Gnome for the Holidays

 

This card was inspired by Jo Blackman's blog. I created the hearts in Photoshop, because I did not have any elongated heart dies, and I wanted to match some Kraft-core I chose to mat the SU real read paper.  The grosgrain ribbon is tied through a hole in the cardstock.  The gnome is my favorite gnome die from Simon Says Stamp, and is cut from photo paper that I made with red and black checks on it.  Sentiment is from the same stampset, and the holly leaves are punched green foiled paper with a red rhinestone. This card will be posted to the Helping Hands Card Challenge on the Sun City Papers N Pixels Blog.

Halloween Fun

 

This is the Whimsy  Stamps darling Slimline Hill House Die.   This portrait orientation card was created on the slightly larger slimline card base which is cut 9"x 8" and s&f at 4"(Neenah 120# cardstock).  It is matted with SU Crushed Curry  cut 8 1/2" x 3 1/4"  The artpiece uses Neenah  where I blended 6 colors of Distress Oxide Ink.  I adhered the Slimline Hill House with Sticky Specks by Ecstasy Crafts onto the blended background. This card would look good with a night sky and a moonlit pathway too. The House itself is cut from very fine glitter paper, (Too Me Crafts).

 This version with the same wonderful die,and a little white glitter paper moon was created over a background I made in Photoshop printed on Red  River Paper Company's ultra pro satin, which is shiny but not as shiny as photopaper. Mats are SU Crumb Cake and cardstock base is gray.

Happy HAPPY Birthday JR

 

Hope that this year is the BEST and the HAPPIEST YEAR of your life.  Jimmy. 

 Have a fabulous birthday. 

Happy HAPPY Birthday Tracy

 Wishing you a VERY Happy  Birthday, Tracy--You're surrounded with no-cal pistachio, lemon, strawberry, chocolate, buttercream, vanilla and cherry frosted cupcakes to make your day Special.
Happy Birthday with love.   This card will come to you, but not by today--I am sure, but this fall some time.  So may your birthday be a LONG and WONDERFUL Celebration

 

 

 

 

This card is for my dear friend Tracy ---locked down in the UK, and remembering all her KITTIES!
The graphic is by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff (Aurora Wings) and is called cupcake kitten.  It is colored with prismacolor pencils, and embellished with enamel dots, glitter pens, nuvo sparkle glitter, and wink of stella silver, white and clear.  The kitten graphic is mounted on SU cherry cobbler cardstock, with the birthday sentiment in cherry cobbler from Memory Box stampset Iris.

A Kleenex box cover

 

Kleenex Box covers are easy to do and quick. 2 pieces of colored solid cardstock is cut 9 1/2"x 5 3/4"   S&F at 4 1/2" and 9,  miter tabs and apply 1/2" scortape to the top and side flaps. 

Patterned paper is cut  at 4 1/4" x 4 3/4" (cut 4) for the sides of the box.  You'll need one  4  1/2 " x 4 1/2" piece of matching colored cardstock for the top of the box, and a 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of patterned paper on the top.

Carefully join the two bases together and adhere patterned paper to the sides and the top. Use an oval die centered on the top piece that fits the opening of the Kleenex box (I used SU Ovals collection framelits die #4) 
TIP:  As you assemble and shape the top, place the whole "open box" on top of something square that is longer than the box. It makes it easier to shape and hold the cover perfectly as it dries. This is a COVER for a Kleenex box, and is slightly longer than the box.

This template for the project was created by my friend Clareene. Her blog is In Reene's Room

The Tiger Lily Sprite

 

This darling Tiger Lily Sprite is available at Aurora Wings, the digital stamp drawn by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff.
Tiger Lilies symbolize wealth, energy, confidence, and honor.  This little sprite is colored with Prismacolor pencils and accented with wink of stella, glimmer pens, and enamel dots.  The font is Better step.  The matting is SU Cajun Craze embossed with  Carabella Studios "Guirlandes" embossing folder. The sentiment strip really IS straight on the card--just doesn't look that way in the image.

Tag Book

 These wonderful 6x6 tag book cards are so much fun to make. Follow the instructions at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts.net

 

This is the back of the little flip flop tag book Birthday card---I really like the ribbon loosely tied in the back instead of knotted in the front. The papers and tags are all made and printed from Karen Schulz RETIRED Rambling  Rose Kit.  Sentiments (believe it are not) are copied off of a box of Truvia Sweetener packets. The little "tags" are cut using a SU flag punch..

 This is the first tagbook I made.  I like it, but I learned on it to cut the tags just a teeny bit narrower --the mechanism works better if they have more play.  (But a wee bit of sanding on the edges of this one solved the problem) Designer paper in this one was from a 6x6 SU collection that I got years ago.  I used a Tim Holts paper distressing edger on this  tag book card.

 

Tags Mini Photo Album

 

 This mini photo album is created from tags cut from Graphic 45's Large Tag ATG Tag and Flowers Metal Die Set. The base tags and mats are cut from Stampin Up Very Vanilla Cardstock. The kit I used was designed by Karen Schulz and is called Dreamin'of Daisies. (designed in 2017)  The project and templates for the Tags Mini Photo Album were designed by my friend Clareene and prepared for a class she will be teaching in Mesquite in September.   There may be a couple of additions to this little album including cutouts and embellishments not shown here.

 Fronts of the tag pockets

Backs of the tag pockets and photo mounts

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This tag album was built with Denim and Diamonds by Raspberry Road Designs

2021 Calendar Project

 I'm participating in a Calendar Challenge

at Digital Scrapbooking Studio using Calendar templates designed by Carin Grobe

  We participate weekly designing 4 month's calendars until the year (and its covers) are complete and our gift calendars are ready to print.

This year I didn't do them by theme as I have in other years

---So each one is totally different from the one before. 

Tea Bag Dispenser Project

Inspired by the beautiful dispensers you can see In Reene's Room this Tea Bag dispenser is made out of checkered paper (Carte Bella's "Buffalo Plaid, perched on black ball feet, and decorated with teacups that are brushed with 3Dcrystal Glaze and a little glitter. I still have some dangly teabag tags to make, and may even use real ones as I finish this off.   The Rosettes are made with a die and so is the large center flair under the white rosette on top.  The black jewel on top is a melted pony bead.