A couple new cards...

I recently got a huge box in the mail from Two Peas and couldn't help but dive right in and get creative.  I will be the first to say that I don't order from them a lot but when I do it's because they have something that I'm looking for that I can't find locally or they have an amazing sale that I just can't pass up.  Can you say Prima at 30-50% off.  Plus free shipping on orders over $50 yeah that's not hard to do with a box filled with Prima flowers, bling, pearls and paper.  I created a layout and 2 cards.  I can't show you the layout just yet as It's something I made for a certain company mixing it with some of their Mixed Media products but as soon as I can I will post away.

Ok so on to my cards.  This first card I created I used this weeks sketch at Get Sketchy Card Challenges. 

Products used:

Prima Pattern Paper

Kraft Cardstock

Prima flowers

My Minds Eye deco Chipboard

Pebbles Inc rub-on

Prima Pearls and gems

Glittered Paper 

Satin Ribbon

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

MS butterfly punch

Here is this weeks sketch at Get Sketchy

Here is my second card that I created

Products used:

Prima Pattern Paper

Kraft Paper

Anna Griffin Deco journaling spot

Prima Pearl Rose

Prima Gems

Satin Ribbon

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

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Till next time Happy Crafting.

Thankful for My Family

When I seen the new Teresa Collins Giving Thanks collection I knew I wanted it to be our November Family Mini.  I don't normally do monthly mini albums but when hubby is deployed that is something that I do.  When it's filled in with photos etc then I ship it to him so he can see what we have been up to what the kids are doing and how things are at home.  It's his little piece of home that comes to him.. Each page is also a pocket that will have letters placed inside them to him from the kids as well as more photos etc.

Products used:

Teresa Collins Giving Thanks Album Covers

Teresa Collins Giving Thanks Collection

Jenni Bowlin Bingo Cards

7gypsies tags

Prima Flowers

Morex Ribbon

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Kaiser Crafts Gems

Little Yellow Bicycle chipboard pieces

MS butterfly punch and boarder punch

Paper Trey Ink buttons

Twine

Thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow with a couple cards.

Vintage Santa Images

I am totally loving all the Vintage Santa images that  you see in pattern papers this year.  Pink Paislee has totally out did themselves and I am in love with the Father Christmas line.  I paired the Father Christmas line with a clear acrylic star from Clear Scraps.

I love using all the different clear shapes that Clear Scraps makes.  I enjoying using them on my layouts and altered projects but most of all I love using them as the focal point of my cards.  Today I am showcasing Clear Scraps "Small Stars" which are great for any project no matter what theme or event your working on.   I love to ink them up and emboss them to make them stand out more on projects.

Here is my card showcasing the Clear Scraps Small Stars

Here is a close up of the star

 

Products used:

Clear Scraps Small Stars

Pink Paislee "Father Christmas" Pattern papers

Kraft Cardstock

Vintage Glass Glitter

Zig Silver paint pen

Staz-on Teal Ink

ColorBox Creamy Brown Ink

Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder

Ribbon

Instructions:

Cut cardstock to 10.5 x 5.25 and fold in half

Cut pattern paper to 5x5 and ink edges in Creamy Brown and adhere to front of card

Peel off protective coating from star and ink with Staz-on Teal ink

When dry emboss star

Paint the embossed image with the silver Zig Paint Pen
Trim out Santa from pattern paper and apply Vintage Glitter Glass with favorite adhesive and then pop dot to center of star.

Adhere Star to center of the card

Add ribbon and tie in bow.

I hope you will try these fun and simple techniques on your next project.

Thanks for looking and till next time.

Happy Crafting

A Christmas Card and a couple winners...

I have already started my Christmas Cards for this year.  I actually started a couple weeks ago and I am so glad that I did as I will be sending a lot of cards to my husband and his squadron as they will be leaving soon.  Christmas will be a little different for us this year with Hubby being gone this year we are actually doing a mini Christmas here in a couple weeks.  So I am looking forward to putting up our Christmas tree next week.  Never thought I would put it up before Thanksgiving.. lol

With that said here is a card that I made this week using this weeks card sketch at Card Patterns.

