Pink = Shabby...maybe

Good evening everyone! I am trying my hand again at a "shabby card". I am not grasping all of the fabulous shabby that I have been seeing on so many blogs, but I did have fun making this card for the Shabby Tea Room challenge #11. Sharon Johnson of "No Time To Stamp?" is sponsoring with a fabulous (really fabulous) prize.

We are using this photo as inspiration and pink says shabby to me!

I stamped the teacups and teapot on this K and Co. paper pad and used another same sheet of it, only the reverse side, for the card front. They both have polka dots incorporated on each side of the paper! I shaded/touched the teacups with Copic markers to add some depth.

The sketch that I used is

from CardPositioningSystems #168

So here is the card and there is a close up of the sentiment and floral detail. I went to a sewing shop looking to buy some seam binding. They didn't have any! I was told that they sell sewing machines and encourage people to make their own seam binding...

I did spy some buttons that came home with me that should turn up on some cards eventually ;)

Thanks so much for taking a peek!

Chriss

Seeds in my Cup

paper ~ K and Co.

stamps ~ PaperTrey Ink tea pot and sentiment/ Stampington and Co. teacups

accessories ~ Prima rose, narrow pink organza ribbon, leaf from another flower, MS leaf punch and arches border, petite oval nestability die

Sympathy Morning Glories FTTC68

Good afternoon everyone,

One of my aunts passed over the weekend, so I made this card to send to my uncle and the children (my cousins)

I spent a few summers with them growing up as a young girl. They live in a different part of Quebec, a couple of hours away from Montreal and I have very fond memories of those days.

I used the beautiful morning glories from Flourishes "A Year in Flowers" series and K and Co. dp. The Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge for this week is to make a flower, so I cut out two small circles of the dp and cut each one into 4 pie shaped wedges, folded the wedges smaller and more narrow and stuck them onto dimensional foam and thin clear adhesive dots. I placed the pieced together flower onto a folded/looped ribbon and added this pearl and fabric embellishment from a strand of fancy trim that I recently bought.

Here is a close up of the flower part.

I seem to remember my aunt wearing purple quite a bit, so I think she would have liked this colour for a card.

Thanks for visiting,

Chriss

Celebrate with JustRite!

Good morning everyone! Hope you have had a good start to your week so far.

JustRite has just announced a new design team member and a 2010 catalogue and it is available now! It shows some upcoming new, not yet released sets!! Can't wait to see them!

I finally had time to make another card and this one is for two challenges, the JustRite weekly #019 (to make a Christmas card) and Card Patterns sketch #65. I used this adorable little snowman from the Old Fashioned Christmas set and coloured with my Copic markers and added some sparkly black Spica to his eyes and mouth. His carrot nose was also filled in with the orange Spica pen for that special glitter. I used various Nestability dies for the circles and labels to layer him and the sentiment onto the card front. The little mittens are cut in the new PTI Hawaiin Shores card stock from a Sizzlits die I have in my Christmas/Winter stash and the white snowflake is an old punch. The smaller Hawaiian Shores stamped snowflake onto white cs is a SU set "snow fleurries" that I punched out with a 1/2" punch and put a tiny white brad in the center and attached to the punched white snowflake. I also added some clear Spica sparkle to the snowflakes and brads. All of the patterned paper is from PTI's newest called Beautiful Blooms. I love the red with this Hawaiian Shores aqua/blue.

Here is a close up of the sparkly little guy!

Thanks a bunch for visiting!

Cheers,

Chriss

Seeds in my cup

stamps ~ JustRite "Old Fashioned Christmas" & "Christmas Treasures" (Celebrate sentiment)

paper ~ PaperTrey Ink "Beautiful Blooms

ink ~ PaperTrey Hawaiian Shores

Impression Obsession flowers for my friend

Hi everyone! Hope you are having a great Saturday! It has been a busy one today and I thought I had missed this deadline for the Impression Obsession blog to make a card for a friend and send it to her, but at the last minute, here I am.

I used this pretty floral vase for my focal point and used Cosmo Cricket papers and an eyelet and tulle border. I added some colour coordinated brads on either end of the eyelet length.

Very, very easy and quick! Love these colours!

Chriss

City Crafter challenge "Paris"

Good morning all. Friday already! Where did this week go?

I had time to finally make a card for the City Crafter's challenge found here. The challenge is to incorporate a Paris theme. I don't usually do "shabby" cards, but they sure have been surfacing a lot lately and some of you are oh, so talented with presenting such a beautiful creation, so here is my very modest version and try at a shabby.

I wanted to use this "Chocolat" line of papers from SEI that encompass the Paris theme quite well and I had a go at making a ribbon rose, my first!

