Messy Craft Room

My Craftroom was a holy terror.  Just a big mess!

I promised Lani a new blog post so I decided to show her the bad

and the good.

Ok here are the clean pictures.

You can see my desk now.

You actually see the tv too.

Now I am a happy camper and can craft away.

Enjoy Lani!

Shaker Flower Cards

I got a new die from on line to make a shaker flower card.

For the life of me I could not figure out how to use this die.

My son came over and helped me to figure it out.

It took him 3 seconds being the engineer that he is.

Thank you Johnny!

Once I learned how to make these cards, I went

crazy with different colors and sequins, some with

tulle and some with acetate.

I found that the tulle was easier with no static.

I also discovered that using double sided paper made

all the designs go better.

I like using up some of my patterned paper

as even though they are busy papers, they

work with this design.

I like putting a touch of colored sequins inside to give

the card a little zip and bring it all together.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed

making them, once Johnny showed me what to do!

Thank you

My cousin asked me to make her some thank you cards.

I made her a couple of these among other ones.

These are from one of the sets that I was given at

the Junkie Fest I went to in June.

I popped up the owls on the circles to give

the card more dimension.

I happened to have some owl paper in my stash

that work perfectly and the blue strips are 

from the back of the paper.

Enjoy!

Gina K. Inspired

I made some cards today using Gina K. Sentimental Summer kit 

that I bought while at Junkie Fest.

I water colored these flowers and leaves with Zig markers.  

I wet my paper with water then colored the flowers yellow.

Then I went back and added orange and just pooled the 

color around with the water and the yellow ink.

I popped up the flowers but not the leaves for a cool look.

This is the same stamp set.  I heat embossed silver onto black cardstock for a different look.

The camera makes it look purple but it is not.  

It is all shiny silver like the top flower.

I tried every angle of the camera to not get this purple look.

I am not liking this one as much as the first card.

Of course, it stands to reason because I usually

make cards with bright bold colors.

I totally got my ideas from Gina K. videos. 

Foil cards

I recently went to a Stamp Junkie fest and the hostess was Gina K.

Her new product is foiling on cards.

I told my friend Cindy on the way that I was not jumping on that

bandwagon and getting into foiling.

Well, when I got to Village Paper and Crafts, the foil cards were amazing.

Of course I had to buy some foils and all that goes with it!

I made these cards today and I am so happy with how they turned out.

Here is a picture of myself and the amazing Gina K.

Look at that smile on my face!

Distress Oxides

I got some Distress Oxide inks with a 40% coupon at Michael's Crafts.

Johnny got me a gift card for Mother's Day so this is what I got with it.

This morning I decided to make some backgrounds with them.

I watched some Tim Holtz and Jennifer McGuire videos to learn how 

to use the inks properly.

I made these backgrounds and thought they came out beautiful.

I stamped my image in black ink on the background and then heat embossed it.

Love the way this turned out and I made 4 of these.

I made 4 of these also. 

I stamped and heat embossed these the same as the first card.

 I just love how the oxides make such great backgrounds.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed making them.

 

I definitely like these new ink pads.

Graduation Shaker Cards

One of my nephew's is graduating from Northwest High School on Saturday.

That is the same high school that my kids graduated from.

I made this shaker card for him in his school colors.

Another nephew on the other side of the family is graduating

from The School of Medicine at Toledo University on Friday evening.

He will go on to his residency at The University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

I made this more plain shaker graduation card for him.

I like how they both turned out and I plan to make more shaker cards now that I have the hang of it on my own!  Of course I had to call Cindy while I was making them for advice!

Thank You Cards

My sister Nancy passed away last week and I needed to send a lot of sympathy cards.

I made 6 of this design. 

I made 6 of this design also. 

This was a new die I got and wanted to use it.

I cut them all out in black first and then went back and cut them

out in pink and red.  Then I had to fill in the pieces like a puzzle to

make them look right.  I then ran them through in green to get the leaves.

