Over the top...

This card was inspired by the HA Blog challenge of spring. The background is made from masking the center with a nestabilities diecut and stamping the houndstooth multiple times over and around in pink pigment ink. After the background was made the tree was stamped in the center using a green pigment ink.

Then things got a little out of hand..
I decided my tree needed some spring flowers...
the flower gems went on...
the flower gems came off
the buttons went on....
the flower gems went on top
and why not add some pearls to the flowers...


After I stepped back and looked at all the bling & accents I knew my mom would love it. So this is going to her for mother's day.


Products:

• Hero Arts Design Block - Tree
• Hero Arts Houndstooth
• Stampendous - Simple Mother's Day
• Hero Arts Gems
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• StazOn Royal Purple
• Versafine - Olympia Green
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels
• Ribbon - Unknown
• Crystal Stickers - Pearls

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Suzz

Still taking down Christmas ornaments...

Okay I slacked a little yesterday and all the Christmas decorations did not make it down. I was making envelopes and a tag to go with some cards I made a long time ago. I spent some time yesterday designing the matching piece. Usually I don't do anything like this and it was kind of fun. (Can't share them unfortunately as they are being shipped off to hopefully be published).

I am posting a card I made a few days ago that I thought was fun.

Products:

• Hero Arts - White & Black Flower
• American Crafts - Ribbon
• Inkadinkado Humorous Birthday - Blog Candy from Ethel!
• Memento - New Sprout
• Versafine - Olympia Green
• Prismacolor

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Suzz

Pink Elephants on Parade

There is something about pink elephants... I bought one of the new Hero Arts Sets with the elephants. I love pink elephants! Add some polka dots and you have very cute... This card was made to allow the pink elephants to parade across the hills. My sister also likes elephants so I will save this card for her.

I stamped the trees and grass using another Hero Arts stamp as a background. Everything else is stamped and cut out. For me that is an easy task when I am watching something on T.V. I think I was watching Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck... (I had tivo'ed it over the holidays and just got around to watchign it)

Products:

• Hero Arts - Clear Design Elephants
• Hero Arts - Sparkle - Love That
• Hero Arts - Three Designer Leaves
• Ranger Distress Inks - Shabby Shutters, Broken China
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• Letters - Making Memories - Stickers
• Prismacolor - Colored Pencils

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Suzz

Art Creations Friday Challenge...

The Art Creations Friday Challenge: http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/ posted this beautiful lady as the challenge photo.

I left her pretty much the same but added a resist image ontop of her and sponged a light pink and brown around the edges.
I did mask her face because my first attempt I didn't and I didn't like the effect. I also tried using a chalking technique where you chalk first and then emboss with clear embossing powder. The effect didn't show enough color on the resist. I bunched the lace along the bottom with glue dots. I added flowers, hat pin and embossed a silver charm with bronze embossing powder to coordinate with the photo corners.

Products:

• Image - Art Creations Friday
• Flowers - Prima
• Lace - JoAnn's
• Hero Arts DesignBlock - Poinsettias and Birds
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Pearls - Unknown

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Suzz

Spinning Penguins...

Over at HA this week it is about creating quick cards... Well I discovered that I am not so quick. I knew what I wanted to do with this card before I started which is unusual. I knew the design, colors, and layout. It still took me a little time to execute the card. Although in my defense it was intermingled with running my daughter to gymnastics, showers, bedtimes, letting the dog out... I am sure you all know what I mean. :)

This was my quick card. I had two inspirations for this card... Lisa Spangler made the cutest little owl card on her blog with a cut out circle http://sideoatsandscribbles.wumple.com/?p=471 and Kelly had these gorgeous pink scraplings that she made. http://cruzinkellster.blogspot.com/2008/12/minute-cards-with-marths-stewart.html Based on those two wonderful inspiration pieces the spinning penguins were born...

Recipe:

1. Since I am a lazy cardmaker I didn't measure out the centers of my ovals. I eyeballed them. I used my nestabilities and layed the pattern paper upside down on the cutting plate and laid the die cut in the middle and laid the C cutting plate on top and flipped it over. I then ran it through the cuttlebug. I then did the same for the left and right ovals.
2. Emboss the patterned paper with the oval cut outs using the swiss dots embossing folder.
3. Create a card 5" x 7" from pink cardstock. Cut out a rectangle on the front of the card to leave the ovals open to the inside of the card.
4. Sponge the patterned paper with teal colored dye ink.
5. Attache PP to front of the card with pink thread in between the pieces in the center of the oval.
6. Stamp six penguins on the patterned paper with pink ink. Cut them out with your fine scissors.
7. Stamp snowflake in teal onto patterned paper. Stamp three penguins in pink on the snowflake stamp. Cut out the hats and scarves.
8. Attach the little hats and scarves to the front of the penguins.
9. Attach the penguins with the hats and scarves to the front of the pink thread and the other penguins as the back sides on the other side of the thread.
10. Punch 20 snowflakes from the patterned paper and sponge pink ink on the snowflakes. Attach them to the top and bottom of the card in 2 layers.
    

