Belli Challenge #97 - Paint

It's time for another Belli Challenge, and this time the challenge is to use paint on your project.  For my card, I cut three flowers out of Grungepaper using PTI's Beautiful Blooms II flower dies.  I painted each flower layer with a Ranger Butterscotch Paint Dabber and then added a layer using a Copper Paint Dabber.  After the paint was dry, I stamped the coordinating flower petals from the Beautiful Blooms II set on the bottom and top layers and embossed them with Renaissance embossing powder from Powder Keg.  I adhered my layered flower using a decorative brad.  The sketch is from Kim Teasdale's Dare to Get Dirty challenge at SCS (DTGD10blondie090277).

The patterned papers are from Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl collection and the scalloped edge ledger paper is from Making Memories' Noteworthy journaling pad.  My sentiment was also embossed using the Renaissance embossing powder.  The butterfly was cut out of vellum and stamped using an image from PTI's Butterfly Dreams set.  I adhered three copper colored rhinestones for its body.  The center panel is Coredinations card stock that was embossed using PTI's Tin Types Impression Plate and lightly sanded to reveal the lighter colored core.

Please head on over to the Creative Belli blog for the details on playing along with us, and while you're there, make sure you check out what the rest of the Belli Girls have made using paint!

One last thing - check out The House That Stamps Built - yours truly is in the spotlight today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding Wishes

Today we are going to Tim's nephew's wedding, so obviously I needed to make a card!  I knew I wanted to use this cake from Flourishes' Let them Eat Cake set.  It's supposed to be a birthday set, but to me this cake looks more like a wedding cake.  I paired it with Stampin' Up's Bella Bleu papers, which I thought went well with the flourishes in the cake image, and that set my color scheme. 

The cake layers were stamped with a combination of Versamark and Stampin' Up Blue Bayou, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The sentiment, stand and banner (from an old Fiskars clear set called Romance) were all stamped using Versamark and then heat embossed using Powder Keg Metallic Marble embossing powder.  The background for the sentiment tag was airbrushed.

I cut the image out and mounted the bottom layer using a double layer of foam tape, then mounted the middle layer with a single layer of foam tape and the top layer was mounted using Stampin' Up dimensionals, which are thinner than the foam tape.  You can see the dimension in the photo to the right.

I finally tried the scrunched up ribbon technique that seems to be showing up all over blog land.  I placed a strip of ScorTape down on the my patterned paper and then started scrunching the ivory satin ribbon and adhering it to the tape.  I had run the ribbon through the ends of the sentiment panel before I started.  Finally, I added some flat back pearls.

For the inside, I kept it pretty simple and just stamped the heart, from the Fiskars Romance set, and the sentiment, from Papertrey Ink ETA: Flourishes' Tag Lines set, and heat embossed with the Metallic Marble powder. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your weekend!

Belli Challenge #88 - Color Spray

Happy Wednesday! It's time for another Belli Challenge! This week's challenge is to use color spray - Glimmer Mist, a home made mixture using Perfect Pearls, Walnut Ink sprays, or even airbrushing with your Copic markers - whatever you desire! We also have a sponsor this week - The Stamping Boutique, who provided us with several digital images to use.  My card features an image called First Dance.

My card base is plain brown textured card stock that I covered with a Glimmer Screen template and sprayed with gold PK Glitz Ritzy Ditzy Glitz spray.  It has a LOT of shimmer to it, but I was unsuccessful in my attempts to capture that in a photograph.  My mat layer is black textured card stock with a scalloped border, which I also sprayed with gold spray. 

The image was colored with Copic markers and I used a nubby old washcloth dampened with Colorless Blender and dabbed on their clothes to give them some texture.  I used a black Spica marker to color the music notes and a clear one on the ribbon on her bonnet.  The sentiment is from Flourishes Tag Lines set and while it was still in the die, I sprayed it with the Ritzy Ditzy spray, too.  I wish you could see all the sparkle!

Please be sure to check out what the other Belli Girls have done with their Color Spray and Stamping Boutique images!  If you would like to play along, please leave a link to your project on today's Creative Belli Blog post, or use CBC88 for your keyword if you upload to Splitcoast Stampers or Paper Craft Planet.

The Stamping Boutique is having a sale until April 20, 2010. Use coupon code, "candy" for a 35% off discount!  Not bad!

 
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Happy World Card Making Day!

Hello! Happy World Card Making Day to my fellow card makers! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this holiday, World Card Making Day is a day especially for card makers around the world to:

• Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family

• Kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season.

