Hinged Thank You

May 25, 2009

Here is another card I made today for the Technique Lovers Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers, to make a hinged card. Lynn once again has picked a great technique to feature in this challenge, along with an easy to follow tutorial from Wendy. Definitely a technique that I will used again and again.

For this card my focal image is from the Flower Gallery stamp set of Penny Black. Stamped image onto white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then colored it with various Copic markers. Added some glitter with a glitter pen on the center part of the flowers. Image was then die cut and embossed using the Labels 4 nestability. Inked the edges of the panel with Pearlescent Purple Billiance ink and then matted onto the purple DP. All DP used in this card is from the Euphoria Paper Pad of BasicGrey. Borders and corners were punch with the Parisian edger punch of EK success. (Again thanks to Wendy for pointing out in her tutorial about using the border punches in the corners as well). Brad to hinge the card together is also from Basic Greys matching brad set for the Euphoria collection. Sentiment is also from the same stamp set of Penny Black. Ribbon is a white Offray ribbon that I colored with a Copic marker. Butterfly was die cut with 2 different DP from the Euphoria Paper pad using a Spellbinders die.

Stamp: Flower Gallery - Penny Black

Paper: Euphoria - Basic Grey and white cs

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Pearlescent Purple and various Copic markers

Accessories: Offray ribbon, Euphoria Brad, Labels 4 and Butterfly die from nestabilities

Birthday Wishes

May 18, 2009


Here is my card for today's Techinique Lovers Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers,to make a Tri Shutter Card. Before going in to the details of this card, I would just like to thank Lynn for featuring this technique. Such a beautiful way to portray different elements that go into making a card. If you would like to see the tutorial for this technique, you can find it here.


DP I used for this card is from The Paper Company Studio - Green Diagonal Weave and Green Ornamental Tapestry. Sentiment is from the Garden Girls Stamp Set of Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps. MOM is from the Bless Our Family Vintage Cuts, also from Crafty Secrets. Decorative cuts are from the Floral Accent of Spellbinders which was die cut, embossed and then colored in with Hint of Pesto Versa Magic. Cut out some butterflies from Hopscotch Girl Butterflies - K&Company and highlighted it with glitter pen and some bling. Punched some flowers and added some glitter with a glitter pen and half pearls. Matting was die cut with the Labels 4 nestability and sponged with Hint of Pesto.


Stamp: Garden Girls - Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps
Paper: Green Ornamental Tapestry, Green Diagonal Weave - The Paper Company Studio, Hopscotch Girl Butterflies - K& Company, Bless Our Family Vintage Cuts and green cs
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Hint of Pesto VersaMagic and Glitter pen
Accessories: Floral Accent and Label 4 Nestabilities, Flower Punch, Half Pearls, bling and unknown Die Cut vine

Thank You

May 11, 2009

Yes, I have not been blogging again for a while. Still trying to fix my computer. Just as I thought I got everything figured out, it died on me once more. I was trying to install some MS updates and for whatever reason it did not like it. My computer would just start re-booting and I could not get back on it again. Had to restore it once more. I am hoping that this would be the last time that I would have to do that. Not fun having to constantly be re-loading all the programs that I need.

So much for my woes.

Here is a card that I made for the Technique Lovers Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Stamped image and sentiment are from the Limited Edition of Penny Black's Flower Gallery. Image was stamped 3 times, colored with Copic markers, layers were cut and mounted on top of each other with double-sided foam tape for dimension. Background DP is from Debbie Mumm's Baby Girl Pad.Borders on top and below the Center panel with the sentiment was punch with a MS punch. Used the Labels 4 nestability behind the main image. Doodled with white opaque pen around the flower, borders of the Label 4 and around the punched border.

Stamp: Penny Black - Flower Gallery

Paper: Baby Girl - Debbie Mumm

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Copic markers and white opaque pen

Accessories: Labels 4 nesty, MS border punch and bling

Your Fortune Says

January 19, 2009

For today's card I used one of the new sets that Crafty Secrets just released - Lucky Wishes. This card was made for today's Technique Lover's Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.

