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C4C 403 Sketch Challenge

Come join us for this weeks sketch challenge!

It’s the 3rd week of September which means it’s time for a sketch over at Crazy4Challenges!

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As soon as I saw this month’s sketch I thought of something with a window. But, it had to be a small window to fit within the sketch. I chose this one from Spellbinders:

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The Steps

Step 1: I cut one first out of a pc. of scrap yellow paper see how it would look and where I could cut it to make it a square. Then I used it to determine where I needed to cut the window hole in the card.

Step 2: I cut a rectangle the measures 4.25 x 5.75. After determining where the square hole should be using the yellow scrap window pc. as a guide I taped the 2nd smallest die in ECD 1118 – Stitched Squares to cut a square hole.

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Step 3: Run the step 2 piece through your cutting machine sandwiched into this Brick Embossing folder by Darice:

2017-08-29 12.00.15 Step 4: Cut the window from the same blue cardstock as the base card. Trim the top off. Now glue the “window pc.” over the square hole as shown.

Step 5: I just love this little happy Kitten from Frantic Stamper Inc. Cut and color one of these Kittens.

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Step 6: Choose a scrap pc. of floral paper similar to the one pictured below that I used and cut a 2 x2″ square from this paper. Cut a piece of Transparency Film (2 x 2″ sq.). Glue the transparency film square behind the window and then glue the finished “Kitten” behind the transparency, then the 2×2″ square floral paper behind the kitten.

Step 7: With the 5th largest or 4th smallest die depending on how you count, cut a yellow circle with 1116 – Stitched Circles. Glue this circle as the last pc. behind the Floral pc. Glue the window stack so that the upper two corners meet the upper edge of the circle! This leaves a little more room at the bottom for the branch of birds. (The stack from top to bottom: window, film, kitten, floral, yellow circle.)

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Step 8: Glue the window sandwich onto the left side of the Brick embossed pc. as shown. You want the left window edge to be even with the left side of the Brick embossed pc. Trim off the excess yellow circle.

Step 9: With white cardstock, cut just the branch pc. from the below die set by Susan Tierney Cockburn for Elizabeth Craft Designs. Color with Copic markers then trim off the two top branches and glue under the window. Trim off where needed.

2017-03-15 14.27.24 Step 10: Using white cardstock, cut 3 of both of the birds from this die set By Susan and color with Copic markers:

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Step 11: Cut the tiny ivy from another set by Susan below out of green cardstock. I veined the ivy with Susan’s Flower shaping tool kit. Now glue the 6 finished birds and some ivy leaves onto the branch as shown.

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The Ivy Leaves were cut from this ECD die set by Susan:

2017-08-29 13.43.23 Step 12: Make a base card by scoring a piece of blue cardstock at 5.5″ on the long side. Fold at the score and trim to a finished size of 5.5 x 7″. Adhere the Brick and window piece to the base card.

Step 13: Cut 4 of the straight ropes from this die set out of white cardstock:

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The ropes are almost the same size as the long sides of the “Brick” wall pc. so start with the top and bottom and glue a rope to the edges. Trim as needed. Now glue “ropes” to the two sides. Because I chose to use the branch for the banner and the “birds” for the 6 x’s, I didn’t really have a place for a sentiment, but this card needed one badly. So I used this die from Lawn Fawn:

hello-by-lawn-fawn I cut it once from white cardstock and once from blue cardstock. This gave it dimension as well as a shadow so you could see it better but it wasn’t in your face so to spea k. Glue the two together with the white on top but slightly offset as shown. Then glue the pc. to the front of the card.

The inside was made by creating a sentiment on my computer, printing it out and cutting it out of ECD’s 1174 – Dotted Scallop Rectangles. Then I added a sun and the little bird that were honestly left overs from another project.

That’s It!

I know this seems like a lot of steps but they’re all easy, quick steps. Thanks so much for taking a look.

Other products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double Sided adhesive 10m

Beacon Kids Choice Glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C – 402 Make it with Glitter!

2017-08-28 Glitter bday hats

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This week over at Crazy4Challenges the theme is “Use lots of glitter”. The very first time I went to the big Craft Expo I took a workshop that was called “Make your own Glitter Paper”. I was fascinated with that title. Actually, it turned out to be the class where I first heard about Elizabeth Craft Designs. Below is what we made in this workshop.

