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Holiday OCC — Day 2, “Peace on Earth”

By on November 13, 2014 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

These online card classes are so inspiring! On day 2 we learned about Interactive cards. I loved all the samples, but the one by Kelly Marie Alvarez (of Lawn Fawn) was so cute! She made a card with 2 birds holding a star, and when you pulled the tag on the card, they put the star on the top of the Christmas tree. Sorry, that may be difficult to understand! Since this is my very FIRST interactive pull-tab card, I decided to go a bit simpler.

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I made a background using Distress Inks, then I put sparkle embossing powder over the entire background and heat set it. I love the texture it adds! Then I added the sentiment, and heat set it in black. When you add embossing powder OVER another layer of embossing powder, it kind of melts into the first layer! Whoa.

In hindsight, I think I might have embossed that sentiment first and then added the distress ink. I will have to try it that way next time!

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The tab on the side pulls out and the dove “flies” the branch over the top of the card. So cool. This card took me a LONG time to make, probably because I’ve never constructed anything like this before. But I think it was so worth it!

It’s not perfect, but it’s so interesting!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Mama Elephant “Peace on Earth” and “Arctic Penguins”
Dies: My Favorite Things “gift card” die
Other: Sparkle embossing powder; Distress Inks
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Holiday OCC: Day 1

By on November 13, 2014 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

I just love the online card classes by Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner. This is the first Holiday class I’ve taken from them, but I’m having a blast! On day one, we learned a bit about making cards that are easy to replicate. I was completely mesmerized by Debby Hughes’ take on “dip dyed” tags, that I had to try it out.

Here’s the card I made:

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She always does such cute small cards (this is 3 1/2 x 5″). I used some gold ink to splatter on the background. I used the Simon Says Stamp “Eliza” snowflake– one of my absolute favorites!! See all that detail? Then I “dip-dyed” that snowflake in gold sparkle embossing powder. Awesome.

Supplies Used:
Dies: Simon Says Stamp “Eliza” snowflake; Savvy Stamps “Joy”
Other: American Crafts twine; Mr. Huey’s gold spray; Neenah Solar White 80# paper;
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Halloween Time

By on October 31, 2014 in Halloween, Holidays, Paper Crafting

I had such a fun time making a few Halloween cards this year for my out-of-town nephews. I even made one for my grandma! Here they are:

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Here’s to a safe and fun Halloween!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Mama Elephant
Dies: Mama Elephant
Ink: Distress Inks, Distress Markers
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Happy Birthday, Garrett!

By on October 25, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Today is my nephew’s birthday! I made a very special card for him using one of my favorite sets from My Favorite Things.

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He loves pirates and he loves the color green (“light core green” he says); so I think he will LOVE this card! At least, I hope so!

Here’s the treasure on the inside:

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Happy Birthday, Garrett!

Supplies used:
Stamps: My Favorite Things
Dies: Pretty Pink Posh, Stitched Borders 1; Lawn Fawn, Cole’s ABCs
Other: Stickles
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Flowers Everywhere

By on August 28, 2014 in Paper Crafting, Uncategorized

If you asked me a favorite place to be in all the places you could ever be….I would say in a field of flowers. I feel so peaceful with flowers all around. In fact, a favorite place to visit is the Flower Fields in California (in April or May). It it just amazing!! (Read my post about it here).

So it seemed perfectly natural to build a card around that idea. Have you ever thought of throwing flowers as a sort of celebration? Well, it sounds like fun, and that’s just what these little cuties are doing:

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See all the flowers in the background? The sky is just filled with flowers! I was going for an Ombre look with my watercolored sky, but it didn’t turn out exactly as I imagined. That’s the beauty of watercoloring….it’s completely unpredictable!

I white embossed those flowers first onto watercolor paper, then applied the color. I also watercolored those gals (from Mama Elephant “In My Heart”) and I think they turned out so cute!

For the “happy,” I first watercolored some paper with greens, yellow and blues, then cut out the word. As you can see, I didn’t get much of the blues in there, but I like the variation of greens and yellows here…it kinda goes with the grassy hill. 🙂

I think this little scene would also go well with the sentiment from “Up and Away” that says: Spread Happiness Wherever you go. I just might add that to the inside of the card.

Joining in the fun at the Mama Elephant and Me Challenge!

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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Mama Elephant In My Heart, Up and Away; Avery Elle Red & Goldie (basket);
Dies: Mama Elephant Landscape Trio; Avery Elle Red & Goldie; Simon Says Stamp Happy;
Watercolor: Distress inks
Other: Wink of Stella Clear glitter brush pen; Glossy Accents; white embossing powder; stickles

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