doily wedding (DIY embellies)

OK, one last silver and white wedding card.  It was actually this card of mine that my friend saw laying on my dining room table which made her ask me to make a wedding card.  Wonder if she'll choose this one?

I'm entering this into the Moxie Fab Doilies and Lace challenge.  Don't really know if the stamp is a doily, but I'm thinkin' it is.

Also hooking up to CASual Fridays current challenge cuz this wouldn't have been possible without my Sizzix die to make the bloom.

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies glückwunsch:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, copy paper (stamped)
Stamps: flourish Rubbernecker, butterfly Martha Stewart, sentiment Inkystamp
Ink:gray Versacolor, black Memento, Versamark

Tools: flower die Sizzix,

Other: paper flower Prima, brad, embossing powder, colored pencils

lace wedding (heat and dry embossing)

Yep, another silver and white wedding card.  Figured I could give my friend a couple to choose from.  And give the Moxie Fab challenges a go.  I actually love these Card Creation challenges - Damask, Lace, Gingham.  And Spatter.  Hmmm still no good idea for that one.

Anyway, here's my card.  This one's going to the Doilies and Lace Challenge.

Cut my front panel from CS, figured out where I wanted the dry embossed flutterbys to go and then where the die cut should be among them.  Die cut.  Dry embossed.  Then I figured out where the  lacy looking pattern needed to be on my card base in order to peek through the butterfly window.  Stamped and embossed.  (TIP: Better to stamp a bigger area than too small. Ask me how I know.)

I went with the beautiful "Love" sentiment and rounded it out with a pop of red heart and grounded it on a base of lace which I stitched on.  Adhered the panel with dimensional adhesive.

I'm wondering...  the wedding couple is German and Mexican, hope English is OK...
I sure love the Hero Arts wedding set CL360 - good for various styles.

Also going over to the "Punchy" challenge at CASual Fridays this week.



And to Jay Gee's Nook Challenge #19 cuz my choice of "Love" sentiment came right out of the inspiration pic.  Check out the owl on the chair.



Now I'm going out to plant some leaf lettuce in the garden.  Do you like to dig in the dirt too?

Supplies Love:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, CS American Crafts
Stamps: lace Prima, sentiment Hero Arts
Ink: Versamark, black Versafine, red Versamagic
Tools: die Memory Box, embossing folder Craft Concepts, sewing machine
Other: embossing powder, lace

brocade wedding (heat embossing)

Don't know if "el mojo" has returned, if it's just a deadline approaching or the fact that I got a couple of rules established with DS and DD (curfew, etc) and they seem to be working.  Whatever... creative energy level is up and I got a card made!

Had a request for a wedding card - "white and silver" - nothing more specific.  So I opted to go with one of the Moxie Fab challenges, "Damask and Brocade".  Heat embossed clear powder that I applied to rose colored pigment ink which I stamped onto PP using the Hero Arts Large Fabric stamp.  Follow?  New one for me. The technique and the stamp.

Balanced out the brocade panel with white CS stamped with white Versamagic chalk ink and a Spanish script stamp.  Heat embossed the sentiment in silver on that.  Added satin ribbon to the front panel and glossy accented two pearl hearts onto the ribbon.

Thanks for coming to visit.  I plan to be back soon.  Have a sunny day.

Supplies Mr and Mrs:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, PP Dream Street
Stamps: fabric and sentiment Hero Arts, Spanish text CHF
Ink: rose Cats Eye, Versamark
Tools:
Other: embossing powder, pearl hearts, satin ribbon

MIL's Day (recycle)

Had my MIL here for the weekend and actually managed to get a card made in time.  Thanks to the inspiration from the sketch challenge at The Craft's Meow and my need to recycle.  This is the sketch.



And this, the recycling. 

DD went to town with my Big Shot and some Distress Inks a while back, decorating the side of her wardrobe  (using half a box of Glue Dots I might add... must be nice to be clueless about the price of scrapbooking supplies, eh?)  Since she's now into de-childish-ing her room, these babies landed back on my desk.

So I incorporated them into a pretty simple card for my MIL.  Thought she might appreciate the added touch of her granddaughter's art.

Followed the sketch, going a bit overboard with the action on the right edge.  But I punched smaller hearts from DD's original ones and then decided that they reminded me of the seeds that the little fairy might be blowing into the air.  So I went with lots of them.

Stamped the fairy onto vellum. No butterfly, but still wings.  Cool eh?  PC generated the German sentiment and mounted it on a banner of coordinating PP.  Left it up to DH to write a message inside.  After all, it is HIS mother.

Speaking of seeds floating through the air (was someone?), you may remember this post about the dandelions in the field across the street?  This is for you, Mitra.  Check this recent photo.  Wanna trade? 

