Summertime

Hi Everyone! I hope you are keeping cool. I love summer, but like to stay inside with the air on on these very hot days. What I like about summer are pretty flowers, butterflies and daylight savings time! The white on my card reminds me of the extra hour of daylight! While making this card I was reminded of the old tune, "In the Good Old Summer Time." So here is my summer card using punches, pearls and dies!

I used the Flower Cheery Lynn die and cut from white glitter paper for the background of the image. The butterfly is also a Cheery Lynn die and my favorite! I made the square frame using a Martha Stewart corner and border punch. Here is a close up where you can see the sparkle better on the flower die.

TIP:  I love making white on white cards and to make the details show more I use pop dots to lift some layers. This adds depth and dimension. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Cheery Lynn:  Anything Goes

Frilly and Funkie:  It's Summer

Paper Take Weekly: Trio - Tastic ( punches, pearls, dies )

Penny Black: White on White

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday: Name That Tune

Bubbles

Hi Everyone! I have had so much fun blowing bubbles! I have been like a kid. I saw this technique on face book and I just had to try it for some backgrounds for cards.

Supplies needed:

small plastic or paper cups

Dawn liquid detergent

food coloring or reinkers ( I used 4 colors of reinkers )

straws

white glossy and/or matte card stock

craft mat for the mess

paper towel for the mess

Put about 2 drops of Dawn in the cups. Gently pour 1/3 of the cup with water. Add about 12 drops of reinkers to each cup.

Stir the colors with the straws and blow gently into the straw to form lots of bubbles. Make sure you do not suck in on the straw! LOL! OR  don't do this - I was not looking and started to blow from the end that had been in the soapy water!

Take the card stock and tap it over the bubbles. Do not squish it down on top of the cup. I did this several times with each color I wanted to use on the card. I liked how it turned out better on the glossy card stock. With the matte, the water soaks in and does not leave as a clear of a design as the glossy. But they both look good depending on how you want to use it. I used a piece of glossy on my card above.

Here is how it looks on matte card stock.

Here is the look on glossy.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have as much fun playing as I did! Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Penny's Paper Crafty:  Anything But a Square

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Yummy

Hi Everyone! It am back with another card I made with a stamp set, The Collector 682, from Sparkle N Sprinkle. This little "fella" has been busy!  I had this patterned paper that I thought would go great with him. I made my own glitter paper by using the Versamarker on all the red fruits and veggies, adding Sparkle embossing powder EP107 and heat setting it.

 I had fun making the ribbon by folding it accordion style. I then added the bow separately.

  Twinkling Clouds Sparkle N Soft SS107 was used on the mouse's stomach.

 

   Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

                                                                           

Gelli Plate Play

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are enjoying your day. We have had cloudy and damp days lately, so I have been inside playing with my new purchase -- the gelli plate. I have used a lot of different inks and paints and my favorite to use with the gelli plate is Mica Gloss inks from Judikins. They are just the right consistency and stay wet longer, so this makes them easier to use. This is a background I made with them using a Kite stencil called Nouveau Damask. I was so tempted to add more designs and colors to this, but I really liked it as it was so I left it this way. You can see some of the shimmer of the ink on the bottom right.

I started off by dotting 2 colors of ink side by side on the plate and brayering them on smoothly.

I then laid my stencil on top of the ink.

I found that using a paper towel removes the ink a little better than paper, so I laid a paper towel over the stencil and brayered over it to remove the ink.

I lifted off the paper towel and stencil and then laid my card stock over the ink that was left and this was the result!

Here is the card I made with this background. I did not want to cover too much of the background because it was so pretty.

A little closer look. The dies I used are Memory Box Fresh Foliage and Quickutz Scallop Circles. The bird is a digital image from Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Scrapy Land:  Anything Goes/ Use a Die

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Inky Background