So Damn Lucky (Scrapbook)

Hi! 

 

Another scrapbook page.  It is, obviously, about playing cards.  Love this background paper from Graphic 45.   Those are real little mini cards that I 'aged' by using alcohol inks.  Had to use those because the cards have that glossy coating.

 

 

All the suite shapes are stamped (small set from Studio g) and cut out. 

 

Fun, fun, fun!

Donelda

Be Positive (scrapbooking)

Hello.

Today I have a scrapbook page to share.  It is about me.  This would be the first time I've ever scrapbooked about me.  I was inspired by a challenge at 2peas - the new In the Mood to Scrap for Jan 1, 2013 where Wilna wanted us to use the mood board she created as inspiration as well as pick a word that means something to us.

 

If you check out the mood board, you will see that I used the quote "creativity takes courage" as it really spoke to me.  I also used the same colour for my 'word' - which was cut the old fashioned way (printed in reverse on paper and cut with a craft knife). 

 

 

Here is a close up of the bottom corner of the page.  I like the little pops of pink and red in the tiny flowers on the punched circles of designer paper.

 

 

And I like the stitiching on some of the elements which gives it a home-made feel.

 

 

Supplies used:  Paper - Deck the Halls from Holly Jolly collection (My Mind's Eye) - Yup ... Christmas paper used on a non-Christmas page  - it is the lovely brown tone on tone damask background paper and oh so beautiful!!, Blush collection (BasicGrey) - that's the turquoise, Sunshine collection (My Mind's Eye) - the pattern used for the hexigons, Market (My Mind's Eye) the cute little flower pattern from those little circles and the back of that is the ledger paper that the word 'Simplify' is stamped onto, Basics White (BasicGrey) - the paper I printed the quote onto and the date tag; Ink - Walnut Stain (Ranger); Other - 1" and 1/2" circle punches (Stampin' Up!), hexigon shapes were traced from the negative cardboard from punching out game pieces from one of my son's games  ... I knew it would come in handy!!, sewing maching, brown pearls from my stash.

 

Sorry about the poor quality photography.  I continue to struggle with lighting in my craft room. Might have to splurge on a better lamp.

 

So, are you courageous enough to scrapbook about yourself??!!  Go for it.

 

Thanks for dropping by for a visit.

Donelda

 

The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS) and Less Is More - Sweet Friend

Hello everyone!  Today I have created a cute card.  I took the inspiration from 2 different challenges going on right now.  The first one is The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenge #3.   I mean look at this delicious photo and colours for inspiration.  And the second challenge is the Paper Pretties Wednesday challenge #201 - to use 2 or more different designer papers on your project. 

Here is my card ... clearly inspired by the photo above.  I used 3 different sets to create the focal point.  Kitchen Gadgets for the scale, part of an image in Snow Much Fun for the container as well as a circle for the cherries, and finally the sentiment is from Jibber Jabber.

That was a whole lot of fun!!

Donelda

Purple Weddings

Purple seems to be a very popular choice these days for weddings!!  I used one of the delicious Martha Stewart doilies on this card.  Sentiment is from Wedding Day (Papertrey Ink) and the white flowers were colored with Copic markers to match. 

I am glad you dropped in to my little corner of the www.  Have a great day!
Donelda

Masculine Globe Birthday

A friend of mine requested a card for her brother.  She was rather specific about what she wanted.  You see, her brother is a geographer, collects globes, and travels the world.  She wanted something that would "go with all that". 

So, being without any specific globe stamps I turned to clip art.  I found this one that I thought I could use.  Printed it off and then watercolored it.  It was tricky as I could not color the printer ink.  Next, I sponged some Antique Linen and Walnut Stain Distress Ink (Ranger) around the edges.  I then stitched around the panel with my sewing machine and then added the sentiment with brass brads. 

I really like the end result ... and she did too!  I'm so glad.  I am often very worried that others will not like what I create for them. 

