Silver Classic Pickups Card

Simple card created with the old Stampin' Up! set,

Classic Pickups

Also uses and image from Antique Autos

and a truck from a Hero Arts set

Silver ink, white and silver metallic card stock

Greeting (old one from SU!) stamped with black onto vellum

and attached with silver eyelets

Thanks for looking =) 

Sailing Ship Birthday Card

Card I created for my dads birthday.

I used

sketch challenge #538 at Splitcoaststampers,com

All supplies from Stampin' Up!, 

all stamp images are retired.

Ships Ahoy

Old World Map

On Your Birthday

Card stock:

Midnight Muse

Baja Breeze

Real Red textured

Whisper White

Basic Black

various inks

aquapainter

Thanks for looking =) 

Muted Mother's Day Card

I was in inspired by a sample in a Stampin' Up! publication

to create this simple card using old items I own,

The color combination was a recent challenge at

splitcoaststampers.com, #527

All supplies used were from Stampin; Up!,

though most are now retired:

The Art of Life 

Teeny Tiny Wishes

Sahara Sand and Naturals card stock

Pink Pirouette, Wild Wasabi and Sahara Sand markers

scrap of green paper

scrap of stitched pink ribbon

scallop tag topper paper punch

Thanks for looking =)

Triple Challenge Mother's Day Card

I made this Mother's Day card with inspiration from three challenges:

Sketch Challenge 254 at Operation Write Home

Embossing  - ODBD May Challenge at OWH

Color Challenge 526 at Splitcoaststampers

All items used were from Stampin' Up!,

though most are now retired:

All Holidays stamp set

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise and Island Indigo card stock

White copy paper

Large Delicate Doilies die

Texturz Plates

Rhinestones

(I wish I would have added a white layer between the blues)

Thanks for looking =) 

MOM WOW Card

The Mother's Day card I made for my mom this year.

It took a bit of time, but it was worth it !

Every item used,

other than the oval die, 

came from Stampin' Up!

though most are now retired.

The color combination came from the 

current color challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com.

CC529

Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry.

I used a Texturz plate for the dry embossed polka dots

on the orange background, 

a  die and embossing mat for the oval,

then heat embossed an Aida texture with 

clear embossing powder on the MOM letters.

Since I used embossing on this card,

I'll link it to the current Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge at

Operation Write Home - embossing. 

This particular card won't be going to OWH, though.

I have been slowly working on filling a box to donate

and have dozens of cards to share here still. 

I am disappointed in the way my printer

interprets the colors on my digital designs............

Below is the word art I designed,

however the colors printed nothing like I intended. 

I was going to mount this to a piece of Melon Mambo

before attaching it to the inside of the card,

but since the colors were so off, I did not.

 I could have used Crushed Curry

since the orange and pink did not match my card stocks. 

I should have chosen a different font,

or flipped and reversed the MOM text box,

so that it would create WOW

exactly the same. Mom isn't nearly

as nit picky as I am on the little details 

and probably won't notice ;) 

Thanks for looking 

and 

Happy Mother's Day weekend !

Embossed, Debossed and Die Cut LOVE Card

I made this lovely card for a wedding shower, but the design could be used for other occasions such as Mother's Day!

All supplies used were from Stampin' Up!, though many are no longer available:
I used a coordinating stamp set and punch for the flowers
Die for the word love
Letterpress plate, outside front layer of the card
Embossing folder, inside sentiment layer of the card
Rhinestone accents
Stylus to depress the center of the flowers, giving them dimension



I used My Memories Suite V6 software to create the sentiment inside the card.
Text boxes, a couple of different fonts, export as a PNG and then printed on card stock,
trimmed to fit the embossing folder and inside of the card.

Thanks for looking =)

Lily of the Valley

I used a predesigned page that came in the 

My Memories Suite software

(I did do some easy altering of it, though)

to make a quick digi scrap page of this

photo I took of my Lily of the Valley blooming.

I LOVE the smell of them !!!!!

Geesh, I just noticed a typo on my page -

great thing about digi scrapping if it hasn't been printed yet,

easy to change things !

This page needs more tweaking anyway.

Shadowbox Frame Photo Display

It's National Scrapbook Day ! 

This months challenge at Anything But A Card is

"The Masters".

The thing that came to my mind right away

was to do something with old photos

 I took while in the mountains years ago.

A sort of "Ansel Adams" inspired project.

Perhaps photography wasn't the exact thing in mind

when the prompt was decided upon by the challenge coordinators, 

but I certainly think that there are Master Photographers.

Those that are religious might say that the gorgeous scenery all around us

 in our world was masterfully created by their God.

Thus, my project inspired by Masters -
and an inspirational project for National Scrapbook Day !

This is what the shadowbox frame looked like to begin with.

It is actually a bulletin board,

there were glittery black star push pins included. 

I bought two of these on clearance years ago

with the best of intentions to make them into

interchangeable scrapbook page frames to showcase

photos of my teens and their accomplishments, etc.

.

A couple of closeups to show the dimension I created.

"floating photos"

I typed up and printed out a small tag,

attaching it with dimensionals
so that it looks as if it is floating.

  How to's:

I scanned the old color photos then converted them to black and white.

They aren't the best photos, having been taken with an old point and shoot film camera

seventeen years ago. 

Using Photoshop Elements, I placed all three images onto one 8x10 sheet to be printed.

I just happened to have a free print offer from Walgreen's  !

