Detail Glitter Technique

Last Monday on Papertrey Ink's blog Design Team member Erin showed this technique in their Make It Monday segment. I am in the process of making cards for my Christmas gift packets (only 75 more to go) and needed to make some baby cards.  I've had the Papertrey Ink Bitty Baby Blessings for quite awhile and it is the perfect set for the cards I need to make.
The DP is DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy paper pack.  The neat thing about this paper pack is that it can go girl or boy, so cool.
Since the set has a co ordinating die I just cut out the images stamped them with Memento Tuxedo black and colored with Copics.  I used punches to cut out the circles for matting.  When I was all finished coloring I realized that this was the perfect card to use this technique on so I got out my Quickie glue pen and Martha Stewart white glitter and embelished the Baby Buggy. The stamps in this set are so cute and I'll post some of the other cards I made with this set (I made 6  in all).
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

An Oopsie Halloween

One of the mantras of card makers is that when ever you goof on a card it's just another opportunity for embellishments.  This card is an example.
I love working with vellum, I really do, BUT it is so darn hard to attach it to any thing.  In this case I pulled out my vellum tape and used it on the four corners, but you could still see it, bummer.  So I thought about it and decided to make some photo corners.  Well I went looking for my punch and instead found this leaf punch and went with that instead.  I just punched the leaves from some of the Basic Grey Indian Summer DP that I had used for this card.  The card base is DCWV, the DP is Indian Summer and the Ghost is Penny Black.  I had stamped the ghost onto kraft and it came out well so I didn't use the embossing powder.
Great, the card was all done, or so I thought, when I went to put a sheet of white paper on the inside I realized I had assembled it upside down. LOL  I quickly pulled the focal piece off and turned it around and all was well.
  Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Halloween

I wanted to make a half dozen Halloween cards to send out and didn't have any Halloween paper. Oh my what to do.  I've been battling a really bad cold and didn't want to go out to shop (not wanting to share germs with the general public) so I went looking for some DP I could use for my project.  Luckily I found my Basic Grey Indian Summer 6x6 pad and with the darker colors I thought it would work.  So then I chose this ghost stamp from Penny Black for my focal image.  I started out stamping it with Papertrey's Fresh Snow and it looked good but I wanted better.  I realized that it is a hybrid ink so I quickly poured on some Reflections white embossing powder and hey presto a whiter ghost.  I did worry about embossing on vellum, but I was careful and it worked great.
I used DCWV charcoal card stock for my base and then layered Indian Summer and black and orange vellum to finish the design.
It may not be the spookiest card but I think it turned out really well.  What do you think?  Thanks for stopping by.   P.S. Lots of layers just for you Sandy.

Nate's Graduation

I finally got around to making our grandson's graduation card.  He's out of high school and headed to college in the fall.
He's headed to classes to become a Master Mechanic (did you know there was a college degree in that?)  So of course his card has to have cars on it.  The little truck is one of my favorite stamps so that was one of the first ones I went looking for, then I chose to use this antique car also.  I colored the truck with Copics but left the antique car just stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.  The card base has a layer of dotted textured card stock with plaid from DVWV Natural over that.  After I mounted the cars I stamped a strip of kraft with the sentiment and was done.
I know he'll like the check enclosed more than the card, but I liked how it turned out.  What do you think?
Thanks for stopping by.

A Happy Accident

I goofed up cutting some card stock for card bases and found that I had scored the fold at the wrong place on one of them.  I set it aside and went on to make the other cards and then picked up this card base and came up with this design.
I had just picked up two new DCWV paper pads at JoAnn's and thought I could use DP's from one of the pads and make a card.  I had to trim off a half an inch from the long end to make a 5.5 by 4.25 card and then trim the DP to fit.
I chose to use The Natural matstack for this card.  I just love the foil roses on this sheet and the a subtly textured paper for the inside.  It's really neat since the top folds down for a little different design (hard to stand up on the shelf for display) but still very pretty.
Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Sympathy foir Dave

A friend of my husband's lost is Step-Mom this past week. She had lived a long full life so it's not really a sad parting, but it is still hard to lose another connection to your past.

I had give Dave a set of cards a few years ago as a gift and he told me much later that he appreciated them but they were a tad to feminine for him.

For this sympathy card I tried to keep it as masculine as I could, the DP is DCVW Linen Closet (I thought the tweed look worked here) and the image is from Papertrey's Through the trees.

I so want to get away from sympathy cards for awhile, I intend to get back after Christmas and work on anything but. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunflower Birthday

Had to take a break from sympathy cards but still had the Gina K Autumn Splendor set out so I used it to make these birthday cards. I colored with Copics using Beckett Expressions white card stock and yellow from my stash for the mat. The DP is Nana's Kitchen from DCWV and I thought the colors were bright and cheerful. In my bits and pieces drawer of brads I found some matching blue for that bit of extra.

