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!

Graphic 45 Papers

I am a BIG fan of Graphic 45. I love their vintage style papers, not to mention the quality of their cardstock.  They will be releasing several lines this year, including:

Curtain Call

Le Cirque

One Line Graphic 45 has already released is Once Upon a Springtime.  They did some marvelous cards and 3d structures that I thought I would also share with you.  These gave me lots of inspiration to create my own cards!

Once Upon a Springtime



7 Gypsies

Hi everyone!

Today at CHA I went to see 7 Gypsies (a favorite of mine).  They came out with PAPER TAPE! There are two rolls in a package and they are rather large.  I can't wait to buy some!  The styles are vintage and some have a bit of color to them as well.

I did see some really nice samples. I really liked the bottle mobile.

There were a number of really cute tags. (look at the owl, how cute!)



Sizzix 3

The second project that I completed in the Sizzix class was a flower pot with flowers.  The teacher came up with a great idea by die cutting packing bubbles (small size) along with cardstock and then layering it to make the flower.  The die that was used included cut petals.
The cup or pot is a scoreboard die.  These dies are special because they cut matboard (which is thicker and harder than chipboard).  There are a number of scoreboard dies already online at sizzix.  The pot is one of the 2011 releases.  The die actually cuts only halfway through the matboard.  This makes it possible to bend the matboard to make the cup.  There is also a bottom that is cut as part of the die.

The third project was a card using one of the new sizzix texture embossing folders. 

The card itself was also anew die from sizzix.  (The top part of the card was a separate die cut not part of the card die itself and was added as decoration.)

Sizzix 2

In addition to the pop up dies, sizzix has several 3-d dies.

Sizzix!

I was fortunate enough to be able to take a sizzix class Friday evening.  It was called the Triple Play because three of sizzix most popular die designers (including the one who designs all their pop up dies) taught the class.

POP UPS
Sizzix has some really great pop up dies.  The new dies that are being added this year are a bit simpler to use than the ones in the past which were more involved.

First I would like to share some of the great pop up cards that were made as samples (not part of the class).  You will note that some of the cards (including the gear pop up) actually were not made from pop up dies but regular dies (the gear card was from a Holtz die).

The card below was one of the three projects that I made in the class.  It features three new sizzlit dies including the crown and medallion below.  This card also features one of the new pop up dies relasing this year.  This die creates a pop up base that you can attach other items to.  It will seem to pop out of the card when you open it.  This is different than the step cuts that we make to crreate a regular pop up.