15 November 2013

Veterans - November 2013

Thank you to ALL our Veterans, and the Furry Veterans. You were there for US during troubled times. You Veterans ROCK!!

11 November 2013

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This is easy tutorial how to make a rose from maple leaves. Autumn leaf craft is very popular all around the world. Only in autumn you can bring natural bright colours to your home. But instead of making applique with fall leaves, I suggest you to make roses and put them into the vase. It looks amazing! It seems, as you bought real red, yellow and orange roses.
For fall leaves roses you will need:
- autumn leaves (red, yellow and orange)
- a stick
- a rope
Follow my tutorial of making maple roses and you will get wonderful rose buds full of live and colours! Enjoy!

Vellum Poinsettia by Mary Brown

Joyful Christmas

Week 3 of Create with Connie and Mary Winter Collections 2013 is over and so we have a wonderful Sketch Challenge for you!
I had so much fun doing the Poinsettia the other week that I decided to do another one this week (okay…AND I had the poinsettia already stamped and cut out…it just needed colored!).
Here’s the details…

Pink Pirouette – 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded
Pink Pirouette dsp – 4 3/4 x 3 1/2. Stamp the greeting in Versamark, silver emoboss and add to card front.
Add silver glimmer paper 5 1/2 x 1 1/8.
Stamp Poinsettia 2 times using Versamark on Vellum cardstock and silver emboss. Cut out one full and the center one of the other. Sponge the back in Cherry Cobbler. Layer small flower on large flower using dimensional. Add flower to card using dimensional.
Punch out three 1/4″ Silver Glimmer circles and add to the center of the flower to finish it.

08 November 2013

Winter Sky Scene and Deer Card - by Melissa Banbury

Silent Night

Happy Friday!

As mentioned yesterday I have a quick video to share with you today talking about how I cut decorative edges and create matting using Framelits. The card pictured above uses the same technique - I hope you find it helpful!

Supplies:

Stamp set: Warmth & Wonder (Hostess set in Holiday catalogue)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive, Baked Brown Sugar
Ink: Midnight Muse, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Sof Suede, Craft Whisper White
Accessories: Floral Frames Framelits, Northern Flurry embossing folder, 3/4" Circle punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, sponges, white gel pen, Tombow liquid adhesive

To create the image:

From Whisper White cardstock cut the second largest Floral Framelit. Punch a 3/4" circle from a post it note and place in the sky area; tear a post it and place it along the ground line area. Tear another post it and begin sponging Midnight Muse in the sky area; move the post it randomly across the sky to achieve the look of clouds. Fill in some of the white space with Smoky Slate ink. Remove all the masks. Move the mask for the ground line further down the cardstock and randomly sponge snowbanks with Smoky Slate ink.

Place and stamp the trees with a Stamp-a-ma-jig using Basic Gray ink. Slightly offset the tree images again with the Stamp-a-ma-jig and stamp with White Craft ink; this technique is called "ghosting" and makes the trees appear to have snow on them. Stamp the deer using Soft Suede ink. Using White Craft ink stamp a few snowflakes randomly in the sky. Using a white gel pen add stars to the cloud/sky area.

To create the card base:

Follow the steps outlined in the video below to cut the card base and matting. Emboss the Baked Brown Sugar card base using the Northern Flurry embossing folder. Once the card is assembled add a few more stars to the card base concentrating around the embossed snowflakes.

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02 November 2013

White Embossed Sympathy

I had the unfortunate need to make a sympathy card. Using a few dies, punch, plastic beads and embossing folders, here is what I came up with.

I keep a flower pot filled with silk flowers on my desk. I pulled one of the blooms off and used it for my design. I added a plastic iridescent bead to the center. To make sure that it wouldn’t come apart when mailed, I also put one stitch in along with glue. The stick pins are homemade. I took some floral corsage pins with the pearl already on it and just added a plastic bead, a seed pearl and a bugal bead to pin.

I added three pieces of pearl spray and a punched border that had been stamped with the sentiment.

And a view in the inside of the card.

This will easily be mailed to the recipient. It’s not too overly bulky and with a piece of bubble wrap and extra postage it should do just fine.

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Sparkle Powder Ornament Keepsake Card - by Lee Conrey

I’d like to share a card and video tutorial with you on how to make “Sparkle Powder”. Here is my card using the Ornament Keepsakes Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up!

and the video I made

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Ornament Keepsakes Clear-Mount Stamp Set
128051
Price: $25.95

09 October 2013

Mini Milk Carton Holder

As promised I have put together a picture tutorial of how I made the holder for two mini milk cartons.
I forgot to punch a handle in the carton I made for the instructions, but you can see how it looks on my finished products. Here is a look at one of the Halloween holders I made last week.

Here we go with the tutorial.
*NOTE*
It should be 1" on the long side not 3/4"

*NOTE* The first score line should be 1" not 3/4"

Here is another finished holder.

That's it! I hope you get a chance to try this cute holder. At the bottom of the post you can hit the printer friendly button and print this out to have on hand when creating! Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to come back tomorrow and check out my card for this week's Create with Connie and Mary color challenge.