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

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

Congrats! Card

Hi everyone,

I bought some of Tim Holtz silverware embellishments.  They are SO cute!  And I love the detail.  So, now I am trying to find card uses for them!  I know that I can make a Thanksgiving card but I wanted to do something else.  So, I thought - maybe a congratulations card...for opening a restaurant? Getting a culinary degree?

 

Items used:

• Idea Ology Silverware
• Brown card stock for card base
• Gold Glossy
• Spellbinders Die
• Frantic Stamper Sentiment Die
• Misc paper flowers
• Idea Ology Gumdrops
• Goil Foiled Roses cardstock (cant remember from where)

I adhered the silverware with glue dots.  Don't you love the detail?

 

I really like the frantic Stamper die with the letters' open spaces.

The flowers are from my stash and I added a gumdrop embellishment in the center. 

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Thank You, a Shabby Chic Card

Today's card has that old timey feel that I like.  I love the soft tones of this card.

Items used:

• white card stock for card base (card is 4 1/2 x 6 1/2)
• I wish I could remember where I got the paper from . It was in my stash.
• pink and ivory card stock used

• paper roses from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Wink of Stella in gold and clear (clear was used to add sparkle on rose petals)

• beige lace (really reasonable ribbon)
• pink 1mm jute/string (May Arts)
• Gold word dazzles from Hot off the Press

Thanks for stopping by, Lis
 

Tempus Fugit (Time Flies)

Hi everyone, Thank you for stopping by!

I have been hanging on to some matted patterned paper for a while now (I'm embarrassed to say ho long) and finally decided to use a piece on this card.  It is matted with blue suede paper.

Items used:

• Bo Bunny papers
• white adhesive pearls
• yellow crinkle ribbon
• yellow ribbons with the long hair (I really forget what its actually called)
• paper roses (Wild Orchid Crafts)
• Glitter (Ranger)

The basic card (done on white card stock) is straightforward.  When I added the ribbons, I used double sided tape.  When I put on the hair ribbon, the tape showed so I added some glitter which worked out very well.  The ribbon area now has this pretty subtle sparkle.  The glitter I used is that from Ranger that Tim Holtz has.  Its really pretty and not over powering.

Since the hair ribbon wants to curl, I cut some small one inch pieces and used them like leaves and with a glue dot adhered them under the roses.

Bye for now, Lis
 

Be Fearlessly Authentic

Hi all!

 

Another collage card for you! 

 



Items used:

• Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
• Background paper (right) Anna Griffin
• Background vellum left - www.paperandmore.com (this is a coated vellum on one side with a purple blue sheen)
• Picture - Idea Ology
• Jewel Brads (my stash - they are old)
• frame that the picture sits on (Graphic 45 Journal Notes)
• Ribbon comes from Really Reasonable Ribbon - This online site has many colors of the diamond design ribbon above. Its lovely to work with!
• Distress Stain in Tarnished Brass

When I look at the old fashioned pictures that are so popular nowadays to use in crafts, I wonder who they were and what they were thinking the day they got their picture taken.  This woman is so beautiful and reminds me of my older sister.  The picture makes a great addition to a card.

You can get a better look at the purple vellum I used below.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Lis

Birdie

 

Hi everyone!   I hope that you are cooler than I am here in California.  We've been having 100 + degree heat.  Of course we are a desert and this makes it rough sometimes, especially since we are in a drought. 

 

 

Today's card is a collage card of sorts.  This is a bit plainer than I usually make my collage cards, but sometimes simpler is better.

 

 

Items used:

• Bird charm from Idea Ology
• Roses from Prima
• Purple 1mm burlap/jute ribbon from May Arts (you can get some at Really Reasonable Ribbon)
• Other papers from Hobby Lobby
• Dark Pink colored Vellum for mat (www.paperandmore.com - they have in smaller quantities and MANY colors)

I had a paper with pictures on it so cut one out and tore the edges, added Distress inks in Tea Dye and Picked Raspberry. I curled the corners. The paper was double sided with a dark brown which worked out perfectly.

Take care, Lis
 

Flower Collage

Hi everyone and Happy Sunday to you all!

Todays card is a collage card.  I had this little bag of papers and misc embellishments and I decided to make a card from the items.

 I had a lot of blues browns and purples so I decided to use a white card base and a purple foil card stock as the base mat. I added a torn paper look over the paper with the wood design.  There was some web ribbon that I cut in half lengthwise and layered the heart ribbon over that.

 

I really like buttons. They are easy to add and come in all kinds of colors and shapes.  I keep forgetting to add ribbon or paper to the little holes though - as I did again here.  Next time....!

The pink butterfly and the green faux-glass leaves are from Martha Stewart. (I just saw that one of my purple gems slipped off its flower.  The original is fixed!)

This button comes from Bo Bunny.  The holes were big enough that I felt compelled to fill them.  I tried to take off the button but it would have torn the paper so I added some Liquid Pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Happy Easter Card

hi everyone!  I made an Easter card for my sister in New York and wanted to share it with you today.

