Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Bee Cards

Next Monday some friends and I are meeting to make cards.  The theme will be Bee Card.  Most of these are clean and simple cards.




I drew the bee on all of the cards but the "happy B-day" and "Bee Yourself".  Last week I bought the Fawn Lawn Bee Mine stamp set and used it.  Such a cute bee!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Sea Theme Blog Hop

I have made several projects with the sea turtle and seaweed stamp set.  I love this stamp set.  You can make really beautiful cards and layouts with it.

I basically used 2 techniques to create the background paper for the cards.    Alcohol Ink Technique and a technique using shaving cream.

Below is a link to a Tim Holtz YouTube video demonstrating the technique using the alcohol inks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KbNWkzZFQg

Here is a link to the shaving cream technique.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDrd4FB6XE

Here are my cards using the alcohol ink technique as the background.  The turtle was stamped on background made with the shaving cream technique and  embossed in gold.  The top turtle I used a green distress ink to shade the turtles body.


Here are my cards using the shaving cream technique as the background.  The turtle was stamped on background made with the alcohol ink technique and embossed in gold. The sea weed for the top card was embossed with a sea foam green.

 The sea weed in the card below was stamp with clear embossing ink and embossing with clear embossing powder before the shaving cream technique was used.


The last project I created was (2) 2 page scrapbook layouts using the sea turtle and the mini cloisonne  starfish and shell.


Thanks for taking the time to view my blog. 
 Now hop on over to the others blogs to view their beautiful art work!


Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Card Captain for Michael Strong Stamps yahoo group

This week I am card captain and I am using the Michael Strong Sea Turtle and Hannah's Busy Bee stamp sets.

Day One:  A bookmark made with the Sea Turtle and Sea Weed Stamp Set.  The background was made with Alcohol Ink and glossy cardstock.


 Day Two:  Is the new Hannah's Busy Bee Stamp Set.  The Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, Honey Bee Sentiments set.


Day Three:  A bookmark made with the center of the Hannah's Busy Bee.




Sunday, July 14, 2013

Simon Says Stamp Card Kit July 2-13

I have been making cards from the Simon Says Stamp July 2013 card kit.  The kit comes with the Cupcake Party stamp set.  This a very fun set.  It can be used to make cards for any occasion that you want to celebrate; birthdays to Fourth of July.






Heart Easel Card

Last week I made the card below for the EnjoyMichaelStrongStamps yahoo group.  It is an Heart Easel / Explosion card.  I found the directions at the link below.

http://sherispapercreations.blogspot.com/2012/05/tripe-heart-easel-card-tutorial.html

Here is my card.

 It folds flat for easy mailing!

Friday, July 5, 2013

Simon Says Stamps July 2013 Card Kit

Today I finally had some time to open my new kit.  I was created  a few cards using the Cupcake Party stamp sent that came in the kit.

 I just love the fireworks stamp and had to create a card even though it was not in time to give as a 4th of July card.  So I stamped it with a Let's Celebrate stamp.  I figure it could be used for other happy occasions.