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I didn’t love the finished project but I did love learning about ECD Peel off Stickers with this glitter technique. The kit for the project included: the scalloped red oval, the white oval, the metallic red rose embossed but not yet sanded, a little packet of glitter, a coffee filter, a 3 x 3″ square of white cardstock and two rose stickers still attached to the backing paper.

The Steps

Step 1: Adhere a piece of white cardstock large enough for 3 of the hat stickers to ECD Double Sided Adhesive. Peel off the adhesive backing to half of this piece. Sprinkle ECD Silk Microfine Glitter Cool Diamond. Now peel off the other half of the backing paper and sprinkle this half with the same glitter. With a soft brush, brush the excess off and polish the glittered cardstock with your finger in circular motion. This pushes this ULTRA fine glitter into the tiny little places you can’t see and it will amaze you how much shinier the glitter gets.

Step 2: Peel off 3 of these stickers with a pair of reverse tweezers and lay them over the above prepared glitter paper. Take something with a smooth surface and press over the stickers while moving in a slow circular motion to maker sure the stickers are well glued down.

Color with Copic Markers: N0, 2, 4 R22, 24, 27, G02, 05. Fussy cut the hats out.

Step 3: What looks like a red glitter mat is made by cutting a rectangle that measures 5 x 6.5″ from white cardstock. Next, apply ECD 10mm Double sided Adhesive to all four edges. Over a coffee filter peel off backing paper one side at a time and sprinkle with ECD Microfine Glitter True Red. Again as before, brush off the excess glitter and polish with your finger. Repeat on all four sides.

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Step 4: Make a base card by creating the sentiment on your computer in the “Landscape” layout centering all of the text. Then print on 8.5 x 11″ white cardstock. Score this at 5.5″ and fold over. Trim this folded card to 5.5 x 7″. Adhere the step 3 pc. to the front of this base card.

Step 5: Cut a rectangle out of Designer paper that measures 4.75 x 6.25″ and adhere to the red glittered pc. I chose this dark gray and white pinstripe paper because it reminded me of a blazer I wore for a “Head Shot” photo session when I was only 45 and had just been hired as a Marketing Manager.

Step 6: Make another piece of white cardstock 1 x 4″and cover with ECD Clear Double Sided Adhesive and leaved the backing on. Using ECD 783 – Happy Birthday cut the front card sentiment by placing the cutting side of the die on the side of this pc. of without adhesive. Now pull off the backing of this sentiment and sprinkle with the same Cool Diamond glitter as above.

Step 7: Adhere the “hats” and “Happy Birthday” as shown to the front of the card.

That’s It!

Thanks for taking a look and I hope you’ll try one of your own. I love to read your comments and/or questions.

Other products used:

Beacons Kids Choice Glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Tweezers from Susan Tierney Cockburn’s Flower Shaping Tool Kit

C4C 401 By the Sea

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This weeks challenge over at Crazy4Challenges was to use the ocean or the beach as our inspiration. A while back I found a card that I loved and wanted to make one like it. Here is Beverly Polen’s card:

So this was the perfect time to give this a try. I already had very similar dies and products so I had no more excuses.

The Steps:

Step 1: I began with the background. I used my favorite stencil for skies and clouds by Susan Tierney Cockburn named “Cloud and Grass”. Susan has a YouTube video demonstrating how to effectively use this stencil. I used this stencil and PanPastel UltraMarine Pastel to fill a little less than 1/3 of the top half of the cardstock rectangle that measures 5.5 x 7″

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Using the same color PanPastel I started coloring an ocean. Before I got to far down I colored the beach with PanPastel’s Raw Umber and Diarylide Yellow. Next I brought down the sky to meet up with the beach. At the point that the sky and beach meet I used a product called Snow Writer by DecoArt to create what I thought looked like sea foam and also made some incoming waves.

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Step 2: Make all the elements that will make up the ocean scene:

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I didn’t use everything but I wanted to have some options. I used elements from these die sets from Elizabeth Craft Designs:

I cut everything out of white cardstock. I do this so I can cut a lot of dies in one run through the die cutting machine and the assembled elements need to look realistic.

