World Card Making Day - PaperCrafts

World Card Making Day 2014 with Paper Crafts!

I just whipped up a couple of these cards this morning to send in a box of cards I'm working on to donate to Operation Write Home. Pretty easy to make card of thanks for the troops for their service.

I used a centering ruler to help align the stars.

Sponge blue ink over the stars punched out of removable sticky note paper.

Be sure to lay scrap paper along the bottom half of the card.

Sponge red ink over a plastic stripes template.

It would have been far less messy (and quicker!)

had I used die cuts glued to the card front rather than sponging the ink.

The sponged ink created a different look, though.

Adhere small punched out card stock stars with star shaped eyelets.

Attach the die cut "thankful" on top of the finished card front.

Die is retired from Stampin' Up!

Glue to a card base and write a note of thanks to the troops. 

Thanks for looking and keep on hopping 

Paper Craft World Card Making Day Blog Hop

(click on the MrLinky at the bottom of the page)

Operation Write Home World Card Making Day Blog Hop

LOVE cards (see my previous post)

World Card Making Day - OWH Blog Hop

It's World Card Making Day ! 

I made Love cards that could be suitable for parents to send home to their kids for the Operation Write Home World Cardmaking  Day Blog Hop ! Although they have several layers, they are still quite flat and mail friendly.


Supplies Used:
Stamp sets: Darling Dragons - retired Stampin' Up!
                  Circle Of Friendship - retired Stampin' Up!
                  Just Sayin' - Stampin' Up!
Card stocks: Watercolor paper
                     Basic Black
                     Whisper White
                     Lovely Lilac
                     Pink and Green white core card stock, Die Cuts With A View (old , from my stash)
Black Stazon ink
Assorted classic ink pads and markers, Stampin' Up!
Aquapainter to watercolor the images using water based inks
Punches and die from Stampin' Up! :
                      Circle
                      Label(?) - retired
                      Slot(?) - retired
                      Word Bubbles die
Cuttlebug Hearts embossing folder
Fiskars Leather Texture Plate
Big Shot die cut/embossing machine
Black 5/8" grosgrain ribbon
Yellow ribbon, Michael's Dots Dashes and Checks
Fine sandpaper to remove pink from the embossed hearts background paper
Adhesive
Dimensionals, Stampin' Up! (pop dots to raise the stamped images slightly)
Fray check for the cut ends of the ribbons
Double Stick tape, heavy duty, to adhere ribbon




Be sure to bookmark the post at Operation Write Home and keep checking back throughout the day as other cards are shared at the bottom in the InLinkz for the hop ! Submissions are accepted from 6 AM PST until Midnight PST October 4th - plenty of time for you to make a "Love" card and share, too !

Want to find out more about Operation Write Home and how you can help make cards to send to the troops ? Read this post for all the current needs.

Smaller sentiment stamps were colored directly with water based markers to get the multi colored stamped image. Be sure to "huff" your warm breath onto the inked rubber stamp before stamping onto the card stock to moisten the water based inks if they dry as you are coloring.

Once your card stock is embossed with an embossing folder,

texture plate, brass template with stylus, etc,

you can add color by rubbing an ink pad directly to

the raised areas or by lightly sanding white core card stock

with a fine grit sandpaper to reveal the white core. 

Thanks for looking =)

Route 66 Festival Scrapbook Pages

I'm nearly done with scrapping the photos I took,

some of which were printed, for the Photo Of The Week

feature our local newspaper ran a couple of years ago.

This is one of mine that was printed !

It was taken at a huge car show and festival

celebrating the storied historic Route 66 in America.

We've been going to this event for several years now,

this past weekend was no exception. 

Perfect weather and over 1000 vehicles to see,

lots of quaint shops to peruse, good food.

Always an enjoyable event ! 

Supplies used for my project:

scrapbook papers were part of a kit that I bought 

at Big Lots years ago, Road Trip by American Traditional Crafts

basic black card stock

Cricut Library Fonts cartridge for "2012"

Thanks for looking =) 

Cruisin' Into Town Scrapbook Page

Papers and map strip are from an old kit bought at Big Lots years ago,

Road Trip by American Traditional Designs.

NOT the colors I would have chosen,

but the streets background paper was fitting for the project

 as the car show I took the photo at is held on numerous

streets in the city. Neat , fun event. 

Brown grosgrain ribbon

Metallic silver card stock

Cricut Library fonts cartridge to cut out the title.

I am not happy with this, I should have known that

 the letters couldn't be welded together to make one long word

in my old Cricut Create machine. This was a new cartridge I

recently bought and it was the first time I used it. 

Also, although I used the heaviest pressure on this heavy weight card stock,

it still did not make a clean cut; I had to trim out every single letter by hand. 