Started off by stamping the crystal ball onto white cs with Platinum Planet Brilliance ink and then heat embossing it with Fine Clear Embossing poweder. After that I stamped the sentiment, clover leaf, horseshoe and wish bone. Then I topped it off with clear liquid embossing and let it dry completely. While it was drying, I stamped over 30 dice onto white cs and cut each out with scissors. Then adhered double side Sookwang adhesive to a 4 x 10-1/2 piece of white cs and placed the dice pieces on top. Poured Silver embossing powder on top of this strip, tapped off the excess powder and melted it with a heat gun. Devided the strip into 2 pieces, matted it with black cs and placed it on top and below my card base. Layered a strip of DP from the Radiant Paper design that was sprayed with Silver bells Glimmer Mist. Fortune Teller was stamped on white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. Used a bangle bling on the turban and a clear rhinestone on the ring. Once the crystal ball was completely dried I matted it on top of a black cs that was die cut using the Labels2 nesty. Black piece was also sprayed with Glimmer Mist. Final touch to the card is 3 more bangle blings to the right side of the centre strip.

This was a really fun technique and stamp set to use.

Stamps: Lucky Whises from Crafty Secrets

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Platinum Planet Brialliance and Copic markers

Paper: Radiant Paper Design, black and white cs

Accessories: Clear Liquid embossing, Silver embossing powder, Silver Bells Glimmer mist, Labels2 nestability,clear rhinestone and bangle bling

Best Wishes

January 5, 2009

For today, I want to share with you all a sneak peek at one of the few stamp sets that will be released by Crafty Secrets in the Winter CHA. The stamp I used today is from the Fairyland set. This is a large set with 24 different images.

This card was made for the Technique Lovers Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Image was stamped on white cs with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and colored with Copic markers. Background circle was also colored with different shades of blue Copic markers. The circle was mounted on to yellow cs that was die cut with the Labels2 nesty. Did some sponging on the edges with Faded Jeans Distress Ink. Background DP is from the Pastel Paper Design of Crafty Secrets. Used the Tacky Glitter technique around the base of the card and on the stars. For the stars I covered a strip of cs with double sided tape from Sookwang, peeled off the backing of the tape and poured Champagne Micro Fine Glitter from Glitter Ritz. Brushed of the excess glitter using a make-up brush then rubbed the glitter with my finger to adhere it to the tape and let the shine of the glitter come out (Burnished Velvet technique). I then punched stars from this glittered cs and randomly places it onto the background DP. Cut 2 more pieces of yellow cs with the Label2 and added my sentiment. Edges were distressed with Faded Jeans. Finished the card off with Ribbon.

Check out Pam Hooten's Blog for a sneak peek at yet another new stamp set from Crafty Secrets that is being released at CHA - Lucky Wishes.

Stamps: Fairyland Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Pastel Paper Design, white and yellow cs

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Faded Jeans and various Copic markers

Accessories: Labels2, Champagne Glitter Ritz and ribbon

Merry Christmas Medallion

November 17, 2008

Today's Technique Lover's Challenge over at Splitcoast Gallery was to make something using a triangle fold medallion.

So for this challenge, I once more used a stamp from the Christmas Joy stamp set of Crafty Secrets Clear Art stamps. The stamps in this set are so adorable and there is so much you can do with them.

First of all, I cut 8 - 2" squares and folded them, following Lynn's instructions in the challenge which you can find here. I assembled the triangle medallion and put it aside for a while. I then stamped the little Christmas bird on DP from the Wassail Paper Pad of Basic Grey (all the paper used for this card is from this paper pad) with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I heat set the stamped image to prepare it for coloring with Copic markers. Then proceeded to color the image with several copic markers. I added some gold metallic Sakura to the edge of the circle. Then die cut a round scallop with green dp using my small nestability. I used 2 other sizes of scallop circles for the other 2 layers behind the main image. The main image was mounted on to the triangle fold medallion, then onto the other 2 circle scallops. Edges of the circle scallops were again lined with the gold metallic Sakura pen. The whole circle piece was then mounted onto the background DP. Stamped the Merry Christmas and cut the piece out with scissors and mounted it onto to red DP. Cut the 4 corners from a Cuttlebug corner die and placed them on the four corners of the card.

