Christmas Cards

Beautiful shades of Fall!

I have to say, Fall is one my favorite times of the year.  Although living in Florida I do not get to see all of the beautiful colors of the season, however this is the time of year that our weather starts to get better and I actually enjoy going outside.

I fell in love with  Impression Obsession Die's, guess I can say I'm obsessed with them.  They have such a great collection and you can mix and match for all kinds of designs and creations.

I am entering my card in the New Impression Obsession Challenge - Shades of Fall! Check out all the great designers and Products they have to offer.  You will also be amazed and obsessed.

Supplies

Impression Obsession-Tree DIE205-YY, Squirrel DIE213-D, Grass DIE178-C,Truck DIE 218-I,Pumpkins DIE202-G, Leaves DIE 201-k

Distress Inks-Walnut Stain, Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn (background paper)

DCWV-The Pumpkin Patch (Scraps)

Neenah Solar White Cardstock- 110lb

Other papers were from Scraps, glossy Accents, Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

Holloween spooky Scene

Supplies

Lil Inkers-Frame Dies

My Creative Time-Fun Stitched Edges

My Creative Time-From our Family to yours (stars)

My Favorite Things-Witch way to the candy

Black Cardstock, Scraps for Die Cuts

Background color: Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Frayed Burlap, Broken China, Faded Blue Jeans & Black soot

Hero Hues Unicorn Pigment Ink for the stars

Haunted Halloween!

Have you seen the Haunted Forest SVG Kit yet, it's so adorable. You can find it at svgcuts. So far I have made the haunted house and just love the way it turned out.  I made 3 of them at one time, the cutting  took the longest but I did have both machines running.  I used my Silhouette and Cricut Explore.  I had fun embellishing it with mini pumpkins, skulls and ghosts.  Can you see the ghosts coming out of the chimney, so cute. I gave one to my daughter in law and my younger son's girlfriend (she's like a daughter in law).  I first asked them which one they liked(separately) and of course they both liked the same one, haha.  So when I completed them I let them make the decision of which to choose.  They Loved them. 

Supplies:

SVGCuts- Haunted Forest SVG Kit

Stampin Up-Black Cardstock

K&Co: BW Haunted Specialty Paper Pad

Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Black Soot, Dusty Concord

PaperTrey Ink-Fresh Snow White Ink

Martha Stewart Punches-Spider & Paint Dripping

Cuttle Bug-Wood Grain Embossing plate

Darice-Brick Embossing plate

My Favorite Things-Spooky Scene

Misc embellishments- pumpkins,spiders, skulls, webbing, tea lights

Thanks-Using Cover Plate Negatives

Make It Monday #177: Using Cover Plate Negatives

I was inspired by this weeks Make It Monday Challenge # 177 over at PaperTrey Ink because I usually trash my negatives or put them aside to hopefully one day use them.  Laurie Willison shows a great tip on an easy way of placing your negatives on your card for your background.  You can see it here.

Supplies

PaperTrey Ink: Vintage Cream Cardstock, Twine, Modern Cross Quilt Cover Plate

My Creative Time:Happy Thoughts Die & Stamp Set

Recollections: Crochet Embellishments

My Minds Eye: Bramble Rose (scraps)

Wood Button

 

Fishing Porthole

Supplies

My Creative Time: Surfs Up & Lost at Sea

Simon Says Stamps: Surfs Blue Ink & Soft Navy Cardstock

Memento Luxe: Nautical Blue

Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Embossing Folder

Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass & Salty Ocean

Neenah Solar White Cardstock

My Craft Spot: Sequins

Spectrum Nior Markers

A Day at the Beach

I love the way these cards came out using Lawn Fawns new Life is Good Stamp and Die Set. I just kept on making them and couldn't decide which to take photo's of, so here are a few of them.

Yes I made more......

Supplies

Watercolor Paper

PaperTrey Inc: White Cardstock

My Creative Time:Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies & Have Fun in the Sun

My Creative Time: Hey Sailor

Pink by Design: Sandy toes

Spectrum Noir Markers for the Die Cuts

Lawn Fawn: Life is Good Stamp & Dies

Distress Ink: Antique Linen, Peacock Feathers, Tumbled Glass for the background

Modern Cross Quilt Cards

Supplies

PaperTrey Inc: White Cardstock

PaperTrey Inc: Modern Cross Quilt Mini Stamp Set & Cover Plate

Simon Says Stamps: Big Hello & Various Premium Dye Inks

My Creative Time: Pretty Butterflies & Dragon Fly Dies

Vellum, Pearls, Misc scraps

Wishing you were here

Supplies

My Creative Time-Wishing you were here w/ coordinating dies, Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies

DCWV-The Spring mix stack

Versafine- Onyx Black Ink

Simon Says Stamps-Smoke & Surf Blue Dye Inc

PaperTrey Ink-White Card Stock

Set Sail

Supplies

Darkroom Door Rubber Stamps-Sail Away

Simon Says Stamps-Slate Dye Ink

Distress Ink-Antique Linen,Broken China,Tumbled Glass,Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean,

Strathmore Water Color Paper

Black Cardstock

Happy Birthday with a Zoom!!!

