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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Merry Christmas
Below is another Christmas card I made on our crafting weekend in October. This is a Meljen's Digital Design image. (I had to dig around to find out where it came from). It's such a sweet Christmas scene & although it took awhile to color those teeny tiny bits & pieces I thought it turned out pretty cute!! I colored them with my Promarkers, and used a clear Wink of Stella marker to make the snow sparkle though you probably can't see it that well in the photo! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
HO HO HO!!!
Hello out there to everyone in card maker land...haven't posted in quite a while!! I'm going to post a number of cards in the next few days, mostly Christmas cards that I made when my three daughters & I spent a weekend in late October being crafty in a house we rented just for that purpose!! We had a blast & want to repeat the weekend craftiness twice a year if possible!! So I made this CAS card using a Hero Arts set #CL113. I searched for examples using this stamp set and found a fellow card maker that used this set to create a card. I basically cased/copied her card except she masked her tree stamps so that one wouldn't be stamped in front of the other. She might have added some other components, but I left it with just the stamps. I searched the last couple of days trying to find her blog & give her kudos for helping me before I posted this, but for the life of me couldn't find her. Anyway...thanks for stopping by to take a look!!
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Happy Birthday!!
As soon as I saw these Tim Holtz Crazy Bird stamps & dies I had to have them! I'm not even an accomplished colorist/cardmaker to justify the cost but I didn't care...they were way too much fun to look at....those faces....hysterical!! I still need to purchase the Tim Holtz Crazy Things that embellish those Crazy Birds! Anyway...I wanted to make my oldest sister Karen a birthday card. She will be 60 + years in about a week & we joke about the older we get the more our bodies break down (aka fall apart!) I made this birthday card for her...his crazy eyes kind of make him look desperate/shocked/alarmed!! I colored him by mixing some Daler-Rowney? watercolor tubes I bought dirt cheap at Walmart. His wings, beak & eyes are colored & die cut out separately & added with dimensional foam. The Tropical Teal colored card stock, Lemon colored card stock as well as the green button are from my stash. The sentiment is from Art Impressions Giant Cake Girlfriend set. I attached the Crazy bird on the card with dimensional foam & doubled up on the foam under his eyes & added glossy accents to make them even more buggier!! I think this card will crack her up & make her smile when she opens it! Sorry for the bad picture!! Thanks for stopping by!
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Sending Smiles
Well this card started off as an experiment., I had no Mojo, it was late at night & I decided to go off the grid & do something totally different for me. You know those telephone books that you NEVER use anymore but the telephone company is still delivering to your front porch? Well we had one delivered to us that day. I've seen other card makers use printed pages from a telephone book, reading books, etc to create cards. I decided to just water color one page with Tim Holtz inks, and die cut something out of it later after it dried. Well silly me forgot that papers such as this are not watercolor paper, so when I added my inks & spritzed with water, the inks didn't magically spread on their own!! Not wanting to waste the ink I just picked the paper up & ran it all through the ink colors I had placed on my mat until it was saturated with color & called it a night. The next evening when it was good & dry I cut flower layers out of it using Spellbinder's Rose Creations die. It looked boring so I spread the layers with some clear Wink of Stellar glitter pen & stuck a button from my stash in the center. Staring at it, I suddenly remembered (by some miracle) that I had ribbon my daughter had given me ages ago that contained the same colors as my flower, so I glued that on & tied a little bow on the end, added my sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp OWH Brave set and added the panel to a purplish card base. As silly as I felt trying something creative like inking up telephone book paper...I really like how it turned out!! The picture doesn't do it justice...the flower looks brighter & sparklier in person. Thanks for stopping by!
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Sunday, September 20, 2015
Total Card Fail!
My granddaughter Makayla turned 10 years old this past Monday, and we're just getting together today to celebrate. I had her gift for a week already, and basically knew what stamp I was going to color for her card. It was yesterday evening when I remembered I still had to make it!! The stamp is Punk Amara from the Paper Nest Dolls, and I colored her up with my Promarkers and added some Clear Wink of Stella to her hair & the star on her shirt. Thought it was really cute so far! I cut her out using an MFT Stitched Oval Die, picked some blue & pink paper from my stash, cut the blue paper with a Simon Says stitched rectangle die, and started to put the card together. That's when it got really ugly!!! Even though it would cover up some of her cute leotards & boots, I thought I would do something different & heat emboss the sentiment onto vellum...first fail...even though I used my anti-static tool, the black embossing powder smudged & left some random sprinkles under some of the words! Also I clearly wasn't thinking when I decided to add it to the card with glue dots on either side...second fail...you can see them through the vellum! Oh well...I told myself...she's only 10 years old. She'll take a 2 second glance at the card, toss it down, & start ripping open her present..she'll never notice the boo-boos. The best (or should I say worst) was yet to come though! I stamped a birthday wish inside the card with black ink, waited a minute to make sure it was dry, then closed up my card to take an overall look. Well look of horror is more like it! I realized I must have gotten ink on my hands somewhere because there was a big black fingerprint on the upper right hand side of the oval, a less obvious smudge on the lower left hand side of the oval, and another big smudge on the top inside of the card... third fail. Believe it or not I didn't totally panic...although there were a couple of swear words that leaked out of my mouth! All the experts call it a "chance to embellish" but I call it one gigantic mess!! Thus the gold stars placed on either side over top of the smudges. It looked okay though...matches the star on her shirt right? I already had gold sequins in the opposite corners though & didn't think it all looked that great together but whatever! As for the inside smudge on the top portion of the card, I simply covered it with a new white piece of cards stock. Went to bed & decided it was okay but of course the ugliness continued the next day when I went to sign it & put it in an envelope. I don't think you can tell in the picture, but the gold star on the left was not sticking well with the glue dot I had used, so I tried to turn it a fraction & smoosh it down, and the pink paper ripped a little underneath. REALLY!!!! Oh well..I'm giving it to her anyway LOL! Thanks for stopping by...sorry to ramble on about it...thought it might give a couple of you a little chuckle!
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