Post Cards for El Paso Kids

A while ago, after the El Paso shooting, a couple teachers

asked for cards of encouragement to be sent to their

classes.  The children were afraid to come to school

and they thought cards from around the country 

with encouraging words would help them.

These are the post cards that I made and sent.

I wrote an encouraging message on the other side

and I hope they helped the children in their classes

For this card, I stamped the "grid" with VersaMark Ink

and embossed it with silver embossing powder.

I then used water colors to paint it.

The sentiment was stamped with 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

I used Distress Inks with water to make this background,

then stamped the unicorn with 

VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

I added a bit of clear Wink of Stella to the horn, mane and tail.

Both were done on water color postcards.

Thanks for stopping by today,

have a wonderful day and 

Be Kind To Others!

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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.

Challenge Swap

Hello crafting friends!

I have a group of friends that have a facebook group,

all of us are crafters that have mostly met online.

We decided to do a challenge swap and I'm loving it.

Our first theme was cats and/or dogs.

I made this bookmark for my friend Lisa.
I used backgrounds from my stash of handmades 

for the yellow base piece as well as the mat around 

the image of the cat.
The cat was stamped onto white card stock and colored

with colored pencils.

The glass lenses were first covered with 

Wink of Stella and then with 

Glossy Accents

This is the little card I included with the bookmark when
I sent it.

This was stamped with Black Onyx VersaFine ink

and colored with colored pencils and Distress Inks.

Our next challenge theme is "Friendship"

I will post a picture of what I made for that swap,

after the recipient receives it.

Thanks for stopping by and spending time with me today.

I hope you've been inspired in some way.

Have you ever participated in a crafting challenge

and/or swap?

Until next time, challenge yourself in some way.

Not Just Cards Challenge #47

 Hello and welcome to my blog.

Today I'm posting for the
Not Just Cards Challenge #47 

This month our theme is children.

Our sponsor is

We Are 3

and I chose this adorable unicorn

to work with. Her name is Ursula.

I was also given the unicorn sentiment from

this sentiment set.

I have an adorable little Godchild who loves

unicorns, so I made this card to send to her.

I printed the digital image onto white card stock

then colored it with my Fantasia colored pencils then

fussy cut the image.

I did add a little Wink of Stella in gold

to the star on her head to make her even more 

fabulous.

I used some scraps from my stash to make the card

and found this cute polka dot paper scrap for the front

panel.  I used an Action Wobble on the back of the 

image and adhered it to the card.

You can see Ursula in action 

here!

I printed the sentiment onto white card stock

and adhered it inside the card.

I think this card turned out adorable and I think

Andrea will love it too.

Thank you for stopping by today,

you can find more inspiration at the 

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog.

I hope you will play along with the challenge too.

Come again soon and see what I've been creating.

Until then, 

have fun crafting!

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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.

Tree Card

Happy Holidays to y'all!

Today I have a card to show you.

Yes another Christmas card, well it is the season

isn't it?  This is a card that was an experiment.

I was trying to decide what card style to use

for our cards and this was one that I thought about.

I did decided against it, but I do like it.

I cut the trees with Sizzix dies and covered 

them with clear Wink of Stella.

I glued on the sequins with 

Ranger Multi Medium Matte

I cut and scored a 11"x 4.25"piece of card stock

 to make a 5.5" x 4.25" card.

I then cut a section out of the bottom part 

of the card leaving an open space of about 

1.5"

I adhered the trees to the top and bottom pieces

of the front of the card.

I liked this card, but it didn't make the cut for

our card this year.

Inside I stamped the greeting near the top of the 

card leaving room to sign at the bottom and not have 

it show through the space in the front of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today to check out what I'm up to.

I hope your holiday prep is going well.

Be happy!

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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.

Inspired by Kristina Werner

Hello!  Hope you are having a beautiful day!

Today I have 2 cards to show you,

they were inspired by 

this post by Kristina Werner.

Kristina is one of my favorite bloggers and artists.

If you haven't discovered her yet, be sure to pop over

and check out her blog, she's really quite wonderful.

Now I have to start by saying that I goofed up both my cards.

This first one I adhered the vellum in the wrong spot for 

the style I was going for, but that's not really a problem,

because I love the way it turned out.

Kristina use a background stamp on her card, but 

I didn't have one large enough with me at the time,

so I used a patterned paper.

You can barely see the patterned paper in the pictures,

but in real life you can see it.  It's a fairly delicate purple pattern.

I cut the shapes on the Cricut from white card stock.

I then embossed them with silver embossing powder.

The sentiment, I did a little differently.

I covered a piece of card stock with Versa Mark ink

and silver embossing powder and heated it.

Once I had that done I used a die to cut out the sentiment.

I arranged all the pieces and glued them on with 

Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

Although this wasn't as I intended it,

I do like how it turned out.

For the 2nd card I decided to go with a Christmas theme.

This one I put together the right way.

The snow flakes were cut on the Cricut,

adhered with Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

and covered with clear Wink of Stella.

I added a little bling on the centers of the flakes also.

The vellum opens to reveal this striped card front.

This is a piece I had in my stash that I had made a while 

ago when I was experimenting.

I made it using 

Simon Says Clear Stamps Basic Stripes

and 

Studio Calico Color Theory Inks

I didn't add a sentiment to this panel yet,

I want to see about fixing my goof on this card first.

I'll show that in a bit.

Lastly the front opens at the top and shows the sentiment 

inside the card.

This sentiment is 

"Christmas Blessings"

from Eureka Stamps.

I put this card together pretty quickly as I was running out of time.

It's not prefect, far from it, but I wanted to post it anyway.

I don't mind showing my mistakes and sometimes I think

it encourages people to try new things and continue trying

until they like the results.

Now for the goof on this card.

Here you go!  

When I was stamping the sentiment inside

the card, I got red ink on one of the snowflakes as well as

on the vellum.  It came off the vellum pretty well, but not that

flake.  Can't get that snowflake off either, that Quick Dry Adhesive

really sticks!

Oh well, it was a quick card and I wasn't crazy about those

flakes anyway.  

Things don't always turn out the way we want them to,

but sometimes they are fine anyway,

and sometimes we just learn from them.

Now, why don't you hop over to

Kristina Werner's Blog

and see what she has to show you.

I'm sure it's something quite wonderful.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you are inspired in some way.

Remember to have fun with whatever you are working on.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates.

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.

Recollections crayons

Hello crafty friends!

One of my favorite mediums is water color crayons.

I have a nice set from LYRA and some additional colors

that are Neo-Colors.  I use them often and really enjoy them.

Last week I was visiting a friend and she had a set of the new

water color crayons from Recollections (Michael's brand)

and I gave them a try.

They only come in this set of 12 colors, the price is

very reasonable at $14.99 (US) and with a coupon the 

price is even better.

I have to say that I absolutely loved playing with them.

They went on beautifully.

I like to use a water brush and pick up the color from the

crayon then put it to the paper.

I stamped this image with Archival black ink,

which is waterproof.

These aren't necessarily the colors I'd ever use for that image, 

but I wanted to use all the different colors and also see how they

blended.

The results was great, I loved working with them every step

of the way.

My only complaint is that they don't have a brown in the mix.

The difference with these water color crayons is that they have 

some shimmer to them.  If you have ever used Wink of Stella,

they have a comparable look.

This close up shows the shimmer a bit better.

Of course I had to get a set for myself and I was

lucky and got the last set in the store.

These will make a great addition to my water color crayon

collection.

I haven't tried them direct to paper yet, but I'll give that a try one

day soon and let y'all know how that works out.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll stop by again soon.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates!