This is the birthday card I made for my mom. Today is her 60th birthday! I'm going home to be with my family tomorrow. I'm excited, I haven't been home since last Christmas/New Years. I made this card for a challenge on the Paper Crafts website. The challenge was to make a diamond fold card. I got the instructions here. The tutorial is really easy to follow. The stamps are from Lockhart Stamp Company. I colored the image with copic markers and used a black gelly roll glaze pen for the doodling around the edges.
This is a card I made for the Starving Artistamps Doodle Factory challenge on Paper Craft Planet. The challenge was to create a card using acetate. Acetate isn't my favorite thing to use on my cards. I guess it's because I never quite know what to do with it. I stamped my Doodle Factory stamps on white paper and colored them with my Copic markers. I cut them out and adhered the princess and mushrooms to the acetate. The onion carriage and Happy Birthday sentiment was adhered to the base of the card. Hope you have a Happy New Year!
Here is the sketch challenge posted this month on the Yahoo Embossing group that I belong to. I didn't like the sketch at first, but once I got my card made, I kind of like how it turned out. I'll probably be using this sketch again. When I made this, I had just finished addressing all my Christmas cards and was not in the mood to touch another Christmas stencil or paper! So I opted for a spring look! This distressed paper is my favorite line from Lasting Impressions. I just love the look of it. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday!
I had trouble thinking of something my brother would like for Christmas. He finally gave me a couple ideas including a big chocolate bar. This is one of the really big Hershey's chocolate bars that I covered with white cardstock, doodled around the edges with a brown Zig pen, and then added my punch Rudolph. I used my purple and pink Marvy oval punches for his body, muzzle and ears. I used a small round punch for the eyes and nose. I hand cut the antlers. His neck looks too long to me now. Oh well. My brother won't care! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas day!
You might remember around Halloween time I dressed my dog Rusty up as a cat and entered her photo in a contest sponsored by my local florist. We won 2nd place in that contest and received a $75 gift card to the florist. They are now having a holiday photo contest, and the first place winner can receive a $100 gift card. My mom will be celebrating her 60th birthday on December 30th and I would love to surprise her with a HUGE floral arrangement for her birthday. If you'd like to vote, you can do so by going here. You can't miss Sammy dressed up as Santa!
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I love the sketches listed every Friday on Taylored Expressions website. I've been wanting to participate in them but never seem to find the time. I finally had time this weekend to work on the sketch, and was inspired by my new Lasting Impressions cupcake template. I dry embossed the cupcake and the sentiment is a metal embellishment by Lasting Impressions. Hope you're having a great weekend and finding the time to spend the holidays with your family and friends!
It was a lot of work, but I made a dry embossed Christmas card for almost all my friends and family this year. I sent out about 40-50 cards. I have wanted to do this in previous years, but embossing takes a lot longer than just stamping a card. I just ran out of time the last couple years. This year I chose a couple of simple designs and mass produced a few different card designs.
In November, I signed up for a card crop at Scrapbooks Plus, and they had card kits you could buy. A copy of the card sample was included, and all the paper and ribbon you needed to make 8-10 cards. I bought several kits and spent an entire day there working on my dry embossed cards. This is one of the cards I made there. I changed the design a little from what was given in the kit. I was hoping to send out cards that were flat to save some money but it didn't work out that way. I almost always use foam tape with my embossing to give the images some dimension. I used two different Lasting Impressions templates for this card (the dog is one template and the winter hat is another template). Hope you're having a great week!
Here is a gift card holder similar to the one I posted yesterday. This one holds two gift cards. Instead of taping the bottom gift part together so it just holds one card at the top, I added the two holders inside. When the recipient takes the top of the gift off, the bottom box part opens to reveal the two gift cards. I almost like this design better than the one I posted yesterday!
Isn't this cute?! I'm really proud of myself for coming up with this design. When I was looking up gift card templates, I saw a few shaped ones and thought it would be so cute to have one shaped as a gift.
Here are the basic instructions: - Gift box is two pieces of cardstock, 4 1/4" square
- Adhere 3 sides together (leaving the top part open) and add some tape halfway up so the gift card doesn't fall down into the box. You want to see half of it sticking up when it's opened
- Box top is two pieces of cardstock 4 3/4" x 2"
- Adhere 3 sides together (leaving the bottom part open)
- Decorate with patterned paper & ribbon - might want to think about this before you adhere the cardstock pieces together. I had to take mine apart a couple times to add the ribbon.
- Add a to/from tag. I just hand cut mine and stamped the "to/from"
You could add a brad in the corner of the box top to make the top hinge off the box. I didn't do that because mine is going to a guy. I didn't think he would get it.
This is the Christmas card I made for everyone at my office. I wanted something quick & simple, and cheap since I was mass producing them (I needed 45 to give one to all my co-workers). I got the idea for this in one of Laura's 10 in 10 card classes. Mine is a little different but I have to give her credit for the idea. This card is simple, I hand cut the red pieces, adhered them to the card and added black brads. Next I put the ribbon through a pop can top (for the buckle) and adhered it to the card. That's all there is to it! Everyone at work loved them. I took the day off from work yesterday to try to catch up on a few things. I might have to do that every December, it made a world of difference in my stress level! My shopping is almost done! Cards are almost finished!