The cards look simple but they were very time consuming.

I will get these all mailed out tomorrow and I am so thankful for all the 

food, visits, gifts, messages, texts, phone calls, cards etc.

May Nancy Rest in Peace

September 22, 1947-May 8 2017

Zig Watercoloring today

All the cards (except one) that I am showing here today were colored 

with my Zig Watercolor Markers!

This card was using a new stamp I got.

I put a scalloped background and a pink bow

and that is all it needed.  

I love how the colors turned out on this one.

After I put this picture on this blog I saw it was off centered.
To fix that I put a pretty bow on the right side where it was off
and it came out so pretty.

These next two cards were using a stamp

that my friend Cindy R. gave me.

She brought over a whole box of

stamps and I could pick whatever I wanted,

The first one is colored with Spectrum Noir

and the second one is colored with Zig markers.

They are each different but so pretty.

I did not realize until I posted this that the first one is off center.

Crap!

The next three cards are card kits that I

made for my friend Ann M.

I made one card and cut pieces for 5 more of each of them.

This is just a very subtle orange and so delicate.

This is a new dogwood stamp that I got.

I heat embossed it and then water colored it. 

I added some sequins for embellishments.

I had trouble placing the sentiment

as I did not want to cover up the pretty flowers.

After seeing this card on the blog, I did not like the sentiment.
I have since made a few more of these and used a pink vellum sentiment.

This is a Stampin Up Flower that is water colored.

The sentiment is from Cindy's box.

The twine is from Cindy's Etsy store.

Of course, I added sequins.

After I added the photo, I put leaves behind the flower.

I hope Ann M. likes all these cards kits.

It was a productive day and I had fun water coloring.

I am going upstairs to make a couple more card kits.

I have some ideas in my head and John is watching tv

so I will go up and create!

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to you all!

Cindy's Visit

My good friend Cindy R. came to visit me from New Jersey.

She spent a couple days here and we had so much fun

playing in my craftroom.

Cindy brought the pieces to this card and with my inks and her pieces

we created 18 of these beautiful Christmas cards.

I am so very happy with the way they turned out.

I taught Cindy how to do this card.  I had taken a class at Archiver's

a long time ago and learned how to make this card.

We each made 3 of these and they are all colored different 

and each one is prettier than the next.

I just got these new flower dies so we came up with this design

that I really love.  I think they came out so darn cute.

We each made 3 of these.

Cindy has a good eye for picking background paper!

We made 8 of these cards.  I decided to turn them to see how they 

would look and I kind of liked it.  So I made 2 of each and 

Cindy did too.  We had a terrible time lining up the stamped flower

with the punch.  I had John come up to my craftroom and between

the three of us we got it figured out.

I got a new dogwood stamp and we came up with this design using

that stamp.  We stamped in black ink and then colored the image 

with white pencils.  Then Cindy drew lines around the whole cards.

I love, love, love how this came out.

I wanted to learn how to make a shaker card so Cindy taught me.

We made the santa one from a Mod podged napkin.

The polka dot one was using some pre cut circle things

that Cindy brought and they made it super easy.

We also made the purple one in the previous blog post.

I can see more shaker cards in my future.

They are such fun to make!

I got this new stamp and Cindy stamped them and I colored.

I did mine in this color and she did hers in oranges.

A sentiment on vellum and easy peasy and so very elegant!

Cindy brought this stamp that I love and I stamped 5

of these and colored them with my Spectrum Noir markers.

I added some black sequins for embellishments.

Love how this turned out.

Cindy brought her Ken Oliver Colorburst powder

for me to try.  I loved it!  I still have some blue stains on my fingernails!

These are some backgrounds that we made.  I love how they turned out.

I made this card yesterday using one of the backgrounds pictured.

I just love these backgrounds as they make amazing cards.

We had such a wonderful time and I sure hope that Cindy comes back to craft again.

We have so much that we did not get to do.

Maybe next time!