working with tags

My daughter gave me some lightweight papers by Pink Paisley. I decided to cut off the cute corners and make some tags by using lightweight chipboard. I added some Diamond Glaze to the butterflies for a little added punch and stamped on some small sentiments.

Sewing Machine Challenge to Cindy

Cindy talked about sewing on cards so I challenged her to get out her machine. She accepted and has headed to the attic to get it. I would have refused if I had to go to the attic. You get to it via the garage and the attic stairs which I have never set foot on. The attic is where my furnace is so when the filters need to be changed I call on my 20 year old granddaughter to do the honors.

I cheated a little on this challenge. I had all of the elements ready and I just needed to sew them instead of using my ATG. I have 6 cards for my OWH box. My sewing is a little rusty I admit.

The image is a Bugaboo digi colored with Copics. The little cloud I embossed came via my friend Peggy B. She sent me a nice big envelope of them in several sizes.

Ahoy Matey

My first blog post of the year and my first cards for OWH. The image is a digi from Bugaboo that I have had for ages. It is the first time I have gotten around to using it. I colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Doodle Pantry. I made 2 cards with red and 4 with the blue. It is the last of both papers except for some scraps. It always feels good to use up my paper.

This and that.

I pretty much used up all of the paper from this 6" pad of Authentique. I have a few scraps left. I had to go into my stash to find the dark green paper for the last card. I mixed together the papers and stamps and ended up with 18 cards. The bird and the cat are both from Inkadinkadoo. The miss you stamp is a very old SU stamp. The big circle sentiment is a digi from Create With TLC

Tutorial for stamp set envelope

I got tired of putting my stamp sets in CD containers. They are fine for single stamps and unmounted stamps but I now have about 100 cases and I am running out of room. I long ago started keeping my sets in the original packages but as you know they are prone to tearing. I put the sets that would fit into Avery Elle stamp storage envelopes and I love them but they are too short for some sets including Inkadinkadoo.

I have an abundance of Avery Premium Heavy Weight sheet holders. I also have a Staples brand my daughter gave to me but they are a lighter weight. I tried both and the Avery brand is much nicer.

Using your cutter cut 4" from the top open edge. I also trimmed off the edge a little where the holes are.

 Using your ruler and a Sharpie pen make a nice heavy line at the 5" mark. You need to be able to see it for one of the steps.

On the open top edge cut at an angle to the fold mark.

Using the 5" ink mark as a guide line use scissors to cut off from ONLY the ink marked side.

 Fold the leftover flap to the cut off edge. After you insert your stamp set, with some cardstock as backer, you can tuck the flap in. I trimmed off and used  the original backing from this set because it has the name of the stamp set on it.

I have a nice plastic basket from Walmart that is just the right size that
I put my stamps in so all I have to do is flip through them and pull out only the one I want.

Warm thoughts.

In a recent online order I received free a pack of 12 Pink Paisley journal cards. They all had butterflies. I used six of the cards by stamping a sentiment on them. I covered all of the butterflies with Diamond Glaze. These are going out in a few days in my last OWH box of the year.

Cocoa time

 

The snow flakes are embossed as part of the original paper.

 

The next 2 cards also have a lot of pre embossed glitter.

Image is a colored digi from The Paper Shelter. I am trying to use paper I have had for years. I made 14 cards with this image.

Halloween personal cards

Image is a Hambo Stamps digital image colored with Copics. I added a couple of Recollections jeweled brad bats.

 

Witch is Inkadinkadoo stamp stamped on watercolor look paper

 

 

Image is a  Tiddly Inks digital image colored with Copics. The bat is covered with Diamond Glaze. On her hair and around the edge of the die cut I used a purple Spica glitter pen. The entire green background is a designer sheet of paper.

 

 

I stamped a Bo Bunny image in green and then did some coloring with Twinkling H2os. I added some crystal lacquer to his eyes. I mounted him to Tim Holtz grunge paper, cut him out and popped him up. The background is designer paper.

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This image is a layered chipboard I have had for ages. It's pretty cute. I added some fun fibers because it is for a 3 year old.

 

 

A big chipboard spider I painted with Twinkling H2os

 

 

A chipboard bat. I added some gems for his eyes.

  

 

Colored with Copics. The top portion of the cakes are covered with Diamond Glaze.

 

 

This last one is a digital image.

 

I hope you enjoyed my cards. I made a total of 17. Most are for my family. Some for friends. I would have liked to have made more for my friends but I waited until the last minute.

 

 I love Halloween. I enjoy all of the little kids and even the teenagers. I love them all dressed up and I love them when they don't dress up. Last year we had about 100 kids. I have Rice Krispy Treats to give out. I opened 1 box already. I had too. I ate all of the plain ones and left the flavored to give away. I don't like them so much. My oldest daughter and her 20 year old daughter will be here to help give out the treats. The granddaughter will be dressed in costume. We always have a good time.

 

 

Sending you a smile

 

 

 This months Our Daily Bread Design challengeon OWH is for a card with the sentiment as a focal point. I used a digi from Create With TLC.

Winter Wishes

The OWH midweek throw down is for a winter card. I posted this on Facebook but decided I would also blog it.

 

I used a precolored digi from The Paper Shelter. For the parts with snow I used a glaze pen to make it pop. The blue paper is from Bo Bunny. The sentiment is an Imaginisce stamp stamped with Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue Ink. The ribbon is May Arts wrinkle ribbon. The bottom embossed section is done with pearlescent paper