St. Patrick's Day Shamrock card

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

I had an idea to make a collage St. Patrick's Day card. It all started with a My Mind's Eye chalkboard card base, bling from Michaels and some themed stickers from Stickabilities. The patterned paper from The Paper Studio accents the focal perfectly. White Recollections cardstock and faux stitching drawn with a Zig Millennium pen completes the look.

Sometimes it's great to try something out of the ordinary. Thanks for stopping by!

La-Vie

Challenges:

• Craft Hoarders Anonymous - color challenge - go green
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"I'm All Ears" Paper Wizard Disney Page

Earlier today, Paper Wizard announced a giveaway on its FaceBook page. Check it out here. For the first 12 people who post a newly made scrapbook page/layout to their FaceBook would receive a ticket to the selling floor of a Scrapbook Expo show of your choice. Scrapbook Expo is here in April so I jumped on it and made another page for my 2011 Disney album. The whole album is being created using Mosaic Moments.

I only had a few pics of us wearing Mickey Mouse ears so I scrapbooked this very differently than I usually do. It's a lot more busy looking but I love it! Can't always stay in the box....

The inspiration for this layout was the cute pics I took of my son in his stitched Mickey ears. I bought the Paper Wizard title to help exemplify both my children's new obsession with Disney! Here's a closeup of the 9-layer title.

Supplies:

• Paper Wizard title - I'm All Ears
• Mosaic Moments - White grid paper
• Marvy Punch - 3" square punch
• EK Success - Disney speciality paper: red/beige stars, Mickey paper with clouds and the blue star border
• Simple Stories:
• Say Cheese Simple Basics Kit: Yellow dots/stripes cardstock, bingo cards/stars
• Say Cheese Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers: Family Fun Documented, Arrow, Photo Op, camera banner piece, I love this, Smiles from Ear to Ear, black heart, black polka dot border, red polka dot scalloped border
• Say Cheese: blue film strip cardstock
• Adhesives: Scotch ATG, Glossy Accents, Zots, The Paper studio foam adhesive, Xyron
• Zig millennium pen

Wish me luck!!

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

Graduate Hello Kitty Card

I remade this card - one I made for my daughter years ago (click here for the original post) - for someone yesterday. I love it even more now that I corrected a multitude of sins from the original version. 

My fav tip from this project is... when you punch the card edge before embossing the front, the pressure will cause the punched area to emboss the cardstock on the inside of the card. I accentuated that embossing by inking the hearts with Tsukineko Brushstix and Hero Arts Pink Neon ink (applicator through the punched areas) and outlined with Zig Millennium pen in pink. 

I love the Quickie Glue pen's fine tip to help keep the tiny parts of her bow and her neck in place. Using 3 - 3D glue dots under the left side, I attached the Hello Kitty and her hat to the card front.

Supplies:

• Cricut Cartridge Hello Kitty Greetings - pg 60 cut at 5"
• Anna Griffin Cuttlebug, Embossing Folder - Heart Blocks
• Cupcake ribbon from stash - bought at Michael's
• Bazzill basics white and premium pink cardstock (card base cut at 12" x 5")
• DCWV black, yellow glitter, red glitter cardstock
• Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page - Heart Chain
• Creative memories corner rounder
• Zig Millennium Pen - pink (used to trace the embossed hearts inside the card)
• Hero Arts Pink Neon ink
• Stamp: Hampton Art Signature Collection (graduation set)
• Tsukineko Brushstix
• Adhesives: Xyron, Scotch ATG, Zots 3D glue dots, Quickie glue pen (pinpoint roller)

When the stamped image didn't come out as solid as I like, I used the Brushstix to fill in with Hero Arts Pink Neon ink.

I hope you liked this quick trip down memory lane and the new enhancements.

Challenge: Schools Out Challenge at Cuttlebug Mania

La-Vie

Artist Trading Card, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, A Prayer

On Sunday I returned to the Heirloom's Rubber Stamp and Paper Arts Festival as bonding time for my daughter and I. We both entered the Artist Trading Cards (ATC) contest to win show bucks. The theme was Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. We went to do the make 'n takes together and sometimes I just assist. It is a joy to see my daughter learning new techniques and developing a love for crafting.

The ATC is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" with a stamped image from Another Stamp Company. I love this little brown girl with her afro. It was quick and minimal on purpose since my Saturday entry required a lot of work.

