I seem to be doing posts in two's, but that's ok; it's either feast or famine for me, I guess.
Happy 4th of July to everyone! This weekend I was supposed to be at camp with my husband, visiting with friends and celebrating with good food and outstanding fireworks in the little town of Industry, ME (to get there, you take a right at the back of beyond which is out past the middle of nowhere), but it is worth the drive. Each year the Volunteer Fire Department puts on a glorious show as a fundraiser. A local farmer is gracious enough to let hundreds of cars into his field for the show. If you happen to be up in Maine over a 4th, be sure to look them up! Unfortunately, I'm home, not at the fireworks. My asthma decided to act up so I'm home in the air conditioning! Feeling a little better, but the meds make me very shaky, so I can't really play today, but I can type (thank goodness for the backspace key!). Now, on to the cuttlebug folders!
When I received them, I wasn't so sure that I would like them. There are 8 in the set and I could wrap my brain around several of them right away, but some of the others took a little longer, i.e. the fish and lanterns. Here are a few things I made:
This is my favorite! The paper is Rose Thicket from Sassafras. I made a gatefold card and embossed orange cardstock with a folder from the Oriental Weave collection. I used the scalloped border that was on the rose paper and a simple thank you stamp embossed on another sheet of cardstock to hold the card closed.
This card is used using the same folder. I used my brayer to roll Memories Metallic Red ink onto the positive side of the folder and then inserted black cardstock (the ink rinses off the folder fairly easily). As soon as I took the folder out of my Big Shot, I sprinkled clear embossing powder over the image and heat set it. I cut it out, embossed the sentiment and put this card together as a masculine birthday card.
I used 2 different folders on this card. Again, both come from the oriental weave assortment. I must admit, the bamboo had me stumped at first! I embossed it on to a textured-looking PP and used my Memento Rich Cocoa to highlight the embossing. I then embossed a small piece of vellum for the upper right hand corner as a backdrop for my sentiment.
The birthday card at the top of this post was done on plain cardstock from WalMart. This folder came from the plum blossom assortment. It is a wonderful flower design, I inked the edges and popped on a little bling! The edge treatment is from the Hot Off the Press Lattice Fold template which is so very versatile for cardmaking and scrapbooking!
Here are the fish I mentioned earlier! This card again uses two folders. For the first step I again used my brayer with Memories Aqua ink on the inside of my folder, ran it through my machine and let the ink dry. I then used my bone folder to flatten out the raised embossing! Because I inked it the detail stays visible. When I had it as smooth as possible, I embossed using the fish folder and then lightly inked those raised images with Memories Midnight Blue ink.
My last samples are 2 ATCs I did using the folders and wonderful stickers from Joy Crafts.
For the one on the left: after I had used my brayer and red ink for the Celebrate card above, I ran my brayer across a piece of cardstock which gave me a slight impression of the embossing folder! The Memories Metallic inks are very "juicy" and I didn't want to waste the ink. The purple one gives you a better sense of the floral folder. To both of them I added a little bling!
Again, thanks for stopping by, love to hear what you think about my designs.
Happy Birthday America!
Freedom isn't free, please thank a vet!
I usually don't like sketches, but this one at the Corrosive challenge Blog was simple enough that I thought I could do it! I've combined it with the Operation Write Home Mid-week Throwdown
I love this holder! Everything is upside down so it is always ready to go! Problem is, I've already outgrown it so Paul (my DH) has making me an additional one on his "honey do" list.
yellow cardstock and covered the seams with white knotted ribbon. When I was done, I had bits and pieces left and it was enough to make 2 more cards mosaic style! I made envelopes out of yellow copy paper using my Martha Stewart scoring board. I think I've hit on my SILs Christmas presents! I love the look of alcohol inking and how no 2 pieces come out looking the same. I also used my Cricut to cut out the letters - I rarely ever use it in my crafting, but it certainly made this project go faster.
My daughter, Toni, is spending the summer in California working an internship as part of her college scholarship. We are all very proud of her! She returns in August for her Senior Year at the University of Maine, Orono where she is majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering. After she graduates she has a civilian position waiting for her with the US Air Force. The problem, for me anyway, was that she wanted to have her car in California for the summer and she thought it would be fun to drive herself cross country! I vetoed that idea and her brother, Alex, who is also at UMO as a grad student in Chemical Engineering took some time off to drive with her. Because of her school schedule she had 6 days to travel from Maine to California, get settled, and start working. We all had breakfast together before they left and I wanted to take a picture to scrap the start of her new adventure. You can tell in the pictures neither one of them thought that was such a good idea! The PP is from HOTP and the border punch is from Tonic. It's a simple, fun layout.
I've been sending her a card a week just to keep in touch. She likes e-mail and cell phones and I do to, but I like crafting cards for her! I was looking through some blogs this morning and I stopped by Fab's blog and saw his post about Crafty Catz and a digital freebie. Now, free is my favorite price so I clicked on over and found a wonderful business! This charming guy (he looks like a boy dog to me) caught my eye right away, the set is named Alaska and when my husband and I took a cruise there we saw a presentation about Huskies and the Iditarod. So I snatched him up along with a few other goodies. Pamela, the owner of the shop was wonderful, answered my e-mail right away and provided great customer service! I printed the background on plain paper and the dog image on photo paper. I used Scor tape around the edges of my card and added loose glitter (it works great!) used a Spellbinder's label and put the card together quickly - I just noticed he is crooked - I'm going to blame it on my asthma meds, they make me shaky...
Last today was finishing up a goodie bag project - also for Toni! These are little milk boxes in a holder, there are 4 in all. I used neon cardstock from Joanne's, a Michael Strong stamp which I embossed with neon green embossing powder from Zing and I filled each one with Starburst. Truly not my best work, but I know she is going to love it, eat all the candy and then throw it away! That's ok though, she saves all my cards.
I used 2 different folders on this card. Again, both come from the oriental weave assortment. I must admit, the bamboo had me stumped at first! I embossed it on to a textured-looking PP and used my Memento Rich Cocoa to highlight the embossing. I then embossed a small piece of vellum for the upper right hand corner as a backdrop for my sentiment.
For the one on the left: after I had used my brayer and red ink for the Celebrate card above, I ran my brayer across a piece of cardstock which gave me a slight impression of the embossing folder! The Memories Metallic inks are very "juicy" and I didn't want to waste the ink. The purple one gives you a better sense of the floral folder. To both of them I added a little bling!