Coffee Helps

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Alcohol Marker, Bazzill, Close To My Heart, CTMH, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Honey Bee Stamps, Taylored Expressions

Greetings, today I created another card for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop.

Coffee Helps Card

The first step in making this card was creating the background paper.  I used Raisin Boat’s Need for Tweed background stamp and stamped it in Pear ink from Close To My Heart onto light green Bazzill cardstock.  Next I stamped and colored the adorable stack of cups from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Tea Time stamp set.  I colored them with alcohol markers and used the matching die to cut it out.  The framework was die cut from Bazzill cardstock and I have to apologize, as I am not sure exactly who makes the wonky frames…it could be Taylored Expressions or Elizabeth Craft Designs.  I put my dies on magnetic sheets and organize them by subject and I throw the packaging away. 😦

I used a sentiment from the new Honey Bee Stamps Blaa Blaa Blaa set, heat embossed it and layered it onto the card.  Finally added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Bubblegum and called it done!

Close up of Coffee Helps Card

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Wow Moment!

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Bazzill, Color Me Alpha, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Honey Bee Stamps

Greetings and salutations!  Today I needed a graduation card for a customer of mine that has a niece graduating from Iowa (Go Hawkeyes!)  This card took a long time to assemble because all the gold, black and yellow are inlaid…so it was tedious, but I had a blast making it.  I used all Bazzill paper, the label and frames are Elizabeth Craft Design and the Wow Moment was a die I got in a goodie bag from a Scrapbook Expo crop, so the company is unknown to me.  The gold die cut numbers and the letters in the name are from Honey Bee Stamps Color Me Alpha set.  I use these ALL the time!

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Wedding Season is Upon Us

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American Crafts, Bazzill, Carta Bella, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Kwik Kutz, Sizzix, Taylored Expressions

Hello, today I created a wedding card for a friend/customer who needed a wedding card in grays and pearl white.  I had a copy of the invitation, so I incorporated some elements from it into the card.

Wedding Card

I used one of my new Elizabeth Craft Designs dies and peel off gems.  I used various flower dies and cut a combination of large and small flowers using Bazzill silver cardstock, vellum that has a beautiful tiny floral white on white pattern and a pearly embossed cardstock.  I mixed and matched them and used little brads to hold the pieces together.  I cut the leaves out of the silver cardstock using a Sizzix die I got on clearance for $1 🙂  Can you say “Awesomesauce”?!

Elements of the Wedding Card

The card base is medium gray American Crafts heavyweight cardstock, and the patterned paper on the base is Carta Bella from the Paris Girl line…not sure if that is retired or not, I have had it for a while, and I LOVE every pattern in this collection, so I use it sparingly.  Needless to say, I am quite frugal with my supplies.

I did mat the patterned paper with black cardstock before mounting it on the card base. Finally I stamped a piece of the pearlized paper (which was also used for the ECD Entwined Circles) with a sentiment from Taylored Expressions, Lifetime of Love set.  I scored this adorable set for just $5.  I think it is still for sale on Taylor’s website for that price.  I cut the monogram out with Kwik Kutz Eliza letter set that my wonderful daughter got me (brand new) from a garage sale.  This episode is all about good deals.  HA!

Inside of Wedding Card

Close-up of Wedding Card

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Happy Birthday, Mon Ami

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Alcohol Marker, Bazzill, Close To My Heart, CTMH, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Peel-Off Stickers, Scrapping With Lisa, ShinHan, Sunsational Stamps, Wink of Stella

Bonjour Mon Ami!  Today I created a birthday card for my dear friend using Fifi from Scrapping With Lisa Designs.  This stamp was created, for me, by request.  🙂  I needed a French girl with a beret for a project I was working on and Lisa Peters created this adorable gal with her little French poodle!  BTW, I HAVE a poodle…lucky coincidence?!

Fifi Birthday Card

I colored her with my ShinHan alcohol markers and added Wink of Stella to the beret and her blouse to give it shimmer and a bit of a party feel.  I mounted it on black cardstock then teal cardstock, both by Bazzill.  I tied silver thread to the mat, added clear sequins and added the ‘Happy Birthday’ in black vinyl from my stash of Elizabeth Craft Design Peel-Off Stickers.  I then added foam tape to pop it up on the base, which is a retired pattern by Close To My Heart.  Voila, a card for Mon Ami!

Close-up of Fifi

Not sure if the shimmer is coming through in the picture, but trust me, it is rocking like a nightclub!

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Let It Snow, Snow, Snow!

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Alcohol Marker, Bazzill, Close To My Heart, Copic, CTMH, Darice, Glossy Accents, Recollections, ShinHan, Stickles, Sunsational Stamps, Wink of Stella

Oh the weather outside is ….. well, where I live it is actually pretty nice out, but that is NOT always the case.  HA!

Today I made a layout for a picture of my daughter catching snowflakes.  The photo was taken her freshman year at college, and where she went, they didn’t see much in the way of snow, most often it was ice.

Let It Snow Layout

Close-up of various elements in layout

In the photo of her, she is wearing a pretty pink hat and I colored the Mary Christmas image and another Catching Snowflakes (see last week) both of them from Sunsational Stamp Shop.  I die cut snowflakes from a Darice Snowflake Die.  I colored in the image with both Copic and ShinHan alcohol markers.  My Let It Snow stamp is an older hostess set from CTMH.  The images and the photo mat are cut from Bazzill Nautical Dark Blue cardstock and mounted onto Recollections Say Freeze paper line.  There was plenty of sequins snowflakes and Wink of Stella added here and there to give a shimmery, frosty feel.

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Just Chillin’

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Bazzill, Copic, Distress Inks, Glossy Accents, My Besties, Sherri Baldy, ShinHan, Tumbled Glass

Howdy-do to you!  Today I had to take a break from Christmas and holiday card making so I could create a birthday card for one of my dear friends.  I wanted to create a card using My Besties digi stamps by Sherri Baldy.  She has some adorable ones that are perfect for birthday cards.  I picked this one and colored her to match my friend’s looks and personality.  I hope you enjoy!

Just Chillin’ Card

Close-up of Details

I used Glossy Accents to add condensation to the glass and to accentuate her pretty painted toe nails.  I used Copic and ShinHan alcohol markers to color in the image and then mottled a bit where her clothing was behind glass.  I added accent dots to add interest to many of the various elements of the design using a white gel pen.  The background was sponged with my fave background Distress Ink…Tumbled Glass.  The stamped panel is mounted on red Bazzill Cardstock and then that is mounted on a Bazzill yellow card base.

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Howdy Partner!

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Alcohol Marker, Bazzill, Distress Inks, EK Success, Grassy Border, K&Co., Lawn Cuts Dies, Lawn Fawn, Sunsational Stamps, Tumbled Glass

Howdy Partner!  Today I am so excited to share my scrapbook layout I created with the Boot Scootin’ Belle image along with the Corn Stalk and Hay Bale images from Sunsational Stamps.  I fashioned Belle after my good friend since I was just a young in’. So my nickname for this image is Rootin’ Tootin’ Rita!  😉

 

Boot Scootin’ Belle Layout

I colored the images with a mixture of both alcohol markers and Distress markers.  The background sky is sponged on Tumbled Glass Distress ink.  I colored some natural twine with my Copic E33 and wrapped it around each hay bale.  I cut the hay that is under her feet with the Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Grassy Border die.  The patterned background foundation paper is from my stash and I have to say it is very old.  It is Harvest Time by Susan Winget for Paper Adventures…I think she now designs for EK Success, but don’t quote me on that.  The photo mats are Bazzill card stock and the chipboard letters are also an oldie from my stash…

Details of Layout Images

Closeup of Layout Images

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Hello Friend

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Alcohol Marker, Bazzill, Copic, CTMH, Distress Inks, Jillibean Soup, Peeled Paint, ShinHan, Spectrum Noir, Sunsational Stamps, Tumbled Glass

Hello Friend(s), today is the beginning of meteorological autumn, so to celebrate the harvests and the colors I thought I would make a card for a friend…a “just because” card.  I used the Sunsational Stamps Going Nuts set and picked out just the squirrel with the pumpkin & sunflower image.

