Scrapping by Design

Yet another hand made Easter card featuring die cut tulips.

As you can see, this one is a little different.

I had a scrap of leftover scrapbook paper that I had been saving for years. I loved it because of the spring crocuses.

It worked well with the gold colored Bazzill Bling Card Stock. The tulips were die cut with the Cricut, using the A Walk in my Garden cartridge.  I cut the tulips from a scrap of white paper. After that, I cut just the tulip heads from purple card stock and stuck them on.

The card has a bow of translucent beige ribbon. It doesn’t show up well in the photo but in real life, it looks quite nice.

The sentiment “Happy Spring” is a stamp.

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?

This greeting card features an Anna Griffin stamp by All Night Media. I think its a hydrangea blossom, but I could be wrong.

The image is stamped on glossy paper using a dye ink.  I’ve blocked it on blue card stock and added a small silver colored brad.

The sentiment along the outer edge is also a stamp, “Sing, Laugh, Hope” by PrintWorks. It’s stamped in the same blue ink as the flower.

The border is cut with a border punch. Underneath it, I have glued a wide strip of ribbon that matches the ink color quite well.

I’ve put a length of the ribbon horizontally across the card as well, and attached a small bow.

This card uses the same two stamps as I used in my previous post in which I demonstrated the resist technique.

I’m committed to using my stash this year, so I have chosen papers from what is available, rather than shopping for new.  The results are not always as satisfying as they might be if I shopped specifically for a project, but it feels good to be using up some of the excess supplies.

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.

I made this simple, stamped birthday card at a make and take at Making Memories last week. Making Memories is a scrapbook and stamp store in Burnaby, BC.

Because of issues with my cursed scanner, some parts of this card show as blue. That is incorrect. The blue parts should be cream and the ribbon should be orange.

The card is simple, fast and attractive. It could easily be modified for a Valentine or any other theme.

The two stamped images are done on vellum with StazOn Ink Pad: Timber Brown StazOn is one of the few inks that will dry on vellum without smearing.

The vellum is matted on yellow Bazzill Bling card stock, which is attached to a card of orange of Bazzill Bling orange card stock.

Quite a nice little card, I think.

I made this birthday card using a layer of blue card stock, a layer of glossy blue card stock and a layer of embossed, floral card stock.

I did the embossing using the Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, D’vine Swirls and the Sizzix 655268 Big Shot Cutting-and-Embossing Roller-Style Machine.

The green flower and stamens is a  product purchased from the craft store. I added ribbon tied in a bow and stamped Happy Birthday on the bottom using a rubber stamp from Hero Arts.

I really think the embossing is a great touch to card making. It turns a simple card into something quite lovely — and what a time saver that can be if you are as busy as many of us are.

This birthday card was made for my friend’s mom on her 92 birthday.

This birthday card incorporates a number of techniques — layering, rubber stamping, embossing and die cuts — not to mention ribbon trim and a few yellow rhinestones.

The Big Shot played a major role in making this card. If you aren’t familiar with this machine, I invite you to check out my Big Shot Video Tutorial

First, I used the Cuttlebug Birthday Embossing Folder to make the background.  I brushed the embossed finish with a little navy decorator chalk to make the text stand out.

I cut the three scalloped circles on the Big Shot, using Wizard Nestabilities: Classic Scallop Circles Large

The text in the center of the inner scallop is a rubber stamp from Hero Arts.

I made this birthday card using leftover card stock and papers from the Prayer Shawl Accordion Fold Book Project that I made a few days ago.

This is another effort at Tag Art for the challenge I mentioned yesterday.

For this one, I stamped the tag with a background stamp from Just for Fun, using the Tuscan Earth chalk ink from Fresco.

The green card stock is stamped with one of the images from Creative Block #9 from Stampers Anonymous using one of my favorite colors, Artprint Brown from Memories.  I also went around the edges of the tag and the square using the direct to paper method.

The trim at the bottom is actually several  square, silver beads strung on silver wire, with a silver ampersand charm added. I wrapped the whole thing around the tag and glued the wire down at the back, holding it in place with a strip of scrap card stock.

At the top of the tag,  I punched  a hole and added some brown ribbon, then set in a brown eyelet. The eyelet didn’t end up exactly where I wanted it, but it isn’t too bad where it is.

Now I have to get over the idea that anything I make has to have a practical purpose. I usually think that my tags and other embellishments have to end up on a card or scrapbook layout, for example. I am trying to accept the idea that it is okay for me to create art for its own sake.

I wonder if anyone else struggles with this issue.

This hand made Valentine card is left over from last year, 2008.

I used two styles of patterned card stock for the card front. The heart is cut from a sheet of die cuts and inked slightly around the edges with brown stamping ink.  I have affixed a similar, but smaller heart inside the card.

The button in the middle is a sticker to which I have added glitter.

For the ribbon, I laced narrow red ribbon through lace and tied it in a bow under the heart.

Happy Valentine’s Day is a stamped image.

Hand made Valentine cards are so much fun

What’s Halloween without a black cat? Well, okay, if you’re a stickler for accuracy, he’s not exactly a black cat. But he IS a cat! And he’s apparently inspecting my altered lunch box that I made awhile back.

They say when you have a home business, you have to find a team to help you. This is the Quality Control team. There are two of them, but the other one is camera shy.  And no, they’re not Siamese. They are ragdolls.

As for the altered lunch box, its decorated with three types of scrapbook paper. The alphabets that spell CARDS are stamped images, and the handle is tied with ribbons.

I made a selection of greeting cards and put them in the altered lunch box. It was a gift for a friend.

We sincerely hope she is not allergic to cat hair.

Happy Halloween everyone!