Saturday, June 22, 2013

Hello with a song


This card has a pink standard base, 5 1/4 by 4 inch blue base and 5 by3 1/2 inch white base.



From the Hello Blooms (C1540) stamp set, I stamped the music notes bloom in Buttercup all over the white base.  Using Versamark and the bird and HELLO fromthe same stamp set, I embossed the images with Dutch Blue embossing powder.  This was my first time using CTMH embossing powder and I'm very pleased with it - it was easy to get rid of the little extra dots from around the image by blowing them away. The corner piece is a scrap from the Chantilly paper pack (X7163B).

I cut 4 ribbon roses (Z1800) and inked them with Cotton Candy re-inker.  If you don't have re-inkers try rubbing the roses across your ink pad (disposable rubber gloves are a good investment if you do this much).  I put the roses on a wet wipe, dropped a single dot into the center of the rose and then used the edges of the wet wipe to smear the ink around.






 If you take the edges and try to get the ink out of the roses, it doesn't work, but give  you good coverage. Let them dry thoroughly before adhereing them with a small drops of liquid glass to the card.  Adhere the white, blue and pink bases with tape.

Note: when using ink on a stamp you can see when you have extra ink on your block.  With Versa-mark it's much harder to tell, but take care to wipe the edges of your block before you stamp.  This will help prevent getting extra embossing powder on your card in places you don't want it.

Monday, June 17, 2013

Scrapbooking spaces

Just a little fun post - I love looking at other blogs for ideas and have recently seen a few with fabulous scrapbooking rooms.  Just thought I'd share mine....



LOL - no so neat, clean and fabulous as some but any scrap room is a great place to be!

Happy Creating!

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Sunny side of Surf's up

Thanks to everyone who came to the crop on Saturday.  It's truly more fun to scrap with others who enjoy it as much as I do.  This is a layout I did from my Surf's up kit. 




The suns are in Honey ink, the footprints are in sorbet, with a couple of wooden shapes from the color ready garden wooden shapes (Z1718) and some square durables (Z1705).  With a little trimming of your photos (about 1/4" each), this will hold 7 photos - three horizontals in the gold on the left page, and on the right page, one horizontal in the flower square and three verticals in the gold section. 

For a closer look at the sides:


Gold is 6.25" wide, then 1/2" strip of flowered print, then stamp a row of suns.  The ribbon pieces were just scraps I had left over, in an eye pleasing arrangement.


 

The gold in this one is 5.75" wide - the other part of the paper left after you cut the 6.25" strip.  1/2" flower strip and a matt for another 4X6.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Buzzy Good Wishes

The Bumble Bee (A1135) is in Cocoa ink on a 3X3" square of honey comb paper from the Buzz and Bumble paper pack (X7164B), mounted on a 3.25X3.25" Cocoa paper from the same pack. On Goldrush paper for the base, stamp the word stamp from Universal backgrounds (D1477) in Cocoa second generation (randomly).  The honey combs (C1537) are in Goldrush on Colonial paper, just hand trimmed.  I added a bee from the  embellishment pack (Z1831) and some gold rhinestones (Z1753).  I did two of these cards, one with smooth edges and one with distressed edges (Z1297).  This is the dristressed one, because I liked it better!






 

Thursday, June 13, 2013

June Workshop

In our June workshop, you'll create this neat little card case.  It looks like a magazine case, but it's just the right size to store your cards in, or fill with cards and present to someone as a gift.  Workshop is Thursday June 20th, from 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm.  Pieces are precut, just stamp and assemble.  Cost is $3 per case.  Please RSVP by June 18th.



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

June Crop

Just a few days left before the next crop!  June 15, 9am until 9pm or anytime in between.  It's Carnival Day, with hotdogs, cotton candy, and snow cones.  The featured kit is Surf's Up and it has such potential.  Great limited edition colors to co-ordinate with pictures like no other kit does.  Come join us for some fun - out of the hot sun - this Saturday!



 
I'm also entering this is the Color My Heart Dare!.  Check out their page and all the great ideas.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Spray Art

Trying something a little different.  I cut a flower on Colonial paper (Artiste cartridge, 3.25" page 74, Z1790)  I filled 3 spray pens (Z1380) with rubbing alcohol and added re-inker in Pacifica, Cotton Candy and Sweet Leaf.


 I took my papers outside, placed the flower on a card stock base and experimented with the colors.



  The alcohol actually let the colors blend. I ended up with 3 card bases and 3 colored flowers to make cards with.  I left the cards open and let the color fade on the top, so it colors the back of the card as well.Another good thing about alcohol instead of water is that it dries fast.

 
 
Just a butterfly (Z1463) popped up with foam tape (Z1151) and a small flourish (Z1812) with black sparkles (Z1754) on the butterfly.  The sentiment is from the stamp set that comes with the Art Philospy set (Z1686).