Stamp: Christmas Joy Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Wassail Paper Pad from Basic Grey

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Walnut Stain, Copic markers and Gold metallic Sakura pen

Accessories: Cuttlebug corner die

Falala

November 3, 2008

It's time for another Crafty Secret Card. This time using one of the latest stamps released by Crafty Secrets Clear Arts stamps.

For today's card I used stamped images from the Christmas Joy stamp set. This card was also made for today's Try a new Technique challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers which was to make a Decorative Circle Medallion. A technique used by yesterday's featured stamper - Becca. She has complete video tutorials in her blog.

First of all, I followed the instructions from Becca's tutorial for the circle medallion. I cut a circle using a colluzle 2x. First on plain photo copy paper and then on white cs. The circle I cut on the photo copy paper was folded into 8 pie sections and this was used to mark lines on the back side of the cs circle. Once the lines were there to guide my punching, I used one of the corner adorner punches and lined up the center of my punch to the guide line. I punch 8 times around the circle. If you do it right the middle should just fall off once you finished the 8th punch. If it doesn't, just trim the little part that is still attached using a blade. I then smudged Versamark on the front of the medallion and poured some Silver Embossing Tinsel and heat embossed the medallion. Put that aside for awhile. I then stamped the 2 singing bird images with Onyx Black Versafine and colored it with some Copic markers. Cut the cs in a circle to the same size as the medallion. I dotted the circle with a Quickie Glue pen and then poured a small amount of silver glitter to form some snow. Below the 2 birds, I also drew randomly lines with the glue pen and poured some clear sparkle glitter and white fun flock also for a snow effect. I cut some acetate in the same size circle and glue this to the front of the white cs then glue the circle medallion on to this. Used a circle scallop nestability to cut the base of the circle medallion. Background paper is the reverse DP from Bo-Bunny- Holiday magic Dot. Used the front of the DP for the white scallops on the top of the card. Final touch to the card is a green ribbon. Tutorial for making the ribbon can also be found on Becca's blog. In fact you can learn a lot of techniques from her blog.

Stamps: Christmas Joy Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Holiday Magic Dot-BoBunny, white cs and green shinny cs

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine and copic markers

Accessories: Silver embossing tinsel, silver glitter, corner punch, circle scallop nestability and ribbon.

Believe in Pink

October 20, 2008

Well I decided to make another card for our Design Team Challenge -to use stamps from the Support the Girls Stamp Set and the Splitcoast Monday Technique Lovers Challenge to use watercolor pencils and Twinkling H2O.

For this card I randomly stamped on the pink DP from The Sasha Paper Collection of Prima the image of the lady with Rose Romance. I then matted the DP on black cs then gold cs. I used some Peel-Offs Outline Stickers (Daisy in Frame) on white cs and painted the flowers with pink and green watercolor pencil and used the Cherry Sorbet Twinkling H2O over the colored pencils. Each of the 4 flower frames were mounted on black cs. For the center sentiment I stamped the words from the Support the Girls stamp set on white cs and then embossed it with clear embossing powder. This was then outlined with gold sticker and mounted on black cs. Added some gold dots all around the black outer matting with gold metallic get pen.

Stamps: Support the Girls Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamp

Ink: Black Soot, Rose Romance, Twinkling H2O, water color pencils

Paper: The Sasha Paper Collection and black and gold cs

Accessories: Outline stickers, clear embossing powder.

Look Who's Turning...2

October 13, 2008

Here is a card I made for the Technique Lover's Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Today's technique challenge is a Stair Step/Accordion Card.

I have never tried making a card using this technique and when I saw the challenge this morning, I new that the Birthday Kids Stamp Collection from Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamp would be the perfect stamp set to use. I stamped all the images on white cs with Black Soot Distress Ink. Then colored the images with various copic markers to match the colors on the background DP I would be using. When I finished coloring the images I cut them all up with scissors. Then I got a 10.5 x 5" white cs and scored it at 1.25, 2.5, 4.25, 6 and 8.25. Then folded the score line in an accordion fold. I cut out the blue DP from the Cupcake paper pad of Basic Grey and glued it to the various layers of the accordion fold. Then I cut different patterns from the same paper pad and glued it on top of the blue DP letting 1/8th of an inch showing. The I proceeded to glue on the different parts of my Birthday scene. I attached the balloons to a flexible wire with tape and attached it to the last layer of the accordion fold. I stamped the sentiment on the green DP again from the same paper pad, added red brads to the 2 ends and glued it on to chipboard and attached it to the first accordion fold of the card.

