Halloween Cards

Hello!
I'm not a huge Halloween fan, but there are a 
few kids I send cards to every year.
Today I'm showing you the 3 cards I made this year.

I stamped this image and sentiment with brown
Color Box Chalk Ink
and colored it with Arteza Colored Pencils

For this card I sketched out the goards and colored them
with colored pencils.
Inside I wrote I can't believe it's Halloween already!

I drew and colored this zom-bee with 
colored pencils and made the wings with
vellum.
I think the kids I send these to will get a kick
out of them.

Thanks for stopping by today,
I hope you'll come again soon.
Happy Halloween!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Firefly tag card

Hello crafty people.

Today I have another project to show you

from my stash of unused "stuff"

Quite a while ago I made this tag, but never used it.

I used alcohol inks and deli paper to make the

background paper, then glued it to a manila tag.

I then stamped the images with Versafine Onyx Black Ink

and then the tag sat for a long time.

I decided I wanted to make it into a card.

I used Distress Inks to give a white card base

a different color, then simply adhered the tag

to the card base.

I stamped this so long ago, that I have no idea

about the names of the stamps or even what company 

they are from.

My friend, Jen, absolutely loved this tag

so I decided to make it a card for her.

I stamped this sentiment inside the card with

Color Box Chalk Ink and it wasready to go. 

This sentiment is True Friends and can be purchased

as a rubber stamp or a digital stamp

from Stamp On It.

I also made an envelope for this card with my 

Envelope Punch Board.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Maybe you'll dig into your stash of

"stuff" and come out with something

that you started and never finished.

Until next time,

Be Creative!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Smooched background

Hello crafting friends!

This past Saturday I decided to work on making some 

birthday cards.  I always seem to fall short when I need them

unexpectedly.  I also wanted to use some of the pieces that I had

in my stash.  This is one of the cards I made. 

I had this background in my stash from a couple months ago

when I was making some "smooched" background pieces.

I taped a piece of watercolor paper to a board,

then I smooched Distress Inks onto a piece of acetate,

sprayed it with a bit of water then laid it onto the 

paper and let it sit for just 15-20 seconds.

When I picked up the acetate, this was what I was left with.

And I LOVE how it turned out.

All I needed to do was adhere it to a piece of brown card stock,

then to a white card base and add a sentiment.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from 

"Stamp On It"

stamped with brown Color Box Chalk Ink onto

white card stock, trimmed out and adhered with 

foam tape.

Simple card, but I think it turned out great.

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you'll 

come again soon.

Until then,

try something new!

Autumn Greetings

Happy Autumn!

I'm not crazy about the fall time,

I don't like the cooler weather,

but I do love the colors of fall.

The trees are so beautiful and the leaves on the

ground are so pretty.

The card I have today is kind of a mash up of a

 cards that I saw on blogs.

This is kind of how inspiration works for me.

I see different techniques and designs and end up 

combining them into something that I like.

For this card, I started with a piece of white card 

stock.  I used different colors of Distress Inks to 

cover the front of the card stock.

I then found all the leaf stamps that I had,

 and stamped them onto the 

colored card with brown Color Box Chalk Ink.

I used 2 rectangle layering dies to cut the

 window in the card.

The outside was adhered to the card base.

The frame was layered with craft foam and card stock

 cut with the same dies to give dimension to the frame

around the window.

I used the frame as a guide to adhere the inside piece

to the back of the window.

I used a piece of acetate that was from some packaging

that I saved to cover the frame and adhered the 

colored frame piece on top of it.

I used a variety of sequins in the shaker window

as well as a few acorns and leaves that I stamped and fussy

cut.  I then stamped the sentiment and fussy cut that

and adhered it to the front of the shaker area.

For the sentiment inside I used a stamp that I borrowed 

from a friend.  Sorry there was no company name anywhere

on the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you are enjoying the beauty of autumn.

See you again soon.

The supplies I used are:

Darice Embossing Essentials Nesting Rectangles

Inkadinkado Autumn Foliage Stamp Set

Large Skeleton Leaf (#90312) Biblical Impressions

Leaf (#3901)  QKR Stampede

Open Maple Leaf (#10501) and

Lg Open Oak Leaf (#10402) from

Eureka Stamps

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Give Thanks

Hello all!

Today I have a fun technique to show you and 

a couple cards I made using it

I started by covering a piece of card stock with 

double sided tape.

Here you can see where I have removed the top half of 

the release paper and still have 2 pieces covered.

I had chosen 4 different fall colors and cut strips of

card stock in different widths.

Once I removed all the release papers, I started by laying

down one of the strips on an angle.

I then laid down more of the strips.

I decided to follow a pattern with the colors and 

continued applying the strips until the entire piece of 

card stock was covered.

