Card With Dimensional Circles

Welcome!
I'm glad you are here to visit for a little while.

Today I am sharing a card that I made using a 

technique that I saw on a You Tube channel that
I follow.

In the video, she uses rice paper, but I didn't 

happen to have any.  I did, however, have another

type of paper that was fairly thin, so I decided to

give it a try.

I punched circles from card stock with punches that I had handy,

then glued them together to give them a bit more 

depth.  I think I used 3 for each circle.
The circles were glued to a piece of card stock.

I then used alcohol inks to color the paper.

The panel was then covered with glue.

I used glue stick, as I didn't want it to dry before

I got the colored piece in place as I wanted it.

I used a bone folder to smooth the paper down and over

the circles.  I had to be sure to press around the circles

to have that paper adhere around them and show the dimension.

The "joy" was stamped onto a piece of card stock and punched

out with an oval punch.  I inked the edges of the oval with

the same color I used to stamp the sentiment, then

adhered it to the front of the card.

A simple white card base set it off very nicely.

I'm very happy with this card, something a little different

and I think, very pretty.

Thanks for stopping today, 

I hope you have enjoyed your time here and 

have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

try something new, even if you

don't have the same supplies in the 

example you see.

 

Joy and Holly

"There are no mistakes in crafting,

just opportunities to be more creative."

You can ask my crafting friends,

they'll tell you, this is my motto.

This card is a prefect example of that motto.

I made it with

"Joy" (#15703) and

"Holly" (#15701)

from QKR Stampede

I stamped both images onto white card stock.  

The Holly is not a background image,

 I stamped it several times randomly over the card stock.

Then I colored them with FlexMarkers.

 Once I had this done,

they were just boring,

they just weren't right,

so I got out my blending tool and my Distress Inks

and added a bit of color around the edges

of the background piece.

Absolutely hated it! 

 The color was all wrong,

but I stuck with my motto

and kept playing with it and adding different colors

and I ended up with a card that I really like. 

It isn't what I was going for when I started out,

but that's okay.  I like it now!

So next time something isn't looking right,

 remember my motto and just mess around with it. 

I know, sometimes there is just no cure,

 but it sure can't hurt to try.

Thanks for stopping in to see what I have been up to,

I hope you'll stop back again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

More Gift Card Holders

Merry Christmas to everyone!

I just found that I had started this post and never put it up on the blog.

So I'm showing you a couple gift card holders that I made and have given to people already.

This first one was for my nephew Joel.  I used "Ice Skating" (#7902) from QKR Stampede.

I stamped Ice Skating onto watercolor paper and colored it with water color crayons. The white card stock was embossed with the snowflake folder and my Cuttlebug.  The 'baker's twine' around the top is some that I made, a very simple process. If you are interested in making your own baker's twine here is a tutorial.

This second gift card holder I used "Joy" (#15703) from QKR Stampede.  I stamped onto red card stock and then used various colors of Stickles to "bling" it up.  Again I used the snowflake embossing folder.

Of course these gift card holders can be adapted for any occasion.

QKR Stampede has many different stamps for all occasions, so pop on over to their shop and check them out.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you had a fabulous Christmas and wish you a happy and healthy 2012!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Joy

Hello stamping fans!

Still haven't decided on a Christmas card to make to send out, but if I keep up at the rate I'm at, I will have a enough different cards to send out to everyone on my list.

That being said, I'd like to show you another fun Christmas card.

I saw this style of card somewhere the other day and loved it.  Unfortunately, I forgot to pin it to my board on Pinterest so I don't know whose blog I got it from.  Sorry!  If you are interested in how to make this style of card, e-mail me and I will get back to you with some instructions.

For this card I have used 2 images;

Joy (#15703) and Christmas Border (#15706) from QKR Stampede

I stamped the Joy image and colored it with watercolor pencils

On the inside of the card, I stamped the Christmas Border image, colored it with watercolor crayons and put Glossy Accents over the image.  I love the way Glossy Accents gives such a nice shine!

This is a 4" x 4" card, but it fits nicely into a standard invitation sized envelope.  If you want to be sure it doesn't slide in the envelope, you can use some foam tape and stick it inside the envelope on either side of the card.

Using this size envelope will keep you from having to pay extra postage for a square envelope.

If you are like me and haven't started your Christmas cards yet, pop into the QKR Stampede shop and see what wonderful Christmas images you might want to work with.  You will find links there to the 2 sister companies of QKR, Eureka! Stamps and Biblical Impressions or follow my links.  They all have wonderful images that come in rubber or digital format.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Let me know what you think of this style of card in a comment.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

QKR Stampede images on a layout!

Hi all you crafty people!

Today I thought I'd show you a layout I made where I used 2 images from QKR Stampede.

I used the "Tree" image (#14501) and "Joy" (#15703)

I stamped the trees onto a few different colors of green card stock then fussy cut them.  I stamped just the bottom of the trees onto brown card stock and fussy cut just the trunk of the trees and used Elmers Quick Dry Glue to add the brown trunks to the trees.

I added some red Stickles to the trees to give them a bit of  'decoration' and used foam tape to adhere them to give them different dimensions.

I stamped the "Joy" image onto white card stock and colored them with water color crayons, trimmed and added it to a green mat and then onto the layout.

I love using stamps on layouts, there are so many different ways they can be used to spruce up a layout. 

Stop in to the QKR Stampede site and see what images you might want to use on some layouts one day soon.

Thank you for stopping by today.  Leave me a comment and let me know if you have used stamps on any of your layouts.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!