Day 9-The Ornament Card

Good morning all and welcome to Day 9 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post. It's getting closer :) Over the next few days I'll be showing more of the cards I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

This is one of my favorites from the class. A white card base with a layer of pattern paper. The main attraction on this card is the Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornament cuts is a variety of sizes each layered with foam tape to pop it up and give dimension to the ornament. The sentiment is added to the card with 2 copper brads and the a die-cut swirls for extra texture. Sentiment not sure of the stamp set but was stamped in gold ink. Just a sweet card, love the new paper that she has in stock too. Got a few pieces for my own tag making this year or maybe some cards for next year.
Stop back tomorrow for Day 10 of my 12 days......

Day 8-Leaves and Berries

Good morning all and welcome to Day 8 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post.
I've been busy making tags, but not ready to show here yet so today I have another card I had made in a class at my local's home/shop:

 I just love the simplicity of this card, it's on a white card base, 2 layers to hold the stamped image and the embossed mark on both white layers is traced around with a red pen. Not sure if the stamped images are a Close to my Heart stamp or a Stampin up stamp for both the image and the sentiment. Both die-cuts are spellbinders, ribbon going through the sentiment die cut and attached to the gold background, used a corner punch for the corners of the gold layer and liquid pearls for the berries in gold. An easy one to mass produce for to hand out at Christmas if your into that sort of way of doing cards for your family, I just love to do cards so most of my family gets a different one :)
Stop back tomorrow for Day 9 of my 12 days......

Altered Mini Composition Book

Hi you all, have you ever tried altering a cover of a composition book? It can be lots of fun and will give you a unique front cover that can easily be found if you need it quickly. Here is one I did, a Mini Compostion Book I did for a swap with the Cricut Exchange group I'm in with:

 Here is one up close for more detail:

Details:

I used a 4.5” X 3.25” Composition book

Front and back paper came from the DCWV Mademoiselle Paper stack, paper was inked with Distressed ink: Brush Corduroy.

The binding came from paper I received in a swap box-thought it was perfect for this

Stamp: SU Charming set 

Die-cut with Spellbinders: Labels Nine. 

Ink: Brilliance Cosmic Copper.

Various die-cuts from a premade packs: The butterflies came from K&Company SW Nature Butterfly

  Here is the one I did from myself, I love purple so I preferred this paper for myself, it came from the same pack.

This was a fun project and something different it makes a nice gift and with the school specials starting it's a good time to get the books a good price.

Thanks for stopping by today and taking a view from my little corner of the world....

Tigger Birthday Card

Hi All and if your stopping over from Card A Day Blog, welcome. The theme this week is die cuts and when I think of die cuts is either my cricut or my cuttle-bug that I go to for my cuts, this card has both.

This card was made for my grandson Zachy's birthday a couple of weeks ago. Tigger was cut from the cricut, I had gotten him in a swap cause this was one of the cartridges I didn't have. So trades can be good and this one was perfect for this card. The scallop piece behind tigger was die cut from Spellbinders classic scallop oval. The card base was out of a cardstock pack-celebrations. the lettering was from a pack I got at the local Dollar Tree store.

This was the inside of the card with a hand written note on the left hand side of the card. Brought in a piece of the card front to border the inside sentiment.

I love doing cards with die cuts cause it's so fun to see what you can create from paper to turn into a fantastic image.
Thanks for stopping by today and  have a fantastic day.... 

All about Purple

Wow, when I started the research on the color purple for this post I was surprised at what I found out about it. Hi I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Purple is one of my favorite colors along with gold it's a great combination but this post is all about purple.
I found this on Emily Gems:
Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.
Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.
No wonder I like purple so much and I'll have to remember to wear purple on Thursdays now. So this is my Monochromatic Card.

My sister loves purple too, so I thought this would be the perfect card for her birthday in August.

These are the materials I used for the card. The sketch is from Book: Scrapbook page: Maps 2 from Becky Fleck. I used all scraps to make the card and it's based on 1/2 sheet of white cardstock. folded in half to make and A2 card. The bottom stripe peice was cut at 3.5" X 4.25" and the top piece was cut at 2" X 4.25". I use a purple ribbon for the border inbetween the papers. Used spellbinders Lacy ovals and Classic Ovals Large for the sentiment and added a flower I had gotten in a swap that was the perfect color for the card. I used G-studio purple chalk ink for my stamping and used both the SU Tenny Tiny Wishes and the bottom inked border came for a fiskars aged to perfection stamp set. Added some bling rhinestones and all that is left is to add a message to the inside, Easy Peasy took roughly an hour to hour and half to make it. That is what I love about using a sketch everything just falls into place.
Have a fantastic day.....