Step 3: Start to create the scene by adhering the assembled elements to the background piece. Here’s where I ran into trouble. I wanted some of my elements to be on the frame like Beverly’s inspiration card but after I had glued things in place I realized I didn’t have nested dies large enough to make a rectangle frame. I do own a Silhouette Cameo and could have made a frame but I went the old school way:

I cut half inch strips of 100lb white cardstock and cut the ends at a 45 degree angle. I dug into my paper only trash and found the negative from the mat and used just the four corners to back the corners for my frame. Also, I realized where I planned to put the “Light House” I didn’t have enough “beach” on the lower left side of my background piece. I didn’t want the light house to look like it was in the middle of the ocean so I got out another die set:

The die pc. in this set above, in the lowest left hand corner creates the stones for this wall. I used these pieces to make a stone sea wall for the light house. Some of the stones I glued to the background and some to the frame around the Light house as shown. The Sea Gull and the banded drift wood is glued to the background piece as well as the flying gulls. I then added the “pussy willow” in the lower left corner on the frame. The “chain is glued across the bottom of the frame and behind the “light house. The “Anchor” is from the light house die set. The “Corner” dies on the two upper corners are from this set:

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Step 4: Once the frame was completed I attached it to the background on foam dimension dots and that completes this card.

Thank you so much for Beverly’s card I had pinned on Pinterest for inspiring my card.

Thanks to all that took the time to take a look and maybe try one of your own.

Other products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: White Soft Finish Cardstock, Clear double sided Adhesive

Beacons Kids Choice glue

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C 400 Make a Card to Cheer Up Someone

Well, coffee and anything chocolate always does the trick for me!

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Joset Designs for Elizabeth Craft Designs makes the cutest die sets. I have collected them for a while now. I used four of her sets for this card:

I always start most projects by cutting out a lot of stuff:

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The base card measures 5.5″ x 6.5″.

THE STEPS

Cut a pc. of 8.5″ x 11″ pc. of white ECD Soft Finish Cardstock that measures 6.5″ x 11″. Score on the long side of the 6.5″ x 11″ at 5.5″ and fold.
Cut a pc. of designer paper 5.25″ x 6.25″. I chose this one by Reflections at Michael’s Craft store:
Cut out of pink cardstock using the largest die in ECD 1120 – Stitched Rectangles.
Cut out of light lavender cardstock using the largest die in ECD 1174 Dotted Rectangles. Stamp sentiment in the upper left hand corner of the lavender mat.
Cut the pieces for the “Ice Cream Cone”, “Tea Cup” “”Small Cupcake” and “Cake Stand” from white cardstock and the decorator pcs. from pink cardstock. Color the “cupcakes”, “cupcake wrappers”, “chocolate layer” of cone and “drips” and the “coffee” with Copic Markers. Assemble as shown.
Using ECD Peel off Stickers, outline the designer paper layer with silver circle lines as shown.

That’s it!

Thank you so much for taking a look! I love to read your comments! Please follow me!

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Clear Double Sided Adhesive 6mm & 10mm. “The Best Things” clear stamps set from Susan Tierney Cockburn

White Gel Pen (cream swirl in coffee)

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

C4C398

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A card for Jeanine

Over at Crazy 4 Challenges this week our theme is “Monochromatic” like shades of blue, green or in my case, shades of purple. You can accent with white or black. This card was made for the other hairdresser in the salon we work at, Jeanine! Last week, my premier week as a designer on the team over at the “Crazies”, I made a card for my sisters for their support. This week, I need to thank my work partner Jeanine. She has encouraged and supported me through a lot! We’ve worked together going on 14yrs.!

The Steps:

Believe it or not, I only used two die sets for this card by Elizabeth Craft Designs: 1064 – Fitted Frames 4 – Curvy Squares and 1020 – Susan’s Garden – Hydrangea

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This week’s commercial: I just love this Fitted Frames series. It doesn’t show well in the picture above on the left, but all the frames pictured in the set are cut with one pass through the die cutter! These sets of frames come in Squares, Rectangles, Circles and Ovals. I admit when I first saw these I thought “Well that seems like a waste of card stock when you only want one frame”. However, if you cut them with a piece of white cardstock then you have a supply of frames that you can color any color you need. You can stencil or do a cool ink Oxide on paper and then cut them out. Or, color each one a different color to go with a designer print paper. The ways you can use these are endless. But you also get some cute little shapes with them. I used the heart that comes out of each cut to decorate the inside of the card.

Step 1: I cut the frames out of 3 colors of purple and just set them aside.

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Step 2: Cut all the pieces from the “Hydrangea” die set. I cut two bases (the weird oval shapes in the same color as the frame in the upper left of the above picture). I also cut the square pc. in the set, which is what cuts all the petals, 3 times in this same pale lavender cardstock. I cut the 3 leaf pieces 3 times from this pale lavender and 3 times from white cardstock.

Step 3: Decide what will be the components of the card:

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I want to draw your attention to the assembled Hydrangea in the above photo. I started out with just larger leaves on either side of the flower but hated it. So I decided to just put leaves all around the flower which I think turned out better. (Just thought it would help to see sometimes things go wrong. Don’t panic, most mistakes can be fixed without starting over!)

Step 4: There is an assembly video by Susan Tierney Cockburn on YouTube on the Elizabeth Craft Designs channel under Susan’s Garden. I always highly recommend watching an assemble video if available whenever you get a new die set. It can save you so much frustration. Shape all the pieces of the hydrangea and assemble per Susan’s video. But first cut a dark purple square the same size as the only “stitched square”. Glue the “stitched square” over this purple square. This sandwich is what you will build the “hydrangea” on. After I veined all the leaves I added PanPastel Violet to all the leaves both light lavender and white. After the whole flower/leaves were all glued in place I squeezed a drop of glue here and there and added some “Express-o Yourself” Prills. I then took a soft paint brush, just as in the video and lightly added a little of the “bright green” PanPastel she mentions, that is actually called “Bright Yellow Green” by the brand.

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Step 5: The last step! Cut a piece of 12 x 12″ White 100 lb. ECD Soft Finish cardstock in half. Create the base by taking one of the 6 x 12 and scoring at 6″ on the long side. Cut a printed designer cardstock square mat that measures 5 3/8″ square. Adhere to the front of the base card. Cut a pale lavender sq. that measures 5 1/8″. Adhere to the previous “designer print” mat. Now add the 3 “Wavy Frames” starting with the largest to the smallest. Then adhere the “Stitched Flower” square pc. to the center as shown. I added a little tag sentiment.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I love comments and hope you’ll follow my blog. I respond to all comments and any questions regarding crafting with paper, personally.

Other Products Used:

Cardstock from Michael’s:

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Elizabeth Craft Designs: 12 x12 White Soft Finish Cardstock, Clear Double Sided Adhesive 6mm and “General Sentiments” Clear Stamp set.

Spellbinders: The little “For You” sentiment.

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Beacon’s Kids Choice glue

Sizzix: Big Shot Plus

A Background scene made entirely with stencils!

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I was so inspired by one of Susan Tierney Cockburn’s own creations that I went right over to Elizabeth Craft Designs and bought all the stencils, (ones I didn’t have) that were on sale. Which was a fab surprise! The picture below is Susan’s card.

Inspire by Susan

Yes, I know mine is pitiful next to hers! But, the point of this blog is the journey! I loved hers so much but didn’t want to copy it exactly (like I could). First that would be plagiarism if by some miracle I could pull that off, and second I wanted to try flipping the stencil (like Susan did for the tree reflection) but with the river. Plus, I had new toys and wanted to try them all, of course.

Here are the stencils that I used:

The two on the left are: The Great Outdoors and Mountain and Split Rail Fence. The three on right are: Cloud and Grass, Evergreen Grove and Shade Trees.

Here’s how I made this card:

As, I said, I had this idea to continue the “river” behind the covered bridge.

Step 1: I trimmed a piece of white cardstock to a 5.75 x 5.75″ square. Then I die cut Susan’s 1217 – Country Scapes – Olde Covered Bridge out of white cardstock and colored with Copic Markers.

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The covered bridge is the focal point so I needed it to even begin to start stenciling the background.

Step 2: The above picture is the first thing I did. Using the bridge die pc. as a guide, I used the Great Outdoors stencil and PanPastels to stencil the water in front of the bridge and the stones. Then I flipped the stencil over to stencil the water behind the bridge. Then, while I still had the bridge taped down with temporary tape, I colored with PanPastels, the road “through the bridge”.

Step 3: Above pictured, I added the “Mountains” “Shade Tree”, head of the reindeer and one “evergreen tree” and the “grass” in the lower right corner. Then I put the bridge over it to see where else I wanted trees.

2017-07-13 19.02.30 Step 4: In the above picture I just started filling in more “Evergreens” and the “Mountains”

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Step 5: This photo is the finished scene. I went over some of the images with more PanPastel color to darken up some of the images and added the “rail fence” and grass on the lower right side..

Step 6: My original intention was to use one of Elizabeth Crafts Designs dies in the 1047 – Pop it Ups – Western Edges – 4 die set as part of my scene. It is the one with the two horses. Pictured below:

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But the horses were to big to be at the foothills of the mountains. But I had already cut and colored it. By coincidently, it was laying by the bottom of the finished scene and I liked how it looked as if the horses had stopped to get a drink. I really liked it lifted by dimension foam dots.

Step 7: I cut a grass piece out of green cardstock using the 914 – Outdoor Edges -3 die set below and adhered it behind the “horse” piece. I stenciled the horse pc. with the negative from the grass die pc. as a stencil.

Then I added some little grass dies from Obsession Impression on top of the horse layer on both ends, pictured below:

Step 8: Attach the above “grass, horse, grass” stack with “Foam Dimension Dots” to the lower edge of your stenciled scene.

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Step 9: To create the Easel base card, cut a piece of 12 x 12″ white cardstock in half. Score one half on the 12″ side at 3″ and 6″.

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Next cut a pc. of cardstock 3 x 6″. In my case, I used a scrap pc. of double sided designer paper that looks like old painted wood. Then stamped a sentiment “The Best Things In Life” by Susan Tierney Cockburn for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Next using the die set by ECD cut the two grass pieces using the same green cardstock your other grass was cut with. Adhere these two grass helpers as shown below to the underside of your 3×6″ panel:

I added a rope die I cut with brown cardstock with ECD die set: 1125 – Ropes 1

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and attached to the front of this panel as shown.

Now adhere this panel to the lower 3″ of your scored base card. (the side that is 6″ sq. not scored.

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I colored a brown stripe with a Copic E71 because I didn’t like the white showing under the scene that I think was caused because of the additional pumped out layer. Easy fix!

Now fold the scored half over the paneled half and adhere the scene pc. to the lower 3″ ONLY of the front of this card:

That’s it!

A card that the recipient can display easily without an additional stand:

Thank so much for taking a look. As you can see, I’ve got a ways to go before I’m stenciling like the great Susan but it sure is fun to keep trying. Stencils are relatively inexpensive and their uses are nearly endless.

Other Products Used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: 12×12″ 100lb. White Soft Finish Cardstock, Clear Double sided adhesive 10mm

PH NEUTRAL PVA glue

Copic Markers

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Hampton Art brown ink pad

A Freshly Made Card Challenge 295

FMS Final 295-001

So the above is the sketch for this week’s challenge. I had just colored up this adorable digital stamp from Dr. Digi called “Snow Fun”.

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So I decided to cut out the image using a die from Elizabeth Craft Designs “1116 – Stitched Circles”. I added a border around the circle’s edge stopping at the “stitching” with a red Wink of Stella.

For the strip of cardstock under the circle I used a piece from one of Martha Stewart’s holiday packs and cut this strip 6 x 1.75″.

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The “Merry Christmas” sentiment is from Elizabeth Craft Designs 783 – Happy Birthday. The snowflakes are decorator dies from 2 other Elizabeth Craft Designs die sets: 916 – Spiral Circle Pull Card and 781 – All Seasons Tree.

The inside sentiment is from a stamp set by Joset for Elizabeth Craft Designs called “Winter Sentiments”.

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Thanks so much for taking a look.

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