Saturday, October 30, 2010

B' ewe Halloween Card

I just love this card.  The sheep shaped card is not my original idea, it has been around for a bit but not sure who the original designer was.  I just changed it from white and black to orange and Black to make it a halloween card and B, ewe to the front instead of Boo.  Sorry about the "B" not how i wanted it to be but knew i had to use a different style of font than the "ewe"  and my letter stamps were either way too big or didnt look right.  Hope you enjoyed my card. 
I used rough type alphabert for the "ewe" and embossed it with black ep with silver sparkles and added them with a dimensional.  Any other questions feel free to ask.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

PPA #21 - Male Christmas Card





I created this card for The Paper Players Challnge.  I wanted to try this color combe for a while (I used choc chip, night of navy and whisper white.
The navy background with the white squares is a piece of dsp from the presto patterns Specialty dsp that i brayed with night of navy ink.
The snowflake i embossed the Simple Snowflake stamp in white on navy cs and punched out with the snowflake punch.  To the center I added a 5/16 choc chip brad and attached to a piece of white cs
The sentiment is from the Teeny tiny wishes and punched out with a large oval punch.  I then punched out a lg oval from choc chip and night of navy cardstock and cut them in half and layered them onto the sides. I attached the shite oval using dimensionals.
I used 3/4" choc chip ribbon.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Ghost and Pumpkin Treat Holder

I cased the idea of turning the treat holder die from the Holiday Mini into a flat bottom from Julie -Please see her blog for instructions of how to turn it into a box 
http://juliedavison.blogspot.com/2010/09/candy-wrapper-ghost.html
I changed her ghost so it was more feminine by adding a happy smile and eyelashes
The ghost face is made by 1/4 black punched circles and hi-lighted with a white gel pen and added eyelashes with a basic black marker and tied 1/8 pumpkin pie tafetta ribbon into a bow.  The mouth is simply half of a 1/2" circle punch.

The Pumpkin was made with Pumpkin Pie cardstock and embossing the face from the carved and candlelite stamp set (retired -but there is a face in the current catalogue that would work in its place)
Hope YOu enjoy.

PPA65 & CSAYL68 - Chritmas Bling

Instructions for this card
Paper - base - brushed gold (standard size), cherry cobbler (3" x3"), whisper white (2 3/4" x 2 3/4")
Stamps - teeny tiny wishes, and Trim the Tree (2 step stamp , retired)
 Ink - forest foliage, versa mark, and yellow and chocolate chip markers
Acessories - rhinestones, gold ep, stamp a ma jig
Tools - modern day label punch, scallop punch, baby wipes, score pal(paper cutter with score blade or bone folder)
1) One at a time center easch square and punch scallop punch on each side, the white square will then easily slip under the cherry on two sides
2) score two lines 1/4" apart near bottom of card
3) stamp tree on white cardstock (i removed the green ink from the trunk and star using a baby wipe, and color those areas with markers), then stamp again with versa mark and gold ep for the decoration
4) Stamp phrase on white and punch out with label punch
5) punch out a label punch from cherry cobbler and cut in half
6) Apply rhinestone to end of each cherry piece and glue behind the white label
7) Add 3 rhinestones to each side of the scored area
8) Add a rhinestone to each corner of the cherry square
9) Assemble card

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Acorn Punch Art - PPA64


I cased the acorn from a fellow stamper named Frenchie (http://www.frenchiestamps.com/) and just simplified it since i didnt have any linen thread to make hair and a bow.
The acorn is made with the ornament punch and the top is from the lg oval - punch it out then move punch up on the cut out and punch out the hat
I also used the log cabin smooch spritz on the creamy caramelbackground
I used mellow moss for the base of the card -sorry it looks way better in person than it does on camera
I also used the pumpkin pie brad from the glimmer brads in the holiday mini
Hope u enjoy this cute fall card

Thursday, October 14, 2010

SNOWMAN Card Instructions





INSTRUCTIONS
1) Base card- 8.5" x 5.5" folded in half
2) Background-Whisper white 5.25"x4
    - brayer a little over half of the card stock with bashful blue, then brayer again starting closer to the top with night of navy and work your way down
   -sponge the edges in a cirlular motion with craft white ink -also do the inside with same making sure to work lightly apply craft ink to sponge and work in big circles
   -place doodle dots with a white gel pen to make snowflakes
   -draw a starwith gold Zigg pen (be careful as ink comes out fast)

3) TREE-freehand the tree on garden green cs and do the same for the stem in chocolate cs, and the snow in white cs
   -glue trunk to tree and free hand stems with chocolate chip marker
  -apply white gel pen to stems
  -sponge in circulare motion the edges of the tree with sponge lightly inked with craft white ink
  -for snow place paper directly on versa mark to ink
 - emboss with iridescent ice and glue to tree with a dimensional

4) Snow Banks
    -with a seperate piece of card stock measuring 4"in width tear 3 snowdriftsand sponge the torn edges with bashfulblue ink

5) SNOWMAN
- punch 1/3/8"and 1 3/4" circlesout of white cs and sponge edges with bashful blue ink
-apply 3 red pearls to larger cirlce
-smaller circle apply 2  eye  (1/4" circles)and use white gel pen to highlight the eyes
-freehand a carrot nose
- use black marker and makes dots the shape of the mouth
-brim of hat basic black 1.5" x 1/4", top of hat 1.5"x 1", real red 1"x 1/4" and draw buckle with black marker
-glue pieces together

FINAL Step
glue all components together to complete your card

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 125 - Winter Wonderland

I created this card for a winter wonderland theme - of course had to have a snowman and iridescent ice embossed snow.  I sed night of navy and red brads for a little embellishment - the faux stitching between the separated card stocks didnt work so well.  by 3 year said "Wow - pretty" when he saw the finished card, so i am happy with the results lol.