Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Special Blog Hop

Hello,

I'm participating in the Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Special Blog Hop, a special send off to everyone at the Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine! If you are here from the fabulously talented Jennifer Rzasa you are in the right spot! If you are just stopping by my blog you can start at the beginning at Jennifer McGuire's blog.

I've started this post a couple of times but nothing seams to express my feelings in a way that i like, it always sounds better in my head then on the computer screen. It also really hit me yesterday, i was looking at the new January 2015 issue and was pleasantly surprised to see a card (along with few other awesome designers) i submitted to Stamping Royalty was highlighted by the editors. I had a great big smile on my face and that awesome feeling of seeing your work in a magazine. Then it hit me..... This will be the last time i'll see my card in the PC&S magazine, and i got really sad!

I was thinking of all the wonderful inspiration, techniques, tips, product, hints and friendships that have come out of my involvement with PC&S and well i am really sad, mad and disappointed to see it go! I know and understand why, but well i just don't have to words to describe the impact the magazine, designers, editors have had in my life. So i'm going to leave it there before i start crying and instead to everyone at PC&S THANK YOU!!!

I'm not going to go into the details of my card! Its a long hop, and well its pretty self explanatory, a little bit of stamps, die cutting, ink, scissors and paper!

Your next stop in the hop is the wonderfully talented Amy Kolling!!


Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Waffle Flower Crafts - 100% Love, Feather More
Die: Waffle Flower Crafts - Tiny Word Bubbly
Ink: Memento Luxe - Dandelion, Teal Zeal, Sweet Plum, Nautical Blue, Pistachio, Love Letter, Morocco, Grey Flannel. Versafine - Black

2013 World Card Making Day - How To Video

Hello!!!

This is my 2nd post today, you can find my TAWS post here.

Today the March 2014 issue of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking is available!!! And why is it so important, you might ask!?!?! Well.... My winning 2013 WCMD card published in this issue!! I'm so excited to see it in the magazine and to see all the other winning cards!!

Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking is now a monthly, digital magazine. If you don;t have a subscription, you are missing out!! Click here for info! And you can check out their blog here.

I made a video showing the process i went through to create my winning card! I hope you like it!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Country Mother's Day

Hello Everyone!

I have a super quick post today. Its been a busy weekend of studying, working and card making, so i'm making this post short and sweet, but it took me a week to finish the card, working on it each day for 10 or 15 minutes depending on time available!

I'm submitting this to Paper Crafts March Gallery Challenge. The challenge is country, so i dug deep into my stamps and embellishments and this is what i came up with!

The peach flower is a piece of fabric that i spritzed with ink, then made the flower. The brown and green button is a vintage button. The brown button i made with a button maker kit and brown fabric.

That's it today! I'll be back tomorrow with a card for Papertrey Ink's March Blog Hop! CAS cards are so nice with time so scarce, stop by for my fastest card ever!! :)

Thanks!

Dana

Paper Crafts January Gallery Challenge

Hello!

It's been awhile, i know since posting. I went a week with out my computer and last week classes started, its going to be a busy semester!!

Today i am sharing a card that i am submitting to Paper Crafts January Gallery Challenge. I finished this a few days ago and though i had a few days still to get it on the blog, but i just found out a little bit ago that the deadline is tonight!

The challenge is a milestone birthday card. For my card i die cut the numbers from white cardstock. I traced the numbers on my cardbase, leaving open a little bit of the zero.

Next i added s squiggle to the zero with a stamp. I also inked up and stamped a pen, then with soft stone ink, i stamped some ink splats.

Last i printed out my sentiment from my computer, trimmed it and adhered it to my cardbase.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: PTI: Happy Trails
Ink: PTI: Smokey Shadow, Soft Stone
Cardstock: PTI: Rustic White
Dies: PTI: Number
Marker: Zig
Computer

Paper Crafts 2012 Gallery Idol

Hello!!

I'm so exited to be in Paper Crafts 2012 Gallery Idol, Top 20! All the ladies are super talented and i am honored to be included!  Today kicks off the voting for Round 2, only the top 15 are chosen, so make sure you vote for your favorite (me, right!?! hehe) :D  Click here to vote!

The theme this round is You Color My World. First here is my card, then i'll get into the details!