Products:

• Hero Arts - Cap and Scarf Penguin
• Hero Arts - Grand Snowflake
• Basic Grey - Wassail - Snow Dust
• Adirondack Brights - Pool
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• StazOn - Fuschia
• Martha Stewart - Snowflake Punch

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Suzz

Kissing Stamps

Over at 2 Peas they are having weekly stamp camps... This week Kristina Werner shared the kissing technique. Here is the link: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&thread_id=2697145

I have always done the kissing of stamps by applying the ink to the stamp and using another stamp to remove the ink. She showed how to use acrylic stamps and applying the ink and stamping it on the paper and then applying ink to another stamp and laying the original stamp on top of the inked stamp and than stamping that over the original image. This is something I had never tried before. I have very few solid images so it was a challenge to find stamps that I could use to play with this.

I ended up making 2 cards for the challenge/class. The first card is not my typical genre of cardmaking and I am not sure if I did the birds justice. I used this bueatiful lace flower stamp from Hero Arts as my kissing stamp. The birds are an clear stamp and I used the technique described by Kristina to create the birds. The red ink is Versafine Crimson Red. The birds definitely look more pink than red. The ink used for the lace is Versafine Vintage Sepia. I wanted to use the pigment ink to get the crispest image possible. The color scheme I think was a challenge on SCS not too long ago and I also recieved an ad for a bedding set which was really pretty using red and grey with brown furniture.

The second card was made by applying the ink to a rubber stamp and using the lace stamp to remove the ink. The picture doesn't do it justice. The lace actually was very pretty on the flower. The flower was stamped using Versacolor Pink Opera.

The background was stamped with the Versafine Vintage Sepia. The button actually has a dandelion stamped on it using StazOn Timber Brown. I have this new vine ribbon which I am very enamored of and I used that for the stem on the flower.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Old French Writing
• Hero Arts - Bold Pop Flower
• Hero Arts - Lace Flower Cluster
• StazOn Timber Brown
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Maya Road- Ribbon (Vine)
• Hero Arts - Dandelion
• Versacolor - Pink Opera
• Versafine - Crimson Red
• Hero Arts - Lace
• Versafine - Smokey Grey
• Inkandinkado - Dawn Houser (Dream)
• The Artful Stamper (Berry Branch)
• Clear Stamps - Paper Studio - Birds & Blooms
• Stampabilities - Vintage Flourish 02

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Congratulations...

My DD teacher from last year is pregnant. My littlest one wanted to make her a card. She knows she is having a girl. This card is for her...

Unfortunately... I have very few baby stamps.. I haven't needed them... So this is more of a congratulations card...

Recipe:

1. Cut card from white cardstock 5 x 7. Stamp Butterflies in light pink around the edges.
2. CB Emboss using the frame around the edges. To make it all the way around I had to cut my folder in half and use tape to hold it along the sides to put along the bottom and top of the card.
3. I then use lime green chalk ink to highlight the embossing and the edges.
4. Cut a 4" x 6" piece of white cardstock and stamped the floral border in light pink across. I then embossed using the textured textile Cuttlebug Folder. I used the lime green chalk ink to highlight the dry embossing.
5. Cut a 3" x 5" piece of white cardstock. Stamp the butterfly border using the light pink ink. Emboss the edges using the just my type emborder on the top and bottom. Ink the dry embossing using the lime green chalk ink.
6. Stamp the sentiment in the center with the dark pink pigment ink.
7. Cut dark pink cardstock to mount the sentiment and the middle piece of cardstock.
8. Mount all pieces and pop dot the sentiment.
9. Tie ribbon around front of the card under the sentiment.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Clear Design Simple Things
• Hero Arts - Designer Posy
• Stampabilities - Celebration!
• Memento - Angel Pink Dye Ink
• Versacolor - Opera Pink Pigment Ink
• Versamagic - Key Lime Chalk Ink
• Cuttlebug Folders - Textured Textile, Borders - Just my Type
• Hobby Lobby - RibbonFX

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