Supplies:

• Inkssentials manila artist trading card
• Copic Markers - RV09, Y26, E00 E33, Y28
• Ink: Clear and Simple Stamps - Espresso Your Style, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers
• Zig Millenium Pen .05 in black
• Star - Queen and Company Twinkling Goosebumps
• Stamp: Maryam - Another Stamp Company 

La-Vie

Twinkle, Twinkle ATC

 

 

I'm headed to the Heirloom's Rubber Stamp and Paper Arts Festival this weekend. They run an Artist Trading Cards (ATC) contest based on a theme during the show to win show bucks. Last year I entered for the first time and I decided to go for it again this year. The theme is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

Working this small ( 2 1/2" x 3 1/2") is very hard for me but I tried my best to bring across the theme. I enjoyed bringing together stamps sets to achieve this look and blending distress inks to create the night sky and the grassy knoll. Stickles in various colors seemed perfect for the diamonds in the sky! Fabric markers were used to create the grass and to color in the tree leaves and trunk. Stamping the house on white cardstock allowed me to color it differing colors and with a fussy cut, the house seamlessly fits into the scene. Wish me luck! Next week, I'll be sure to share my class projects and haul with you.

Supplies:

• Inkssentials canvas, self-adhesive artist trading card
• Anna Griffin watercolor markers
• Tulip Fabric Markers
• EK Success scallop edge punch
• DCWV Stardust Stack
• Bazzill Basics white cardstock
• Glitter glue: Stickles - Crystal, Star Dust, Black Diamond, Gold, Copper, Goldenrod
• Ink: Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen bough, Mowed Lawn, Broken China,Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans
• Zig Millenium Pen .05 in black
• Stamps: Stampendous - Changito in Space, Stampin' Up! - Good Neighbors
• Adhesives: Tombow Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive, Xyron 1" and 5"

La-Vie

Zora's Password Journal LO

 

I am enjoying participating in challenges! It's taking me out of my style, comfort zone and allowing me to get things done I would've pushed to the back burner! Won't you join me? Although the deadline is fast approaching there is still time to jump in!

 

This layout of my daughter Zora is my entry into the sketch challenge at Scrap Africa and the color challenge at Color Me Scrappy challenge blogs. Zora is my muse - the reason I started scrapbooking -  but I do not often scrap about her because her younger brother is who I'm scrapping these days. And, my first attempts at scrapbooking were horrible but so sentimental that I cannot move forward or go back. Have you ever felt like that? Well, today I am breaking the cycle and scrapping about my dear daughter. Now that's she old enough to ask for specific gifts, she asked for the Password Journal. Her aunt and uncle surprised her with it for Christmas last year. Here's her precious face after discovering the surprise.

 

 

 Supplies

• Bazzill white, brown, green cardstock
• Sandylion, Kelly Panacci Pink Mini Dots patterned paper
• Top note: Cricut Cartridge - Storybook  cut at 2.75"
• picture printed at 5x7 size and cut with Creative Memories circle cutter with the 5" circle and the red blade
• Photo mat - cut with Creative Memories circle cutter with the 5" circle and the green blade
• Flowers - Jolee's dimensional stickers
• leaves, hand drawn and hand cut
• pen - zig millennium black
• eBosser to emboss the 12x12 white cardstock with the delicate dots folder

Crafty tips - if you don't have time to wait for the picture to dry, use your heat gun to speed the drying process. To emboss a 12x12 sheet in the eBosser fold the cardstock at the 8 1/2" mark. Feed through one way and then turn it around and run it through the other way. It will not pass completely through the machine due to the thickness. half your page will be embossed and half will be debossed. It's a neat look that most people will not even notice.

Color Me Scrappy color palate

Scrap Africa Sketch for Challenge #32

Wish me luck!!!!!!!

La-Vie

Instant scrapbook baby boy - hester

Using Mosaic Moment grid paper I created this mosaic scrapbook page to capture the baby milestones that were not recorded on other scrapbook pages in this book. I printed the grass and stones paper from my Cricut Imagine Cartridge Snapshot - Nature. It looks better than the single sheet you can buy in the store and its much cheaper too.

The first row shows the first bath, rolling over, first tooth.

next is the first solid food, crawling and first steps.

