October class at Paper Ink

I am teaching the above three cards tomorrow at Paper Ink in Charlottesville, VA.  I am so happy to be back teaching some paper crafts, especially cards. Paper Ink is located on the downtown mall at the corner of the parking garage.  They carry many different dies, lots of different cardstock, inks, stamps, spray mists, and are always so helpful to customers.  Come on down and check out the store.

Purple flower

It seems like I am on a flower making kick!  I have some of the flower dies from Memory Box and Cheery Lynn and have just been playing with them!  It is very relaxing!  I used a digital sentiment with a lavender spellbinders lattice to back it.  I used the new build a flower set from Cheery Lynn.   All paper is from Papertrey Ink.  Enjoy!

Summer Flowers

 I have been away from blogging for so long that it is like starting over!  I am still making cards and have started some scrapbooking so maybe I am going to get back to blogging also.  I made this card using a SU stamp, Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn and Memory Box dies.

 

Beautiful Snowfall

I'm so sorry I have been missing in action!  I usually upload my pics from my laptop and it had to take a visit to the shop for repairs.  I'm hoping it will return home soon!  My PC is slow and I don't have photo editing on it so am going to just post my pics without editing.  This neat scene is from Rubber Cottage and is colored with copic markers.  I added Starfire Glitter #G1017 from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/ on all of the snowy areas.  I love hos this glitter sparkles just like a new snowfall!  The poinsetta is stamped with white pigment ink and heat embossed with white opaque embossing powder.  The poinsetta stamp is from Heartfelt Creations and the die is from Spellbinders.  The cardstock is cherry cobbler from Stampin Up and the white is from Papertrey Ink.  Enjoy!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween to all of you bloggers and friends!  This card uses Inkadinkadoo stamps with a sticker skull.  I cut out the circle with a nestabilities die.  I hope all of the spooks are good to you tonight and gives you lots of goodies!!

Peace

Christmas is right around the corner and the weather we are having sure does indicate that winter is here!  It was 29 degrees this morning!  The fur babies aren't even staying out very long.  I did this card as part of the monthly cards for SparkleNSprinkle last month.  I used red cardstock by www.papertreyink.com and stamped the holly with black ink to make the backgrung.  I used Spellbinders ornament die cut with the Grand Calibur to cut out the double sided adhesive and then sprinkled with the Silver Glitter Tinsel by SparklNSprinkle.  I then stamped the holly and colored with Copic markers.  This was then die cut and placed on the Glitter Tinsel.  I used Crystal Effects to make the berries shine.  The stamps is from www.sparklensprinkle.com.  You can see many samples of this stamp set if you go to their web store.  Enjoy.

Tweet Tweet

I love the stamps and dies (made by Spellbinders) that are by Heartfelt Creations.  They ae so versatil and, of course, any flower made by hand is so neat!  I stamped this flower and  leaf on vellum paper, heat embossed with whtie embossing powder and then die dut.  The birdhouse and bird are from Stamps by Judith.  What are your opinions on this card? 

Butterfly fantasy

Good morning!  For a change, I am up early so thought I would start the day by showing a lovely butterfly card.  The new butterfly stamp set, butterfly dies, tinsel, glitter, and embossing powder can be ordered from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/.  If you click on the card you can see a close-up of the butterfly showing where I  used different colors of glitter.  Also, isn't this tinsel darling?  All you have to do is lay down a strip of tear-ific double sided tape and sprinkle on the glitter tinsel.  You can find different widths of the tear-ific tape on this page at http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=25_76.  This is the tape that I use to make all of my cards, boxes, etc.  It is just wonderful! 
  This is a pic of the new butterfly stamp set and it is located at http://sparklensprinkle.com/o/index.php?cPath=82_134&&page=4.  You can buy it as only a stamp set or a combination set with the butterfly dies from spellbinderspaperarts.  Enjoy.

Something different

Good Sunday morning everyone!  We have had some beautiful weather here in central Virginia for the past four days but tomorrow it is suppose to be hot again for the whole week!  In the high 90's!  I was playing in my craft room the other week and came up with this card:

You can click on the card to get a better view.  I usuall don't put this many embellishments on a card but couldn't stop myself this time!  I wanted a different card so used my Grand Calibur machine with the nestabilities to cut out the card and the front of the card.  I only added one small stamped image and left the rest of it up to the flowers, net, beads, pearls, brads, etc.  I used assorted colors of pinks. The leaves are punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

Dream

This is a very simple card using a stamp from Gina K Designs.  I love Gina's stamps and wish I could afford to buy more of them!  LOL.  I used my Grand Calibur from Spellbinders with the lattice rectangle die to cut out the stamped image.  I then matted it on chocolate chip cardstock.  I used baja breeze, chocolate chip, and ivory cardstock.  The brown stripe is chocolate chip ribbon. 

Spellbinders fleu de lis

I've been missing in action again!  My laptop stopped working over a week ago and I took it to this small company in Madison that I had dealt with previously but this time there was a new owner.  I'm a very trusting person so I left it and as we were leaving last Thursday to go to the Great American Scrapbooking Convention in Chantilly, we stopped to pick up the computer.  Well, he said the screen was gone and he had to order another one, that it would be ready on Monday.  Okay, we went onto the convention and I had a blast looking at all of the displays, new ribbons, flowers, stamps, papers, etc.  First off, I did a make & take at the Melissa Francis booth.  Oh my, her paper, ideas, albums, everything is so dreamy!  Okay, I loaded up there! and then kept looking.  I went into the Heartfelt Creations booth and spent so much time there (and money!).  Then onto Our Daily Bread Designs booth.  I left there with a hefty bag also!  Then I went back the next day and only stayed for about three hours.  Hubby was out of patience of sitting around!
Then on Monday we tried calling about my lap top and no answer all day!  On Tues. morning hubby drove to Madison.  The federal agents were at the computer store and had the guy in handcuffs!  Anyway, hubby brought the lap top back and took it to a reputable business.  We found out the guy in Madison had disconnected the screen and when he put it back on it was not connected correctly and all of the wires were cooked!  So, now I am looking for a new lap top!!
How do you like my card today?  I tried for a vintage look.  I have all of this lace I need to use up and I made the flower.  I die cut the flower and used Tea Dye distress ink to color it.  The seam binding is also dyed with the Tea Dye.  I used Spellbinders Grand Calbiur to die cut the fleu de lis patterns.  Enjoy your day!