Monday, December 28, 2009

Snowflake Angel

Hi everyone! I just realized that I had not shared this card with you! It's done a bit differently and wanted to give you the details!

The snowflake background is done with the Ornamental Snowflake set from The Angel Company. I used starry night Palette ink to stamp them and then lightly sponged on some additional ink.

The Angel (TAC) is stamped on vellum in Memento Tuxedo Ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. I turned it over and colored her dress with Copic Markers. The wings are done in a two step process. Taking your stylus and a mouse pad, burnish or dry emboss the wings, being careful not to press too hard otherwise you will go through the vellum. After that is done, I used a white Sharpie paint pen and colored it all white. When you turn it over, the results are striking! Using sharp scissors, I trimmed all around it.

To get the Angel to adhere to the cardstock, I got out my Xyron and made it a sticker. The lattice border punch from MS came in handy to decorate the edges of the snowflake background and the navy cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy New Year!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Last few Christmas projects!

Here are the last of my Christmas projects that I wanted to share with you all! First up is my pink poinsettia card.

The pink paper was done with my varnished alcohol technique and you can find the instructions for that here. The poinsettia stamp is from Gina K Designs and the sentiment is from PTI. I stamped the poinsettia in versamark and embossed with gold detail embossing powder. I cut two of them out and positioned them onto the square off center and overlapping just a bit. I used a versamark pen and a ruler to create the gold border on the layer in back. I added a couple of gold self adhesive pearls to each end to bling it up a bit more.

This one is done with flower soft in polar white. The tree is stamped in Palette Jardin Moss first, cut out with an oval nestability and then I got busy with the glue. I daubered on some soft thatched straw chalk ink from Versamagic to create the glow around the tree and then added a bit over the sentiment (PTI). The green designer paper is from Kaisercraft and it's embossed with the plaid embossing folder from Provo Craft.
Then I made a box to hold some note paper, nuggets and four tea lights. You can see all the goodies with the addition of a piece of acetate in the box top!

The snowflake stamp is from The Angel Company. For the tea lights, I stamped the snowflake onto tissue paper, cut it out with a circle nestability, punched a hole in middle for the wick and then melted it into the tea lights.

Under the blue paper on the left is a note pad that I made from copy paper. I cut a bunch of it to 3 x 3 and then glued them together with rubber cement. Used a few binder clips to hold it all together while it dried. Using versamark, I stamped the snowflakes randomly on the blue (enchanted evening - PTI) cardstock and embossed them with detail glacier white embossing powder.
Wrapped up three Hersey's Chocolate Nuggets using the same snowflake stamp and added them into the box since they fit so well between the dividers! You can find all kinds of Nugget boxes and instructions at SCS.
So what do you think of my last couple of projects? I would love to hear your feedback!

I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Monday, December 21, 2009

Card Sketch Tuesday #160

Hello and Happy Holidays! Here is this weeks sketch!

Measurements:
Card base 4.25 x 5.5, Designer paper 4 x 5.25, Image panel 3 x 3.75 (with a 1/16 mat), Back panel 2 x 4 (border punch used) sentiment done with window word punch.




Designer paper is from Daisy D's and the colors in it really work well with the image that I stamped. I used markers to color the image and did the huff method to reactivate the ink. The sentiment stamp is one that I designed myself and had Vicki over at Victorine Originals make up for me. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black and then punched it out with the window word punch.

The Martha Stewart doily border punch was used on the white cardstock and I added two different shades and width of blue grosgrain ribbon to cover up the raw edges. It turned out to be a very femine card that I will use for someone's Birthday.

This will be my last sketch design for this year! I have a few more Christmas cards/projects to show you this week prior to the big day! I hope that everyone is not too bogged down with last minute preperations and gift buying! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to let me know what you think!



Supplies:
Wildflower Stamp - Inkadinkado
White cardstock
Daisy D's designer paper
Blue grosgrain ribbon
Marvy LePlume II Markers
MS doily border punch

Friday, December 18, 2009

Holly using Grunge board

Hi everyone! I made this clean and simple Holiday card out of some grunge board!


I have an old Sizzix die called Holly and Berries that I used to cut the grunge board out with. They are both colored with alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry. I got a little creative on the edges and colored them in with a blending stump dipped in the alcohol ink.

Scarlet jewel cardstock was used as the base for this card. I glued the die cuts down with some Mono Adhesive and then paper pierced around the perimeter. The sentiment is stamped in Memories Chalk ink in delicate rose, which sounds like it wouldn't even be close to matching that scarlet cardstock, but does! No other embellishments needed on this one!


Have a great weekend! I'm off to do some Holiday baking!



Supplies:
Grunge board
Alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry
Blending stump
Memories chalk ink in delicate rose
Sentiment stamp - The Angel Company
Cardstock - PTI

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Poinsettia swap card

Hello all! I participated in a swap over at Victorine Originals Yahoo group and this is one of the cards I made.



I used the Spellbinders Poinsettia Nestabilities (the two smaller flowers) and the leaves are done with the bigger die. I cut them out of Pure Poppy cardstock from PTI and highlighted them with red brick versamagic chalk ink. I did a bit of bending and scrunching to make them appear real.


The evergreen branch stamp is from Victorine Originals and it's stamped in Palette Jardin Moss several times. I popped up the poinsettia with some foam tape but prior to it being added between the evergreen branches, I punched a hole for the stamen to go through. I used that fabulous MS punch and punched out a few brown branches and added them behind the poinsettias to balance it off. The sentiment is also from V.O. and is stamped in Palette Jardin Moss.


This turned out to be a simple and fast card that packs a punch! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Monday, December 14, 2009

Card Sketch Tuesday #159

Happy Tuesday! Here is sketch #159 and measurements are below! How about a masculine Christmas card this week? Well, that's what it turned out to be...


Measurement are: Card base 4.25 x 5.5
Burgandy layer - 2.5 x 4.25
Green layer - 3 x 4.75
Stamped image - 1.75 x 2 3/8
All layers are matted with a 1/16 border.

The moose is colored with Copic Markers and is from The Angel Company (retired). The color of the red is garnet R39, but it's looking kind of pinkish in the picture. This card ended up being very country or masculine looking!
The green designer paper is from Kaisercraft and I ran it through the new Cuttlebug plaid embossing folder that I got at HSN, which I hear is no longer available. Bummer!
The tag is cut using one of the tag nesties that I have and anchored on with black brads. I added two more self adhesive black pearls to the Burgandy cardstock to match.

Here is a close up of how the stamped image is colored. The moose almost gets lost in all that red plaid! LOL!!!
The set also comes with three evergreen tree's and I stamped and colored those, cut them out and glued them to the inside of the card (you can see it on the lower left hand side in the first picture). Since I'm just finishing up all my Christmas cards - the inside sayings - I have now decided that I'm going to finish off as many cards on the inside as I possibly can! It was the pits having to go back and add them at a later date!

Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think of my masculine Christmas card! Have a great week!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Golden Ornaments

Hey everyone! Here's another Christmas card I wanted to share!

The designer paper is Reese from The Angel Company. The ornaments and sentiment are stamped directly on the tan layer with versamark and then embossed in gold embossing powder.
I cut a 2 inch strip of the circle patterned paper and adhered it to the top and then added the grosgrain ribbon. Three self adhesive gold pearls are added to the left side, which are from the Reflection line at M's. The bow is tied with the bow-easy.

What do you think? This card is super fast and easy for those last minute cards!

Have a great day!