Greatest Dad

I was working on Father's Day cards in my spare time this week (take note that I only have ONE card posted for the majority of the week...NO SPARE time at all....lol) and I have this little card to show for it.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Scenic Route: Laurel "Marsh Haven Line"

Punch: EKSuccess

NESTABILITIES: Standard Circle

Ink: Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink

Tag: My Mind's Eye (only a few of these left in stock)

Buttons: Lil' Davis (found in the travel section with blue and orange as part of the set)

STamp: Changito Solo "Stampendous"

Foam squares

I cut my circle and then printed the words around the outer edge to finish my design.  After punching my design into the edge of the top layer of background paper I  inked it with my TIM inks. Then I put all the elements together and voila' ......you're a card....hehehe

Graduation card

Graduation is here!  I had a graduation to go to yesterday so I took a photo of my card before handing it over.  Since my recipient is in a Rock & Roll band I thought those cool wings from the Maya Roads keychain would be perfect!!

MAterials:

Paper: Paper Cut (black and metallic)

DCWV (stripe)

Wings: Maya Roads

CUTTLEBUG "Congrats" set

Ink

Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks: Silver and Pearl

Tim Holtz applicator

Craft sheet

 

After removing the plastic from the wings I put a drop of the pearl and silver on the felt pad of the applicator (a dab of each color set apart from each other on the pad so they didn't meld together).  Then I dabbed them onto the wings, waiting a few minutes between each dab so it could dry and then keeping going until it was covered.  That's the magic.  Pretty simple actually, but a very cool effect!

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A page!

I visited a few places that served up margaritas when we were in Las Vegas last summer and I had to use this paper for the layout.  

Materials:

Paper: can't remember the name of the margarita paper

WorldWin cardstock

Stickles: Distress Peeled Paint and Diamond

Stickers: 

Bling: Kaiser Kraft

Stamp: Rosie's Roadshow

NESTABILITIES

Ink: Judith Black

I used the stickles on the rim of the glass and the green distress stickles on the lime for a little added fun.  I used the NESTIES to make my circles for the highlighted margarita glass from the paper.

Altered Canvas creation

I have always wanted to try a canvas with all my fun scrapbooking tools and embellishments.  I bought an 11x14 canvas at a local art store and then set to work making a piece of art...note...this is FUN!  I got to get out some stuff I have been stashing away for a while.  Chipboard letters, big flowers, chipboard scrolls and more.

Most of this is not available at the store as I purchased most of it a long long time ago.

The list of available items at PICTURE THIS:

Paper Flowers: Prima Brown Flowers

Stamp: Clock stamp from Inque Boutique

Inks: "Walnut Stain" from Tim Holtz Distress line

Color Wash "Red Pepper"..another Tim Hotlz product

Tim Hotlz Philosophy Tags

Brads: Making Memories

Glossy Accents

This will be on display in the classroom at the back of the store.

Remember you can work in the classroom anytime for free as long as we are not holding a large class or other paid event.  Call ahead to see if we have availability for you to create in our room.

Sunflower card

This little strip of sunny paper from Sassafras Lass was the inspiration for this card.  I dug out all the sunflowers I had.  I left the sentiment off because I am making some blank cards for future use.

Materials:

PapeR: Sassafras Lass

WorldWin cardstock

NESTABILITIES: Labels One, Standard Square, Inverted Square, Sunflower Two and Label Trio

CUTLEBUG: "Flowers" and "Script Texture"

Ink: Tim Holtz "Spiced Marmalade", "Dried Marigold" and "Mustard Seed"

DISTRESS STICKLES Spiced Marmalade

Ribbon: Offray

Layering, layering, layering!  

Thank You Very Much

More rainbows to play with.  

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

DoubleMAtes by WorldWin

Sassafras Lass "Criss Cross"

Punch: FISKARS diamond

CUTTLEBUG: "Charms" and Decorative Squares #3

Ribbon: May Arts

Ink: Tim Holtz "Faded Denim"

Stamp: Maya Roads

After cutting off the border strip from the Sassafras paper I used it for the edge of the card....I am loving this option for that piece we used to just throw away!

