Miss You!

Sorry I have been MIA lately. I'm still getting over my latest cold. But I am feeling better. I wanted to share this card with you that I made for my dad. My dad is 95 years old and still going strong!He is a veteran of World War II and fought in Italy and Africa. He has shared one or two experiences with me including visiting Pmpeii and climbing the dome to the top of some church to see the Pope. He is quite the adventurer.

My card today honors him. I used the Frantic Stamper Eagle's Head die but used the negative space. I placed some of Tim Holtz's embossed seasonal paper behind it (Fourth of July). I added a wooden accent (so popular!) and stamped my sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by, Lis

Card with Wooden Accents & a Decorated Wooden Frame

Well I'm back online temporarily. My brother in law is an expert IS guy and engineer (and a genius). He helped me get back online and saved me from the dreaded blue screen of death! Unfortunately my poor old PC needs replacement o I will be getting a new PC soon. AND I still hope to do video then!

Thank you all for sticking with me. I want to share two pieces I made for Unruly Papers Arts Blogzine.

The first is a card with wooden accents.

There are so many wooden accents now. It's hard to choose. One that I really like is PRIMA. Their line is called Wood Icons in a box. You can see their items HERE
There are houses, rulers, birds, so much its hard to choose.

My card below features some birds and one wood border. I colored all with Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Paint.

I also used a couple of wood houses. Aren't they cute?

This last picture shows a bit of the dimension achieved. Everything was attached with either glue dots (birds) or red tape.

My 2nd project is a wooden frame.

I started with a plain wooden frame I bought for a dollar at Michaels. I painted it with white gesso first and then used a stencil and moulding paste to add the flower texture. I sprayed with two colors and then sanded lightly to distress. Then I decorated with some tissue tapes and embellishments. Guess what I used for the mirror...Tim Holtz Mirror card. I worked really well.

You will notice the fan blades in the lower right. I found them in the wedding aisle, cut them apart, and painted with gesso. I am going to make some cards with them also and will share with you when I do.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

American Red White and Blue Card with Frantic Stamper Precision Dies

With Labor Day coming, I wanted to create some cards with the new Frantic stamper Mix and Match USA die set.  I love the set. It includes a Bald Eagle, a star, "America", a flag and USA with stars in a block. Just super!

I started out with a bright red card base ( 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches) in card stock (of course).  I added a navy blue piece of card stock (5 1/4 x 4 inches). I used the eagle die and cut out my eagle on this card stock.  I also cut out one in gold and one in silver.

To make my eagle:

1. I turned my blue card stock over to the back side.
2. I placed the gold eagle die cut in the space and taped it (kind of like iris folding with the folds)
3. I used the silver cut out pieces from the silver eagle die cut I made to fill in the cut out spots in the gold eagle.  I taped these down too.

NOTE:  I took a brown Sharpie pen and colored the one silver piece over the nose (nares)

Once everything was taped down, I turned over my blue cardstock and there was my eagle! (I wanted to make my eagle stand out so I used gold, and the silver was to imitate the white feather on the head of a bald eagle.)

I cut a piece of Anthem Peace about 1 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches and added it to the bottom of the blue card stock.  Then I added some gold glitter photo corners to the top corners only. I adhered the blue card stock to my card base.

For my stars:

1. I die cut three stars on a navy blue piece of card stock. (Note that these are shapes cut into the paper and not die cuts in the sense that they are little squares - yet!)
2. I got out my 1 1/2 inch square punch and turned it over to the back side.
3. I slid each of the cut out stars into my punch one at a time and punched them out.  I got about a 1/8 inch border.





4. I edged the outside borders in gold. And I edged the inside star edges in gold also so they would stand out better.

I mounted my stars onto my card using a single square of mounting tape inthe middle of each star. (The card stock was stiff enough that I did not need to add any other mounting tape.)
I finshed my card by adding the word "America" (Included in the die set!) die cut in red foiled card stock to the bottom center of my card.

I hope you enjoyed my card today!

Lis