I've barely used my Cricut in all the years I've had it.

I had more problems with it than success it seems.

Most notably, it doesn't cut cleanly through my card stock

and the right side of every single cut is not cut through at all.

Some sort of glitch in the machine as it cuts on that side ?

It was bought at Big Lots, maybe that is why they had those Create

machines years ago, there were problems with them ? 

Anyway, this is yet another page for my 

Photo of the Week scrapbook.

The photo was taken as classic cars were cruising into the 

downtown area for a car show that weekend. 

The photo, once again , printed out much darker than it looked

to me on my computer screen. I guess there must be

some sort of calibration I need done ?

Thanks for looking =) 

Flamed F100 Pickup Scrapbook Page

This is one of my favorite pages I made for my 

Photo Of The Week scrapbook album !

Not too many more photos to scrap

(there were just over 40 total!) and I'll be done!

Hand drawn, hand cut, hand painted flamed paper !

I drew and cut the flames on bright yellow 12 x 12 card stock.

I used two shades of orange and a bright yellow acrylic craft paints

to brush onto the card stock flames.

Once dry, they were glued to red card stock.

2013 is cut with a Cricut Create machine and the Library Fonts cartridge.

Thanks for looking =) 

Steampunked Scrapbook Pages

My first projects as a new member of the design team for Anything But A Card !

I admit that when I found out it was a Steampunk challenge, I was a bit worried, wondering what I had gotten myself into,  as I have nothing in my crafty stash that would work for that style. Then it came to me: look for digital scrapbooking components, surely there are some out there on the internet !

After a little bit of searching, I found an awesome kit that was perfect.
It is called Steampunk and is designed by Karry Dempsey at pixelscrapper.com.

I used My Memories Suite 5 digital design software to make my two projects.

I find it is easiest to use "outside" components, that means general digital kits by designers other than those at MyMemories.com (or Stampin' Up! if you are using My Digital Studio software) , by keeping them in a separate folder on my computer desktop. I only keep the folder/kit I am working with on the desktop at the time, making less items to search through.  It can be tricky at times doing it this way, such as if you want to use a paper as a background layer it will need to be inserted into a photo box or shape that covers the entire background since components that are not installed directly into the software won't pop up on the search in the software.

Take a moment to check out the other fantastic creations, not only by design team members, but fans that have submitted links to their creations at  anythingbutacard.blogspot.com! 

Thanks for looking =) 

1969 428 Mach 1 Mustang Scrapbook Page

Yet another photo I took and submitted to our local newspaper

to be considered as photo of the week.

The Ford logo paper was made by myself and

printed at home. 

The waving checkered flag paper strips are actually made from the

final piece left from two other pages I made with

the one 12 x 12 Disney's Cars themed scrapbook paper I bought

this past summer.

You can see the other two pages here

Autocross Scrapbook Page and

Ford vs. Chevy Drag Race Scrapbook Page

I used the Library Fonts Cricut cartridge with my Cricut Create machine

to cut the letters out of lightweight metallic silver paper. 

I probably should have cut out smaller letters and numbers then 

1969 rather than the 428 would have fit on the page. 

Thanks for looking =) 

Snowy View/Icicle Lights Scrapbook Pages

This photo was submitted to our local newspaper

to be considered as a Photo Of The Week.

I scrapped it, along with just over 40 others that I am

currently working on, to be a part of my 

Photo Of The Week scrapbook album.

The photo printed out darker than it should have like

so many of my prints do.

Snowflakes die and Snow wheel were from Stampin' Up!

Clear embossing powder, heat set

rhinestones

shimmery lightweight white and silver papers, unknown

Icicle Lights photo also submitted

 I used a clear dimensional "glue" to create icicles on the above page.

BONUS page, one of the photos I submitted that was printed!

Boring , simple page ( I really need to do something else with this....)

Snowflake border punch on the piece for journaling, unknown - there are no markings on it

Lightly sprayed background paper with shimmer spray (doesn't show)

Thanks for looking =)

Collage of Fall Items Scrapbook Page

Happy Fall !!!!!

I collected and arranged several fall leaves,

acorns and walnuts for a photo last year.

The photo was submitted to our local newspaper

for consideration as Photo Of The Week,

This is the photo scrapped for my 

Photo Of The Week scrapbook I've been working on. 

Background paper from an old Die Cuts With A View stack

Skeleton leaves were bought at Walmart years ago.

Buttons and dies are from Stampin' Up!

Gray Mulberry paper

Twines from my stash

Very Vanilla card stock die cut and pierced

Thanks for looking =) 

Sneak Peek Teaser

A sneak peek at some of the supplies I used for

the design team project I worked on all day today!

More details about the team I am one of the newest members of

and the project itself in a couple of weeks ;)