Birthday WISH

I started this card several weeks ago and didn't know how to finish it.

Then I saw what Barb R from our Special Task Force Team did with her folded card and figured I could finally finish it.

I went pretty simple with the embellishments and made a dudes Birthday card. Plus, I hadn't had my hands on my Tim Holtz goodies in a while, so I opened up my box of fun!

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

My Mind's Eye

Tim Holtz Adage Tickets, Distress Ink (Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters) and Sprocket Gears

Cuttlebug: "Just My Type", "Spot & Dots" and "Birthday"

Chipboard: Maya Road "gears"

The fold of the card is something I got off the internet somewhere. It is an A2 size card when folded up.

I cut a 12X5 1/2 inch piece of patterned cardstock and then put the folds in at the 4 and 8 inch marks across the paper. Fold the paper at those marks. The next thing I did was put the cut through the middle . Go in 2 inches from both ends to start your cuts. Now your going across the card will be at 1 3/4" and 3 3/4" and only running from 2 inches in and 2 inches from the end. See the card above for an example of what I am talking about. Once you have your cuts and folds in place there is one more set of folds that needs to go in. These are going to be at the 2 inches in and 2 inches form the end marks. Basically where the cuts start. But you are only going to put the folds in from the top to the cut and the bottom to the cuts. Then you have a flat surface to work with when you add the top layers. I embossed all the top layers with my Cuttlebug and then added the embellishments. A little complicated but the result is different than the usual card.

Give it a try.

Owl be Friends

The cutest little owls are a part of this fun line from Kraft Kuts by Fancy Pants.

I was playing with my papers and a Cuttlebug folder.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

Krafty Kuts, "Owl Paper"

Bling: Kaiser Craft

CUTTLEBUG folder: Friends

Just a little fun with hand cutting out my owls to make my "friend" card. Plus I had this fun collection of bling to use and thought the little eyeballs with bling would be cute!

Christmas in July again...

Yes, I really am up late!!! I am playing with my Pendant Fleur de Lis from Spellbinders, and I have had Christmas on my mind lately! Must be the Christmas hangover we had from our A*muse*A*Palooza week! (*hehe*)

Materials:

Paper: White Felt (from Paper Cut)

DoodleBug (red dot)

SPELLBINDERS: Fleur De Lis and Snowflake Wonder

Gems: Kaiser Craft and HERO ARTS

Pop Dots

A very simple material list, but a very nice impact for a finished product. Love the red and white!! Simple layering again. It is fun to just get stuff out and start arranging it on a piece of paper. The resulting "flake" ends up being rather large and does not fit on a standard A2 card size, so I went square. I usually avoid square because of the mailing issue, but you have to work with what works best! Some of the other new PENDANTS from Spellbinders would be cool as snowflakes too, but I don't own those....yet.

Inking explained....

In my post below I used the Cuttlebug folders for embossing as well as to transfer color to my paper.

To achieve this I used my brayer to apply ink to the raised part of the embossing folder and then laced the paper carefully on the folder and ran it through. For the word folder I did ink up the non-raised image because: 1: if you did the raised part of words they would be backwards 2: I wanted color over the whole image. Since the color was light and I wanted just the hint of color to blend with the rest of the brighter colors.

Looks like I need to do a video tutorial.....

Triple Cuttlebugging

You know how to CUTTLEBUG, and you've seen people double CUTTLE...but have you tried a triple CUTTLE?

I decided to see how many times a piece of paper can go through a Cuttlebug folder and still be in one piece....and three is good! My first time through I chose the "Script Texture " embossing folder and inked it up with my light blue Adirondack ink. Next time through was with my "birds & Swirls" folder with the medium blue shade from Adirondack. The last Cuttle was with a border folder and the darkest shade of blue in my Adirondack collection. So I ended up with all my images embossed and inked. To sweet! Give it a try.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Cuttlebug folders: "Birds & Swirls", "With Love Border", and "Script Texture"

Inks: Adirondack "Cloudy Blue", "Sail Boat Blue" and "Denim" "but any three tone shades will work awesome!)

NESTAIBLITES "Ribbon Tags Trio" and "Nested Birds"

Ribbon; Offray

Stamp: FISKARS "Join the Party" acrylic set

the lightest color is a little hard to see in the photo, but works in with the rest of the images wonderfully. A three tone red would be great for a Christmas card set!

New look, new card

I saw this technique on the SPELLBINDERS design team blogs and had to give it a go. Scroll on the blog down to see the double embossing technique with the Impressabilities and Nestabilities..

Materials:

Paper: Paper Cut

WorldWin

Paper Flowers: Prima (assorted jars)

Bling: Kaiser Craft

CUTTLEBUG : "Wedding" embossing folder

NESTABILITIES: Labels One

IMPRESSABILITES: Flowers (Spellbinders)

Sizzix: Dots

Ribbon: Offray

I will try to explain the technique here too. Once you have cut out your first die shape (the LABELS ONE die) leave the paper in the die and put your Impressabilites plate on the B plate of your CUTTLEBUG, which of course, is on the A plate to begin with. Layer the LABELS ONE die (with paper inside) down on top of that (cutting edge up). Next put your rubber mat on, another B Plate, and then roll it thought the Cuttlebug. Now you have the Impressabilities design and the edges of the Nestabilities design embossed into your paper piece. The rest is just layering.

