Saturday, December 12, 2015

Video - Christmas Card Challenge - SFC

Today's "DT Post Card"

Hey everyone!  This challenge is for a Christmas Card.  Years ago I was playing and created this card base.  I have used it many times for many of my projects!  Watch the video for the complete tutorial!

  
I love these papers and the lots of the elements.  I love using these little elements to add to a card.  I love the red ribbon on the front as well, it really brings the whole piece together with the red from the bear's hat and the red bling!


I love this view of the card.  In the little pocket you can either place a gift card, or when you are making this, add some little tags, pictures or pull outs! I like to keep the back part of the area (the navy blue) a simple plain paper so that the gift card stands out when it is given.


This really lovely pocket is made with a hinge and a punch.  See tutorial.  I love that you can again place a gift card, picture, or tags in here!


This is the greatest surprise for the recipient.  You can journal or add photos if you like.  I hope you enjoy this card and check out the out DT's card at our challenge blog!


I hope you enjoyed this project!  Please check out the other DT members' projects!  Thanks so much for joining me for this Challenge over at Stamps & fun = Creativity!




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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Winter Tones Challenge

Today's "DT Post Card"


Hey everyone!  This challenge is for winter tones.  You know that blue is my favourite colour and I just love making blue cards!  

I love these papers which are from an older Bo Bunny Winter line.  I took some beautiful papers and then sewed a strip down the middle and then I took a ribbon and wrapped it around the card mat.  Then I attached it to my card base!

I choose a grey card stock to mat the image up and use as the card base.  I love how the grey looks with these papers.  This cute little bear was so wonderful to have as the main part of this card.  I used some stickles to add some glamor to his hat.  I added some bling (which I coloured with copics to make it match the colour of the card).  I also added this big white flower with a brad with hot glue to the card.  Lastly I stamped my sentiment and used a circle punch to finish up the sentiment and add it to the card!  I love the papers on this card.

I hope you enjoyed this project!  Please check out the other DT members' projects!  Thanks so much for joining me for this Challenge over at Stamps & fun = Creativity!




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Monday, November 16, 2015

Custom Work - Gift Card Album

Today's "Custom Work"


Hey everyone!  I love doing custom work.  It is challenging and fun at the same time!  Most clients want specific things/colours/interests in cards.  Check out this wonderful gift card album I created for a special client.

So I created this wonderful base for this gift card album (tutorial coming soon).  I embellished it with various "Lush" cardstock by My Mind's Eye.  (Red paper used is from my stash, just a polka dot paper)  I used some images that I had in my collection and doubled them up with some sentiments and sayings for the card.

I always have a small tab I make for a gift card.  For this card however, I added a little pull out tab with another image and sentiment on it.  A gift card could go here or in the bigger back pocket.


I used some punches and die cuts to add to this album.  Lastly I made some pull outs for both journalling and pictures if she wishes!




I love doing custom work, if this interests you please contact me and I would love to make you something special!  Thanks to Ellen for all her business and I hope both she and her Godfather love this gift card album!




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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Vintage Travel Album - Music Notes Challenge

Today's "DT Post Card"


I love the front!  The black and gold accents!  A look just into the first flip of the album.


All three sections open.


I love this picture seeing most of the areas opened.


A closer look.


More details, love the die cuts and the layering with black.  Really adds pop!


The two tags I made!



Hey everyone!  This challenge is a to incorporate music notes!  I just loved making this vintage travel album.  I designed the album based on a tutorial I saw awhile ago.  I didn't care for the tutorial and I altered it so there was more room to layer items in the album.

I used an older paper line by GCD called Paris Nights.  I love these papers, but really you can find papers just like them at most scrapbook stores!  I used many die cuts, parts of patterned papers, and various images throughout this album.  I just love the black elements as well as the black matting to make each item stand out.  I hope you love this album check out my tutorial!

Please follow the tutorial as I embellish the album.  If you are interested in how to create the base of this album, scroll down to the videos I created showing that!




Please follow along with me in my video tutorial of putting this card together!

Part 1:  Building the base of the album.


I hope you enjoy this video and album and check out my other videos here.  

I hope you enjoyed this project!  Please check out the other DT members' projects!  Thanks so much for joining me for this Challenge over at Stamps & fun = Creativity!