Hope you like them and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday Marianne

This card came together in a funny way. I got this Martha Stewart punch a while ago and decided to try it out on a piece of scrap card stock. I set it aside and one day picked it up and thought it might look good with ribbon in it. Well I cut off a section of what I thought was white ribbon and started to weave it through and realized it was a pale grey. It looked good so I set it aside and went on to other things. When it came time to make Marianne's card I wanted to make something special so I went looking at what DP I have (and believe me I have a lot) and found this from an old favorite DCWV Cafe Mediterranean. I added the punched strip and let that be the focal point. The sentiment is from Papertrey's Birthday Basics. A few flat back pearls and the card was done. Hope she likes it and that you do also. Thanks for stopping by.

A Cup of Tea and Sympathy

Everyone knows that a nice cup of tea can be so soothing in times of sorrow. Curled up with your favorite blend of tea allows you to absorb the knowledge of loss and deal with the future.

I really felt that the Tea for Two Additions cup would make a great sympathy card.

I used DCWV La Creme for the DP on my black card base. I stamped the cup with Memento London Fog and the sentiment is from Wordsworth by Rubber Soul. I mounted the image onto more black card stock after adding the ribbon.

I'm really pleased with how this turned out. What do you think? Thanks for stopping by.

A Cup of Get Well

This is another get well card made with PaperTrey's Tea for Two and Additions. I chose a different pot and cup with this card and stamped the cut outs (gotta love the dies for these sets) with Memento Pear Tart. It didn't pop against the yellow so I backed it with the navy. The DP is from DCWV Nana's Kitchen. The ribbon is Gina K. I did pop dot the tea pot for a little more dimension and I ran the PaperTrey Lemon Tart through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Now I have to put away these toys for now and make some sympathy cards, hmm what is more sympathetic than a nice cup of tea?????

Have to think about this one, I'll do that while I walk Eddie.

See ya. Thanks for stopping by.

July 4th Flowers

When I started to make my 4th of July cards I decided not to use traditional images on all of my cards. I did want to use the traditional colors. How can you possibly go wrong with red, white and blue. I had gotten the Gina K Stamp TV kit Eclectic Summer last year (or was it the year before)??? Another case of having something and not using it. Anyway there was some terrific stuff in that set and the card stock was part of it. I used the Rocket Red for my card base and the In the Navy for my scalloped mat. The ribbon is also from that same set as is that little red brad.

I used the flower stems from the PaperTrey Button Basic set and the buttons are also from PaperTrey. The sentiment is from PaperTrey's Vintage Picnic and the DP is DCWV Summer Dreams. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by. P.S. I'm just loving clearing my craft area up this way.

Just Sitting

Just wanted to show you a more contemporary card made with (again) the On My Couch set. This time I added the lamp and coffee to the scene. The DP is from DCWV Mango Frost. I just love the dog sitting there waiting. Kind of makes me think of my Eddie waiting for me to sit down so he can jump on my lap for a nap.

I love the colors on this card, you can't really see it but there is a faint stripe of the orange in the chair and also the blue matches. I figure whoever put this room together is planning to reupholster the chair or change the wall paper. What do you think???

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Just Thinking

When I started making cards yesterday I kept trying to put stuff away and got sidetracked into making more cards.

What was really going on was I'm trying to use up items laying around on my desk. More than a month ago I was playing with my On The Couch set from Papertrey Ink and had stamped off a few couches and chairs on patterned paper. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with them until I started playing with the DCWV paper pads. These papers are from the Linen Closet pad. It doesn't look like it but in real life the colors work well. The DP is actually more of a soft olivey brown and the green of the couch isn't so bright. I used my Impression Obsession Sentiments I word set for the wall hanging.

I have another card that I will post tomorrow. Hope you like this one and thanks for stopping by.

Circle Flowers

This was a really fun card to make. I had punched out all these circles from the DCWV Prints Mat Stack a week or so ago and when I straightened my desk up the other day I found them. I had used some of them on a previous card then set the rest of them aside. Last night while I was trying to go to sleep I started thinking about them and came up with this idea.

Luckily I was tired enough to go ahead and go to sleep rather than get up and make this card.

I gathered the circles together and got out my Papertrey Ink Basic Buttons set and got to work. I started to stamp out the flower stems and then realized that I wanted them to go completely across the page, what to do, I had already started in the center of the card stock so I took another piece and butted it up to this one and stamped part of the flower stems on each piece. I ended up with two sets of flower stems to add circles to and thus two cards. I took some green card stock and used my new Martha Stewart Fringe scissors to make the grass. Across the top I used the EK Success Bumpy Road punch ( to me it kind of looks like clouds).

I really like how this card turned out, it seems to be such a happy card. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

A Citrus Birthday

Well it has been a busy couple of days around here. The sun has finally come out and we were able to get some of the yard work done. Got the bushes on the side trimmed up, lawn mowed and then we started to edge the lawn. What a mess, we ended up going the store to get a new edger. By the time we got back it was late and we needed to eat so the edger is in the trunk of the car and will be put together today and used tomorrow.