Here is a close up 

Products used:

Kraft Cardstock

DCWV Pattern Paper

BoBunny Stamp

VersaMagic Red Magic and Spanish Olive ink

Colorbox Creamy Brown Ink

Jenni Bowlin scalloped circle

Kaiser Crafts glems

Ribbon

Here is this week's sketch at Card Patterns

Can I just say that I was really excited to see that I made the top 6 cards last week at Card Patterns.  It totally put a smile on my face and made my day...  Thanks to everyone at Card Patterns for picking my card as one of the top 6.

Ok so now on to the winners of my last giveaway with the amazing U-Cutz from Darcies

TeenaBugg38 said...
Your cards are adorable!!! I am already a follower :)Thanks for a great giveaway!

October 22, 2010 10:31 AM

and

Casey Wright said...
These cards are super cute!

October 22, 2010 2:40 PM

Please send me your snail mail addy so I can get these off to you ASAP (click to e-mail me)

Till tomorrow

Happy Crafting.

Cards for men...

I love making cards for my boys and hubby and Scrap Within Reach Industrial Park collection is perfect for any male theme cards you may need to create.  I also mixed in the Noteblocks from the Cambridge Collection.

This first card features a kraft mini bag from Scrap Within Reach.  It's a great way to add a gift card to your card.

I just adore the Noteblocks in the Cambridge Collection and it makes for a quick card that is sure to stand out.

Don't forget to leave me a comment on my previous post for a chance at a sweet little giveaway.

Thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow with another project.

A couple cards & a Giveaway...

Yesterday I spent the day cleaning, purging and creating in my scrap room...  Today I want to share 2 different cards that I created.  Be sure to leave a comment and or follow my blog to be in a drawing for a some of the items I used on my cards.(items are listed at the end of this post)

First up is a Winter theme card that I created using this weeks sketch at 2 sketches 4 you.  I just adore the sketches each week...

 

Products used:

Kraft Cardstock

Pink Paislee pattern paper

Jenni Bowlin Circle tag

Chipboard Snowflake

Vintage lace

gems

VersaMagic Dew Drop - Cloud White

VersaMagic Dew Drop - Sahara Sand

Tsukineko "Sparkle" Shimmer Spritz

Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder

Fiskars Upper Crest Border Punch

Here is this weeks sketch from 2 sketches 4 You

This next card I created using this weeks sketch from Card Patterns weekly sketch blog.  I came across it from a friends blog and just fell in love with the sketch.  

Products used:

Kraft Cardstock

Darcie Pattern papers

Darcie Happy Birdy U-Cuts

Jenni Bowlin Tag

VersaMagic Dew Drop - Sahara Sand

Satin Ribbon

Here is this weeks sketch at Card Patterns

I have several snowflakes, 3 different U-Cuts and some Kraft Cardstock and Satin Ribbon Packaged up and ready to send to two lucky people.  All you have to do is leave a comment.  If you want to try your chances twice all you have to do is sign up to follow my blog. 

Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog and I hope you will leave me a comment so I can hop onto your blog.

Aluminum Foil and Alcohol inks

Last week I showed you this card using aluminum foil.

I promised I would show you what I did to my  leaf.  So today is the day.

Supplies needed:
Scrap paper
Glue Stick
Alcohol inks (I used Terra Cotta Black and Metallic gold)
Aluminum foil
Inking tool
Leaf dye and embossing folder

Instructions:
1. Tear off some aluminum foil and crush it up a bit
2. Apply glue to scrap paper
3. Place aluminum foil on top of scrap piece of paper and smooth it out

4. Trim off extra aluminum foil and die cut your leaf from your paper and then emboss it

5. Shake Metallic Gold alcohol ink and apply a few drops directly to your leaf

6. Apply Terra Cotta alcohol ink to your Inking tool and start dabbing your leaf till it's covered with ink.

7. Apply a small dot of black alcohol ink to a new felt strip on your inking tool and dab in a couple spots and then switch back to felt strip with Terra Cotta alcohol ink and dab over black ink.