Well, thanks for visiting.
Donelda

Papertrey Ink - Make It Monday #4 - Fun Foam

The latest Make It Monday #4 challenge on Nichole Heady's blog is to use Fun Foam!  Wow, I wasn't even sure I had any left around here.  A while back we cleaned out my sons craft bins to make room for newer toys and, in the end, got rid of a bunch of foam and popsicle sticks and feathers and other such things!!  However, I did find some foam snowflakes that are so pretty that I remember thinking "I just can't part with these".  Good thing because they came in handy today!! 

This card is extra large (91/4 x 4) and fits a business sized envelope.  This way we can insert our Christmas letter into the card next year.  This might become my Christmas card for 2011 ... it was very quick and easy to create and I have a ton of those flakes left!  Mmmmmmm.......

I am off to see what everyone else did now.  I know I will find a ton of inspiration!! 

Have you used an "odd" item to make a card lately??  If so, link it up, I'd love to see it!!

Thanks for droping by.  And thanks to you guys who comment, I love reading your thoughts!!
Donelda

Stamping with Markers Challenge - Moxie Fab

Hi fellow card makers (and anyone else who enjoys visiting my little corner of the www!).  Today I am playing along with the Moxie Fab challenge of Stamping with Markers!   I decided to try something fun.

Are you wondering how I got these colors onto a piece of black cardstock?  It's easy, let me tell you how to do it!   First, adhere your black cardstock with non-permanent adhesive to your work surface. We do not want it moving around.  Then, using a stamp positioning system (I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig), stamp your solid image (this one is from smARTworks) onto the black cardstock using a white or vanilla ink (I used Vintage Cream by Papertrey Ink).  Make sure you leave the Stamp-a-ma-jig in the same place!!  You can stamp again with more of that ink color to make it bright!  I stamped my image twice.  Make sure you clean your stamp well at this point.  Next the fun part.  Using your markers, color directly onto your stamp, layering colors and laying on as much color as you can.  Then, spray a light mist of water over top of the inked up stamp.  Be careful here ...not too much and not too little water!  (You might need to experiment a bit with this before trying it on your black cardstock)  Then, simply stamp the colors on top of the white image (it will be easy because you have left the cardstock and Stamp-a-ma-jig in the same place.  You can keep coloring and stamping various times until the color is how you like it.  I colored, spritzed, and stamped the marker colors 3 times to get this vibrant color!!  I used 4 markers: Summer Sun, Garden Green, Cameo Coral, and Ruby Red (all Stampin' Up!). 

What a great and different way to Stamp with Markers!!

To finish the card, I adhered a Vellum Sentiment Strip (the current Make It Monday challenge over on Nichole Heady's blog) with the sentiment (from Through the Trees, Papertrey Ink), sewed around a piece of designer paper (from Stella Rose 6x6, My Minds Eye), and popped up the focal image.  All of this was added to a white card base.  It is pretty Clean and Simple, one of my favorite styles these days!!

I can't wait to see what everyone else did with markers.  Hopping over to Moxie Fab to see.

Thanks for dropping in!

Donelda

Make a Moo or Two - Romance

Okay, so I am falling back into my old habits!!  I had created these Moos for the Moo or Two challenge Romance but am just getting around to posting them now ... and the challenge is done.  But it is okay becuase they were fun to create  anyway. 

Started with a background made with Fire Brick red distress ink and maybe some Walnut Stain in there too (Ranger).  Stamped the word LOVE diagnally across the backgrounds (from Wedding Day, Papertrey Ink) and sponged around the edges.   Then, I cut out 2 hearts from vellum and sewed them to the moos with brown thread.  These will be added to my stuff bins ... and will be used ... eventually on cards :-)

The next challenge is up so I'm off to see what it is....
Donelda

Good Luck Trees and Circles

When making cards, I try to create a few cards for a specific occasion so I have a few on hand.  A few days ago, I had shown you a farwell card.  When I made it, I had also made this card. It is a more masculine good bye card. 

