Showing posts with label Sentiment - Get Well Soon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sentiment - Get Well Soon. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Stamps of Life - "Tree's 2 Build"




Good afternoon stampers!  Hope your day is going well.  I wanted to share another project today.  I love this set by The Stamps of Life "Tree's 2 Build" and it was easy to whip up a quick card for a couple more challenges today.  Hope you get a chance to be creative today as well!!

hugs,
Melisa


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Project Details

Stamps : The Stamps of Life “Tree’s 2 Build”
Ink : Stampin’ Up “Regal Rose“, Versa Magic “Tea Leaves”
Patterned Paper : My Mind’s Eye Miss Caroline 6 x 6 paper pad
Border Punch : Fiskars
Ribbon : Offray

Stamp tree truck in black ink on card front.  Stamp leaves in green ink, doodle around edges of each leaf, trim and adhere around tree.  Paper piece small birds.  Create bodies from patterned larger wings stamped in rose ink.  Create small wings from patterned leaves stamped in green ink.  Cut patterned paper strip and tear along 1 edge.  Add punched border along bottom edge.  Adhere to card front and embellish with ribbon.  Stamp sentiment.

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Challenges
Stampalot (monthly) - punches (border punch)
Order of the Opus Gluei (sun) - use leaves on your project
The Crafty Pad (sun) - Use an animal
CASology (tues) - wild (the birds are wild)
Crafty Creations (wed) - Get Well

Friday, August 31, 2012

Penny Black "Clusters"



Hello stampers!  I hope you all had a great week.  We wrapped up the day at another new restaurant tonight.  It's kinda becoming a hobby of ours.  We never ate out much when we lived in Jacksonville.  WE lived outside of  town a little and it always seemed like such a chore to load back up after getting home from work to head out again.  But now we are empty nesters, and so many restaurants with in 10 minutes of us here in TX.  Last friday night we tried out a new seafood restaurant, Sharkey's on Lake Houston.  We really enjoyed sitting out on the balcony by the lake as the sun was going down, and the food was really good.  Tonight we tried a french bistro, La Madeleine and had some fabulous chicken sandwiches / soup and a spinach quiche.  That's the first time I had tried quiche.  But now are tummies are stuffed and I'm ready for bed!

Tonight I'm sharing 3 quick cards designed by 3 different manufacturer's so they will have separate mini-post.   I'm on a mission to try and use up older stamps I have never used.  And I love this floral image,  "Clusters" by Penny Black!

I hope you have a great weekend!!
hugs, Melisa


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Challenges

Craft Your Passion (mon) - embossing
Cupcake Craft Challenge (mon) - floral image
Everybody Art (tues) - anything goes
Use it Tuesday (tue) - use that ribbon, they want you to use up your stash.   I used my purple Offray ribbon.
Word Art Wednesday
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul propers.  3 John 1:2
I posted a "get well" card for this one.



Thursday, April 19, 2012

GinaK Designs - Springtime Silhouettes

  
Today I'm sharing another Springtime Silhouettes card.  I am also using a fun flourish die from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I love that there are sooooo many companies making dies now.  So many choices and many of them to fit specific images as well.  Do you have any favories???  
Happy die cutting!!
Melisa

You can view all of my GinaK Designs projects HERE.

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Project Details
Stamps : GinaK Designs "Springtime Silhouettes"
Ink : Tsukineko Brillance Pearlescent Chocolate
Die : Cheery Lynn Designs "Mega Fanciful Flourish"


Trim polka dot patterned paper ink edges and adhere to card front . Trim aqua patterned paper  and ink edges. Adhere cream cardstock on the back along top edge and trim with deckled scissors Adhere to card front. Adhere trim along bottom edge. Cut flourish and adhere to card front. Stamp image on cream cardstock and trim. Embellish with brown tuelle. Stamp sentiment on cream cardstock and cut with oval die 

Friday, March 11, 2011

Nature Walk Get Well


Good Morning Papercrafters.  Today I am sharing a card created using spray inks. 

Stamps : Flowering Gems and Nature Walk clear art stamp sets.
Cuttlebug embossing folder, brown pearl and sentiment stamp - unknown
deckled scissors - Fiskars

Spritz paper with yellow, green and hit of brown spray inks.  Cut it down to panel as shown and emboss with a Cuttlebug embossing folders.  Spray another peice of paper with yellow, orange and brown inks.  Stamp with brown ink using a couple of the flowers from Flowering Gems, cut, and layer.  Add a brown pearl in the center.  Stamp leaves from Nature Walk on patterned paper and trim.  Assemble as shown.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
hugs,
Melisa

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Making the world more colorful with Layers of Color!

Today is Faith Art Friday over at Layers of Color and we would like to invite you to check it out on the Layers of Color Blog!

Layers of Color is proud to be a Spellbinders Preferred Stamp Company and we all love and use the Grand Calibur!

You can now upload your LOC projects to our Flicker Group HERE, and find tons of inspiration.
And please join us on Facebook HERE.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Inchies and Twinchies

Hello Papercrafters.  I spent the day yesterday working on inchies and twinchies.  Not familiar with the term??  They are little mini works of art either 1" or 2" square.  There are lots of paper crafters out there that swap them.  Some collect them as is, but they can be used on other paper projects as well.  There are even 2 challenge blogs that focus on these little pieces of art.  Inchy by Inch and Small World of Inches and Twinches.  I have designed 3 cards with inchy layouts, and 3 twinchies.  I also have a tower of inchies that I made last year and adhered to wooden blocks.


This was so easy to put together.  I used a leaf stamp from the "Vintage Roses" set by Layers of Color and one of the sqaure window cards by Creative Cuts and More.  CCM makes wonderful pre-cut window cards for inchies and twinches.  This one is the A2 Square Borders Window Card.  I adhered my 3 inchies inside the card. Isn't it cute how they peek through the window.
Other inchie window cards are :
Check out this page for even more Square Window Cards for inchies and twinchies HERE.

I'm linking this one to :



I used 6 inchies on this one.  See how versatile these little cuties are.  For this one, I used 4 of the inchies with one stamp.  I adhered them on the brown cardstock and then stamped the clam shell onto them.  If you have an even larger stamp you might consider using 6 inchies.  Stamps are "Under The Sea" by Layers of Color

I'm linking this one to :
The Shabby Tea Room (metal starfish charm)
and Stampin' Sisters for Christ ( A special moment spent with Jesus - when walking on the beach in Jacksonville, it was so peaceful and quite and I would just walk and pray)


This one includes a twinchie and 2 inchies.  Stamps are from "Under The Sea" by Layers of Color.  Are starting to see all the fun options with these and how easy they are to put together??

I'm linking this one to :
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (more than one stamp)
Papercutz Challenge (anything goes)



This is a twinchie set I created.  I didn't have time to make cards with them.  I used "Butterfly Collector" by Layers of Color.


Here is a close-up of one of them.  I bought some 2"wooden blocks and I was thinking about putting them on those.

I"m linking this one to:
Allsorts (Minature, less than 3")



Here is an Inchie tower I created using 1" wooden blocks.  I created these last year.  I wanted a set with red and black to match my craft room. 

Did you know there are stamp companies that sell inchie images?  Lockhart and Inkadinkado.  But you can create an inchie from a larger image by trimming it down.  When I'm trying to decide if part of an image will work as an inchie, I use this little window template:


I lay it over the image to see what part might work.  For instance the 2 ladies are from much larger images by FCD.  The set is called "Leading Ladies".  Isn't the ballerina cute??  She is a cupcake topper image from "Vintage Cupcake" set by Pink Persimmon.  The apples are from one of my fall GinaK sets.  I bet if you started going through all you stamps you would find parts of larger images you could use as well.  The backgrounds behind the 2 ladies are from Inkadinkado.  They sell themed inchie clear stamp sets and you can find them at local craft stores.

Check out Lockharts "Itty Bitty" collection HERE.

So are you ready to make some inchies and twinchies??
You should set up a swap with your stampin' buddies.  Set up the guidelines that require them to create them with card making in mind if that is a concern.  You could ask them to create 3 inchies with the same theme to use on a card.  What fun it would be to see the different interpretations!

I hope you learned something new and are inspired to create something this week.  If you decide to do some inchies or twinchies, let me know.  I would love to see how you were inspired.

***  It's not to late to sign up for my August Blog Candy.  Go  HERE to read about all the details to qualify to win a Crafty Secrets stamps set!  ***
Woowhoo, the weeked is almost here!  Do you have any fun plans??

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Mark's Finest Papers' Get Well Soon!

This is my last week with Mark's Finest Papers' as well.  The owner, Faith, is very generous and supportive and I have really enjoyed working with her and MFP's this month.  If you haven't yet, I hope you will hop over to her store and just take a peak.  Faith has designed her own line of stamps, but sells other manuf. stamps as well, including Flourishes.  She carries everything needed to create beautiful cards. Her store is a great one stop shop!  And if you love challenges, then check out their blog.  Every saturday a new challenge is posted.

Today I have used another one of the charms she sells.  She carries ALOT, so I know that she has something to fit your theme and they are so inexpensive and add alot to your project. This dragonfly was gold and I colored it with my Copic Markers.  I used 2 of her stamp sets on this one, "Flourishes and Frames" and "Apples and Camelia".


Stamps : Marks Finest Papers
Ink : Palette L'Amour Red, VersaFine Onyx Black
Memento Tuxedo Black (flower for Copics)
DP : Bo-Bunny Press
Cardstock : Marks Finest Papers
Charm : Marks Finest Papers
Ribbon : Making Memories
Bingo Card : B-Line Designs
Dies : Spellbinders Fancy Tags
Copics : R35, R27, R29


Tips / Techniques
Customize your metal charms with Copics.
Bingo cards are so much fun and trendy.  Did you know you can by them in stamp form, pre-printed paper form or as a digital image.  They even make them with cute words across the top and in great colors.  Here are a few links to you can check some out and figure out which form works best for you.

Paper
Jenni Bowlin!!  just scroll down on this link.  She has tons of them in different colors/themes.
I'm sure there are more.  Etsy has tons.

Stamp
The one I used today is from B-Line Desings Winter 2010 Collection - Tattered Damask
I couldn't find a link, but I bet more online stores will be adding this one soon.  I got mine at my local stamp store.
Maya Road makes one that allow you to switch the label at the top.  The choices are "love", "faith" and "dream"
And of course Tim Holtz has one.  "Games Collage"

Digital
Just go to Etsy's main page and search for digital bingo cards

Lots of options!

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Clean and Simple


 I really love the Clean and Simple challenge blog.  I have checked it out many times, but never played.  Well this week I decided to play along and this is my version of their sketch.
I needed a quick get well card for a friend and their blog was a wonderful resource to get me heading in the right direction. 
Thanks for stopping by.
I hope you are having a great week!
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