Gobble, Gobble

     This card is about as close as I get to CAS. I find myself putting as much as I can possibly fit onto every project. This funny little turkey is from one of Karen Burniston's die sets. It is certainly fun to dress up the animals from her collection. 

     The sentiment is from a stamp set, but I do not know which one. It was stamped on a card in a class that I took. I printed a whole row of these and put them in my "Feathered Animals" die set for future use. I just grabbed the oval punch and punched one out for this card.

     As soon as I saw this sketch from Sketch N Scrap, I knew that I was going to be using this card stock that I had from the "Happy Haunting" collection by Simple Stories. When it came time to choose colors for the striped background, I just let the paper do the work for me.

Card Sketch #158 by Lisa Hidy

from "Happy Haunting" collection by Simple Stories

     I guess the "word bird" in this case is "gobble"! The inside of this card is extremely simple as well.

Inside of Card

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Simple Stories - Happy Haunting

     Card Stock: My Colors - Black Magic

                                       Dovetail

                                       Peach

                                       Dare Devil

     Stamp: SOL - Pilgrims 2 Stamp

     Dies: Burniston - Feathered Animals

                              Tiny Accessories 2

     Punch: Stampin' Up - Ovals (2 x 1 3/8) (1 3/4 x 7/8) 

     

Candied Butterflies

     My mother-in-law is hosting her Pokeno group next month. She usually asks me to give her 16 cards from my stash to hand out as party favors. This time we decided that I would design a special card for the occasion. All of the players will get the same card. Here is the card I designed using Graphic 45's Garden Goddess Collection. 

     I chose to make a Box on Card. I made the card base and mat using the Cameo Silhouette, because I wanted the card to be scalloped. 

     I selected some 2-part butterfly dies. I placed Elizabeth Craft Designs double-sided adhesive on a pink patterned paper. I then die cut the butterflies. Each butterfly was dipped in Ultra Fine Diamond glitter. I think the paper looks like candy, hence "Candied Butterflies". 

     The box on top is a simple 2-inch cube. I recently learned how to make paper beads. I made earrings using the same paper found in the card. 

Silhouette Earring Holders

     

     Everyone asks how to get the box inside the envelope. The answer is that you don't. I place the box on the envelope. After opening the card, it can then be displayed with the box on top.

Inside of Card

Back of Card

The Earrings

I ended up making 21 of these cards.

     My mother-in-law doesn't wear earrings, so I made her a bracelet to wear to her party. Don't look too closely. I was winging it. I have never made a bracelet before, and I was too lazy to look up the proper way to do it.

Materials: 

     Patterned Paper: Graphic 45 - Garden Goddess Collection

                                                    Garden Goddess

                                                    Seeds of Kindness

                                                    Shine from Within

                                                    Fields of Flowers

                                                    Thoughtfully Planted

     Card Stock: My Colors - Lovable

                                        Jonquil

                                        Spanish Moss

     Die: Spellbinders - Les Papillons

            Sizzix - Detailed Butterflies

            Burniston - Word Set 1

                             Butterfly Accessory Dies

                             Gift Card Label

     Embellies: Ric-Rac - mini Hot Pink

                     Elizabeth Craft Designs - Double Sided Adhesive

                                                         Cool Diamond Ultra Fine Glitter

                     Pearls - Pink 7mm and 4mm

                     

Challenges

Crafty Calendar - Girly and Cute - #29 - *

Creative Friday - Shaped Cards - #11 - *

Dream Valley - All That Glitters - #19 - *

Graphic 45 - A Card - December 2

My Time to Craft - Not a quadrilateral - #15 - *

Paper Girls - 3 Manufacturers - #3 - *

(Graphic 45, Minds Eye, Spellbinders, Sizzix, Burniston, Elizabeth Craft)

Stinkin' Inkers - Die-lirious and Punchy - #8 - November 30

Peace . . . On Earth

     I have been itching to do some Ai Watercolor painting and I had a card due for the Sketch N Scrap design team. Even though I knew the proportions would be off, I decided to combine the two. 
     The Ai Watercolor Swing Set is my newest stamp set and I completed the project using the YouTube video. Of course my painting hardly even looks like the example. In fact, I did 3 of these and none of them looks the same - that would be impossible.

     I used this sketch by Heather Hall. You can see that the rectangle is now a square and I slanted the banner. 

Sketch #157 by Heather Hall

      When I went looking for patterned paper for this card, I immediately went for something in the old leftovers drawer. I have 4 or 5 old Christmas collections to pick from. This paper is three years old. I remember buying it to make gift card holders for a swap. My daughter and I both entered this swap. She made Silhouette Christmas purses and I did a tri-fold. Anyway ---- plenty of houndstooth and this red (that looks like a solid) to make 3 cards. Sad to say: there is still a healthy bit left including a plaid that is to die for. 

Inside of Card

     For the inside of the card, I had three Christmas Pine squares sitting on the table from cutting out the frame for the painting on the front. I love to use the scraps from the front of the card to design the inside of the card.

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Carta Bella - Christmas Delivery

     Cardstock: Gina K - Christmas Pine

                                  Ivory

     Watercolor Paper

     Stamp: Ai Watercolor - Swing Set

                                       Cats Set

                                       Branches Set

                                       Foliage Set

                Gina K - Winter Cheer

     Markers: Marvy - 72 Pine Green

                               86 African Violet

                               28 English Red

                               40 Brownish Grey

                               45 Sepia

     Dies: Sizzix - Holiday Words (Script)

     Punch: Fiskars - Apron

     Embellies: Molotow - Masking Liquid

                     Paper Studio - Gemstones 4mm Pearls

Chillin With Friends

     I took an online class with Stephanie from Stamps of Life this month. We made 3 cards using this exclusive "Arctic Animals 2 Stamp" set and dies.The Igloo Fold It is also exclusive to the class. (You had to be taking the class to be able to purchase this.) In the homework before class we were encouraged to stamp, color, and die cut some extra animals in case Stephanie made a change in the plans. I had several animals left over and I just love to incorporate my stamping into my scrapbooking. 

     I had purchased some glittery aqua paper from Hobby Lobby for the class and had almost the entire page left so I used it to mat the igloo and for the floating sea ice. This sea ice is authentic to our visit to Glacier Bay, Alaska. We even saw mommy otters with babies on their bellies sunning themselves on floating sea ice on the day this pic was taken.

     I used the Silhouette to make the title. I welded together the title and the mats for the walrus and narwal whale. Since I had already made all of the animals before starting this project, it came together super easily. I also welded the two pics in the sketch into one. 

Sketch #188 by Lisa Hidy

Materials List:

     Patterned Paper: Authentic - Alpine

     Cardstock: My Colors - Aquatint

                                       Icicles

                     Distress - Chipped Sapphire

                     Paper Studio - Aqua Glitter

     Dies: Stamps of Life - Igloo Fold It

                                     Arctic Animals

     Stamps: Stamps of Life - Arctic Animals 2 Stamp

     Copics: Igloo - C0

                Whale - BG10  11, 13

                Polar Bear - C00, 01, R20

                Seal - C2, 3, 4

                Walrus - E30, 31, 33, 34; W0, 1

     Silhouette - Chillin' Out by Megan Hardy Designs