SC149 Birthday Boy

I made this for SCS's Sketch Challenge for last Tuesday.

Its a card for a Birthday Boy.

I used used my Watercolor Wonder Crayons for the first time. I have had them a whole week and been too busy to use them. I have one more set to get and I can't wait.

I painted with mostly the Neutrals and the Bold Bright's for this Card.

I used some of my Michaels Dollar stamps "airplane and Car" Purchased last spring, and a Boy from SU retired "Kids at Play". The red, white and blue ribbon was purchased at Wal-mart. I layered using YoYo Yellow, Brilliant Blue and Real Red. I used my "Mosaic" embossing folder in my Cuttlebug to emboss the Yellow and Blue matted strip. I used my "D'vine Swirl" folder to emboss the designer cardstock. I purchased the designer cs at a discount last spring from my local scrapbooking store. It was a light grey with white spots, it was called Park Ave made by American Crafts. It is light pink on the opposite side. I felt the Grey went well with the air plane, I colored the circles using my SU markers of the same colors as the matting, and added Green Galore because it went with one of the greens I used to paint the grass in with. The other greens were Certainly Celery, Gable green. The shadow spots are all in Sarah Sand. I like how it turned out. What do you think?

Item 3 for Cricut Challenge #1

Item 3 for Cricut Challenge #1 Is make a 3d Object using a font cartridge.

I made this little Scrapbook Display Frame using

Mini Monograms. When I cut the turquoise squares with slots I was intending to make a box shaped ornament, but quickly changed to something else.

I cut all the squares at 4"; 4- with slots and 6- just squares. The plain squares had to be cut using real dial size.

The flower on the cover was cut at 2 1/2" and the circle "a" at 2". The small flower on the back cover was cut at 1 1/4" and the circle center was punched out with a 1/2" circle punch.

I used turqouise grosgrain ribbon to attach the Initial flower to the front. I used 4 coasters to make the covers. The Designer Paper was some I recieved cut as a christmas present last year I do not know the maker.

I traced the coasters to make the covers and then trimed the tips off with a corner rounder not all the way inserted. I sanded the edges a bit after attaching the cardstock and paper to the cover. The Silver Glitter ribbon I used for the binding was a purchased from Wal-mart clearance after last Christmas. I threaded it through the slit squares and then spaced the gap about 1/4" and attached the ribbon to one coaster centering them on both ends. Then I attached the second coaster using super tacky tape I bought from Taylor Van Bruggen's Blog. It is similar to the red super sticky mounting tape. The 6 plain squares were then attached to the backs of the sloted squares and the coaster covers inside using tape runner glue.

I didnt put pictures in this yet, but I intend to finish it for my DD as a gift.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Item 4 for Cricut Challenge #1

On a thread I chat on on SplitCoast we decided to do a monthly challenge starting this month.

This month has 5 challenges. #4 on the challenge is make something using Orange and Brown to celebrate Thanksgiving. I have been wanting to make a star box since I saw it on Val Stangles Blog a few weeks ago. So this is the box I made. I didnt have a score pal so I had to score using my paper cutter.

The above link will take you to Vals blog it has a link to a great tutorial for the box. I modified my box slightly so It would work on a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of Kraft paper. I felt it would make a sturdy base for the box.

You really need to look at Vals blog to see a fantastic box. Mine is mediocre at best, and the only designer paper I had to work with the colors challenged was the Chocolate Chip Assortment I got from SU that is now retired. I colored the dots in with Real Rust, Old Olive & Summer Sun SU markers. I love doing this technique with the dots. I then cut some real rust colored Cardstock for the top half of the box. Next I attached the bottom of the star box to a piece of Really Rust cardstock with glue and then put a heavy roll of masking tape on top to apply downward pressure while the glue dried. When it was dry I trimmed the Really Rust cardstock even with the outside edge of the box, to form the bottom. Next I adhered the ribbon to the box. The acorn leaf border was cut at 2 1/2 inches using my Cricut Doodle charms Cartridge. I used my Water Color Wonder Crayons Basic Black and a fine tip aqua painter to add the lines and details( see small insert). then adhered it to the middle to cover the seam. I also used the Tag setting to cut 1 Acorn tag and 2 green leaf tags at 2 1/2", for leaving a little message. I tied the tags together using a 1/4" loopy satin brown ribbon and an Orange Organza 1/2" ribbon. I forgot to go dig out tissue paper to stuff in the box to give it a more finished look. I plan to put a little candy in this for a friend around Thanksgiving.

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Cards For Fun

I decided I needed to make some more playful cards for birthdays. I am running out of them.

On the first card I masked the card front with a rectangle made by punching two squares in cardstock and placing it over the front. I then used a sponge to add Green Galore Ink to the Whisper White card base. I then used Versa Magic Midnight Black and my Autumn Leaves "Swirls" to add a print on the white sections and frame the green rectangle. I then tied a black and white gingham ribbon around the card. I felt like it needed a bit more and I wanted to add some embellishment. I chose these green MM tropicals brads but didnt want to put them through the card base. I chose to punch a few circles out of Black cardstock with my 1/2 " and 1 3/8" Circle punches. I decided they needed a little depth so I embossed them with my cuttlebug Textile folder. then adhered the brads and placed them on the card. After I stamped "Brithday Wishes". I liked the look and took a picture. I didnt like the look of the picture so I then took my Snow Flurries stamp set and My Green Galore Ink and added some green astriks shaped flakes. I now love how the card turned out and how simple it is.