Wow, this really took a long time to make and it is a good thing that it is Thanksgiving Holiday here in Canada. I love the way this card turned out and the picture does not really do it justice. I still have to learn how to take pictures with my daughter's camera. That is why most of my cards are scanned and I tend to stay away from projects that require the use of the camera.

For all Canadians, Happy Thanksgiving. Hope you all are enjoy time off and spending it with Family. Just a soon as I finish with this post, I am off to making our Thanksgiving dinner.

Stamps: Birthday Kids Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps
Ink: Black Soot Distress Ink and various Copic markers
Paper: Cupcake from BasicGrey and white cs
Accessories: Red brads, chipboard and wire

Glittery Happy Birthday

September 15, 2008

Here is a card made for the Try a New Technique challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Today's technique to try out is to use glitter with your background stamp.

For the background of this card I used a stamp from All Night Media - The Netherlands by Anaa Griffin. Used Palette Stamp and Stick Gluepad on the background stamp and stamped on a Rose colored cs. Heated the image with a Heat It Craft Tool until it got sticky and the poured Rose Copper Glitter Ritz. Tapped out the excess glitter and set it aside for a little bit. Stamped the Azalea on white cs with Jet Black Impress Ink and then colored the flower with Copic markers. Cut it to an oval shape with an oval Coluzzle and then matted it on to a light green Bazzil cs that was cut with an Oval Scallop Nestabilities. Heavily sponged around the scalloped area with Certainly Celery. Then made a glitter panel by using double sided tape and more Rose Copper Glitter Ritz. Burnished the glitter to let the shine come out. Adhered the glittered pieces to a light green Bazzil cs that was sponged with Certainly Celery. Then used double-sided foam tape to add dimension to the Azalea image. Stamped Happy Birthday on another piece of light green Bazzil cs and mounted the whole piece to the Rose based card. For the finishing touch added ribbon between the glittered pieces.

Stamps: Azalea and The Netherlands

Ink: Jet Black Impress, Certainly Celery and various Copic markers

Paper: Rose cs, Rose and Light Green Bazzil cs and white cs

Accessories: Palette Glue pad, Rose Copper Glitter Ritz and ribbon

A Stained Glass Flower

August 11th, 2008

Well, it's moms Birthday - HAPPY 85th BIRTHDAY MOM.

Here is a Birthday card I made for the SCS Try a new technique challenge which you can find HERE. Challenge is to make a card with acetate and to use Glossy Accents and re-inkers to make the stained glass effect. Since I did not have re-inkers I decided to subsitute with Twinkling H2O.

Flower image was stamped on to acetate with Black StazOn Ink. After ink dried, colored in the back side of the acetate with glossy accents mized with Chestnut Brown, Summer Breeze and Golden Jade Twinkling H2O. Let this completely dry, then assemble the card together. Cut a rectangle only the DP from 'The Sasha Paper Collection' 3/4th" from all sides. Used double sided tape to adhere the acetate to the DP. Used another DP from the same Paper Collection for the back of the acetate. Added brads to the top corner. This was then glue to the white cs base of the card. Added ribbon all around the border of the window frame and used a rose ribbon to hide were the ribbon joined. Stamped Happy Birthday on the bottom right corner.

Stamps: Flower stamp from Magenta
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Black StazOn Ink, Chestnut Brown, Summer Breeze and Golden Jade Twinkling H2O
Paper: The Sasha Paper Collection and white cs
Accessories: Glossy Accents, rose ribbon, minty green ribbon, brads and acetate

Whopper of a Birthday

August 4, 2008

This is for today's Try a New Technique challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers to make a Square Spring Card. Here is the thread by shulsart/Sandy with instructions on how to make the Square Spring Card.