Thinking of you

More cute paper from the Sassafras Lass line. 

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin Cardstock and Sassafras Lass "

Brads: Making Memories

NESTABILITIES: Standard Circle

CUTTLEBUG: "Sliders"

Stamp: HERO ARTS sentiment set

INK: Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" and "Walnut Stain"

Craft Mat

Cut-N-Dry foam

Another simple layering card  I used a piece of paper for my "ribbon" on the "slider".  The burlap look to the patterned paper adds a lot to the look of the card without the work.  I can see this as a Father's Day card.

Birthday Card

A little chocolate doesn't hurt right?  Chocolate paper that is.  This line from Bo-Bunny has a nice combo of Chocolate and aqua paper.  

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

Bo-Bunny "Abbey Road" Truffle and Sky

CUTTLEBUG: "Happy Birthday"

Heidi Swapp Mini Mask Butterfly

Ink: TIM HOLTZ "Peeled Paint", "Vintage Photo" and "Antique Linen"

Tim Holtz Mini Mister

Tombo Markers

The technique here is taking a small piece of cardstock and placing the mask on it.  Using a watercolor pen and some ink to drop color onto the masked area and letting it dry is the hard part.  Spraying it with the mini mister is the easy part! The water spray made it look more watery.  Once I had it to my liking I let it dry, then I removed the mask and embossed it.

Count Your Rainbows

Another part of my marathon creating session on Monday.  I fell in love with this rainbow paper from Sassafras Lass.  The border edges on these papers are decorated so you can clip them off and still use them!  How COOL is THAT?

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

Sassafras Lass: "Promises" and "Darling Dear"

Stamp: Inkadinkadoo set

Stickles: Distress "Spiced Marmalade", "Faded Jeans" and "Yellow"

Punch: Martha Stewart butterfly

Ink: "Faded Jeans" distress ink

Cut-N-Dry Foam

I used my foam square to distress the edges of the papers to give them a little more dimension.  After placing my little butterflies on the card I used the stickles to "dress" them up.   

New technique

I tried this technique a while ago, but didn't get a finished project until today.

This is a new way to use the CUTTLEBUG folder with GLIMMER MIST.  Just spray the Glimmer Mist on the side of the CUTTLEBUG folder you want it to show up on.  The glittery stuff settles into the cracks and crevices and looks so cool!  The other thing I tried was "coloring" with my Cut-N-Dry sponge.  By dabbing a corner of my sponge in to the ink and then rubbing just the spot I wanted to color it worked pretty well.  Just a little subtle color to the raised image was all I wanted.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

Ribbon: Offray?

CUTTLEBUG: "Rose Frame" and "Textured Textile" embossing folder

Stamp: Daisy Bucket

Bling: Kaiser Kraft Pearls

Ink: Tim Holtz "Worn Lipstick" and "Peeled Paint"

Glimmer Mist: Silver Bells

Altered Art

Take a pre-finished piece of art and make it over.  I loved the frame work on this and bought it with the intention of making a cool display for our favorite TIM HOLTZ items.  This was a blast to do!  The wood was already painted and all I had to do was pop off the back panel to create the scene with all my favorite new products.

Materials:

Paper: Basic Grey "Recess" line..not sure of the name, but it gets mostly covered anyway

K&Co Collage

Ink: Tim Holtz "Walnut Stain" and "Antique Photo"

Embossing Ink

Embossing Powder Clear

Red Pepper Color Wash

Walnut Ink: sprayed on

Clear embossing powder

Brads: Making Memories

Stamps: Clock from Inque Boutique and Weeds from Stampers Anonymous 

Tim Holtz: Adage Tickets

Tim Holtz: Philosophy Tags

Tim Holtz: Sprocket Gears

Tim Holtz: Game Spinners

Tim Holtz: Fragments

Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks

DYMO label maker

Craft sheet

Cut-N-Dry foam

After removing the panel from the back (and the little nails that held it together) I put down a piece of paper to cover the back.  I used the embossing ink to stamp the weed and clock image on the background so that the paper color would show through when I did the color washing.  After heat embossing the images I used the Red Pepper Color Wash and the walnut ink to spritz the background paper.  Once it dried a bit I wiped off the embossed area leaving only color on the paper.  I waited until the whole thing was completely dry before I did the rest of the fun things.  

