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Second robot card

Hi Friends

Another fun to make card with a straight forward way to make a card but keeping it simple makes it look clean and elegant.  I will let you be the judge. So here is the second robot card.

 

Recipe

What I used: White whisper SU for card base, White whisper for Digistamp printing, red layer and 2 contrasting BG papers.  Yellow CS for frame and sentiment, black ink.  Red 1/4 inch Gingham ribbon, Sprightly Sprockets Spellbinder die cut set, Octagon Spellbinder set for frame and back of frame in red.  Sentiment "Thank you so much" SU from stash rubberstamp.  Embossing folder Sizzix (Tim Holtz) was used to emboss the yellow frame.  3 hues of yellow color pencils with OMS and paper stump were used as well as grey for the robot parts.  Crystal lacquer for eyes and heart and green for nobs. R27 Copic for hearts.

The rest is quite easy to put together as you see it on the photos.

I hope you enjoyed what you saw.  Have a fun day and thanks for visiting.  Come back soon for more

Have a great day!

 

I'm back! Starting my card shares

Hi Friends,

Well as I had mentioned this before I had a large amount of cards to make for March and I made it.  PHEW!!!!!!!! is the right word to use.  It was so intense, I would wake up in the middle of the night thinking about a card I had left unfinished and found the solution for it.  So the next day I took it from there and did what I had woken up to.  So it went to prove that I was taking my cards with me to my sleep.  But many times it has helped me. 

I wanted to start with a digi stamp I had purchased a month ago of a robot.  I thought this robot was the cutest I had seen among all the ones I had seen used on cards.  So without further due here is my first robot card out of 2.

Recipe

Robot digi stamp or rubberstamp that you may already have.  White Linen CS, Red, white whisper to print on and color as well as the card base.  Crystal lacquer for hearts and nobs, 3 grey hues of colored pencils with OMS and paper stump. R27 Copic, 2 Spellbinder ovals to make a frame, frame was embossed with Sizzix Tim Holtz.  Spellbinder Sprightly Sprockets set, one silver eyelet, 2 screw brads. Sentiment "Miss you". Dimentional foam, tacky glue and snail tape was used.

The photos are clear enough as I am sure it is easy to see what was done for this card.  It was easy to put together as I wanted to keep it metallic from start to finish.  I hope you like it.

Tomorrow I will share another robot card.  I really enjoyed making those two cards.

I am glad to be back with some of my newest cards.  My inspiration for cards that are totally different is coming from cards I see online as well as a mix of my many years of making cards while enjoying some techniques that I am eager to bring back into my work.  I hope you get to enjoy what will come next.  There are almost 80 cards to come for your viewing pleasure, so make sure to come back daily.  I really do appreciate all the comments you are leaving before going about the rest of your day so don't be shy

Thanks for visiting

Make it a great day, add some creativity to it

A new post will come soon

Hi Friends

What a crazy schedule I have right now.  I am making many cards before March (70+).  I am making on average 5 cards a day. Thank you for your patience, I hope it will be worth your while.  I am into everything right now.  Inking, watercoloring, experimenting, but I always try to come up with so many different looks/styles for my flat cards, and/or techniques to make it pleasant to visit each time.  So, hang in there my friends, I have more to share in a few days, when I can finally take a breather hee hee.  I am HAVING FUN!

I hope you are all well and feeling somewhat creative, I hope I can bring some inspiration with my next cards...

Have a wonderful day!

I will have to call them heart cards

Hi friends

It makes me realize how many Valentine's day cards I have made this year.  I find this type of card fun because not only it can be given on Valentine's Day but it can also be given for an Anniversary card if you are left with some of your Valentine's Day cards I usually wait before I add any Sentiments to the card so I can re-purpose it if need be...

Today's cards are two similar ones because of the bow but I wanted to add both just because I can, hee hee

I can tell when I took these pictures it was at night.  Note to self:  "No photo of cards to be taken at night if possible"...

 

Quick recipe

This card was made quickly but I did all I could to make it special.

You will need white CS, Pink CS, Pink ink and pink ribbon.  Spellbinder Floral Ovals S4-356,  and Spellbinder Labels Twenty S5-026, if you want to look up the dies in their sets online/cards made with these sets.  Just Google the number, I was told :)

I also used one of my old Cuttlebug folders, this one has scattered hearts and is quite pretty.

