Three Days....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

This evening after getting my son to bed I went to my craft room again.  

I chose to make a few more Christmas cards.  Again, nothing special, but I got to have fun making these cards!  I am not trying to keep up or impress anyone with these cards so they were just fun to make!

Yes....I put glitter on the branch berries!!!!  I thought it looked fun!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Friday Feature Card!!

Good Morning Internet Friends!

This morning when I got home from work I decided that I would make my Friday Feature Card for the Krafting Crew group I sort of belong to:

I am not sure if I should add glitter to the tree yet or not as I have so much "shine" already on this card.  So, this is what I have so far.

Now, off for a quick nap before going back for one more shift...

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Merry Merry Merry Merry Merry Card

Once again, I have made a Red Eye Craft.  Late last evening, well really this morning, I was sitting looking at my craft desk, overwhelmed by the stuff on it and the need for sleep, when I decided to make this!

The base is Cherry Cobbler, layers from the Snow Festival Designer Paper, Whisper White for the layer of which I used my Holiday Collection Framelits Dies to cut out a tree that was backed with Gumball Green put through the Lattice Embossing Folder.  

The other trees were also cut from the same Framelit Die and the Middle Tree used Foam Dots and Glitter to make it all pretty.  

Remember life is all about rainbows, lollipops, unicorns, and glitter!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Christmas Card # 3

This is the third card for my planned Christmas Card Making Party with friends.

 The card base is Cherry Cobbler card stock, along with a layer of Gumball Green, and pieces from the Snow Festival Designer Series Paper.

The stamp set is Snow Much Fun, the greeting is from the Border Banter stamp set.

The buttons are left overs from a couple of Christmas catalogues back!

I colored the snow man in Raspberry Ripple and Gumball Green. Of course there had to be some glitter, so I made the snow and the snow ball from the glitter. 

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy     

My Eyes!!!!

Yes, put your sun shades on.  This project is a little "blingy" for my liking.

Stampin Up used to run these contests for future publications on how their products could be used.  Karina keeps encouraging all of us to enter these contests.  So, this month I even planned on doing it!  I had this project finished by the middle of September and planned to post it to SLC. 

Well, this morning, the last day of September I thought I will post it today and that way it will have the September 30, 2012 postage stamp on it and all will be good!  However, while reading the fine print on the entry submission I find out it had to be in SLC today, not leaving Edmonton (oooops).

So here is my project:

- the card stock color is gumball green

- the tree is made from the Petal Cone Bigz Die

- the snowflakes are stamped with Versa Mark from the Snowflake Soiree Stamp set and embossed with Silver Embossing Powder

- rhinestones in the center of the snow flakes

- the tree decoration is made with the Snow Flurry Bigz Die - the big snow flake is cut from Very Vanilla paper and then Dazzling details rubbed over it, the smaller snow flake is cut from Silver Glitter paper

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Shiny Merry Christmas

I went to play in my craft room today, and this is what I came up with.  I love how it shines with the camera flash!

I used Old Olive card stock, and a piece of left over Christmas 2011 Designer Series Paper along with another piece of Whisper White card stock.

I used a piece of double sided adhesive sheet along with the Perfect Pennants die through the Cuttlebug to create the tree base.

I carefully peeled off the top layer and then after cutting it in the shapes I wanted replaced it over the original shape.  

I took off the pieces I wanted green and used my superfine glitter (I don't think Stampin Up sells it any more), and brushed it on.  Then peeled off the other layers and repeated with the red glitter.

Peeled off the entire back and adhered it to the Whisper White.  

I used buttons for decorations and the star on the tree.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Oh S"crap"! It's Monday.

Into the scrap box again!

This card uses basic black for the card base, some left over Love Impressions Designer Series Paper (Stampin Up Spring Mini 2011), a left over red glitter X from the Valentine's Day Frames I made (this one was in the Roly Poly font from the Cricut, but was too wide to go in the frame), and a small piece of silver glitter paper that I found in the box.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

X O Frames

Back when I made my semi-annual trip to Superstore I found these frames and thought that for the price they were a must have item that would come in handy some day.

Today is that day! Now, I am very excited about these frames (not just because of the price), but when I turned them over to take off the packaging I found that they were Made in Canada!!!!!  I was so excited!

The frames are 5 x 7 in size so I cut the paper from the Mocha Morning Designer Series Paper (DSP) collection from Stampin Up.  Once that was done I loaded the Red Glitter Paper in the Cricut and cut the "X" and "O" at 4" and glued on to DSP.  Still looked like it needed something, so I used my heart punch and quickly cut out a heart for each frame.  

TAH DAH!!  Quick and easy and pretty "Top Drawer".

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

I Love my Dog Card

I had so much fun making this card!

The Boxing Day Sale at Scrapbook Memories & More included Copic Markers.  Since I have heard so much about how great these markers are I decided I had better get some while on sale (rationalize away).  Then, I looked at them, and thought what to do????  If these are "Top Drawer" then I had better learn how to use them.  So, I took the Introductory class that the store offered on how to use them, and today, took them out and started to use them.

I made my son this quick and easy card, because when he found out that these markers have been used in Cartooning and Visual Arts mediums for years he wanted to colour Scooby-Doo.  Since I cannot find a Scooby-Doo stamp as of yet, this dog set that we found at Michaels (40% off coupon) the other day will have to do.

The card base is Sahara Sand card stock with Early Espresso dog tracks wheeled across.  The next layer is Early Espresso run through the stripes embossing folder.  The piece on the side is some dotted early espresso left over from the Berry Blossoms Designer Series Paper.  The puppy image was stamped with Memento Ink and then colored with my new Copic Markers.  I LOVE colouring, so this was so much fun.  The heart was cut out from the Red Glitter paper.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Valentine's Day Frame

While at Michael's the other day (only there as was equipped with my 25% discount off of total purchase coupon) I stumbled across these heart shaped frames for the bargain price of $ 1.00.

I remembered that I had some of this heart paper left over from the Kid's Valentine's Day class that my friend Karina had done for kids last year of which my son participated (yes, I still have year old Designer Series Paper - and look now it has been used!) and the new silver glitter paper from Stampin Up along with the red would be awesome.

The paper was cut to size and then Mod Podged (not sure if that is a word - took a noun and tried to verb it...).  Once it was dry, I coated over the DSP with another layer of Mod Podge.  Then after this had dried, sponged all wooden edges with Real Red Craft Ink (worked AWESOME) and then used the Stampin Up Heart punch to punch out the red and silver hearts. 

Currently, this sits on my buffet along with some of the other Valentine's knick knacks I have gathered to make a little theme area next to the dining room table.  My son thinks this whole collection is quite great.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Glitter Christmas

I made this card in November at Karina's Coffee Talk.  The card is pretty straight forward, but it is the bottom portion that makes this card "Top Drawer".  The bottom portion of this card is made using the double sided sticky sheets from Stampin Up.  A layer of lace (polyester - not cotton) is placed over one side of the sticky sheet and then glitter poured over.  Pat all of this down then remove the lace carefully.  The remaining exposed sticky surface gets another layer of glitter on it.  Pat this glitter down as well, and TAH DAH!!!  When I made this card I knew that there was only one person who could fully appreciate this card, and that is my grandmother - the woman who LOVES glitter.  Hope this inspires your own creativity...


Kathy