Card Swap

Hello all my crafty friends!  I hope everyone has had some time to let their creative juices flow freely.  I am preparing for a trip to Nova Scotia and have been crafting my heart out to try and complete all of the projects that I need to finish before I go!  I am making a couple of chipboard albums to give away while I am there plus a card swap that I signed up for.......YIKES!  Thankfully I am just about finished all of them and thought I would share the card that I made for the swap as I am soooo proud of it.  The ladies at The Craft Nook said that we should try to make some of our best work and I felt like I did just that.  I know we all struggle a bit when it comes to masculine type cards so I opted to try one and hopefully inspire the ladies in the card swap when they receive it!

This Card is a standard 5.5" x 4.25" size and is using the Tim Holtz distess inks to create the background

I use a piece of post - it note and punched a 1" circle ensuring that part of the sticky strip was in the circle to hold it in place as a mask for the moon.

Inks used: broken china, faded jeans, chipped sapphire, walnut stain, pine needles

Using the Broken China I blended it down approximately half way down the card.  I used the Faded Jeans and blended on top of the broken china until there was only .75" of broken china showing.  I then went over the top 1" of the card using Chipped Sapphire.

I then took scrap cardstock and ripped it up to use as a mask and creating the mountain ranges.  I placed the mask just above the broken china and blended in the walnut stain until it was quite dark and approximately 1" below the broken china.  I then moved the mask (or used a different shaped mask) and place it slightly higher that the first mountain range.  Using the same walnut stain ink I blended in the exposed spots LIGHTER than the first mountain range.  This is what gives the range depth.

I went back to the Chipped Sapphire and this time blended it up from the bottom to meet the mountain range.  To finish it off I blended a small line on the very bottom of the card using Pine Needles to achieve a grass look to the card....something for the moose to stand on!

I removed the moon mask at this point and got my stamps out!

I then used a stamp set from inkadinkadoo and the flying geese stamp and pressed them on the card.

I don't have a moose stamp so I chose to cut a moose silouette from the Give a Hoot Cricut Cartridge and used the shift key to get the base moose (without all the fancy swirl cuts).  I popped him up with pop dots and voila....the card was complete. 

I hope that these instructions help you to recreate this card or inspire you to try one of your own!  Feel free to leave any comments or questions and I'll see if I can help you further!

Until next time,

Happy Crafting!

Rosetta

Hi my fellow crafters!

Today's blog installment features a scrapbook page that I made for my neice.  I absolutely love it and often wondered why I bought TinkerBell and Friends cricut cartridge but after making this page I know exactly why!

I used the same cartridge to make the title, the flower corner piece and Rosetta herself.  I used my glitter pen to highlight her wings and to add some life to the flowers and stems.  I also used my cuttlebug to emboss the photo mat.

I am working on the next page which will feature Silvermist so stay tuned!

Happy Crafting!

My BFF!!!

Wow...what a busy month it has proven to be!  I have hardly had time to breath let alone post on here!  It has been so enjoyable having the kids home for the summer holidays but it definitely ties up much of our time!  Trying to cram in lots of fun stuff before school starts in September.  And this year my oldest starts highschool! 

Part of the summer fun is going to be a trip we are taking out to Nova Scotia.  We're so excited not only for the vacation but for what is waiting for us there.  My BFF!!!  We have been besties since highschool and her husband has been stationed out there as of January this year.  He's a navy man!

So.....since I have been missing her sooooo much and in preperation for our trip I thought I would make a scrapbook page of her.  Because we have been friends for as long as we have I wanted to go back in time a bit and do some older techniques...primarily stitching!!!

Kristina.....you are my best friend and even moving across the country couldn't change that!  I love you to bits and miss you more and can not wait to see you in a few weeks!!!

Thanks for dropping in!

Happy Crafting!

Birthday Card

Hello everyone and I hope you enjoyed your Saturday!  We went out of town for my hubby's Grandma's birthday......she turns 96 tomorrow! 

This is a quick card that I made for her birthday.  I had already made one very similiar for my best scrappin' buddy so this one was quick to make as I didn't have to think too much!

This card was made by inking up the back ground using the new Peacock Feathers distress ink found in the spring pack.  I LOVE this colour!  I stamped the image using the same colour as well as the sentiment on the bottom of the card.  I did a similar panel on the inside of the card.  The butterfly was made using a stamp and versamark.  Then embossed using white powder.  I also used stardust pens to add some glitter to the flowers and leaves and then a glaze pen to bring out the flower as well as the spaces in the butterfly wings. 

Thanks for checking in and may your days be filled with creativity!  Happy Crafting!

Halloween Layout

Good evening everyone and happy Friday!

I thought I would post a layout that I finished up this week that I thought was super cool.  I'm not much for halloween scrapbooking as my boys are getting out of that age now but I couldn't resist making this one.....

This page was made entirely on my gypsy which is something I had never done before.  I started by using a 12 x 24 mat and started adding elements to it as I would like to see them sized on my pages.  After I had everything all planned out I then created a new layer for each colour that I was going to be using.  From there I just copy and pasted each element onto the appropriate colour tab and voila....the layout was ready to cut.  This really helped out as I was able to just load the mat a few times instead of stopping and starting as I design in my head like I normally would.  I even got the rectangles for the photo mats included on the layout so that I could see exactly what my page would consist of.

I used a few cartridges for this layout.  Much of the halloween elements and house is found on the Happy Hauntings cartridge.  I used Paper Doll dress up for the skeleton and mummy and I used another cartridge (pooh and friends I think) for the clouds.  The moon is just a circle cut from George and Basic Shapes.  I love how this turned out!  I'm sorry the pic is a tad blurry but you get the idea =)

Thanks for stopping in!

Happy Crafting!

Owl Always Love You

Hi everyone!

I thought I'd post a layout that I made a few weeks ago and stick with the "owl" theme that I seem to be in right now.  This is a super easy and fast layout but I still really loved how it turned out.  It probably helps that it features one of my favouite people on earth...my nephew!

I'm not sure where I got this paper but man oh man do I ever love it!  I thought it was perfect for my wee man.  I think the owl and title were from the Straight from the nest cartridge and the background for the title was a cut from the paper lace cartridge. 

Thanks for stopping in again and happy crafting!

From Owl of Us

Hey fellow bloggers....!

Today I was going through some of the photos of cards I've made and realized that I never posted this adorable owl card.  A fellow co-worker that worked with our company for many years decided it was time to move on and find something else in her life to do.  Known as "the card maker" at work they asked me to whip up something for her that we could all sign and this is what I came up.  I intentionally left the inside fairly "stark" as we had to have a lot of room for signatures and well wishes!

My favourite colour combination I think is pink and brown (really like purple and green too so it might be close).....I did use the Straight from the Nest cricut cartridge for the owl and sentiment on the front of the card.  I also added some embossing on the brown panels.  It was a script cuttle bug folder.  I also cuttle bugged the "OWL" top layer.  I also used my cover-a-card stamp on the white panel on the front of the card using my versamark ink and some UTEE powder to add some texture. 

So there you have my group card.  Hope you enjoyed and until next time.....

Happy Crafting!