You're My Hero

It's Day 7 of my new obsession - the one sheet wonder (OSW)!! Here's the template I used to make this year's Father's Day cards. Every day thru June 21st (Father's Day in the USA), I'll share my OSW creations.

I pulled out an oldie but goodie - my random edge scissors. I thought it brought a certain amount of interest to the design. And of course three stamps created the most awesome heartfelt card.

Supplies:

• The Paper Studio - card base, patterned paper
• Layers - Bazzill, DCWV
• Stamps - Stampin' Up!, TPC Studio, My Pink Stamper
• Fiskars - decorative scissors
• Memento Ink

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check out my daily posts.

La-Vie

Challenges:

• Jo's Scrap Shack - #92 Father's Day 
• Sister Act - #110 anything goes
• DLART - Thankful Thursday #158 for a man/boy
• DLART june linky - anything goes

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Get Well card featuring outline stickers and Copic shading

Y'all know how I do it with these Elizabeth Crafts outline stickers! Well today I have a special Copic coloring. The shading was achieved with one marker in each color and the colorless blender. On glitter paper the colorless blender really helps to achieve color blending rather than erasing mistakes. This is my fav because it looks like stained glass!

Supplies:

• outline stickers from Stamp on It
• Copics
• Fiskars
• memento ink
• basic grey cardstock
• Elizabeth Crafts microfine glitter (warm diamond)
• sequins from stash
• card base We R Memory Keepers - inked rose,

Thanks for stopping by! This CAS card makes my heart skip a beat!

La-Vie

Challenges:

• Through the Craft Room Door -  anything goes
• DLART June linky -  anything goes

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Inspiration for Get Inky! Challenge 19: Christmas

We've got an exciting Christmas challenge going on at the Get Inky! Challenge blog and I'm blogging to inspire you to join in on all the fun!!

I've always wanted to try out the corrugated cards. This one has a gusset for those pop-up cards and honeypop cards etc. I started by coloring some Color Me paper with 2 radiant rain daubers in a random pattern. I love how it made a third color wherever the two colors overlapped.

Using 3 Get Inky! Stamps from the 2013 Holiday set (available on Etsy), I created a banner from kraft cardstock to top the card. The stamped images were colored with Copics (and on the edges of the banner to mimic inking), adorned with Epoxy circles and popped up on foam tape. The Ho Ho Ho embellishment and the red grommet ribbon complete the look. I actually stapled the ribbon on, but wiggled the ends out of the top layer of ribbon so it wouldn't be seen. Tricks of the trade!!

Here's some more views...

Supplies:

• Get Inky! Stamps - 2013 Holiday stamp set 
• Recollections - Kraft Corrugated Cards (5.5" x 5.5"), Ho Ho Ho embellishment, Kraft Cardstock, foam circles
• Color Me paper with silver embossing
• Luminarte Radiant Rain daubers - Mallard and Poppy
• Fiskars - red epoxy embellishments
• Copics - R29, R59, G00, G85, G17
• Red grommet ribbon - stash
• Memento tuxedo black ink

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this project and will consider joining in on the challenge! Merry Christmas!!

La-Vie

Christmas Cards for OWH - Joy

I have a goal to create and donate 35 Christmas cards to Operation Write Home before the end of the month. This week I proudly will share with you the cards my 8-year-old daughter and I designed. I took this opportunity to teach my daughter how to design from the ground up and to ignite the spirit of giving. She chose most of the aspects and created the cards under my instruction. We had a blast!

This was her first time working with Recollections colored core cardstock and she loved sanding it to reveal the hidden pattern. I also taught her how to tie bows (a work in progress).

The silver cards bases and the green cardstock are from Recollections. The small red dots are by Fiskars and the ribbon is by American Crafts. The Joy stamp is by Hero Arts stamped with tuxedo black Memento ink. 

Please let us know what you think! Thanks for stopping by!

La-Vie & Zora

Challenges:
D.L.ART - anything goes

Decorated Halloween Envelope

I know, I know... summer is not over yet, but I am gearing up to make Halloween cards for Operation Write Home, a challenge I organized for my favorite Facebook group Kraftie Kre8ations (KK8)! When lo and behold, a timed challenge was introduced... we had to decorate an envelope and post it within 2 hours. So I decided to create a Halloween themed envelope. I love how it came out in only 30 mins!!

