Card A Day Blog Entry: My Sympathy

Hi there, it's time again for another entry for the Card A Day Blog. This week's theme is Sympathy. Here is the card I made for this post.

This car was really rather simple. I started off with a piece of designer paper, cut to approximately 2.5" x 5.5" and positioned it on a white card base about an inch or so below the top. I then adhered lace across the top and bottom of the designer paper. I placed three butterflies across the patterned paper that are from Recollections. I then added a stamped sentiment across the bottom of the card base. That's it, easy peasy.

Thanks for stopping by, and checking out my card. I would really love to hear what you think, so please leave me a comment and let me know how you like it. Please visit the Card A Day Blog for some wonderful card making inspiration, and remember to check out our monthly challenge for the chance to win a great prize!

April Build - A - Flower Challenge With Jules For WOC

Hi everyone, today I'm posting my very first video tutorial which is for a challenge that I'm entering which is the April Build - A - Flower Challenge With Jules For Wild Orchid Crafts. If you would like to check out the details of the challenge, visit Jules' blog, The Jule Box, and go check it out.

For the challenge we were to make a video or picture tutorial to show how we made our flowers using plane, flat flowers, by adding color to them, and adding whatever embellishments we chose to use.

Here is my video that I made for the challenge.

I hope you enjoyed my video, and that you find it informative. As always, I love to hear what you think about my creations, so please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Card A Day Blog Post: Mother's Day

Hi there, thanks for stopping by. It's time again for another post from me at the Card A Day Blog. This week's theme is Mother's Day. Here is the card I made.

This was a pretty simple card to make actually. I first started off by making several butterflies in blue, yellow and peach using my Cricut, and the Sure Cuts A Lot program. I made each one about 1 inch wide, then ran them all through my Cuttlebug in the Swiss Dots folder to make little embossed polka dots on them. I added two Darice Adhesive Back Acrylic Gems to the middle of them.

For my background image, I used the A2 Butterfly embossing folder from The Paper Studio on a piece of white cardstock cut to 5.25" x 4", then attached it to my card base. I then adhered a piece of peach checkered ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon vertically on the left side of the embossed cardstock, then adhered three butterflies to the ribbon. On the inside I stamped the words Happy Mother's Day using a stamp I had in my collection.

I hope you like my little butterfly card, and I would really love to hear what you think by leaving a comment. Make sure to drop by the Card A Day Blog everyday for some great card making inspiration  For those of you challenge lovers, we also have our monthly challenge, so go check it out.

Marly the Mouse

I just sent off my latest card to my swap partner, Sheryl, at the Paper Crafts Yahoo group. The theme was animals, so when I saw this cute little mouse, Marly, from Poly Craft, I just had to use him for my card.

I printed Marly out an white cardstock, colored him with copic markers, and mounted him on a Spellbinders frame, then added him to the front of my card. I used white rick rack along the right side of the card, and added blue/teal flower Jewel Dazzles to the trim and image.

I sure hope Marly enjoys his trip all the way to Australia, and I hope Sheryl will love him as much as I did. 

Card A Day Blog: It's Springtime!

Hi everyone, it's time again for another entry from me for the Card A Day Blog. This weeks theme is " Spring", and I chose to make this card for my post for today.

To make this card, I started off with a 5.5" x 4.25" white card base, then for a background, I chose to use a patterned paper from The Pocket Full Of Posies 8"x8" paper stack from DCWV, cut to 5.25" x 4", then adhered it ( after attaching the ribbon mentioned later ) to the front of the card base.

For my images, I chose the stamp set "It's Springtime" from Woodware Craft Collection. I stamped the three square images and the ladybug on a tulip image on a piece of white cardstock using black ink. To color the images, I used Copic Markers, Y08, Y17, Y38, R05, BG000, Bg10 and BG34. After coloring, I cut the images out, then adhered them using dimensional tape, to Spellbinder die cuts, cut out with the Fleur De Lis Squares smallest (3 cuts) and the next to the smallest die, and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Broken China. 

To put it all together, I cut a piece of yellow checkered ribbon, from Really Reasonable Ribbon, long enough to fit my background paper and adhered it to the left side of my patterned paper, before adhering it to my card base, then I attached my smaller images to the top of the ribbon. I then attached my other image to the right of those images. I also stamped the sentiment  " It's Springtime" that also comes with this stamp set, cut it out, inked it with the Broken China ink, then attached it under my largest image.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my latest card, and that you come back again to see what else I've come up with. Be sure to check out the Card A Day Blog each day for some wonderful card inspiration and check out our monthly challenges, where one lucky winner will win a great prize!

Card A Day Blog Post: Happy Easter

Thanks for stopping by, it's my turn again to post for the Card A Day Blog, and this week's theme is, Easter, and here is the card I created.

To make my card, I started off with a 5.5" x 4.25" white card base, then added a piece of green paper, cut to 5" x 4" and added that to my card base. 

For my Easter Egg cut out, I used my Cricut and my Sure Cuts A Lot program, to cut out a rectangle out of a piece of yellow checkered patterned paper that I had on hand, and also set it to cut out the egg shape with a file that I had in my collection. 

For the ribbon, I needed to know where the egg cutout would be when I adhered it to my card, so I placed it on top, and added little marks to the green paper that would be underneath, so I would know where I needed to put my ribbon so it would give it full coverage. I then cut pieces of various ribbon from " Really Reasonable Ribbon" and adhered them to the green paper diagonally across the area where the egg cut out would be. I placed dimensional tape around the back side of the cut out paper, then placed it on top of the green paper, so the ribbon would show through the cut out.

For my tag, I used one of the tags from the Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags Two. I cut the bottom layer out of a medium peach color card stock, and cut the top layer in light peach card stock, inked the edges of both pieces with a touch of red ink, then stamped the words, Happy Easter on the top piece and attached it to the bottom piece of the tag. I then added this piece to my card using dimensional tape.

To finish off my card, I ran a piece of one of the same ribbons I used for the egg, across the bottom of the card, then for a little bling, I added gold Jewel Dazzles to the ribbon and to the sides of my sentiment piece.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my card as much as I did making it. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of it, and make sure to visit the Card A Day Blog everyday, for some wonderful card making ideas. We also have our monthly challenge, for those of you who like to enter challenges.

Card A Day Bog Post: Baby

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by. It's my turn today to post a card for this weeks Card A Day Blog theme "Baby".

To make my card, I first started off with a 5.50" x 4.25" white card base. I cut a piece of yellow card stock at 5.24" x 4" and embossed it with my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder, then I adhered it to the front of my card base. 

I then cut strips of ribbon from the March 2012 Really Reasonable Ribbon ribbon club, and one strip of ribbon from different manufacturer, and adhered them vertically across the card front. 

I decided to use this cute little elephant, Emery, from Verve Stamps as my image. I stamped it on a piece of white card stock using black ink, then colored the image with Copic markers, C-0, C-2, and C-3. I then cut it out using the 4th largest die from the Spellbinders Standard Circles (LG) set. I decided I wanted a frame for my image, so I used the 3rd largest Spellbinders Picot Edge Circle on a piece of pink card stock to cut out a frame. I used dimensional tape to adhere my image to my decorative circle. I then placed this piece on top of the strips of ribbon. I added some tiny buttons that I had in my collection to add a little accent to my card.

As for a sentiment  I decided to wait till I was ready to use it, so I would know more about what type of message I wanted to convey.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my latest card creation. I really had a good time making it, and I was pleased with the way it turned out. Now I just have to wait for someone to have a baby, so I can give it to them...lol! Please leave me a comment if you have a chance, I always love to hear what you think. Also, remember to check out the Card A Day Blog every day, for some great card making inspirational  and don't forget to check out our monthly challenge for a chance to win a wonderful prize!