Bonus Video - Jolly by Golly

This month I had so much fun with the kit, I ended up recording 4 different projects!! Here's a single 12x12 family page & a non-traditional Christmas card made from the kit! www.createdwithpaper.com

90th Birthday Card

This card was lots of fun to make :) Although I'm not very good at it yet, I'm really enjoying the collage technique. I love vintage stuff & collage always gives me that feeling. This was made for the sweetest lady's 90th birthday party.

Ingredients:

Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Confetti Cream - paper; Buckaroo Blue, Vintage Violet, Chocolate Chip, VersaMark - ink; Friends 24-7, French Script, Frames with a Flourish - stamp sets; Queen & Co. blue pearls, American Crafts Thickers Darling Accents, white gel pen, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Doodlebug white candy shoppe mini rubons, white embossing powder, clear embossing powder - accessories;

I'm not sure if you can see it well in the picture or not but the background stamping has the damask stamp embossed in white & the bird is stamped with craft ink & embossed with clear powder.

November's Kit Video - Cosmo Cricket's "Jolly By Golly"

I had so much fun with the November kit that I ended up with 4 different projects to make videos from. Here's the first one :) Almost done the second so I should be posting that one in the next day or two. Hope you like them!!!

More Autumn Cards :)

Seems there's a lot of cards to be made in the fall!! I've been working with my leaf stamps again. This was my aunt's birthday card.

Ingredients:

Mellow Moss, BoBunny Mint Dot, BoBunny Plaid, Confetti Cream - paper; Chocolate Chip - ink; Autumn Leaf Prints, Wonderful Words - stamp set; American Crafts Carrot buttons, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, linen thread, Watercolour pencil crayons, blender pen, corner rounder, machine stitching, clear embossing powder, stampin' dimensionals - accessories;

I had this plaid paper in a scrapbooking kit from last year & thought it would be great for a leaf card. I machine stitched all around the background, embossed the "Celebrate" with clear embossing powder and stamped, cut out & coloured the leaves.

October's Video

October's video feature two 12 x 12 layouts that take only minutes to make. Because I used the die cut sheet for the majority of the embelishments, the pages go together in a snap. Also, I made a cute Hallowe'en treat package with jelly beans. This treat bag is super easy to make too :) Hope you all enjoy it!

Fall Watercolouring

Watercoloured cards look so pretty!! Fall pictures just seem to beg me to watercolour them! Here are three of my watercoloured cards. I've used an aqua painter & reinkers on all three of them. You always want to use watercolour paper with the aqua painter so that your paper doesn't curl up as it dries. To do the actual watercolouring, I brush the water from the aqua painter over the area I want to colour. Next I drop ink into the wells of my palet (or a plastic lid would work). I dip the aqua painter into the ink & touch it to the wet area of the paper. The ink will run throughout the water you've brushed there, colouring your picture.

This first card was my father-in-law's birthday card. The Lovely as a Tree set remains lovely no matter how long I've had it. I love the way the card fold had the circle cut in it.

Ingredients:

Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Watercolour paper, Very Vanilla - paper; Brown StazOn - ink; Lovely As a Tree, All Holiday - stamp sets; Circle cutter, vintage brads, aqua painter, Old Olive reinker, More Mustard reinker, Pumpkin Pie reinker, Ruby Red reinker, Bashful Blue reinker - accessories;

This second card was my father's birthday card. The masking takes a little time but I like the scene I created.

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Watercolour paper - paper; Brown StazOn, Chocolate Chip - ink; Autumn Harvest, Fun & Fast Notes - stamp sets; Chocolate Chip Corduroy buttons, Earth Elements brads, Aqua painter, machine sewing, Pumpkin Pie reinker, More Mustard reinker, Garden Green reinker, Old Olive reinker, Ruby Red reinker, Chocolate Chip reinker, Really Rust reinker, Creamy Caramel reinker, Cool Caribbean reinker - accessories;

This final card really has little watercolouring on it but it was such a fun card. I used it for a little boy's birthday.

Ingredients:

Kraft, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip - paper; Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Basic Black - ink; Bugs & Kisses, Sanded - stamp sets; Old Olive ribbon, circle cutter, crimper, aqua painter, Old Olive marker, Bashful Blue reinker, Chocolate Chip reinker - accessories;

Finally, a Card!!

This little confection is for my friend's new baby. I've been having fun with texture lately. If you look closely at the photo you can sort of see the strip texture on the white background and the waffle weave on the pink strip. The white strip effect was made by gluing 1/4" strips of white onto a white background. The waffle weave was made by running the paper through the crimper in both directions.

Ingredients:

Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White - paper; Close to Cocoa - ink; Fun & Fast Notes - Stamp set; VersaMarker, Stampin Pastels, sponge dauber, paper piercer, Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon, Latte button, crimper, eyelet edge punch - accessories