Main image is from GCS Artstamps - Gone Fishing. Image was stamped with Onyx Black Versafine on white cs. Sky was sponges with Sky Blue and clouds were done using an oval scallop cs and sponging Peacock on the edges of the scallop. Water was colored with Ligth Blue, Blue and Green Lyra Aqua Colors with an Aqua brush. Boat was colored with Cream and Pale Sepia Copic markers. Man fishing and Trees were colored with vaious Tombow markers. Bucket of fish and sentiment is from Crafty Secrets clear Art Stamps - Fishing Buds, which was stamped with Walnut stain and colored with Tombow and copic markers.

Dp is from the Spring Mat Stack of DCWV and was sponge with Certain Celery.

Today's Special

July 21, 2008

Here is a card I made for today's Try a New Technique Challenge TLC178 is a combination of 3 old challenges. TLC20 to use baby wipes, CC30 to use Bravo Burgandy and Creamy Caramel, and SC40 a sketch challenge over at Splitcoast stampers.

For today's card I used stamps from the Kitchen Classic, Little Chef and Tophat - ABC collections of Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps. Images were stamped 2x with Burgandy (didn't have Bravo Burgandy) on a caramel cs. Second stamped image was topped with Liquid Embossing and cut out. This was later on raised on the 1st stamped images. Used a circle punch to cut around the images and mounted them on Burgandy and caramel circle scalloped cs. Dabbed around the edges of the caramel cs with Creamy caramel using baby wipes. Scalloped layers were dotted with souffle pens on each scallop. Little chef and letters spelling Cherry Pie was stamped on a rectangular caramel cs with Onyx Black Versafine. Colored letters and apron with burgandy using a Tombow marker. Background paper is from Cosmo Cricket's Be Good.

Stamps: Kitchen Classic, Little Chef and Tophat - ABC Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: DP Cosmo Cricket's Be Good and Burgandy/caramel cs

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Burgandy Tombow marker and souffle pens

Accessories: Circle punch, circle scallop nestabilities and liquid embossing

Oh Happy Day!

July 14, 2008

This is for today's try a new technique challenge over at Splitcoast to make a card using the grid technique.

The base of this card was scored in a diamond pattern. Stamped flowers from the Classic Kitchen collection of Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamp on each of the diamonds and colored the image with Tombow markers. Then stippled Certainly celery in the middle of each diamond. Image on the main panel of the card is from the Kewpies collection of Crafty Secrets which was stamped 2x on white cs. This was colored with Tombow markers. Second image was cut up and raised for dimension. Added grass, sand, sky and clouds on the main panel. Sentiment is also from the Kewpies collection. Black layers were dotted with Souffle pens.

Stamps: Kewpies and Classic Kitchen Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps
Paper: White, pink, celery and black cs
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Certainly Celery and various Tombow markers

Home Cooked Meal

July 7, 2008

Before I give information on the card that I made today, I would like to thank Sandy for asking me to be Guest Designer for the month of July. When I received Sandy's e-mail, I was so excited. In fact, just the weekend prior to her e-mail ,I was driving around the Lower Mainland (that is in BC, Canada) looking for Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps. I didn't have any luck. I had previously purchased 2 sets of stamps from Precious Memories in Langley, Seaside and Story of Me and thoroughly enjoyed using these stamps and wanted some more.

So as a thank you to Sandy, I am dedicating the whole month of July to Crafty Secrets and will be posting daily in my blog, something that I have made using their products.

Here is a card I made for the technique challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. Challenge was to make a suspension card.

The 2 chef images are from Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps Kitchen Classic. Images where stamped severcal times with Onyx Black Versafine on white cs and dp from Making Memories Sam and Eliza. Images were cut and pieced together then mounted on a white circle cs that was sponged with Fired Brick Distress Ink. Circle on the white card base and designer paper from Crafty Secrets Radiant Paper Designs was cut using a round Coluzzle. Used 2 round scallop nestabilities to cut the scalloped border around the circle opening and lightly sponged it with Fired Brick. Sentiment was computer generated and mounted on a Technique Tuesday chipboard tile. Again sponged around the sentiment and lightly stamped a potholder from CS's Little Chef

Stamps: Kitchen Classis and Little Chef - Crafty Secrets Clear Art Stamps

Paper: Radiant Paper Designs - Crafty Secret

Ink: Onyx Black Versafine and Fired Brick Distressing Ink

Accessories: Round Coluzzle and round scallop nestabilities