More importantly I had a chance last night to make some cards. This was actually the last card I made. Last week I saw this card and really liked it a lot. When I had finished making my cards last night and started to clean up I picked up the white punched border and the ribbon and the light bulb went off. I attached the ribbon to the border, scored a couple of line and thought okay now what. Then I noticed the Bazzil Basic Swiss Dots paper and went looking for something to co-ordinate it with. I pulled out the DCWV Citrus stack and chose this DP. There's some sparkle to the paper and the yellows sort of match so the card was done.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Emma

When I was making the Trevor card yesterday I also started this card.

This is Emma, I picked up this digi image from All That Scraps and she's just so cute. I really had fun putting this card together.

All the DP is again DCWV Green Stack. After coloring Emma and the tree stump (Copics) I trimmed them out and mounted them to the leaf design DP, but it didn't look right, so I cut that paper down so more of the base paper showed.

When I went through the stack I found the beaver and the skunk and had an aha moment.

I took a circle punch and cut out Mr. Billy Beaver (well that's what I call him) and then I trimmed out Hunky Skunky. I slipped them a little under the mushrooms and thought Okay!!!

I stamped out the sentiment and added some star brads and I was done. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

I think I'm going to enter this card in the Anyone for Anya challenge also. Not sure if can do more than one but I think it's cute enough.

Trevor

I found an interesting challenge blog the other day and wanted to enter this card. Goofy me I entered the wrong card, a big oops.

The challenge is Anyone for Anya, and all you have to do is have an Anya , Greeting Farm or CC Designs image on it. This weeks challenge is lots of layers.

I chose to use the CC Designs Spring Trevor for my card. I stamped Trevor and the stump out on Beckett White and colored with Copics.

I then trimmed them out and positioned them on the DP (two layers). All DP is from DCWV The Green Stack. It is 70% recycled so Trevor is also being environmentally conscientious.

With the sentiment stamped and matted I count 7 layers. The little birdies are cut out from another sheet from the stack. I don't think you can get too fussy with boy cards so I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

The Perfect Pair

There were several things I wanted to get accomplished today. Making this card was NOT one of them. High on my list was cleaning off my craft desk. Imagine if you will a very nice desk with room for all manner of things, then imagine all manner of things on top of that desk. Kind of looks like Michael's, Joanne's and Hobby Lobby dropped off a boat load of craft goods on top of it. I had the idea of cleaning it off and then making some cards. DETOUR!!!

When I started to move some things around I found this stamp set, Chair-Ished from PaperTrey Ink, sitting there. I got it a week or so ago and set it aside to play with later. Well later came today.

I needed to make an anniversary card for a young couple we know and I thought this set would make a really cute card. I went up on the the PaperTrey site and looked for some inspiration. I found it in the gallery in Melissa Phillips gallery. I didn't copy hers exactly but it really inspired me to make mine. This card uses several techniques that I don't often do (too much finagalling) . I paper pieced the chairs, masked them off to stamp the rug, used several layers, then I used some of the DP to computer generate the sentiment. All the DP is from DCWV Linen Closet. I had the card photographed and already to upload when I realized I had forgotten to put the pearls on, oops.

Well I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Mother's Day

When I stamped out this image from JustRite's Beautiful Blossoms and Borders set I hadn't planned on making any Mother's Day cards. Then I realized that there were three women in my family that needed recognition this year. The first was my niece (see this post), then my older sister (here) and last my youngest sister. Beth has an important mile stone this year. Her baby is graduating high school (she's also turning 50 but we won't talk about that--at least not now).

I decided to make this card for her. I colored with Copics and cut it out with oval Nestabilities, scalloped for the mat.

The DP is DCWV Cafe Mediterranean.

The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with a Nestabilities ribbon tag that I air brushed with Copic pale chiffon. I also colored the ribbon the same way.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Mother's Day Meme

Over at JustRite Inspiration the theme for this weeks challenge is Mother's Day. Well that happens to be just what I need this week.

My sister is having an exciting year, she was honored last Friday by the Erie County Bar Assoc. for her work as a teacher for mock trials.

Next up she retires from teaching this year and to top it off she becomes a grandmother this fall.

So of course I have to celebrate her impending Grandmotherhood (is that a word???).

I chose this image from the Beautiful Blossoms and Borders set. (That whole set is just wonderful) I colored with Copics and cut it and the mats out with Nestabilities. The sentiment is Computer generated (hey out there could someone please come out with a sentiment set using the various nicknames for Grams and Gramps, just a thought). I left in the Nestie and air brushed it with Copic Cashmere. The DP is all from the Pocket full of Posies DCWV mat stack (appropriate huh?) Just is little bit of ribbon and I'm all done.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.