The weeks are just flying by...even more so now that we are heading to a really busy holiday season!
My grandkids have put lots of post-it notes in the Sears Wishbook for me so I need to get going so that I can get what they have chosen (I never get them everything(!!) but I do like to get them things that they want.) It was more fun when they were little as I could shop for just toys but now that Maddie is 12, she wants jewelry and clothes, and Blake who is 8, wants every Lego set out there! Not quite as much fun for Grandma as I love toys!
Here is a sweet Thank You card that could have the greeting changed for any occasion, I think!
The card is Primrose Petals (an In Colour that we have until May 2014), with Patio Party DSP layered on top. I love this design of DSP...all the multicoloured little butterflies are so cute!! Then I matched the flag pieces to the DSP and used Baja Breeze, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, and Midnight Muse. I used scraps of these colours to punch out the small flowers with the Boho Blossoms punch and with the Elegant Butterfly punch (new this catalogue). I added 4 rhinestones on the butterfly to add a little bling to the card.
So I have a card that is quite easy to make and yet looks really nice (I think!).
Enjoy your fall weekend and enjoy the changing of the leaves...it is so pretty at this time of the year to see the gorgeous colours of nature!
So long for now,
Chrissie
Hi again! Sorry this is a little later in the day but better than not at all, right?
I hope you are enjoying my "regular" posts of 3 days per week. I love sharing what I make with you. There is not a day that goes by that I don't craft something (unless I am extremely sick...but touch wood, I am doing pretty well). I am enjoying the cooler temperatures which make it easier for me to do things at home and out in the world.
On to the card,
I made this card for a dear young woman who we have known her whole life...whose birthday is September 11th. (I also know another woman, the daughter of a dear friend who is now in her 30's, who also has her birthday on Sept. 11th...I feel bad that this day is memorialized every year for being such a sad day, and not a celebration of their "birth" days.)
Yes, I cut out all those zigzag pieces out of different colours of card stock. I used the Tasteful Trim Big Shot die and some strips from 12 x 12 sheets of card stock. If I was really careful, I could cut 2 strips at a time! The colours I used from the bottom right corner are...Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Tango Tangerine, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, and Rich Razzleberry. I also used Basic Black 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon, and one of the dies from the Apothecary Accents Framelits. The words come from the Sassy Salutations stamp set...I love the font in the whole set!
Hope the rest of your week goes very well for you all,
Be back soon,
Chrissie
This is one of my favourite cards of this Fall. There are so many new but traditional parts to this card! I crocheted the wreath using our Gumball Green Sweater Trim in the Holiday catalogue. (I used a 5 mm crochet hook and made 19 chains, then joined them into a circle!)
Card is Cherry cobbler with a layer of Crumb Cake (used to be called Kraft). Then we have this really cool 12 x 12 paper called Core'dinations (also in the Holiday Mini). I used the Early Espresso colour and ran it through the Big Shot with the Woodgrain Textured Impression Embossing Folder. Then, because this paper has a different colour core, I sanded the top very lightly to give the look you see here. I love this! (the Core'dinations is also available in Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green, one colour per package.)
I glued the wreath onto the front using Tombow white glue, topped it with a bow of Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding and stuck Cherry Cobbler brads into the knit (with glue on the ends) to represent the berries. The greeting is from "Christmas Lodge" (in the Annual catalogue) stamped with Gumball Green on Very Vanilla card stock.
We are doing this wood look technique on one of the cards at our October 21st Christmas Stamping Event. Come out and give it a try, and maybe you will want to do more of it!!
Also if you would still like to make the ornament on the front of the Holiday catalogue, please let me know and we can set up a time to get together. Or if you want to have me make it for you, I would be more than happy to do that! If you want more than one, I can do that, too!! Just send me an email and I will get right back to you. I am going to do a blue one and I will post it when I get it done!
Have a great week, everyone...I will be back in a couple of days!
Thanks,
Chrissie
Here is a really cute Baby card...it does however use some retired ribbon, a punch, and cardstock, and little metal hanger paper clips from a craft store.
I just wanted to share this with you as it could be made with another punch, and colour of cardstock and Designer Series Paper.
What I used...
Cardstock: Blushing Bride (retired), Whisper White, and Twitterpated DSP(current in the Annual catalogue).
Ink: Black Stazon
Stamp: Petite Pairs (welcome, baby)
Accessories: Pleated Ribbon (retired), Round Tab Punch (retired), Scallop Oval Punch and Large Oval Punch, Big Shot and Fancy Fan Folder, and lots of dimensionals and Tombow! (There is a great die that would work for the dress if you don't have the Round Tab punch...Lots of Tags Sizzlits (the top left one in the Annual catalogue could be folded or cut to have a rounded bottom...think I might try that next time!
