Guest Designer Linda & Carley

The store had a  few weeks of a special sales associate in June - Carley boxer and her Mom Linda were over for a few weeks and helped out around the store while Carley was helping the customers Linda was making cards. Here is one of her creations using the new My Mind's Eye paper Follow Your Heart. Love it.
Linda also used a Craft Concepts embossing folder, Just Rite sentiment, Spellbinder dies and May Arts Twill ribbon.
Thanks everyone for stopping by!

Mr. and Mrs.

Another card for the wedding display today. I love the white on white with a touch of blue.
I stamped the sentiments (Just Rite) on a teeny tiny scrap of white cardstock (glad I kept that!) then cut out a mat from the Spellbinder set Twisted Metal Tags and Accents then added another mat with my Spellbinder Fleur di lis squares. I cut out a swirl with my Sizzix die Vine with Leaves then smooshed my Perfect Medium ink pad all over it. I then dusted Pearl Perfect Pearl powder all over the wet ink to add some shimmer to the swirl. I did the same thing with 2 white paper flowers by Hero Arts. I added some Hero Arts rhinestones. I embossed the main cardstock with the Craft Concepts embossing folder.
Hope this card provides some inspiration!

Stencils

I thought I would pull out my Dreamweaver stencils last week and have a play with them since it has been a while. I ended up using a few stamps as well.
I began this card by sponging ink through the "fern" stencil I used the colors Memento Bamboo leaves, Versamagic Key Lime and Brillance Pearlescent thyme once I was happy with the color I used a piece of ripped from the recycling bin as a mask so I could stamp my Penny Black script stamp with my Hero Arts Soft Sand ink in the areas not covered by the stencil.
I finished off the card by stamping a Just Rite (cling) frame and sentiment stamp with the Brillance Pearlescent thyme ink then cut it out with my new Spellbinder Labels 18 die. I added some Hero Arts pearls to the card to finish it off.
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Fabulous Birthday

One of my sister's is having a birthday in the next few days. We are having the family party tomorrow evening so I had to come up with a card for her somehow I got off an a completely different track and ended up making a very cute little gift card box instead. LOL. Thankfully, I had already decided to get her a gift card so I didn't have to rethink my gift since I had already sent my hubby out for it since I am still not particularly mobile due to my ankle. The colors in this picture are a bit off trust me everything matches.

I bought a new Sizzix die this week called Scoreboard XL die Business Card box and decided to pull it out of the package! I discovered that this die works best with thicker paper I'd say 100lb or thicker, of course, I did not have any handy except boring old white so I glued to sheets of 65lb together. The patterned paper is by DCWV and is from an old 8x8 pack the inside of the box is Coredinations cardstock. I decorated the front of the box with a small frame from the Just Rite Stampers set "You Inspire Me". The inside sentiment is from the same set. I pulled out another new Sizzix die as well for this project the 3D Flower die. I used it to cut some wool felt to make a rolled rose. Love how that turned out! I could not find my velcro to use as a fastener for the box so settled for some ribbon from my stash. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Yvette!

One of my good friends is having a birthday today unfortunately, one of her dogs went to the Rainbow Bridge yesterday so she probably is not feeling like celebrating as much as she would normally. :( The main image is by Penny Black. I had to use a Penny Black image as Yvette and I both are in LOVE with Penny Black stamps! I colored the image with my Tombow markers on watercolor cardstock. I matted everything as shown (Bazzill cardstock and My Mind's Eye). The sentiment is by Just Rite. The ribbon is by Offray that I bought before I started the store I must have known I would need those exact colors 10 years (or more) later! The final step on the card was to add some Stampendous Fun Flock on the the sheep and cow and some Stickles glitter glue on the gals accessories!

