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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Festive Christmas Card

 Hi everyone,
Today's car includes some hand coloring.  I love to color but I'm not a good artist (that means I usually cant keep within the lines). 



 Items used:
  • Tattered Lace Die used for card base shape and for foil cut outs
    • Shadow Collection - Meadow Sweet
  • silver foil card (matte), red gloss card
  • spectrum noire in red and green
  • image was from a Christmas 12 x 12 paper pad that had vintage images
To make the card:
  1. I cut two pieces of the "card" out of white card stock.
  2. I used one piece for the front and the other for the back.
    • I took a ruler and embossed a line on the left side of my 'back' piece of paper and folded on the line.  This folded tab was what I glued to the front piece to make the whole card without losing the full front image.
  3. I cut the inner die cut twice, once from silver foil card and once from red glossy card.
  4. I cut off most of the red parts except the large rose parts in the upper right and lower left corners.  These were layers under the silver foil piece so that they just showed.  I did this ti give a bit of red color to the card.
  5. I added the silver foil die cut to the front of the card and glued that down.
  6. I colored in the leaves and the flowers with green and red.
  7. The inside of the card is not shown but I added a little sentiment there also.

Lis

Friday, December 2, 2016

Merry Christmas - boy with presents

 Today's card is using a reverse technique.  instead of layering the center, I layered the fram and the center is depressed.




Items Used:
  • Hunkydory frame and sentiment from Classic Christmas
  • card base - white card
  • card mat - create and craft
  • bow - anna griffin
Thank you for stopping by, Lis

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Charmed Christmas

 Hi everyone!

Have you started making your cards yet? Or are you thinking please just let me digest my Thanksgiving meal for another day or so....LOL.  This year has gone so fast!




 Items used:
  • sticker - anna griffin
  • card base - create and craft
  • flowers - michaels
  • charms - Hobby House (UK)
  • alcohol ink to color tree charm in green and angel in gold: Spectrum noire and gold paint pen
  • die - Tattered Lace card bases - ovals
  • stickles glitter glue for centers of gold flowers
  • gold thread - JoAnns
 Note:  I just purchased some gold plating liquid so I will be plating some charms.  That should be interesting.




Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Christmas Roses Card

Hi everyone! 

Tis the season....to make Christmas cards!  I do love all the sparkle and bling.  I hope that you enjoy the next week or so of  card inspiration.  Please leave comments or vote below at the end.  I appreciate all comments.  After all that's how we learn!





Items used:
  • Bling - Michaels
  • Roses - Wild Orchid Craft (or Really Reasonable Ribbon - they are carrying these also)
  • die for card base - Tattered Lace Card bases - ovals
  • card - create and craft
  • sticker - anna griffin
I've been experimenting with different shaped cards lately so many of my cards are other than rectangle/A2 size.  (I'm not being original...LOL.... I think I'm behind the times actually.)

Hope you enjoy.
Lis

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Halloween Cards!

Hi everyone!

Well, am I behind!  I did make a few Halloween cards this year and they are below.  Enjoy!

First up:  A kitty!  I love kitties and this pretty little guys seems ready to go out Halloween night! 


Items used:
  • Orange and black glitter card - create and craft
  • ribbon from Really reasonable ribbon
  • kitty from Graphic 45
Next: BOO!

Items used:
  • Banner and spider - anna griffin stickers
  • Orange patterned paper - anna griffin
  • purple and green dots and accents - Ranger enamel
  • charm - Idea-ology - tim holtz

Onward: Its Halloween!

Items used:
  • stickers - anna griffin
  • paper anna griffin
  • wood bingo chip - sky blue pink
  • dark orange paper  create and craft

And Upward! Frightful Halloween...

Items used:
  • tattered lace spider web die
  • Martha stewart border punch
  • ribbon - michaels
  • papers - anna griffin
  • sticker - anna griffin
  • moon - tim holtz ephemera
  • orange enamel dots - ranger
This was my favorite.  I really love how the spider webs in each corner worked with the papers.  There is ribbon on this card.  It looks like washi tape with writing but it is actually ribbon.




Thanks for stopping by.  I will  be posting Christmas cards starting tomorrow.

Lis