One Small Flower

Hi everyone I am the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Sympathy cards can be the most trying card to do when the event is taking place, so my thoughts are that it would better to have some done and available for such an event.

 

This card was made for a swap that I was in and the sketch challenge on the Northeaster Scrapbook Friends yahoo group I belonged to.








I cut the blocks of sunflowers out and the mat for it was cut with Spellbinders: Classic Scallop Squares small die 3" X 3". The background pattern paper was cut at 4" X 5.25". The borders (3) layers: the front layer at 2" and the back 2 layers at 1"
 The recipe for the card:
Border paper is from Stampin Up, background mat and the mat paper behind the flower is from My Minds Eye Bella Bella pack. Sunflowers came from Best of Brenda Walton Stack.
Stamp: I got from Micheals
Cardbase: White cardstock from The Paper Company
Ink: SU Basic Black
Punch for the layers: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

This was easily made with the sketch and it would be appropriate for a male or female recipient. I'm glad that I was able to share it with you all.
Wow last month was a bit busy and I plan to be on the blog more often this month. I wish you all a good day....

2 Silhouettes-CADB

Hi all,
I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog and want to welcome all to my blog. The theme this past week has been Wedding and I have a few cards that need to be made for weddings this summer so this worked out perfect for me.

Plus I had to do some cards for a swap that I was in so it was a win-win situation all the way around!

The inspiration of this card came for the latest copy of Paper Craft magazine. They were featuring some wedding cards, so it didn't take long to figure out what I wanted to do for the swap and today day at CADB. There a few others that I would like to try too so you just may see them soon.
< This is the inspiration behind this card, there was just something beautiful on the simplicity of the card.

This is what I used to make the card: It's A2 size card the base is tan cardstock from the paper company pack I think desert pack. The background paper is a brown (leather look) rounded on all the corners and came from the DCWV heirloom pack (lovin this pack at the moment!). Gold rickrack for my stash (my husband used to work in textiles I have lots of this type of stash). Silhouettes in black cardstock scraps. Stickles in distressed antique linen. I did notice with the distress stickles not so much of the glitter look, more of a matte look to it.

The 2nd layer of the card is from the same stack pack cut from the Lucy Labels @ 3.5". I used distressed ink: Brushed Corduroy for the edges of the pattern cut to give it more of antique look to it.

I taped the rickrack to the background and slide the ends behind that. The silhouettes  were cut from the heritage cartridge @ 1 3/4" and the & sign at the same height from the Stone Script cartridge.

This will go in the inside of the card and was cut with the cuttlebug and a spellbinder die I think the classic scallop oval. This was an interesting card to make and I did a few things I don't normally do, like inking the edges and the distress stickles (thought this was a great opportunity to find out how it would look).




Thanks for sharing the day with me and if your up for challenges there is just a couple of days left at the Card A Day Blog to enter.

Invited for Tea-CABD

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend and had a chance to enjoy the hop over at the Card A Day Blog. If you have come from Card A Day Blog welcome to my blog.
The theme this week is invitation and I wanted to try something of a different type of invitation:

How about an invite for tea amongst the girls. This is a lovely way to ask a friend over for tea and talk time.
This card came about mainly from scraps. Since I worked on a journal challenge all day Saturday, I didn't have a chance to prepare a card. But in an hour and half Monday night this is the card I did.

While I was learning how to do the wet emboss technique I did a lot of different cuttlebug folders dry embossing and then wet embossed and added heat embossing powder. Well I kept all the extras in a box, which is so handy when you need to do up something quick.

Recipe for the card:

PAPERS: Card base is from the DCWV Rustic Stack, the doily border is from Coredinations gemstones paper, assortment of colored papers from my scrap stash.

 

INKS: Stampin up basic black and the sentiment was done with studio g chalks, wet embossing was probably VersaMark

 

DIECUTS:  Nestabilities  Labels Nine

STAMPS:  tea cup is SU and the sentiment is CTMH

ADHESIVE:  ATG Tape gun, Scotch 3M glue, pop dots 

PUNCHES: Lace Ribbon, 2 3/8" Extra-Large scallop circle and scallop oval both from SU
 
MISC:    Ribbon from stash, Lavender stickles, Crystal Stickers elements, butterfly stick pin (I received as a gift in a swap)

TECHNIQUES:  Dry Embossing, wet embossing

Don't forget the challenge going on over at Card A Day Blog there is a fantastic prize giveaway for this month and 3 different themes to work with. Thanks for joining me today and remember scraps can be your friend in a time of need, have a great day!
ENTER FEBRUARY CHALLENGE:

Christmas Tree Card

Hi all and if you are stopping by from Card A Day Blog welcome. The theme this week at Card A Day Blog is Christmas at Home and this card is for the memories of growing up at home. We didn't do alot of outdoor lights, but inside the house the tree would take center stage and in the front window. Mom would get the tree up (Dad probably helped with this but I never seen) and the lights on the tree and my brothers, my sister and I would help with decorating the tree. That tree would be up from shortly after Thanksgiving till during the New Year's holiday. So this card is in her memory:

This is a clean and simple card that I made in just a couple of hours today. I love making Christmas Cards cause I seem to experiment more in the embossing side of cardmaking. This is how the card came to be:

I had gotten some new embossing
powder at my local scrapbook store called Black Sparkle from Ranger. I like to stamp images and use the embossing powder to give more umph to the stamped image on a card. You can't see the sparkle so well on the pictures here but this stuff adds a bit of sparkle to the black.

