Bonus Glitter card

I was supposed to be making a get well soon card for my 99 year Great Uncle Bob who is recovering from getting a pacemaker put in, yeah, well I'm pretty sure THIS card is not going to cut it! ;) Bob's wife, Jerry may end up getting it.
I had someone come in this week and ask for clarification on the glitter and tape over pattern paper technique so I made up this bird in the oval panel while showing her. I decided to make it into a card instead of trashing it.
The bird panel had Be Creative tape put on it then I carefully added Glitter Ritz cool highlight glitter just to the bird oval. I left the rest sticky. I quickly flipped the panel over to remove the extra glitter then I changed things up a bit and added some Be Creative sugar beads to the rest of the panel. I tried to get a photo of this but the texture and glitter differences are best seen in real life.

I finished up the card as shown using the Sizzix bird cage die, Kaisercraft pearls and rhinestones and Bobunny flowers. The pattern papers are all by BoBunny from the Madeleine collection. I love these papers! Hope the week has started well for everyone. Thanks for stopping by.

Going batty!

Hope you have enjoyed Glitter Ritz week and perhaps some of these posts have inspired you to get out your Glitter Ritz and maybe pick up a few more colors, you can never have enough you know. I am still finding glitter on my face and it has been a week since I finished these cards! Oh well always ready for a party!
This card is my favourite and not just because I am sooooo loving Halloween this year. This card was, again, done with the burnished velvet technique and a Memory Box die called Harvest Moon. Microfine Glitter Ritz colors used: real teal, black, pumpkin spice and yellow.
Once I was finished the panel I cut out some bats (Memory Box bunch of bats die) with white cardstock and Be Creative tape and put black glitter on them as well. I finished up the card by cutting a Memory Box Picket Fence die and added a sentiment sticker from Authentique.
Thank you to every who stopped by the blog this week. If you are in the Nanaimo (BC) area stop by to see all these cards and more in person.

Twas the night before Christmas

Another quick card today featuring glitter! I used the new Graphic 45 Twas the Night before Christmas papers and stickers for this card. I took the Santa sticker and put some Be Creative tape over the top and some Glitter Ritz warm highlight over top to give it a bit more jazz. Layered everything up as shown and added a bit of May Arts ribbon and voila done!
Just a reminder if you have a Crafty Capers secret envelope NOW is the time to redeem them. The final day to bring them in is Wednesday Oct 1.

My leaping deer

This leaping deer stamp by Penny Black has been a favourite of mine for years. I think I have had it for 10 or 11 years and cannot bear to part with it I absolutely love it! I figure enough time has gone by that I can reuse on my cards this year without anyone noticing. This image was glittered using Stampendous' Stamp and Bond embossing powder, Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle and Glitter Ritz (microfine) Champagne glitter. You may have noticed that I seem to be using the Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle ink for lots of stamping this week the primary reason for that is a nice gold color that matches Glitter Ritz Champagne glitter very well and also it was on my desk and I was a bit rushed last week and did not want to take the time to root through my inks for another color! I will give you a couple of quick tips on using Stamp and Bond power - 1. use an ink color similar to your glitter color so if some of the glitter does not stick you are not missing any noticable parts of your image and 2. don't overcook your powder - once it turns clear it is done - stop! (really, stop!). I hand cut out the deer however Penny Black has released a leaping deer die I have the die on order and I am first in line for it when it arrives at the store! I finished up this card with a Darice snowflake fram embossing folder, May Arts ribbon and some Quickie Glue pen and more Champagne glitter around the edge of the card. I have given you a close up of the deer so you can see all it's sparkly goodness! Happy Friday everyone!

Christmas is coming

3 months today until Christmas! Crazy! Now might be a good time get started on your cards if you have not already. I have made a good start now just need to keep the momentum up which gets me every year!
This card done with the newer Memory Box die Clairmont ornaments and the burnished velvet technique. I used the Glitter Ritz colors (microfine) fire red, bronze, champagne, moss green and warm highlight. I also added touches of glitter around my sentiment (Penny Black, stamped with Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle) using my Sakura Quickie Glue pen and glitter strips with my 5mm Be Creative tape. I mounted my ornamnts on a piece of Graphic 45 paper cut out with a Spellbinder die. I used an Elizabeth Craft embossing folder on my background.
Thank you for stopping by. Our Glitter Ritz week is not yet over so be sure to keep stopping by.