For my card i really wanted to try making fabric flowers. I've seen them everywhere, even watch A How To months ago, but never got around to actually making one. So... since color was the theme and i don;t have much fabric let alone all the colors of the rainbow, i decided to dye some fabric.

I started with a fine small count white linen and cut lots of strips, about an inch or so wide. For my dye's i used the ink refillers from Papertrey Ink. For my 1st attempt i used too much water and my strips came up to light for my liking. So i started again and this time only used about a tablespoon of water (i just eyeballed it).

I used small disposable plastic cups and a wooden dowel to stir and move around the fabric strips. For the darker colors (purple and blue) i ended up adding a little bit of water after they the strips where in

Next i laid them out to dry on some parchment paper. Luckily i had some plastic bin lids that made great drying racks!

Now i'm all about experimenting before i start on the good stuff, so i cut a couple extra strips and tried my hand at making the flower, because if it didn;t work out, i was going to have to come up with another plan for my colored strips!! 

But it all worked out wonderfully (or at least i think so! lol). I die cut some small circles and used glossy accents to adhere the fabric to each circle. I started in the middle, putting down glue, twisting and laying, more glue... you get the idea!! :D

Once all the flower's were made i cut some leaves and arrange the flowers and leaves to my liking. Before i glued them down i added a sentiment in the bottom right in brown ink. Last i added rhinestone to each flower.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you will take a look all the Gallery Idols cards and vote for your favorite!!

Thanks!!

Dana

Supplies:
Fabric: White Linen: Joann's
Ink refillers: Papertrey Ink: Lemon Tart, Blueberry Sky, Royal Velvet, Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Spring Moss.
Ink: Papertrey Ink: Dark Chocolate
Cardstock (cardbase): Papertrey Ink: Rustic White
Leaves: Green paper scraps
Circle Die: Spellbinders
Punch: Fiskars, Circle
Rhinestones: Unknown

Card Creations Vol 10

Hi there!

Today i want to share 2 cards that are published in Paper Crafts Card Creations Vol 10. It just came out in stores! It is a great issue, in fact i already used it for inspiration earlier this week (more details on that to come tomorrow!)

The 1st card is a Mother's Day card:

And the 2nd a Christmas Card!!

Speaking of Christmas, now that my classes are over for the semester, i will be making a lot more cards. I know my fall is going to be really busy so i am going to start making Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas cards now!! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Sunday's Bits & Pieces #4

Hello,

Today i have another card using elements from my scraps and leftovers.The card is made mostly from a left over piece from my Christmas cards. I cut one of the panels too short so i couldn't use it, instead i used it to experiment with it. I adhered the tissue tape across the card, but didn;t really like it for my Christmas cards, so it went in my left over drawer.

When i was routing in my drawer this week i found it again and remembered that this months Paper Crafts Challenge was winter projects. Luckily I'm just in time as the deadline is 1/23. Most of the work was already done, i used a big snowflake stamp and inked it up in blue ink and spritz pearlized water. Then with a few small snowflakes i used white ink. Ink the edge with white and added the tissue tape and twine bow.

To spruce it up a bit i stamped winter wishes in white on a dark blue tab and adhered it to the card front. Next i used twine and made a couples x's by the tab and at the bottom left corner. Then i rounded the corners and adhered the panel with pop up dots to a kraft card.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts & Papertry Ink
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink & Color box
Tab punch: Fiskars
Twine:http://www.etsy.com/shop/swanandshears.
Cardstock: The Paper Studio
Tissue Tape: Tim Holtz

Hello,

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, after Thanksgiving my card making mojo was missing and then I got a cold! But regardless i finally got my Christmas cards done (and mailed yesterday!!), ornaments and the last of my Christmas shopping done. All that is left to do is wrap!

I also got some happy email from PaperCrafts Magazine late last week and there’s nothing like good card making news to inspire you to make more! In fact I am a bit behind in posting my published cards (yay!), but here is the very 1st one. (sorry the photo is not the greatest, this was before my new spiffy light tent!)

You can see it in Holiday Cards & More Vol. 6, and if you don;t have a copy you can it at PaperCrafts. As soon as I saw this stamp I thought Got Presents? and the card was born!

I'll be back later this weekend with some more cards as i get back to my usual card making challenges. I also have a new weekly post starting with the new year as a part of my card making New Years Resolution. So stay tuned!!

Have a great day!!

Dana