I stamped the quote on the paper (part in the top window area and then other part in the middle lower window.  By placing the window panels on the paper and marking it with a pencil I could see where the images needed to be without being obstructed by the panes when put together again.  After that I put together all the cool stuff I have purchased for my "TIM" collection and put them in the windows.  The other cool feature to this is the paper I put through the DYMO label buddy...yup, paper.  I saw this on the TIM HOTLZ blog and decided I NEEDED to try this.  I found a paper that had a white core...in this case a piece of My Mind's Eye scrap....and cut it to 3/8" strip.  I put the end of the strip into the DYMO and started punching my words in and it worked great!  Once done I removed it and sanded off the raised images...and then I used my dark into to color it in again (I know, I could make up my mind..lol)

So thats it.  Stop by the store to see it as it will be a part of our "TIM" display.

Changito and a tree

I was playing in my crafty area and got a lot of cards made and a few other projects.  Lucky you, I will be posting a card a day for the next whole week!!

Today I have a simple card with the adorable Changito from Stampendous and the cool tree from Maya Road.  Super easy with lots of stamp brands.  Cute stuff.  I stamped the tree onto the cream cardstock in the Peeled Paint green and then I stamped the whole image onto a brown paper with the brown ink and then cut out the trunk only to place over the top of the green inked stamp.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

My Mind's Eye "Just Stripes" Bloom and Grow

Ribbon: May Arts

Ink: Tim Holtz "Spiced Marmalade", "Peeled Paint", "Vintage Photo" and "Walnut Stain"

Blender pen

Stamps: Stampendous, Inkadinkadoo and Maya Road

Happy Birthday my little monkey friend

I get to wish a friend a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today.....and she's our little monkey girl....Changito Monkey girl that is.  If you haven't seen our favorite Monkey in the store, stop by and check out the display...too cute.  Our "Monkey Girl" Barb E also happens to have a class featuring CHANGITO, so check that out when you stop by too.

So, if you see Barb E today, wish her a Happy Birthday, but don't ask how many fingers she is....lol

.....and another birthday wish goes out to a regular blog reader.....Jodi G

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Basic Grey "Lime Rickey: Catawba Flip"

Punch: FISKARS "effervescence"

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Vintage Photo"

Markers: Tombo

Blender pen

Glossy Accents

Brads: Making Memories

CUTTLEBUG embossing folder "Floral Screen"

CHANGITO stamp from Stampendous

Inkadinkadoo sentiment stamp

I stamped the CHANGITO image with my Tim Holtz ink and then blended his body with my blender pen and the ink pad.  When that was dry I filled in the body with my Glossy Accents to give him a shiny coat.  Then it was a matter of simple layering with my color coordinated papers and the Floral screen embosser.

Happy Mother's Day

Had to use a flash on this one...I was working into the wee hours making cards and it's pretty dark in my scrappin' space (even with the full moon..lol).  Can you see the shine off of the bling in the butterfly center?
I have been itching to use my sheer butterfly keychain from Maya Road since they came in last week and I finally got to do what I have had in my head since seeing them in the catalog. Since there are 6 butterflies on the keychain I can do several cards or other projects.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

NESTABILITIES: Square (embossed into the white square)

CUTTLEBUG: "Sliders"

SIZZIX: "Flowers" from the Dots & Flowers set

Bling: Queen & Co

Alcohol Inks from Ranger: the new Summit View set and one more color"Wild Plum"

Distress Ink: Spiced Marmalade

Marker: American Craft Slick Writer

Sheer Butterfly from Maya Road (part of the keychain line)

Eyelets (yes, they are eyelets or "snaps") not sure of Manufacturer

Ribbon: from my stash and REALLY REALLY old.