This is my first time 'celebrating', but since I'm home today with nothing on my agenda, it seems like a fun way to spend the day! To learn more about it and find ways you can participate, if you're interested, click on the WCMD blinkie on the left side of my blog, or click on the link above to the WCMD web site.

The project I'm posting here is a card folder I made for my mother and gave to her on her birthday a few weeks ago. Last Christmas, I had made a card folder for her that contained four birthday cards (see this post for details) and later she mentioned that she was also in need of get well cards, so this folder contained four get well cards.

I used the All Boxed Up Timeless Template from Papertrey Ink (PTI) to create the card folder, using PTI's Gold Shimmer card stock. For the front cover, I used a piece of Bitty Dot Basics in Ripe Avocado, then I added a strip of Italian paper across the middle. The stamped image is from the With Sympathy set and was stamped with Memento Bamboo Leaves and Potter's Clay and then colored using Copic markers.


I used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch to make the butterfly, and I stamped it using some of the flourishes from the With Sympathy set's main image, and then outlined it with a gold leaf pen. The second picture shows the folder when it is open, with two cards in each pocket.

The two cards I'm posting were both made using the Quilter's Sampler set. For the first card, I created a rectangular 'quilt' using two different squares from the set and colored them with Copic markers to match the papers I had selected. The spool of thread was stamped and cut out, then wrapped with some of the Gold tinsel from the Gold Collection. I stamped the needle from the set, cut out the eye and threaded it with some gold wire, then stuck it in my spool of thread. The scissors were stamped and colored with Copic markers and I colored over the handles with a gold Spica marker to give them some sparkle.

For the second card, I did basically the same things, using slightly different colors, and I used a scissor charm instead of the stamped scissors. The sentiment was stamped with Versamark directly on the patterned paper and heat embossed using Powder Keg embossing powder (China Jade, I think).

Sorry for such a long post - thanks for hanging in there with me if you made it this far! I'll save the other two cards for another post!

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your weekend!

Happy Anniversary

Before I left for CHA, I made this anniversary card for my mother and her husband, who had their anniversary last week.

I stamped the heart from Stampin' UP!'s Always set twice on Very Vanilla paper and embossed it with Powder Keg's (now known as PK Glitz) Buttered Rum embossing powder. I cut both hearts out (gee, that sounds ghoulish...) and mounted them on the green mat that was cut out with Spellbinder's Labels Two Nestabilities.

The sentiment was also stamped and embossed with the Powder Keg embossing powder. I loved this sentiment for them because my mother has been into various forms of sewing (embroidery, needlepoint, smocking...) for as long as I can remember. I, on the other hand, have ZERO sewing talent (well, OK, I did a little cross stitching for a while, but how hard is it to stitch an X??), so I used a gold gel pen to add some faux stitching around the mat and the sentiment. I added a trio of gold beads to the corners and added some ribbon and a bow around the mat.

Funny story about this card - I had it all finished up and one of our cats was crying outside my stamp room, so I let her in and she got up in my lap while I was trying to figure out if there was anything else the card needed. In one fell swoop, she leaned in, grabbed the tail of the bow and yanked it completely out....I almost started to cry, as I had worked on that bow for quite some time, trying to get it 'just right', but in the end I just had to laugh. And put her in her room for the night....I slept on it and finished it up the next morning. Unfortunately, the final bow wasn't as purty as the bow she destroyed, but it turned out OK. And that is why my cats are not usually allowed in my stamp room....

One more funny story I left out of my CHA post. I talked to my cousin before I left for the show and she said I should look up her daughter while I was out in California, but I told her I wouldn't have an opportunity since I was going to be with other people and would be in Anaheim and not L.A. I didn't even have an opportunity to meet up with my sister, who lives in L.A. and had a birthday while I was out there.... So, I'm sitting on the plane coming back to Atlanta and about an hour into the flight a voice from the seat diagonally behind me says my name and I turn around and there she is - my cousin's daughter (my first cousin, once removed, I guess...). How is that for a small world?? So, I did get to visit with her, after all! She's a big wig at the Cartoon Network (in charge of developing all of their movies) and was on her way to Atlanta for some meetings about her new movie. Very fun coincidence.

Hope you're having a good week, thanks for reading this little novel!

Card details:
Patterned paper: Stampin' UP! Haiku
Card stock: Stampin' UP! More Mustard and Very Vanilla; green card stock from my stash
Stamps: Stampin' UP! (heart); Papertrey Ink (sentiment)
Ink: Versamark
Ribbon: Ellen Hutson
Misc.: Embossing Powder - Powder Keg; gold beads: Michael's