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November 13, 2017

Clean and Simple Rose Creations

Good Monday afternoon. My project today was made for the Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple Challenge to create a card using an oval, navy blue and vellum. Uh oh! I totally finished my project, photographed it and realized I had forgotten to use vellum. Duh! I can’t post it for the challenge but I can post it on my blog. I think the white flower and blue foliage look striking against the white frame and background. Fast, simple and easy. I used the Spellbinders Floral Ovals for the decorative background, Rose Creations for my flower and Foliage for the leaves.

I cut the decorative oval layer and attached it to the card base using thin strips of mounting tape. I cut the flowers, formed them with my stylus and molding pad and attached the layers together using glossy accents.

I attached the flower in place using glossy accents and then tucked the foliage under the petals and attached with glossy accents. I used Nuvo Wedgewood Blue Crystal Drops in the flower center but got a little carried away and let the drop get too big. Instead of it drying rounded like a pearl it spread out a little too much. I still think it looks pretty and allows the flower center to match the blue foliage.

Thanks for coming by today and I hope you have a good week.

Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”

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Nov 13, 2017 12:14:28 PM | Die Cut, Flowers, Spellbinders

November 11, 2017

Framed Poinsettia Arrangement

Good Saturday morning. I never tire of making poinsettia cards during the Christmas holiday season. I hope you don’t tire of seeing them. I recently purchased the Spellbinders Thinking of You Scalloped Rectangle Frame Set and couldn’t resist pairing the smaller frame with a sugared poinsettia arrangement. I used the Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia Set, Foliage Set along with the Impression Obsession Pine Sprig Cluster to create the floral arrangements and layered the whole design using the Lawn Fawn Scalloped Rectangle Set.

I’m going to refer you back to a poinsettia tutorial I did years ago to show how I form the flowers and attach the layers together. The forming steps are the same but for my flowers today I added color to my petals and foliage before I shaped them. I cut the flowers and large foliage pieces using white cardstock. I applied Candied Apple ink to the poinsettia layers using a mini applicator. I applied Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint ink to the large foliage pieces and large flower section using a mini applicator. The pine cluster pieces were cut using Easter Grass cardstock. The flower layers were formed using my stylus and molding pad from the Garden Tool Kit and attached together using glossy accents. I placed a drop og glossy accents in the center of each flower and inserted the tiny yellow flower center in place. I used a Sofft stylus and tip to apply Cosmic Glitter glue to the flower petals and foliage and sprinkled them with clear Rock Candy glitter.

While I was at it I took a few step by step photos showing how I made the yellow flower center for my poinsettia. For the purposes of the mini tutorial I made the cuts on the cardstock wider than I actually made for my flower so it would show up better for the photos.

I cut a thin strip of cardstock about about 1/2” wide and cut several thin strips along one side. I start making the whole thing bigger than necessary just so it is easier to work with and so my old eyes don’t give out on me. Once it is completed I cut it down to the size I need for my flowers.

I gently rolled the paper around my tweezers to shape.

I applied glossy accents to the base edge and then closed around the tweezers.

I cut the strips off to shorten and then remove from the tips of the tweezers.

I turn the piece around, clamp it in place with my tweezers and trim off the base side to shorten to fit in my flowers.

I spread out the little strips and attach it in the flower center. Remember that I made these strips wider to show better for my photos. In reality my little strips were only about 1/16” wide and fanned out to look more delicate than this photo shows.

I attached the scalloped layer to the card base with thin strips of mounting tape. I cut very thin strips of mounting tape and applied to the back of the decorative frame and attached it to the scalloped layer. I used glossy accents to attach the poinsettias to the frame and then tucked the foliage sections under and around the flowers and attached with glossy accents. I like that the pine sprigs cut from green cardstock add another color of green so they show up well with the larger foliage pieces.

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Thanks for coming by today and I hope you have a great weekend.

Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”

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Nov 11, 2017 10:43:27 AM | Christmas, Die Cut, Flowers, Frame, Spellbinders

December 30, 2016

Paper Crafting Supply Sale

Good afternoon, I have been going back and forth in my thoughts about whether to sell or donate some large, heavy items that would be costly to mail. I’m going to post them with a price of the item and postage will have to be figured by your zip code. Please contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to make a purchase. You can find the sale items here.

