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White on White

White on white sm H2O

This week’s challenge over at: Crazy4Challenges the challenge is to make a white on white card. I was in the mood to make something floral so I decided to make white rose and one of my favorite embossing folders by Spellbinders:

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The Steps:

Step 1: First cut a pc. of white cardstock into a rectangle that measures 5.25″ x 7″. Put this rectangle into the embossing folder and run through your cutter/embossing machine.

Step 2: Create a base card by scoring an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock at 5.5″ Fold for a book fold, Adhere step 1 to the front of the base card.

Step 3: Make 3 roses and their leaves from white cardstock. If you have never tried making paper realistic flowers by Susan Tierney Cockburn, here is the tutorial video for making these exact roses: Susan’s Rose 1 video tutorial

I constructed my roses directly onto the embossed folder layer on the front of the card making sure the finished arrangement would be centered into the oval.

Step 4: I used a die for the sentiment that I honestly don’t know the manufacturer’s name, but use it often for sympathy cards. I bought on HSN yrs. ago and is a set of “word” dies. The butterfly is from Elizabeth Craft Designs, but is discontinued.

That’s It!

Thank you so much for taking a look. I think white on white cards always look elegant no matter what the theme is, so go for it this week!

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: all white cardstock

Sizzix Cutterpillar Pro

PH Neutral Archival Glue

Clear Double Sided Adhesive

Easy All Occasion Card!

Kite Front H2O

This week over at: Crazy4Challenges I am the hostess, and found on the “Calendar of Days” that today is “Kite Flying” day! So for this Saturday Feb. 8th. the challenge is to put a kite on your card. If you don’t have a kite then you can put anything else that flies on your card. Or,….You can make a kite to put on your card like I did.

The Steps:

Step 1: Cut a rectangle that measures 5.5″ x 7″ from white cardstock. Next I used a stencil from Elizabeth Craft Designs called “Clouds and Grass” to stencil this background panel with PanPastels.

Step 2: I made the kite by cutting a rectangle from Coral cardstock that measures 2″ x 3″. Then I folded on the diagonal long side. Then cut the shape of the kite. Then fold across the kite. Below shows the toothpicks I glued on the underside:

Kite under tooth

Step 3: Cut out a 1″ x 6″ grass edge for the bottom of card with Elizabeth Craft Designs: Nature Edges. The clouds are from an older Karen Burniston die set called: The All Season Tree.

Step 4: Make a base card by scoring an 8.5″ x 11″ pc. of cardstock at 5..5″ and then folding for a book fold and trimming to 5″ x 7″. Now adhere the cloud stenciled layer to the front of the base card. Adhere the grass edge to the bottom of the card. Then decide how you want the clouds and Kite. I added a little foam dot under the clouds and top half of the kite. Then I added a pc. of white bakers twine to make the kite tail. Then just cut scraps of colored cardstock in tiny triangles and glued them on either side of the twine.

Step 5: I chose the stamped sentiment from an older one from Karen Burniston “flying by to say” because I could make a few and stash them for almost any occasion by just adding the appropriate sentiment on the inside. Thanks so much for taking a quick look:

Kite Front H2O

That’s It!

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

CutterPillarPro

Amazon: PH Neutral PVA Glue

To Honor My Granddaughter!

My Sierra H2O

This week’s challenge over at: Crazy4Challenges is to choose a card that was sent to you and use it as your inspiration!

Sierra card

Sierra card inside cropped

I chose my sweet granddaughter’s card because when I went looking at cards I had saved, this one from Sierra was in the mix. The little girl who sent me this card had paid for it with her own money and gave it to me with a bag of Starbucks coffee she had also paid for! This little girl just graduated from the University of Oregon. and was just married to her high school sweetheart! They both have begun great careers!

The Steps:

Step: 1: I used an older Karen Burniston’s die set that was called “Whiskers the Cat”. I cut the silhouette piece and whiskers piece from black cardstock 3 times. All the others were cut from white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers. The Santa hat is from an old KB die set that was accessories for all her “critters” that she released that year.

Step 2: Make a base card by scoring a 5.5″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock at the 5.5″ mark on the long side. Fold over for a tent fold card and trim to 5.5″ x 7.75″. (Although this is a huge card, it is the exact size of the one given to me!).

Step 3: I cut a blue card stock that had little white glittered dots all over it into a rectangle that measures 5.5″ x 7.5″ to cover the entire front of the base card.