This card started out with that small circle.  It is actually a left over piece of copper embossing that I had used for an old project.  I had created a circle of copper embossing punched out a 1&1/4" circle, then realized I needed a 1" circle.  The left over was this great copper circle with some crackles in it.  I couldn't bare to throw it away!! 

I found a farewell sentiment that would fit inside the circle (from Mixed Messages, Papertrey - a must have set!) and started pulling the card together. 

I kept the card masculine and rustic.  Lots of sweing and sponging.  Trees always work for guy cards (Tree Cluster small from Stampscapes). 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!  I can't wait for today to be over and to enjoy my leisurely weekend! 

Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #117 - Doily

The Loonie Stamper Girls continue to throw down some great challenges and create amazing cards for them.  This week, the challenge is to use DOILIES (not dollies!! hehehe). 

I wanted to play along and went for my large paper doilies, then remembered that I have a bunch of Martha Stewart doilies left from my flirtation with Christine Middlecamps inspiration (you can see versions HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE).  Then, I remembered that I actually had a doily all decorated up waiting to be put on a card (if you visit often you have already seen it but now you get to see it on a card).  A bit of a 'cheat' perhaps but you all know how I am trying to use up all the stuff in my scrap bins and half finished item bin. 

So, I grabbed some lovely K&Co. designer paper, stitched around the edge and inked it up.  Then I added the white grosgrain ribbon (from my friend Jessica G - thanks Jessica!!).  Finished off the easy card with this pre-made embellishment.  See that butterfly ... it's an iron-on ... you know, those things you iron on to your jeans.  Sentiment if from Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink).  I took a photo from the side so you can see how layered the embellishment is. 

Now, off to see what all the Loonie ladies did with doilies (not Dollies Wendy!):

Wendy, Dee, Char, Maria, Jewels, Regan

Thanks for dropping in.  Now we are off for a Friday night supper.

Donelda

Lucy's Challenge #12 - Buttons

(note, this is my second post of the day, to see my card for Susan R's watercolor OLW challenge, be sure to scroll down!)

Lucy gave us another challenge and this time she wanted us to use buttons.  Well, I have lots of those that I can use!! 

In fact, I had this lovely "collection" of spectrum colored buttons all the same that came out of a large general pack of buttons from Walmart.  I had kept them knowing that I would use them for something at some point! 

The sentiment is from a smARTwoks set.  I stamped the senitment on a pice of white, did some sewing with my machine, and them added the buttons.  I added a few strips of black cardstock that was cut with my small scallop scissors.  A very easy and Clean and Simple card. 

(edited to add - and guess what... Lucy picked my card as one of the 'winners' of this challenge.  You can check that out HERE)

Off to see what everyone else did with thier buttons!

Donelda

Lucy's Challenge #11 - White, Light Blue, and Kraft

Lucy's latest challenge #11 is to use these lovely colors - White, Light Blue, and Kraft. They were so soft and yummy I couldn't resist.

It totally made me feel "nautical" so I went with this lighthouse image from Cornish Heritage Farms (retired).

I stamped the imgage and then punched out a 1/2" circle from a Post It Note. I added the circle and sponged on Soft Sky (Stampin' Up!) ink. Stitched around this panel, added it to a panel of kraft folder paper that was embossed with the Distressed Stripes folder. Then added a sentiment with a great nautical symbol inside.

I guess this is pretty masculine and I didn't even plan on that!! Go figure!!

Supplies: Stamps - Lighthouse (Cornish Heritage Farms), Around and About, Out to Sea (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Jet Black (Ranger), Soft Sky (Stampin' Up!); Paper - Whisper White, (Stampin' Up!), a kraft file folder; Other - 1/2" and 1" circle punch, sponge, sewing machine and thread, dimensionals, Post It Note, Distressed Stripes folder, Cuttlebug.

Well, off to see everyone elses' crations using these yummy colors!!

Donelda

Tea Time

A few months ago, Susan Trask from smARTworks, sent me my last package of stamps for design work. In that package she had used a page of beautiful paper. Not sure what kind of paper it was, whether it was some designer paper or not as there was no form of identification on the paper. But it was so beautiful I couldn't help but use it on a card.

I cut the paper into these long strips and sewed them with some zig zag stitching. I added this great tea cup image that was watercolored. A bit of wide grosgrain ribbon finished off the card.

Thanks for dropping in again!

Donelda

Paper Doily #3 and Color Combo Challenge

So these paper doilies (labeled tags by Martha Stewart and found at Michaels) has totally re-inspired me and my mojo is working overtime!!!

This time I combined using one with the new Color Combos Galore Challenge #144. The colors are so yummy!!!

I also realized that I didn't have to always use white doilies but I could change them to any color I wanted by sponging on my desired color! That is exactly what I did here and I can't wait to try some other colors.

This card actually has me perplexed. I like it and yet I don't. I think it is because the base of the card is soft and elegant while the blues and pinks are quite bright so I think the looks contrast too much. Maybe if I had changed up the combination of colors on my doily it would have blended in better with the card base. My attempts to 'connect' the 2 elements was to do some distressing on all items by sponging some Antique Linen and then some Chocolate Chip. Maybe I should have given it dimensional but I didn't because the ribbon and button was doing a good job of that.

What do you think??? I'd love your input!! Have you run out to get some of these doilies yet??? I hear from Christine Middlecamp (who has started a project with them that has totally inspired me) that they are hard to find.

Oh yeah, and when I was sponging on the turquoise color, I saw that it was leaving a beautiful mask on the scratch paper on my desk so I quickly slipped a piece of what cardstock underneath it and was able to create this card with it!! I don't have a whole sheet of tempting turquoise cardstock left so I sponged around the edge of a white card to create a card base. The sentiment says "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams". Eleanor Roosevelt

Supplies:

Celebrate Card

Stamps - Giga Guide Lines, Simple Little Things (Papertrey Ink), circle (g studio); Paper - Kraft, Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose, Very Vanilla (all Stampin' Up!), designer paper (Anna Griffin); Ink - Antique Linen (distress ink by Ranger), Chocolate Chip, Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!); other - paper doily (called 'tags' on package by Martha Stewart), starburst punch (Martha Stewart), circle and scallop circle nestabilities (Spellbinders), vintage cream satin ribbon {I used the back side} (Papertrey Ink), button (my own collection), hemp cord (Darice), sponge, sewing machine.

Future Card:

Stamps - Meausre of Life (Stampin' Up! retired); Tempting Turquoise (Stampin' Up!), Jet Black (Ranger); Paper - Whisper White; Other - sponge, paper doily for mask (Martha Stewart), dimensionals.

Thanks for dropping in for a visit!! Leave me some commenting love :-)

Donelda

Strawberry Wish

Well, here is one last strawberry card. This one all started out with that rectangle of white. It is actually a rectangle of grungeboard painted with white acrylic paint. When I stamped the strawberry with ink it came out molted-like and looked vintage. So I tried to go with a vintage look. I even used one of the doily's I bought a while ago.

So I've decided that I just don't "do" vintage very well!!! I tried!! Some of the things I did to try to make it vintage-y is stitching around the red polka dots, sponging around the edge of the red with some with craft ink, the doily, and the paint(which looks kinda crackly).

Well, I hope you enjoyed my strawberry week. I hear that Dina did a strawberry card - she hasn't posted it yet (she's been a bit busy) but I'm going to keep checking because I'm sure it will be spectacular!! Did you get the strawberry fever and make a card???? I'd love to see it. Leave a link!!

Have a great weekend.

Donelda

Pink Berry Thank You

This is the 4th card for my Strawberry Inspiration week. Make sure you go back and check out Mon., Tues., and Wed. posts for more strawberry inspiration!!!