One of the images in Going Nuts set.

I used Bazzill Basics Kraft Collection as the base and topped it off with CTMH Shimmer Tape in Bronze and Black.  I added the Hello Friend banner from the Jillibean Soup, Soup Labels.  I colored the image with a combination of ShinHan, Copic and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.  I cut a mask for the image and sponged Tumbled Glass Distress ink for the sky and Peeled Paint Distress ink for the grass.

Hello Friend Card

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Oh Baby!

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Authentique, Bazzill, Doodlebug Designs, Graphic 45, Laura Denison, Little Darlings, Quick Quotes, Tim Holtz, YouTube

Oh baby this was a fun project to do!  I love creating mini albums and this was my first attempt at a Z fold album.  My inspiration was Laura Denison with Following the Paper Trail, she has some very good YouTube tutorials on many different albums, but this one seemed to be just what I was looking for.  There is a lot of room for pictures and journaling, so much so, that some of the more embellished detailed patterns could be left blank.  Now on to the nuts and bolts of it.

First off the best instructions to follow is watching Laura’s YouTube, I will add the link at the bottom of this post.  I used Graphic 45, Little Darlings paper line.  This paper has been discontinued however they do have comparable lines currently out that could be used for a baby album or obviously any paper line would work, just make sure you have a full paper pad or close to it of whatever coordinating papers you want, this is a deceivingly large album.  I was somewhat freaked out by the fact that the half pad of 12×12 papers were irreplaceable, so with that said this album was less therapeutic than most projects can be.  😉

The cover was distressed with Tim Holtz Tea Stain.  I made the banner with Epiphany’s banner epoxy which spelled out the baby’s first and middle name.  All the alpha stickers used in this were Authentique and all the alpha rub-ons were Doodlebug.  Doodlebug makes the best rub-ons I have ever used.

I embossed all the fold-out photo mats.  I used three different designs and alternated them.  This added interest to an otherwise blank (if only temporary) piece of paper.  I made the larger photo mats of patterned paper, so no extra steps were needed with these.

The tags were done with Bazzill paper and I used a Kraft and a swiss dot Baby Blue, these were cut at 4×6 and I made a template to give the top a traditional tag appearance.  On I added either Graphic 45 Little Darlings or Botanical Tea to the tags…I was running out of my Little Darlings paper because I had to use a lot of it to fussy cut out all the adorable pictures.  I found Botanical Tea had a couple of designs with birds and nests that fit the baby theme and the colors matched perfectly.  WIN!!!  On the flip side of the tags added some headings to encourage the mommy to journal.

Quick Quotes makes some wonderful products and I have a nice collection of their vellum poems and saying.  I used a few quotes regarding parenting and babies.  There was a beautiful poem about adoption that fit the bill perfectly.  I embossed a couple of the vellum quotes to add interest.

Here is the link for the Z-fold mini YouTube, and I hope you enjoy the pictures of a few of the pages.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgGL_fo0RZs

Cover using Graphic 45 Little Darlings paper and Epiphany Crafts banner

Inside front cover and embossed vellum Quick Quotes

Example of the beautiful illustrations that were fussy cut and layered.

Little Darling paper and vellum photo mats

Quick Quotes on Z-fold flap

More Little Darlings used as mini tags.

Little Darlings and embossed photo mat

Large tags (this album has a total of 12) inserted within the Z-fold

Adoption poem from Quick Quotes.

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