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Dec 30, 2016 6:11:35 PM | Spellbinders

June 25, 2016

Inspired Vintage Roses

Good Saturday morning. My project today was made for the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge and the Craft-Tim Holtz Pinterest site was our inspiration. Wow! There was tons of fantastic inspiration on this site but with that said the Tim Holtz vintage and mixed media techniques take me way out of my comfort zone. My card was inspired by several different creations on the site but it was the Paper Roses found here that was my initial inspiration. This is one of those projects that I just couldn’t leave well enough alone and kept adding and adding until I finally couldn’t add any more. I pulled several Spellbinders sets that I haven’t used in quite a while. The roses were made using the Rose Creations set, the larger leaves were made using the Foliage set and the decorative background layers were made using the Decorative Labels Eight. The smaller sections of foliage was made using the Impression Obsession Foliage set.

I cut the background layers and attached them to the card base with strips of mounting tape. The large foliage leaves were cut and scored with the leaf tool. The rose layers were cut using pale pink and before forming them I sponged them with Antique Linen and Worn Lipstick Distress ink. I formed the petals of the roses using a larger stylus to soft the paper and then used a much smaller one to roll the petals inward. The center section of each rose was rolled tightly and then attached together with touches of glossy accents.

I attached the large leaves to the card base using glossy accents. Nest I attached the three roses with glossy accents and then filled in around the roses with the small foliage sections. I was basically finished with the card and was getting ready to take my pictures when it struck me that the dark green foliage was a little stark for the delicate pink roses. I decided to apply gold Wink of Stella to all the leaves of the smaller foliage sections to soften the arrangement. From there I thought pure gold foliage would be pretty so I cut the smaller sections of foliage using white cardstock and then colored each piece with the gold Wink of Stella and tucked them around the arrangement. I just couldn’t stop there. I pulled out some thin gold organdy ribbon, created a multi loop bow and heated it with my heat gun to crinkle and curl for another touch of vintage. I attached the bow and streamers with glue dots. So as I sat looking at the card I felt the roses were too plain now that they had all the gold foliage around them so I took to coloring the edges of the petals with the gold Wink of Stella. Whew! Finally I had to let it go and just take my pictures. LOL!

Here’s a closer view. I like how it turned out.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Thanks for stopping by.

Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”

Impression Obsession Dies, Foliage

Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker, Gold

Hero Arts Embossing Gun

Elizabeth Craft Designs Large Molding Pad

PanPastel Sofft Mini Applicators, 12 pk

Crafter's Pick The Ultimate Glue, 4 oz.

Sizzix Big Shot Express

Scotch Double-Sided Foam Mounting Tape

Ranger Accents, Glossy Accents

Ranger Fine Tip Applicators 0.5 oz. (Gray)

Ranger Accents, Mini Glossy Accents

Ranger Fine Tip Applicators 2 oz. (Pink)

Sizzix Accessory, Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies

Be Creative Tape, 3mm (1/8")

Be Creative Tape, 5mm (1/4")

Glue Dots, Mini (3/16")

Glue Dots, Micro (1/8")

Tonic Maxi 12 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer

ATG Kit, Advanced Tape Glider

Teflon Bone Folder

EK Tools, Precision 5 Inch Scissors with Sheath

Jun 25, 2016 1:30:46 PM | Die Cut, Flowers, Impression Obsession, Spellbinders

June 05, 2016

Decorative Framed Roses

Good Sunday Afternoon. My project today was made using the Impression Obsession Spiral Flowers Large and Leafy Branch along with the Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles. I have a drawer full of Spellbinders die sets and somehow forget to use them. I decided to that I would do a pretty layered card in all white with just the color of the roses and foliage.

I assembled the pieces of the card base and frame and attached with mounting tape. The largest section of the die set is 6” x 4” so I cut a background card base when folded that is 4.75” x 2.75”. I didn’t want the card base to show under the decorative cutouts.

The roses were rolled around my tweezers and closed and attached with glossy accents. I attached the three roses to the center layer of the frame and then pieces of foliage were tucked in under and around the roses and attached with glossy accents.