I found this delicious paper on sale at a local stamping store. I only bought one sheet at the time I was there but I might go back and pick up a few more sheets! I love it!! Not sure you can see it in the photo but there is just a bit of glitter added tot he seed side of those pink berries. And, to make the paper even better, the color is a perfect match to Berry Sorbet (Papertrey Ink).

Supplies: Stamps - Fruitful, Green Thumb (Papertrey Ink); Paper - Whisper White (SU!), sorry but I don`t know the name of the designer paper, it is probably on the back of the paper on this card - when I get more I`ll edit this post to let you know; Ink - Berry Sorbet (Papertrey Ink), Green Galore and Gable Green (Stampin`Up! - why are they retiring these colors?); Other - Berry Sorbet satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink), Labels 1 die (Spellbinders), dimensionals, sewing machine and thread.

See, I told you I was on a bit of a strawberry kick!!! LOL!! I challenge you to create something with strawberries!! Leave me a link so I can check it out!!!

Donelda

Home-Made Strawberry Embellishments

Hey everyone. I told you I was on a bit of a strawberry kick!! This is Day 2 of my Strawberry Inspiration week. Make sure you check out yesterday's strawberry post too!!

These strawberries are home-made and easy to do!! You simply punch out a 1" circle (or whatever size you want or need) of pink cardstock. Then, trim out the sides to make the shape of a strawberry. Then simply sponge on red ink making sure to leave a hightlight of the pink where you want it. Finally, I used some yellow puffy t-shirt paint to make my seeds. Add some hand-cut green hulls that are also sponged and you get a strawberry!

The card is pretty straight forward. Any questions, just ask!!

Supplies: Stamps - sentiment is from Green Thumb (Papertrey Ink).

You will be seeing a similar card to this soon (after Strawberry Inspiration week is over), except I`ve used apples intead of strawberries!! Stay tuned!! See you tomorrow with yet another strawberry card!!

Donelda

Friendship Quilt

This card is made out of all scraps!!! I have had all that gingham papers sitting around my scrap bin for a very long time.

And this might be the first time I did zigzag stitching on a card.

Thanks for visiting

Donelda

Stitched Star - Lucy's Cards Challenge #9

I love Lucy's blog, she is such a talented card maker!! So I like to try to participate in her challenges that hse has recently started. Challenge #9 has to include stitching.

I really like the look of stitching on cards and I had recently made a bunch of stars out of old jeans that I stitched (thanks to inspiration from Char) ... a perfect starting point for this project.

I took inspiration for my background from Donna at three umbrellas. She makes the most amazing backgrounds that I've been meaning to try so I decided today was the day!! I stamped the dots on white cardstock with versamark and clear embossed them. Then I applied distress inks over top. I decided not to add dropplets of water but that looks cool too as you can see on THIS card.

Supplies: Stamps - Polka Dot Basics II, Simple Little Things (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Spiced Marmalade, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint (Ranger), Paper - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Other - old jeans, sewing machine and thread, sponge applicator, Labels 1 die (Spellbinders), dimensionals.

Now I must go see all the other cards created with stitching on them!! Can't wait for the inspiration!! Thanks to Lucy for another great challenge!

Donelda

smARTworks Howdy Dotty Girl

I made this card using smARTworks' set called Fun Stuff. I had seen some designer paper that had these large dots in these colors and I loved it so I decided to make my own. I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges. Next I used white acrylic paint to add smaller dots to the Aqua Mist cardstock and matted it on some Pure Poppy. The girl was stamped and her dress paper pieced using some Pure Poppy Bitty Dots paper. The trim was colored with some Aqua Mist ink and a paint brush. Stamp - Fun Stuff (smARTworks) all other products are Papertrey Ink except sewing machine and thread of course!! Thanks for dropping in. I'm heading to bed for some much needed sleep. Donelda