It's funny how a timed challenges gets the creative juices going! We have all kinds of fun events, swaps, games, and I have just been awarded a spot on their DT, so you'll hear a lot more about me and KK8 in the future. I help administrate the group, so leave me a message below if you'd like to join! We'd love to have you.

I started out with a neon orange envelope from Staples. It measures 6.5" x 4.75" so it's larger than an A2. I used Jolee's dimensional stickers (pumpkins, spooky), washi tape from Recollections, Copic multiliner to draw the return address lines and a single stamp from Stamps of Life - Postage2Stamp and several from the Fiskars set called Halloween Night. Using the masking technique I was able to stamp the cat behind the area for the postage stamp. I love the sticky all over Post-it notes for this technique. It was easy to cut all the grooves with my Elizabeth Crafts fussy cut scissors as well. But by farm the star of the show was Martha Stewart's glow in the dark glitter. Yes folks, this envelope GLOWS IN THE DARK.

Now for the flap, I decided to use 2 more stamps from the Fiskars set and some more washi tape. I stamped all images in Ranger Archival ink in black. Coloring for the candy corn was done with Copics (100 and YR07). I don't usually decorate my envelopes...but I will from now on!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Challenges
DL.Art - ATG



La-Vie

Upscale Instant Scrapbook for Kara's Baby Girl

(14 & 15 of 20 pages)

Unlike all of the other pages so far in this album, I actually designed this quick 2-page first Christmas layout. . It incorporates a few of my new favs...HSN's 3 birds on parade "all dressed up" die cut paper (which I cut in half to use on both sides of the layout) ,thickers chipboard letters, ribbon tape, red circular zings by Fiskars, a handmade flower accent created by one of my fellow Cricut Circle members. We had a flower swap and although I had not made any flowers she still gave me one of hers. It took me a year to use it, but now it has a wonderful home! A simple layout designed to focus on the family's pictures first and foremost.

Shout out to ScrapbookChris who gave me this lovely reindeer paper. I love it! She also sent me 20 lbs of patterned paper that my daughter and I had to share. My daughter is an avid artist who makes creations all her own every day. We loved her random act of kindness! Thanks so much!

I hope you are enjoying this album. Only 5 more pages... but they are NOT to be missed! Happy Holidays!

La-Vie

Instant Scrapbook Baby Boy - Pg 11

No album is complete without baby's first bath! It is one of the most magical times as a parent.

As continued from last time, here are the next page of the scrapbook. Sometimes I find inspiration in weird places... One day long ago I lucked out and found a package of postcards at IKEA of rubber duckies. I thought they were cute but had no idea when or how I would use them. In this layout I created my own embellishment by covering the postcard with vellum to create a journaling block. It has a great effect once written on. The Best Occasions metal dots cover the spots where I applied glue dots to attach the layer.

The bathtub dimensional sticker from EK Success - Jolee's by You was enhanced by adding splashing water with Fiskars zingz sticker accents in circles and drops. Circular rub ons become fresh and new when Fiskars zingz are added to the middle. A DCWV patterened adhesive boarder strip divides the page and DCWV Safari kids mat stack marks where the pictures are to be placed. As usual, the font is American Traditional Designs.

Don't ya just love this layout? I do!

La-Vie

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #29 - Handmade flower challenge

This week's Cricut Circle challenge was to create handmade flowers using the Cricut or Cuttlebug on a project. I started with pink Bazzill premium cardstock. The card folded measured approx 4 1/4" x 3 3/4". I added a leaf layer from Sei Poppy paper stack. I then created two handmade flowers cut from the Wild Card Cricut Cartridge from patterned paper. I used the fiskars stylus to score the leaves and bend them in and up for a more realistic look. I then layered 2 different colors and sizes of the same flower. To finish it off, I fastened the flowers with Doodlebug Designs Inc. braddies - red: ladybug blossoms, brown: bon bon blossoms. The flowers were attached to the card strategically with Thermoweb zots 3D glue dots. It didn't seem complete so I added some wired silk leaves from my stash. Versamark and the blossom border stamp from Repeat Impressions finished of the bottom of the card. The sentiment is from my stash and was stamped in Clear & Simple Stamps Hybrid Ink - Espresson Your Style. The stamped impressions were made easily on top of the Darice rubber stamp pad. It is thick and gives the stamp a flexible surface to stick into. And Voila!

La-Vie