3 More Cards Today

Here are 3 more cards I made today using my new Crafty Individuals stash. They were made for a challenge on Allcraftz .

Well, we are back from our holiday to the UK & I have to say 8 weeks is far too long to go without scrapping! So now that I am home I have been playing again & have come up with these items.

Firstly is an ATC that I made for Linda from AC4U for a swap. The swap was that everyone picks a theme (Linda's theme was Places/Stamps) & sent it on a circular path - so Linda sent me 8 ATC blanks, I created one & sent it & the rest of the blanks along to the next person on the list. Since we had just been to Paris for the second time on our recent holiday, I decided to base my ATC on Paris & I used stamps & images that I bought from Crafty Individuals while I was in the UK. So here is the completed ATC I hope she likes it!





Next is a small mini book that I made for my friend Red as a "thank you" for her letting me borrow a set of her stamps. The general idea came from a class at my LSS, I used some left over Kaisercraft paper on it & finished it off with a silver dragonfly.






Lastly I was sitting there looking at the left over Kaisercraft paper & I thought I would use it to create a card. At our monthly cutters group meeting Lorraine very kindly gave us all a bag of precut cardboard hearts & our challenge was to use them on a project that we are to take in to our next meeting. So this is my completed card, thank you to my friend Marnie whos card she sent me gave me the inspiration to make this. Also, rather apt I thought, the background purple card that has been cuttlebugged was done one morning when I went to visit Lorraine & she let me use her embossing folders. I think it turned out really nicely, I might have to make a few of them for upcoming birthdays!

OK, finally I have got a chance to sit down & post the pics & directions on how I made my wedding memorabillia box. For anyone who hasnt seen it, this is it finished - the front & the inside view.







I started out with a piece of cardboard - Im not even quite sure where I got it from now, but it was packing inside a box that something came in at christmas time I'm sure.






I then cut off pieces from the end & stuck them together with some cardstock to make a cardboard "frame" that would eventually become the recessed section of the box which I then stuck to the cardboard.






Next I started covering it all with torn tissue paper & watered down PVA glue, I love the effect that the torn tissue paper gives, I use it alot . I make sure that I glue lots of pieces of tissue paper over the edges & joins which gives it plenty of strength.






Lots & lots of layers later, I let it dry overnight (some take longer, this cardboard dried fairly quickly) & the next day painted it with some acrylic paint & then with Twinkling H2Os & left it to dry completely.






Then I started with the paper, I glued a torn piece to the inside of the front cover & distressed it with paint. After it was dry I started to build a network of ribbons to make it into a noticeboard type area weaving them in between each other. Lastly I finished it off with some ribbon around the edge.







Next I took a piece of paper & glued it to the front of the box & distressed & then inked the edges with distress ink. I then added some rubons & mounted a wedding dress embellishment I had made with foam tape. Next I put some lace & diamontes across the corner & added a flower I distressed with ink & a heart made with a mould & Delight & painted with my gold Krylon pen on the corner. Lastly I coloured a key made from a mould & Delight again with the gold Krylon & that completed the front.







The inside of the box I covered with a textured stuff like mulberry paper with gold flecks in it. Then I glued a couple of pieces of the lace i had on my wedding dress to the inside, ppopped an Order of Service inside & put material from my dress & the hair garland I wore that day in on top.







Lastly I made a tag & printed on it the words that we said when we exchanged rings (my DH wrote those words, in fact he wrote 90% of our marriage ceremony :) ), stamped it with my script stamp (thank you Sharon!) & distressed the edges & tucked it along with a left over place card & a pic of us into the noticeboard.




So there you have it, if you have lasted this long you deserve a medal & a pat on the back, hope you enjoyed watching how it was all created.

I made this album over the christmas period for a lady who lost her mother before christmas. I wanted to make her something special that she could work at slowly to get her back into scrapping & this is what I came up with.

I started off with plain chipboard for the covers, made a small frame for one (the front) & covered them with lots of layers of tissuepaper & PVA glue. I then painted the covers with Polished Pigments & when they were dry, distressed them with white lumiere paint which makes it look silver.

I then made the embellishments, the heart & bird were cut from chipboard & painted with lumiere paint & the heart had crackle medium applied to it. I made the wings & the heart in the middle of the flower using Delight & a mould, painted them white & sprayed them with silver Glimmer Mist & painted the heart shaped beads with my silver krylon pen. Lastly I used the krylon pen to colour the letters for "my" & freehand embossed (with my cruddy handwriting LOL) the word "Mum" into some metal shim I had & trimmed it down to fit on the heart. Added rubons to both edges.

Next I made the title page using Basic Grey Periphery paper, blue & cream flowers, jewel brads, velvet ribbon, a Kaisercraft Heart & some card that I cut into shape, distressed with Distress ink & printed one of my favourite verses onto.

All it needed then was to be bound which I did with my Bind It All & ribbons tied on the binding.

I was very pleased with the way it turned out, hope you enjoy looking at it.

Christmas tags

OK so I am a bit addicted to making tags this year, so I joined in a challenge over at Allcraftz today, the rules were that there had to be at least 3 tags, they had to be in the same colour scheme & there had to be at least 1 christmas tree, 1 dove & some stars. These are what I came up with, the background I made a few weeks ago with Glimmer Mist & my own home made Glimmer Mist (a concoction of PearlEx, gum arabic & water, see my post back at the beginning of November) & these ones I masked using a flourish design I cut on my PI on cardstock (disposable! :) ). I stamped the backgrounds with various stamps (including a music stamp from my new set from Stamp-It!), embossed them with versamark & distress embossing powder in Fired Brick & distressed the edges & inked them with Vintage Photo Distress ink & then embossed them as well. The christmas tree & dove were both stamped with Versamark & embossed with Peeled Paint embossing powder & then inked & edged with a krylon gold leafing pen. I also added various metal embellishments, some beaded trim & some Prima christmas flowers & a button push through by 7 Gypsies. I think they turned out really well, I love them!

2 more cards ..

I know it's christmas time & most people are doing christmas cards, but hey, I always like to be different, so here are 2 cards I made yesterday that aren't christmas related.

The first one (well I hope its the first one, I always seem to upload them in the wrong order)I created the background by using black gloss cardstock & swirling copper alchol ink mixative onto it which gave it a rather gorgeous effect. The black square frame is just cardstock & black opals which have been stamped to give the texture. The cameo is a mould done with Delight & it, along with the photo corners & little plaque with the word on it have been coloured with a Krylon Copper pen.

The second one I decided to do because I had seen a card somewhere months ago with similar colours (but I have NO idea where now, in reality the colours are probably completely different, but this is what I remember LOL) & I really liked the colour scheme so I decided to give it a go. I used one of my Paper Artsy stamps as the central design, coloured it with a waterbrush & my Marvy markers & then sponged distress inks on around it in different directions to create the textured effect. I think it looks great & love the effect, I will be trying another one with different colours soon!

Christmas cheer

I made these few things as a Wishing Well wish on a forum I post on, the notebook cover has been embossed on the cuttlebug on C'oredinations cardstock which I sanded & then inked with my distress ink (Vintage Photo) to give the crocodile skin effect (I got the handbag shape idea from someone on a Yahoo group I am a member of). Both it & the christmas album have been bound on my BIA, the christmas album has been painted with polished pigments in that beautiful green colour & finished with Maya Road felt flowers.

The christmas baubles were also made using polished pigments, Myléne (from Mill Lane Studio) did a class on these last christmas which sadly I missed, but I did get told about it, so being the inquisitive & ingenious person I am, I checked out google & found some instructions on doing it, & here they are.

The card is white cardstock embossed on the cuttlebug & then coloured with Twinkling H2Os & PearlEx for the background & highlighted with a Krylon Gold leafing pen & bling.

I do hope the recipient likes them & they make her christmas a little brighter :) .