Mom, Sending extra love your way! Mother's Day Card

I went in on this one y'all! I'm a mom and I know we need to be celebrated! Mother's Day is this Sunday! So I started with a card base by American Crafts, added a Color Me Card Topper by Hot off the Press, colored with Tim Holtz Distress Markers, added Recollections bling and stamps by Stampin' Up! in Memento Rich Cocoa ink.

The inside was simply stamped with another sentiment from the set.

Thanks for stopping by!

La-Vie

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• Craftin Desert Divas - Mother's Day
• DLART - May Linky Challenge

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Wedding Card Collabo Featuring Our Daily Bread Designs, Gelatos and Color Me

Hello everyone! Prep for my post today started a couple of months ago when I was teaching my 9-year-old daughter craft techniques using Gelatos on Color Me card toppers by Hot off the Press. She loves art and painting so I figured Gelatos would be a great tool for her. I gave her the guidelines, a card topper, the gelatos and a baby wipe and off she went coloring and blending. What she came back with was stunning. So I promised that one day I would make a card with her creation.

Fast forward to the present. I came across the card topper my daughter colored this past weekend at the precise moment I was scrambling to find a starting point for a unique card for a young couple who's wedding I was about to attend. So I remembered my promise and got to work. Here's what I cam up with.

The card topper was rectangular in the beginning but I asked my daughter to cut out the bottom edge along the design to bring more drama to the card front. The topper almost fit the 5x7 card but I needed to trim a bit off the right edge.

Now what I thought? Some questions arose... could I heat emboss over the Gelatos? I knew I wanted to use this darling stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs and one from Recollections.  With not a second to spare I swiped the topper with my embossing buddy, stamped with Versamark and embossed the happily ever after sentiment in detailed embossing powder by Ranger. Using the 9" Xyron I attached the topper to the card base and moved to the inside of the card.

Next I embossed the Marriage Recipe on the inside of the card and voila! the card was complete. I will definitely do another collaboration with my daughter soon. It definitely helps when they want to help in the craft room (but in certain cases that's not possible or practical).

Supplies:

• American Crafts - green 5x7 card base and envelope
• Hot off the Press - Ebony Color Me Floral Card Toppers
• Recollections - Just married stamp set - Happily Ever After sentiment
• Our Daily Bread Designs - Happy Marriage Recipe
• Ranger Super Fine Detail embossing powder - black
• Tsukineko - Versamark
• Impression Obsession - Mini Mount
• Tim Holtz - Grid Blox
• Xyron - 9" Creative Station 
• Stampin' Up! - Embossing buddy

Thanks for stopping by! If you have tales of you and your kids crafting, please share your story and links in the comments below and I'll check it out!

La-Vie

Merry Christmas Banner Swap

 

It's a first for me... I was honored to be invited to participate in a Merry Christmas banner swap. There are 14 letters that were assigned (one each) to 14 participants. I got the last s in Christmas.

 

The guidelines were, create a pointed banner that is 3.5" x 5" with the bottom cut so the distance between the middle and one side is 1.75" wide. Classic Christmas colors red, white and green and that the letter had to be a solid color. The holes were to be punched half inch in and half in down.

 

Everyone was asked to make 14 identical letter s banner pieces and mail it to the host. She will collate and return a full Merry Christmas banner (minus the piece you made for yourself) in the mail before the holidays.

 

Here's what I came up with...

 

Supplies:

1. Banner1 cut at 5.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - DCWV White Chipboard
2. The pennant didn't have a deep enough notch at the bottom so I measured and cut it
3. Layer - Banner1 cut at 4.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - Hot off the press color me paper in swirls or silver flourish
4. Hot off the press color me paper in swirls or silver flourish - colored with mallard and poppy luminarte raidant rain twinkling H2Os
5. Banner top - Brntop1 cut at 5.25" - Cricut cartridge Pretty Pennants - American Crafts foil cardstock
6. s cut at 3" and ! cut at 2.75" - Cricut Cartridge Mickey Font -DCWV Glitter cardstock
7. To add dimension I raised the letters on 1/8" thick (1/2" circle) sticky dots from The Paper Studio.
8. Adorned with dimensional epoxy sticker from Jolee's Boutique.

 

Here's my 14 banner pieces. It was so much fun! I am hoping to share the entire completed banner here on the blog once I receive it. But first, I will ask the permission of the 13 other talented ladies and get back to you...

 

until then, stay cool and stay crafty!

 

La-Vie