A guy at work asked me to make a Christmas card for a girl that he has a crush on. I thought of this stamp and thought it would be perfect. I got this stamp last year and this is the first time I've used it until now. The reindeer stamp is by CC Designs. The little round stamp is from the riveting set by Stampin' Up. I colored the reindeer with my Copic markers. I added some stickles to the reindeer's nose and to the little green tree to give it a little sparkle. I'm still not caught up on my cards, I am planning to take a day off from work this week to try to get caught up on everything. I'm hoping to get all my cards in the mail by Monday. Wish me luck!
I've been working on my Christmas cards. I'm running late this year. Usually I'm much more organized and work on my cards slowly throughout the year. Not this year. Now I'm scrambling to get all my cards made. I think this is going to be the Christmas card that I send to my family. I really like this Lasting Impressions template and the saying "All Spruced Up" with the trees makes me smile. I better get working and get some cards signed, addressed and in the mail!
I found the template for this skate treat holder on the Stamp Shack. You have to be a member of the website (I think it was about $10/year to join) to get the template. Isn't it the cutest?! We have season tickets for the Washington Capitals games, and there are two little boys who sit in our section that I wanted to give a small gift to. When I saw the template for this skate treat holder, I knew it would be perfect! I made the skate (it was super easy), and then put a few treats inside it. I found the Capitals logo on a google search, and added it to the side of the skate. Hope you're having a great week!
I am still participating in the Iron Chef recipe swap. It's been almost a year since I joined, and I am having so much fun creating these recipe cards. They can be really challenging! This was my month to select the secret ingredient. I chose garlic and chose side dish as my category. The swap hostess gave us all a sketch to use when creating our cards. I love that, design is the thing I struggle with most in my cards. Here is the picture of the sketch and what I came up with.
My friend Jennie had a beautiful baby girl recently so I made this card for her. I used a Lasting Impressions template (thanks to my friend Jen for giving it to me!) and Lasting Impressions paper for the card. Sorry this is a quick post, I'm running late for work and wanted to post this before I head out the door! Have a great day!
I signed up for a swap on the PaperCrafts site for Christmas gifts. Each participant has to make a little papercrafted gift; it could be a treat holder, a bag topper, whatever! I decided to make gum holders. I love this little tree stamp by A Muse, I think it's so cute. I colored the image in with my Copic markers. I got the template for the gum holder on this site. I can't wait to see what I get back, I'm such a sucker for cute little treat holders! I hope to get some more ideas for other Christmas gifts.
Hi, Just a quick post because I'm really busy today! I love this stencil but I think this is the first time I've used it! I've had it for a couple years. I made this card based on the sketch above. Hope you have a great weekend!
The yahoo embossing group I belong to has been hosting monthly challenges using images. One person embosses an image and sends it to anyone who wants to participate in the challenge. The only requirement is to make a card using the image sent to you. Honestly, I was not inspired by this dove at all. I do not own this template, and it's not one I would buy. My style is more cutesy. So it took me a few days of thinking about it before I got some inspiration. Turns out that inspiration was the new Basic Grey paper! I love this paper! I just think it is gorgeous. I don't think I have ever made a card using a dry embossed image not using Lasting Impressions paper. I love how this card turned out. I think the vellum image just pops on this paper. Hope you had a nice weekend!
Rusty won 2nd place in the costume contest! Thank you to everyone who voted! We won a Thanksgiving centerpiece (the contest was sponsored by our local florist). I feel bad that Rusty didn't get anything for her humiliation! Only the first place winner got a pet treat gift basket. Maybe I'll get her something special next time I'm at the store.
I am going to an all day crop tomorrow so hope to be posting some cards soon. I just haven't been in the mood to craft lately. Don't know what's wrong with me!!
I love dressing up my dogs at Halloween! It's so fun and the kids that come trick or treating always enjoy seeing them dressed up. Here is a picture of Rusty dressed up as a cat. She is more like a cat than a dog (she sits on the back of the couch on top of the couch cushions, she stretches and arches her back like a cat, and rarely barks.) I think she looks so cute in this costume.
I entered her in a costume contest that our local florist is having. This florist does wonderful work, and they are located next door to where Zubie & Bunny (my other dogs) go to daycare. They are giving away a first, second and runner up prize to the costumed dog with the most votes.
Rusty and I need all the help we can get to win the contest! (She's very skinny and would love some treats!) If you'd like to vote, click here. Thank you!
I'm still working on little Halloween gifts for my co-workers and friends. I found these listed here on Splicoaststampers' site. They were really easy to make. And for once, I happened to have all the punches already to make the spiders! I love how they turned out. Hope you're having a great weekend!
For the October Iron Chef recipe swap, the category I picked was "beverage"... well, turns out the secret ingredient was Tomatoes!! That made it really difficult for me, I didn't know of any tomato drinks other than a bloody mary. I looked online and found this recipe for a slow cooker tomato cocktail. I'm trying to use up some the patterned paper that I've had forever. I used some old Rusty Pickle paper on this card.
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