 


The black base for this is from the Always paper pack (X7165B), cut to 5.25X4".   I sprayed 3 of the paper butterlies with the alchohol mix. Using thin lines of liquid glass (Z679), I adhered the flower over the edge of the card and trimmed it. Another small flourish and another simple completed card.



Sunday, May 5, 2013

Plain to Fancy Notebook

Turn a cheap notebook into a cool composition book for school or a neat personal journal.  I used the Later Sk8r kit on this one, with the dragonfly stamp, a black flourish and some blue and green epoxy bubbles.  I like the torn effect.  I adhered the large background paper with a glue stick.  The shiny silver is plumbers tape run through a Cuttlebug embosser.  Glitter paper would be a good alternative.  The keys are from a retired stamp set.



Before

After

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Tag Workshop

The May workshop will be on Thursday the 16th from 5:30pm until 7:30pm.  We'll be creating three tags, one each from Chantilly papers, Buzz and Bumble papers and Surf's Up papers.  These tags can be added as an embellishment to scrapbook pages or as the main component of a card.  We'll be playing with Color-Ready Seam Binding Ribbon (Z1732).  The workshop fee of $6.00 includes an Edge Distresser (Z1297) to take home with you. Please RSVP by May 1st.

Chantilly Tag

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Tommy Kit

This Saturday's crop features the Tommy Kit.  With a little imagination this paper is very versatile.  I used it for some graduation pages. 

The crop is from 9am until 9pm or anytime in between.  I look forward to seeing you!

Sunday, April 7, 2013

April 11th Workshop

The April workshop is this Thursday.  The Mother's Day card can be found in the previous blog post, along with workshop details.  Please RSVP by Wednesday, and let me know if any of your cards will need adjusting because you don't need a Mom, Dad or Wedding card.  Thanks!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

April Workshop

The name of the game is PINK!  In the April workshop, you will create a mother's day, a father's day and a wedding card.  I'm waiting on some supplies to finish the father and wedding cards and will post when they are complete.  I wanted to let you save the date as I know all our calendars fill up fast.
Workshop will be on April 11, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, cost is $3.  The papers are precut, stamping and assembly time will take about 45 minutes.  Please RSVP by April 9th (email or phone) so I can have your kits ready. 


PS - the Father's day and wedding card will NOT be pink! 

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and Easter!  It's been rainy here, the perfect weather for scrapping.   I made this colorful recipe card I wanted to share with you.  It's a different look, but all Close to My Heart products. I took advantage of our blooming porch peach tree as a nice prop.


The background is from smearing ink on a Craft Sheet, then spritzing it with water (Z1380) til it beads.  Place the 6X6 paper on the ink, let it absorb and then pick it up and let it dry.  I used twilight, buttercup and bard red here.  The dragonfly (A1134) is in black ink, and the post mark (Jardin D1528) is in grey flannel.  I folded the black tulle ribbon (Z1798) and adhered with liquid glass (Z679), letting two ink pads hold down either side while it dried.  I've also added a piece of the black flourishes (Z1745) and some embellishments from the slate pack (Z1787).  Using the foam tool (Z1298), I added some light color (twilight, buttercup and blush) to the white recipe part, to keep the color flowing and decrease the stark contrast of the white paper. This did smear my printer ink a little, but not enough to bother me. Add some black hemp (Z282) to finish off the look,

Friday, March 29, 2013

Herd it's your birthday

The new Distressed Backgrounds (D1544) stamp had me pulling out a retired set.  The chicken wire went great with the barnyard characters in the Howdy Stamp Set (D1435, retired).


The dots on the page are just pen marks from the sweet leaf markers.

Everything but the kitchen sink

I lucked up on this entry - it's a piece I've been working on this week and it just happens to be the colors of the Close to My Heart Color Dare for the week.  I was going for a particular look and used all these items:
Claire Paper Pack X7166B
Outdoor Denim Chevron Ribbon Z1808
Pink Glitter Gems Z1807
Buzz & Bumble Stickease X7164C
Quick Cards Dragonfly A1134
Garden Wooden Shapes Z1718
Wooden Mini Medly Accents Z1837
Frame Flair  D1546
Buzz & Bumble Kit stamp G1054
Distressed Backgrounds D1544
Card Chatter - Sympathy D1476
Enjoy Life C1439 (retired)
 

 
To make this card

 
If you got it - use it!
 
Try your own card and post on the Color Dare site - this week is a prize week!
 



Monday, March 25, 2013

Pretty Pastels

Entering the Color Dare again - it was hard not to throw some sweet leaf in  here to get a good rainbow!  A little VersaMark, a little black embossing powder, then the foam tool to add some blush and buttercup.  I'm still not an expert with the black powder, but I  hear practice makes perfect.

 
Here are my first couple of trys.
 

