Saturday, May 29, 2010
A Purple Dream
The papers are from K & Co.'s Floral Dreams, Bazzill, and Anna Griffin. The image is colored with watercolor pencils and the sentiment is stamped in Stazon Timber Brown ink. The double scalloped border and the flower leaves were made with Martha Stewart punches. I handmade the little ribbon flowers and made some irridescent white puff paint centers to glue on them. Some more of the ribbon is laced through the eyelets at the top left and three pearls decorate the upper right corner. This is a pretty simple card that came together relatively easy. I was really not sure about the color combo but once I thought of that K & Co. paper pad I knew I had it made.
A special thanks to those of you who have become followers and subscribers to my blog. I really appreciate your support and I hope that I am posting things that are of interest to you.
Have a great holiday weekend!
Friday, May 28, 2010
A Spot of Tea
City Crafter Challenge Blog Week #6 Recipe Card--1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 flowers
The Shabby Tea Room Week #11 Polka Dot Tea Party
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 68--make your own flowers
Simon Says Stamp! Challenge Blog--pink (or blue) with green and brown
All my flowers are made from hand cut petals that I shaped and stacked or squashed in the case of the buds.
Here in the south we drink more iced tea that hot tea, but I have always been drawn to tea pots (at least the minature kind). I'm crazy about little glass miniatures! My grandmother had a collection of the little critters that used to come as premiums in flour bags. Squirrels, rabbits, birds, dogs, cats--all kinds of little bitty glass creations. I have those plus several that I have collected over the years. They're not easy to come by. I did find a few in Nogales, Mexico many years ago but you don't just walk into a store and find them. Anyway, along with these I have collected several mini tea sets and I inherited some from my mother-in-law who also collected them. My collection is put to shame by a friend at church though. She has a shadow box type shelf unit in one of her bedrooms that is almost the entire size of one wall and it is filled with miniature tea sets! That's a lot of tea!
Materials Used
Paper: Bazzill--Dark Chocolate, Vintage Pink; Amanda Blu Summer Solstice paper pad; Rusty Pickle Chocolate Kisses
Inks+: Frayed Burlap and Walnut Stain Distress Ink, Stazon Timber Brown;Rub-n-Buff: Burnt Umber acrylic paint; Olive Vine Glimmer Mist
Stamps: Orchid Greetings by Stampendous
Punch: Martha Stewart leaf
Tea Pot: Michael's chipboard mini album page
Miscellaneous: Pop Dots; packing paper; Bubblegum Vintage Shabby Seam Binding; pearl beads; Recollections bling flourish
Hope you liked my little tea pot.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Back to my scrappin' roots
This little five page album was created using the American Crafts Dear Lizzy Spring paper collection. I was drawn to it by the soft pastel colors. It wasn't an easy project for me. I LOVE my vintage shabby chic, but I think it came out cute. If you'd like to see the rest of the album you can check out my YouTube video for it.
Have a great day!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Watercolor Lillies
This was not a card that came together easy for me. I must have changed the design a dozen times. I guess my creativity developed a hiccup this week. :) Anyway, this is the final product.
The card base is from My Mind's Eye Laundry Line with a little stitching added. The image is a brand new stamp I just bought made by Stampendous. These Star Gazer Lillies are my daughter's favorite flowers. The image was stamped in Stazon black ink and then painted with watercolor pencils. I doubled matted it with the pink and green Bazzill paper and lifted it with pop dots. The border on the right is also from the same My Mind's Eye collection. I used a Martha Stewart scalloped lace punch and then used some Fabri-Tac to add some pretty yellow lace to the back edge. The bow is some more of the beautiful dyed seam binding. I added a small piece of the green for leaves and topped it with a little lace rosette flower I made from some more of the little yellow lace. Some bling, a pearl, and a sentiment stamped in Memento Bamboo Leaves ink complete the card.
Hope you like it. Have a wonderful blessed week!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Remembering Our Fallen Heroes
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Design Team Call for the new Papercraft Star Challenge Blog
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Double Up
The base of the card is a pale pink sheet of Bazzill cardstock. The first mat is white cardstock edged in Tattered Rose Distress Ink and cut with some deco edged scissors. The top mat is from DCWV's Luxury Stack. I LOVE LOVE these papers! The heart die cut is my chipboard piece. It's painted in Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint.
The flowers were an experiment. I think Parchment Craft card work is absolutely gorgeous. If you've never seen this, you can find some incredible examples of it here. I don't have any of the tools needed to do this type of card making, so I had to make do with a regular sewing needle. I traced out each of the flower petal layers onto pale pink vellum and then went around the outline poking through the vellum with the needle. They would have punched out better with the correct tools, but it all worked out. I layered them and added some pearls for their centers. A few leaves punched from some Bazzill paper with my favorite Martha Stewart leaf punch, a little ribbon, lots more pearls, and a sentiment from Cloud 9 Design finish it off.
Hope you all have a blessed Sunday!
A Blooming Heart
The card backing is Bristol board. I picked up a pack of these precut at Michael's. The background is inked with Tattered Rose and Tea Dye Distress inks and edged with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo. I also sprayed it with Irridescent Gold Glimmer Mist. The heart is chipboard cut on my Cricut, painted with white acrylic paint and edged with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo. I printed the rose image twice and layered it with pop dots. It's also coated with Rock Candy Crackle Paint. A little Making Memories Vintage Findings designer paper, ribbon, pearls, and a vellum sentiment finish it up.
I should have some more cards coming up. I think I'm going to try my hand at combining more than one challenge into my card this week.
On a personal note, I'd appreciate it if you all would pray for my friend. She was in a head on collision Tuesday and her back was broken. Her spinal cord was not supposed to be involved and she was still able to move her legs. However, she went through a six hour surgery yesterday in which they found that one of her vertebra had shattered and the pieces had gotten into her spinal column. The surgery went well, but we'll have to see today if the removal of those pieces and the surgery itself have any effect on her ability to walk. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
Thanks for popping in!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Play Date Cafe Challenge #28
Monday, May 10, 2010
City Crafter Challenge #3
Saturday, May 8, 2010
MMSC #52 Card Challenge
Friday, May 7, 2010
Shabby Tea Room Week #8 "Get Your Bling On"
The base of my card is Bazzill Basics Sugar Daddy and the mat is Bazzill Basics French Vanilla. I created the background by using a piece of white cardstock which I inked with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. I used Versamark, clear embossing powder, and a background stamp by Stampabilities for the pattern, and then sprayed the whole piece with Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist. The base for the flowers is a Nestabilities Labels Two die cut which I ran through a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and then colored with Inkadinkadoo chalk. The flowers, leaves and scallopped border were all punched out of Avery Diskette labels. Once you peel off the backing all you have to do is rub your glitter into the adhesive. Voila! Glitter flowers. I used some puff paint and stickles for the flower centers. The tag was cut on my Cricut. Finishing touches are some yellow bling, orange and brown ribbon fibers, and a pretty yellow bow I made with my Bow Easy.
Glitter, glitter everywhere . . .literally! ha ha
Monday, May 3, 2010
PDCC27 Card Challenge
Here's my card.