Festive Friday Blog Hop!

Happy Friday Everyone!


Today you should have hopped here from Leslie Rahye's Blog. 

The Stamp used for the background is by Impression Obsession, and the quote is from Hero Arts!

Next you will hop on over to The Robin's Nest Blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Festive Friday Blog Hop!

Happy Friday Everyone!

I am sure you are all ready for the weekend, I know I am!

Today you should have hopped here from Leslie Rahye's Blog. 

 

The Stamp used is from Magenta Rubber Stamps. Bells & Ribbon.  

Next you will hop on over to The Robin's Nest Blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Operation Write Home Blog Hop!

 

Hello Everyone!

If you are here for the Festive Friday Blog Hop please scroll down to the previous post.  

Thank you for checking out all of the wonderful blog posts for this Memorial Weekend Blog Hop! I hope you have enjoyed the posts you have seen so far and all of the ones following mine in this fun creative adventure!

This card was creating using an older Hero Arts Stamp Set "Letter Messages"(LL151), the decorative paper is from the We R Memory Keepers Old Glory Line, and the card stock is Bazzill, the ink used was Clearsnap's Chalk Cats Eye Prussian Blue.

Next you can hop on over to Susan's Blog SMBdesign.  

If you are in Southern California and are interested in finding a local way to help Operation Write Home, The Stamp Addict  hosts one day a month to come and create cards, they donate the supplies, you just bring your ideas! (June's Date is 6/27 10:30AM-5PM)

Thanks for viewing!

Festive Friday Blog Hop!

Happy Friday!

Today you should have hopped here from Leslie Rahye's Blog. The complete list of blogs is at the bottom of this post. 

I want to share with you a card I made using Hero Arts Winter's Butterfly, along with my favorite White Embossing Powder.

Next you will hop on over to The Robin's Nest Blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Memory Box Spring

Hello Everyone!
Today I want to share with you a class I will be teaching at The Stamp Addict on Thursday May 26th and Saturday May 28th.  Below are two of the cards I will be teaching!

Thanks for looking!

Festive Friday Blog Hop!

Happy Friday Everyone,

For the rest of the year I will be participating in the Festive Fridays Blog Hop on the 2^nd and 4^th Friday of every month.  My  hope is that I will design a bunch of cards to donate to Operation Write Home , and that I will have come up with my Christmas card design before December.  Plus I have a TON of holiday stamps I have purchased and never used, I want to see if I can use them all.  

Today you should have hopped here from Leslie Rahye's Blog

For today’s card I used a set from Our Craft Lounge, White Christmas (CRM093)

along with Brilliance ink , and Memory Box Shimmer Paper!

Next you can hop on over to The Robin’s nest:!

 

If you have stumbled here by mistake and want to start at the beginning, at the bottom of this post there is a list of all 17 blogs.  Please check them all out and enjoy!

Acetate Cards!

Have you ever made a card out of acetate? If not, you should really try it.  Today I am going to show you an easy way to make an elegant card that you can see thru!  I am using Acrylic Acetate for this card, it is thinker than a normal transparency, closer to card-stock.

The first thing you need to do is pick a embossing folder.  Today I am using a Burlap Embossing folder from the Sizzix Burlap and Swirls Embossing Set (656645).  I cut an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of acrylic acetate in half at 5 1/2".  I then put it in to my embossing folder (half of it will be sticking out).  I ran it thru my Cuttlebug (instead of centering it in your Cuttlebug the long way and needed to fold the acetate, place it in the other direction, so that the rest of the sheet of your acetate will follow it thru. 

Next you are going to place the acetate on your Scor-Pal and Scor at 4 1/2".  It is easier if you have the flat side in side.  You will need to scor it multiple times with some force to crease the acetate.

 

 Set your acrylic sheet aside and  pull out your favorite Spellbinder Nestabiilities.  I used Labels Eight.  and 4 squares of paper just bigger than the shape you will be cutting out.  You need to have 4 pieces the same size. 

Take one of the shapes you cut out and pull out a green stipple brush, Memento Angel Pink and New Sprout ink pads, and your favorite quote stamp.  I used Verses " Embrace a Memory" (SY0521-E)

Stamp your quote in the pink then still around in in the green.





Next pull out another piece of white, Memory Box's "Orchid Branch Print" (G1718) the matching die, a VersaMark Ink Pad, Ultra Detail White Embossing Powder, and Memento Markers ( I used, Rose Bud, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, and Angel Pink). 

First you want to stamp the Orchid in the VersaMark on the white. Pour your white embossing powder on it and heat emboss it.  Scribble over the Image with your Memento Markers.  Wipe off the embossed image with a paper towel to reveal the white.  Next the Orchid out with the matching die.

 

Next you want to take one of the blank shapes you cut out earlier and tape it to the very back of the acetate card.(the flat side).  

Then flip the card over and line up the one with the quote and attach it on the front of the card.  open the card and line up the other two, this will conceal of the tape.  

You then want to attach the orchid to the front.

Hope you enjoyed!