CC3 Challenge #1 Paint Marbling

I decided to take part in a challenge to use the techniques in Tim Holtz latest book A Compendium of Curiosities Volume III.

The first CC3 challenge paint marbling can be found on page 43 of the book. This challenge is sponsored by Inspiration Emporium. I used a 6 1/2 X 3 1/2 inch manila tag I had made with the Cricut machine using the Picturesque cartridge.

I used Distress Paints: Peeled Paint, Spun Sugar, Seedless Preserves and Mustard Seed; Distress Ink: Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint; Distress Stain: Peeled Paint (to color the Crinkle Ribbon); Ink: Archival Jet Black  was used for stamping. Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Urban Tapestry, Stampers Anonymous Simple Sayings and Inkadinkado Sunday School Inchie.

The finished tag is used as the focal point of a 7 X 4 1/4 inch card (white base). The card layers are 6 7/8 X 4 1/8 inches (green layer) and 6 3/4 X 4 inches (purple layer). The tag is popped up with foam squares. A Tiny Attacher staple is used to secure the stained crinkled ribbon.

Finished card

Side view of the lifted tag

Sentiment inside of the card,

 Xyron Frame 2 Thin Dies were used for the shape. 

Close up to show splattering

My Visit to the MLK Memorial

In June 2013 I was in Northern Virginia to attend my oldest granddaughter’s high school graduation. My son Daniel had flown in from Texas to attend as well. The morning of the day before graduation we drove into DC to see the MLK Memorial. An added pleasure close by is a marvelous gift shop.
I had taken numerous pictures while I was there. Now I have a great reason to move them from my computer to a layout. So, I made this two page layout to fulfill a SOC website third week blog challenge.



I decided to use the photo of the signage for the title. Blue is the color of peacefulness and that is how I felt being there. When I saw this monument after passing through the towering stone passage way I was awestruck. It is such a spectacular site to behold. Click on the pictures to get a closer look.

close up of left layout

close up of the right layout

full frontal view

 

close up of the face

 

two profiles of the monument

 

one of the numerous engraved MLK quotes on the surrounding inner wall

 

Cardstock: Bazzill, Wausau and DCWV; Ink: Ranger TH Ice Spruce Distress, Ranger Archival Jet Black; Stamps: TH Stampers Anonymous; Banner: Cricut December 25th Cartridge; Cricut Expression diecutting machine; Adhesive: Scotch ATG; Perfect Layers

Anniversary Card for My Son and Daughter-in-Law

My son and daughter-in-law will be celebrating their 7th wedding anniversary this coming Monday.
This is a 6 X 6 card made from cardstock (probably DCWV) that was in my scrap stash. The inside of the cardstock is a pretty orange with embossed glittered flowers.

Card Front

 

I rounded all the corners 1/2 inch (WRMK Crop-A-Dile Corner Chromper) then inked the edges ( Rangers Salty Ocean Distress Ink). Vellum (Emagination) was embossed (Teresa Collins eBosser and Intertwined Ring embossing folder), a 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 piece was adhered to the front of the card.

Inside

 

On the inside the sentiments (Fiskars and Martha Stewart) were stamped ( Rangers Archival Jet Black Ink and Fiskars Stamper)

Inside

 

Front

 

Flowers (Petaloo, Prima and Recollections), and Brad (Stash) were adhered with hot glue to the front of the card.

Front

 

Ribbon ( American Crafts) and Flourish ( Want 2 Scrap) were also added to the front of the card. The ribbon is aided to staying in place with Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

Front

 

The sentiment on the front of the card is a piece of stash cardstock with all corners rounded I/4 inch. The edges were inked ( Ranger Fired Brick Distress Ink ). It was stamped ( Susan Branch Letters & Numbers) with Rangers Distress Embossing Ink. Then it was heat embossed ( Ranger Heat It) and was adhered to the card front with Recollections Foam Adhesive.
NOTE: The vellum is sticky backed

Butterfly on Toadstool Birthday Card

Tomorrow my oldest granddaughter will be eighteen years old. It is hard to imagine it has been that long since our beautiful blue eyed baby girl was born. But, I did just attend her high school graduation last month and she will be off to college very soon.

Purple is her favorite color, so I incorporated it into the making of this 6 X 6 birthday card. DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack 2010 was used for the 6 X 6 base and the 5.5 X 5.5 mat. The corners were decorated using the WRMK Corner Chromper Cloud punch.

It has been awhile since I have used the Cricut Imagine. I used it along with the Lori’s Garden cartridge. That is my favorite Imagine cartridge. The butterfly layers (page 11) are print/cut at 1.3 inches and the toadstools layers (page 12) are print/cut at 3.0 inches.

Side views

 

All the layers were inked with Colorbox Q Brown ink before they were assembled with Recollections Foam Squares for the layering and Zig 2 Way for assembling other parts. The grass is pieces I had leftover from a Tim Holtz tag and it is made using the Tim Holtz Alterations Tapered Fringe die and inked with TH Distress Peeled Paint ink. All assembled pieces are adhered to the card using the ATG.


The butterfly is embellished with Black Diamonds (antennae) and Platinum (back wing) Stickles. Recollections Rhinestones were used on the body.