8. Continue dabbing your leaf letting the ink dry some and then dabbing it again.  Once you get the look that your looking for set it aside and let it dry.

9. Use your leaf as an embellishment on a card.

I also did the same technique on a pumpkin.

If you are local to me I will be teaching a class using Aluminum foil and alcohol inks creating 5 different Christmas Cards at Lilas Scrapbooking in Everett.  Here is a peek at 2 of those cards.

Class is Wednesday October 27th from 3-4:30 or 5-6:30 and repeats again on Friday October 29th

Trick or Treat

You already know that I love Halloween but I also love owls and I guess if you know me you already knew that.  So naturally I had to make a card with an owl on it but how to make it a spooky owl... With my Cricut of course... I used the Create a Critter cartridge with some Basic Grey pattern paper and I just adore how it turned out. 

Will be back tomorrow with that aluminum foil how to...

Thanks for looking and choosing to come visit my blog.

I just love Halloween & Clear Scraps Contest...

I simply adore all things Halloween. I love all the colors of Halloween and love when the kids get dressed up etc. The only thing I dislike about this time of year is all the scary movies on television. I can't watch scary movies. I think the scariest I go is watching Sweeny Todd or Ghost Hunters.lol Miranda loves scary movies but they just freak me out. lol

So naturally today I want to show you a Halloween Card. I did the whole Witch and Black cat thing but I promise you it's not scary at all. I also used this weeks sketch at 2S4Y.

Products used:
Clear Scraps 12x12 Acrylic
Hambly lace transparency
Rusty Pickle Pattern Paper
Vintage Halloween Image
Doodlebug Glitter Paper
Kaiser Crafts Black Gems
Colorbox charcoal glitter
Ribbon (M's)
I used Cricut design studio to create my frame. I so love design studio

Here is this weeks sketch at 2S4Y that I used for my inspiration.

Now if you simply love making all things Halloween and mixing in some Clear Acrylic with your creations then please get in on this contest for a great Acrylic goody bag.

Clear Scraps Contest Details...

Scare us. Spook us. Give us the chills.
We want to see your acrylic Halloween projects!
Cards, layouts, candy boxes...whatever you want - just show us how you would use some acrylic to celebrate this spooky holiday.

Send your projects to: contest@clearscraps.com
One project per person, please. Submissions to this contest will be posted in a Facebook album for easy viewing and each submission will be an entry into a drawing for a prize package from Clear Scraps. If you'd like a second entry into the drawing - become a Facebook Fan or a Blog follower and we'll put you in there twice (or 3 times if you submit and follow both places). Drawing will take place on Halloween night and the winner will be announced the next day on the Clear Scraps blog.

Don't forget I will be back here in a couple days with another card and a step by step tutorial on playing with aluminum foil.

Thanks for looking.

Welcome Fall...

Fall is finally in the air around here. The leaves are turning and falling already and the air is crisp. Lots of apples and pumpkins at the market. Not to mention its baking season for me. hehe

So with it being fall and all I thought I would show a fall theme card today.

Products used:
Couture Cardstock
Rita Marie Pattern paper (plaid)
My minds eye pattern paper (frame)
aluminum foil
alcohol inks
ribbon
vintage music paper.

I will be back tomorrow with another card and on Thursday I will do a step by step on using aluminum foil.

Thanks for looking and happy fall to you

A couple cards to start off the week.

So since I have been doing a lot of card making lately I decided that this week I will feature some cards on my blog.. I hope you will join me each day as I showcase my latest cards and maybe a few other things.

Today I would like to show you a few cards that I made for Scrap Within Reach.


The pattern papers are from the Afternoon Tea collection. Which if you love pink then this collection is for you... Of course I had to punch out some butterflies as you can never go wrong with a butterfly for an embellishment..

Thanks for looking and I hope you will be back tomorrow to see more cards...

Halloween Card Class & winner to RAK

I just love Halloween. I love all the colors and seeing the excitement in my kido's eyes when they get to dress up for school and to go trick or treating. They also love giving there teachers a little card with a treat bag of candy...

