Showing posts with label Stickles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stickles. Show all posts
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Mermaizing
Sometimes a party theme really inspires me. Mermaids screamed out to me "shaker card." I haven't made too many of them but I'm glad I attempted this one. The birthday girl LOVES glitter but her mom not so much so this was a way to make them both happy and let me play in my craft room. The photo doesn't do the shimmer and bling justice. Just trust me, it's so much more mermaizing in person.
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Tutu cute!
It's that time of year again -- teacher present time! I haven't figured out yet what I'm going to do for my daughter's preschool teachers (thankfully there's still a week of school left), but I did have to scramble for the dance teacher last week. I ran to Target for a gift card and plunked it inside of this card I made that reflects this year's dance recital costume:
It was actually pretty easy to make, once I saw the idea for a cupcake paper tutu on Pinterest. I could only find an aqua cupcake paper with white polka dots in my stash of baking goodies and I needed light blue. So I turned it inside out and sprayed it with my new Heidi Swap Color Mist in Ocean. If you haven't used these mists, try them out! I think they may be my favorite brand of spray ink as the color is predictable and consistent. I ordered them from www.joann.com when they had 50% off of all papercrafting supplies.
I freehand cut out a leotard and sprayed that with the same ink. Then I used Stickles around the the top to mimic tiny sequins. The bow and rose came from my stash -- I've had them for years and finally found a use for them! I adhered with Zots glue dots. I really like the singles as opposed to the rolls -- much easier to apply in the right spot.
The background is embossed with a butterfly embossing folder -- I think it's made by Darice. The card is 5 by 7 so and the embossing folder only 4.24 by 5.5 so I had to trim the panel in width and allow the bottom inch or so to remain unembossed. It left a perfect place to add my daughter's teacher's name, which I stamped with mini lettters using Colorbox Chalk Ink in Pink Pastel, ran through my Xyron, cut out invididually, inked the edges and then adhered. Then I used the Tim Holz ink blending tool with the sponge pad and the same ink to lightly apply pink to highlight the butterflies.
I wrapped a piece of butterfly washi tape around the butterfly panel between the end of the embossing and the stamped name. Finally I mounted the butterfly panel onto a purple panel and then onto a white 5 by 7 card.
It came out so cute that I'm wishing I had made another tutu to use as an embellishment on the scrapbook page I'll make of my daughter's dance recital!
I freehand cut out a leotard and sprayed that with the same ink. Then I used Stickles around the the top to mimic tiny sequins. The bow and rose came from my stash -- I've had them for years and finally found a use for them! I adhered with Zots glue dots. I really like the singles as opposed to the rolls -- much easier to apply in the right spot.
The background is embossed with a butterfly embossing folder -- I think it's made by Darice. The card is 5 by 7 so and the embossing folder only 4.24 by 5.5 so I had to trim the panel in width and allow the bottom inch or so to remain unembossed. It left a perfect place to add my daughter's teacher's name, which I stamped with mini lettters using Colorbox Chalk Ink in Pink Pastel, ran through my Xyron, cut out invididually, inked the edges and then adhered. Then I used the Tim Holz ink blending tool with the sponge pad and the same ink to lightly apply pink to highlight the butterflies.
I wrapped a piece of butterfly washi tape around the butterfly panel between the end of the embossing and the stamped name. Finally I mounted the butterfly panel onto a purple panel and then onto a white 5 by 7 card.
It came out so cute that I'm wishing I had made another tutu to use as an embellishment on the scrapbook page I'll make of my daughter's dance recital!
Friday, July 12, 2013
Kids' birthday cards
My daughter has also been invited to a lot of birthday parties lately
and I've been trying to make a quick card for each kid. I've really been
loving making strips of patterned paper into banners. It's fast, colorful and uses up those scraps that I always feel guilty about throwing away.
TIP: I used a square punch to make the triangular portion of the banner. You can use any size square punch as long as it's bigger than your paper strip. Just feed end of the strip through the punch, held diagonally, so you cut off a symmetrical triangle shape. So much easier than using scissors or a craft knife!
Please pardon my photography -- my scanner has been on the fritz so I photographed the cards and I don't have any kind of professional setup for card photography.
A cute first birthday card using primary colors:
I stamped the elephant directly onto the card using Charcoal Colorbox chalk ink, then drew the string of the balloon. The hat I cut freehand from patterned paper and for the balloon I used a circle punch, then inked the edges. I cut out the 1 using my Cricut and used that ever-popular Fiskars scallop sentiment punch to make the ground the elephant stands on. After cutting and assembling the banner strips, I stamped the birthday boy's name.
A horizontal variation, this one totally girlie. I'm sure you can see the influence of the first card on this one! Instead of the elephant I stamped with Charcoal chalk ink (as you can see, it's one of my favorite inks!) a large sentiment that I decorated with dots of clear Stickles. Instead of stamping directly on the card, I used a white panel and attached that to an aqua card base. I was able to wrap a piece of pink ribbon around the white panel this way (I hate for the ribbon ends to be seen in the inside of the card -- pet peeve). I stamped the birthday girl's name on white card stock and punched out the letters with a small circle punch, then attached them with pop dots. I added a Prima flower and of course a gem because this was for a very girlie two-year-old. I also embellished the designs on the patterned papers with additional Stickles, because you can never have too much glitter, right?!
TIP: I used a square punch to make the triangular portion of the banner. You can use any size square punch as long as it's bigger than your paper strip. Just feed end of the strip through the punch, held diagonally, so you cut off a symmetrical triangle shape. So much easier than using scissors or a craft knife!
Please pardon my photography -- my scanner has been on the fritz so I photographed the cards and I don't have any kind of professional setup for card photography.
A cute first birthday card using primary colors:
I stamped the elephant directly onto the card using Charcoal Colorbox chalk ink, then drew the string of the balloon. The hat I cut freehand from patterned paper and for the balloon I used a circle punch, then inked the edges. I cut out the 1 using my Cricut and used that ever-popular Fiskars scallop sentiment punch to make the ground the elephant stands on. After cutting and assembling the banner strips, I stamped the birthday boy's name.
A horizontal variation, this one totally girlie. I'm sure you can see the influence of the first card on this one! Instead of the elephant I stamped with Charcoal chalk ink (as you can see, it's one of my favorite inks!) a large sentiment that I decorated with dots of clear Stickles. Instead of stamping directly on the card, I used a white panel and attached that to an aqua card base. I was able to wrap a piece of pink ribbon around the white panel this way (I hate for the ribbon ends to be seen in the inside of the card -- pet peeve). I stamped the birthday girl's name on white card stock and punched out the letters with a small circle punch, then attached them with pop dots. I added a Prima flower and of course a gem because this was for a very girlie two-year-old. I also embellished the designs on the patterned papers with additional Stickles, because you can never have too much glitter, right?!
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