I gathered a folded length of this rose coloured ribbon and just shaped it into a spiral and placed a couple of glue dots on the back to secure in place. The center has a Webster's glass chocolate coloured sparkle button that I thought was a perfect tie in to the other chocolate elements on the card front. The sentiments (Mon Amie and Merci) are stamped in a chocolate ink and I added some little pearls and tucked an Eiffel Tower charm in between the rose and main sentiment.

The border at the bottom was created with an EK Success slim punch with a FDL pattern. I added some larger pearls to the bottom corner and all of the paper edges are sponged with brown ink.
Here is a close up of the rose.

That's my first Shabby with my first ribbon rose. I need to practice on both of these techniques!

Thanks for taking a peek today and I hope to be able to make some more cards later.

Cheers!

Chriss

2 Sketches4You Old Fashioned Christmas and a flower card!

Good morning everyone! It seems a while since I have posted, but it is really just a few days! I have missed having something new to post, but I got busy yesterday after some household chores and gardening were taken care of.

I saw this sketch here on the 2SketchesforYou blog and thought this would be a great foundation for this JustRite stamp from the Old Fashioned Christmas set as the focal point. The sleigh was stamped, coloured and cut/embossed with a classic circle Nestability and I used foam to pop up over the textured Bazzill beautiful cranberry colour card stock in the blossom shape. The larger circle was stamped separately and coloured/ cut/ embossed in the same manner and popped up on a larger blossom shape in a pretty black K and Co. print. This black and white dp is probably my favourite B/W ever! I picked up the cranberry coloured classic dp last week at Archiver's, but in my haste to get the card together, I used the portion where the company name is on the back on one of the panels on the card, so I really don't know what company it is. The panels are on a Bazzill panel. The card base is Stampin' Up Mellow Moss. The corner treatment is a very old punch that I have and it makes scalloped photo corners that come out embossed to fold over the back of the corner perfectly! On these two corners, I added a portion of another stamped and colored holly and berry border and carefully cut out those tiny pieces.

My next card was created just for fun with this beautiful Cosmo Cricket Everafter

patterned paper and the detailed Flourishes daisy/echinacaea flower from a year in Flowers. I coloured with my Copic markers and cut/embossed the layered ovals. I used a length of satin ribbon under the lace border and also created a border from the Vintage Cream PTI cs with a MS arches border punch. I have some charms in my stash of stuff and really need to start using them, so I added this bronze medallion and placed an orange rhinestone in the center, to match the ones on the sentiment and the MS punched butterfly.

That is it for now. Have a great day and thanks for stopping in!

Chriss

CPS 166 Love2Sew

Happy Thursday everyone!

Today's card is for the Card Positioning System sketch #166. I wanted to use the "Stitched with Love" set that is versatile and wonderful to paper piece the Dresden Plate image with pretty patterned papers. I based the colour theme on this background paper that I recently purchased called Town Library from October Afternoon. I love the green/cream and aqua combo and pieced the petals from Papertrey Ink's Green Boutique, K and Co.'s "Black and Ivory" and Cosmo Cricket's "Girl Friday".

I also used the back side of the October Afternoon dp to punch the new MS Arches border and layered it onto a piece of PTI Aqua Mist card stock. I selected some PTI buttons from my decorated jars and decided at the last minute to use some black seed beads to put in some of the button holes and then to line the top of the button border. Here is a close-up. The pretty button in the center of the Dresden Plate is a cream Jenni Bowlin button that I threaded with embroidery floss that I used a Copic marker on to try to match the Aqua colour.
That's it for now,

thanks for stopping in today,

Chriss

ps Are there any hockey fans out there?

Go Habs Go!!!

Spring orange poppy

Good morning everyone!

I made a little Spring Poppy card today for the Copic Creations challenge and I used the SCS sketch 279. The Copic Creations challenge was to use Copic colouring on different surfaces. I had some red poppies in my garden and although the blooms are no longer, the seed pods are so very interesting and I wanted to use one for a flower center. When the pods are dry, they are like wood. They are a little difficult to work with because of the dimensional shape, so I chose a little one. I had originally coloured a larger poppy pod center, but when I attempted to remove it from the actual pod, it broke. I coloured it with Cadmium orange and edged the flower petals with the same. The flower petals were made with a blossom Spellbinder die and some woven tissue that I had in my stash of craft items that is supposed to be used for wrapping flower pots. (as in when you gift a plastic pot of planted flowers, the wrap that a florist might use) The sentiment is SU Well Scripted and the patterned paper is called Blossoms from Sassafrass Lass.
The leaves that I tucked under the edge of the poppy were punched with MS punches out of a thin cork sheet and I coloured those with Copic markers, pea green and apple green. All 3 surfaces that I coloured the Copic markers with worked quite well! I especially like the uneven coloured look of the petal edges and I really like the starry poppy pod center. Nice and organic.

Thanks for taking a peek today, I am off to do some yard chores...the list is long!

Have a great day,

Chriss

Dreaming GREEN Christmas tag

Good Monday morning everyone! For all Mother's, hope you day was very special!

For the start of this week, I made a tag for the new City Crafter's challenge blog. It is their challenge #3 and it is, to make a tag this time around.

I recently purchased this new to me Dreaming of a GREEN Christmas stamp from InkaDinkaDo and thought I would try it out on this tag challenge. The base is SU Old Olive card stock That I used the MS branches border punch on either side and I attached a small Kraft flat bag as the tag/gift card holder. The small tags on the inside and front of the tag holder are made from a recycled coffee sleeve that I added various punched branches and oval/ label shapes to with A Little Something sentiment from SU stamped in black. I made the layered flower from Graphic 45 papers line Botanicabella and the floral shapes were made with a MS flower punch a CuttleBug floral die. The narrow silk ribbon is from PaperTrey Ink. The whole project measures approx. 3" X 5". That's it for now! Hope you have a great start to your week and thanks for looking!

Vintage motorcycle for Dad

I know it's still Mother's Day, but Father's Day is next and I have very limited masculine stamps...so I bought this new SU motorcycle stamp and have been playing around with it this afternoon. The Get Sketchy sketch #37 seemed to be calling for this image and the new punched cogs shapes I made with SU silver card stock.

I stamped the image with Memento Tx. black ink onto Papertrey vintage cream card stock and used a warm gray Copic and 2 SU metallic pencils for the maroon colour and the silver. The details on this stamp are nice and I really like the vintage look you can create with different colours used for the bdy. The card front was run through the CB with a herringbone folder and it reminds me of tire tread :) The Dad letters are cut from SU silver card stock using the CB alphabet dies that I just bought on drastic price cut at Michael's.

Hope you have had a great Mother's Day, I know that I enjoyed a beautiful red snapper dinner with fresh veggies that my son and husband made for me. I had some nice white wine with that too! My daughter was working today, but she will be at our home shortly and I am quite anxious to see her!

Thanks for stopping by,

Chriss

Thinking about You

I am a little obsessed with this Pink Paislee "Queen Bee" line. I have 3 unopened packages and I have been working my way through the 1st. I love every patterned sheet and have even been saving scraps and using them! When I saw the latest Inchie sketch challenge, I knew I wanted to use these beloved papers.

Lisa noted all of the measurements right onto the sketch, so that made my creating a little quicker. Thanks Lisa!

Here we go,

All papers are from the Queen Bee line. The little squares are 7/8" and they are layered onto 1" polka dotted squares. I used a Label die for the darker patterned paper to create a frame for the stamped frame image (also Pink Paislee Queen Bee) that I stamped right onto the same yellow/chartreuse polka dot paper in SU basic gray ink. I fussy cut the stamped frame with a new pair of T!m Holtz Tonic scissors. I like the feel of them and the"notching action" they seem to have. I cut this out a little slower than I normally would have because it was the first time that the scissors were in my hand! The sentiment is from PTI that I stamped onto velum in the same ink and let dry.
My little bee is the largest from the QB set and I stamped it onto the same yellow polka dot and again onto a scrap of velum for the extra wings. I used a clear Spica pen to touch up the wings (although the sparkle doesn't show very much in the photo) and a black Spica to barely touch the black parts on the bee body and the eyes.

Thanks for taking a look, I truly appreciate your visit!

Have a great Friday night and week-end,

Chriss

Tuesday's bring Cosmos

Good Friday to all! I made a card for the Tuesday Trigger weekly category over on the Moxie Fab World blog. This week's trigger was presented to us from Nina Brackett of Crafting in Croatia. She showed us a pretty purse she had her eye on and here is what I came up with :)

A very simple card using Prima flowers that I had in my stash, some K and Co. paper scraps and the perfect Cosmo Cricket polka dot dp. I used a new MS "Quilted Edge" border punch (I like this one a lot!) on the K and Co. paper and added some floral pink rhinestones to the open circles of the punched work and some larger ones to the flower centers. A really easy card that I think I just might duplicate in some other colour combinations.

Thanks Nina for the great inspiration!

Have a great rest of the day and a good start to your week-end!

Chriss

Up, up & Away in my Beautiful ...Pumpkin!

Hi there everyone! I was able to make a card this morning for the Impression Obsession challenge "Out of the Box"..to use a stamp for something other than it was designed for. I have had this beautiful pumpkin stamp since last Thanksgiving, and I did use it as an elegant pumpkin, but today it has been reinvented as a hot air balloon. How crazy is that!

I used Basic Grey's Archaic 6 X 6 paper pad and stamped directly onto and cut out. I coloured with a green Copic marker, grayish olive to fill in some of the open space.

I stamped an old basket stamp that I had in my stash and cut off the handle and straight cut the sides to resemble the carrying basket and then I attached some black wire to the basket and added a narrow strip of the Archaic stripe to the basket and secured the basket and ballon together with a thin black wire.

The plastic letters are from an unused box of Spare Parts letters that I have had for a couple of years.

I had fun making this "balloon" card and wanted to thank the folks over at Impression Obsession for this challenge that really made me think...out of the box!

Thanks for taking a peek,

Chriss

JustRite Cardinal

Good afternoon everyone! I've had time for another challenge today, the Stamper's Dream sketch for JustRite.

I pulled out my Christmas papers and decided to use this oh so charming Mistletoe papers!

For the card, I stamped the gorgeous cardinal stamp from JustRite's Christmas Treasures set right onto a pice of cherry veneer paper. I very lightly shaded some of the areas with a Copic marker, cut out and added some liquid pearls for the berries and punched out holly leaves from the MS border punch. I stamped the image again, this time onto an ivory c.c and focused on the cardinal, colouring him with Copics and a sparkling Spica black eye. Cut him out and adhered to the birdhouse with foam dimensionals. The oval was created with a classic Spellbinder nestability and I also embossed it with the tan mat and then shaded in with the lightest Copic "Chiffon" on the raised part. Al of this focal point was added to the layered panels.

The button from Jenni Bowlin has a length of PTI silk ribbon through it and I added some MS larger holly leaves.

That is it!

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great Cinco de Mayo!

Chriss

Here is a clos up of Mr. cardinal ;)

Christmas Amaryllis FLLCNOEL1

Good morning everyone! It's a beautiful day here in Austin and not too hot yet this morning to get out into the garden, still lots to clean up and trim! I decided to get a challenge card done first thing this morning for the Flourishes Christmas challenge that you can find here. I don't have any Flourishes Christmas stamps (but I will be ordering one this week)but I do have the Year In Flowers, so here is my Christmas Amaryllis.

I used 3 different shades of red Copic markers to colour and shade in the flowers and I modeled the colour after one of amaryllis bulbs that are blooming in my garden right now. The patterned paper is from GCDStudios and the lighter green that I used for the card front is the reverse side of it. I used a PTI "tin Types" impression plate on it. The darker green card stock is a textured Bazzil. The sentiment is SU from the set "Best Yet".

I used a MS border punch at the bottom of the square panel and a corner punch on the top right detail. I also added some red rhinestones that I first coloured with a dark red Copic to make the red a little richer.

I will make a few more of these exact cards later this afternoon and feel good that my Christmas card stash is at least started!
Here is a close-up of the flowers detail.

Have a great day, and thanks for looking!

Chriss

peachy Keen Mojo Monday 137

Another Mojo Monday to you all! Julee has designed a fabulous sketch and this is what I came up with. I just recently bought this new Kaisercraft Peachy Keen 6 X 6 paper pad with these yummy warm and rich colours and started from there. The card came together very easily and not one bit of ink, ribbon or border punch was used on this! I cut out the squares of the larger floral and arranged on a layered strip panel. This went over a larger square layered panel and then I used the words laughter and girls from a sheet in the same paper pack and cut them with various die shapes. I also cut out a glossed flower from the paper pack and used a foam dimensional to adhere. Easy Peasy ~ Peachy Keen!

Thanks for looking!

chriss

Monochromatic birthday for Caardvarks challenge

Good Monday morning! Hope everyone had a fun weekend and the weather in your part of the world is treating you good;)

I love creating cards with a monochromatic theme, so when I saw this challenge on the Caardvarks blog, well I just had to play along! I don't have any Core'dinations card stock, but I am on the hunt for it! Click onto the Caardvarks link above and you will see some amazing cards that the crew over there created. They are TRULY amazing!

For my simple card, I used PaperTrey Ink Ocean tides for the front double edged twig border, Bazzil textured Hazel card stock for the card front and the double edged hydrangea border panel, a strip of this perfectly colour co-ordinated Memory box paper from the Poppyfinch collection, Spellbinder petite oval dies, CuttleBug fancy filigree square dies that I layered under the ovals, a SU bird punch and some pretty Prima paper roses that compliment this colour theme quite well (imho) as an embellishment. The sentiment is from the SU set Well Scripted. I sponged the edges of the card, Memory box paper strip and the birdie with PTI Ocean Tides ink for a little dimension. Thanks for taking a peek today. Hope you have a great creating week!

cheers!

chriss