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Monday, November 9, 2015

Thanks a Bunch Card

Today's "Thanks a bunch Card"


Hey everyone!  Yet another post for the day!  I love this image and I love the pink and yellow together!

So there is many of my scraps I pulled to make this card and I did some punching, layering, and sewing.  I used a very small zig zag stitch and I really like how it looks!  I layered up the various layers sewed it right to the first card mat.  I then took a yellow ribbon and placed it on the card mat.  Then I adhered that piece to the pink card mat.

I took this image and die cut it as well as a pink mat for it to sit on with spellbinders dies.  I added this to the card.  I then found some bling and tucked it under the image.  I found some flowers/brad and added it with hot glue to the image.  Lastly I added this sentiment which I made from MS Word, used a tag punch to punch out a tag, and added a brad to make this tag.  I used some pop dots and added the tag to the card.




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Handmade Bow - Copic coloured

Today's "Handmade Bow Card"


Hey everyone!  It is has been awhile since I have done a lot of blogging.  My grandma has been ill at the hospital for awhile now.  I wanted to do a few postings to make up for the time I have been away!

I love this paper.  I took this wonderful pink plaid paper and I sewed some black striped paper to the card base.  I then used some beautiful white ribbon and made a lovely bow.  I then adhered the whole card mat to my pink card base.

To embellish the rest of the card I used this wonderful image and coloured it with copics.  I then die-cut the image using a MFT pierced square stax die.  I then attached the die-cut to the card with some pop dots.  I used the same colours as the pink/grey/white plaid card stock in the background.  I then took a brad and some flowers and then used some hot glue to attach the flowers to the card.  Lastly I added some bling and a stamped sentiment of Happy Birthday to the card.  I just love this card!




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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Sketch Challenge - DT - November

Today's "DT Post Card"


Hey everyone!  This challenge is a sketch challenge!  I decided to make a baby card this week.  I love sketches and try to slightly change them to make it my own.  For this card I used various angels to add more interest to this sketch!

I love the many different papers I have used to create this cards, from different patterns and stripes!

Please follow along with me in my video tutorial of putting this card together!


I hope you enjoyed this project!  Please check out the other DT members' projects!  Thanks so much for joining me for this Challenge over at Stamps & fun = Creativity!




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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Blue White Challenge - DT

Today's "DT Post Card"


Hey everyone!  This challenge is for blue white.  I must say that blue is my favourite colour and I just love making blue cards!    I love these papers which are from an older Bo Bunny Winter line.  I took a ribbon and made a bow on the front and then attached my card matt to my card base!

I took this wonderful snowy image and die cut and layered it up with spellbinders circle/scalloped circle dies.  I added some bling to the card as well as this sentiment from a Hero Arts Christmas Stamp Set - Peace - Love - Joy.  (HOLIDAY SAYINGS # CL343)

I love the calmness of this card.  I hope you enjoy this card and check out the out DT's card at our challenge blog!

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Friday, October 2, 2015

Monochromatic Owls -DT

Today's "DT Post Card"



Hey everyone!  I used this owl image and die cut it up with spellbinders dies.  I used a dark circle for the layer to add some pop for the image on this card.

I took a white card mat and sewed a pink polka dot piece of pattern paper to it.  I used some darker pink thread to add some different shades.  I then cut a few pieces into a banner shape and layered them on top of the piece I sewed to the card mat.  I then added the image up on pop dots, a flower, and the pink bling to finish up the card.  It is quite easy to make a use a Monochromatic card.  You just need to use layers of various shades of one colour. 

I hope you enjoyed this project!  Please check out the other DT members' projects!  Thanks so much for joining me for this Challenge over at Stamps & fun = Creativity!




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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Adorable bear - Baby Card

Today's "Adorable Bear Card"


I love sketches because they allow you to change up your card layouts many times!  I used a sketch to make this card!  I love to collect sketches and add them to my pinterest sketch page so I have many ideas when I want to make a card!

For this sketch I decided to make it a baby card.  I love this bear image and I die cut her up using spellbinders dies.  I layered her an extra middle layer with the purple paper, just to add some more "pop" to the image and card.  I layered a few papers and then added my image on pop dots.  I then stamped the sentiment "precious little angel" in black Onyx Black Ink.  I love this ink as it really makes the sentiments or anything you are stamping with it stamp out.  Lastly I added a couple of little purple flowers to finish up the card.

Thanks so much for joining me for this card!




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