More Cards

Hello, I have a few more cards to share today. First up is a birthday card for my daughter. I started with a piece of sparkle Yupo paper and alcohol inks. I swirled the inks on the paper. I realized that my Yupo paper was a little small, so I offset it on the teal cardstock piece. I used my Cricut to cut the dancer and then draw the dancer and write the sentiment. The outline of the dancer made it easier for me to adhere the pieces in the right spots.

For my next two cards, I used the same base- I used a background stamp and ombre inkpad and then added cardstock stars that were in my scrap drawer. For the first card, I cut the sentiment with my Cricut.

For the second card, I stamped and punched the tickets. I added the recipient's age with a number sticker on one of the tickets. 

For my final card, I used a mask and ink blended the circles with a couple of colors of blue ink and some white pigment ink for a kind of tone on tone background. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the balloons and dog, adhering them directly to the card and with some foam adhesive. 

 Thanks for stopping by to check out my cards! Hopefully I'll get back to scrapping soon!

Cards- Starting Points

Hello, I have some cards to share today. For these cards, I went through my "scrap drawer" and found some pieces to use as a starting point.

First up is an anniversary card. I started with the background already stamped and colored, which saved a ton of time. Since the background was so colorful, all I did was use my Cricut to cut the sentiments and adhered them to the background. I layered the red one over a shadow in black to make it stand out a bit more. 

I had a pre-stamped background for this card too. I used a new inkpad when I had stamped the background and the pad was quite juicy so the imprint was kind of muddy. To help mask the issues with the stamped image, I started by adding a piece of vellum slightly smaller than the bakcground. I ran that through an embossing folder to add some texture and interest. I cut the sentiment with my Cricut and adhered it to the vellum. I finished things off with a scattering of gold sequins.

This card started with the sentiment strip. It is a piece of yupo paper that had been colored with alcohol inks and the sentiment was stamped with lift off ink. I then found ink pads in coordinating colors and stamped the background with the "Marbled" turnabout stamp. I then found coordinating cardstock and cut the party hat with the Cricut. Some sequins and Stickles add some sparkle to the card. 

 Come back tomorrow for a few more cards!

November Calendar Page

Hello, it's been a while! I've been spending my time taking and editing photos for my business. I was able to squeeze in making a calendar page and some cards (which I'll be sharing over the next few days. I started with the October two page sketch from Stick It Down:

I pulled out some coordinating patterned papers with some fall colors. I cut the pieces and found a grey that went with the grey on the floral paper. I stuck pretty close to the sketch for the photos, just doing four instead of 5 in the strip on the right hand page. I cut the title with my Cricut and stamped the journaling lines. I used some spray ink to add splatters to my page, both spritzing and tapping the straw for larger splats. I embellished the page with some fussy cut leaves and stickers. 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my layout!
 

Material Girl

I finished my older daughter's dance album just in time for her graduation, now onto my next daughter who graduates next year! 

For this layout I used this sketch from Stick It Down:

I started by finding a Cricut background cut that I could cut down for the background. I decided where I would trim it and laid it on my background. I marked where it ended and then took an ink pad and drug it across the cardstock. I then glued the cut background down. This cut had a frame that I cut off and then took some of the stripes and brought them to the edges of the paper. I layered my photos on top. Down the right side, I found some ribbon that was the right color and combined it with a torn sheet of patterned paper. For the title, I used my Cricut to cut the words from black cardstock and the offset from holographic silver cardstock. To embellish the page I found all the pink and black flowers I could. I also dug out the "It's a girl thing" and purse stickers from a sheet I've had for a very long time that I thought fit this layout perfectly. The chipboard flowers were inked to match the colors of the layout. I topped the fabric flowers with coordinating buttons. I finished off the layout with a journaling sticker/

 

Cards

I have several cards to share again. A couple of pairs that started with the same base and then I changed up the embellishments and one from a sketch.

First up is this pair using the Altenew Daisy Craze mask set. I used different colors for each of the cards, but both were blended on white shimmer cardstock. For the purple card, I used my Cricut to cut the flower border and then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum. I finished off the cards with some irridescent sequins. For the second card, I stamped and fussy cut the butterflies. For the big one, I adhered the middle down to the card front with regular adhesive and then added small strips of foam adhesive to the wings to give them a little dimension. I stamped the "happybirthday to you" twice and added it as a tail to the large butterfly.

My second pair of cards used the Altenew Sunburst stencil. I based my colors on the colors in the dot patterned paper. For the first card, I used my Cricut to cut the burst and sentiment. For the second I cut the basket from vinyl for the shine and I thought the design would cut better from vellum and the disc from cardstock. The burst and the disc are attached with foam adhesive. I finished off the first card with a scattering of foil stars.

For my final card, I used the September card sketch from Stick It Down: 

I started by blending the flowers on cream pearl paper using the Concord and 9th Petal Pushers mask set. While that dried, I used an embossing folder on the bottom couple inches of the card for some texture. I cut the sentiment using my Cricut and used the same cardstock to mat the inked panel. I added a few liquid pearls for a little more sparkle.

 

October Calendar Page

Hello! I have some catching up to do again! I'm going to start with my October calendar page today. I used this sketch from Page Maps:

I split all of the vertical photos so that I could fit more on my layout. Otherwise, I stuck pretty close to the sketch. I used a variety of fall papers,  mixing and matching manufacturers and collections. For the large cards across the bottom, i used some cut aparts, stickers and patterned paper. The small banners were fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper. I cut the title using my Cricut. I embellished the page with stickers, chipboard, and brads.

 

September Calendar Page and a Card

Hello all! I have my September calendar page to share along with a card, both using sketches from Stick It Down:

First up is the double page sketch:

This is a great sketch to use up scraps. I pulled out a 6x6 pad and an 8x8 pad and used my Cricut to cut the hexagons from the scraps. I then adhered them to my cardstock. I then found some coordinating cardstocks and matted my photos with them. I stamped the flowers around the corners of the photos and then adhered my photos. I found the arrow washi tape and used that in my corners. For the journaling, I used cardstock strips to caption the photos and stamped journaling lines and added more info on the bottom. For the title, I used foam letter stamps.

I also used this months' card sketch:

This was a pretty quick card to put together. I started by stamping the star and dot background with Versamark ink and used three colors of embossing powder. Once the was heated and cooled, I added the dog sticker. I used foam adhesive behind the treats to add dimension to my card front. I used my Cricut to cut the sentiment.