La-Vie

Instant scrapbook baby boy- Hester

Anna giffin makes this paper lace (peyton collection). I thought it was befitting this layout about his first valentine's day. In my family we give our babies vday cards and they go in the keepsake box. It's a nice tradition and a way to show love. The paper lace is attached with spray adhesive to brown bazzill cardstock. The blue layer is hand cut and adorned with faux stitiching made with my zig millenium pen. The scallop square is DCWV as well. I love these chenille brads from Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker and had to add them in red to this layout. The adhesive alphabet was in my stash. Lastly, I added a journaling block 6-min scrapbooker with a 100% boy dimensional sticker. Not too girlie and gets the point across. All we need is a picture of Harrison & journaling to complete the page.

La-Vie

Cricut Circle Blogiversary - Imagine Print & Layer challenge

This challenge called for 2 Cricut cuts, printed paper using the Cricut Imagine and a layered element that was printed and cut from the Cricut Imagine. I chose to use the Nursery Tails cart to create a girl baby card. I started by chosing a stock image in the machine and filling it with a paper pattern from the cart. I like this pointy shape on cards and scrapbook pages. To accent it, I drew fauz stitching with my zig millenium pen and added peach colored pearls. The layered accent from Nursery tails is the scallop oval, white oval, bunny in the pea pod and words that say sweet pea. I decided not to use the text and to handwrite with my zig writer marker.  To accent the layered cuts, I assembled it with foam tape left over from the round dots (waste not, want not...) and I used my favorite color stickles - Firefly. The shimmer and shine is just magnificent.

this side view shows that each layer is raised up with foam tape. Wish me luck! I really want to win a Cricut Cake machine so I can be the fabulous baker I am meant to be!

La-Vie

Baby Shower Thank You Cards

I designed these Thank You cards as a gift for my sister-in-law and her husband who recently had their first child. The nursery has a jungle theme and is decortated in these colors. I scraplifted a way of packaging the cards based on a technique learned from My Pink Stamper, my favorite crafter/blogger. I used clear cello treat bags usually used for birthday party gift bags and attached a card on top with a staple to match the contents.

Here's the recipe:

• lion - and layers cut at 3" - Cricut cartridge animal kingdom


• giraffe - and layers cut at 3.5" - Cricut cartridge animal kingdom


• monkey - and layers cut at 3" - Cricut cartridge new arrival


• thanks - and layers cut at 1.25 - Cricut cartridge Zooballoo


• martha stewart punch around the page - scallop 3 dot, laurel leaf, double loops


• stickles - crystal


• ribbon from my stash


• cello bags


• for your shower stamp from Stampin' Up!

This was my first attempt at making sets of cards for someone as a gift. Comments please?

La-Vie

Flip cards from Repeat Impressions (and Me!)

Last year I attended a scrapbooking fair and found these kits to make flip cards. I also bought 3 of the flip card stamp sets to go with the kits. Although I love the way these came out, they are going into several sets of cards I am selling to a friend who will give them as gifts for teacher appreciation week. Check out http://www.repeatimpressions.com/ for more info and directions on how to make these cards without a kit as well.

I used two embossing folders - swiss dots from cuttlebug and square lattice from sizzix (bought via stampin up!). Ribbon from my stash and handwriting with zig millenium pen in pure brown (indicating "pull"). My new ink is amazing! Memories Direct 24 Double-Tip Daubers from hsn.com makes stamping a breeze! I was able to get ink on just the image and not the edges. They come in a set of 24 and are nestled in a locking carry box.

Here's a video of the flip cards in motion...

Comments please???!!!

La-Vie

Hmmm... pooh card

To brighten a friend's day who was on bedrest, I made this card from the Diseney Pooh & Friends Cricut cartridge and card stock, paper, ribbon, stamps and eyelets from my stash. I used my Zig millenium pen to accentuate the cuts on pooh. On the inside of the card to ink the stamp in different colors I used product from Memories Direct. On HSN I purchased a set of 24 double tipped ink daubers. It's perfect for adding multicolored stamp images to your projects. The stamp on this inside of the card is from Repeat Impressions http://www.repeatimpressions.com/. It's part of a 2 stamp swing card set. I did not ink the whole message so that I could write in my own message. Hope you like it! Please let me a comment below.

La-Vie

Halloween Treat For MMLV/ Cricut Circle wkly Challenge #4

My mom's group had a wonderful outing with the kids at the Crayloa Factory. I made this treat for the children (super fast) just before I left. I used stampin up! sweet treat cups, halloween printed paper, black shimmer paper and orange card stock from my stash. The only cricut cart used was wild card. The card and the card liner were cut at 2.75 inches, the web at 2.5 and the spider at 2. Brach's candy corn from target. I wrote happy halloween with zig millenium black pen, my favorite pens for journaling etc.

La-Vie