Step 4: The Christmas lights and snow drift on the fence are Silhouette files. The fence for the snow drift is a 1.5″ x 7.5″ strip of “wood look” paper that I though looked remarkably like the one in the inspiration card.

Step 5: Once I had all the components made, I assembled them as shown and that’s it!:

Me and Sierra cropped

Other Products Used:

CutterPillar Pro

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

Put A Drink On It!

Drinks H2O

Drinks inside H2O (2)

According to our Hostess, Frances Byrne, it’s Beer Drinking Day! The challenge this week is to put some kind of a drink on your card. I made this card for my best friend, Jeanine, who is also my boss at the beauty salon I’ve worked at for the last 16yrs. Our birthdays are 2 days apart! She is 10yrs. younger than me however! I just love her and we often spend our lunch hour picking up fast food and spending the hour chatting and laughing.

The Steps:

Step 1: I made the pop up inside the card first. I used an older die set from Karen Burniston called 780 – Garden Bench. I like to try to use currently available products but this bench worked so well with the Art Impression’s stamp of these two ladies. 4407 – Coffee BFF’s

Step 2: The card is a 6″x6″ square. I cut two 5.75″ x 5.75″ squares from white cardstock. I stamped one with the tree from this stamp set I bought from:Amazon link to stamp set

Tree stamp

I have purchased several sets from this seller on Amazon. They all have not disappointed me. The seller is GIMITSUI. They don’t spend on fancy packaging and the buyer benefits. This set is priced at $6.59 They are a Prime Member store and offer free shipping and free returns! What! I know! You will not want to return them. All of the stamp sets I have purchased from them stamp very well. Here are two more sets that I adore and have already used.

You may remember the elephant set used on another C4C Sketch Challenge:

Aug sketch Elephant H2O (2)

Then I used PanPastels to stencil the clouds and hills behind the bench. The other 6″ square I also used PanPastels and stencils for the grass and path: Snow storm and Clouds & Mountain and Split rail Fence

Drinks inside H2O (2)

Next I trimmed them to fit behind and around the bench. Wait to adhere these two stenciled squares until later.

Step 3: I stamped the Art Impression BFF’s stamp. I colored them with Copic Markers and fussy cut them out. I glued them to the front of the bench just on the back side of their legs which makes them really look like they’re sitting on that bench! I’ve had the AI stamp for awhile and have used them a lot. But I really believe I saw Frances use this stamp exactly like this when the Garden Bench first came out.

Step 4: Cut two 6″ squares from a sky blue cardstock for the front and back of the pop up. Now take a scrap of white cardstock that is about 2″ x 4″ and stencil this strip to continue the hills behind the bench. Do the same thing for under the bench. Adhere the strip that is for behind the bench to the bottom of a blue square. (Make sure it is positioned to fill in where the bench cut out is). Do the same thing for the piece that is attached to the path/grass layer and adhere it to what will be the back of the card.

Step 5: I used 3 die sets for the front of the card: 1434 Calligraphic Elements – 3

1161 – happy birthday and Coffee Charms. I cut the “Elements” from silver mirror cardstock. I cut coffee cup with white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers. I cut the top from Velum. The happy birthday is from dark blue cardstock. Adhere them all to the front of the card as shown:

Drinks H2O

Adhere the other blue square to the back of the card and it’s done! I can’t wait to see what you make this week!

Other Products use:

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

CutterPillar Pro

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Pro

A lesson learned!

Sept sketch H2O

It’s sketch week!

It’s also my birthday today! I love sketch week because your card can be any theme. So I made mine a birthday card.

I always will post projects I like, but also my “not so much” projects. This one I really thought would end up cute. I had some designer paper with all these pastries on it. I thought it would be perfect to use with the dies I wanted for the four squares in this sketch. However, once I saw it all together, I think it’s too busy and the paper competes with the feature “squares”. So it just goes to show you, that even when you think you got this, it’s that one that will teach you a lesson!

The Steps:

Step 1: The designer paper stripes measure 2″ x 7″. The blue stripe is 1.5″ x 7″.

Step 2: I used Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1118 – Stitched Squares for the four squares. Using the second to smallest die, cut four times from white cardstock. Then I used a little yellow Panpastel to match the yellow in the paper. It doesn’t look yellow in the photo because it’s pretty pale yellow.

Step 3: I used two Karen Burniston Charm die sets for the squares:

1050 – Sweet Treats Charms and 1041 – Coffee Charms

Sweet Treats Charms Coffee Charms

I cut all of the dies I used from white cardstock and colored them with Copic Markers.

The Yellow Happy Birthday sentiment is Elizabeth Craft Designs: 783 – Happy Birthday

Step 4: The base card measures 5.5″ x 7″. Score an 11″ x 8.5″ pc. of paper at 5.5 on the long side. Fold over for a book fold. Then add all the elements in steps 1, 2 and 3 to the front of the base as shown. Here’s another look at the card:

Sept sketch H2O

That’s it!

Thanks so much for stopping by and we can’t wait to see what you do with this sketch!

Other Products Used:

Beacon’s Kids choice glue

Michael’s Craft Store: White and blue cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

CutterPillar Pro

Sticky Specs

National Sandcastle Day

Front seaside H2O

Inside seaside H2O

It’s a new month and a new Hostess who is Nicky Foden. Because today is Sandcastle Day, Nicky has challenged us to put a sandcastle, sand or any beach theme. One of my favorite die sets is Karen Burniston’s Adirondack Chair Pop Up. The one I own is one she designed when she was with Elizabeth Craft Designs. She has revisited this set at her new site: https://karenburniston.com/adirondack-chair-pop-up/

The Steps:

Step 1: Karen has an assembly video for this die set. Click on the link above and you will find two videos. One is for the original look of the Adirondack and a second one to make the chair look upholstered! So the first thing I do for a pop up card, is to master the pop mechanism. No worries, this one is easy! I cut the “chair” pop up from white base weight cardstock or 80lb. I use a heavy cardstock because I assume it’s going to be opened a closed a lot!

Step 2: My base card is a 5.75″ square when folded. This is the card that you will cut the chair into the fold. Depending on what you will use for inside mats you may want to cut the two mats with the chair. I chose for the bottom (under the chair” side) I measured where I needed to out sort of a square under the chair. And then to cover that hole when I attached the “sand” mat, I just adhered the same color cardstock under the chair and adhered the larger mat on top. Both the “sky” layer or as I’m calling mats, measure 5.5″ square.

Step 3: Cut two 5.5″ squares from white cardstock. Using Elizabeth Craft Designs: “Earth and Sky” I stenciled clouds with Aqua Marine Blue PanPastel. Adhere this sky background mat to the top inside of the base card. The second one you will use on the front of the card.

Step 4: Using Karen Burniston’s: 1038 – Tropical Scene

Tropical Scene

I cut the “waves” in white and blue for both the bottom inside and the front of the card. I also cut the “Palm tree/sand dunes and “sea shells” and “sun” from this same set above. I cut the little sand mound pc. twice. Once with the light brown cardstock and once with white cardstock. I colored the little palm trees with Copic Markers. Then I cut them off and adhered them to the light brown one right over the light brown trees.

Note: This is a personal endorsement. I do not receive any income from this company in either currency or products. I have always felt that Karen almost always, includes little decorator dies that you can use for so many projects with or without the die set they come with. I’ve used these little sea shells and sun a lot. For this project I used them on the front, inside, and in the bucket on the inside.

Step 5: The two “Palm Trees” and “Pail” on the inside is from a discontinued die set from Karen B. that is called: Palm Tree & Pail”. I love this palm tree.

Palm Tree and Pail

Step 6: Now just adhere all your cut and/or colored as shown on the inside and the front. (I also created a personal sentiment on my computer and printed out on white cardstock. I cut it out with a nested die set set and adhered it to the bottom of the inside of the card centered on the lower inside over the “wave section”. I took the pictures before I added it to the card because it has the “receiver’s name on it.” I don’t have her permission to post it on the internet. Here’s another quick look:

Inside seaside H2O

Side view seaside

Front seaside H2O

Thanks so much for taking a look! I know you’re time is precious. Here’s the link to the challenge blog to see the rest of the design team’s cards for inspiration. We can’t wait to see yours! Crazy 4 Challenges

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

CutterPillar Pro

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double Sided Adhesive 10mm

Beacon’s Kid’s Choice Glue

Put A Bird on it!