As I said the card is as easy as can be just from looking at it.  Just so you know, I made the middle oval that bares the hearts by tracing the inside of the Floral ovals and cutting it by hand.  You get a most accurate oval with what you have in this set, I always extend the use of my die cuts whenever I can.

As for the hearts I used a paper punch for them and inked up the edges before adhering them with 3D foam and did the same to the oval and also added some Stickles (Diamond) around the edges (oval and hearts, leaving this to dry before I adhered the final details to the card.

Enjoy!

You are all fabulous with all the comments here and by email I am so proud of all of you to really leave some nice comments, thank you and thanks for looking!

Be Creative, it gets your Mojo healthy and going strong.....

More Valentine's Day cards nearing the end of them

Hi Friends,

I realized while preparing the blog for all the Valentine's Day cards that I would have a lot of work ahead of me, was I ever right.  But, it is worth it, if one card inspires you to make one of your own I am so happy.  So here is my Val cards for today with short recipes.

Recipe

Material needed.  Watercolor any kind you have, red, pink and yellow.  Water spritz bottle, Love Sentiment stamp, Large Background rubberstamp, Red CS for card base. Very Vanilla for background matting and for the front of the card I used some watercolor CS, heart rubberstamp, snail runner glue, heat gun, paper towels.

Making of the card.  On a pre-determined size of watercolor CS mine was 5.25 in X 4 in for an A2 size card, I used for this card, some watercolor crayons rubbing my stamp with it in different areas at random but making sure I covered the whole stamp.  Sprayed with water until the stamp was showing wetness all over, then quickly applied my watercolor CS on top of the stamp and then turned it around facing down to the paper so all the water would get into the CS and colors would also get a good coverage.  I then added more water to the CS directly and with the crayon I scribbled around the edges with the red and more yellow inside etc...  Each time I would stop and dry it with the heat gun.  Then I stamped the heart to the center and emphasized on the flowers in the stamp by adding more of the crayon on each flower and again water sprayed it and dried.

Then I stamped my Love Sentiment stamp onto the card.  My CS was a little warped from all the water soaking so I took it to the iron making sure I had some paper towels on each side to keep the iron clean.  No steam setting.  When flat, finish putting the card together as per seen on the photos,  I have removed the half of the red card base and adhered the card with layers onto the left side of the card.

Voila!

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Recipe

Material needed:  white linen texture, red CS.  Heart focal image, bling, rubberstamp Love, Cuttlebug embossing strips.  Rectangle Spellbinder shapes to make a frame, (see picture below).  Red ink pad (I used Red Letter from Memento), Spellbinder small shape for the Sentiment.  Glue dots, 3D foam, snail runner glue, sponge dauber or make up sponge

Making of the card.  Card base was SU white whisper, layered with red, than another layer of white that is embossed at the top and bottom with the Cuttlebug embossing strip (loved the look).  Adhered that layer to the card.  Proceeded with the frame making and inked the inside and outside edges with red ink, made a backing for the frame and put the frame and back together before adhering with glue dots to the card.  3 little stones were added to the left corner of the frame.  Then made the small shaped tag for the Love Sentiment.

Heart was made out of red Crayola Crayons on glossy CS with the help of an iron low setting temperature.  (Not recommended to be using an iron we use for our clothes) too hot even on the lowest setting. Added a coat of lacquer to the heart to protect it from scratches into the wax.  Then once dry, I ran a Golf Leaf pen around the edge, in silver.

I hope you enjoyed these 2 cards and thanks for stopping in and if you leave a comment, thank you for the smile I made when I read your comment.

Be Creative, it's fun fun fun!

Waving Hi!

Hi Friends,

Today I chose to share 2 cards but more on the masculine theme.  So enjoy and look at the bottom for a quick recipe...

 

Recipe

Both cards are made on a canvas sheet.  I watercolored the canvas with yellow, red and pink watercolor crayons and used the spray bottle to make the colors run, once it was the way I wanted I just dried it with the heat gun.  I also used a low temperature glue gun to apply the gold accents on the hearts, canvas.  I immediately added some gold sheets to the glue so the gold sticks to it when cooler.

I used some black CS over the white base, and gold matting and the first card I have used some animal print I had in my stash of paper for a more masculine effect.  I hope it gives you ideas for your own Masculine card to make if you need to make one.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed dropping in and hope to read a few comments so I can smile again.  Thanks so much!

Be my love, my Valentine!

Hi Friends

Well, I have to post more of the Valentine's Day cards before Valentine's Day right?  So I am trying to post all of the cards I had made before the deadline hee hee.  Always on a deadline, that's me in a nutshell. Never a dull moment for sure.  :-)

 

Don't you just love this die cut frame???

Recipe

I used white linen from Bazzill, red from SU, Embossing folder by Cuttlebug, hearts made from different techniques. 

I love to use the outside edge of any die cut.  It is like getting an extra die in each package.  I always like to trace the outer edge of it and cut by hand so you get your backing or some calls it its angel piece.  This frame die cut is from Spellbinders Antique Frame and accents S5-083 I love this set.  Where the love is stamped on it was a Spellbinder die cut tag I modified for the shape I needed.

The heart is punched out of an Encaustic Art piece I had made for hearts and covered with a coat of lacquer medium to protect the wax from scratching.  The smallest heart was from a die cut cut out piece I had in abundance and just ran quickly some Gold Leaf pen to it.

I used 3D foam for the frame and heart and the Love accent piece and there you have it!

Another fun and quick card made

Thanks for stopping and looking!  Leave a comment I appreciate all of them always!

Have a lovely day, make it great, add some creativity to it!

Another fun share

Hi Friends

Here we are just a few days away from one official Love Day!  But as I always said "Who needs a special day to celebrate love?" I make it a mission to celebrate it on a daily basis, but yes, I know, it is a special day that we can also get a nice dinner with our fantastic significant other and toast to the wonderful memories had and the future ones to come.  I know, I find this so much fun to look back on the whole journey and appreciate all the moments that made it into our memory book thus far.  Awwwwwwww LOL I am getting soft here.  Pardon my French in me LOL.

So here is the card I chose to display on here for you today:

Recipe (Quickie)

I had so much fun making this card.  The card base is CS I have had in my stash I beleive it was paper sold at the Stamp Conventions years ago, called Hanko Designs (Japanese style papers) he also have some gorgeous washi paper, which I will have to make cards with in the future.  But getting back to the card at hand, the rest of CS is from SU whisper white.  The circles from Spellbinder for the frame made in the same manner as the photo below

 

I used a stamp from Rubbernecker called Birch Forest.  I colored the Birch with a little grey tinge and no other coloring was necessary since I wanted a Winter scene

I fixed the circle frame with 3D foam and then with a Memory Box Birch die I inked up the edge with some grey to add a more natural look and added a small punched heart in glitter specialty paper.  Some Cheery Lynn Design corner dies were used and there you have a very simple card with a small interest RED embellishment.

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Read further down, I am adding an extra card today.  I have never had so many cards to share so I need to post more often or more at once.  So there is an extra Valentine's Day card idea for you.

 

 Recipe

This was one of my favorite cards.  I love to step out of the expected when it comes to cardmaking and for those of you who have been following me for years now, you know I love conventional as well as the unconventional (step outside of one box is one thing among so many I enjoy doing)

The hearts are made with Encaustic Art (wax used with an iron Art).  I lacquered the hearts to protect the wax coating and used some Gold Leaf Marker Brand, in Silver this time to do the heart edges.  I stamped the window background first before I went on adding the frame with 3D foam that I had embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder.  I did the same with the mat piece in white.  I also cut a an extra frame piece by tracing the larger die cut I used for the frame and cut by hand.  Placing the Royal Blue piece down first and then frame on top leaving a pretty edge around the frame popping it up some more.

The ribbon I used is my favorite color of ribbon outside of my egg white fave.  But this color for this card was absolutely stunning.  I was so impressed to see the overall look when all put together.  Very elegant and would be a very lovely card to give to a man even.  The ribbon was run across from the top to the bottom in one strip, tucked into the embossed layer, then I made a small bow and adhered it with a glue dot.

There, you have it.  Another fun card to make and very quickly put together.

Thanks for dropping in to view my cards.  I hope you have enjoyed the recipes along with the photos.

Have a fun day and please drop a comment if you have the time, I love smiling when I read them all.

More cards to share

Hi Friends

A quick blog post for today, yippee, it gives me more time to make more cards, Enjoy!

