stiffen it.

You can see in this little snippet, that I then took Stickles and Tulips, Glitter 3-D Fashion paint and accented the features on my picture. I used the Glitter 3-D Fashion paint on most of the images where I just wanted some sparkle but I still wanted the image and the details to show through. I used that on his hat, the window frames, the sleigh, his shoe buckles and more.

Thanks for visiting, Linda

Materials:

Vintage image - The Vintage Workshop (online)

Stickles - Ranger

Glitter 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip

Ribbon

What a FUN way to give a gift!

There are so many ways to put together a "wrapping" for that little gift. Just that extra touch that says you care. I wanted to pull out some of my new JustRite stamps and incorporate them in a project.
I cut out two pieces of red paper in a stocking shape for each Christmas stocking. To add to the details, I machine sewed around each stocking. The snowflakes on the toes are a punch to which I added some Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip (you can find this at Michaels and Walmart). I love this glitter because it adds some great sparkle right where you want it and still lets the underneath project show through. The snowflake is attached with a brad that is also coated with the 3-D Glitter.

The JustRite stamps I used are from the Christmas Stamp Ensemble that goes with 3 1/4" Harmony Circle Stamper III. What is so cool about this set of stamps is that the set comes with 6 choices for a border and 6 choices for the centers of the circle. You can also just use the border or the inside making this set even more versatile. The Harmony Circle Stamper III is designed to hold the rubber stamps you want to use - one handle for all of these various stamps. Pretty cool!!!

I added some of the Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip to the white snowflake on the first stocking and some red Stickles to the holly berries on the second stocking. A ribbon tie allows the stockings to be hung on the tree. I added in some candy canes but I could so see this being a fun way to give a friend a gift card.

Thank you for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Materials for stockings:

Patterned paper - Making Memories (2 sided paper)

Snowflake punch - Martha Stewart

Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint - Tulip

Brads

Red Stickles

Ancient page stamp pads in Coral Reef and Pine

Ribbon

JUSTRITE Circle stamps

CPS #94 and 2 Sketches 4 You cards

I am having way too much fun creating Christmas or Winter themed cards!!! I stayed with that theme this week for both my Card Positioning Systems card and Kazan's Sketch #15 at 2 Sketches 4 You card. I have said this before, but I just love the jumping off place that sketches give for creating. Sometimes it is fun to just get a bit of inspiration for your creations from a sketch, sometimes it is fun to follow the sketch very closely. I love the little wave look at the bottom of the sketch so I took that literal and handcut a couple wave shaped pieces from plain white cardstock. The fun thing here was that I then painted them with this Glitter Dimensional Paint. You get a great amount of sparkle and it is easy to apply.

I hope you can see it here - look very closely. Do you see the "dimension" of the rub-on bird piece? It is just so cool. These rub-ons are "thick" or "dimensional". They really make a stunning addition to a card. I found this set at Michaels in the Christmas supplies.

For this card, I combined a couple things, my I Am A Scrapaholic kit for December and the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch. I also got in my brand new Distress Stickles by Ranger!!! OHHHHH what a wonderful color - Broken China.

The snowflake piece is a Glimmer chip by Tattered Angels. It comes with a soft silver look but I also sprayed it with Silver Glimmer Mist for some additional sparkle and accents from my new Stickles.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SNOWY BIRDS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Christmas Is/Cloud Nine/Fiskars (2 sided)
Bird rub-ons – Royal Brush/Royal and Langnickel
Glitter Dimensional paint – Plaid
Snowflake punch – Papershapers/EK Success

SILVER SNOWFLAKE card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Heidi Swapp
Broken China Stickles – Ranger
Snowflake piece – Tattered Angels
Ribbon – Michaels
Silver Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

Christmas Tree Branches card

A quick card to help celebrate the season!
The products used on this card are from the I Am A Scrapaholic November kit. The papers are SEI and I cut the branches out of one of the patterned papers.

