For You My Friend

Elizabeth Crafts has my heart right now!!!! Here's a striking card featuring more Spectrum Noir coloring by my daughter and a card by me. Instead of stamping on the card itself, I created a little banner to place my Technique Tuesday sentiment.

supplies:

• Elizabeth Crafts outline stickers
• Spectrum Noir
• Technique Tuesday
• memento ink
• Elizabeth Crafts microfine glitter (warm diamond)
• Recollections bling and White cardstock
• sequins form my stash
• card base We R Memory Keepers - inked rose
• DCWV cardstock

Thanks for stopping by!

La-Vie


Challenges:

• DLART june linky - anything goes
• Sister Act - anything goes
• Catch the bug - anything goes
• Scrappers Delights - anything goes
• Sweet Stampin challenge - something old/new (old: peel off sticker, new: glitter cardstock)
• Send a smile 4 kids - for girls

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Masculine Get Well Card

When I heard one of my online crafty friends DH was hospitalized and in need of some cheering up, I offered to send a handmade card. Get Well cards for men (or any card for men) is not my strong point. So I decided to take the pressure off and create something my style and just to have fun with it.  Here's what I came up with.

The A2 woodgrain base is from The Olde Town Market box of cards by The Paper Studio. I then layered scraps of cardstock from my stash. The script one is by Prima Marketing and the other... I don't remember!

My almost 10-year-old daughter helped me choose the gear stamps. I kept chanting... "I need something....MANLY!" In my best, deep, loud superhero voice and she kept me on track.

I tried to use Pinterest for inspiration but I have not pinned many masculine crafts yet and they all seem to have unrelated images with sayings. Why is that? I kept thinking I need something manly but not cutesy and it SO hard to do both with the right sentiment.

Normally I would use an umbrella image with this sentiment but I didn't feel it was manly enough. I'll be working on getting the manly cards right this year.

Supplies:

• The Olde Town Market box of cards - The Paper Studio
• Script cardstock - Prima Marketing
• Yellow cardstock - stash (DCWV?)
• We R Memory Keepers - Sweetheart inkers - black
• Inside sentiment - "On the mend" The Stamps of Life
• Gear, clock and screw stamps - "Get it in Gear" Technique Tuesday
• External sentiment - "Umbrella4You" The Stamps of Life
• Tim Holtz Distress ink - frayed burlap
• Tsukineko - Versafine: Onxy Black
• Scotch ATG
• Ranger Multi-matte medium
• Woodgrain sequins - studio calico

Inquiring minds want to know! How easy/hard it is for you to make manly cards. I'm also looking for tips/advice on how to keep my cards MANLY!! Hit me with your best tip/trick please? Inquiring minds want to know!

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La-Vie

Keep Calm and Hop On

Today I went out of my comfort zone to create a mini canvas. The 5 challenges I entered today required and Easter theme (Stampin Dragon Designz) with a humorous twist, clean, simple design that was NOT a card (CAS-ual Fridays), pastel colors and ribbon (3 Girl JAM) and buttons (Craftin' Desert Diva's). The challenge is freestyle at Hiding in My Craft Room - HIMCR. Hopefully you will play along. Here are the links:

• CAS-ual Fridays - CFC96 Funny Bunny
• 3 Girl JAM Challenge #15 Pastel with Ribbon
• HIMCR #91
• Stampin Dragon Designz - Easter challenge
• Craftin Desert Diva's Craft it up; link it up party #3

Because this project was out of my wheel house it caused my creativity to soar! I used all new materials and techniques. First of all, this is way too small. I usually create A2 cards or 12x12 layouts. Smaller = stress for me. However, I challenged myself to make this without becoming stressed. Pre-planning and then letting my imagination run wild as I was creating were key.

The first step to creating this project was stamping the bunny. I wanted him to be blurry a little to show motion. He is hopping into a cartwheel. Then I stamped the same image on cardstock, cut it out and adhered it to the stamped image on my canvas (masking). Then I used a stippling brush to layer color on the canvas to make the background.

Once the background was the way I desired, I used a small portion of a flower stem stamp to create the grass at the bottom of the canvas. I inked the stem and lightly (yet randomly) stamped it several times before re-inking. The light and dark parts help to create depth. Adding the clouds (one half on the right and the other half of the stamp on the left) in the same ink as the sky worked well. The sentiment was supposed to say keep calm and shop on. However, I removed the ink from the "S" with a Q-tip. I was feeling very cleaver.... All that was left to do was remove the mask, add the button, ribbon, twine and chipboard button. In strategic places I added double-sided tape to hold the ribbon still.

Supplies:

1. Artist's Loft primed wooden cradle board 1" (4 x 4")
2. stamps - bunny and grass: Sandylion girl clear stamps, clouds: Recollections Fun Borders, Sentiment: Stampin' Up! Carry On
3. Ink - Technique Tuesday green chalk ink, TPC Studio Clearly Better Green Ink pad, Clear and Simple Stamps Hybrid ink perfect black dress, paint the town pink, Simply Blue-tiful
4. Ribbon/Twine: Stampin' Up! Marina Mist striped grosgrain ribbon 1 1/4", Mon Ami Gabby Couture Accents twine
5. Buttons: Chipboard patterned button and mini blue button - stash
6. Stippling brush
7. Adhesives: Zots glue dots, Scotch ATG, Scotch double-sided tape

La-Vie

'Tis The Season... Christmas card

 

Since last month, I am proud to say that a set of my cards have been bought by Amare Hair Salon, a spa in my area. I get my facials there and was honored to be asked to design a series of cards for clients who come in to purchase gift cards. They also use them for client birthdays, etc. 

 

This card is for the Christmas holiday. It's one of my favs from last holiday season. The best part is the googly eyes! The card was cut from Bazzill cardstock using the Christmas cards Cricut cartridge. The stamps on the front are from Technique Tuesday and the inside sentiment is from Hero Arts.

 

La-Vie