Classy and Elegant

(also quick and dirty!). This card is super easy but looks like a million dollars!
I began with a white cardstock panel and cut out the Memory Box Dazzling Snowflake die (it cuts out holes in the shape of a snowflake not an actual snowflake) then I put a big piece of Be Creative tape on the back side of the die cut. I added Gliter Ritz (Microfine) Champagne glitter to the tape through the holes of the white cut out.
I added 5mm strips of Be Creative tape to the top and bottom of the white cardstock on the good side then added champagne glitter to those as well.
I mounted the glittery cardstock to my main cardstock leaving a space at the bottom for my Hero Arts sentiment stamped with Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle ink.
I cut a bunch of these out during my demo so managed to get quite a few Christmas cards started - yeah me! :)

Glitter Ritz Day 2!

Happy Tuesday everyone. Hope your week has started off well.
Today I am showing off another card I made during last weekend's Glitter Ritz demo. The ornament has been done in glitter using the burnished velvet technique. I used 2 Memory Box dies Traditional Ornament and the, brand new, Holly Bouquet die. I used the Glitter Ritz colors: moss green, merlot, regal red (ultra fine, the other colors are microfine) and champagne. The pine die is the new Memory Box Forest Pine Branch. The designer paper is from Teresa Collins' Tinsel and Co line. The sentiment is by Penny Black, ribbon by May Arts. Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for another sample.

Glitter Demo on Saturday!

Just a reminder that Crafty Capers's free September demo is happening this Saturday 10:00 - 12:30. The topic is glitter! Now who does not like that - especially this time of year?

We will be covering burnished velvet, stencils and glitter, glue pens and glitter and dies. We will probably get off topic, as we often do, and cover more than that!
This card is one of my glitter samples.
Products used: TCW 6x6 star stencil, Glitter Ritz Microfine glitter, IO deer die, Penny Black sentiment and Memory Box garden sprig die. Hope to see you all there!
Just a reminder Saturday is the last day to pick up your Secret envelopes. A minimum $10 purchase gets you one!

Thank You

During our trip to England we stayed with quite a few rellies so I was busy making thank you cards before we left so you will be seeing quite a few over the next little while.
This one I made 2 of so there is one for viewing at Crafty Capers at the moment the other one is now residing in Twickenham near London.
Easy peasy card - I embossed my main card with a Craft Concepts embossing folder. I stamped a Hero Arts thank you stamp with Memento Bamboo Leaves ink (love this color!). Then I used an Elizabeth Craft black peel off on Be Creative tape and Warm Highlight Glitter Ritz glitter. I colored the image with my Copic markers. I colored an extra tulip petal and popped it up with foam mounting tape for some extra dimension. Loved how simple this card is yet looks so elegant.
Thanks everyone for stopping by and hope everyone has a great weekend!

Glitter card & Coffee and a Card tomorrow!

I did a glitter demo over the weekend at the store and this tree was done with a technique with Sakura Glaze pens and glitter. I was so enthralled with this cute tree I decided to finish my coloring and make it into a card. The card was very quick to make as the tree is quite small so you can color it up quickly.
The tree is an Elizabeth Craft Design Peel Off sticker and as I previously said was colored with Sakura Glaze gel pens on top of Glitter Ritz Microfine Warm Highlight glitter. I cut the vanilla frame with my paper cutter and Spellbinder square dies. The sentiment is by Hero Arts and was stamped with Hero Art Regal Red ink (Love this color). For a bit of extra sparkle I used my new clear Wink of Stella brush pen on the word "holiday". Pattern paper is by Authentique.
Just a reminder we have a final Coffee and a Card make and take tomorrow (Monday) at Crafty Capers 10:30 am - 1:00 pm. Cost is $2 and/or a food donation. All monies and food will go to Nanaimo's Hamperville food bank. Please bring your basic class kit with you to class. I understand the demand for Christmas hampers is higher than ever this year so every little bit of money or food will help. Thank you in advance!