Red Stickles highlighted the red berries on the branches and I covered the chipboard ornament with another one of the papers in the kit. Something that I just loved was I painted the ornament with Angel Wings Shimmerz paint and it gave it the most wonderful little sparkle but I couldn't quite capture that with the camera. You will have to imagine it!!! A couple extra dots of sparkle were added with Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CHRISTMAS TREE BRANCH card

Materials list:
Patterned papers – Alpine Frost/SEI
My Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard flourish
Machine Sewing
Cinnamon Stickles – Ranger
Angel Wings Shimmerz
Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint – Tulip

Creating Backgrounds - PART 10 - Glimmer Mist

I have shared some ideas for creating backgrounds using Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels before but I just had to pull them out again. I picked up a couple new colors recently and of course, I had to try them out.
What I had mostly wanted to accomplish with this first card was to create a fancy, colored paper to stamp the bird on. I actually did stamp and emboss the bird first and then colored that paper with a couple colors of Glimmer Mist.

One of my new colors was Coffee Shop so I sprayed that and then accented it with a little bit of the Key Lime Pie. I thought that little bit of green helped my piece match my background paper. From the side, the Coffee Shop brown has a copper sparkle. The leaves on the stamped piece were accented with Platinum Stickles. The background piece that this circle sits on was punched on both sides with the Stampin' Up notebook punch and then stamped with the alphabet stamp by CatsLife Press. The punched edges were distressed with the Tonic Paper Distresser and inked/colored with the Powder Puff chalk inks by Quick Quotes. If you haven't seen or heard of these stamp pads before, you need to take a look. Great colors and they are so easy to work with.

For this next card, the flowers are part of a piece of Irresistible patterned paper by Quick Quotes. I cut out the flowers and they were plain white with the black outline lines. I filled in the bottom petal of each of the flowers with the Icicle Stickles. The Icicle Stickles has a chunkier glitter in it.

The help the flower match the purple patterned paper I used for the card, I sprayed the flower with the Fully Purple Glimmer Mist and then I used the new Copper Metallics to spray the entire front of the card. This color is meant to give a nice "Glimmer" to the project rather then a strong color change. Notice how it colored the Stickles. I wish you could see the really cool GLEAM the card has from the Copper.

Thank You for Visiting, Linda (lbpost)

I LIKE YOUR STYLE card

Materials list:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned papers – Bob’s Boxers/Quick Quotes Papers
Bird stamp – Inkadinkado
Alphabet stamp – Catslife Press
Greeting stamp – Printworks
Pearl brad – Gartner
Powder Puff stamp pads – Quick Quotes
Platinum Stickles – Ranger
Hole punch – Stampin’Up
Machine sewing
Ribbon
Coffee Shop and Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

MISSING YOU card
Materials list:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned papers – Irresistible and Bandana Rama Collection/Quick Quotes Papers
Icicle Stickles – Ranger
Fully Purple and Metallics Copper Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Rhinestone swirls – Prima

Rub-on greeting – Making Memories

Pumpkin Kind of Day

One last card to go with the theme of the day.
The paper from a paper pad by Crafty Secrets and is just so fitting.

The large orange brad is by Queen & Co and I added this cute spider brad into it. I just poked a hole with my Crop O Dile and added the brad into that hole.

The little pumpkin head doll piece is a Cotton Scraps accent by Crafty Secrets. It is fun to fray the edges of these and then I did some machine sewing around the edges.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

BOO – LITTLE GIRL card

Materials:Solid card stock

Patterned paper – Earthy book/Crafty Secrets/Heartwarming Vintage Collection

Cotton Scraps Halloween image – Crafty Secrets/Heartwarming Vintage Collection

Big brad and spider brad – Queen & Co.

Zig Zag scissors – Family Treasures

Letters for BOO – Thickers/American Crafts

Black Stickles - Ranger

Machine sewing

CPS#85 and a Card and some CUTE pics

For Card Positioning Systems blog this week, we again had a sponsor. This time it was Artistic Outpost stamps. Can I say the set I picked was just plain FUN! The theme as you can see from my resulting card is Route 66 and that makes these the best for creating a masculine theme card, among other things. Be sure to check out the cards the rest of the team made and check out the other stamps that Artistic Outpost offers.