Give it a try and post a link to your creation here, we would love to see it!

Seasons greetings

OK, I can't stop! I have been able to play with the A*Muse Holiday 2009 collection that we are delighted to have brought you this week during our A*MUSE*A*PALOOZA event.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Stamp: A*Muse Holiday 2009 Collection

Liquid Pearls (for the snow)

NESTABILITIES Lables Trio

Ink; Judith Black

Pop-Dots

By stamping the little houses out across the bottom of a page I got the image to go the full length of the card. A little squirt of Liquid Pearls finishes off the whole effect.

Christmas in July

Got a new toy!!

My new NESTABILITIES Fleur De Lis pendant die!!

Sweet stuff

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin

Paper Cut

Ribbon: May Arts?

NESTABILITIES "Fleur De Lis" die

Brads: Lil Davis

Pop-dots

Just a little playing with my new toys. The green felt brads add a nice touch to the pretty red ribbon and crisp white die cuts.

and still more playing!

This time with some CUTTLEBUG added in.

Materials:

Paper: Scribble Scrabble "Pine & Blue Spruce"

WorldWin cardstock

A*Muse Holiday 2009 Collection stamps

Ink: Tim Holtz "Walnut Stain"

Stickles: Christmas Red

NESTABILITES "Labels Trio"

CUTTLEBUG embossing folder

Surprise and Delight!

More fun with the A*Muse collection

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstocks

Ink: Tim Holtz "Walnut Stain", "Vintage Photo" and " Frayed Burlap"

Stickles: Christmas Red

STAMPS: A*Muse Holiday collection

What you can't see in this card (and what I didn't photograph) was that I started with a 12X5 1/2 piece of paper, so when I folded it into the A2 card size I had a flap left over. That I folded in and used as a gift card holder. Use what you have right? Why waste anything?

New A*Muse

So, with the new arrivals of the Holiday 2009 Christmas line from A*Muse we have had a LOT of fun playing with the stamps. Our biggest problem was tying to decide which ones to try first!!

Materials:

Paper World Win cardstock

Scribble Scrabble "Pine & Blue Spruce" paper

NESTABILITES: Labels One, Classic Square and Label Trio

Ribbon: A*muse (new cute dotted ribbon!)

Ink: Tim Holtz "Peeled Paint" and "Fired Brick"

CUTTLEBUG "Swiss Dots" embossing folder

Pop-Dots

HERO ARTS gems

and some of the A*MUSE 2009 Holiday collection stamps!!!

Lots of fun with layering on this one. After all the layers were assembled I took a my finger and dabbed it into the ink pad and just rubbed around the outside edge of the raised dots to color them a little differently. Gotta try something new once in a while!

My first tutorial Video!

For those who like a visual on how things are done, here is a visual first aid! A video on Flower Pounding with the CUTTLEBUG!

Now, some people have a done a far better job of making videos, so be kind....It is my first shot at videography.

Enjoy the tutorial.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUIN!!

To my youngest....

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstock

Patterned paper (some really old scraps that were already cut into the candles...really really old!)

Stickles: Yellow

CUTTLEBUG: "Diamond in the Rough" , "Birthday Wishes" and "D'vine Swirl"

INK: Tim Holtz Distress ink "Broken China"

I took some random cut pieces of white to create my "cake layers", inked up my CUTTLEBUG FOLDER and then ran them through the CUTTLEBUG. I used a little ink on the edges to darken it a bit more and then layered the pieces.

Since the card is actually bigger than the usual 1/4 cut card (this one s 5X7) to make room for ALL THOSE CANDLES..... I had to put the back layer into the CUTTLEBUG sideways. Since the design on the folder is pretty random, I didn't even bother putting the bottom half through...it is covered with the cake for the most part.

The candles are cut with an older Quick Kutz die. Did I mention I did these a Long Long time ago...like 6 or 7 years ago? See, you can hold onto things forever and still end up using them!!

Enjoy the Day

Simple geometric design.

Fun papers

Materials:

Paper: World Win cardstocks

My Mind's Eye patterned papers

Stamp: Daisy Bucket

Eyelets: Making Memories

NESTABILITIES Octagon and Squares sets

Ink: Judith "Black"

Crop-o-dile (for the eyelet setting....great for late night or early morning crafting!!)

Can't see from the photo but the center squares and the sentiment are popped up with pop dots. I have been wanting to try this geometric design for a while, but couldn't find the right color combo. These double sided papers from My Mind's Eye are perfect. They have a ton of great papers to make any project pop!

Tweet Treat

A random card with a random idea!

The card base is cut a little short so the birdies tail can hang over the edge.

Materials:

Paper: WorldWin cardstocks Deep Raspberry and Medium Meri-Gold

American Crafts

My Mind's Eye "Bloom & Grow"

Ribbon: American Crafts

BLING: Kaiser Craft (plain gems) and BASIC GREY "Bling it"

Philosophy Tags: Tim Holtz

Butterfly punch by Whale of a Punch

NESTABILITIES: Birdie and Doodle Parts

I just layered a bunch of fun colors and shapes together in this one.