 

I've had these Mylar flowers in my stash for years (I'm embarrassed to admit it!).  You know, I sometimes buy something and save it until just the right moment.  Today was that day for these flowers. (I do plan on adding a tag sentiment to the front of my card...just haven't gotten to it yet)

The colors are vibrant and best of all they are mostly flat.  There is SOME dimension on them and they have some embossing too as you can see.  I think my sister will enjoy this card.

 

I actually have some translucent flowers too.  The orange layered flower has one in it.

 

 

 

I added some white pearls for centers and a few to accent the curve of the embossed pink shimmer cardstock beneath.

 

 

Did you know that you can make these pretty flowers? Paper Wishes sells the mylar material (Called Shimmer Sheetz ) that you can use to cut out flowers.  A few embossed lines and you will have a great set of flowers.  In fact, I may do that myself.

Have a Happy Easter!

Lis

 

Thank You in Copper and Gold

Hi everyone! Thanks for being patient with me while I get my act together!  Today's card is a flower cluster using paper, fabric and felt. And I have lots of close ups!

 

 

I started out with some of Tim Holtz vellum. This is the background that you see.  It has skeleton leaves as part of the pattern.  I adhered the vellum to an ivory card base.  I outlined my card in gold and then spattered more gold onto the card.  (It was so pretty I hated to cover it up.  I thought it would make a good note card too.)

Since the vellum and card base were more of an ivory/brown color, I chose the same from Prima flowers, and some paper flowers that I got from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The pearl in the middle of the orange fabric flower was white. I took some Tarnished Brass Distress Ink and colored it, added some heat from my heat gun to dry it. (I just rolled the tip over the pearl.  I probably should have gone back in with a q-tip or brush to do the edges but I liked it as is.)

I wanted a frame for my flowers and decided on copper foiled paper.  I used a Frantic Stamper die to cut out the frame.  Then I used an xacto blade to cut out the middle so I ended up with an evacuated frame.  I used the middle to create my sentiment flag.

I took this close up so that you could see the green leaf I added at the top of my card.  It has sparkle in it and has the look of vinyl or plastic.  I added it because this area of the vellum had no design and I wanted to add a dash of green.

Finally I added two pearl pins.  I added a small brass key to one.

 

I used interference Violet embossing powder to emboss my sentiment onto the copper. (I was trying to find my white but couldn't <sigh>). I wish they made ivory embossing powder.

There is one last thing I wanted you to note.  Did you see the tree crystals that I added between the copper flower and the leaves?  I was wandering through ebay one night and found ts place that sold wedding scatters -these are plastic crystals (fully faceted so not flat back) and they sold packs of 6.5/4.5mm.  I think those were the sizes. Anyway, I bought a few of the colors to experiment with.  The picture doesn't really show the sparkle.  Its not like crystal so it doesn't sparkle a LOT but it gives a nice twinkle.  I glued them on with some Aleenes thick glue.

So, that's my card for today!  I hope you enjoy it!
Lis





 

Happy Happy Happy

 Hi everyone! My card today is a "happy" one!

I started out with an ivory card base, added dark green shimmer paper and copper foil die cut of the Ombre Chevron Card Panel. I cut out another chevron panel using green foil card stock.  I used some of the green foil cut outs on my card by fitting the cut outs into the copper negative space.

I cut out the Happy Happy Happy using the die of the same name out of some green patterned Basic Grey paper.  I  layered another "happy" out of gold gloss in the center and added it to my card.

As a final touch, I added a group of paper flowers (tulips, the other flower I don't know the name of) and tied it with light green and yellow silk ribbons.

 

A Rose for Halloween Card

I've been working on a few Halloween cards.  Halloween snuck up on me this year!  I haven't done too many.

Materials:

• Graphic 45 Steam Punk Line
• Sizzix Die (cut in silver glitter paper)
• Paper rose bud (Wild Orchid Crafts - if you like paper flowers, check these guys out)
• Black grosgrain ribbon
• Black leaf ribbons (Frantic Stamper)

The card is really simple to make. I layered my two papers and used the black ribbon to hide the seam. 

I die cut the silver thing (I don't know what to call it - it looks like a frame and mirror to me)
and then made my rose. I folded the wire from the rose in half and then put a small bead of glue on one side. I rolled the leaf ribbons around it.  Now that I am thinking about it though - it would have been easier to wind some double sided tape around it and then wind the ribbon around that.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Lis

Two Quick greeting cards for friends

Lately I've been making simpler cards.  Two to three layers, not a lot of embellishments...I wanted to share a few with you that I like.

First up, a greeting card to say hello:

I created this card using two patterned papers.  I covered the seam with a die cut (from Sizzix called Chained - its very cool - check it out HERE.), some bling and a rose.  My card base is black card stock.  It really sets off he black background on the patterned paper.

 

 

 

The chain was cut using shimmer paper in copper.

 

Next up: Happy Birthday Friend:

Again, I used three patterned papers cut in different widths (brown card for base).  I added a die cut (Anna Griffin die) in copper shimmer paper.  I added the greeting vertically.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis