Happy Superbowl Sunday!

Hi everyone!

I hope that you are all having a fabulous day today!  I know that many of you are going to watch the Superbowl.  Have a great time.

As for me, I will be working on some projects for you this week.  I really enjoy working with and designing paper projects of all kinds, especially collage, boxes, cards and such.

I thought this would be a fun card for today.  These are quick and easy to make, you can use your Inchie stamps with them.  Make a set and give to a friend.  What I most love about this card is the Martha Stewart Woodland Branch Punch.  I have to say that I am in love with her punches. They are detailed and just the style that I like.

I call these my "Woodsie" Cards. Enjoy!



Materials:

Paper:

Bazzill Browns 

            Java – (5 ¼ x 4) (1 1/8 x 1 1/8)

            Vanilla – (1 ¾ x 4) (1 x 1)

            Fawn – (1 ¼ x 1 ¼)

Bazzill Bling

            Flat Broke Bling (8 ¼ x 5 ½) 

           

Embellishments:

Satin Ribbon Gold 3/8” – 6 inches

Acrylic Gem – 6mm

Champagne Pearls 5mm x 3 

Tools:

Martha Stewart Border Punch – Wing Edger Woodland Branch

Paper Trimmer – Fiskars

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder – Victoria

Craft Mat - Small craft sheet is 9"x12"

Inkadinkadoo Inchie Stamp – BIRDS

Inks & Powders:

Ranger Distress Inks

            Walnut Stain -

Clear Embossing Powder - Super Fine Detail 

Directions:

1.                  Fold your card base in half (Flat Broke Bling).  The card will open from the bottom.

2.                  Emboss the java (large piece) with Victoria.

3.                  Adhere embossed java to card. Set aside.

4.                  Using your border punch, punch the woodland border on one side of your vanilla 1 ¾ x 4 piece.

5.                  TURN YOUR VANILLA PIECE so that you are looking at the back side of the cardstock. Punch the other side.

a.       This will allow the branches on both sides to point in the same direction.

6.                  Adhere the gold ribbon down the middle of the punched vanilla piece.  Fold the ribbon to the back and adhere.

7.                  Attach your vanilla punched piece to your card, about ½ to ¾ inch in from the left.

8.                  To make your square:

a.       Cut a piece 1 inch by 1 inch square out of vanilla.

b.      Stamp your inchie design on it using walnut distress ink.

c.       Cover the stamped image with clear embossing powder and emboss. (This makes the image come out even better.)

d.      Adhere your inchie to the java piece (1 1/8 x 1 1/8)

e.       Adhere your inchie to the fawn piece. (1 ¼ x 1 ¼).  You should now have your inchie double matted.

9.                  Attach your inchie with mounting tape to your card about ¼ to ½ inches from the bottom.

This is a versatile card.  Change the color and the stamp and you have a birthday card, a mothers day card etc.  For Valentine's Day, punch a heart border and use a heart stamp!  If you have a holly border punch, you have a Christmas card!  I hope you try this one out.

Cuttlebug

Strawberries Card

Materials:

Blue cardstock 8 ½ x 5 ½ - fold in half to make your card base (I used a Williamsburg blue cardstock)

Navy blue cardstock 5 ¼ x 4

Light brown (café colored) cardstock- Bazzill – 5 x 3 ¾, another piece

Domestic Goddess Miss Manners – 4 ¾ x 3 ½

Domestic Goddess Tags (It s a sheet of tags.  What you see on the card is actually a tag that I used and matted.  You can however choose a piece of the patterned paper and do the following:

a.       Cut a rectangle 2 ½ x 3

b.      Cut ONE corner off

c.       Place that cut off corner on top of another corner

d.      Cut a second corner off the exact same size

e.       Cut the other two corners in the same way

f.        This way you have the exact same cut off corners and they match!  Easy, huh?

Two paper flowers and two brads

Directions:

1. Layer the navy carstock piece to your base card.
2. Layer the light brown cardstock to the navy piece/card
3. Layer the patterned paper to your card.
4. Take your cut piece of pattern paper (with the corners cut off) and attach this to another piece of light brown cardstock.
5. Cut around the light brown cardstock so that about 1/8-1/16 inch is showing.
6. Take a small hole punch and punch two holes in the top left of this matted piece.
7. Place a brad through a flower and through the hole in the piece and attach.  Do the same for the second flower.
8. Use mounting tape on the back of the piece and then attach to your card as shown above.
9. The picture doesn’t show it but I used ILLUMINATE (new from Smooch) and colored in the silverware on the attached piece.  It gave it a nice silvery look.

Blog Details

Hi everyone!

I've thought about how to run my blog and I would like to do the following:

Each Sunday or Monday I would post a technique. Tuesday through thursday I would have cards, scrapbook pages, collage pieces, 3-d art, dominos, using the technique.

I think this will be very interesting to all of you.

What I need to hear from you:

• What techniques are you interested in?
• Are you a cardmaker? Scrapbooker? collage artist?

Leave me a comment so that I get an idea of what you would like to see on my blog.

Thanks! Lis

Craf- T Chalks

We all have seen or worked with chalk in our craft lives.  BUT - you have to see the gorgeous things that CRAF-T chalk is doing!
They are releasing a new 9-color palette called Photo Tint.  The colors are soft and when they are added to photos (Printed on plain copy paper), WOW!  Take a look!

All the color was added with chalk.  I watched a demonstration.  You add the chalk with an applicator or q-tip and then rub the tinted area with a paper towel or cloth. Voila- beautiful old fashioned images.  There are 9 soft beautiful colors (including a pale brown) to make your pictures come alive.

Craf-T also has other color palettes.

Craf-T also carries several selections of rub on Metallics. These can be applied with your finger. One demonstration included a black piece of cardstock, embossed and then rubbed with metallic colors.  It looked like a faux metal.

Here are some other designs from Craf-T.

Hope that you enjoyed this!  Thanks for stopping by!