Normally I leave all the family stuff on my Lollipop blog, but this one is too good so I'm posting it to both blogs!
As summer vacation gets closer, our plans this year are to have as much fun as possible. We've been inspired by the Happy Family Movement and their Summer Bucket List Challenge.
This weekend is all about getting our list together and making a fun way to display it.
Check out the challenge - maybe join in the fun - if you do, link up so I can follow your list!
I'm a list maker, always have been. It's come in handy when I make cards so I can tell when I've uploaded them to my store and when I've blogged about them. Since I stopped blogging for almost three months, I've been looking through my lists and realize that there's lots of cards I haven't shared here.
Today, let's talk butterflies.
This card originally started out from all those die cut hearts cards that were floating around for a while. I really wanted to use this butterfly die but it was larger than I roginally thought so instead of a slew of butterflies, I went with three.
The butterflies were die cut in various shades of purple and then sent through the cuttlebug with my trusty swiss dots folder.
From there I just went crazy with layers, something I don't do all that often.
The stamped image is a backgrounder from Cornish Heritage which I stamped the same color as the card stock so it would blend a bit more into the background.
And then I layered, layered and layered some more.
Still haven't jumped on those moving announcements - spent my crafty time today thinking about summer activities for the kiddos since I've just realized we only have a month left of school. With no camps planned this year, I'm starting to panic thinking about a completely empty summer calendar - ack!
Once of my favorite color combinations is shades of pink with shades of brown. But not just any pink, variations of pomegranate or rose red with brown make me smile when I create with them.
Today I've got a really quick birthday card that uses that color combo.
These lace flowers are a big bold stamp so I wanted to enjoy them fully. Because of their size I went with the A7 sized card - a size I very rarely create with.
The flowers (from Papertrey Ink) are stamped in my rose red ink that I adore. The sentiment (also Papertrey) is probably espresso brown if I had to guess from the picture.
I kept it simple with just repeating the layers in colors from from image block and there you have it, a quick and easy, but very pretty birthday card.
I am working on our change of address cards (slowly!) at the moment. I have a design and I have a plan - just haven't had the discipline to get the assembly line working and get these made. My goal? Get myself in gear and have them done by the weekend. Hopefully I'll have them created and photographed to show off next week!
Have a wonderful night!
A couple of weeks ago, there was a Papertry tutorial about using patterned paper strips and mixing and matching. I didn't watch the video but the basci idea stuck in my head. So when I recently went to make a card, I decided to give it a whirl.
I started with the butterfly image and sentiment stamped in one of my favorite colors - marina mist from Stampin' Up. (the stamps are from Papertrey)
With the blue guiding me, I pulled out a Basic Grey paper pack and matched some papers that I though went nicely with the blue.
Usually I use one paper design and stick with just the one on a card. I liked mixing and matching and of course, the paper packs make it easy as they all sort of match to begin with. Hopefully I'll get out of my comfort zone more often and try it again!
Have a great day!
This card was started last month for my Rainbow of Color April Card Makers guild challenge. Then everything I needed got packed away for the move so I set aside the parts I had already done and as I was unpacking today, I found the bits and pieces I had set aside. Luckily, enough was unpacked that I could do what I had originally envisioned doing with this design.
The shapes were die cut and adhered and then I ran it through the Cuttlebug to get some texture. The little sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink.
Here's a little peek at the close up:
Shush - I'm sneaking in stamping time when I should be unpacking.......but it feels great to be back in the studio and creating, even if I can't find everything yet!
Have a great night!
Yippee - finally got our internet back! The first day or two without phone, internet or tv was kind of nice in a get away from the world kind of way. But after the week dragged on, things got old fast!
I am getting my studio up to speed so when it's (semi) organized, I'll snap some pictures.
But after the warm welcome we received from our new neighborhood, I had to pull out enough supplies to get some thank you cards done.
Yikes - not the best picture but I'm still working on where to take pics in the new house.
The image is from Taylored Expressions and the sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I pulled out enough copic markers and a bit of ribbon to get the card decorated although kept it in my usual CAS style.
The carpets were cleaned yesterday so I'm hoping that by tomorrow they will be dry and I can get to organizing. Have a great night!
As I mentioned in my previous post, my studio is packed up and ready for transport. Which means no creating until we move. What are the odds that I'll be able to unpack my studio first? Not taking that bet.
That arrow is pointing to one of the THREE giant tubs filled with crafting materials, that along with all the other boxes and containers in the previous pictures.
I've come to the conclusion that I need to downsize my amount of "stuff". It's almost scary seeing it all packed as it is now. I think as I unpack, I need to start weeding out things I no longer use.
I'll be back after I get some unpacked and back to crafting again - hopefully it will be soon!
We are in the midst of moving houses so posts will be sparse for a little bit ~ my studio is packed up and ready to head to our new house. But before I packed everything up, I created a quick card for my April Card Makers of Artfire guild challenge.
The challenge was to think rainbows. I had one idea that I got half way through and realized I had packed essential items to finish. Today's card was plan B.
The card actually has no stamping at all on it. I took a piece of water color paper and painted it with rose red reinker and water to create the pretty pink background. I then die cut the hearts in various colors and layered them onto the pink paper.
Add a couple of more layers and voila, card (and challenge) completed.
Good morning! In order to celebrate some of the most adorable digi characters around, Softpencil Studios is doing itup in style with some blog hopping. If you want to see all the wonderful creations along the way, START HERE.
If you are coming from the Latina Crafter blog, you are in the right place in the blog hop line.
And now on to my creations.......
I decided to go with a cute little ladybug and flower image for my stop in the hop. And what's so wonderful about digi images is that you can play with their size and shape and come up with more than one look for the price of just one stamp.
Here's my first creation:
I kept this one around and average size for images. I knew I wanted to cut it out into some shape so that helped when I went to print the image out.
I used a mixtures of copic and prismacolor markers for all these images. I wanted to play around with different colros and shades of colors along with the different sizes. And I decided to have a bit of fun with my laybug and change up her colors along the way too. (I almost decided to go for something crazy like an electric blue ladybug but didn't for this hop but I haven't given up the idea yet!)
Here I decided to make the image longer so I could make the image the highlight of the card.
This size image would also work nicely on a longer, taller card as well.
And then finally, I shrunk the image down....
I love having note cards ready to go and how cute is this image for just about any type of note you need to send.
Have some fun with your digi's and play with their sizes. It's like getting multiple stamps for the price of one!
And now enough talk from me, head on over to Kerry is chilling..... to continue your hopping.
Have a fantastic day!
This month I challenged my card makers guild to create valentine, wedding or anniversary cards using scraps of paper. Because let's be honest, I don't know of any card maker that doesn't hae mounds of paper scraps just begging to be used. And I am certainly NO exception. I had a handful of scrappy richness to use for this challenge.
Today I have a simple wedding card that I made using some patterned paper scraps from Papertrey Ink.
The heart is pop dotted and I added just a small sentiment to convey my message and I used some scraps as well as added to my wedding card inventory. A win-win all around!
I challenge my crafty friends out there to use your scraps of paper to come up with some scrappy love cards!
Have a great night!