 

Recipe

Remember my Encaustic Art cards you saw a few weeks ago?  Well this card is somewhat similarly made but it was made with Crayola wax crayons and iron.  I had made a few sheets of this stuff with Crayola crayons in the knowledge that I would make multiple cards with different ways and so on.  Today this is the card I chose to show you and explain briefly (yes I can) how it was made keeping Crayola in mind.

White base CS, matted with red, then embossed in white the next layer.  Spellbinder Octagonal shape die cut I applied the method to make a frame similar to the photo below.

This time on the exterior of the frame I traced the outside edge of the larger shape of the frame and cut by hand to use as a bottom later in red.  Then made a backing in white for the inside frame.  I also added for accent a little cord I had in red and made a simple knot at the end and cut even the ends.

Before I added my pieces to my frame I made sure to stamp my Sentiment on top, but realistically speaking, you should stamp anything before you affix the frame on 3D foam.  Learned this the hard way.

With every piece of the hearts I made I used a Gold leaf marker in gold to the edges.  Time consuming once again.  But adds so much to the look.  As I was pleasantly surprised when I put the heart together in mosaic manner, I realized that it was looking like a brick heart.  But this is just the look it means nothing else.

Embossing folder was from Cuttlebug (Modern Wallpaper) 5.5 X 4.5 in or 14cm X 11cm

So there you have it.

I hope you enjoyed this Valentine's Day card.  Thanks for dropping by and looking!

 

My Valentine's Day card

Hi Friends

I have had a very busy week so far and it doesn't seem to get any quieter for the rest of it so, I decided to allow myself a nice little break to post a card for you, as I had told you about this one in my last publication, so I am here for this reason today.

This card is the card I made to send to some friends I know we exchange Valentine's Day cards every year.  We always send eachother our own little creations of the moment.  So this time, I had seen a card with aprons on it and thought, what better way (feminine like) to make a card to send our love to friends than aprons with hearts?  So I took that idea and made my own template, which was still in a testing stage, until I could see this working for me.

Needless to say, after finding my paper in my PC archives, the paper I wanted was all in blue which wasn't what I needed so I had to colorize it in red.  Ah! it worked and after testing a printed sheet I was good to go.

So I chose 3 backing papers and printed enough to make approx 15 cards.  This is the part when I realized why I loved die cuts so much...."added to: NOTE TO SELF for future projects" but that was the part that was relaxing "putting it all together after trying one apron when I decided I loved the look enough to make a card "YIPPEE STAGE"

As promised here is my own template of the apron I started from scratch.  I didn't change the size of my template when I saved it to my PC so if you print as is, you should get the size I used and it will be easy to check because I have added measurements to each piece.  I made a front view and a cut on fold view.  I prefer to work with a CUT ON FOLD as it is quick and easy.  But if you prefer the full image then you have that too. Click once on the template and right click to save it to your computer.  Print as is.  There is still time to make this pretty card...

 

Now that we have a template we can move on to the photos of the card itself.  So here is the finished product followed by the recipe with the rest of the card.  It is very easy but I will provide the info on what I did next!

An almost complete group photo

 

Recipe

Good for you if you read the top part of the post, we can take it from there and finish up putting the card together.  As you can see I used a white base for my card, then I matted it with coordinating red and once again this time matted on the red back to a white linen where I will stamp my Happy Valentine's Day Sentiment and adhere my 3 finished aprons.

Tools needed:  Tacky Eileen's glue, if you have the SU oval punch this is what I used to make the pockets on the apron, small heart punches were used here but if you have die cuts it will do just as well.  Stickles (diamond) was used around the pockets, sponge daubers, or make up sponges if you have that, and a red ink pad.  I used Love Letter from Memento for this card.  1/8 inch satin white ribbon for the neck loop, 3 different backing papers, already cut and ready to ink up and adhere to the apron backing. Scissors, snail runner tape, glue dots.

EASY PEASY for the rest of the apron preparation.  Each pattern paper once cut out has to be edge inked.  So what I did was like a production chain, I was inking up all of my pattern paper ahead of time so once that step is complete you can move on to the pockets and hearts.

Adhere the pattern paper to the main apron in white CS I used my snail runner tape for this part.  Then I moved on to the pockets, you can make the pockets SQUARE, but when I found my oval punch, I had to use that for the pocket.  So I cut out my ovals in white and folded the oval in half to then cut the fold away, leaving me with 2 pieces (2 pockets) good for 2 aprons.  Now comes the part where I had edge inked all of the pockets in a chain production manner also.