Glitter Demo Today

Just a reminder there is a free glitter demo at Crafty today 10:30 - 12:30 pm.
I have been playing with Echo Park's Tis the Season paper, recently, (LOVE it) and came up with this card. As always, glitter is not the greatest to photograph however the black and white paper was unsparkly now it is all sparkly and frosty looking. The poinsettia (Spellbinders) has a nice shimmer to it as well as I used my new red Wink of Stella pen on it to give it some extra jazz! I will be showing the joys of these pens in the demo as well!
Hope to see you a the demo but if not just a reminder Crafty is having a Hamperville Food Bank fundraiser on Monday. For the price of $2 and/or a food donation you can make 1 card (Christmas) designed by Kathy. Please bring your basic class kit with you. Hope everyone has had an amazing week. :)

Cards for Cancer fundraiser

Crafty Capers is having a Cards for Cancer fundraiser next weekend. Our classes are all sold out however we are still taking registration for class kits. Each class kit is $4.00 and all monies will be going to Ovarian Cancer Canada.
These card kits will be fairly simple you will need to provide your own adhesive, scissors and, in some cases, coloring materials and glitter but all the papers and embellishments will be cut and provided for you in your kit along with instructions. Deadline to register for these kits is tomorrow, Saturday Sept 28. Please contact the store if you are interested. There are 8 kits in total.
Saturday Oct 5 is coincidently, World Card Day it might be a fun to order some card kits, gather some friends have a mini party while making up your cards on that day!
Here is my "Saturday" Cards for Cancer card. Fairly simple, I used a new Wrapped in Joy Couture Creations embossing folder, a Stampendous clear sentiment, a Dee's tree die with Glitter Ritz plus some little Memory Box bird dies.
 Special thanks goes to Sharron L for helping me out with this card as well as cutting out all the birds for the kits.

A snowy day

I've been busy working on Christmas/Winter card samples with some of the new product that has been arriving recently. I have wanted to play with the new Memory Box Swirling Snowflakes die ever since it came in back in July and finally, I set some time aside to play with it.
I began by cutting the die out with Silver Mirrorcard. I needed the metal shim to cut it in my Big Shot but it cut out beautifully!!! Then I stamped the Stampendous Polar Ride stamp on Bazzill cardstock and colored it with my Tombow markers then cut the image out. I found a blue card base and cut a piece of Be Creative tape to fit the front of the card (4.25x5.5) and put it on the card front. I carefully laid down the snowflake die cut then I added Cool Highlight Glitter Ritz over the remaining exposed tape for a sparkly sky. I stamped the sentiment by Hero Arts on a leftover bit the same color as my main card (unglittered) and attached it as shown then I mounted my polar bears. Really happy with how this card turned out and happy I got to reuse an older Christmas stamp from a few years back.
Just a reminder that Crafty Capers will be having a Glitter Ritz free demo, tomorrow, Wednesday Sept 11 @1 pm. No need to preregister just drop in between 1 and 3 pm it is recommended you bring a notebook to jot down all the glitter tips and techniques.

Glitter Demo sample

I've got a (free) Glitter demo next Wednesday 1:00 - 3:00 pm at the store so I made some time to work on samples today. The tree is made from two Dee's Distinctively dies (Tree Silhouette and Tree Overlay #1) using the Burnished Velvet technique coincidently developed by Dee, herself and her friend Haroldine. I used Microfine Champagne and Ultrafine Emerald Glitter Ritz glitter and Be Creative tape to create the colors on the tree. The background is a stamp by Hero Arts (star also by Hero Arts) stamped with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink. The Joy is made with an alphabet by Memory Box and covered with more Ultrafine Emerald Glitter Ritz.
Special thanks to my "color consultant" for this card, Marilyn!
Hope everyone is having a great week!

Happy, Happy!

We changed out our window display last week the theme for this month is birthday with an orange and green color theme. We did not have a lot of cards with that color theme around the store so I made this guy to fill in a blank space in the display.
This card uses an Elizabeth Craft Peel Off (funky cakes), Glitter Ritz glitter (black, light copper, celedon & cayenne), Bazzill and Kaisercraft papers, a Leisure Craft embossing folder, Cheery Lynn birthday die, Spellbinder classic ovals dies, a Hero Arts "happy" stamp and finally a Sakura Quickie Glue pen to add some dots of glitter around the sentiment.
Stop by the store to see the new window display and see this card in person.