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Butterfly Garden

Managed to get a quick card made over the weekend and judging by my theme I'd say perfect timing since it seems (fingers crossed) summer has finally arrived in the Pacific North West!
I began by stamping Butterfly Garden stamp set by Just Rite on a piece of My Minds Eye Lime Twist paper (flowery side) I colored the butterfly with my Tombow markers (colors used: 528, 985, 391 and N00). I used my Spellbinder circles to cut out the image. I stamped the sentiment (also in the Just Rite set) on a piece of coordinating blue cardstock.
I matted everything as shown using the back side of the My Minds Eye paper I used to stamp the image on. I think I have mentioned how much I LOVE this blue wood grain pattern!! I added some yellow butterfly eyelets which I have had forever but are still available! To finish off the butterfly I used some yellow Liquid Pearls and faded jeans Stickles by Ranger.
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Burnished Velvet Sizzix style

I managed a few minutes to play with the Sizzix Ink It plates with Be Creative tape and Glitter Ritz this week. Love how it turned out! More subtle than the Fun Flock but still lovely. I cut out a frame with my Spellbinder Labels 1 and Classic Ovals then applied some Be Creative tape over the whole thing and added Mystique glitter from the limited edition Mardi Gras glitter pack. Then I pulled out my Sizzix Ink It plate and applied Versamagic Cloud White ink to the plate. I ran the sandwich through my Cuttlebug machine. I got this subtle burnished velvet look. I stamped some clear Hero Arts leaves in the middle of my frame with Memento Bahama Blue ink. Added a Just Rite sentiment (Victorian Sentiments) and a green border using my NEW Parisian Accents Spellbinder set. I thought the green border needed something so I took my Tombow Glue pen and added some Mystique glitter dots on the border to tie it in a bit better. Thanks everyone for looking.

Happy Anniversary

Well finally got my anniversary card done for DH. Its our 8th anniversary tomrrow! Where does the time go?
I think the card turned out fairly good not spectacular but good. I am happy I managed to incorporate our blue and seashell wedding themes into the card. The wording does stand out better in real life. Pretty straight forward card.
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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Just Rite Stampers Baroque Frames & Hero Arts Antique Engravings
Paper: Bazzill, Stardream and My Minds Eye
Ink: Brillance Sky Blue and Versafine Smokey Grey
Other: Spellbinder labels 14, Corner Chomper, ribbon

Blue Birthday

Well its been quite  week for me busy in the store and my car's ABS system has bitten the du$t! Didn't help my already lacking mojo however a friend was kind enough to bring some of her magazines to borrow to give that old mojo a jump start. I still have at least 1 more man birthday card to make in the next few weeks but here is one more. I'm very happy with how this card turned out.
I cut a circle card out using my Spellbinder scalloped circles then cut out a smooth circle and embossing it with one of the NEW Couture Creations embossing folders called Royalty. Love it! I took a Hero Arts clear branch stamp and applied 3 blue Tombow markers directly to the stamp and sprayed with water then stamped the image onto a scrap of cream linen cardstock. I cut out the image and then assembled the card as shown. As you can see I am using more of the Lime Squeeze designer paper, this time the blue wood grain pattern - love that as well!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!
Card Recipe:
Stamps Hero Arts, Just Rite ribbed Happy Birthday
Tombow markers: 391, 373, 476
Paper: Bazzill and My Minds Eye
Ink: Archival Jet Black
Other: Couture Creations Royalty embossing folder, Robin's Nest dew drops, Spellbinder scalloped and smooth circles

Peacocks oh my!

I'm on a peacock kick at the moment. I just keep coming up with yet another idea to do with this stamp!
This card was done with the magic reveal embossing technique (see previous embossing posts for the technique). I began by stamping the Hero Arts Dictionary Greetings stamp all over a piece of white cardstock with Ranger's (dye) Esspresso ink. Let it dry then stamped the peacock over top of the writing with Versamark ink and clear  embossing powder. I had planned to color the peacock with my Tombow markers but when I had cooked the embossing powder I found I could not see the open areas well enough for any coloring (my eye is STILL bad) so I took my finger daubers and rubbed Brillance Sky Blue, Adirondack Denim and Adirondack Stonewash ink over the entire piece that popped up the imaged quickly!
I did end up adding some extra color to some areas with my Tombow markers. I cut the piece of cardstock down to a more managable size and added some more Espresso ink to the edges of the cardstock. I attached my peacock piece to a main card. The cardstock was left over from my heat embossing demo back in Feb?? the stripes are Be Creative tape and Crafty Capers Teddy Bear embossing powder. I added a Just Rite sentiment stamped in Espresso ink and matted onto a Just Rite Spellbinder die. I added a gold brad distressed just a bit with Espresso Alcohol ink to finish off the card.
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Mini Book for a Birthday

My MIL's birthday is this weekend and it seems to be a tradition in the Wild family to find English candy they ate in their youth. This year my husband is quite pleased with himself because he managed to find some Fry's Chocolate Cream chocolate bars in a few flavors for his Mum. He has noticed that I am on a box making kick so asked if I could make something to hold the chocolate bars. I was happy to oblige. :)

I decided to make a mini book, I guess you could call it, with pockets to hold the 4 bars as well as a pocket for the gift card which is the main part of my MIL's present.

