Criss-Cross cards

I bought the snowflake cuttle bug embossing folder today. I LOVE it!!! I also just recently bought a beautiful snowflake stamp set that I'd been dying to use and I think I found a great way!

Because of a challenge on Splitcoast, I wanted to try the criss-cross card. I embossed on a gray cardstock that I bought at the LSS. I then brayered white craft ink on the raised side and heat embossed with a Kaleidoscope embossing powder.

For the outside around the band, I put two layers of white Stampin Up grossgrain ribbon. I punched out a circle and stamped one of the snowflakes on it in wild wasabi then using the smaller snowflakes I stamped around the edges using wild wasabi, purely pomegranate and blue bayou, then used a scallop and punched out a larger circle for a layer in wild wasabi. It's hard to see in the picture but a little clear stickles accenting the snowflakes finishes the outside.

For the insert. I used Purely Pomegranate as the main piece then on the neutral piece I stamped the two same snowflakes in the right corners in purely pomegranate. I stamped 'Merry Christmas' from the set All-Year Cheer III in purely pomegranate. I used the same technique as the outside with the smaller circle and the scalloped circle but on a smaller scale. I stamped the snowflake in wild wasabi and edged the circle with wild wasabi.

Thanks for looking!!!

Not much of a creating day..

BUT I have spent most of the day fulfilling some image wishes over at SCS. It's a fun feeling of fulfillment when you can take 10 envies to the post office that you know are going to put a smile on someones face. I also finished 2 swaps and got them ready to mail out tomorrow as well. Kinda stinks that the only time I'll have to mail those off will be during lunch. Talk about long lines!!

I'll admit... I did create one card but it ended up being one of the ugliest cards I've ever made so I am not going to post it here. *LOL*

Hope everyone has had a very peaceful Sunday!

Halloween is drawing near

I have a couple of halloween cards I'd like to share today. These are for some swaps over on SCS.

Sweeter Treaters

I cuttlebugged elegant eggplant for the bacground, punched out a 2" circle in pumpkin pie using a marvy punch and used a corner rounder on garden green to layer under my sweeter treater. You can't see it in the picture but there is glitter on the pumpkin smile and the caramel apple is heat embossed using a cranberry color on the apple and clear on the caramel after coloring it with a light brown. The kid is watercolored with watercolor pencils. I used brads and orange ribbon to add some accessories.

Recipe:

Cardstock: elegant eggplant, pumpkin pie, garden green

Ink: Black, versermark

stamps: sweeter treaters, all year cheer III

accessories: brads, ribbon, glitter, embossing powder

techniques: heat embossing

Halloween ATC

This is an artist trading card. Which is a 2.5" x 3.5" card the size of a baseball card. This particular card is a tri-fold artist trading card. The overall size is still 2.5x3.5 but it opens up.

FRONT: I used the SU designer paper Creepy Crawly for the background on both panels. I used a 2" marvy punch and punched out my booglie eye on very vanilla and colored him in. I traced an outline from a top on a can on the pumpkin pie to make it larger than my booglie eyes. It's probably ~3" diameter. I then punched out a smaller circle in the center of that. I took my slit punch and went around the circle making a scalloped circle that would fit on the card. That was my first time doing that and it turned out nicely and such an easy way to get a scalloped circle! I used my scissors to roughen up the edges of my booglie eyes and sponged pumpkin pie ink around the edges. You can't see it in the picture but there is a bit of glitter glue on my mummy to give a bit of sparkle. I put brads on each corner. I used pop up dimensionals on the right side under the image and used round velcro to hold it down.

INSIDE: You can see there on the right under the orange scalloped circle where the velcro is. I also covered up the cut out part with more of the creepy crawly DP. Also using the same DP paper I covered the outside panels and the center. I then layered very vanilla on the DP and stamped "Happy Halloween" in pumpkin pie using All year cheer III.

Overall I ended up using 3 different patterns from the creepy crawly designer paper. I REALLY enjoyed making ATC's!

Recipe:
Cardstock: pumpkin pie, very vanilla, creepy crawly DP
Ink: Black, pumpkin pie

stamps: booglie eyes, all year cheer III
accessories: brads, glitter
techniques:

Happy Fall

I have several cards to download today!

SCS card sketch 9-12-07
The first one is for the SCS card sketch challenge from 9-12-07.


This is made with the Stampin' Up designer paper 'Creepy Crawly' and a leftover piece of 'smashed' paper in another challenge. I took Chocolate chip paper, used the leaves in Watercolor Garden and stamped a background using chocolate chip ink. I then put it through my cuddlebug to give it dimension. I layered the Creepy Crawly DP on pumpkin pie cardstock and put an orange organdy ribbon between the two panels that I bought from Ribbons and Bows, Oh My online. The main image is layered on chocolate chip card stock and the 'Happy Thanksgiving' from the set All-Year Cheer III is stamped on with chocolate chip ink. I hope you enjoyed!

Recipe:
CS: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Glossy white, Creepy Crawly DP, papertrey white for cardbase.
Ink: (Smashing: pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, summer sun, garden green), Chocolate chip
Stamps: All-year cheer, Watercolor Garden
Technique: Smashing, cuddlebug



Happy Grandparents Day!
This card I made for my grandmother for Grandparents day. She really liked it even though it was a pretty quick creation.


I used a designer paper that I bought from Michael's, Stampin' Ups Garden Green and Regal Rose, Papertrey white. The stamps are The Angel Company's Oopsie Daisy colored in with watercolor pencils and Stampin' Up Curvy Verses that says "You are a wonderful reason to celebrate!" I then scoured the edges of the green and white for a little texture added craft glue and glitter throughout the main image for a little pizazze. A few brads, silver clip and white Stampin Up organdy ribbon finish off this card. I hope you enjoyed!

Recipe:
CS: Garden Green, Regal Rose, Papertrey white, Michael's DP
Ink: Basic Black
Stamps: TAC Oopsie Daisy, SU Curvy Verses
Technique: watercolor pencils

Money holder tutorial

This is super duper easy to make! My mom came to me and said do you think you can make a money holder? I said "SURE! I can figure it out" I looked online and tried to find one but didn't find one I liked really so I used what the banks give when giving back money as inspiration.

Take a sheet of double sided paper 7"x7 3/4"

On the 7 3/4" side, Score at 3" and 6" as shown.

Randomly cut out part of both sides

Using sticky tape, tape along the back

Fold down the long 3" side

Put sticky red tape on the bottom of the short flap

Fold over to make your money holder

Decorate to your desire!

Surgery recovery

I had my gallbladder removed Thursday. I have heard so many people say 'oh recovery from that is no big deal' 'you should be back to work by Tuesday'. Uhmm....... NO! I'm still sick and hurt and miserable! :( Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Problem card

What to do what to do. Today I'm going to play with this card and either fix it or start over. Here is the original:

There have been many suggestions from adding ribbon to changing the sentiment background to changing the card background to leaving it alone. I've got a few ideas in my head that I'm going to play with.

The blue icing is important but I really needed cool caribbean for the layered piece and didn't have anymore. Maybe I can find a scrap or two! :) Stay tuned for updated pictures.

recipe: Stamps: Housemouse, The Angel Company Whimsical words. Paper: close to cocoa, night of navy, whisper white. Ink: black, close to cocoa. Accessories: Brads.