Steph's Card

Okay, ignore the fuzziness of the photography!  I edited the picture to get a sharper image, but the colors came out all wrong--so I will stick with this one.  This is a little card I made for my niece Stephanie's baby shower this weekend.  She is expecting her first child, a boy, in May, and she is the first of her generation in our family to have a child.  We are very excited!  She likes vintage style, so I chose the same Jenni Bowlin paper I used on her shower invitations (did I show you that one?).  I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border and stamped the little onesies in various colors of chalk ink, using the kissing and smooching technique (I will never look at a bold image the same way again!) to make patterns like cloth on the onesie.  I got the clothesline inspiration from an older Hero Arts stamp (you can't see the stamping--it's covered up by the clothesline!)  Inside the card the greeting reads "Just for You".  Now I just need to go shopping for the onesies for a gift!

Tagalicious Tuesday

Here are the two tags I will be presenting tomorrow at Tagalicious Tuesday at Stamp Antonio.  I kept with a masculine theme, as requested, although I think these would be suitable for anyone.  Some of the products used include a key die from Tim Holtz, re-inkers for the Distress Inks, Judikins Rustique Antique Iron embossing powder, and gold Perfect Pearls.   I love the look of the "inky" butterfly (Tim Holtz Urban Chic).  I also had fun with inking the key tag--thank you Stephanie for directing me to the Tim Holtz video showing his new Distress Stains.  I did not have them to use, but he gave me an idea about using the re-inkers to get a rich look to inking the tag.  Hopefully the Distress Stains will be available soon.

Tagalicious Tuesday

 I like the delicate coloring on this spring-like tag.  The techniques are actually studies in texture.  The background has resist stamping as well as embossing.  The fluffy paper adds to the texture.  The center of the large flower is deep thermal embossed with a swathe of pearlescent alcohol ink over the top.  For fun I added the little circular tag at the top, which I made from scrapbooking paper.

This tag was inspired by the beautiful tag Alice showed me made from Martha Stewart All Over the Page punch.  She had done a card using a heart and beads.  I chose the butterfly and beaded the body.  Buttonhole twist makes the antennae, but they are hard to distinguish from the stamped foliage in this picture.  I used alcohol ink on acetate behind the butterfly, added an alcohol inked fragment charm and continued the Martha Stewart theme with the punched border.

Tagalicious Tuesday Card Tags

I knew I wanted to use blue paper from Nikki Sivils, and it went perfectly with the Jenni Bowlin red!  I had been playing around with blue and red and this just came together.  It's mostly inked using the Florets mask from Tim Holtz, dressed up with tattered florals and pearls.  How perfectly shabby chic!  I tore my craft room apart looking for stamps that would "go with".  I think they turned out OK!

Look closely and you will see the Tim Holtz Umbrella Man!  I thought this card might be used for sympathy or encouragement.  Again, Nikki Sivils paper with blue inks and paints.

Tag-a-licious Tag Card Tuesday

I really like how this tag card came out.  The parakeet stamp is one of my favorites (Magenta) of course because I have a parakeet!  But my Billie is blue, I made this one green and yellow.  The fun technique on this card is making paint from Perfect Pearls.

This tag card is much prettier in person.  The fiber flower is just hinted at in this picture.  I guess I had too much glare from my camera.  I just ironed the flower onto the tag, but I can see I am going to have to put some adhesive.  It is trying to lift off.  The paper is Graphic 45.

Tag-a-licious Tuesday

I wanted to do two techniques:  First a tape transfer, and I wanted to use embossing powder as a resist.  This tag does both.  I found the black and white dance image in an old magazine, and it was perfect for this tag.  The tattoo heart was perfect to add "fireworks" with gel pens and spica gliter pens.

I have fallen in love with candy hearts!  Not to eat, of course, but because they have such yummy colors.  I used some transparencies to jazz up this tag which uses the candy heart clip art published by Gecko Galz.  I love re-using packaging, and this little window from the candy heart box worked perfectly.

First Drafts

Above is a picture of two cards I thought I was doing in Card Factory yesterday.  The telephone card is a Hero Arts card idea, and I liked it well enough.  However, I thought it needed a little pizzazz, so when the Memory Box distressed dots in vanilla bean came our way, I re-did the card using the dots for the background.  Stay tuned--I'll post a picture of the final product soon.  The card on the left I completed some time ago, but again, I never really liked the card, whether it's colors or style or whatever.  So I re-made that one as well, but skipped the donuts--(I should always skip donuts!)  Stay tuned, and I'll show you what happened.