Ho Ho Ho Card

I made three of these cards to donate to Operation Write Home . I used up scraps of paper from the Holiday Woodcuts cards I made previously.

The stamp image is from Stampin' Up! and colored with an aquapainter and ink from my ink pads. I also used a gold Signo gel pen and dimensional paper paint.

My dimensional paint is nearly gone now. I was very surprised it was still liquid-y enough to use and not dried up ! I've had this paper paint for more years than I have fingers to count on ! Seriously ! I found it at a discount store, bought a few tubes to try with a couple of card kits they also sold. I believe it was made by Tulip company. It was a then new craft item, dimensional paper painting as part of a color by number type project. The card kits had little dots on them for the crafter to follow, placing drops of the dimensional paint on each dot. I made several of those cards way back when, before I discovered rubber stamping / card making.

I've since used the paints on some of my rubber stamped images, my favorite being the white for fur or hair.


Thanks for looking =)

Always and Forever - CT Projects

It's here, a new release from Grace Blossoms 4 U (I'm part of the creative team !) - along with the big announcement that her designs are part of the ScrapsNPieces store. Everything in her new store at ScrapsNPieces is 40% off through September 30th  !!!

http://www.scraps-n-pieces.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=56&zenid=74604bc996f65ee513a179f12a80d784

LOVE the colors in the kit being released September 15th, Always and Forever ! I've always been kind of partial to a teal/turquoise color (and blue and red and browns and.....!) . I even had my first car repainted a teal color !

Here is my first project -

and my first attempt at trying to cluster 

lots of different embellishments. 

I need practice ! With scrap booking in general.

I knew exactly what picture(s) I was going to use

on a layout when I first saw this kit..........

perfect to use on these oh so old photos.

I loved that dress !!!!!

I knew that I'd never have another opportunity

to wear a hoop dress, so I splurged and 

bought myself this dress. Luckily for me,

although it had been custom made and was 

very expensive, I bought it second hand

from a girl at another school

which saved me some money.

I easily resold it the following year to a girl

from yet another school.

That dress was making the rounds !

I've always wondered if it was passed on

any more or if the girl  I sold it to kept it. 

My second project I decided to try to see if I could

come up with a "masculine" page with kit only components.

It's always nice to see the versatility in something.

The dark mottled paper reminded me

of asphalt then as I was looking at the embellishments,

an idea struck: could I use the stitching to

replicate tire tread marks on asphalt ? 

The background paper ought to be reduced

in opacity ever so slightly so the stitching tread marks

show up a bit better though I think.

They are on the left of the page, under the text box

and running up towards the top of the page.

The stitching is lots of little traingles.

I copied and pasted it , flipping it the opposite 

way each time I pasted to vary the design.

Once I had several rows of stitching flipping back and forth

to kind of resemble tire tread mark, I grouped, copied and pasted

the group over to make the second tread mark.

Both pages use only content found in the kit and as is.

The only added thing extra was the white border around the

automobile photos as well as my text boxes.

ANNOUNCING A SITE WIDE SALE  AT SCRAPS-N-PIECES! 

The digital kits will work with most digi scrapping programs !

I know I will be looking to see what entire digi kits

are on sale - for as low as $1 per kit !!!!

I use My Digital Studio and

My Memories Suite software;

the digi content does work with them.

However the kits are not the program

specific installer files as you would buy directly from

Stampin' Up! or My Memories. You will need to download

the standard files then choose where you want to

install them on your computer / folders if

you want to run it straight from a program such as

MDS or MMS. I just leave my kits in their

own folders on an external hard drive.

Thanks for looking =) 

Holiday Woodcuts Card Set

More cards for Operation Write Home,

this time I used old stamped images I came across

stored in my holiday Woodcuts stamp set

from Stampin' Up!

The decorative papers came from an old

Die Cuts With A View Christmas Paper Stack. 

Thanks for looking =) 

Snowflake Embossed Sticker Paper Cards

Embossed silver sticker paper ! 

I stamped it with snowflakes first. 

It was run through the die cut machine /

embossing folder on the release paper,

not stuck to the card stock first.

It removed easily from the release paper

and as you can see, still has crisp embossing

after being applied to the smooth card stock.