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

April Crop on the 20th

The weather is warming up and creating lots of good photo ops! The April Crop will be on the 20th, from 9am until 9pm or anytime in between.  No charge with a minimum $10 order or $5 with your own supplies.  You will have access to all my stamps, ink, Cricut, and cartridges.  It's best to remember your own cutter.  Lunch, drinks and snacks are provided.

This month's featured kit is Tommy - red, yellow and blue nautical themed paper.  Think Navy, beach, boating, lake, observatories, summertime and pirates.  A good scrapbook title could use Navigating and link this to a non-water related activity - such as Navigating the First Day of School or Naviagting from the Backseat (road trip).  Use Weathering the Storm for pictues of heavy snow days, damaged property (yes, we were hit by a tornado several years ago), or remembering crying babies.  Or the teenage years.....

Graduation or Birthday Card
Anniversary Card
 
The April Stamp of the Month can be added to any $50 order for only $5. See page 141 of the catalog for more details.  I think this set is really cute and 5 of the 6 stamps have co-ordinating shapes on the Artiste cartridge.
And as an added incentive, I'm giving away this petite perks stamp set with any order.  April orders need to be in by April 9th in order for our supplies to arrive in time for the crop.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

March Workshop

The March workshop will be from 5:30pm until 7:30pm on Thursday, March 21st.  For the workshop fee of $3, you'll make a little peeps treat box and a colorful Easter card.  The pieces are precut to save time, so please RSVP by March 20th. These projects use the Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges, stamp set Easter Wishes B1422, as well as the retired August 2012 SOTM (but any good swirl would do). We'll be doing puddle stamping for the mulitcolored effect.  Look forward to seeing you!



Sunday, March 3, 2013

Hugged

Most of my cards get sent in the summer, to my daughter when she's off at camp.  This one uses the colors from the Color My Heart dare.  The bigger card lets me write more, as she says my letters are always too short.  I love the sentiment as well.


 
Happy Camper stamp set C1457 (retired)
February 2012 SOTM
Pear Ink Z2197
Lagoon Ink Z2195
Outdoor Denium Ink Z2140
Colonial White Die-Cut & Envelopes Z1738
Claire paper pack X7166B
Hooligans paper pack (winter 2010) 
Blending Pen 3174



Thursday, February 28, 2013

Recipe Card Swap

In March, the group in Cairo and the group in Huntsville will be working together to create a mini cookbook, with paper crafted recipe cards.  If you are particpating in this project, I have a few tips.
The base cards are 6" X 6".
Use cardstock as the base paper, for a longer lasting recipe book.
Don't punch holes, you will do that to all your own cards so they line up right.
If you are going to complete your cards at the crop, preprint and bring your recipe,
on your final paper.
 
My first try:
 
Front
 
 
Back

 
 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Chantilly Crop

Oh my gosh!  I just thought the Buzz and Bumble kit was going to be my favorite but the colors in this Chantilly kit just make me happy!  The layout is super simple.  For the mom's with a family a boys, consider switching the cotton candy pink out for some twilight blue and using these pages for Easter pictures. The multicolored print is a simple green print on the opposite side, if its still to much pink for your taste (but it's so pretty!)


It's late and work beckons in the morning but I couldn't resist doing half of the layout to share.  The Chantilly Crop will be on March 9th, 9am until 9pm.  Please place your order no later than March 1st in order to have you supplies here on time.
Also,  Ink Club orders are due this month.  Suggested co-ordinating inks are cotton candy, pear, twilight and buttercup.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Later Sk8r

Another successful crop this weekend, thanks guys!  I made one card and 4 double page spreads and used up all my Later Sk8r paper!


Something cool about this page - I used the leftover paper instead of the letters for part of my title.  I stamped some gray paper with the circle stamp from the kit, using lagoon ink, then cut the letters out.  I used some of the extra (after cutting out the title) to mat the picture on the left page (bottom picture).  Only the top part of the paper was stamped, but the effect was very cool.

Dream Big stamp set
Later Sk8r stamp set
Typeset stamp set (2011, retired)
Milepost shapes
Later Sk8r paper
Black & Grey Sparkles assortment
 
 

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Egg-cited!

I received a nice big package today, complete with new paper, stamps, inks and embellishments.  I started with this little Easter card.  Crop from 9am - 9pm this Saturday (Feb 23)!

 
White Daisy Die cut card Z1473
Easter Wishes Stamp Set B1422
Claire Paper pack X7166B
Blending Pen 3174
Sunset Ink
Hollyhock Ink
Grass - Artiste Cartridge, page 73 - 1"
Eggs - Art Philosophy Cartridge, page 57 - 1 3/4"
 
 

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Sweet inspiration

Another Bee Card.  I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new papers, and inspiration has eluded me recently.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

No Naked Nuggets

Thursday night was a blast making candy treat bags and eating chocolate covered strawberries.

Wrapping the candy is so easy and uses such small scraps, we decided no more naked nuggets!

The next all day crop is February 23rd. The order deadline is February 13th, with the featured kit of the day being Later Sk8r.