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