Day 91: Poppy Card in 3-D

We are travelling today.  I worked on this 3-D floral bouquet card while my husband was driving the van. This card is one of three from a kit by Dufex Crafts.

Day 90: Lisa Bearnson Cards

Tonight I made three cards from a Lisa Bearnson card kit.  Lisa Bearnson founded the first scrapbook magazine, Creating Keepsakes, in 1996 and she also had a series of DVDs you could purchase.  When you bought the DVD, you got free card kits with it.  I had purchased two of her DVDs and I had these card kits tucked away and finally got around to working on some of them tonight.

Day 89: Repeat and Get Ready

I'm calling today's post "Repeat and Get Ready" because I needed to stamp one of my light switch plates over again.  I don't know if I didn't let the ink dry enough before I sprayed the sealer on it, but I couldn't see any of the lines of the stamped images at all.  It just looked like I had a bunch of blobs on the light switch plate instead of a bird and flowers. I finally got tired of looking at it and being disgusted, so I took it down, dug out all the stamp sets I had borrowed images from, and re-stamped over my chalk coloring.  It looks like it should now.  So that is the "repeat" part of the title.  The "get ready" part of the title is because we will be travelling and I wanted to bring some things with me that I could work on.  So, I gathered together some supplies to make some 3-D art for some cards.

(Please note, I may not have computer access, so will have to write my daily blog posts when I return.  But, I will take photos and keep notes .)

Day 88: No Bones About It

I have two photos of my son that are exactly the same pose; however, one is in color and one is in black and white.  I ordered the color one and when I went to pick up my photos the next week, the photography lab had enhanced some of the photos, and I fell in love with how my son looked in the black and white photo, so I bought that one too!  I had purchased a scrapbook kit from my local store, The Scrapbook Corner, with the title "No Bones About It...I'm Cute", that featured  three paper-pieced dogs holding bones in their paws.  I had also purchased another kit from The Scrapbook Corner that had toads and the title for it was "Toad-ally Cute", but I didn't want to have the word "cute" in both titles, so I decided to title the dog kit "No Bones About It...I'm Adorable".  Then when I was playing around with the layout design and deciding where I was going to put the three dogs, I decided to put one dog on the left hand page and two dogs on the right hand page and change the title to {left hand page} "No Bones About It..." {right hand page} "I'm Adorable...x Two" to give note to the fact that there are two pictures of him in the same pose.

Day 87: Playing with Paint

I needed to scrap my son's school kindergarten photo, but to coordinate with the next page, I couldn't use the typical primary colors.  I went through my stash of papers and found "Khaki Plaid" by Kelly Panacci for Sandylion.  It is a blue and green plaid, set on the diagonal. One of the shades of blue looked good with the shirt my son was wearing, and the paper coordinated with the grandmother and grandson page I completed a couple of days ago.  But how to make the page look "school-ish"?  I jumped on the internet and typed in scrapbook school page to get some ideas.  One idea I liked was to use a piece of notebook paper behind the feature photo.  I found some ledger style paper in a pack of designer paper from Stampin' Up, and used a punch from EK Success to make it look like torn out spiral notebook paper.  Then I roughed up the edge of the notebook page so it would look ragged, like it does after you tear paper out of a notebook. I wrote the word "Kindergarten" and "2009-2010" with the teacher's name and the name of the school at the top of the ledger page (journaling pen by Creative Memories).  I found the class list and wrote all of the kids' names on the ledger paper. I set the ledger paper at an angle and then placed my son's photo on top. I used some ribbon that looks like a tape measure across the bottom of my son's photo, and attached a "k" stencil over the ribbon.  I also added a soft yellow "k" charm from Around the Block to the stencil.  Beneath the ribbon, I used some white sticker letters that look like a child's handwriting to spell out "Kindergarten 09".  I added a large letter K from Deja Views with star clips from Oriental Trading Company to the upper right hand corner of the page. I liked how the page looked, but thought it needed something else.  So, I got a sponge brush and a bottle of white paint (Plaid) and smeared it on the page randomly, even on my son's photo.  Too much white...so I got out a bottle of lettuce paint (Ranger) and added that.  Then a little more white. I never had so much fun making a scrapbook page and playing with paint!

Day 86: Lamb of God Easter Card

Tonight I made more Easter cards.  This one I call "Lamb of God".  The cross stamp, all papers, embossing powder, and markers used are from Stampin' Up.  The lamb stamp is a retired PSX stamp.  The names of Jesus background is from Morning Star. I used VersaMark ink to stamp all images on "crumb cake" card stock and heat embossed with brown embossing powder.  I colored the cross with markers, cut it out, and attached it with pop dots.  I also cut out the lamb and attached him with pop dots. I like the dimension the pop dots give to the card. This is one of my favorite Easter cards that I have made.

Day 85: Ode To Spring Easter Cards, Continued

I used my Big Shot die-cutting machine and the oval scallop frame die by Sizzix to cut an oval around my stamped image ("Ode to Spring", by Repeat Impressions) and to make a scalloped oval border (paper by Stampin' Up!) to frame the image. I guess I could have just folded my card and stamped right on the card and added the border after, but I had originally thought I would use a floral patterned paper behind the stamped image.  Then last night when I was in bed, I thought about using the scalloped oval frame to highlight the rabbit. It sort of looks like you are peeking through an Easter egg. I think these cards turned out really cute and I can't wait to give them to my family at Easter.