Spellbinders Nestled Maple dies

I love doing fall cards! I've been getting some good mileage out of my Spellbinders Nestled Maple leaves with this batch of fall cards, they are so darn fun. :) On this card, it's hard to tell exactly how it's composed. First of all, I punched a large leaf in the FRONT of the card. I stamped the sentiment and the light text background. Then I layered a swirled Hambly transparency behind it and then layered dark brown cardstock behind that on the inside of the front of the card. Then I turned the card over the right way and adhered a medium glittered leaf on the front with a pop dot.

On my next card, I wanted it to look a little more distressed, so I cut leaves of different sizes. I cut some with adhesive backing so I could peel off the paper and sprinkle glitter over the top. On the large leaf in front, I sprayed it with Tattered Angels and stamped the image. The large letters are an old stamp set (I don't have the brand info), the "thanks" and the damask background is from Papertrey Ink. I added some machine stitching and Prima pearls as well.

More to come, TFL!

Altered state of mind

For anyone who may read my blog, I'm sorry that I don't post more often. Being a full time college student on top of having a family, being a Sunday School teacher, and doing Scrap 'n Art is just keeping me super busy! At the moment I am right in the middle of 3 college papers, it seems that they always come in bunches of 3. Today I have a service learning project to do for my teaching requirements and that will take up most of my day. The good thing is that I get to make cards! How funny is that? :) I went to my service learning location (a historic house here in town) and thought that I'd be doing cleaning or helping to move furniture, etc. Nope, they needed someone to lead a stamping and card making workshop for girl scouts! They had no idea that I made cards either, so it was just kind of a funny circumstance, but one I'm glad of. Here are a couple of altered items that I did a few months ago. The first is just a tea box that I covered in paper (Black River Designs), it only took about 15 minutes. I inked the edges to cover up any imperfections and added the tea bag sentiment from the Crafty Secrets "Tea & Coffee" stamp set. I cut out some yellow flowers from the same paper and then propped them up with pop dots on the box for some dimension.
I thought about gifting it with specialty teas inside, but then realized I needed it to store some ATCs. So that's what I did :)

This wall hanging was really easy to do as well. I used chipboard shapes from 7 Gypsies and covered them with paper that I had already stitched around (also 7 Gypsies). I used some 7 Gypsies clear stamps with Distress ink to stamp over parts of the paper and also inked the edges. I used my Silhouette to cut out "is where the" and used 7 Gypsies sticker letters for the additional words. The black buckle is alsy from 7 Gypsies. I used my cropadile to cut the holes and then threaded the polkadot ribbon through.

Well, TFL and hope you all have a great week!

Scrap 'n Art November/December is here!!!

If you're a subscriber, make sure you check out the Scrap 'n Art issue that just came out, it's a lot of fun! If you're not a subscriber, get yourself on over there and subscribe! ;) http://www.scrapnart.com/ Here are a few items that were pubbed several months ago in Scrap 'n Art that I can share. I just love making baby cards! On the girl card, I used a Crafter's Workshop template (card size) to make the crown with texture paint. It's raised and a bit crackly looking in real life, I like it! I cut the crown out and inked it a bit. The paper is by Melissa Frances, I love her papers for baby cards. The stamp is from Papertrey, and I used a Spellbinders scalloped oval.

On the boy card, I used Graphic 45 paper. The train is just cut from paper as well and inked. I propped it up on foam dots as well. I used an old Miss Elizabeth rubber stamp for the sentiment, and the border punch is by Martha Stewart.

Thanks for looking!

Wedding

Last weekend we went to a wedding in Lincoln, NE. It was a BEAUTIFUL wedding, and here is the card I made.

Sorry the photo is so bad (bottom especially) but I can't retake it! The paper is from the "Enchanted" Cosmo Cricket line - a gorgeous collection. All I added was a bow and the line of bling, the rest is Cosmo Cricket. On the inside, I used a 3L Scrapbook Adhesives clear adhesive backed pocket. The gift card slips right inside, it's a perfect fit. That way it doesn't get separated from the card or fall out.

Thanks for looking!

Scrap 'n Art Jan/Feb

Scrap n’ Art is looking for the following for our January/February 2009 issue. Each project submitted will earn the submitter a raffle ticket in our drawing for a prize pack worth over $200, including products from Karen Foster, Nikki Sivils, Genuinely Jane, Hambly Screen Prints, and Prima! Submit as many projects as you’d like to all of the categories below:

• January Jewels – Layouts/projects featuring lots of bling-a-ling!
• Winter Blues – Layouts featuring the color blue
• Slush happens – Layouts featuring snowy, icy, winter photos
• Valentine Gifts, Layouts, and Cards
• Love Notes – Layouts featuring notes written to others
• Hybrid Layouts & Projects – combining both digital and paper
• “New You” layouts – Scrapbook pages about your goals, resolutions, intentions
• Before and After – Layouts/projects showing the beginning and end result of a project or
• journey. Examples: A weight loss journey, remodeling your kitchen, etc.
• Masculine Layouts & Cards
• Layouts featuring negative space
• Layouts & Projects featuring your favorite tool techniques
• Page layouts featuring pink, red, and white
• Layouts featuring clear/transparent elements

Deadline extended to November 15th, 2009Email submissions and questions to submissions@scrapnart.com

With Sympathy

Well, technically it's still Fall. However, we have gotten snow and FREEEEZING temps the last few days, ick! I took a peek at this weekend's temps and it's supposed to be back in the high 50's so we'll see how that pans out. I'm about ready to break out the Christmas tree!

Here's a fall-ish card I made a while ago. I love these colors, and I'd better do some more cards with these colors soon or I'll run out of fall. Christmas will be here before I know it...sigh.
I used Papertrey Ink "Demask Designs" stamps and Sunrise Ink along with Memento ink to create the patterned paper. I love that set, it's so fun! The sentiment is also from Papertrey. I layered two punched borders (Martha Stewart "lattice) and tied some little flowers in the polka-dot ribbon to finish it off.
Thanks for looking!

Boo!

To start things off today I have a few funny photos of Alexis. She's just so goofy! Here she is with her cousin in Ohio.
Here she is getting ready to eat a fish. Yum, bronze!

Here are both the kiddos with Stage Coach man in the museum. I don't know what that face has to do with anything.

And here's a sweet picture to balance them out. Here she is with daddy at the wedding in OH.

In scrappy news, I got to work with some fun Nikki Sivils Halloween paper recently, I love the bright colors! I also love those candy corns, I could almost eat them up.

The candy corns are actually part of a clear stamp set from the Target $1 spot. There was a cutie pie ghost, jack-o-lantern and some stars and a sentiment as well. Let me warn you though, those stamps are VERY low quality. If you're a beginner stamper, don't get them because they're pretty hard to use and get a good image. They also kind of start to degrade after a while. I only bought them to do a set of cards to sell at the store because for $1, you really can't complain. ☺ I can totally afford to just toss them after I'm done, and that's what I plan to do.

Not until after I make up a bunch of candy corns though, LOL! For the candy corns, I just stamped them with Memento "Tuxedo black" ink and colored them in with Copics. I used Glossy Accents to fill in the yellow part and then sprinkled super fine Stampendous! yellow/gold glitter over the top. Then I used Glossy Accents on the white tips and sprinkled super fine white glitter over the top. I didn't have any dark orange glitter, so I just used the Glossy Accents and made it shiny.

Thanks for taking a peek!