Liberty, a card

Hi everyone and Happy Independence Day to the USA!

I used the following items for my card:

• Frantic Stamper Precision Dies (Eagle, the word "America")
• Chevron design embossing folder
• Tim Holtz embossed cardstock - Seasonal Pack (pre embossed by company)
• Red plaid ribbon, red and whit rhinestones
• Card stock - white (for card base) and gold foil

I really like the font used for America.  Proud and strong.

I used the eagle die to cut a window in the embossed gold foil card.  I sanded the blue embossed card and then positioned it behind the open area so that some of the words showed through.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Merci!

Hi everyone and Happy Friday! I hope that you all will have a wonderful and fun filled weekend celebrating America's independence Day.  Please remember all those who fought so that we could have Liberty.

Today's card is a colorful card using a punch design and some different colored shimmer card.  This is not a new concept.  ive seen this style on the web and love how it looks! So, I thought I'd give it a try! 

 

I chose a Martha Stewart scroll punch (deep edger).  My card base is white.  I decided to cut the bottom and leave a 1/8 inch border around the punched edge.  I finished off very simply with a glitter ribbon at the top with a bow and tag.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis

Time to Fly ....a Card

Hi everyone,

I love this card!

Techniques used:

1. Shaker Card
2. Stenciling with glitter paste

The shaker part of this card was easy to do.  I thought I was going to have trouble cutting the acetate to size and then adhering the foam tape without it showing.

Cutting the acetate:
I cut the clock using a Tim Holtz die.  I used the center die cut from the clock die as my template for the acetate.  I placed the circle on the acetate with temporary tape.  I cut a 1/8 inch border around the circle (cutting it larger than my template).  The acetate was a great fit and slightly large so tat I could glue the acetate to the clock with Gloss Accents.  I cut thin strips of mounting tape. Each strip was the circumference of the inner circle.  The strips were thin and I was ale to bend them around the circle without having to cut infinite pieces.  I made two layers.

So, I have the clock upside down on my craft mat.  I added the small hour hands to the inside and also poured in a little Diamond Dust.  I picked up my card and laid it down on top of the clock to seal it. (If you try this remember to be sure that your card is going to open the right way.  Keep track of your top and bottom!)

I added the large hand to the top of the acetate and added a blue jewel.

The stenciling for the background of my card was interesting. I haven't done a lot of stenciling.  I love the effect I get with the modeling pastes.

I wish that you could see this card in person.  I used a Cosmic Shimmer Texture Paste by Crafters Companion.  It is a glitter paste (not glue).  It is SO sparkly!  The one I used on this card is called Icicle Blue and is a blue interference color - which is why I chose black - because interference colors show very well on black.

I added the kite as an after thought.

Here's a good picture of the shaker box.

Thanks for stopping by - have a great week, Lis

To a Special Friend Card

Hi everyone!

Can you believe that today's NON-Christmas card uses Christmas papers?  I hate buying those beautiful papers and not being able to use them for more than Christmas.  One of the paper pads I bought for last Christmas has a pretty red and blue green color palette.  There were some designs that didn't shout holiday so those were the ones that I used.

 

 

I love how the white bow turned out This is paper twine that you can unroll (carefully) to get a 1-2 inch wide paper length.

 

I added some jewel brads to match the red dot pattern in the paper.  I cut off the prongs and adhered with glue dots.  The red dots are red glitter.  It doesn't show very well in the picture but in person the red dots are pretty.

I was thinking about spray coloring he bow but decided to leave it white.

Have a great week.

Lis

A Pretty Lacy Card

Hi everyone!  I hope that your weekend was fun.  I can't believe that it's July 4th weekend coming up!  The year just keeps going by so fast!

Today's card combines lace, acetate and iris folding!

I started out with this acetate that I recently got that has a white flower design on it.  I thought it was so pretty.  I also had this piece of lavender shimmer card with a butterfly punched out.  I've had this for months trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it.  You know how you start a card with a specific idea in mind and then it just goes away?  Well, that's this butterfly.

I had some foils so I decided to do some iris Folding with the butterfly.  I didn't use a pattern (I probably should have).  I was going for colorful wings.

 

I went into my stash of misc stuff and pulled out a white paper doily and this gold foil  sticker lace.

 

 

I got the sentiment from a book of sentiments (die cut) from  Hunkydory (Paper Wishes).  They have a lot of relatives' names that you don't usually find like cousin, aunt nephew, etc.



You can see the layers really well.

Hope you enjoyed my card today.

Lis