Supplies Zum Muttertag:

Paper: card base Buttinette, PP Max Bringmann, vellum
Stamps: The Craft's Meow
Ink: Distress Inks, black Stazon
Tools: die Sizzix, embossing folders dots Sizzix and Cuttlebug, punches, corner rounder EKS
Other: PC

do it for CASual Fridays

OK, if you saw my earlier post today you're probably real surprised to see me again today!  Let me add, I wrote that post yesterday morning but couldn't get Blogger to upload my photo until I tricked it today.

In the meantime I was checking my reader and saw that Casual Fridays is celebrating birthday numero uno.   Whudda thunkit?  They are so classy over there, I -being relatively new in this milieu - thought they'd been around for years.  (Wonder if those ladies ever get their mojo knocked out of them?)

Anyhoo, not that my mojo is back.  But I cased myself and made 'em a bird-day card.

Distress inked the BG after heat embossing the clouds.  Attached the die cut tree and the birds cut apart from the Martha Stewart border punch.  Ripped some PP and attached it as grass.  Added glitter glue as I did on my original card's winter scene, but should have skipped that step :(
Stamped the sentiment -  I'm a sucker for birds, what can I say?  Inked edges and attached to card base.

Hope your day is happy.  And here's to many more CAS-ual Fridays.

Supplies happy bird-day:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette,  CS Neenah and Coredinations, PP Basic Grey
Stamps: cloud Sassafras, sentiment Basic Grey
Ink: Distress Ink Ranger, Memento
Tools: tree die Memory Box, border punch Martha Stewart
Other: clear embossing powder, glitter glue, foam dots

Wo bin ich?

Followers.  People who like what you do.  And want to see more.  I get it, I really do.

But at the moment I'm up to my eyeballs in dealing with an errant teenager and trying to figure out how to be a more effective parent.  I'm actually learning new things.  Actually very interesting stuff.  But VERY energy consuming.

And technology.  Don't know if the problem is Blogger.  Or my PC.  Or the strange sites that are "hitting" my PC from somewhere in remote Russia.  But this is definitely taking the fun out of blogging.

And I guess it's also eaten my mojo.  Never really knew what that meant when people would write that their mojo had disappeared.  Now I get that too.   Got a list of cards I need to make.  With dates nearing.  But I find myself lured out into the sunshine instead of downstairs into my laundry room when I need to clear my head.

Just thought I'd tell ya'll that, in case you were NOT happy about one less message in your reader :)

Figures I could share an old project with you that I did for my parents.  After a great weekend spent with them in downtown Detroit (their old "stompin grounds) to celebrate their 60th anniversary.  Detroit Institute of Arts.  Belle Isle.  RenCen.  Hart Plaza.  City County Building.

The photo shows just the innards - the final product was an 8x10 picture frame.  Not that it was spectacular or anything, but it was so much fun to make and they really enjoy looking at it and remembering our time together.

I had sent them 20 of the best photos from the weekend, so when I punched out interesting portions of my copies of those 20 and arranged them here, they were able to recognize them.  And they had a blast doing it  ("Oh look.  Those are my feet...")  And I had a blast using my circle punch - moving it around on a photo to see what looked good... 

After that I just added some Staz-On stamping onto acetate and put it into a frame.

Bis bald...  and may the mojo return.

Lu(k), it's a poppy! (DIY embellies)

Have you seen the new challenge at Lily Pad Cards.  It's Virginia's (Lu) View.



I love these little natural beauties.  They pop up all over in fields around Germany.  Only last about a day, but how lovely.  Made my own little lovely.

A red polyester scrap of fabric (I think it was a pirate scarf for DS back in the kindergarten days).  Some freehand cut circles.  A heat tool to crinkle the edges.  Some black seed beads in the center.

Then a little stamping on recycled packing paper.  Made into a tag thanks to an eyelet and raffia.  Then an uber-gorgeous begonia (hope my girlfriend has better luck with them than I do - but it was so luscious I couldn't resist) and the bday present is complete.

On another note... do ya'll - BTW, I am just shocked that there are 24 of you out in blogland that like to see what I do.  I'm honored.  Flabbergasted actually -  know cardmaker, photographer, artist Colleen D.  over at Dietrich Designs?  She is one talented lady.  Can you believe those amazing butterflies?  Anyhoo, I had sent her a little something awhile ago and received the most gorgeous thank you card today.  I can share it with you cuz it's here in all its moxiefabness.  You should see those little butterflies IRL.  So shimmery.

Here's a big hug to all the wonderful talent-sharing, support-giving, beauty-loving cardmakers out there.  So nice to hang out with you all!

Supplies for you tag:

Paper: recycled packing paper, CS Coredinations
Stamps: BG and flourish CHF, circle and sentiment Stampendous
Ink: Distress Ink Ranger, black Versafine
Tools: corner rounder EKS, eyelet setter
Other: fabric, beads, raffia