Crafter's Companion - Together Forever - NEW

Hello!

I'm popping in because Crafter's Companion has a new release today by Sara Davies!! Her new Signature Collection Together Forever is an awesome collection. It can not only work for birthday's but is perfect for weddings and anniversaries!!

I started my card by cutting a strip of the Printed Vellum, the vellum comes in several patterns in gold and silver. For my card, I picked the gold damask. I added double sided tape on each end and placed the strip on a black card stock panel. I wrapped the ends around after peeling off the backing paper from the tape.

Next I from vellum I die cut the Celebrate and Tiara Mini Edgable. I added a little bit of liquid adhesive to the top of the tiara and adhered it just under the vellum strip. When that was dry I wrapped black twine around the panel several times, this hides the edge between the vellum strip and tiara and of course the glue.

Last I added the Celebrate just above the twine and added the panel to a black card base. The Together Forever collection makes elegant cards super easy!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Dana

Supplies
Crafter's Companion - Signature Collection Together Forever: Celebrate Die, Tiara Mini Edgable Die, Printed Vellum
Twine: May Arts

Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Week 2

Hello and Happy Friday!!!

It's week two of guesting over at Coffee Loving Cardmarkrs blog!! My card features an awesome stamp from Art Impressions! I hope you will click here to check it out and here is a little peek for you!!

Dana

Art Impressions Challenge 190

Hello!

There is still time to play along with Art Impressions Challenge 190! The theme is Glitter and Shimmer!! And I have a lot of shimmer with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens I used to color the super cute Wildly Cute Set.

I am also entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The theme is Let's Go Wild, my sentiment is perfect for this theme!! :)

I started by stamping the adorable giraffe on watercolor paper with brown ink. Then I used Sparkle Pens and some water to layer the color on. I used Biscuit, Smoked Quartz, and Starry Sky. I used a bit of water to get a watercolor look with the giraffe. Also for some reason, the brown ink reacted with the Smoked Quartz, but I liked the messy look it gave so I just went with it!!!

While the giraffe was drying I pulled out some cute baby pattern paper and die cut it with a rectangle die. I used the Clear Sparkle Pen to coat the pattern paper. I kept it light because the paper is thin. I wrapped the panel with twine and tied it in a bow and then added the panel to a white card base.

From white card stock I cut a small banner and stamped the Wildly Cute sentiment. I fussy cut the giraffe out and added him and the sentiment with foam tape.

Super cute huh? ;) Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will play along with as at the Art Impressions Challenge!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Art Impressions - Wildly Cute Stamp Set
Water Color Paper: Tim Holtz
Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Biscuit, Starry Sky, Smoked Quartz, Clear
Twine: Hemptique
Dies: Avery Elle - Dotted

Wishing You Happiness

Hello!

This is my second post today, click here for my earlier post with some exciting news!!

Yesterday Crafter's Companion featured a tutorial of mine, it features coloring with Spectrum Noir Markers on Vellum! Click here to check it out!!

Today is also the release of four awesome new Spectrum Noir Colorista background stamp sets!! And if you haven't heard Crafter's Companion and Spectrum Noir has a new product line called Colorista! The products are geared toward the very popular Adult Coloring!! Products will be available later this month on HSN! Click here for some more info!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Dana

Coffee Loving Cardmakers

Hello!!

I have some exciting news!!! I am the August Guest Designer over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers!!! Thank you so much Amy for the invite, I am very exciting to sharing my coffee themed cards!!!

Below is a little peek of my card! Click here to go to the post and see the whole card, how I made it and supplies used!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Dana

Enjoy The Little Things

Hiya!!!

This is my second post today, click here for my Art Impressions post.

I hope everyone is having a great week so far! It's starting to get hot and humid again here, so no crafting for my until the weekend when it's supposed to cool down!!! Today I have a card I made for Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge, the theme this month is Anything Goes! But it ends tomorrow so you have to hurry to play along too!!

I started by die cutting a stitched rectangle from watercolor card stock. Then I used Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers and stamping the flowers and leaves in brown ink. To color, I used Gansai Tanbi watercolors and I tried to not blend the colors but to hopefully get a nice watercolor look!

Once everything was dry I mixed some of the purple and water and flicked it over the panel. While that was drying I pulled out SSS Lovely Spring stamp set and matching dies. I die cut the banner and stamped the matching sentiment banner.

I added the banner to the watercolor panel, then adhered the panel to a Kraft card base. Last I added a few gold sequins that were from a very old SSS kit.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Simon Says Stamp - Spring Flowers, Lovely Spring
Dies: Simon Says Stamp - Lovely Spring. Lawn Fawn - Stitched Rectangle
Sequins: Simon Says Stamp Kit

Show Me the Love

Hello!

I'm on the Art Impressions blog today with a card featuring AI's Show the Love Set. I made two cards with the set, I was in the mood to color and it's always nice to have a few Love cards on hand!

I started by stamping the image (isn't she a little sassy!) and coloring her with my Spectrum Noir Markers. I used DR3, DR5, DR6, FS2, FS3, IG2, IG4, IG6. Then I just fussy cut both images.

The backgrounds were super easy! I made one card base horizontal and the other vertical. On a big clear block, I smoosh just a little bit of Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks and then spritzed it with some water. I pressed each card base in the ink until I was happy with the splotches.

While those were drying I pulled out a sheet thin wood with adhesive backing. Not sure where I picked it up at, it's been in my stash for awhile! I used the Love die from Lawn Fawn and die cutting two from the wood. 

Then I masked off the Love from the Show Me The Love sentiment and just stamped the 'Show Me The' directly on the card. Below that I added the wood Love. Last I added the colored image with foam tape. The layout for both cards are pretty much the same!

Thanks for stopping by!! 

Dana

Supplies

Stamps: Art Impressions - Show the Love

Spectrum Noir Markers

Die: Lawn Fawn - Love

Distress Ink: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry