Friend Tag

Hi all,

Today I am sharing the next tag for my 52 Tags in 2012 Challenge over at Pause, Dream , Enjoy. You can learn all about it here.

The Challenge for this tag was to make a tag in your BFF's Style. I chose my two closest crafty friends for my inspiration

Missie, from Created by Missie who LOVES to use glitter.

Jan from Craft Place who makes the most FABULOUS flowers.

I love hanging out with these ladies. We have the best time, and I am always learning new things from them.

So here is my tag:

I precut all my base pieces, and then I just cut all the layers each week for the challenge. I Saved a file on my gypsy with all the base, layers and frames all sized accordingly, so I can just open up that file and pick this weeks paper to cut.

This week I am using papers from a DCWV Dazzle stack I found on the clearance rack at JoAnn's earlier in the week. It was quite the score! I am telling you, this paper cuts like BUTTER on the Cricut! I am definitely getting more of this paper. It is so sparkly and it does NOT leave glitter all over the place like other glitter papers. I do not like have having glitter all over my mat, or worse, inside my machine. I cut this with a blase depth of 4, single cut, with an older blade. The white Bazzil used for the base I ALWAYS have to cut twice to get a nice clean edge.

I would recommend you getting a piece and trying it out!

Here is my recipe for today's project:

Tag - Elegant Edges - Page 38 Oblong Shadow @ 5 in.

Flower - Flower shoppe - Page 16 -Fun 3 6X z@3In. , Fun4 @3 in, Fun 2 @ 3in and 2.5 in.

Bookplate - Fabulous Finds - Pg.82 @1.5in.

Stamp & Ink - Stampin' Up.

Gem and Brads from my stash

Papers: DCWV Dazzle in Green patterned and Pink solid, and Bazzil Bling in White. Green scrap from my stash.

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

50th Wedding Anniversary card

Hi all,

Today I am sharing a card I made for my In-Law's 50th Wedding Anniversary.
I used Cuttlebug 5x7 Embossing Plus in Brocade Window on Coordinations Glittery paper. I can't remember the name of this color. Its a golden beige. Its pretty sparkly. I cut the 50 using storybook, and the "th" from Gypsy Font. I welded them together.

Here is a close up of the front flower. I used Flower Shoppe for the flower and leaves. The flower is Fun4 Cut at various sizes. I also cut some layers of Fun 3 at various sizes for the center of the flower. I made a Tulle round flower by twisting the tulle and sticking it on glue paper. The button in the center is from my Grandmother's stash of old buttons. The crochet doily under the flower was from my stash. I also included a stick pin from a set from K & Company. The silky ribbon was also from my stash.

Here is the sentiment I printed on a sheet of patterned paper I had.

This was a difficult card for me to make. Its a little bit more fancy than I am used to making, and I really do like how it came out, however, I spend a good portion of the day making it, so I probably won't make many this fancy. LOL

Thanks for visiting today!

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Red, Black & Cream Holiday Mini Album

Hi All!

FINALLY something I can post about! I have been very busy crafting, but as most of the things I am currently making are gifts, I can not post most of them here until they have been given to the recipients.

I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Actually, I did make these as teacher gifts, but I don't think any of my dd's teachers visit here, so I am safe in posting this early.

I decided to make these cute mini albums based on a design for a mini I made at Archiver's a few years ago.

I purchased one 8.5 x 11 paper pack from Hobby Lobby, and the rest of the supplies were all from my stash. (I have alot of stash. LOL) The shape is from Art philosophy and the Joy is a fiskars stamp.

Page 2 uses Tim Holtz Snowman embossing folder on Coordinations Black Magic collection in Black/tan. The snowflake is from Art Philosophy. I glittered the snowflake. The tag is hand cut and I used a fiskars border punch on the bottom.

Here is the back side of page two. I used a strip of paper from the pack to cover the backside of the snow man. I used a glitter pen to give a few sparkle highlights to some of the ornaments on the paper.

Page 3 is made out of acetate. I adhered a smaller red square to the front and then cut a flower from Flower Shoppe.

Here is a close-up of the flower. I cut two layers from Flower shoppe out of black glitter paper. I then used a clear epoxy circle sticker and placed it on one of the coordinating patterned papers from the pack and cut it down to size to make the center. It is hard to see, but I inked the edges of the flower in Tim Holtz Barn Door (Red) to stand out some more. I love the way it looks, the picture just doesn't do it justice.

Here is the back side of the acetate page. I cut the snowflake doily from Art Philosophy. I stuck a few gems on some of the snowflakes.

For the next page, I used Sizzix Starry Night #2 embossing folder on red/Black Magic Coordinations paper. I used the Tim Holtz tiny attacher to add the trim at the bottom.

The ornaments were from Art Philosophy. I use glitter on the cuts and tied Bakers Twine for the strings.

Here is the backside of page 3. I used a border punch to make the border, and the mat is from another piece of coordinating paper from the stack.

I made a small tulle rosette and another epoxy button for the middle.

This next page is smaller than the rest. It is made out of grunge paper. It is embossed with Sizzix Sugar folder. I made a little garter for the page using some stretchy ribbon. The snowflake is a white brad that I covered with cream colored liquid pearls.

Here is the last page. I used plain cream colored cardstock and embossed it using Cuttlebug's countdown to Christmas folder. I filled in a few of the impressions with a glitter pen.

The Poinsettia is cut from Art Philosophy. I cut three layers, inked the edges in Black Soot, shaped the petals and added gold glitter to the center.

Here is the backside of the last page. I just added a strip of patterned paper that was left over after cutting all my squares. I also added a few black star gems from my stash.

Here are all eight minis I made. The covers are different, but all inside pages are the same. I used red. black and cream ribbon and tulle to decorate the spines.

One batch of gifts done, now I have to go and finish more....

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Holiday Season!

Jan

Quick and Easy Cards

Hi All! I can't believe I finally have a crafty post! It has been TOO long. I have been feeling a little like my MOJO had abandoned me, so I spent quite a bit of time just perusing the Internet, you-tube and various blogs and Magazines to get some inspiration and help get my creativity flowing again.

I saw this fabulous idea to use the 12x12 pages that have the ATC sized cards printed on them, as the fronts for greeting cards. I always loved buying these types of 12x12 cardstock, to use for accents on my scrapbook pages. I felt they were really "smashbook-ish" (Is that a word?? LOL) Now I have another great use for them as well.

Here is a picture of the papers I chose to use. It is Fancy Pants Paper. The line is The Daily Grind. I used the DG cards page and the DG Strips page. I found these great papers at the Scrapbook Expo this year.

I also used premade cards from JoAnn's that I have had in my stash forever. It felt good to not only be crafting again, but to be using up some stuff that was just sitting there.

So for the few cards that I made, I just did a basic design, with very little extra on it and no sentiment. I figured I would just put these in my stash, and when I needed a card, I would then add the sentiment and any extra more specific embellishments based on whether I needed a birthday, anniversary, get well, or just a hello card.

Here are the cards I made:

This one was made using two pieces from the strips paper. I just added a light green rick-rack bow to it.

This one I just double mounted the card on a blue and then a cream colored cardstock and added some gem flowers to it.
This one I used a new embossing folder on the dark blue cardstock. It is called Scalloped Dots by the Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby. I then added a few brads in coordinating colors to the centers of some of the scalloped dots and offset my DG Card front.


This is my least favorite of the cards. I embossed the card base using CuttleBug's Script Texture and I lightly sanded it. Then I used a piece from the strip paper and a white bow. Its kind of plain still, but eventually it will get more embellishments.
This one is my favorite one. It is the one I spent the most time on. I stamped swirls on the card base using versamark and heat embossed it with some holographic embossing powder. I mounted the DG card on some cement colored cardstock that I had punched using a border punch. I then cut some flower layers from the Flower Shoppe cart. I cut the Mum2 and Mum 4 in both 1.75 and 2.0 inches in vellum. I stamped some layers using brilliance ink, and I embossed some using Cuttlebug's Swiss Dot folder. I added some bling to the card front.

I really like this DG Card so this card is rather simple. The red plaid paper is from Imagine Best Friends Cartridge. It was a leftover from a previous project. :) I added a small blue bow that matches the blue stripe in the heart. It is so simple, but I just love it!

Here is my last card: I really liked this DG Card too. I just tied a sheer white bow to the card, and mounted it on a piece of vellum that I had embossed using Cuttlebug Stylized Flower folder. I attached the vellum layer to the card base using some silver brads.

All of these cards are really simple, but I am happy with how they turned out, and how quickly I put them together. I have more types of these ATC pages, so I am going to look through them and see about making more cards in the future.

Thanks for visiting today.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan