Hi I am very busy making cards today for the Paper Crafts magazine call....I've never done this before either....so please wish me luck. I am taking advantage of the kids being home and it being freezing cold out. anyhow, I follow this INCREDIBLE blog. It gets delivered to my e-mail every morning. It's loaded with eye-candy and total inspiration and it has something for everyone. I URGE you strongly to go visit it. It's called Today's Creative Blog
If you belong to Pinterest you are going to be doing lots of pinning! Have fun! I'll be back later this week with something to share :)
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Just sitting here thinking of you
Good Monday morning! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend. I spent my weekend in my jammies making cards! The kids were all off at friends houses and it left me so much free time! I could get used to it!! lol
I had this card in my head. I just needed to make sure I executed it properly so that it was all proportioned right and everything was in comparable scale to one another.
I love this Whiff of Joy stamp. I really wanted to use it to represent me in the card for my sweet friend who is going through a lot right now. Willow looks a lot like I did when I was younger.
The Hero Arts chair was too small for Willow to sit in, as was the table. So I stamped them on plain white paper, scanned them into my computer and made digital brushes out of the chair and table so that they would be the same scale as Willow. It worked beautifully. I also scanned Willow in so that I could sit her in the chair as I increased it size to make sure it all worked.
When I had everything proportioned correctly I printed it out. I colored them in and designed the room. For the table I printed it in black then I covered it in Distress Rock Candy Crackle paint. I love the subtle effect it left. For the picture frames I stamped the puppy and kitten and then colored them in. I cut it down to fit in the concho and then covered them with Glossy Accents so it looked like real picture frames. I also found a little clock face that fit perfectly in the circle concho. I drew little hands on it with a Souffle pen it worked beautifully on the plastic face of the clock. I stamped the flowers/vase and cut them out (a big ole pain...but so worth it) and then covered them in glossy accents too.
I used Basic Grey Nook & Pantry paper for the background. I stamped the Hero Arts wood grain stamp for the floor. I also wanted a picture on the side wall. I just stamped a Hero Arts Butterfly stamp repeatedly in different color distress inks and then cut it on an angle so that it looked like it was on a side wall. I used a gold leaf pen to create the frame of it.
That's it. It was kind of a lot of work but my friend is so very worth it.
Have a GREAT Monday! :)
Cheers
Supplies used:
Carstock: Martha Stewart note card (5x7), The Paper Company (kraft), Absolutely Everything (white that was printed on...my lss)
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Stamps: Hero Arts (CL480 Chair, table, Quote, CL491 Butterfly, CL484 dog and kitten, S5208 Woodgrain, S5507 envelope pattern) Whiff of Joy
Ink: Momenta, Memories, Distress by Ranger
Paint: Distress Crackle by Ranger
Embossing powder: Stampendous
Colored Pencils: Prismacolor
Markers: Copic
Other: Clock face, Heidi Swapp; Conchos, Scrapworks, Gold Leaf Pen, Krylon
Adhesive; Glossy Accents, Tombow
I had this card in my head. I just needed to make sure I executed it properly so that it was all proportioned right and everything was in comparable scale to one another.
I love this Whiff of Joy stamp. I really wanted to use it to represent me in the card for my sweet friend who is going through a lot right now. Willow looks a lot like I did when I was younger.
The Hero Arts chair was too small for Willow to sit in, as was the table. So I stamped them on plain white paper, scanned them into my computer and made digital brushes out of the chair and table so that they would be the same scale as Willow. It worked beautifully. I also scanned Willow in so that I could sit her in the chair as I increased it size to make sure it all worked.
When I had everything proportioned correctly I printed it out. I colored them in and designed the room. For the table I printed it in black then I covered it in Distress Rock Candy Crackle paint. I love the subtle effect it left. For the picture frames I stamped the puppy and kitten and then colored them in. I cut it down to fit in the concho and then covered them with Glossy Accents so it looked like real picture frames. I also found a little clock face that fit perfectly in the circle concho. I drew little hands on it with a Souffle pen it worked beautifully on the plastic face of the clock. I stamped the flowers/vase and cut them out (a big ole pain...but so worth it) and then covered them in glossy accents too.