I also stamped both the front sentiment and the inside card sentiment with this embossing powder and chalked the image with Stampin Up garden green chalk. It turned out really sharp! The picture doesn't do it justice:

I die cut the stamped tree and the inside sentiment with Spellbinders Classic Scallop Ovals Large set using the largest die. I really like using these dies cause you see exactly where it's going to cut (fussy cut). I also punched out the front sentiment with Stamping Up extra-large scallop oval.

The card was cut out from the heritage paper pack of The Paper Company A2 size and the green diagonal paper is from a DCWV paper pack The Christmas Combo pack that I got last year. The photo on the right is the inside of the card as I brought the same paper to the inside of the card.

All stamps used are from Stampin Up in various collections, the front sentiment was stuck with 1/16" foam dots.The pieces on each side came from some card stock that I was experimenting with last year when I was trying out a new technique. The technique that I was working on was double embossing by dry embossing the cardstock in a cuttlebug folder (Winter Trees) then wet and heat embossed with Ranger's silver tinsel (which is really thick). So I punched out the trees with a Martha Steward 1" starburst punch and they looked like charms and gave a bit of bling to the card. So this card only took a few hours to cut, stamp, emboss, die-cut and put together a very simple card with a nice impact. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial on this card and keep an eye out on more cards made over the next few weeks here and at Card A Day Blog for any inspiration needed to make your own Christmas cards to give this year. Share a few memories too. Have a great day...

The Challenges I have added this card to are:
Clear it out Challenge post a project of your favorite holiday, using any item from your stash

Come and Get it Challenges anything goes challenge

Sweet Stampin'  anything goes challenge
The Cuttlebug Spot  anything goes challenge

You Know Halloween Card

Hi All and welcome. It's Halloween week at the Card a Day Blog and if you have come here for the first time welcome. Now I am today's designer at the Card a Day blog and I did a card based around a stamp I purchased at Micheal's. Halloween is not my best subject when it comes to card making so I struggled for a while to come up with an idea for a card, when I walked by the $1.00 stamp bin at Micheal's. I came upon this stamp that look so cute that I had to get it and it gave me the inspiration for the card today:

When I saw the witch stamp, I thought that she looked a bit dazed and had to get her. I got the spider and web for an extra stamp so I have some Halloween stamps.











So that  stamp inspired this card. Here is the front of the card:

After I left the store I started to do a little play on words for the concept that was in my head. The bat and the moon was cut from the cricut cartridge Holiday Cakes and yes you can cut paper with the cricut cake cartridges. It was cut out at 2 1/2 inches. The "You Know" was cut at 1" from the Street sign cartridge and I inked it lightly with SU basic black and my finger as the dauber to get the float feeling of the letters. I also inked the orange moon. Black diamond stickles was used on the moon for some bling.

So when I saw that dazed witch, I thought Flying isn't as glamorous as one might think and that was how this card was inspired. I didn't have a cartridge that had a flying witch so I chose that bat and the moon to portray the flying part of the card and the stamp looks like she got back form flying, clever huh.
The inside of the card shows the above words as the sentiment for the inside printed on orange paper from Staples and cut with Spellbinders label thirteen die through the cuttlebug. happy halloween is from the Holiday Cakes cartridge to and was cut out using the Fit to length function (this may be a good way to cut those borders so they fit a card with out trying to figure out the size) on my cricut at 4" cause the plan at first was to have the card in portrait style not landscape style, but as you can see that was changed. All paper used other that the paper from staples was from Keepsake Essentials Reversible paper from the local General Dollar and it doesn't cut to bad on the cricut. You may want to consider the Holiday Cakes cartridge for your next card it has lots of images for various holidays, phrases and a font too.
Don't forget to get yo own cards in for the challenge at a Card a Day Blog for a chance for the prize. Check out the bold this weekend for World Card Making day. I will have some blog candy for the event with a Christmas feel to it to win you have to be a follower or leave comment during the 2 day period, details will be coming on Saturday Oct 1.
I hope you enjoyed the card today, I enjoyed making it. Chat later and I hope you all have a great day!