I began the project by cutting a front and back cover (4.5x7.5) out of designer paper. The designer paper had a scalloped border all around it so I made sure to keep some for the edges of my book. I actually cut 2 front cover and 2 back covers and glued them together since the designer paper I chose was only single sided but since my MIL loves owls the paper was a must! I stamped the "happy definition" on a matching piece of solid cardstock and matted it on a piece of gold paper then added it to the front cover. I made a medallion out of a piece of ribbon (Magenta) I had kicking around, I finished the medallion off with a button and a large gem in the center. I added a gem to the bottom of the cover as well. I thought the cover needed a little more so I stamped the birch trees out of a scrap of cardstock and cut it out. I also stamped an owl from the same set as the birch tree set and cut him out. I attached both to the front of the book with some Tombow Mono Multi glue. I wanted some of the definition words to pop a little more so added some Glossy Accents over the words Happy, Birthday, Celebrate and Party. The owl's eyes also got some Glossy Accents. My Glossy Accents were still wet when I took my photos but when it dries it is perfectly clear and raised.

I left the inside front cover blank except for a stamped owl.

I made 4 pockets for the pages of the book (9x7") by cutting the cardstock and folding each piece in half and gluing the long edge. I was a bit cheap with my glue so when I put the chocolate bars in some of the seams burst so had to re-do some of my glue. If you are copying me make sure you don't cheap out on the glue. :) I stamped and decorated each page a shown with Stampendous stamps and by doodling with my Tombow gel pen.

I finished the inside back cover by adding a pocket for the gift card and stamping the sentiment and added the "mum" banner along the middle of the pocket.

I left the back outside cover blank with just the owl paper showing.

I pulled out my trusty Bind It All machine and bound everything together to make my book. Thanks for stopping by!

Card Recipe:

Tools: Bind It All & 1 inch wires

Stamps: Hero Arts Dictionary Greetings (Cl479) & Find Joy (Cl497), Stampendous Bday Messages (SSC180), Mega Happy (SSC115) & Birch Buddies (SSC1055), JustRite Myriad Pro font

Inks: Memento tuxedo black

Papers: My Mind's Eye, Bazzill & Paper Cut

Other: Tombow markers (977 & 990), Ranger Glossy Accents, Magenta Marayma ribbon, Autumn Leaves button, Kaisercraft gems

Easter Greetings

I made this card a while back when I was playing with stencils but thought it was just tooo early to be posting an Easter card just a few days after Valentines day so I have saved the goodness for a month or so.

This card was done with the double glitter technique because I love the look of the finished product!

It was a little fiddly getting the different colors on the eggs without contaminating the other area but well worth it.

I used my handy dandy Just Rite Myriad Pro font to spell out the Happy Easter sentiment. Thanks for stopping by!

Card Recipe:

Stencil: Dreamweaver Egg border

Glitter: Glitter Ritz & Stampendous

Tape: Be Creative

Paper: Bobunny Double Dot & Bazzil

Ink: Brillance Pearlescent Purple

Other: Tombow Glue Pen, Just Rite font for saying

Die Cut Challenge

I thought I would give everyone a break from heat embossing cards this week and pop a card I did for Glenda's die cut challenge this week.

Glenda challenged us to use at least 2 die cuts on our projects. I figured it would be a tough one for me, I mean really, a card with virtually no stamping! Shocking!!

What helped inspire me was my new Sizzix die Vine with leaves. What a fun die!

I used my Spellbinder scalloped circles to make my flower. I added some white dots and highlights with my White Tombow gel pen.

The sentiment is by Just Rite Birthday Centers. More heat embossing cards later this week.