I used my Cricut Explore for the First time and I have to say that I am very impressed.  I have never had much luck with cutting very small pieces, and usually end up not using them or getting frustrated.  But, do you see how small those stars are on the Windshield.  The Explore had no problems at all cutting them out and they even look like....well, stars.

Recipe:

Cricut Explore, Groovy Times

Simon Says Stamps, Birthday Messages

My Creative Time, Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies

My Creative Time, Cartoon Cloud Background

PaperTrey Ink, Smoky Shadow & White

Car from Scraps

Ahoy, Mate!

Happy Birthday to my Nephew!  

Supplies Used:

K Andrew Designs: Pirate Tales & Fish Scales

My Creative Time: Fun Stitched Edges

Distress Ink: Black Soot & Tea Dye

Cricut Explore: Create a Friend, used Cricut Design Space

Always, Be, Happy

 

  

Supplies

Neenah-Smooth Classic Cream Cardstock 

Simon Says Stamps-Butterfly Drift Di

My Minds Eye-Lost and Found 2, bluch

Stampin up-Chocolate Chip

My Craft Spot-Sequins

K Anders-Sympathetic Sayings

Simon Says Stamp-Always Thinking of you, Always Die & Stamp Set,Happy Die & Stamp, Be Die & Stamp

Water Color for Cardmakers Day 2 & 3

It's your Day

I wasn't sure about day 2 and if I was able to make something as nice as the girls showed us today.  I gave it a shot and here is my card for today.  This is one of two cards I attempted, the other was not worth showing.  It came out ok, I could have done a few things differently.

I inked my block and placed it on my watercolor paper.  when I lifted it up it did leave a pool of color that I just cleaned up with a paper towel.  I stamped the outline of the larger flower with a Salty Ocean distress ink but didn't like how that came out when I tried to watercolor it.  I will be doing this card again, but without the blue outline.

Supplies

Koi Water Color

Distress Ink: Worn lipstick, Mowed Lawn, Wild Honey, Festive Berries

My Creative Time-Build a Pretty Flower, Pretty Spring Wreaths

Water Colors for Cardmakers 2014

I decided to take the Water Colors for Cardmakers class this time around since it seems to be the big thing right now.  I do not paint or watercolor so I was a little worried that my cards would not come out so nice.  I already have a few distress ink pads and markers but ended up purchasing watercolor paints and paper.  So glad I decided to try it out.  After the first two classes I got to work and found that this is so easy, and if you mess up in watercolors no one would ever notice.

This was the first card I made, well maybe second, I messed up the first one.  But I really do like the way it turned out.  I used a stamp block and placed my ink on the top portion of the block and sprayed it was a mist of water then laid it down on the watercolor paper and let the paper soak up the color.  I did the same with the rest of the colors down the page turning the last one so I could get the rounded corner on both ends.

Supplies

Distress Ink-Picked Raspberry, Dusty Concord,Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers

Simon Says Stamps-Big Hello die

Wink of Stella over the hello

Recollections-Card base

My Craft Spot-Sequins

Not too sure I like the way this card came out, but it works and perfect for a Guy Card.  I put down watercolor on the top portion of the card and laid a stencil over top while it was still wet.  I had to tape it down to my surface to keep it down and still until my paper dried.  I walked away and came back later to see the results.

Supplies

Koi Water Colors

My Creative Time-Stitched Round Tab Arrow & Tag Dies

Heidi Swapp Spray Stencil

Simon Says Stamps-You stamp set

Recollections-Card base

 Twine

On this card I used Embossing powder to get the resist effect.  My white embossing powder it a bit old and I think this card would have come out much better if my powder was newer.

Supplies

Sizzix Hero Arts-Flourish Cling Rubber Stamp

White Embossing Powder

Koi Watercolors

Simon Says Stamps-Happy Die and Stamp Set

Recollections-Card base

These are my favorite and love the way they turned out.  I will definitely be using this technique often.  I used Elmer's Cement glue to mask off the stamps, then water colored over the masking. It worked perfect....

Supplies

K Andrew-Pirate Tales & Fish Scales

My Creative Time: Bloom where you are planted

Koi Water colors

PaperTrey Ink: Kraft Cardstock

Recollections: Black Background

Twine