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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Coffee Cup Gift Card Holder
My very first Cricut adventure.
My friend and fellow paper artist owns three (yes 3) Cricut machines and a Gypsy. She has a Personal Cutter, Expression and a Imagine and doesn't have time to learn how to fully operate and use them, so she asked if I would help out, well yeah! I was thrilled and excited to get to try out all of the machines. She dropped everything off at my home and I loaded everything up into my car for a trip to the local scrapping store for a Cricut 101 lesson. Three hours later, my head was spinning, I brought everything home, and didn't even unload the car. Whew, to much information to cram into my head when I have some deadlines to meet. That was a week ago, and today I fired up the least intimidating of the machines and the one that seemed most popular with the class, the Expression and this is what I made:
My friend and fellow paper artist owns three (yes 3) Cricut machines and a Gypsy. She has a Personal Cutter, Expression and a Imagine and doesn't have time to learn how to fully operate and use them, so she asked if I would help out, well yeah! I was thrilled and excited to get to try out all of the machines. She dropped everything off at my home and I loaded everything up into my car for a trip to the local scrapping store for a Cricut 101 lesson. Three hours later, my head was spinning, I brought everything home, and didn't even unload the car. Whew, to much information to cram into my head when I have some deadlines to meet. That was a week ago, and today I fired up the least intimidating of the machines and the one that seemed most popular with the class, the Expression and this is what I made:
Coffee Cup Gift Card Holders
So what did I think about the Expression, seems that I still have a lot to learn, like how to save paper, for the novice user I wasted a lot of paper even with moving the blade around. I found that it was more efficient to use the original cut out as a pattern and hand cut the shape of the cup base and the lids, the rest were cut using the Cricut. I embossed the top layer and ran the holder through the crimper. Foam tape was strategically placed between the base layers to hold a gift card.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Christmas
Christmas in July.. here are four cards that I made for a Christmas in July promotion using Stampin' Up sets Winter Memories and Winter Post.
Ice Skaters and trees stamped in Memento rich cocoa and colored with Copics, sky is chalked in and dazzling diamonds depict the glistening snow and the bottom of the torn card.
Ice skates from the Winter Memories set were stamped in Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip brown onto watercolor paper and watercolored. Textured Impressions Holiday Frame was cut out and centered on Real Red card stock. Sentiment is from Winter Memories set.
Frame embossed on score pad after stamping Lovely as a Tree set for background in Momento Rich Cocoa, sky is colored with Copic marker. Deer is from the Stampin' Up Winter Post set.
Frame cut and placed on top of card front then opening was sponged with Old Olive in then stamped with Stampin' Up Lovely As A Tree set inking in the trunks with a Chocolate Chip pen. Snow is DecoArt Snow-Tex. Sentiment is from Hero Arts December set. Finished with ribbon and a handmade pen using beads.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Christmas Mini Album
I made this mini album to show the lovely vintage Simple Stories Christmas papers. Classes on putting the album together begin tomorrow and all papers are pre-cut and ready to assemble. Flowers and die-cuts are included.
Plenty of room for photos and journaling. Martha Stewart snowflake and Tim Holtz reindeer.
Journal tags and pretty lace.
Journal pockets and flip fold photo section featuring a stamp of ice skaters from Stampin' Up and Spellbinders Nestability flower.
Includes various stamped items including a Copic painted bird from Artful Inkables, Joy tag from Stampin' Up.
A truly lovely book for your Christmas treasures.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
By the Beach
Lighthouse watercolor
I attended the opening of a new Stamp Store this last weekend and learned some tips on watercoloring with stamps and markers. I stamped the scene in StazOn black and watercolored using my Stampin' Up markers and ink pads. I love the way the lighthouse and seagulls by Art Impressions turned out so peaceful and serene, just like the weather here on the coast today.
Seashells By The Seashore
Continuing the beach theme, I made this card using several stamp sets (Inkadinkado, Art Impressions, K&Co.) and threaded some twine through the grouping along with a button and a golden star. Papers are Stampin' Up Baha Breeze, Kraft and Vanilla. I used my markers to color in the seahorse and lightly add pink to the seashells.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Halloween
Flying By
Monday, July 9, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Pink Paislee Leap
Pink Paislee - Leap by Christy Tomlinson
This Pink Paislee scrapbook page uses the Leap design by Christy Tomlinson. I paired the lovely yellow and blue paper with light blue and black to make it pop. Flowers are a Nestabilities die, the greens are Die-namics and Cheery Lyn designs. Journal tags are from the BoBunny Indigo Bleu Chat Clouds pack.
Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu
Believe
For the tween girl who has Bieber fever...I used a little wooden cutout painted with Copic marker and framed a tiny photo of Justin Bieber, added a charm heart and chain ring, tied with a bow so that it can be removed and used as a key chain, or charm. The buttons and tag are from the BoBunny Indigo Bleu Chat Clouds and Boutique Trinkets packs.
BoBunny Camp-A-Lot
Camp-A-Lot
For these two layouts I used the fun Bobunny Camp-A-Lot designer paper, trinkets, and stickers. I made the tent with yellow cardstock, it opens up to hold four photos or journal pages, tent top, stakes and poles were enhanced with Copics. Tree is hand cut, embossed and popped up on dimensionals, I used hemp twine to string the trinkets from the tent pole to the tree. The trailers and tent sign were cut from left over paper. The journalling sign is a Ellison Thick Cuts Wood Sign & Grass die cut.
This was a simple, easy page. The trees are cut from a Sizzix Tree die, embossed and popped up on dimensionals. The folder at the bottom opens up to reveal space for three photos or journal notes.
Graphic 45 A Ladies' Diary
A Ladies' Diary
I love this beautiful Graphic 45 A Ladies' Diary paper. I adorned these lovely ladies by adding feathers and jewels to their hats, punched and formed flowers around the page along with Maya Road Vintage Lace Mums in Silver Fox color. Butterflies are Cavallini stamps, stamped twice, painted with Copics, cut out and stacked to make them three dimensional.
The parasol, ladies bosom and flowers on hat are all embossed and popped up on the back to give them dimension.
Using a leftover piece of the above designer card stock, I cut out the the two "friends" and made a card. Sentiment is computer generated and the fourth mum from the Maya Road package was added. No scraps left over from these two projects. I feel great when I can use every piece of designer card stock on a project.
Friday, July 6, 2012
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