The birthday sentiment is a Sylvia Yu stamp using TH Distress Dusty Concord ink. I then heat embossed it using clear embossing powder and the Ranger Heat It tool. I cut it using a Fiskars scallop punch. The edges are inked with TH Distress Dusty Concord ink. It is adhered to the card using the Recollections Foam Squares.

inside

Patriotic Mini Book

There are several challenges this week/month to make something in red, white and blue in celebration of America’s Independence. On the Fantabulous Blog there is a Red White and Blue Cricut Crawl. Over on Mema's Crafts there is an all month challenge. And at SOC Sista//Brotha Blogger Week 28 challenge is display red white and blue.


I chose to make this 3 X 3 mini book using papers from the Authentique PRIDE collection 6 X 6 pad. The pages for the book are made from one 12 X 12 piece of DCWV(Stack 7) paper (Tutorial  by Tracy’s Treasures24 part 1 & part 2)

Front Cover

The postage stamp frames are from Cricut cartridge Elegant Edges ( page 37) cut at 2.75 inches by 2.75 inches. I used the Gypsy to get the exact size and the Cricut Expression.

The placards and postcards were scissor cut from the Authentique PRIDE paper. The placards on the front and back covers are elevated using Recollections Foam Squares.

Red/White and Blue/White Twine by American Crafts were used for the closure.

Edges are inked using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Blue Gems by Want2Scrap are adhered to both sides of the tags. The toppers for the tags were the leftover pieces cut from the inside of the postage stamp frames folded in half. (nothing goes to waste) LOL

I used many adhesives. Terrifically Tacky Red tape to adhere the pages together to form the pockets and to paper outside of the covers. Glue Glider Pro to adhere the covers to the book. Zig 2 Way to adhere the postage stamp frames to the pages and Scotch 2-Way to adhere toppers on the tags.





 pages 1 & 2 with and without tags                                        

pages 3 & 4 with and without tags                                        



pages 5 & 6 with and without tags                                        



pages 7 & 8 with and without tags                                        

 

Back Cover

 

Tags front & back

Present Birthday Card

A card made for my second grandson, who celebrates his 23rd birthday this week. I used the Provocraft Cricut Expression and the Celebrations cartridge.

The Kraft paper 6 X 6 card edges were distressed using the Tim Holtz distressor and sanding block. Than the edges were inked with Tim Holtz stormy sky distress ink.

The present diecuts were cut at 4 inches from the Celebrations cartridge(page 114) using the Expression and DCWV paper.

The sentiment was cut at 3/4 inch using the Expression and the Celebrations cartridge(page 126).


The quote stamped on the inside of the card was done using Fiskars clear stamps and Tsukineko Black Memento ink.

SUPPLIES:Cardstock-Recollections Kraft Love Letters; Printed Paper-DCWV; Electronics-Provocraft Cricut Expression; Cartridge-Provocraft Cricut Celebrations; Tools-Tim Holtz Destressor, Tim Holtz Sanding Block; Ink-Rangers Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Tsukineko Momento; Adhesive-Zig 2 Way, Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro; Stamp-Fiskars Clear Stamps, Recollections

Balloon Birthday Card

Today is my son’s birthday. This is a card I had fun making for him using the Cricut Imagine.

The Cricut Celebrations cartridge(balloons pages 11 & 12, sentiment page 43) was used for the diecuts. Before cutting all the diecuts were first printed on white Bazzill Basic cardstock using the Cricut Imagine and the Imagine Hopscotch cartridge(pages 2,3,10,13).

The balloons were layered to each other using popups than adhered to the card base leaving the tails not adhered. Ribbon was tied in a bow around the tails.

The sentiment was adhered to the card front using Zig 2 Way chiseled pen.
The outer edges of the card were inked with Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress Ink.
Card front
Inside of Card
Close up
Close up
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Close up of balloons layered

SUPPLIES:Cardstock- Bazzill Basic; Card base and Envelope-Halcraft; Electronic machine-Provocraft Cricut Imagine; Cartridges- Provocraft Cricut Celebration and Imagine Hopscotch; Adhesive-Zig 2 Way, Popups(?); Ink-Ranger TH Distress; Ribbon(?)

Masculine Valentine Cards

I made Valentine cards for my adult son and adult grandson. They are both wonderful fathers to their daughters. My son's daughter had her third birthday in January and my grandson's daughter will be two on Valentine's day.

The 6 X 6 cards were made using Tim Holtz Idea-ology Retro Grunge Paper Stash, The five inch hearts on the front of the cards are the blackout and shadow features on page 72 of the Cricut Sweethearts cartridge.

I inked the edges of the top heart with Tim Holtz Distress Ink-festive berries than wrapped it with some hemp before adhering just the center to the shadow. Than the hearts are adhered to the card base. The sentiment on the front and the heartXO on the inside are also from the same cartridge page 36 cut at 1 1/2 inches. The sentiment on the inside of the card came from the Internet. It was printed on Georgia Pacific cardstock, cut into the heart shape using a Fiskars Shaper Template and inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink-festive berries.






inside



 






inside

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Supplies:Cardstock Tim Holtz idea-ology, Georgia Pacific; Ink Tim Holtz Distress-festive berries; Diecuts Cricut Sweethearts cartridge; Adhesive ATG and Zig 2 Way; Tools Provocraft Expression, Fiskars Shaper Template, Ranger ink applicator; Darice Hemp cord