I used Basic Grey Nook & Pantry paper for the background. I stamped the Hero Arts wood grain stamp for the floor. I also wanted a picture on the side wall. I just stamped a Hero Arts Butterfly stamp repeatedly in different color distress inks and then cut it on an angle so that it looked like it was on a side wall. I used a gold leaf pen to create the frame of it.
That's it. It was kind of a lot of work but my friend is so very worth it.
Have a GREAT Monday! :)
Cheers
Supplies used:
Carstock: Martha Stewart note card (5x7), The Paper Company (kraft), Absolutely Everything (white that was printed on...my lss)
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Stamps: Hero Arts (CL480 Chair, table, Quote, CL491 Butterfly, CL484 dog and kitten, S5208 Woodgrain, S5507 envelope pattern) Whiff of Joy
Ink: Momenta, Memories, Distress by Ranger
Paint: Distress Crackle by Ranger
Embossing powder: Stampendous
Colored Pencils: Prismacolor
Markers: Copic
Other: Clock face, Heidi Swapp; Conchos, Scrapworks, Gold Leaf Pen, Krylon
Adhesive; Glossy Accents, Tombow
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger
So this is my first time doing a Tuesday trigger over at the Moxie Fab World blog. Every week I look at them and say "I'm going to do that" and I never do...so this week I DID! Here is the trigger:
Now you might be thinking...."what the hell is she drinking?" and "pour me a tall glass of it" but I was having a bad day. It was gray and gloomy and all I wanted was sunshine, birds chirping and lush green trees and spring colors all around me. Then I saw this picture. The angels sang. I imagined myself sitting on that daybed with the sunlight beaming in from gorgeous french doors, that you can't see, that lead out to a beautiful deck full of flowers with the lush green trees out the window (that you can see) And with that my friends....I created this card:
So if you haven't joined the Moxie Fab World challenge yet...I urge you to. I have never made a card so quickly before. The entire thing just came together and I had a sketch down in seconds. Enjoy!
May Spring be knocking on all our doors very soon!
Michelle
Supplies used:
Notecard: Hero Arts
Journal Card: My Mind's Eye
Bird Images: Print and Cuts, House of 3 for Silhouette America
Flowers: Hero Arts
Stamp: Hero Arts
Gems & bling : Kaiser (pearsls) Bling--Unknown
Punch: Martha Stewart )(butterfly)
Adhesive: Glue Dots, Tombow
Now you might be thinking...."what the hell is she drinking?" and "pour me a tall glass of it" but I was having a bad day. It was gray and gloomy and all I wanted was sunshine, birds chirping and lush green trees and spring colors all around me. Then I saw this picture. The angels sang. I imagined myself sitting on that daybed with the sunlight beaming in from gorgeous french doors, that you can't see, that lead out to a beautiful deck full of flowers with the lush green trees out the window (that you can see) And with that my friends....I created this card:
So if you haven't joined the Moxie Fab World challenge yet...I urge you to. I have never made a card so quickly before. The entire thing just came together and I had a sketch down in seconds. Enjoy!
May Spring be knocking on all our doors very soon!
Michelle
Supplies used:
Notecard: Hero Arts
Journal Card: My Mind's Eye
Bird Images: Print and Cuts, House of 3 for Silhouette America
Flowers: Hero Arts
Stamp: Hero Arts
Gems & bling : Kaiser (pearsls) Bling--Unknown
Punch: Martha Stewart )(butterfly)
Adhesive: Glue Dots, Tombow
Thursday, February 10, 2011
love u
I have a quick easy card to share tonight. I really wanted to do red hearts on kraft and I did just that. :)
I stamped the Hero Arts heart with Versamark repeatedly, added red embossing powder and heated it. I punched a strip of white cardstock with a Martha Stewart punch and added to KI Memories Icicle letters on top of each other for more dimension and less transparency.
That's it.
Happy Friday!
Cardstock: Joann's (kraft) Bazzill
Stamps: Hero Arts SD396
Embossing Powder: Ranger
Punch: Martha Stewart
Icicle letter: KI Memories
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