Christmas Cards for OWH - Warm Wishes

Welcome back for day 2 of the big reveal! If you missed day 1, check it out here. 

Here's two more Christmas cards designed by myself and my 8-year-old daughter for OWH. On this day I introduced her to Copic coloring and shading. She did the coloring and I did some minor shading.  We built on her knowledge from before with Recollections color core cardstock, stamping with Hero Arts stamps and ribbon tying. She is already a master with punches. But I did introduce her to the Creative Memories cutting system for the circle.

Here's a close up of her coloring. I think she did a phenomenal job! Copics: R29, E35, E37, C1, G17

The second card showcases another stamped image by Hero Arts. Isn't the tree just perfect???

The coloring and shading was done with Copics: B0000, G17, G85, E29, E37, Y15.

We'd love to know what you think!!  Thanks for stopping by!


La-Vie & Zora


Challenges:
D.L.ART - anything goes

Have a Crab-u-lous Day!

I'm back into entering challenges! Have you missed these posts? I sure have! I'm hoping you can join me in some of these challenges. If you do, please share your projects with me!

Supplies:

• Card base American Crafts 5x7 green
• Navy Patterned paper - Stampin' Up!
• Yellow layer - Bazzill cardstock
• White circle - Recollections card stock
• Ink: TPC Studios Clearly Better (Navy and Green)
• Stamps: Inkadinkado Fish and Friends, Sentiment: My Pink Stamper Biggie Punnies
• Ribbon: American Crafts
• Punch: Marvy 2" circle punch
• Action Wobble

Challenges:

Action Wobbles #55 from the ocean
Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge M1513
Tsunami Rose Challenge #21 Cards 
Repeat Impressions DCC522 Fur, Fins or Feathers
3 Girl Jam Anything Goes with Ribbon
The Playdate Cafe Challenge #183


La-Vie

Welcome card

When I saw the flashy floral stamp set from Inkadinkado the pineapple stood out to me most. I knew I had to get it and create something with it right away! I found my inspiration this afternoon from the challenges at Sketchy Friday - Sketch #14 (see below) and the rainbow color challenge at My Creative Time. The designer's challenge is to incorporate at least 3 of the following 6 colors Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple or all 6 for an extra challenge. I decided to use all 6 because I never back down from a crafty challenge!!!!!! Here's what I came up with....

 Crafty tips I learned along the way...

1. use a pink eraser to erase across the entire surface of each new clear stamp to take off the manufacturing gunk. Immediately clean the stamp using clear stamp fluid and a scrubber pad before using it. Otherwise you may notice your ink beads on the surface instead of what it's supposed to do.
2. if you aren't tying a bow, consider using the xyron 1" to put adhesive on a ribbon scrap in order to stick it on your project.

Supplies:

• American Crafts 5x7 card base - green
• DCWV purple glitter cardstock
• Recollections red cardstock
• Core'dinations blue and orange cardstock
• Bazzill yellow cardstock, white
• Stamps Inkadinkado flashy floral = pineapple and butterfly, welcome - Repeat Impressions
• Ink - Clear and Simple Stamps Hybrid ink Espresso Your Style
• Copics - 0, Y00, Y02, Y06, YG61, YG63, YG67, YR04, YR07, V12, V17
• Punches - 2" marvy circle punch, Martha Stewart punch around the page: heart chain and scallop dot
• Pen - faux stitching with Pigma Micron 05 in green
• White ribbon - stash
• Adhesives - xyron 1" and 5", Scotch ATG

La-Vie

Happy Birthday Ladybug Cupcake Picks

 

I was happy to assist my good friend and her husband celebrate their only daughter's 1st birthday. The theme was ladybug birthday. They wanted 30 ladybug cupcake picks. Sooo, I made the sacrifice and got a cupcake prop (dulce de leche yum!) I figured it was the ONLY way to properly show you this creation. LOL!

 

I loved the ladybug and layers from Cricut Cartridge Just Because Cards (cut at 3.75") and that's where the design process began. I used 2 marvy circle punches (1.5" and 2") to punch the white circle (Bazzill) and the red glitter cirlce (DCWV). The white circle was inked with TPC Studio Clearly Better ink for clear stamps (green). The green toothpicks are from Giant supermarket.