Peel Off Poppies & Glitter Ritz

I have been doing quite a bit with Glitter Ritz over the past few weeks. Here is one one of my projects I started during my recent Glitter Ritz demo and made into a card. BTW the glitter demo will be repeated again on Wednesday Sept 11 (1:00 -3:00 pm) for those who missed it the first time round.
For this card I used Warm Highlight Glitter Ritz with a Elizabeth Craft Peel Off and then it was colored with Sakura Glaze Pens. The swirls are a Memory Box tree die (yes, no kidding!). The chevron embossing folder is by Sizzix and the sentiment is by Stampendous.
Hope everyone is having a great summer! It has been a very busy one for me so far but that is OK!

Peel Off sample

Thanks to everyone who made it to the Peel Off demo on Saturday. Hope you all learned lots I had fun showing you some of the Peel Off techniques out there.

Here is one of the samples I showed during the demo. I used the Elizabeth Craft Peel Offs as a mask on Be Creative tape along with Glitter Ritz glitter. The Happy Birthday sentiment is also an Elizabeth Craft Peel Off.
Cord is by May Arts.
Glitter Ritz colors used: Ocean Spray, Mystique (limited edition color), Merlot, Celadon, Ice Blue, Grasshopper, Fire Red and Liberty Blue.
Stop by Crafty Capers to see this sample in person, as with most sparkly samples, it looks better in person.
Oh and heads up, next free Saturday demo is Saturday May 11 10:30 - 12:30. The demo will be done by Cheryl and will feature Distress Stains. :)

Peel Off Demo

Next Saturday, April 13 10:30 - 12:30, is Crafty Capers April Free demo! Drop by between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm and learn how to make this card using Peel Off stickers as your main image. Peel Off stickers are not only very versatile but also inexpensive too!
This card uses Glitter Ritz glitter, Be Creative tape, a Hero Arts stamp, glossy cardstock and Adirondack dye inks.
Hope to see you at the demo!

Merry Monday Challenge

Lesley over at Always Playing with Paper has weekly "Merry Monday" challenges to get people motivated on making Christmas cards each week so there is no last minute panic. Well I am having a last minute panic because I did not participate in enough of her challenges this year! Here are my entries for this week's sketch. Both are done with black Elizabeth Craft Design Peel Offs and both were colored on top of Glitter Ritz Warm Highlight with my Sakura Glaze pens and Copic markers. The tree card has some red Mirror cardstock behind the trees and a SRM sticker at the bottom of the card. I used my Sakura Glue Pen to add some Fire Red Glitter Ritz in each scallop of the card.

The poinsettia card is also Peel Off stickers. For this card I masked off a strip on my main cardstock and stippled Peeled Paint and Gathered Twig Distress ink then stamped my Hero Arts cling Holiday Background stamp also with Peeled Paint ink. I removed my mask then stamped my Hero Arts sentiment with Fired Brick Distress ink and added my ribbon and cut out poinsettias.

Thanks everyone for stopping by!

Joy!

On a mad scramble to start/finish my Christmas cards! This one came together pretty quick so will probably be making a few more of these. I began with some gunmetal Stardream cardstock I embossed some Hero Arts snowflakes on the main card with Crafty Capers Silver Dollar embossing powder. I stamped a Art Stamp (Glitter Ritz) Joy stamp with Versafine Deep Lagoon ink then embossed it with some Stampendous Stamp and Bond embossing powder. This powder turns sticky after you heat it so you can add glitter over the image. In this case, I used Mistique Glitter Ritz glitter over top of the joy word. I thought the O need some more color so I used my Quickie Glue pen and added some Fire Red Glitter Ritz "berries" . I used my new Impression Obsession snowflake to cut out a silver snowflake for an embellishment at the upper left corner of my card.
I am not happy with my vellum adhesive so will play with that a bit for the next card(s).
Thanks everyone for stopping by!