Scor-pal tape and glitter trial!

Recently, I purchased the "thanks" die and "stitched circle" dies from Lawn fawn.  I fell in love! I combined that with some Jennifer McGuire videos and took some Scor-pal tape, put it on card stock, die cut it and then removed the backing and threw glitter all over it.  Its messy but so darn cute! Also do not forget to burnish it in or else you will have glitter following you around!

I also used my new spectrum noir markers and some new CTMH stamps and played with the flowers, ice cream and popsicle! I just love how they blend together!

Love my new lawn fawn dies!!! #Creatation #lawnfawn #timholtz #thankyoucards #etsy #etsyshop #etsyseller

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Using my paper

I might just be a little bit of a paper hoarder.... Ok maybe a lot..... I just love love paper! It's all sooo pretty and I want it all and then save it to look at it over and over again!
Anyway, my craft room seems to look like a tornado hit it constantly and so I need to clear some of it out.  My new years resolution is to avoid buying crafting things until I use up what I have! This will be difficult!

In effort to use paper, I made a set of four thank you cards to sell in a set of well.... four! It's amazing how much you get out of one sheet of paper! This might take me a while to get through it all!

 I think they are cute!

Also my mom never goes to my blog so I am safe in posting this but she's been bothering me to help her reorganize her kitchen pantry like I have mine so I made some chalkboard labels for her from Santa!

This is a throwback to when I did my labels.  Since then my computer hard drive crashed and I don't have the file anymore :( So i am starting from scratch with my own soon but for my mom, she just needs simple ones.  I will put double sided adhesive on the back and glue them onto her containers.  As you can see below, mine were actual labels but both have issues when wanting to wash your containers.  I guess I could do vinyl but haven't had time to break out the roll yet.  

Regardless, mom will like them!

Pre-Scrapfest Crop!

Hi everyone! I am really excited for next weekend's scrapfest in Richmond hill and my cousins wedding! Its going to be extremely busy but exciting! This weekend however, in preparation for that my friend Aggie came over to make cards/crafts with me.  We had a blast and here are a couple of pics of what we came up with!

Gold embossed acrylic stamps

I just love this set I got from Heidi Swapp at Michaels!

Embossed resist technique with Tim Holtz distressed inks

Using stamping markers on acrylic stamps (not sure where they are from)

Another embossed resist technique with distressed inks

Thanksgiving or fall card on kraft paper with "Thankful" gold embossed and leaves from the cricut

11 cards before 11am

I started school this week and because it's been soo exhausting, I haven't crafted in a week. Today I woke up early and just went to work. 11 cards later and it's still earlier than I would have gotten up on a Saturday! Talk about productive!

Inspired by Brandy!

So tonight my dad left. He was visiting from Ohio for the week and helping me around the house with handyman things.  I didn't know what to do with myself and was still not ready to get started on school stuff (it's coming soo soon!!!).

Anyway, I went online to look for Halloween cards because I have a lot os sentiments cut out from the circuit that I wanted to use up.  Well.... you know how we get when we go on youtube...... You start clicking video after video and end up with something totally different than what we were looking for.  That happened to me today and I came across Brandyscards.com where Brandy shows you how to do 10 cards in 20 minutes.  This intrigued me as I am trying to get out some cards on etsy to get a fair amount out of the way once school starts (and hopefully gain some more income!).

Brandy is a stamping up demonstrator so I did the same idea but with Close to my heart stamps.

What I did was use 4.25 by 5.5 black card stock as the background.  The white cardstock was roughly 8 by 5.25 which I folded in half for the card.
I cut the following scallops from my circuit and alternated paper
2 3/8, 1 3/4, 1 1/4, 7/8.  On the white cardstock, I stamped the "Cricut bundle sweet and lovely" and "Art Philosophy seasons stamp set". Both came with the circuit cartridges and can not be purchased by themselves.  I stamped them in black ink and layered them with foam dots.
I stamped the "thank you" sentiment which I love and not from CTMH.
Lastly, I took scrap white paper and stamped the same stamp on it to create the "ribbon" effect on the side of the card.  I topped the middle with a crystal and Voila!
I think they are super cute and love how I can assemble them in no time!  Thanks #brandyscards for your idea!

See you later!

Tim Holtz distress inks and stains

This morning I was playing around with a bunch of the new inks, stains and paints that I purchased off of eBay.  I thought I would have been so overwhelmed with all these new techniques that I have been trying but its been ok.  The only overwhelming aspect is the big fat mess that my craft room is in because of my ADD nature. I always start one thing and get distracted and do something else.  After having just realized all the time that I have missed from not having tried Cricut Craft Room to using new CTMH stamps to now the Tim Holtz materials I can't seem to do one thing!

Anyway, the cards below were done with the stains and some stamps I had laying around. I backed them on white card stock and antiqued the edges with fired brick ink (Tim Holtz ink pad). I kinda like them better than the other Canadian cards but there are great parts with both.

On the roll with cards

Yesterday, I wanted to make some different cards so I ransacked my pinterest account and started to make cards like ones which Ive pinned to do one day!

New card Wednesday!

Hi Everyone,

Yesterday I was on an embossing fix and made all my cards below with embossing powders.  I was a frugal scrapbooker when I first started so I bought whatever was on sale.  Now that I have been doing it for a while, I like what I like.  Problem is, I have soooooo much stuff that I want to "get rid" of.... Of course I don't want to throw them out or give them away so I am using it! Come to think of it.. I can just use up the stamps and the embossing powders are awesome and take hardly any at all.  Oh well.. Im using the card stock! yes.. Ill go with that!

I am pretty pleased with this batch of New Card Wednesday to share with you (brace yourself, there are 5 of them!)

 For this card, I had an acrylic stamp of a flower (not sure from who or where).  I first stamped it with my versa mark pad three times around the card.  I then put the silver embossing powder on and heat set the three flowers.  I then repeated the same step with clear embossing powder which I got off of ebay and has glitter in it.  To be honest, I think this was someones mishmash of left over powders but I was a naive crafter and it doesn't look too bad! Lastly, I inked my flower with what was pigment chalk ink in a purple colour.  To my surprise, there is no such thing! The embossing powder did not stick to it but that was ok because it left a beautiful colour!  I trimmed the edges to be a little less than 4x6 inches, used a blue mini stamp pad to run over the edges and then glued it onto the grey card base.  Oh I cannot forget the "Happy Birthday" This was a stamp that I inherited from my friend Emily's lot (she's moving to Kuwait) :(  and I just stamped it with my moment black stamp pad.

 This one, I chalked up the edges with a blu mini stamp pad and then stamped my Ditto circles stamp at the bottom.  I just love love this stamp soo much! Oh I stamped it with the versa mark pad and then put black embossing powder over it.  Its got a little bit of a sparkle too! Lastly, I stamped the "thank you" sentiment and poured some Zinc sparkly blue embossing powder on it and glued it on a black card base.

 The next two are my new favs! Actually I did not use embossing powder at all.  I got new stencils from Scrapbook Steals and I wanted to play with my new spray inks.  I played with Heidi Swapp's peach and recollections purple shimmer and the chevron stencil over white card stock and let it dry.  I then stamped the same "thank you" as above with black ink. and mounted it on purple and grey card stock (I made two cards).  They are both very similar but one is more purple while the other is more peach.  I love the shimmer they both give!!!

 After watching a youtube video on mixing distressed inks (not my initial reason for you tubing but ended up falling on this video), I decided to use a mask that I had already cut out and was in my scrap paper section.  I taped the mask and rubbed some Tumbled glass, shabby shutters and dusty concord distressed inks on my paper.  After taking off the mask, I stamped the flowers twice (not sure of where or when I bought them) and glued some excess ribbon that I had found laying around.  I stamped the thank you on a separate piece of paper,  embossed it with this chunky black embossing powder which has specs of gold in it and then attached it with 3d foam stickers.  I really like it!

 This card, I embossed three different images with different coloured inks and clear embossing powder.  I also stamped a different Thank you on that I had.