2 Silhouettes-CADB

Hi all,
I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog and want to welcome all to my blog. The theme this past week has been Wedding and I have a few cards that need to be made for weddings this summer so this worked out perfect for me.

Plus I had to do some cards for a swap that I was in so it was a win-win situation all the way around!

The inspiration of this card came for the latest copy of Paper Craft magazine. They were featuring some wedding cards, so it didn't take long to figure out what I wanted to do for the swap and today day at CADB. There a few others that I would like to try too so you just may see them soon.
< This is the inspiration behind this card, there was just something beautiful on the simplicity of the card.

This is what I used to make the card: It's A2 size card the base is tan cardstock from the paper company pack I think desert pack. The background paper is a brown (leather look) rounded on all the corners and came from the DCWV heirloom pack (lovin this pack at the moment!). Gold rickrack for my stash (my husband used to work in textiles I have lots of this type of stash). Silhouettes in black cardstock scraps. Stickles in distressed antique linen. I did notice with the distress stickles not so much of the glitter look, more of a matte look to it.

The 2nd layer of the card is from the same stack pack cut from the Lucy Labels @ 3.5". I used distressed ink: Brushed Corduroy for the edges of the pattern cut to give it more of antique look to it.

I taped the rickrack to the background and slide the ends behind that. The silhouettes  were cut from the heritage cartridge @ 1 3/4" and the & sign at the same height from the Stone Script cartridge.

This will go in the inside of the card and was cut with the cuttlebug and a spellbinder die I think the classic scallop oval. This was an interesting card to make and I did a few things I don't normally do, like inking the edges and the distress stickles (thought this was a great opportunity to find out how it would look).




Thanks for sharing the day with me and if your up for challenges there is just a couple of days left at the Card A Day Blog to enter.

Luck O' the Irish

Hi All and if your stopping by from the Card A day Blog welcome,
The theme this week over at Card A Day Blog is St. Patrick's Day and this is the card I have done for this theme:

This is how I made it:
This is a complete cricut made card even the base was cut from A Child's Year cartridge.

A Child's Year cartridge has a card feature that I decided to use for this card because of the shamrocks border on it. With the cartridges you just never know what your going to get in sizes sometimes. So I tried 4.25" for an A2 size card and the gap on the mat in the picture above is that card. Height was 4.25" but the width is 3 3/8". So when I did fit to page feature. I got a 7" high card with 5 1/4" width. So maybe a 5 1/2" high card will give me a the 4.25" wide card I was looking for at the beginning. I'll try that for the next card I do and let you know what happens. 

The icon feature on this cart doesn't seem to be part of the card feature. I did the hat in 4.25" and that is what I got a 4.25" high. So I did one around 2" for the card.

Cricut has out a wonderful all around holiday cartridge from New Year all the way through Christmas with most of the holidays in between, Celebrate with Flourish. That is where this sentiment came from. I put a piece of dark green cardstock behind the shamrock border to emphasis the border.
Put it all together add some stickles and rhinestones for the bling and the card is complete. I saved the smaller card base for to use for another card. So if you have a cricut and any of the cartridges that hats the card feature, play around with it. Surprising none of them are alike when it comes to the feature. 

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everybody! Have a fantastic day! This is what I woke up to this morning

Yep that is a card, boy was I totally surprised by my husband this morning. If you see in the upper left corner the card I made last month for him actually puts the size into perspective (that is an A2 card).

Now on to the card I made for today, this card I made at my local Close to My Heart class and it was a really fun card to do.

This was a really fast card to make. The scallop rectangle and heart was cut out from the teacher's CTMH cartridge (Art Philosophy) with a CTMH stamp set (not sure which one it was). The border behind the sentiment was done with a crimper and gave it nice textured. The one background piece (red with white dots) the dots were stamped on to the piece. So now I have my card ready for Dave for next year, its fantastic to be ready that far ahead!

Next month keep an eye on the blog as I go through a book that I just got yesterday

I've seen so many beautiful cards out there that are colored and wanted to learn this fine art, so I seen this book and had to get it. So as I progress through the book I will be doing cards to show what I'm learning. I also got a book during a blog hop in October 2011 as the blog candy that I also want to try some of those techniques.
Another thing that I have been looking into is the new craze with the smash books and checked out some youtube videos on it and plan to make one of my own themed towards my growing up years, I have so many items scattered around that I received from my mother that this to me maybe a fantastic place to put it. So I look forward to doing that and sharing it with you all.
Have a fantastic day! I look forward to chatting with you again soon.

Challenges:

InspirationEmporium-Put a Heart on It challenge

Invited for Tea-CABD

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend and had a chance to enjoy the hop over at the Card A Day Blog. If you have come from Card A Day Blog welcome to my blog.
The theme this week is invitation and I wanted to try something of a different type of invitation:

How about an invite for tea amongst the girls. This is a lovely way to ask a friend over for tea and talk time.
This card came about mainly from scraps. Since I worked on a journal challenge all day Saturday, I didn't have a chance to prepare a card. But in an hour and half Monday night this is the card I did.