Ok, so this is an easy one.  If you have never played with alcohol inks you need to try it...too much fun.  I was doing all kinds of stuff last night with my inks and things.  Ahhh, my TIM collection is getting HUGE!  Not enough time in the day to play I tell you.  Ok, back to the details.....With my applicator I dabbed my alcohol ink colors onto the felt piece, keeping a little space between each color so it wouldn't blend before application.  Then I dabbed it onto the sheer butterfly in different spots but not touching yet.  Wait a few seconds and then dab again to give the tie dyed look.  You have to wait for it to dry a bit before applying another color or it will blend to much and look muddy. Once I had the colors the way I liked it I punch additional holes in the wings to attach to the card front.  I then embossed the orange with the SIZZIX folder and then rubbed the ink pad over the raised images in a like color (in this case orange) to give the flowers a little more pop.   I also used the embossing feature with my NESTIES to give the raised ridge frame for the butterfly to sit in on the card. I chose the eyelet snaps because they were shiny and blue, but any would work including regular eyelets or even a brad.  My last little addition was the black marker to make the "feelers" and write "Happy Mother's Day".

So that's it....my Mother's Day card.  

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

hope you have a crafty day

Hip to be Square...

..or rectangular.  Ok, I was trying different things again with the leftovers from Thursday's project and I came up with this.  Not sure about it, but sometimes you have to try right?

Materials:

Paper: Paper Cut "Jute"

My Mind's Eye "Lots of Dots" and "Just Stripes"

WorldWin cardstock

Ribbon: Offray

NESTABILITIES: Sunflower Set Two, Labels Large and Rectangle Scallop

Punch: MArtha Stewart

I think I will put the sentiment on a tag in the middle of this one, when I decide what sentiment that might be.  I am making some "blank" cards for emergencies and I have several tag with sentiments already stamped on them.

Glimmer and shimmer

This works for a  wedding/anniversary or even a birthday card.

I don't think you can see how shimmery it really is even with this close-up.
This is what happens when you create something and you have cool leftovers to work with. Can I just mention that the original project I worked on when I ended up with this was a complete dud.  In the second step of my original card I put my GLIMMER SCREEN on the card and sprayed my SILVER BELLS GLIMMER MIST on the card.  After removing the screen (carefully) I was left with an unattractive card...but the mist left on the screen was AWESOME!  I took an extra piece of white felt cardstock and placed it carefully on the screen to soak up the mist from the screen and the image you see above is what transfered to it....cool huh? So, having this cool piece of paper I had to finish it right? I found some buttons and matching paper flowers and the iridescent cord to create my card.  Roll the whole thing through the Cuttlebug before attaching all that and you have the above card.

Materials:

Paper: Paper Cut "felt cardstock" and Metallic cardstock

Glimmer Mist "Silver Bells"

Glimmer Screens

Tres Jolie Buttons

HERO ARTS pearls

Iridescent cord: May Arts

CUTTLEBUG: Diamonds in the Rough

Watch the Store blog for some goodies coming up......

Bright and Cheery

We have a butterfly punch at the store that I just love...we actually have many butterfly punches at the store that are just gorgeous and in various sizes.

Materials:

Paper: Paper Cut "felt"

My Mind's Eye "Little Blossom", "Lot's of Dots" and the Accessory Sheet (I punched out the big flower from the sheet).

CUTTLEBUG " Forrest Branches" embosser

Punch: Martha Stewart

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Spiced Marmalade"

Brad: Lil Davis Felt brads...too cute!

NESTABILITIES Edgeabilities 

Pop-dots

Craft Sheet

I was getting messy again with my inks and the craft sheet does a great job of cleaning up after me...ok, not literally of course!  One thing I did learn about my Craft Sheet is the colors that you rub on it don't dry very fast and if I take another sheet of paper or ribbon and rub along it you can pick up the color from it...kinda cool sometimes and other times not.  It depends on what colors I am working with.  It works amazingly with the GLIMMER MISTS....that works wonders for ribbon pieces.

Anyway, back to the card.  I cut the cool edge with my edgeabilities die, which comes with two by the way, and then put the two pieces facing each other on the card, leaving a space between.  I used the Cuttlebug folder to fill the space between the edges.  With the Tim Holtz Distress inks I rubbed on the raised areas to give just the bumps the color.  Then I glued down the edged pieces, pop-dotted the flower (with the brad in the middle) and then placed the butterflies winding up the Cuttlebugged space.  I left the sentiment off because I can go back and do whatever I want when I need it.

Get Buggin"

Be Inspired Challenge #30

The ladies at the CUTTLEBUG CHALLENGE blog are doing some fabulous wedding inspired creations and since we are currently working on our WEDDING example album at PICTURE THIS, I  just had to share.

Materials:

Paper: Paper Cut

CUTTLEBUG: "Textured Textile", "Wedding" and "Swiss Dots"

Punch: FISKARS "effervescence" punch

NESTABILITIES: Standard Circle Large and Classic Scallop Circle Large

Glossy Accents

Stickles "Diamond"

I made this into a tri-fold card again with a sleeve to hold the panels shut.  It is a standard A2 card when it is finished for mailing.  Doing all white (or a cream) makes for easy wedding cards, either an invitation to the wedding itself or a shower.  You could even take a coordinating color from the wedding and add it to the mix.

Live Laugh Love

I had to play with my new tree stamp the other day but I forgot to take a photo before taking it to work for display...silly me!

Materials: 

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

CUTTLEBUG: "D'vine Swirl" embossing folder, "Swiss Dots" embossing folder and "Sliders" die

Stamps: HERO ARTS set (words) and Maya Roads (Tree)

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Walnut Stain" and "Peeled Paint"

Glossy Accents (for the shiny leaves on the tree)

NESTABILITIES: Standard Circle Large

This one is pretty simple.  I stamped the tree on both green and brown paper and then cut out the trunk from the brown (I cut in close to the edge) and the leaves from the green piece (not cutting as closely with these to leave a larger area for the canopy) . I adhered the trunk to the leaf canopy and then used my bottle of Glossy Accents to shine up the leaves.   Isn't it the cutest little tree??

Simple Graduation

Simple cardstock and some CUTTLEBUG'in make this card easy and eye pleasing.  Of course, as with all the cards, any color combo from any school can be used.  

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Paper Cut

Eyelets: Making Memories

CUTTLEBUG: "Concentric Star", "Circle Frames", "Tiny Tags" and "Number Collage"

Black Marvy Marker

Graduation with vellum

Just to try something a little different I used a sheet of vellum over the top of the die cut year.  Layering the die cut graduation cap on top of the vellum was the finishing touch.  You could easily put a photo of the grad under that vellum layer as well.  Each corner is held in place by a brad.  

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Brads Making Memories

Die cuts from PAZZLES

Graduation silhouette

A simple card with simple embossing and die cuts from the PAZZLES.  Any name or year can be cut at the store for a truly personalized invitation.  The cost is 25 cent per letter or number plus the cost of paper.  Even if you only had the year cut out and the graduate silhouette it makes a very nice card.  Any color combo will work with this all cardstock card.

Materials:

WorldWin cardstock.

CUTTLEBUG: Argyle and 

Grad card with photo

This example shows a graduation card with a "senior" photo as the center piece. 

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Sports Team Papers

Vellum

CUTTLEBUG: "Diamonds in the Rough"

NESTABILITIES: Standard Circle Large

Brads: Making Memories

Clear photo corners

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Pine Needles"

An easy card you can use for your graduation invitation or even a simple holiday card.  The clear photo corners hold the vellum down without hindering your ability to remove the photo from the card to keep.  I used a small piece of adhesive behind the photo to keep it in place.

At the store we have several school papers like the one used above.  Memorial, North, Altoona, Eleva-Strum, Mondovi, Blugolds...just to name a few.  Any color combo and any embossing folder will work for the top layer.