Pink House H2O (2)

It’s a new month with new challenges! This week’s challenge is put a bird on it. There’s 3 on this card! I recently acquired Art Impression’s Holiday Mansion 4926 and HM Garden Set 5096: 4926 – Holiday Mansion 5096 – HM Garden Set

Ai Holiday House dies stamps

Both of these sets include the stamps and matching dies. Ai also has a “Holiday” themed stamp and die set, as well as a Valentines Day set too, giving you so many different looks.

4927 – HM Accessory Set: 4927 – HM Accessory Set

4977 – HM – Valentine Set: 4977 – Valentine Set

I am nuts for this set because it looks different depending on however you color it or decorate it. Here’s a picture of the same two sets but in a different color scheme:

Blue ai house H2O

Pink House H2O (2)

The blue one I made right away and gave it to my best girlfriend. The pink one I made for this challenge and went a little nuts with the decorating. I do have some tips that will help you get better results with stamping and cutting these adorable stamp and die sets.

The Steps:

Step 1: First stamp the “house” stamp on white cardstock. I knew I wanted to fussy cut the house to be adhered to a hand made background. Also, there is no die in the set that cuts out the outline of the house. This is what the house dies do:

House white template

They cut out the windows and doors. There are two shutter stamps and matching dies. So here’s TIP #1: If you look close at the stamped house on the right above, when I taped the dies to the stamped image and ran it through my cutting machine, I was off just a little bit. In particular, the arch on the door. You’ll see, at the top of the arch, I cut off part of the bottom of the stamped “porch cover”. So the tip is to tape these dies to a strip of white cardstock in order to make a template. This allows you to use this template to see exactly where to tape the dies. It’s hard to see when the die is upside down on your projects because you know longer can see the blade

Tip #2: You can stamp the house on white cardstock as well as the accessory stamps on this same layer and create a scene using only the stamps. Or, a combination of both, like only cutting out the house dies but not the accessory stamps in the scene. In this case you will REALLY want to use a template.

Step 2: I stamped the “flower pot” accessory stamp a bunch of times on white cardstock. This gives you lots of options for not only how many you’ll actually use, but what colors you like best with the rest of the scene. Any you don’t use you save for another project! I stamped colored and cut all the rest of the accessories once.

Step 3: This step is optional but I think is what makes it so fun, is to have a little surprise behind the two doors that open, and also that you see through the windows. For this I used Ai: 4745 – Talk Much Set

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I stamped this little tea scene and then cut the colored scene in pieces so I could place the table scene through the front door and the Chandelier through the top left window.

Then I put a couple of stamped, colored and cut flower pots in the other two.

Step 4: I used this set from Elizabeth Craft Designs:992 – CountryScapes – The Woods 1

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I only used the left side of the tree. I cut the trunk from brown cardstock and the leaves from green.

The fence was cut with an Elizabeth Craft Designs 1134 – CountryScapes Nantucket Arbor & Picket Fence. As of this day they didn’t show it available now. However, I cut two of the fences out of white cardstock.

Picket Fence die

The last thing is to cut two “grass edges” from this set that is also no longer available but is a set by Karen Burniston 914 – Outdoor Edges – 3 die set

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From green cardstock, I cut one edge with the wavy one and one with the Grass edge.

The last step is to assemble your little scene as shown below:

Pink House H2O (2)

Thanks so much for taking a look. I just think this set is adorable and I will be buying the other two decorator accessory sets because I can’t wait to use this set for Christmas, Halloween, and Valentines Day!

Other Products Used:

Michael’s Craft Store: All cardstock

Beacon’s Kid’s Choice Glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

CutterPillar Pro

Sketch Week!

Sucker h20

It’s sketch week again, which is always the third Saturday of the month. Here’s the link to the challenge blog: Crazy4Challenges You’ll also find the Linky if you would like to take the challenge. So here’s how I made my sketch challenge card, sagging “sucker brads” and all.

The Steps:

Step 1: I didn’t have any dies that would cut that wavy scallop edge in the sketch. But I remembered a bucket of craft scissors he found in a dumpster behind where he works and was taking out the trash from his bus. Yep, in that cute bucket was a pair of scissors that cuts a scallop edge! I just hand cut the lower half from designer paper that reminded me of the colors of lollipops. I started with a strip of this paper that measures 6.75″ x 3″ and just sort of eyeballed what would be about 1/3 of this 5 x 7″ card.

Step 2: I generated the sentiment on my computer and printed it out on white card stock. I used the smallest die in Elizabeth Craft Designs :1113 – Stitched Circles.