If your local to me I have an upcoming Halloween card class at Lila's Scrapbooking and more on Wednesday October 6th from 3-4 or 5-6 You will create 5 different cards for $15.00 Here are a few cards that you will make at the class.

If you can't make it on the 6th. I also have the same class on October 15th from 1-2

Ok so lets get on to the RAK winner... This weekend I put up a card I created in honor of World Card Making day and asked ya to leave a comment for an awesome card kit RAK. That lucky winner is....

Melissa said...

This is really pretty!

Melissa
http://www.burstsofcreativity.blogspot.com/

October 02, 2010 5:48 PM

Melissa please e-mail me at ElisaK12 at gmail dot com

Thanks for looking and I will be back tomorrow with another project. If you aren't a follower of my blog yet please sign up as there will be more RAK's, contest announcements and the list goes on.

Today is National Card making day

In honor of National Card making day I created this card. It's filled with lots of great items from Clear Scraps.

Products used:

Clear Scraps 12x12 Acrylic Sheets

Clear Scraps Decorative Frames

Clear Scraps Bird shapes

Staz-on Ink (teal and black cherry)

Embossing folder

The girls Paperie pattern paper

Vintage music paper

Mellissa Frances Mica Flakes

Gems

Vintage flowers

bazzill bling (snowflakes)

Here is a close up of the bird

Are you planning on making any cards today? If you do please leave me a comment so I can hop to your blog. Plus one lucky person will win this special card kit from me.

Thanks for looking and I will be back Monday to announce the winner of the kit and post some cards that I make today.

Happy Halloween Banner

With Halloween just a few short weeks away it's never to early to start on some decorations to get into the spirit of Halloween. Today I am featuring the small banner from Clear Scraps. It has 5 pieces to a package for $5.99. I used two packages to create the Happy Halloween Banner. Click on photos for a larger view.

Products used:

Clear Scraps Small Banner

Hambly Grid Transparency

Graphic 45 Pattern Paper

Accents Black Butterflies

Hot off the Press bat brads

Vintage black lace

Black tulle

Recollections alphas and black rose brad

Staz-on Black ink

Black Bat ribbon (michaels)

Glossy Accents (for adhesive)

Here are a few close up photos.

Tips:

Don't forget to take off protective coating.

I applied all the Staz-on to my pieces first

I applied the Hambly to the back of my pieces and only put adhesive where my papers were on the front.

Thanks for looking

Back on Schedule...

Wow the past couple weeks just zoomed on by. School started on the 8th of September here and things are finally falling back into a nice schedule. With school starting Isaiah also started back on his Taekwondo journey. He is loving the new studio and can't wait to get his 2nd degree black belt. Miranda started Hot Yoga at the studio. She totally loves it. Joshua loves to tag along and spends his time at the studio playing his Nintendo DS. Hubby's schedule is always busy at work and we never know when he will be home.

I have been busy scrapping away and teaching classes at Lila's Scrapbooking and More. I always love doing Christmas Cards and love that all the ladies from last year have signed up for my Christmas Classes once again. It's always a fun time.

Here are a couple cards from my last card class. I always make up extra kits that we put up for sale in the store for those that aren't able to make the class or haven't had a chance to get in the store for a few weeks.
My next Christmas card class is on October 27th from 3-4 or 5-6 but on October 13th you can join me for my 1 and only Halloween class this year time is 3-4 or 5-6. Hope to see ya there.

Now that things are finally back on a schedule I will be blogging more and more.

Till next time.
Happy Crafting

I adore the XL shapes from Clear Scraps

I love working with all of the XL shapes from Clear Scraps. Today I am sharing a layout that I did with the XL Deco Squares. They come 2 to a package with 2 different shapes. If you are wondering or looking for a different XL shape then Clear Scraps has got you covered. There are several different shape combinations for you to choose from. See XL SHAPES on the Clear Scraps Site for more choices.