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Demo card #1

Thanks to all the crafty gals who attended my heat embossing demo at Crafty Capers on Saturday. As promised I will be posting the cards all this week with instructions for those who saw the demo but have forgotten some key steps or for those who could not make the demo.

This was the first card I demoed. It was done with basic heat embossing.

I stamped the large stamp on red cardstock with my Versamark ink pad then applied Crafty Capers Silver Dollar embossing powder and heated the powder until it melted. I just want to point out that this stamp is solid except for the red parts you can see the red parts are the cardstock I stamped on. I then stamped a Just Rite sentiment in grey ink, matted everything, tied a bow and voila done! For more cards with this large stamp look a few weeks back on this blog for the "wedding invitations" I used this same stamp (that's why I decided to make this an anniversary card).

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Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts Large Fabric Design (LOVE this stamp), Just Rite Baroque Nested Frames

Ink: Versamark and Versafine Smoke Grey

Cardstock: Bazzil

Other: Ribbon May Arts

More wedding prototypes

Here are the rest of the wedding stuff I made up the other day. In the photo are a wedding invitation, mini tissue holder for happy tears, a favour for treats at the reception and the congratulations card I showed the other day.

I won't go into the supplies I used since it is all listed in the last post except I did use a Hero Arts Small Solid flower for the tissue holder.

Very happy with how these turned out. :) And I am loving the Just Rite alphabets I used it again on a card to be posted later this week. Very useful!

Thanks for looking!

Wedding prototypes

I've been meaning to make some wedding invitation samples for the store since now is the time I tend to see brides wandering in wanting to make their own invitations but need inspiration . Then I got asked to make some samples for a local magazine. That sure gave me a kick in the pants!

I decided to go with a grey, white and red theme for the first set of samples. Coincidently one of my husband's co-workers just got engaged and he wanted a congratulations card for the happy couple so I've used Karen and Greg as my bride and groom for my first set of samples. I even set their wedding date for May 15 although I was told later that they are getting married in Sept! I managed to make this congratulations card, an invitation, and 2 wedding favours all in this color theme.

The background for this card was stamped with Versafine Smokey Grey ink on grey paper. I completely LOVE how this background stamp stamps! Works perfectly every time which is not always the case with more solid type stamps. So glad I splurged and bought it.

I pulled out some of my new Just Rite stamps including one of the font sets to personalize all the items I made. Love it! I didn't think I would use the font sets much but I must say it has come in handy for a project like this! The set I used is called Myriad Pro 50 pt by Just Rite.

I matted my congratulations piece onto 2 Big Classic Rectangle Spellbinder dies. The flower is done with Be Creative tape and covered with Stampendous Chili Pepper red Fun Flock.

I didn't get a chance to photograph the other items I created today but hope to tomorrow.

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Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts Large Fabric Design, Just Rite Stampers Myriad Pro 50 pt (font), Baroque Nested Frames, All Occasion Nested Sentiments

Ink: Versafine Smokey Grey, Brillance Rocket Red

Spellbinder: Big Classic Scalloped Rectangles, Flower Creations

Other: ribbon and Stampendous Chili Red Fun Flock, Be Creative double sided tape

Fairy Dust

Ok if someone had told me I would be excited about a fairy stamp 3 months ago I would have laughed until I fell out of my chair. Well, I am shocked to say I LOVE these Just Rite cling fairy stamps! Love 'em!

For those who missed them at the shop on Saturday or who have not been in over the past few days. We still have 1 set of these beauties left in stock!

I stamped the images with Versafine Onyx black and used my watercolor pencils on them. I then cut out the fairy image and matted it on a Spellbinder label. I matted the fairy image again on 2 green Labels 6 cutouts leftover from the make and take on Saturday. I used a dark Cordination cardstock and embossed it with my Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder then sanded it to reveal the lighter inner core of the cardstock. I thought it looked like stars. I made the fairy wings by stamping the wings on a piece of acetate with Memories dye black ink then I used Diamond Stickles on the wings to give them a nice sparkle. I cut them out once they were dry. They would have been more sparkly but I accidently put a piece of paper on top of the drying wings - whoops! Luckily I noticed before much harm was done. I've included a close up of the wings for inquiring minds. :) I attached them with Ranger's Glossy Accents.

This post is fairly long for me hope I covered everything OK. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me.

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