These were pretty simple and yet pretty.

They are being donated to 

Operation Write Home. 

I think I may make a bunch to send out

myself this year, I really like how they turned out !

Huh, I discovered something interesting that may be known

to most of you - but I had no idea:

you can emboss facial tissues with an embossing folder !

I would assume you could do paper napkins, how cool !

I found it out by accident, placing a tissue over the silver sticker paper

before running it through the embossing folder since I wasn't sure

how it was going to work, I didn't want to have silver or sticky

residue left on my embossing folder. It worked wonderfully ! 

The shiny cream piece to the left in the photo is the backing paper

from the sticker - I may try to do something with those, too !

This is the sticker paper I found recently at

an art gallery "trash to treasure" sale.

Thanks for looking =) 

I Will Never Forget ..............

http://www.911day.org/about/

 I   WILL.... work on Any Hero cards today to be included in the box of hand made cards I am donating to Operation Write Home. It isn't much, but it is something that I can do and enjoy doing. 

Christmas Cardinal Cards

 

Two more cards I am sending to Operation Write Home. 

The cardinal stamp image was from Stampin' Up! 

as are the card stocks and inks.

 

The snowflake embossing folder is also from Stampn' Up!

 

The embossed leaves on the green card is a Cuttlebug folder.

 

The top card has faux brads to make it mail friendly.

 

 The bottom has a bumpy bow so I may

end up keeping it for personal use.

I try to send nearly flat cards to OWH

so it is more likely to make it back home

to the intended recipient.

Sometimes bulky pieces of mail get damaged

so I don't want to take a chance that one of my cards

would and then not make it "home".

Thanks for looking =) 

Season Of Joy Card

Images colored with markers.
Stamp images, card stock, ink , Texturz plate all from Stampin' Up! (retired).
Strip of decorative paper, unknown, leftover from the paper pieced cards I previously posted.
I only made one like this to send to Operation Write Home.

Peekaboo!

My kitten immediately claimed this nice shopping bag 

with cord handles as her own as soon as I emptied it out.

It was two toys in one for the curious kitten - a bag and strings !

Here she is peeking through the hole she chewed into the bottom.

I guess she thought she needed a "back door" to her new playhouse.

Thanks for looking =)

Holiday Basics Cards

Three more cards I made to send to 

http://operationwritehome.org/

Stamp images and inks from Stampin' Up!,

 decorative paper from a DCWV Christmas paper stack. 

Teeny, tiny faux brads made with paper punch and

Crystal Effects. 

 

 

Thanks for looking =)

Sympathy Card

This is the last non holiday cards I'll be posting for a bit. After today, it is back to the holiday cards I've made for the troops to send to Operation Write Home. I have quite a few of those to share still !
As of todays post, I have nearly 100 cards ready to go to this wonderful organization ! I hope to get a few more done in the next month, my goal was to try to fill a small cardboard box to mail out at the first of October. I don't think I will make that goal, but at least I have some ready to go to meet the holiday deadline !


Stamp images from Stampin' Up! and colored with markers then lightly spritzed with water before stamping   (Pear Pizazz, Always Artichoke, Marina Mist, Night of Navy)
yellow rhinestones
scoring board
embossing folder
white and navy card stocks





I liked this card so well, I made one similar for Operation Write Home (not a sympathy card though).

Look at all the lovely papers I won from Stampin' Up!

Which one to cut into first and what to make................... !

 

 

Thanks for looking =)

Welcome Baby Card

Baby shower card I made for a cousin expecting a little girl.

Stamp image from Stampin' Up!, Feathered Friends (retired)

 White card stock

scrap of light purple card stock

watercolor paper

Basic Black ink

various colors of ink to water color image

aquapainter

Texturz plate (large polka dots)

polka dot grosgrain ribbon, from a dollar store

dimensionals / pop dots

Nestabilities die, scallop edge rectangle

Platinum ink lightly sponged on edges of polka dotted layer

I also stamped a piece of vellum to line the inside of the card

and here is the white plastic garbage bag I stamped

using Stazon inks and the Rubber Ducky stamp set

by Stampin' Up! I knew I'd use it for something sometime....

it was full of assorted sizes diapers.

Thanks for looking =)