2024-05-12; Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s!
Mine has since passed so this day is one of remembrance for me.
Today’s sample uses the Cricut & the Wild Card cartridge to cut the card base & mats. I used assorted supplies. Vintage Stampin’ Up (SU) stamp sets of Crazy About You and Flower Shop w/punch. I also added some greenery(Spellbinders) and purchased glittered flowers as accent for the flower centers. The white background was embossed with the SU 3-d embossing folder, Subtle and some SU Gems tucked in around the Flower Shop flowers. FYI–the window is a view to the inside of the card. The sentiment is on the inside w/plenty of room below the sentiment for a personalized note.
Here you can see that I added some sponging to the the white glittered flowers. And now that I’ve seen this close up, I’ve used a heat tool to remove the glue threads.
And one last look at the card before you go on about your day…
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2024-05-10; Shiplap board background
If you are “in the know” about Stampin’ Up (SU), you would know that a new annual catalog came out May 1st. I haven’t bought anything new from SU for a few years. I have been blessed to have been gifted supplies from my girlfriends stamp room. She cleared out everything due to failing health.
OK, back to the catalog. Today’s card was inspired by one of my stamping friends who while perusing the new catalog saw a sketch she liked. She sent me a photo of the inspiration and then I went ahead and made this card to send back to her.
There is actually a lot of stamping & embossing on this card. Take a look at the background. This was made using the large SU background stamp; hardwood. I started by inking card stock direct to paper in assorted brown colors. Next I stamped the hardwood and finally I embossed it with a wood grain embossing folder.
I went back to my work table and cut the “planks” apart and glued them shiplap style to a piece of paper. I then added watercolor to all of the seams where the boards meet. Note to self; next time add some light colored boards!
The rest of the card was made with left-overs from previous projects that were still on my desk. It gives me a sense of accomplishment to use up the last of the bits and bobs laying around. 🙂
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2024-05-09; Acrylic 8×10″ canvas
Today’s crafty share is an 8×10″ painting. At a craft class last month we were provided with a 8×10 canvas, paint, egg cartons and buttons. We were supposed to cut up the egg carton and create flowers out of the egg cups by painting & decorating and gluing them down to the canvas. Most of the ladies were painting a flower pot to put the egg carton flowers into. In my opinion, the cut up egg cups were not very attractive. So I just painted a picture.
It’s been a lot of years since I tried to paint flowers. I mostly ended up with dots that are supposed to look like flowers. I was thinking of adding a sentiment in the big open area by stamping on a piece of tissue and then ModPodging it down. However; I can’t find the tissue paper. I have a ton of it…..somewhere. Sigh.
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2024-05-07; Abstract needle felt painting
This was a fun craft class. We learned about needle felting. With a special needle and wool you can get the wool fibers to adhere together. It took some experimentation to get the fibers to stick down to the canvas.
I painted a general background and then added some embellishments that were provided. Next I added abstract pieces of wool. I think the little woolies that I added on the lace turned out really well.
This was a relaxing class and it was fun to see all of the different “takes” with what materials we were provided. Hopefully, this link will take you to FaceBook and you will be able to see the various samples: Needle Felting Painting Class
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2024-05-05; 1″ square punch
Today’s sample uses a 1″ hand held punch. Yup, I still have a nice collection of hand held punches in squares and circles.
Today I used some vintage (a/k/a old and retired) Stampin Up sets to create this. The sets used are: Fresh Cuts; Echoes of Kindness and In Full Bloom.
I also used an embossing folder to get the texture on the entire piece. It’s the Stampin’ Up 3-d embossing folder called Subtle.
And one last look at the card before you go on about your day…
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2024-05-03; Zentangle drawing put to use
Today’s sample combines 2 of my samples from recent zentangle drawing classes. No stamping at all, just drawing. I added embossing to the bottom layer and then also dotted with Nuvo drops. The black layer of drawing was topped with a chipboard piece & a butterfly sticker.
A close up of the chipboard piece; it came with the printing already on it. I added the crystal effects and gems.
And one last look at the card before you go on about your day…
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2024-05-01; ink your dry embossing
Did it ever occur to you to just keep using the same embossing folder for all of your layers? Until a stamping friend sent me a link to a video, it didn’t to me either.
What you see (of the layers) is a piece of vellum over the white base card, then pink, then white. The pink and top-most white layer were inked lightly by dusting the raised embossed image with pink & orange.
Here you can see that I die cut the dragonfly using holographic paper and then cut a 2nd piece for the body. The flowers are a purchased item that was already glittered & had the gem on it. I took the blending brushes and added the same colors as the inked mats.
This die cut hello was already on my desk so I just added it with 3-d mounting tape.
And one last look at the card before you go on about your day…
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This 3-d printer was loaned to me by my son. He has helped me begin to learn how to use it. So far I’ve printed chipboard type pieces for my cards, a tea lighted Christmas tree and now Shawn the Sheep.
Say hello to Shawn the Sheep. He is a character from the show Wallace & Gromit. He was made by 3-d printing the 4 legs, the tummy base, the head and the roll that fits into the toilet paper.
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2024-04-29; collage with supplies on hand
This card was inspired by a friend who sent me a very similar design. I walked over to my craft desk and using just what supplies where laying about, was able to me this fun collage. And yes, my desk is generally unkempt but I like it that way. Just look at what I came us with using the leftovers laying about!
I even found the little key charm laying on my desk and added it to the birds beak.
I really like the how all of the ephemera combined to create this mixed media collage.
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2024-04-28; Sunshine & computers CR212-168
Here is a quick sketch that that I used along with some embossing & a fancy sentiment.
A stamping friend sent me an assortment of fancy layered and gold embossed sentiments.
And one last look at the card before you go on about your day…
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