I hope this has inspired you to work with this cute idea and make it your own! Please email me pictures of your creations...I'd love to see what you are doing!
Stay in touch,
Chrissie
Here is that flower again...told you I loved it!! This is a card that can be made for any occasion and in any colour...just coordinate your cardstock, ribbon, and ink.
Cardstock: Midnight Muse, Whisper White
Ink: Midnight Muse
Stamps: flower from "Blooming with Kindness", words from "One in a Million"
Accessories: Midnight Muse 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon, Big Shot, and Large Scallop Edgelit and Delicate Designs Folder (scallop edge pattern)...I recommend cutting the edge first and then embossing the design.
I love the simplicity of this card and how it stands out beautifully!
See you soon,
Chrissie
Okay, so I saw something similar somewhere and just had to make an Angry Birds Christmas Card!! They have so many different games available now that I thought this would be fun.
(Sure hope I don't get into trouble with copyright laws...it's not that I will be mass producing these!! In fact this is probably one of a kind!)
Cardstock: Marina Mist card, and Scraps of Whisper White, Real Red, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Summer Starfruit, Soft Suede, and Lucky Limeade.
Ink: Real Red, Permanent Black Marker
Stamps: Hostess Set...Wacky Wishes (or greeting of your choice!)
Punches: (Everyone you own!! Just kidding!!) Ornament, Large Oval, 1 3/4" Circle, 1/2" Circle, Owl (two largest circles for eyes and ears on Pig, and top of their Santa hats), Petite Pennants Builder (straight sided one), Cupcake Builder (icing piece for clouds), and Word Window (punch and then insert piece again to shorten). Other small pieces are cut by hand!
Accessories: Dazzling Details Glitter Adhesive (the clear one), and although I never mention them, Dimensionals. I use them on every card I make, I'm sure!!
Hope this makes you smile today!
Chrissie
This is an oldie, but a goodie!! I have made this card in a few colour combos over the past year or so, and it is always a top seller in our cards for CCF.
I hope that everyone is now into their fall routine...I know I am!!
Card Stock: Pool Party card, Not Quite Navy layer, and So Saffron, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade for Sizzlet Die.
Inks: Not Quite Navy, Daffodil Delight marker to colour the flames on the candles.
Stamps: Hostess Set...Priority Mail (but any greeting could be used!).
Accessories: 3/4" Circle Punch and Large Oval Punch for flower petals (punch circle first and then oval around the circle), 1" Circle Punch, Pool Party 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon, Pool Party Brad and small hole punch for putting brad on the circles (or Paper Piercer), Curly Label Punch, Big Shot and Little Leaves Sizzlit, Two Way Glue Pen.
Hope this becomes a favourite of yours, too!
Chrissie
Another one of my favourite cards. I totally copied this from a very talented US Demo, Sandi MacIver. All I changed was the flower and ribbon colour...Sandi did hers in Melon Mambo but I used Tangerine Tango. (I was out of the Melon Mambo Ribbon...hard to believe, I know!!)
Card stock: Whisper White (I added a second layer of Whisper White on the front of the card so that I would be able to wrap the ribbon around it.)
Designer Series Paper: Gumball Green Dotted from the In Colour Paper Stack
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Gumball Green, Soft Suede (stamped off once with the words)
Stamps: Summer Silhouettes, French Foliage (words), Itty Bitty Banners (happy birthday)
Accessories: Corner Rounder, Big Shot, Delicate Designs Folders (floral), Itty Bitty Banners Dies, Tangerine Tango 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (scallop circle), 6 of the smallest Rhinestones.
Be back soon,
Chrissie
Isn't this card so sweet? This was not my idea but I changed a few things and tweaked it a bit to work for me. (Sorry, I don't know who originally made this design because it was forwarded to me, but "Thank You" for your creativity!)
I started with a Whisper White card and using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool, on the back of the front part of the card...did you get that??..., I scored lines at 1/4" and 3/8" all around the card. Then I stamped my greeting and built the tree from there. (It has to be scored on the back so the lines are puffed on the front of the card!!)
Card Stock: Whisper White, Old Olive, and scraps of Real Red and Soft Suede
Ink: Old Olive, Real Red
Stamps: Curly Cute, Starburst Wheel and Large Handle (I rolled the wheel design in Old Olive onto Old Olive Card Stock before punching the hearts...did nothing extra to the Real Red heart!)
Accesories: Cupcake Builder Punch (for tree basket), Small Heart Punch, Owl Punch (for the tiny hearts), 1/8" Real Red Taffeta Ribbon, lots of Rhinestones.