While I was learning how to do the wet emboss technique I did a lot of different cuttlebug folders dry embossing and then wet embossed and added heat embossing powder. Well I kept all the extras in a box, which is so handy when you need to do up something quick.

Recipe for the card:

PAPERS: Card base is from the DCWV Rustic Stack, the doily border is from Coredinations gemstones paper, assortment of colored papers from my scrap stash.

 

INKS: Stampin up basic black and the sentiment was done with studio g chalks, wet embossing was probably VersaMark

 

DIECUTS:  Nestabilities  Labels Nine

STAMPS:  tea cup is SU and the sentiment is CTMH

ADHESIVE:  ATG Tape gun, Scotch 3M glue, pop dots 

PUNCHES: Lace Ribbon, 2 3/8" Extra-Large scallop circle and scallop oval both from SU
 
MISC:    Ribbon from stash, Lavender stickles, Crystal Stickers elements, butterfly stick pin (I received as a gift in a swap)

TECHNIQUES:  Dry Embossing, wet embossing

Don't forget the challenge going on over at Card A Day Blog there is a fantastic prize giveaway for this month and 3 different themes to work with. Thanks for joining me today and remember scraps can be your friend in a time of need, have a great day!
ENTER FEBRUARY CHALLENGE:

Winner of the CADB Superbowl Blog Hop

Hi all,

Just had random.org choose the winner of the blog candy I took the list of my followers and then my comments and the winner is:





Congratulations goes to Bethany Harlan one of my fabulous followers! Congrats Bethany!

Bethany I will contact you shortly for your address info. Thanks for all the fantastic comments!

Have a great day all, check back tomorrow for the card I did for CADB

Superbowl Blog Hop Day2-Blog Candy too

If you are here to check out the Marion Smith's 2012 31 day challenge you can find that post click here

If you came for the Card A Day Blog Superbowl Blog Hop then You are at the right place. Day two of the hop, I hope you all have checked out all the stops on this hop there is some amazing work to see.

It's BLOG HOP TIME!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a blog hop this weekend! The theme is Masculine cards!
Let's not let the guys have all the fun on Super Bowl Sunday....let's get a little of our own fun in!


To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize give aways...so make sure you pop in!
Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, becasue adt the end of the weekend, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog,
and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog!





So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

Here is my rendition of a card I received at our local card swap last weekend, love to get inspiration from other places!

Isn't it a cool idea for a card! The one I received from the swap was snatched up so quick by my husband for Albert's birthday on the 1st that I didn't even get a chance to take a picture of the original card. I think I came similarly close to the same idea that she had done.

Oh yeah, I have some blog candy I'm giving away too.

I also have some blog candy available and this is what you need to do to get a chance to win it:

The drawing for the Barbeque sticker pack and the chipboard album will be drawn Monday by  random.org. All you need to do is: today and tomorrow to qualify either become a follower or leave a comment, if you do both you'll have 2 chances, that's it. If you come both days you really have a lot chances.

Enjoy the Superbowl if your watching, Since my favorite team (San Fran) didn't make it I'll have to root my husband's team the New England Patriots. Go Patriots!

I completed it! The Marion Smith's 2012 31 Day Challenge

Here is my submission for the Marion Smith's 31 day challenge. I may not have gotten it up in time for the contest but I did get it finished...

It can be found here:

My you tube spot is Tina's Scrap Corner. I'm new to this you tube thing, please be kind! I hope I did it right. I will get the other card on Sunday morning, this will be a card I received at a swap that is perfect for a male birthday..
Goodnight all!

Superbowl Blog Hop Day1-Blog Candy too

It's BLOG HOP TIME!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a blog hop this weekend! The theme is Masculine cards!
Let's not let the guys have all the fun on Super Bowl Sunday....let's get a little of our own fun in!


To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize give aways...so make sure you pop in!
Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, because at the end of the weekend, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog,
and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog!





So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

Hi all and I hope your enjoying the hop, we wanted to give the crafters something to do this weekend. (especially if you not interested the bowl game. If you came here without being at the Card A Day Blog then you are gonna want to start there (Look above), you don't want to miss that fabulous prize pack over there! Since it's the weekend of the super bowl we decided that masculine was in order, so my card will be a future birthday card for my oldest son (he's quite the collector of superman stuff and a Giants fan too)

Isn't this just a SUPER card! It comes for the cricut Superman cartridge. Superman was cut out at 3.5" and super was cut at 1". The card is 4.25" X 5.5" card.

I also have some blog candy available and this is what you need to do to get a chance to win it:

The drawing for the Barbeque sticker pack and the chipboard album will be drawn Monday by  random. All you need to do is: today and tomorrow to qualify either become a follower or leave a comment, if you do both you'll have 2 chances, that's it. If you come both days you really have a lot chances.

Check back later and hopefully if I can get it completed in time I will have an you-tube video of a project that I have been working n for the Marion Smith's 2012 31 Day Challenge and all entries have to be in by the end of the day. I have most of the pages done just need to add the journaling and the pictures. So check back later and see what I've done. You all have a fun day!

Challenges:
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle