Scrapping by Design

This hand made Easter card is going to a teenage boy.  I think it would probably work for any age, but its one of the few that may be suitable for the masculine recipient.

The images are made by stamping with two different stamps. I added some Sparkly Fluff (Rockin Pink) for accents.

The “To” embellishment is cut with the Cricut using a shape from A Walk in my Garden cartridge.

I embossed the background papers using the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and the Big Shot.

This hand made Easter card features dry embossing with  Cuttlebug Embossing Folders done with the Sizzix Big Shot.

The tag is a punched shape.

The tulips are cut with the Cricut and come from the folder called A Walk in My Garden.

A bow of white ribbon and a small white eyelet fancy up the look a little.

Happy Spring is a stamped image.

This hand made Easter card is intended for a young child.

The words “BE Happy” are die cuts, as is the wheelbarrow and flowers. I did them using the Cricut Expression 24-Inch Personal Electronic Cutting Machine. The cartridge is Cricut 29-0223 Walk in My Garden Shape Cartridge.

The background is actually white, although it looks blue in the picture. It is dry embossed using the
Sizzix Big Shot and the small flower flower embossing folder from Cuttlebug.

I glued on a few punched flower shapes to add to the flowers in the wheel barrow, and I used a little Sparkly Fluff in the center of the alphabets.

This is another Easter card using the die cut tulips made with the Walk in my Garden cartridge and the Cricut.

As before, the background is embossed with the Swiss dots, and done with the Sizzix Big Shot.

After cutting the tulip shapes, I ran them through the embossing folder as well, so both tulips and background are embossed with the Swiss dots.

I’ve tied a little yellow bow on the tulips, and the sentiment Happy Spring is a stamped image.

. I made this birthday card using a die cut rose. I made the die cut with the Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine and the Cricut 29-0223 Walk in My Garden Shape Cartridge

The background behind the rose is done with double sided tape and Sparkly Fluff, a product that is similar to Fun Flock, but with sparkles in it.

The background is embossed using the Big Shot and the flower folder from the Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2/Pkg, Dots And Flowers

The Happy Birthday stamp is from The Old Island Stamp Company and the checkered design is scrapbook paper.

This hand made Easter card combines a number of techniques, and it incorporates a new product called Sparkly Fluff by Our Craft Lounge. Sparkly Fluff is similar to Fun Flock, except it contains well… sparkly stuff. Think Fun Flock with glitter and you’ve got it. I suppose you could add glitter to Fun Flock and get the same effect.

In any case, the Sparkly Fluff I used is Rockin Pink, and I bought it at Making Memories with Scrapbooking in Burnaby, BC.

The tulip is a die cut made using the Cricut 29-0001 Personal Electronic Cutting Machine and the cartridge called Cricut 29-0223 Walk in My Garden Shape Cartridge.

The tulip is colored with the Sparky Fluff, which in real life is much pinker and sparlier than it appears in this photo.

The background is white card stock that I have embossed using the Sizzix 655268 Big Shot Cutting-and-Embossing Roller-Style Machine and the Provo Craft Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder, Swiss Dots

The stamp, Happy Spring, is by Memory Box.

I quite like this Easter card.

And yet another lovely Holiday card has arrived from my CST group.

I’m thinking I really need a new scanner. Mine seems to be distorting color so badly. In real life, the card is so much nicer than it appears here.

The background is a delicate blueish-green with snowflakes stamped in an even more delicate blue.

The sentiment is stunning. It’s stamped and heat embossed with a delicate, glittery embossing powder.  It is not black, as it appears here in the picture.

I hope the card’s creator will let me know what color and brand she used, because it is lovely.

The snowflake near the bottom is white with a faint tinge of pinkish red glitter.

Thanks for this lovely Christmas or Holiday card.

Those Christmas cards from the CST group are still coming.

This beautiful silver and blue card features snowflake embossing on the metallic blue paper and a swirly embossing on the silver paper.

The star at the card top is a punched shape, I think, and the Merry Christmas is stamped in blue ink.

Another interesting feature of this card was the gorgeous envelope it came in. The envelope is hand made out of a calendar. The outside has an attractive design that could be any kind of paper, but when you open it you can see the calendar boxes inside.

I plan to save calendar pictures to make envelopes from now on. What a great idea.

Thanks to Melanie Wortman for making and sending this lovely Christmas card.

Yesterday, I received this lovely Christmas card from Ardelle McFarland, a member of the Canadian Stamp Talk (CST) Yahoo group. We are participating in a Holiday card exchange.

As always, Ardelle’s card is perfection. It combines  Cuttlebug embossing, a Spellbinder Nestability shape, stamped images, a small punch art flower with a beaded center and striped ribbon. The inside is just as lovely.

All elements in this card are perfectly color coordinated. Even the gray and maroon striped ribbon is an exact match of the card stock and the stamping ink.

Thank you Ardelle! Yours was the first card to arrive.

Birthdays take on a whole new meaning when you receive so many lovely birthday card RAKs as I have this year. This one is from Julie Beaulieu, another member of CST (Canada Stamp Talk) Yahoo group.

Once again, I am cursing my scanner for distorting color. This gift  is a beautiful rich purplish-violet colored card, layered on a white background and elegantly embossed with a floral design around the bottom and right side.

“Happy Birthday” is stamped with purple ink on white, and a similar purple flower is stamped inside the card.  It’s quite lovely.

Many thanks to the card’s creator and sender. This birthday card is  simple, elegant and beautiful.