Twist Easel Flower Square Card

Today's card uses the Flower Square image from Ike's Art

and was created for the current challenge at Through The Craft Room Door.

Ike's has generously donated a $15 voucher

to the Top Winner this week
of our Anything Goes challenge!

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:
613 Avenue Create - mainly blue/anything goes
Shopping Our Stash - April showers bring May flowers





TWISTED EASEL CARD TUTORIAL:

A fun twist on an easel card ! You can even make a round one.

To make a card that will fit a regular invitation size envelope (A2 = 4 3/8 x 5 3/4) you will need to make a card base that is  4 1/4" x 8 1/2" , scored at the center.

Score diagonally on one half from the score line to the opposite corner.

Create a seperate decorated front panel  4 1/4" wide by  4 1/4"high, however you could make it up to to 5 1/2" high.

Adhere the panel to the lower/right triangular section of the front panel only. You don't want to glue the entire panel to both scored triangular sections or else the card won't fold and twist properly.

On the inside of the card, add a raised element toward the center of the panel that will hold the decorated front panel open and in place when the card is open.

TIP: do not glue the panel down until you make certain it is positioned correctly ! You may need to play with it to make sure it will bend the right way so your image is standing the correct way when propped open.

I water colored the floral images with ink and an aquapainter. Center details were added with a marker (mini rhinestones would be a pretty detail!).

The blue background was colored with a water color pencil and blender pen.

The florals on the base were colored with coordinating markers to be a bit darker.

The carefully cut out florals were then adhered in the centers over the base piece to create dimension.

My element to hold the easel up was created by attaching a flower with a thick dimensional / pop dot.

This really isn't a difficult fun fold card to make, but it looks that way to the recipient ;)

Happy Mother's Day

Floral Edge Die Card For Mom

The fancy edge cutting die I purchased earlier this year 

makes it easy enough to create a pretty card.

(Die'sires)

I ran it through the Big Shot twice to cut both long

edges of the white card stock.

It is layered on a Daffodil Delight card stock base.

I colored the petals with two shades of chalks and 

added mini rhinestones to the centers of some.

I then carefully lifted the petals to give dimension.

The rubber stamp image (Well Scripted by Stampin Up!', 2010)

was heat embossed with a shimmery yellow embossing powder.

Yellow with white polka dots wide grosgrain ribbon

 was bought at a dollar store quite some time ago.

I also used a long "forgotten" metal edge tag. 

I've used a few of them on projects this year.....

Thanks for looking =)

I'm entering my card in the following challenges
Crafting By Designs - Mother's Day
and
Retro Rubber - Flowers
 -this stamp isn't as old as most that I have, it's from this decade ;)

Rainbow of Butterflies Cards

I finally got around to making my own 

paper punched images "rainbow" cards !

Supplies:

textured card stock cards, Die Cuts With A View

 white and black card stocks

clouds embossing folder, Stampin' Up!

rubber stamp image, Stampin' Up

white embossing powder and Versamark ink

paint chip samples

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Thanks for looking ;)

I'm entering my card in the current challenge at 

Shopping Our Stash, #353 Chanson Papillon

Rustic Rose Card for Mom

Today's card is based on a fun layout I've seen done similarly,

perhaps it was a sketch challenge somewhere in the past.

I just recall the basic idea and kept it "on file"

in the back of my mind to use one day ;) 

Supplies:

All stamp images are oldies from Stampin' Up!

DD Cottage Rose (1999)

Woodgrain (2009)

Itty Bitty Backgrounds (1997)

inks, card stocks and linen thread were also from SU!

strip of patterned paper, an old Die Cuts With A View paper stack

(scrap saved from another project because it would be wasteful to throw it away,

decent enough sized to use for something someday!)

tiny yellow rhinestones 

really old paper doily from my crafting supplies stash

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Beautiful Flowers at Retro Rubber

Whenever I enter the Retro Rubber Challenge and look up

the age of my stamps, two things come to mind: 

1) time really does fly, it doesn't seem like I've had the stamps that long....

