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| Hello, today's card is for my sweet Daughter-In-Love's First Mother's Day. . What a special day! She is a world class mother to my lovely little granddaughter. Each day, together, they discover new adventures around every corner. Kaydence is the delight of our lives. I am so thankful for the gift that Kim has given us. Being a grandparent is just great! |
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| The image is a rubber stamp from Stampin Up. Stamped with Distress ink. I airbrushed white flowers with Copics. The image and scalloped oval were cut with Spellbinders frames. |
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| The greenery is an Impression Obsession die and cut on some colored velum cardstock. I was pleased with the light airy look that it gave. |
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| Today's card features a stamp from Highlander Celtic Stamps. The Vintage Scottish Highland Dancer. She is airbrushed with Copic markers, surrounded with a wreath of Rubber Stamp Tapestry flowers and foliage in blue and then wrapped in a Spellbinders frame. The frame is mounted on Graphic 45 paper. She's a beauty, Aye! |
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| I created a card with the Sizzix Base Card that accomodates the Pop 'N Cuts inserts. The outside is cut without the chair or any other insert, just the plain base card die. This snapshot is of the outside of the card which I designed to look like the outside of a house with a trellis and vining flowers. The bricks are created with a Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder. The flowers are a combination of die cuts and punches layered. The trellis is from Cheery Lynn Designs. The picket fence is a Martha Stewart edge punch. The bricks and flowers were colored with Copic markers using both airbrushing and coloring. |
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| This is the inside of the card. The base of the card was cut with the diecut base including the chair insert. The walls are were then cut with the base cut die and chair insert using paper from Dear Lizzy Neapolitan Paper Pad 6 x 6 from American Crafts paper . I'm uncertain of the name of the floor paper but it came from Hobby Lobby. The polka dot chair paper is also from American Crafts from the paper pad below. |
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| This is the base die (the larger black piece in the picture). The smaller black piece is the circle insert which is taken out to cut the base of this card . |
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| Paper used for wallpaper and chair. |
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| Pop 'n Cuts chair insert this piece is placedn the magnetic portion of the die where the circle insert was before it was taken out. |
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| Texture Fades bricks and wood grain. |
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| Cheery Lynn Designs dies Ivy and trellis |
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| Poppy Stamps die for flowers |
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| Martha Stewart picket fence punch |
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| Flowers are colored with Copic markers and layered. I used the 3/16" Glue dots for the trellis and flowers. I do wish that they made these in a smaller size. Sometimes I cut them in half. The QuicKutz quicker poker picker upper is a great tool for lifting the glue dots off the paper and rolling it to put on the backs of the flowers and trellis. |
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| The sofa table, lamp, picture and throw rug are from this Sizzix embossing folder called "Foyer". After embossing them, I fussy cut them out and did some accent coloring and shading with Copic markers. |
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| The girl on the horse is a stamp from Stampscapes colored with Copic Markers. |
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| This sentiment from Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts Baby says it all. It is airbrushed with Copic markers. |
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| This little one gets photographed every month in her polka dot chair. The photo was printed on cardstock and fussy cut. The yellow scissors in the picture below are KAI. They have the finest point that I have ever seen on a pair of scissors. I would call them surgical quality....and have stabbed myself more than once. However, I can cut things with these scissors that I never though possible. I made the pillow with pop dots and the wallpaper paper. |
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| Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts Baby |
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| Would love to see these glue dots in a smaller size, at least half of this size. |
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| I made this embellishment for a birthday card for my sister. You can see the full card toward the end of the blog. It turned out to be one of my all time favorite cards. Maybe that is because of the sentimental value. Some of my fondest memories of my childhood are centered around watching my sister draw and design clothing. When she was in high school drawing was one of her favorite past times. My mother had a desk from her childhood that she refinished and put in my sister's bedroom. My sister would sit for hours drawing ladies with fashionable clothing. Her dream was to be a designer of couture clothing. My grandmother, mother and sister all sewed clothing. I remember once my mother making turquoise (my favorite color) look alike dresses for the three of us. They had those twirly skirts and mine had a big black K in a beautiful font on the bodice. I loved that dress! My sister helped me with my first sewing project in junior high school. |
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| I started with Ranger Archival ink and stamped the image below on Cryogen card stock. The image is an unmounted rubber stamp from a show...so I'm not sure who it belongs to. If anyone knows, I will be happy to add the name here. |
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| Colored with Copic Markers below: |
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| I used the Brother Scan'n Cut to cut out the image. It did a great job! And then I tried free hand writing the poem that I wanted to use and cutting that out. FABULOUS! This just amazed me that it would cut such a fine line. So much fun to use my new Christmas present!! Thank you to my wonderful husband!!! |
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| So Cool! |
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| Next, some deckle edged vanilla cardstock. |
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| I found this really cool paper, Botanique!. |
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| Add caption |
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| I cut out layered ovals and mounted the sewing girl with pop-ups. |
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| Colored up some scrap lace left over from a wedding recpetion invitation... |
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| Added some tiny buttons. And a row of edging cut out on the Broteher Scan 'n Cut. |
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| Voila! |
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| Fun, creative tools to play with, |
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| And Godly Inspiration, |