Products used:

Clear Scraps XL Deco Squares

Melissa Frances Pattern paper

Making Memories Pattern paper

Prima flowers & bling swirl

Petaloo flowers

My Little Shoebox mini purple alphas

Zig Paint Marker

Brown ink

Jenni Bowlin bingo card (I cut the top off and used it as my title)

MS butterfly punches

Here are a few Tips that I wrote down while I was doing this layout.

1. Using the Zig Paint Marker shake it up very well and just follow your edge. Go slow if you don't have a steady hand. It dries pretty quick which is nice.

2. While it's drying get your papers cut and trim your edges with your favorite decorative edge punch.

3. Ink all the edges of your papers.

4. Find some of your favorite embellishments that you have in your stash that will work with your papers. A lot of times I will just use what is left on my desk from a previous layout or project. A great way to use up those stragglers.

5. Build your layout on the XL Deco Acrylic shape with a strong adhesive. Remember the laws of gravity. A few of my favorites are Zip Dry and 3-in-1 which are both made by Beacon and are a wet adhesive. If you are a dry adhesive user Glue Arts High Tac works great.

6. The little black polka dot butterflies where punched from the package that the bling came in.

Thanks for looking,

Clear Scraps blog hop featuring Unity Stamps...

This past year, we had an awesome opportunity to team up with Unity Stamps and we'd love to show you some of the projects we were able to create pairing a crisp, clean rubber stamp image and the acrylic and chipboard products from Clear Scraps. Starting at the Clear Scraps blog and follow each link to a Clear Scraps designer blog. Be sure to comment on everyone's blog and then go back to the Clear Scraps blog and let us know that you did. Everyone who completes this blog hop will be entered for a really nice prize package from Clear Scraps.

I choose to feature a layout using the XL Deco shape and a few of my favorite Unity stamps from the June, July and August "kit of the month" sets.


Using Staz-on Teal ink I stamped an image several times to create a pattern for the background of my layout. I then added my photo and stamped the word Love using black Staz-on ink. I then stamped a few other items on Kraft paper and added them as embellishments to my page along with a button. I then turned my layout over and painted on the back so my stamped images would pop on the front. I finished off the layout with some alphas for my title and some simple sweet journaling.

After you leave a comment please hop on over to Cathy's blog as she has a fab project to share with you. Remember to leave a comment on all the blogs and then on Clear Scraps blog to be entered in for an awesome Clear Scraps prize.

If you happened to get to my blog other then the hop here is the order of the designers blog to hop along to.

Grace's blog

Pinky's blog

Rita's blog

Hilde's blog

Irene's blog

My Blog

Cathy's blog

Tonya's blog

end here: Clear Scraps blog

See you back here Monday when I give you a little peek into the inside of my card sketch book. If your not a follower yet of my blog yet I would love you to be. Click on follow on the right side bar.

My card sketch book....

Wow I can't believe it's been that long since I posted on my blog... Time sure does fly... I wish I could say it's because of all the fun I have been having but sometimes life likes to get up in your face and say hello here I am.... That is exactly what happened. So now things seem to be back to normal... A while back I promised a peek at my card sketch book. So better late then never.

My Card sketch book.

It is filled with 4x6 graph index cards. The covers are just a nice thick chipboard... I love the kraft look so I choose to not cover the entire front cover. Some 1" circles cut out from several of my favorite papers, some amazing ribbon and my most favorite things buttons and butterflies with a little bling. I punched and bound it with my bind it all. Simple easy and way affordable. The pack of graph index cards I separated in half and it made 2 of these 4x6 sketch books. I always draw out my sketches of cards, layouts etc with little notes here and there of embellishments I think I may use on them etc. The graph paper is great because it makes it easy to draw a perfect square. hehe I use to use those cheep spiral bound graph notebooks that cost an arm and a leg but they are getting harder and harder to find so I started making my own when I purchased my bind it all when it first came out... This cost me less then $3.00 to make.

This weekend I will share a few pages from the inside along with the cards that came from those sketches.

Also be sure to check back tomorrow (Friday) when Unity meets Clear Scraps... It's gonna be quite the pair. Oh and lets not forget about the prize at the end of the rainbow...