The black part of the ladybug was cut using my new fav DCWV adhesive cardstock. It makes things so much easier when it's a sticker. Here's a tip... I cut this cardstock as if it's vinyl (kiss cut) so it cuts the cardstock but not the sticker backing.

The back of the cupcake pick sports a happy bday stamp from Inkadinkado Birthday fun set. Thanks for stopping by!

Tune in soon for my next post! I'll share the FABULOUS ladybug birthday banner I designed for this family. Until then.... keep it crafty!


La-Vie

Happy Bday card

I love this bib card from The Paper Cut. I have had this card kit for a year (or more) but just now (due to my organization project) was I able to find and use one! I love this card and think it is simply darling! This is yet another of the assorted greeting cards I created for Amare Hair Salon, a local spa I frequent.

Supplies:

• card base: bib card, The Paper Cut
• Inkadinkado birthday fun clear stamp set
• marvy 1" circle punch
• Bazzill white cardstock
• Clear and Simple Stamps - Paint the town pink
• pink bling from my stash (recollections?)

La-Vie

Playhouse Disney Layout

I thought it would be great to have breakfast with the characters my kids watched on tv - wrong! My 6 year old was in "this is baby stuff mode" and my 3 year old was scared to death of these bigger than life figures. We made the best of the situation and have funny scrapbook pages to reminisce.

I used mosaic moments grid paper to create a mosaic of the experience. It's a great way to merge many pictures into a perfect scene. When there were parts of pictures that were not flattering or were blurry I cut that part off. But you'd never notice what is missing even though there are clues. That's why I love these types of mosaic layouts. It allows you to keep what you love and weave them all together nicely.

 I decided not to cut every picture into 1" square to highlight the most special memories. I also feel it allows the eye not to get overwhelmed.

Here's the second page of the layout. I was specific about limiting the pics I was going to scrapbook and often found the grid paper could hold more pics. That's where my creativity kicked in. I used scraps of paper from the pazzles pack to fill in the gaps in the layout and I cut a Queen and Company felt adhesive border cut in half to accent each page.

EK Success makes transparent stickers for Handy Manny. These were the perfect addition to this layout. I left plenty of space to journal about how the breakfast went and all the new friends we met.

My favorite was June with her huge head bobbling on her body. What's your favorite Playhouse Disney character? Stay tuned for more Disney Mosaic Moments layouts.

La-Vie

To view more of my Disney pages check out these links:

• http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/hakuna-matata-lion-king-scrapbooking.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/our-disney-adventure-with-mickey-and.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/i-love-parade-layout-featuring-mosaic.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/08/disney-animal-kingdom-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-magical-moments.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-monsters-inc.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/playhouse-disney-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-toy-story-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/disney-princess-mosaic-moments-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/disney-magical-friends-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/winnie-pooh-challenge-kraftie.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2014/03/im-all-ears-paper-wizard-disney-page.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/disneys-tinkerbell-just-tinkering.html

Disney Magical Moments

This week I will share some special Disney layouts. While at the Embellish It! Play all Day event in Cranbury, NJ I continued working on my Disney album using Mosaic Moments grid paper. Here is my opening page for the album. I decided that I didn't want to stop the creativity to record all the brands of embellishments etc used on this set of scrapbook pages. I will note things as I remember though. 

The mickey ears and title are from Paper Wizard. I love their laser cut titles. Most of this one was already assembled (which was great!). The blue background paper is from Disney's Magic Kingdom Dazzles for Scrapbooking by Hot off the Press. This layout was simply embellished with bling and a chipboard sentiment. To create the background I used a 2 1/8" square punch by marvy.

For the love of scrapbooking....

La-Vie

To view more of my Disney pages check out these links:

• http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/hakuna-matata-lion-king-scrapbooking.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/our-disney-adventure-with-mickey-and.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/i-love-parade-layout-featuring-mosaic.html
  
  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/08/disney-animal-kingdom-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-magical-moments.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-monsters-inc.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/playhouse-disney-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/disney-toy-story-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/disney-princess-mosaic-moments-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/disney-magical-friends-layout.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/09/winnie-pooh-challenge-kraftie.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2014/03/im-all-ears-paper-wizard-disney-page.html

  http://cestla-viedesigns.blogspot.com/2015/04/disneys-tinkerbell-just-tinkering.html