Valentine's Day Card

Hi everyone,

Today, I'm posting a Valentine's Day card because it's coming soon! This card is a collaborative effort. Gen first designed it and completed most of it... I added a few elements like the sentiment and the glitter! That's Card à la Carte for you, heheh!

Most of the supplies are retired products of Stampin' Up! with the exception of the sentiment. I added glue to the hearts with Sakura's Quickie Glue and sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.

 

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

shabby chic or vintage?

Hi everyone,

I hope everyone's having a good Monday. Let me start the week by inspiring you with this little frame I made to hang in my studio. I used a lot of Webster's Pages products for this one, starting from the petite papers Life's Portrait in the 6 X 6 format. I love, love, love Webster's Pages. I'm just wondering though: is it shabby chic or vintage? I'm having a hard time making the distinction. If someone could explain to me the difference, I'd really appreciate it.

I love this die from Tim Holtz called Caged Bird. I've used it in the past and I'm not about to retire it. On the cage, I used a fun technique I just learned yesterday through a video by smscapper. It's called the Drunken Scotch Technique where you basically put liquid glue by Scotch on your chipboard piece, then add alcohol inks over the glue then heat set until you see bubbles forming. It creates a fun effect, almost like wrought iron:

The only problem I had was with the glue. I used the liquid glue from Stampin' Up! but the effect is not the same as what was shown on the video. I'll have to buy the glue cuz I really had fun making it. To finish it off, I rubbed some metallic cream in gold and green to make some sort of patina finish.

Although it didn't come out the same as on the video, I'm quite happy with the results. My little bird is glued directly on the card but the cage is popped with 2 layers of foam adhesives.

I love this quote from Tim Holtz's Shabby French set. It speaks to me and will inspire me to be more productive.

Try something different today and just go with it! It's good to get out of the box sometimes.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Never endind birthday card

Hi everyone,

Today's card is a little out of the ordinary, it's a never ending card. It as been around for a long time now and they still amaze anyone who receives it!! A good idea for that special someone or for somebody who as everything. Here's mine

 and when you fold it open, it reveals another image...

 Then another one

 and finally a place for the message

 and if you continue folding you'll be back where you started!!

It's a lot of extra work but oh so worth it.

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Meet Betsy Woods :-)

Hi everyone,

Oh, I couldn't wait to show what I've tried ... early this morning! I made a card out of WOOD!!!!!! And it's easy as pie. All you need are the Texture Cuts Wood Sheets from Stampin' Up! You can cut them with a paper trimmer and stamp directly on them. 

So I cut 2 pieces of 4-1/4" X 5-1/2" and bound them with a piece of book binding tape, leaving a little gap in between the pieces so that the card opens and close properly. And bonus: the wood has a white paper backing so you can write inside!

 

It took me not time to stamp Betsy ( a stamp from Penny Black... not the real name of the stamp -- I just nicknamed her ) and color her with Copic markers and prismacolor pencils. I kept it really basic as I didn't have a lot of time to make this project plus it's really late into the evening, early into the morning. Oooooh, I can see a whole bunch of possibilities with this! I wonder if I could emboss on wood....?!  Hmm...... 

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

I love U Santa...

Happy new year everyone,

Even though it was a much needed break, I'm glad to be back. I really love Christmas with all the light and glitter but I'm always glad when it's over. I LOVE to go back to my daily routine,  and I really appreciate the time I spent at home with my kids just the four of US. So I haven't been to my studio since before Christmas (read FOREVER) so I'm very pleased to do so now.

So here what I came up with, a cute Valentine's day card.

Can you tell that Santa did bring me some scrapping nice gifts... I think you'll be seeing them bits at a time in the next few weeks... I have to confess that in fact my LSS at a sale the day after new year and I really took advantage of it ... with Santa's money LOL and it felt soooooooooooooo good...

I used this nice little dragon from imaginisce and stamped it on Pear Pizzazz DSP from the hostess pack, added a ribbon along with some Peach Parfait DSP and Not Quite Navy CS. The letters are from my brand new (I love it so much) sizzix alphabet dies called butterfly kisses. You're gonna see more of these letters for sure...

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Punched Wreath!

Hi everyone,

So here's the companion card of yesterday's post. This time it's a wreath and it was made with the same Martha Stewart punch as yesterday. I glued the leaves with Tombow Multi-Purpose Glue on a hoop shape i punched with 2 different circle punches.

The berries were made with Adirondack's Dimensional Pearls by Ranger. I can't say I'm crazy about this medium because of the way it dried... it went dull and kinda "wonky". But I managed to revamp most of them by going over them a second time.

Just like yesterday's project, I added liquid glue and Dazzling Diamonds randomly on the wreath.


Alright, so this is the last of my Christmas-related projects. Starting with my next post, which will be Thursday, I will be more seasonal :-)

Have a nice stampin' day !!!

Punched Swag

Good day everyone!

This is the start of a brand new year and I trust everyone had a fantastic holidays. We are back in full force after a much needed break.  Gen and I decided that there would be no daily themes for our posts -- from now, anything goes! Oh, we're gonna have fun with it :-)

And I know that the holidays have come and gone and that a lot of you are a bit saturated with Christmas cards, but I really wanted to show you this one and I am proud of it.

The swag is basically a whole bunch of branches punched with a Martha Stewart Crafts punch, then glued unto the oval with Tombow Multi-purpose Glue.

After I've put together the swag, I added a bit of Liquid Glue and sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds Glitter over the whole thing. I love that effect. The hollies are regular pearls that I colored with a red Copic Marker.

I made a few of these cards for special friends but are not given yet... better late than never!

Have a nice stampin' day !!!