Cupcake anyone!

Colored digi stamp. Spellbinders Nestibilities Floral Ovals

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Pretty in Pink

I'm trying out copics markers again on a digi stamp. The flowers are rolled of course....my favourite way to make 'em. The frame is from spellbinders: Floral Ovals Nestibililties.

Challenges: Simon Says Stamp: Anything goes

Layers of foil and ink

Here I used a layer of foil paper, embossed with the gears folder, with an added layer of alcohol inks on top. The clock is cut from card stock, also alcohol inked, and metal dial, and a car pin to center it all. The sentiment are little pewter alphabet pieces.

My apologies....all this shiny material, it didn't photograph well.

Simon Says Challenge: Layers

Layers of gold

Here we have layers of stamping, with a layer of heat embossing, and several layers of paper: congrugated paper, cardstock of various sizes.

simon says  challenge- Layers

Orange...it's not such a bad color after all

With all the different layers, handmade flowers, and colored butterfly....I'm kinda liking orange afterall.

Simon Says Challenge: Layers

Baby Book 2 ring binder

Making this one for a dear friend who has recently become a Grandmother. I used a Michaels book cover and ring package. Then added heavy, 2 sided paper for the inner pages, folded and hole punched. The paper is somewhat stronger than one sided paper, as I wanted to embellish the pages with lots of stuff, some heavier metal pieces, so it needed to be strong.

I'll post the inner pages a little later as I haven't given to her yet....but here's a peek at one.

 

 

 

 

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp - Anything but a Card

Paper Bag Mini Album - Once Apon a Time

One for the girls! Made from lunch paper bags, and lots of pretty paper.

Challenges: Simon Says = Anything Goes

Stamped cookies!! Really!!

Check this out....what a cool idea. Just had to share. The cookies itself is number 10 and 12 of the 13.

http://www.countryliving.com/cooking/entertaining/good-enough-to-eat-1206#slide-10

Textured Butterflies

Loads of texture of this card. Glitter on the base paper butterflies, and the butterflies I die cut  and then embossed each one. My viva pens added the pearls for their little bodies.

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp - Texture

Vintage 4 drawer box

I was dieing to use my old jeans for something. Finally got around to cutting some Tathered florals. I wasn't sure how this would turn out as knew I couldn't manipulate them as I do with paper. As it turns out, just using some Glue and Seal on them naturally curled them up a bit. Once I saw that was happening I thought I'd help them along a bit and used a paint brush tip and my tape dispenser. In the end they stiffened up pretty well and I was impressed enough to use them in this project:

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp - texture

Greetings from a little Birdie

There are so many things used to make this card. Tim Holtz dies for the bird and bird cage which are cut from it's own acytate packing and then alcohol inked and glittered.

The base of the flowers die cut from TH tathered florals, out of felt. The top layer of flowers hand sewn out of fabric. (each petal starts as a circle, fold it in half,  gather stitch along the straight edge and pull together to make one petal, then sew all the petals together.) 

Two types of bows, ribbon and twine.

The tag is by Spellbinders stamped with a little stamp I picked up from Michaels.

The viva pen made some easy pearls on the base of the cage and some gems to center the flowers.

All based on some K and Company paper.

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp Anything goes - Twine

Simon Says Stamp - Texture

Father's Day

I don't know what I'd do without holidays. Where would my craftiness end up otherwise?

 But I do find making something up for the guys is the most challenging. Perhaps if I just had more guy dies, embossing folders and brads etc it would be a little easier. I don't even have a sentiment stamp for Father's day so I hand wrote it..... oooh I anticipate a shopping spree lurking in the winds!!!!!

But I do have a few toys good for the boys! The guys won't know that's a flower in the middle of the gear right????

This one's an embossing folder using one of those shiny, metal looking, green paper sheets from dollarama. Gold Alcohol inked before it was run thru.

You can just barely see the lost Tim Holtz stamp on the inside of the card. Liz.... from the ATT group heard my cries over losing it and dropped  one in the mail for me.  Sent it cross the border so I could once again be a happy crafter! Bless her. She not only sent me the one stamp but a whole slew of others as well. The package barely fit in my mailbox! Hey....I just realised that they can be used for guy cards.... omg.... Liz you're the greatest!! xxxxxx

K, so I'm gonna stop posting now and go make some more guy cards for Fathers Day. I wonder how many I can get in before midnight?

Simon Says - Happy Father's Day

Graduation hat cards

This summer brings a graduation day for my oldest son.And it's times like these when I'm kinda glad I have a son and not a girl....it's waaay cheaper on the budget lol.

Recently tried a diamond fold card and discovered it looked, or could look, like a nice

graduation hat.
Here's a tut from youtube, altho there are shorter videos.... here

Very simple to make, altho I had to make my own tassels out of embroidery thread. I did steel one from a book mark, but it was red and wanted it to be black. So I dragged it thru my archival black ink pad. Not too messy a process as I used an acrylic block to push the tassel into the ink. Then I set it outside for it to dry. But the rest of them I did make from embroidery thread, of various colors and left them their original color.

 

I also had to make my own envelopes. I just used a 4 X 11 piece of card stock. Scored it for a nice crisp fold, and then some scoring just to make a simple design along to 2 edges. I opted not to glue the sides together.

Challenge: Simon Says - Summer

Match book of Paraprosdokians!

What's a paraprodokian you ask? It's a term for a figure of speech in which a sentence or phrase has an unexpected or surprising ending.

I wanted to make something that could be easily carried around and easily referenced to in case of a "I'm in need of a chuckle emergency".

So I copied the layout of a match book, cut and scored a piece of grunge paper. It got heavily inked, but didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it. In the end I had a ribbon to match, so all is well. I also tried cutting up a cereal box and glued paper to it, but it was too thick to fold like a match book ( it needs some flexibility), so I went back to the grunge paper.

I printed off these paraprokokians in different fonts and colors, and cut them out with different crazy sissors and glued them onto a cut up Space calendar. The paper from the calendar was just the right thickness and had a glossy finish to each photo of the month, so it worked out well for this project.

Here's a few of the pages.

Once all was decorated, I got out my trusty staple gun and stapled everything together at the very bottom. The ribbon hides the staple.

Lazing around in a Hammock

This kitty has the right idea for any summers day.

Challenge: Simon Says Stamp - Summer Holidays

Who Cares

Simple and to the point! Who cares....I'm Retired! So the card is simple and to the point too!

The cricut cut my frame, the computer printed the sentiments, the cuttlebug cut the roses, MS edge punch, with a simple satin ribbon, and for the inside: a pocket watch stamp and Tim Holtz " Alphabetical Dccorative strip" die for the falling numbers.

Happy Retiement Eunice!

Challenge: Simon Says - Simple