My second card is much more chunky and playful. I started my picking up the Green Galore frame shape my friend sent me from her "Accent Essentials" Cricut cart. I added a white base and trimmed it to fit with scissors. Then I looked at the cut outs again and chose the red various circle with spokes in Real Red cut with the same Cricut cart. I was thinking Christmas. and I started layering red flakes on the card using My two Ek snowflake punches. I didn't like it that well so i began to look for a background color and boy did the color pop when I used this dark Blue cardstock. SO I Punched some snow flakes of that color and layered them and added alternating colors and gem stones for centers. I embossed the background using my "Bubbles" Folder and then trimmed the corners of the base and the abckgound with a corner rounder. I tied a red satin ribbon around the blue before adhering it to the base and then mounted the decorated frame on dimensionals. Looking at it I decided the green frame needed something so I punched out a lot of little red circles using my double circle punch and adhered them to the fram and then the background to tie it all together. When it was all finished I felt it needed a bit more green so I sponged green galore on the card base. THis was a fun card to make and I think it turned out great. I decided it was more of a fun birthdy card then a christmas card so I stamped the "Happy Birthday" Sentiment from SU Alphabet Soup in SU Brilliant Blue and then stamped off and rolled it in SU Real Red. then stamped it on the white in the frame. It was fun card to make and put together and I think it turned out quite festive. What do You think?

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Blue & Silver snowflakes SC148

Last week I posted a card I made that looked similar to this one. I had intended to make it for SC148. I finally had time to do a remake of it for SC148.

Most items are the same except I also added some snowflakes stamped in Moonlight Wite on the blue card stock. I also used all brads for the gemstones on the new card.

I used a decorative scissor with a longer wave and silver cording. This time I wrapped the cord in the opposite direction. I also added some Sakura Stardust glitter to my Silver snowflakes on the lower blue panel. To add some shimmer on the vellum I rolled my brayer on an embossing ink pad and then across the vellum lightly. I sprinkled kaliedescope embossing powder on the snowflakes and heat set it. I really like how this turned out.

Until Later ... Happy Stamping!

Chocolate Chip Baby Card

My DD#5 needed a card for a friend. I put this one together really quickly using "Welcome Little One". The colors are a retired Pink form SU and Chocolate chip. I stamped the image and saying with Stazon Timber Brown ink. I used my water colored pencil to color and my aqua painters to blend them. I distressed the edges of the pink matting and used my matte brown Creative Impressions brads. I am almost out of these and I need to get more. The chocolate chip card stock was embossed using D'Vine swirl in my cuttlebug. I am glad that they are coming out with more folderers with this type of pattern. I cant wait until they are released. "Birds and Swirls", "Perfectly Paisley", and "Floral Fantasy" are a few of the new folders that I am waiting to get. I used petite swiss dot organdy ribbon from Walmart and a touch of pink satin. I punched the tag and matting for it using my SU tag Punches.

Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Christmas Duo

I made the following two cards for different swaps on SCS. The first is a simple Snowflake card. I embossed using my Snowflake A2 folder on Vellum and then trimmed the edges of the vellum and white cardstock with Fiskers decorative scissors. I attached the vellum to the white cardstock using Creative Memories "Frosted splits". I totally intended to use this card for my SC148 challenge and forgot about it while making the cards. I got kind of caught up in the design. The blue cardstock is SU Bordering Blue. I stamped with "snowflurries" in "VersaMark" Ink, after I heat embossed with silver embossing powder"Holiday Greetings" from SU Sincere Salutations set. I used a fuzzy cord ribbon (lighter than it appears here) and wrapped it around the white snowflake layer and then added a silver snowflake with a clear gemstone brad, and 3 small hero arts clear gemstones. A very simple card but I like how it turned out.

The second card uses one of my tag stamps form the original SU Tag Punch Box. I stamped with Bashful Blue and then colored just the Real Red marker over joy and stamped it on a separate piece of cs and then trimmed it down and adhered it to the tag, after coloring it with Green Galore, Only Orange, YoYo Yellow and Basic Black SU markers. I used a small piece of Red Cardstock to mat the tag. I tied the red checked gingham ribbon around the D'vine swirl embossed retired SU Light blue cardstock. I used my QuiKuts Snowflake Die in my Cuttlebug and cut on White cardstock. After cutting themout I put through my Xyron "X" sticker maker and then adhered glitter to the snowflakes. They were mounted on the card using dimensionals.

I think they both turned out cute I just love snowflakes and Blue cards, in the winter. I really loved the card posted by Jill in this post on her blog "Inkgenius" , It is so beautiful, Check It Out.
Until Later ...HappyStamping!