Step 3: I cut a lollipop from Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1180 – Lollypop. I used the same hot pink for the silhouette pc. that I chose for the background card stock. Cut the spiral from white.

Step 4: Score a pc. of 8.5 x 11″ card stock at 5.5″. Fold over and trim to 5 x 7.

Step 5: Cut a background that measures 4.75 x 6.75″ and adhere to the front of the base. Adhere the sentiment oval as shown. Then the lollipop. For the stripe and bow on top I just cut a 1/4″ x 6.75″ pc. of white card stock and used the same bow that comes in the “Lollipop” die set.

Step 6: The four lollipops representing the x’s in the sketch are brads from The Eyelet Outlet. They are sagging and not lined up because I cut the “brad” part off of them and adhered them with Beacon’s glue. However. I put the finished card on a card holder and went to bed. When I got up the next day, the last 2 had slid a bit! LOL I decided to share it anyway because we all have those unfortunate mishaps. Here’s one more look and thanks for stopping by:

Sucker h20

Other Products used:

Michael’s Craft Store: Card Stock and Designer Paper

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

CutterPillar Pro

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

It’s Hufflepuff Pride Day!

Harry Potter card H2O

According to the Days of the Year Calendar the 20th of March is Hufflepuff Pride Day. So the challenge this Saturday is to create a card inspired by Harry Potter. This could include using stamps of the characters, using colors from any one of the four houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft or anything else that inspires you from this famous series. I chose the house of Gryffindor. This house’s colors are red and gold. Here are the steps to make this card.

The Steps:

Step 1: I started by cutting 1″ strips of red and gold card stock. Next I put the strips together alternating the colors. I used 8.5″ x 11″ card stock and cut on the short side to have strips that measure 1″ x 11′. Note: precision cutting is important.

Step 2: Tape the strips together on both 8″ sides. The picture below shows how you will cut the mat for the card. Sorry I forgot to take a pic before I cut the mat. But this sort of shows you why you need to cut all of both colors of card stock. You will need a large rectangle of taped together strips to cut a rectangle die on the diagonal so the mat will have diagonal stripes.

Cuts

Step 3: Make a base card from 8.5″ x11″ white card stock and score at 5.5″ on the long side. Fold over for a tent fold card. Trim to 5.5″ x 6.5″.

Step 4: Now you want to use a rectangle cutting die and tape it on the diagonal across your assembled, taped together strips, as shown above. Note: Once you have the die placed on diagonal, lay down a layer of clear tape on all four outsides of the die. That will at the same time serve to secure the results of the cut and hold the strips together when you run this through your cutting machine. Before you remove the die, carefully turn the die, still attached, over and add Clear Double sided adhesive tape on all four insides of the die. Add a couple more strips of the adhesive through the middle. Now remove the die.

Step 5: For the Owl I used Karen Burniston’s “Poppy the Owl”, a retired set but you might find it on EBay. The same goes of Poppy’s hat and broom which is Karen Burniston’s 1204 – Props 9 – 6 die set.

Step 6: The Happy Birthday sentiment is Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1161 – happy birthday – 2 . I cut once each with black card stock and gold mirror card stock. I also added a gold mirror card stock flourish at the end of Poppy”s broom to make it more magical looking using Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1034 – Flourishes & Branches

Flourishes & Branches

Step 7: To assemble the completed card. Take your taped together, diagonal striped rectangle and on the underside (where you added clear double sided adhesive) add a little dot of glue to one short side of this piece on every stripe. Now turn over, and center the rectangle on the base card. Let the glue set up a bit. Then carefully remove the backing of the double sided adhesive on that same side. Doing this stabilizes the rectangle so you can finish removing the rest of the tape while adhering the rest of this mat.

Step 8: Add the rest of the elements as shown below. (Glue the black and gold Happy Birthday sentiment together, offset slightly). Now add Poppy the owl and his flourished broom. I used Elizabeth Craft Designs Peel Off stickers in gold to add to the edges and that’s it!

Harry Potter card H2O

Thanks so much for having a look! I appreciate your time! Please join the fun challenge this week as this week’s challenge would make a great card for any Harry Potter fan! Use the link below:

Crazy4Challenges – 476

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double sided adhesive 10mm

Michaels Craft Store: Red and Gold Card Stock

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Beacon’s Kids Choice Glue

CutterPillar Pro paper cutter

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