And at this point, my camera died.

So I will have to explain the rest without pictures,

but I think you'll understand what I did when you look at

the finished cards.

Once the card stock was covered, I turned it over and

trimmed the extras off the edges.

I then used a die to cut out the pumpkin with orange

patterned paper and embossed it with a matching 

embossing folder.

I did the same thing with a piece of green paper,

then I cut the stem and leaf off and glued it to the 

pumpkin.

I also used Distress Inks to add a bit of shading and

highlighting to the pumpkin and the leaf.

Then I used the same die to cut the pumpkin out of the 

center of the striped piece.

I used the same technique with the leaf die.

I used foam tape to adhere the striped panel to the card

base.  I then put glue on the back of the pumpkin and leaf

and glued them to the card bases through the die cut opening

on the striped panel.

Here you can see from the side that the leaf is sitting 

down inside the die cut space.

I stamped the

"Give thanks"

onto a coordinating color with

Brown Color Box Chalk Ink

and fussy cut it and adhered it over the

pumpkin and leaf with foam tape.

The give thanks is part of the 

Give thanks stamp (#34109) from Biblical Impressions

The entire sentiment reads

"Give thanks 

to the Lord"

I masked off the part of the sentiment

that I didn't want and stamped the part I needed.

I love how these 2 cards turned out,

I think they will make great Thanksgiving cards.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you will give this technique a try.

You can use any kind of paper to make the stripes,

plain colors or patterned papers, you'll be surprised

how easy it is and how great it turns out.

Come again soon,

until then have some fun trying something new.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

and you may find better prices elsewhere.

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Washi Tape Card

Hello crafters!

The other day I was crafting and was having a tough time

figuring out what to make.  I picked up my notebook

that is full of pictures of cards and layouts that I like.

I never copy a card or layout as it is shown

in a picture, but I use it for inspiration.

I found this picture from

THIS BLOGPOST

I loved the idea of using Washi tape like this

on a card.  So I used that for inspiration,

dug out the tape I had with me and got to work.

Here is what I came up with

It's the same concept, but a totally different look.

I used Color Box Chalk Ink 

to stamp the heart in the center and

Distresss ink for the rest of the panel.

Sorry I don't have the stamp set here, 

so I can't tell you what company they are from.

I'm okay with how it turned out, 

but not crazy about it.

I know it would be much better if the colors of

the tape I had were lighter and brighter..

I will definitely be using this technique again.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you've been inspired to give this

technique of using Washi tape like this a try.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

and you may find better prices elsewhere.

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

SSS prize

Hello crafty friends!

In October on

 Simon Says Stamp Blog

they had a "Create Joy" Blog Hop.

I love a good blog hop, so I hopped along

and commented on all the blogs.

There was some wonderful inspiration and fabulous

 ideas, techniques and tips.

A few days after the hop was finished, 

I was surprised to find that I had won one of the 

prize packages.

This is what I received in the mail a week or so later.

It's one of their card kits.

I was thrilled to win this kit and knew I'd be able to put

all these goodies to good use.

There is an "inspiration sheet" that comes with the kit

that shows 6 cards that Kristina Werner made with the

supplies in the same kit.

How could I go wrong?

A kit from a company I love and 

inspiration from one of my favorite designers!

The other day I made a couple cards and barely put a dent

in the supplies.

I used strips of various papers to make this

pretty card.  

"What A Beautiful Day" was stamped

with Color Box Chalk Ink.

Some of the strips were adhered with foam tape 

to give a little dimension to the card.

This second card is very clean and simple.

With the beautiful papers in the kit,

I couldn't go wrong,

a few thin strips of paper and the

"Just a note" stamp made for a quick and

easy card.

Thanks to 

Simon Says Stamp

for the great prize they sent me!

If you aren't familiar with them,

pop over to their blog linked above or to there 

online store

where you'll find just about anything you will need 

for paper crafting and more.

I'm glad you stopped by today,

I hope you will come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Color Inspiration Challenge

Time for another challenge from the
Eureka! Stamps Blog

This week is a "Color Inspiration" challenge

Use the colors in this photo for inspiration to create something lovely.

I chose to use

"Leaf Background" (#26901)

"Lg Tree" (#15302) from

Eureka! Stamps

I stamped the Leaf Background with brown

Color Box Chalk Ink and colored it with

water color crayons.

I stamped the Tree with the same brown ink.

I used Distress Ink and sponged over the image to color the sky.

I then fussy cut the tree and added it to the card with foam tape.

 

I hope you'll be inspired to join in our challenge.

All the particulars are on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

 

Thanks for stopping by today,

hope to see something you created linked up to the

Eureka! Stamps Challenge.

Come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!