I had to reduce the panorama shot in quite a bit to make it fit in the shadowbox frame I was using,

 so it fit well on the 8 x 10 sheet.

I trimmed the photos then mounted two of them onto light weight chipboard to make them sturdy.

They are mounted to the "page" with various depths of cardboard and 

heavy duty double stick adhesive. 

The panorama is attached directly to the "page".

I knew I wanted to make some mini aspen trees to go with the photos

 (despite there not being any in the photos I used on the project,
we did lots of them in the area though !).

I had some smooth twigs already cut leftover from another project. 

I painted them to resemble aspens with craft acrylic paints:

base coat white, grey for lines and black for the splotches.

An old toothbrush was perfect to splatter the tiny 

dots, a very fine paintbrush was used to create the bigger spots
and the lines around the trunks.

They are hot glued to a piece of chipboard that was covered in 

crumpled brown paper, topped with moss.

The finished 3D embellishment

for my shadowbox frame.

Thanks for looking =) 

Be sure to visit the Anything But A Card blog

each weekend for more projects by the design team

as well as inlinks to players in the challenge.
Won't you play along, too ?

Mechanic Digi Scrap Page

An quick, odd sized digiscrap page I made to share with friends for my sons birthday.

The kit I used was called Dirty Mechanic

and it was found here

http://truetagginlove.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-ftu-kit-finally.html

It's not really a scrapbooking kit, the elements are quite smal

(they've been enlarged on my project).

I'm not familiar with "tubes" and "tags" this site

referred to. I came across the kit when searching for

mechanic/auto related digital kits.

 

It was created with My Memories Suite software.
Here is a link to how to use outside content in the program.

TIP: IF you are a user of My Digital Studio

by Stampin' Up! and have not heard about the

company no longer selling/supporting the software, 

I suggest you back up all of your downloads

and visit mydigitalstudio.net for the latest information.

YES, the MDS downloads can be used in My Memories Suite !!!

See the side bar for savings on MMS V6 software.

Tomorrow is National Scrapbook Day !
Check back tomorrow to see a home décor item I made,
it could be a fun idea for scrapbookers.


Thanks for looking !

 

20th Birthday Card for a Young Man

Card I made for my sons 20th birthday.....

sniffle................

20 is die cut with dies from Stampin' Up!

I cut a set from chipboard that I painted red then

I cut another set from textured red card stock I glued to

the tops of the chipboard pieces. 

The background is embossed with a folder from Cuttlebug

Real stitching on the silver metallic card stock strips.
(I should have stopped with just two stripes, top to bottom,
to resemble racing stripes on a car, but I was trying to make
the flowery elements on the embossed background less noticable).
Because I used real stitching on this card,
I am linking it to the Mid Month Throwdown at
Operation Write Home : stitching.

Computer generated sentiments, how to's below. 

I used My Memories Suite V5.

See my sidebar for a valuable offer

to purchase the newest version of this versatile software.

I do have V6, but it is on my laptop.

I used my desktop that has V5 on it so

I would be able to print it out.

NOTE: I import my files into Adobe Photoshop Elements

in order to print them out. I've never had luck printing directly

from the MMS software, everything is gets centered on the page

when I intend for them to be off center. 

Glitch with my computer/printer I suppose.

Open the software.

You will need to insert your

custom size measurements in INCHES

at the bottom to create a card in MMS V5.

 5.25 Width   4 Height    Inches   Landscape

(normally 5.5" x 4.25", but I chose to use a slightly

smaller canvas to work on knowing the card front would

be cut smaller to mat on a different color.

The canvas will open up with a transparent background.

Click SHAPES

ADD

choose your shape, I used a circle

ADD

Change the color to WHITE

Add a DROP SHADOW, centered with 100% Opacity

Adjust the size by pulling the little gray squares

around your shape or if you want a specific size like I did,

double click the shape and a box will op up for you to input the dimensions.

Be sure you have the INCHES box checked.

Here is a composite of a few screen shots to show you:

I made my circle 2.25" so I could cut it out with a

Nestabilities die I have that it would fit perfectly in.

A photo of the die over the printed piece

so you can see how it fits (the print is just inside the

inner circle so you can easily see it to line it up

with the die).

Once you have your shape the size you want,

click TEXT and type what you wish to say.

You will need to play around with this a bit 

to make it even around your shape once you 

attach the text to the shape. Different fonts and sizes

plus lengths of words will require different 

degrees of playing around to fit to your liking.

You click your shape and the text box so they are

both "highlighted", then choose Wrap Text.

This will only work on circles and squares.

Try both the inside and the outside option to see which 

you like best. You may need to adjust the

                                        "wrapped text" a bit to fit the shape the way you like.

This is easy to do by grabbing the little gray boxes around

the text box. 

You can delete the Shape after you have the text the way you like.

The shape was used as a base to create on to get 

the correct size for your project.

I delete the background to save only the text

as a PNG file to be used on other projects.

You don't want a white background or 

to save as a JPG if you want the ability to 

resize the text and insert it onto a colored background.

Here is a diagram that shows the difference.

This is an 8" x 8" pink background.

Thanks for looking =) 

TIP: IF you are a user of My Digital Studio

by Stampin' Up! and have not heard about the

company no longer selling/supporting the software, 

I suggest you visit mydigitalstudio.net and

be sure to back up all of your downloads before May 31st !

YES, they can be used in My Memories Suite !!!