Then for the heart I just punched out the amount of hearts for 15 cards X 3= 45 little hearts.  I had 2 heart punches the right size so I mixed between the two.  At the very end when all was finished I then used my Diamond Stickles around all of the pockets LOL YEP!

Apron neck piece.  I took the ribbon and cut out pieces of ribbon for each apron, once I determined the length I needed it became easier.  But each one has to be adhered on each top part of the aprons before it all goes to the card, easier this way and less risk to drop or smear the card with accidental glue drops.  I then overlapped the 3 aprons starting from the right to the left with some glue dots.

NOTE:  I never said it was going to be a fast card LOL.  Just very easy, but, time consuming.  Hey, the more time I spend on a card, the prettier it is when finished, in my humble opinion.  This card can be made in a quicker way without the backing on the apron and without a pocket or a heart on it, it would still be pretty, but not as realistic looking in the end.  The choice is yours.  I gave you the tools, you make it your own now.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  I am optimistic that sometime during the Summer I will attempt making videos for the tutorials as I have been getting a lot of emails suggesting I go that route when possible.  I am listening.  I need to prepare my room to this effect and my brain to start it all.  Oh Dear!

Have a fun day, and please, if you decide to make a card like this one or similar please let me see it, I would love to see your take on your end of it. 

Be creative, it is so rewarding!  Thanks for stopping by and if you have time, leave a comment.  It always makes us bloggers smile and feel so happy hee hee

My next card to share is here

Hi Friends

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend.  Mine is really busy but I am having a good time.  Today was a really nice day the temperatures reached near 70F in the sun I was out and about in my short sleeves.  I had to roll down the window in my car to get some fresh cooler air, ahhhhhhhhhhh what a joy.  If the weather could stay this way for much longer.  But we take what is given and make the best of it until we are HOT and uncomfortable hee hee

Well, going back to the topic at hand I have a card to share so let's get to it shall we?

Recipe

This card is very straight forward and was very pretty once finished with the burlap paper it looked as if it was real and all tucked in from under the card.  The base was whisper white from SU, Chocolate mat piece and the burlap paper.  I also used a gingham chocolate ribbon by SU.  The stamp and Sentiment are both from Gina K Designs.  I stamped both with SU Chocolate ink.  Voila!

 

 

 

This other card is very similar to the exception of the background paper I made with some embossing ink and a stamp.  I covered the card with the stamp and with a sponge, in a circular manner I applied some ink all over the piece of cardstock.  It has left me with a subtle print which is very pretty since it is similar to the main focal image.  Also pierced two small holes on each side of the flower stem to insert a ribbon called I beleive a false bow.

I hope you enjoyed today's cards.  Keep on coming back I have many more cards to share.  I can't wait to show you the card I made in many copies for my long time friends next week.  I should post it around Thursday so don't miss it.  I will also include the template I used to make that card.  Before that I will display more of the cards I made lately, plenty to view.  Feel free to comment on your way out and once again I thank you for dropping in to have a look.  I love to have followers so sign up it's free!

Have a lovely day, make it great! 

 

 

 

 

 

Clean and simple= Elegance

Hi friends,

It is nice to be able to have a few minutes to add another card for you to view

 

 

 

Here you can see a bird in the paper design above

Recipe

This was another fun and easy card to make.

My card base was in White Whisper SU and the specialty paper was from my stash, don't have a name but I remember getting it in the Wedding Specialty paper a the store.  It had pretty embossed designs on the paper and was calling my name. lol

I used a peel off corner and used my Spellbinder tag with a matching stamp frame and a Birthday sentiment in there.  Also if you look closely I added some white peel off border.  The flowers were a delight to make. 

I cut out 4 flowers in white with their bits, leaves and fern and positionned them as per seen on the card. Cupped and shaped all flowers and stamin and leaves before adhering to a final position. I have to keep in mind to keep my card as flat as possible so I could not add thickness to my flowers so I had to say it was enough. 

For a simple card, simply think of using a classic paper that will enhance your card, there is no need for extravagant embellishment all the time.  The hard part is to say, leave well enough alone.  That is what I always have to remind myself of.  If I make another card like this one, I would add a simple bow in the same hues, for a gentle and elegant look

Thank you for stopping by and leaving those so uplifting comments! 

Be creative, be healthy and be happy!