My Favorite Things "Sunflower Sweetheart"

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

Just a quick post to show you a couple things I have been working on. As of late, I have been doing a lot of die cutting, stamping and then coloring the images while watching television with my husband. Then I take the images and design a card at a later date. By doing some of my card making this way,  I don't feel guilty spending time on my crafting. And I have to craft. If for some reason I had to stop, a part of me would die inside. Card making, scrap booking, sewing...any type of hands on craft is essential for me to be a complete person. A lot of people do not understand it but it is like anything-if you love it enough, you make time for it no matter what! (Wish I could say this about cleaning...)

That said, here are two cards I created using My Favorite Things "Sunflower Sweetheart" set. I ADORE this set and had so much fun sitting down and playing with it. I am still working on mastering coloring with Copic markers but so far, I am liking the results of my creations.

The first card I made I used the girl image, the sunflower and the grass.

I used an embossing folder from Lifestyle Crafts for the background.

I then used a blender tool to shade PTI Lemon Tart and Summer Sun ink onto the embossing. I love the way it came out!! I then layered an oval over the sun and adhered the little girl over it using foam adhesive. I then adhered another sunflower over that one, again using foam adhesive. My last step was to adhere grass at different angles under her feet. I have never done a card like this but am happy with the results.

I just noticed that I went out of the lines a bit on the dress and on the hat. I said I wasn't an expert on the Copics but this is way better then it has been in the past!!

Supplies:

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The second card I used a sketch as my jumping off point. However, for some reason I didn't save the sketch and cannot find it anywhere!! Just when I think I am organized.... Here is the card:

The first thing I did was to ink around the whole card with Vintage Photo ink and then I cut, inked and adhered a strip of patterned paper 1/4" from the left side. Next I die cut the banner, stamped the sentiment and adhered it to the card front. Then I wrapped a piece of green twine three times around the card front and tied it into a bow.  That seems like so many steps and I am not even to layering the fun part yet!!

I die cut a square with a stamped edge, inked the edge and adhered that OVER the twine. I then die cut a white circle and adhered that over the square with foam adhesive. Now the fun part begins!! I took all the little pieces I colored in and just arranged them over the circle until I liked the overall design. I then adhered them with a mixture of dot adhesive and foam adhesive. My last step was to go over the bird and the middle of the flowers with a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen. Can you see the sparkle in the close up below?

I love how this card came out and will be making more of this design. I have to admit that coloring in the wagon was just too fun.

Supplies:

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I want to thank you all for stopping by today. Have a great day!!

Nora

Gallery Idol Open Auditions 2014

Just a quick post on this beautiful Sunday. I decided to enter the Gallery Idol open auditions. The challenge was to use Washi tape on a card. I decided to stretch it a little bit and make the Washi tape into various flowers. It took me a while but I really love the results!!

For the large orange flower, I used a wire base to shape each petal and the leaves. I then put them all together with a stamen using wire to secure it. It is a bit bulky in shape but using wire helped in me being able to shape it how I wanted it on the card.  

The pink flowers, the tape was cut into long strips. I then folded them over and twisted the tape into the flowers. I finished them off with pink sequins.

The yellow flowers were the most persnickety. I taped two pieces of tape over a strip of vellum to give them a bit of stability. I then folded the vellum over. Next, I used some scissors to cut the folded edge into strips, leaving a connected edge at the bottom. Next I rolled the flowers and taped them together using glue dots. These are the bulkiest flowers of all three.

After the flowers were completed, I die cut and stamped a cup using Paper Trey Ink's "Candy Cane Christmas" set and used foam adhesive to adhere to the vellum on the card front. I then layered all the  flowers over this. My last step was to stamp and emboss the "thanks" sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp "Thanks" set onto the front. 

This looks like such a simple card to make but it took a bit of time to put all the flowers together. It was worth it for the result, though. Wish me luck!!

Thank you for looking today. Have a fabulous day!!

Nora

Supplies:

Ink-Hero Arts "Green Hills Shadow Ink", Versamark; Stamps-Simon Says Stamp "Thanks" stamp set and Paper Trey Ink's "Candy Cane Christmas" set; Dies-Paper Trey Ink's "Candy Cane Christmas," Monthly Moments "Journal Card 2" Die, My Favorite Things "Die-namics Blueprints 13" die; Paper-Doodlebug Design Kraft in Color 6x6, Bazzill Vellum, My Favorite Things Green Apple Card stock; Washi Tape-Freckled Fawn, Queen and Company, We R Memory Keepers; Other-Zing Clear Embossing Powder, Sequins, Crystal Effects, Big Shot, Embossing Gun, Glue Dots

A mix of WPlus9 Sweets and Treats and some Secretary Cards

Hello all!! I hope this Tuesday is treating you well.

I myself am fabulous but am so looking forward to June 16th, which is the last day of school and work for me for the summer. The kids are getting antsy for it all to be done and some have already checked out. I am ready for nice weather as there really has not been a spring here. Gray days, rain and temps in the 40's to 50's have been the norm. We don't even have full leaves on the trees yet!

Today I am going to show you three cards I created for some co-workers. One is a birthday card for a girl who is just the sweetest thing. She is always so happy and positive. We used to have lunch together every day but her schedule was switched so I don't see her much anymore. I just had to make her a card for her birthday, though.

I used WPlus's Sweets and Treats stamps and dies for this card. I liked the neutral kraft background with the aqua and yellow so I chose to make the card base out of kraft card stock. I embossed around the edge to add a little decorative touch.

The yellow banner is a sticker and it is placed over a piece of aqua washi tape. I die cut a vellum oval as a frame for the cup cake.

I colored the cup cake itself with Copic Markers and added some blue Stickles for the "sprinkles." The top of the flag is a pin that I had that I cut down to a smaller size and stuck under the cupcake.

I LOVE how this card came out and will definitely be using this design again.

Supplies:

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The next two cards I made for the two secretaries in our office for Secretaries Day. I created them so that a bunch of us could sign them and give them to the two women with some gifts. I felt bad because we gave them these gifts late because we didn't know when it was.

This first card I stamped the background paper with the pink polka dots. I then layered die cut, stamped images over it. It is very  simple but effective. All stamps, with the exception of one, was from Paper Trey Ink.

I added some sparkle on the heart in the middle of the circle and a few pink sequins for an added touch. I drew in the phone cord but wasn't really loving it. I did something a little bit different for the second card.

I used the exact same card design for the second card but stepped it up a bit. I mixed a few sentiment stamps to create the sentiment. I also used some white covered wire to make the phone cord.

A much cuter look if I do say so myself!!

I apologize for some of the photos. I did an auto color in Photoshop so I could upload the pictures and didn't realize how bad they were. Oops!

Thank you for stopping by!! Have a fabulous day!

Nora

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