Winter Card Front

This is a card front I made for a card front swap. The theme was Winter or Christmas. I chose to got with winter. I started by stamping my images on acetate, (transparancies) with White Staz-On ink. I then cut "windows out of my card front base. I used the snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder on the base and lightly misted the fronts with Glimmer Mist (it's hard to see in the picture but the glimmer mist gives the blue card stock a very nice shimmer) then used my atg to apply the acetate images to the back of the card. I the attached a piece of ribbon to the bottom of the card as finishing touch.

Christmas Card Candy

This is a picture of the Christmas card candy I made for a swap I'm in. I started with 1 1/4 inch white cardstock squares, stamped 3 different images on them with green and red ink, inked the edges in the opposite color ink. The green stamped images are edged with red and red are edged with green. I then used a 1 inche strip of red card stock that I cut with a wavy paper trimmer then used the d'vine swirls cuttlebug folder to emboss. I used pop dots to adheer the squares to the wavy strip.

Here is a finished card using the card candy. I applied the card candy to the front of a card and used Star Dust stickles in a random pattern to apply some background interest.

Great Book/Magazine

This is a new magazine I bought the other day at my local bookstore. It is "The Cardmakers's Yearbook 2009" the cover price is 14.95 which is quite steep for a magazine but this magazine is jam packed with great stuff. First off it's a 2009 weekly calendar, each week has a place to record important information about that week and on the opposite page are two cards and instructions on how to create them. This book uses cricut, cuttlebug, stamping, embossing, it looks like just about every technique out there. There are detailed instructions and a detailed supply list for every project. Also each week has a "Top Tip" these are great tidbits from technique tips to storage ideas and everything. The back of the magazine has several pages dedicated to step by step instructions for techniques such as heat embossing, shrink plastic and more. There are also templates, address book pages and a stocklist that contains websites where you can order the supplies for each project. I think this magazine will end up being a great insperation tool to have around.

Thank You Card Candy Cards

I've had a really busy couple of weeks and haven't managed to get much crafting done. I did get my card candies from August in the mail the other day and got them made into cards. I used the cuttlebug borders on several of them. I really like the borders they add a really nice finishing touch to just about any project.

UTEE & Perfect Pearls card

This is a card I made recently trying out some new techniques. I used Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (UTEE) and Perfect Pearls with the stamped flower image, and used a Cuttlebug Embossing Boarder and skittles on the edge. I also sprayed some Glimmer Mist over the embossed image.

To make the flower image on the center of the card, I took a piece of colored cardstock, you can also ink you cardstock to make it the desired color, in this example the background cardstock is a medium blue, I coated the cardstock with versamark ink and sprinkled UTEE on it. Then carefully heat the UTEE, it takes a little longer than regular embossing powder to melt and doesn't stick very well so it blows around and is very messy. Once the UTEE starts to melt I sprinkled more UTEE on the melted parts to create a thicker layer. Then let the UTEE cool a bit, coat with versamark ink again and brush with perfect pearls of your choice, I used a blue, green and bronze on this piece. Once again heat the image and sprinkle more UTEE over the image. Once the colors have blended use a rubber stamp and stamp into the warm UTEE and leave the stamp in place until the UTEE cools. You will have a nice deep impression of your stamp. I used a pen to outline the image after it had cooled, next time I want to try inking my stamp first, possibly with Stazon Ink.