Do you love it? I sure do...if doing this for a class you may want to make a template so that everyone knows where to place the punched out pieces. I stamped my greeting, then put on the top heart and the Suede basket and estimate the other rows from that!
Enjoy!
Chrissie
So here is a fun masculine birthday card! (Not the one I am giving my son but even if it was, he doesn't have time to check my blog anyway!!)
This card uses the technique of Faux Tearing. For the area underneath the anchor tag, I adhered, temporarily, two pieces of card stock that I had previously torn, one above that area and one below. That left me a space in between to lightly sponge on my ink and to stamp the compasses. After doing both of those, I removed the torn extra card stock and was left with this beautiful design on my card layer.
Stamps: The Open Sea (the compass and globe stamps are stamped off once in Soft Suede before stamping on card, the anchor is full strength on a scrap of Very Vanilla), Words are done on computer in Early Espresso.
Card Stock: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Ink: Soft Suede, (and Early Espresso from my computer in MDS2, Stampin Up's on line cardmaking and scrapbooking program...try it for free for 30 days right now!!)
Accessories: Sponge or Sponge Dauber, SU retired twine (just use more layers of Linen Thread twisted together), Extra Large Tag Punch, Small Hole Punch to use on tag, and 1 medium of the Naturals Designer Buttons.
(I am sure I have mentioned this before but my friend, Karin, and I make lots of cards to donate the proceeds to Chrohn's and Colitis Foundation and I often use up some of my retired products on those cards to reduce our costs. There will be cards that do use retired Stampin Up products but I will try to give a you an option to use something current!)
Have a great weekend!
Hugs,
Chrissie
This is another one of the swaps that I made to take to Regionals. I love this card and it is a very trendy style right now, called Triple Layer Card.
For this card I used Midnight Muse and Whisper White cardstock. I want to give you the measurements to this card so you can try this technique:
Midnight Muse...8 1/2" x 5 1/2" for the card base (fold in half!),
3 1/4" x 4 1/2", and 2 1/4" x 3 1/4"
Whisper White...4" x 5 1/4", 3" x 4 1/4" and 2" x 3 1/4".
You layer the three white pieces together (1/2" edges on all sides as you stack the layers. Adhere with a temporary adhesive. Then stamp your design every which way over all three layers at once (there will be a little missing on the 2nd and 3rd layers but that will be covered up by the Midnight Muse layers).
I used the flower from "Blooming with Kindness" (love that flower, can you tell?!) with Midnight Muse ink. Make sure your ink pad has enough ink to give you solid and clear images. Once you are finished the stamping take your 3 layers apart and layer on their coordinating Midnight Muse pieces. Make sure you line up your layers so the flowers match up!!
I added some Whisper White 5/8" organza ribbon and a Midnight Muse Dahlia. I used a greeting from "Petit Pairs" and the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches on scraps of cardstock.
As I have no idea how to make a video, let alone post it(!!), so I am going to refer you to an amazing US Stampin Up demo, Dawn Olchefske at http://dostamping.typepad.com for a great video. (You will have to go back quite a few pages (maybe as much as 10 pages) on her blog to find it but she has great step by step instructions.
Hope you give this a try!
Be back soon,
Chrissie
So. do you love the Christmas ornament on the front of the Holiday Catalogue? How many do you want to make??? This looks so much better in person!
I will be offering this ornament class (you will only make one...they take a while) on Wednesday, Sept. 19th at 6:30 pm or Thursday, Sept. 20th at 6:30 pm. It will take you about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to put this together. This class will cost $20 per person.
I will also have extra kits that can be purchased for $7 each including everything you need to create this ornament at home with only your glue gun and Dazzling Diamonds, if you choose to glitter your ornaments.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you are able to come to either class and if you want kits to make more. (As always, if these times don't work for you, just let me know what does and we can work something out.)
Hope to see you soon,
Chrissie
Happy Monday!!
It is my plan to post a Christmas card or 3D project each Monday from now until at least the end of November. So let's start our Merry Mondays today!!
I made this card as one of my swaps for the Stampin Up Regional Event in Hamilton on August 18th. It was a great day and I loved making and colouring this card!
Stamps: Winter Memories, and Joyous Celebrations (both from the Holiday Catalogue)
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, and Very Vanilla.
Designer Series Paper: Be of Good Cheer (Annual Catalogue)
Ink: Black Stazon, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Crumb Cake and Sahara Sand.
Accessories: Blender Pen (I used ink from the inkpad in every colour but the Black Stazon, to lightly colour the sleigh image), Extra Large Oval Punch, 1" Square Punch to make the Flag end on the Gumball Green cardstock strip, Gumball Green 1/4" Sweater Trim.
I got lots of compliments on this card, and you would too, if you made this card for your family and friends!
Be back soon,
Chrissie
