Scrapping by Design

This hand made card, called Spring Has Sprung, is another one from the collection of cards I bought at Scrap Arts moving sale.

The large while flour is a paper flour with a punched shape in the middle, plus a small brad of the same color.

The stem is cut from green card stock.  The row of small flower shapes are punch art.  The sentiment, Spring has Sprung is done by hand using a gel pen.

A row of colour coordinated eyelets competes the card.

It’s a simple design and very attractive.

This attractive Mother’s Day card comes from a Make ‘n take at Making Memories, a scrapbook store in Burnaby.

The images are stamped. I don’t know what stamps were used.

We colored the vase with a technique that is new to me. We used a glaze pen (blue) with a water pen. It worked beautifully. I had not realized you could handle glazed pens this way.

The other coloring is done with Copic markers, and the flowers are punch art.

I imagine the shapes are cut with the Big Shot using Nestabilities Spellbinders, but that is a guess.

I’m gong to send this Mothers Day card to my elderly cousin.

As I mentioned before, Scrap Arts, our North Vancouver scrapbook and craft store is moving to a new location. They had a number of pre-moving sales. I bought a hand made folder containing a number of cards for $1.00. This card is one of them.

The picture doesn’t do it justice because my scanner distorted the pictures and I tried to correct in Photoshop. The end result gives you an idea but the actual card is much prettier.

It’s an easy card to make, using only card stock and scrapbook paper. The embellishments are two layered flower punched shapes with an eyelet in the middle. The ribbon is a transparent cream color, very pretty.

Tomorrow is National Scrapbook Day. Scrap Arts has their official opening in the new location and lots of things going on to mark the double celebration.

This hand made St. Patrick’s Day card has ribbon and stickers — plus a punched border, card stock, a stamped sentiment and some scrapbook paper.

It;s going to a 13 year old boy, so I stayed away from anything too feminine.

The checkerboard area is ribbon.

The green in the middle is scrapbook paper.  St. Patrick’s Day is stamped with a small acrylic stamp, and layered on green card stock.

The punched border going vertically down the card is made with the Greek border punch.

The leprechaun and tiny green shamrock are stickers.

I hope it meets with the boy’s approval. Who knows what kids of that age like?

I made this birthday card using a combination of stamping and a punched shape.

The pink card stock and the paler pink scrapbook paper is stamped Hero Art’s Leaf With Stitching Stamp. I used a pink die ink for a subtle background effect.

The flower is a punched shape, and I have placed a rhinestone in the center.

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is also a stamp.

It’s a simple enough little birthday card and looks better in real life than it appears on screen.

Valentines Day is approaching so I decided to see what a Popup Valentine Ball would be like.

I made these pop-up ball using the Sizzix BIGZ Dies 3D Ball PopUp.

Its cut on the Sizzix 655268 Big Shot Cutting-and-Embossing Roller-Style Machine.

Additionally, you need a Sizzix extended cutting pad to handle the length of the Bigz die.

I made a similar popup ball ornament at Christmas. The video demo is here: Popup Photo Cube Using the Biggz Die.

I decorated this with ruffled lace at the top and bottom. I found it quite challenging to work with the lace as it seemed difficult to get the top and bottom parts of the ball to fit together properly and to “stay stuck”.

Other embellishments are circles punched from a paper doily, a pujchy art flower, and small flowers created with heart shaped punches. I gave the heart shaped flowers a rhinestone center.

I hung the popup Valentine ball ornament with a pink ribbon.

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.

I made this snowman card for the Holidays at a Make N’ Take at Making Memories with Scrapbooking in Burnaby on Friday.

It’s quite a delightful little card. The scan does not do it justice.

The snowman shape is a punch, and the paper is a lovely blue shade — not black as it appears here.

The white border is also a punch.  The scalloped circle is cut with a  Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Circles Die Template.

The words “Merry Christmas” and the tiny silver stars are silver  Outlines stickers.

This Snowman card is already in the mail for a certain young man to accompany his Christmas present

Today’s mail brought a beautiful pink-toned birthday card from another member of the CST (Canadian Stamp Talk) email group.

My scanner seems to be distorting color lately, and even Photoshop hasn’t restored the image of this card to make it look as great at the original.

The card is a monotone with shades of pink. I love monotones. There’s something so elegant about them.

Here, the ribbon in the middle is the palest of pink, and the other parts of the card are various tones of pink and rose. The entire card has a faint glittery effect. I’m told that the sparkles were made with SU (Stamping UP) Paint.

The flower on the top left appears to be a punched shape, punched with a felt or felt-ish paper. A clear rhinestone makes up the center.

The sentiment, reading, “May every part of your Birthday have happy in it” is a stamp.

Thanks so much for this lovely card. It’s much appreciated.

Today the birthday fairy, aka Sue Rapin,a gal from the CST group, sent me the cutest birthday card.

The cupcake  appears to be a punched shape, I think, but it is very much layered and textured. I love texture because I am quite tactile. I like the “feel” of things and this card has a great “feel”.

The bottom part of the cupcake is a corrugated material. The icing is raised, and it has a texture also.

The words “Happy Birthday” are beautifully done. I can’t quite figure out whether the sentiment is stamped or a die cut.

Since the card base is black, the crafter has lined the inside with a pale blue paper, cut with a scalloped edge and trimmed with some stamped images.  The pale blue makes it possible for her to sign the card, something that can be challenging when working with a dark background like this.

It’s a lovely cheery card. Thanks so much.