I embossed the bike with black ink and black embossing powder just so that the image would be a little stronger. I stamped the "Route 66" stamp and then "colored" that in with a spray or two of my Memories Mists spray.
I wanted my background to be a little different and unique so I used my brayer. I inked it with a Distress Ink pad and spritzed it with water before I ran it across my plain white cardstock. After I stamped the motorcyle, I stamped the map stamp repeatedly over the entire piece with a brown ink.
And, I picked the Bonus sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You for this week to create the card above. I LOVE this sketch! Most of my elements to the card are stamped.
The flourish is stamped and then accented with black Stickles. The butterflies are stamped and embossed with a NEW yellow embossing powder from Clearsnap.
AND how does it get ANY CUTER!!!!!

These are our two youngest grandkids. Riley was just so excited when he learned that his new cousin was a boy and can you just see how excited they are to be able to spend time together. It will be no time whatsoever when they are running around the yard together.

Thank You for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

ROAD TRIP card
Materials: Route 66 - Stamps courtesy of Artistic Outpost
Patterned paper – Basic Grey
Black ColorBox stamp pad – Clearsnap
Black embossing powder – Top Boss/Clearsnap
Tie Dye Distress Ink – Ranger
Yellow Memories Mists/Stewart Superior

BLESSINGS TO YOU card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Prism
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye and October Afternoon
Martha Stewart border punch
Cuttlebug vine die
Rhinestones – Michaels
Flourish and stitched circle stamp – Autumn Leaves
Abc stamp – Stampin’ Up
Butterfly stamp – Inkadinkado
Black Stickles
Yellow embossing powder and ColorBox stamp pads - Clearsnap

CPS #84 and MORE

Remember that World Card Making Day is coming up fast and to add to the celebration I am posting a couple cards. If you have forgotten, it is this Saturday, October 4th. Both were created with the inspiration of sketches. The first one is the sketch for this week at Card Positioning Systems blog. I LOVE this sketch and I have used one of my absolute favorite paper companies right now, We R Memory Keepers.I used a black chipboard shape from Cosmo Cricket. I just love black chipboard, LOVE the contrast it gives against so many colors of papers especially this yellow I used here. To dress it up just a little bit, I coated the flower with pink Stickles. That's it, a coat of Stickles and I have some SERIOUS bling!!!
Then I also needed to play along with Kazan's Sketch #10 at 2 Sketches 4 You this week. I decided it was time to pull out some Christmas/Winter themed papers because you just have to work ahead when it comes to projects for the holidays.
These little snowmen were cut out of one of the prints by My Mind's Eye and to give them a little more punch, I coated each one with Gloss Accents by Ranger. This just gives them so much life. The littlest snowman is attached with foam tape so that I also added some dimension.
These little felt snowflakes by Creative Impressions come in white, light blue and dark blue and I got mine to fit in with the winter look by adding some of the Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. I love this stuff. You can find it in the t-shirt decorating department of stores like Michaels. I put a dot on each of the brads too. It is just hard to really show you the sparkle that this added.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)
YOU ARE MY FAVORITE card
Materials:
Patterned paper – Delight and Gala/Hoopla/White Out collection/We R Memory Keepers
Black chipboard swirl/flower – Fleuriste/Blackboard/Cosmo Cricket
Stickles – Ranger
Glitter brad – Creative Impressions
Rub-on words – Making Memories
Fluid Chalk stamp pad – Clearsnap
Coluzzle circle template

THREE SNOWMEN card
Materials list:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Be Merry collection/My Mind’s Eye and BoBunny Press
Felt snowflakes – Creative Impressions
Brads – Making Memories
Self-adhesive paper ribbon – K&Co.
Stickles - Ranger
Gloss Accents– Ranger
Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint - Tulip
Fluid Chalk stamp pad – Clearsnap
Machine Sewing

BLISS card and KIT CLUBS

So, first of all, let me tell you I am a fan of KIT CLUBS!!! I am on the DT for I AM A SCRAPAHOLIC's Kit Club , I know that there are many other kits out there and they are just plain fun! WHY? Because someone else has gone to the trouble of finding new and exciting products that all work together. Do you know how many scrapbook stores I could go to to put this mix of products together? I have found most Kit Club owners want to find fun and unique items that make their kit stand out and Lynn is no exception. If you have never subscribed to one, try it for a three month subscription. FUN STUFF!!!

This particular card is a little more 3-D then I would normally put together but it just happened that way!!I cut out a flourish design from one of the 7 gypsies prints. I inked the cut edges with the Fluid Chalk stamp pads. I then added glitter with the Tulip Glitter Dimensional Fabric Paint and that caused the edges to curl a little bit - I loved that look. I took just a section of one of the die cut pieces of the chipboard. I stamped it quickly with the dictionary print stamp and then just sprayed it with the Lime Glimmer Mist. Easy, fast and yet stunning!!!
The butterfly was another piece that was fast and easy. I applied the butterfly mask to the Core'dinations cardstock. If you aren't familiar with a mask like this, it is meant to "cling" to your paper and not stick as in with adhesive. This way, you do whatever kind of coloring you want and then you simply remove the mask and you have a resulting shape. I just brushed or rubbed a brown, Fluid Chalk stamp pad over the mask. This put color around the edges and in the holes. When the mask was removed I had a butterfly shape. I cut around that shape leaving a border of the brown ink and then I took a fine tip pen to give added accent to the shape. I filled in some of the areas with Stickles in a Cinnamon color - a product that was part of a recent kit.
Thanks again for visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

From the August IAAS kit - Materials list:Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – 7 gyspies
Die Cut Chipboard – Inque
Key Lime Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Dictionary stamp – Stampers Anonymous
Butterfly mask – Heidi Swapp
Fluid Chalk stamp pads – Clearsnap
BLISS ticket – Tim Holtz
Tulip Glitter Fabric Dimensional paintStickles - Ranger

Got Inspiration?

You might know that I am part of the CPS blog team (Card Positioning Systems) and we work with sketches each week. I can think of designs on my own, but I just LOVE the inspiration that comes from working with a sketch! I decided to step out of my box a little bit and work with the Sketch This blog sketch for this week! Since I seem to "think" in the lines of making cards more then layouts, I used their sketch and created a card. I have sooooo been wanting to cut up this yummy Bo-Bunny Press flower paper so that was my launching point for this card. Yes, GASP, I do cut up entire, brand new pieces of 12" x 12" pieces of paper just for cards and yes, I picked up this piece just so I could "cut out" these flowers and the vine!!! I will even BUY a piece of paper just for cardmaking! Once you have decided that that is OK, then it is pretty easy!

The stitches on this card are rub-on ones from Die Cuts With a View. I love to use my sewing machine on cards and layouts but this was the quick way to add some stitching and it feels a little like cheating!!! You might also notice the "distressed" edges to the dot paper. I am recently in love with the Tonic Paper Distresser. It is a fast and easy way to rough up your cut edges a little bit. It gives a little more intense look then just using sandpaper and it is so easy to use.

It is a little hard to see but I did use Stickles for the middle of one of the flowers and of course, the last little touch to finish my card is the addition of some rhinestones. Since this card just seems like a "girl thing" anyway, it must have some BLING!

Materials: Solid cardstock, Patterned paper – Velvet Floral/Back to Basics and Ella Toile/Shabby Princess/Bo-Bunny Press, Fluid Chalk stamp pad – Clearsnap, Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc, Rub-on greeting – Bo-Bunny Press, Rub-on stitching – Die Cuts With a View, Paper Distresser – Tonic, Stickles - Ranger

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(Will you cut up a piece of paper just to create a card or to cut out a design?)

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)