2) does anyone else keep all of the stamps they've collected over the years?!

Mood Board at Use Your Stuff

(putting an old paper doily to use,

actually everything on the card I've had for several years -

time flies!)


Thanks for looking :) 

Bookworm Fairy Bookmark

Today I am sharing my first blog challenge project

as the newest design team member at

Through The Craft Room Door.

What a surprise it was to be asked,

out of the blue, the be a part of their team :)

TTCRD is a weekly 

Anything Goes challenge blog

and

a bi-monthly magazine .

This week we are sponsored by

http://www.oddballartco.com/

who are generously supplying the Top Winner

(randomly chosen) with 3 digital images.

I used the Bookworm Fairy image for my bookmark.

Be sure to check out the rest of the design teams creations!

Single Layer CAS Christmas Card

Today I am sharing a single layer 

clean and simple Christmas card

that I created for the May-June challenge at

Through The Craft Room Door:

create a single layer CAS card. 

I am also excited to announce that

I am their newest design team member !

I'll be creating projects for the challenge blog

twice a month and writing tutorials for the

bi-monthly magazine.

 My card features an old image from Stampin' Up!, 

Nature's Christmas.

I water colored it with inks from my dye ink pads,

using an aquapainter.

I scored the edges with a stylus on a scoring board.

It will be in an upcoming issue of the 

Through The Craft Room Door magazine. 

Newest issue is available now to subscribers.

Thanks for looking =)

National Scrapbooking Day

and Kentucky Derby Day and Cinco De Mayo and ....... lots of things to celebrate today !

I thought I'd share an update on my massive photo album project:

Although not completed (no journaling cards and such)

I at least have nearly all of my decades worth of photos 

placed into albums now, no longer stuffed in boxes !

I still have several albums for pets, concerts

and trips to put photos in.
I also have numerous scrapbook pages I want to make
and digital scrapbook pages to have printed.
I'm getting there, slowly but surely!

I've run out of room in this cabinet.

I think that I might try to repurpose an old 

chest of drawers into a small bookcase

for additional storage ;)

The photo project has been put on hold the past few weeks

due to a major overhaul of the various flower beds

around the house (being ripped out and replaced

with rocks then eventually containers for flowers)

and currently repainting a room to transform it

into my new craft room.

My daughter moves back home at the end of the month

so I need to flip flop rooms.

Note to self:
do not paint fun faux finishes or bold colors on walls ever again!
(I do feel bad/sad repainting her old bedroom,
just as I did when I repainted my sons fun walls last summer....)


Thanks for looking =) 

Florals and Gingham Mother's Day Card

I like how this simple card turned out
using a simple go-to layout! 

That gorgeous embossing folder really makes a card look special.

Rubber stamp image - Stampin' Up! All Year Cheer (1999)

White and navy blue card stocks

Night of Navy ink

Scalloped rectangle die

We R Mempory Keepers embossing folder, Bouquet

stylus and scoring board - for embossed edge around sentiment

Gingham ribbon-unknown, really old "crispy" type of craft ribbon

pop dots

I'm entering my card in the Mother's Day Challenge #352 at
Shopping Our Stash
and
Old Is New Again #85 at
Retro Rubber Challenge
(although not exactly vintage as the challenge perhaps intended,
flowers and gingham are always a classic combo.
I did use a nearly 20 yr old stamp and 30 yr old ribbon!)



Thanks for looking =) 

Newborn Scrapbook Pages

Hello ! Happy May Day ! 

Today I'm sharing my projects for the 

Love To Craft 

May Anything Goes Challenge.

I decided to make scrapbook pages this month

since May 5th is National Scrapbook Day :)

They are pretty basic 8 1/2" x 11" layouts 

using old items from my "collection".

Now toget busy making several more pages :)

Thanks for looking.
Be sure to visit the rest of the design team
members' blogs for more inspiring ideas.