Claudia sent me this amazing card over the summer.
If you haven’t been to her blog yet, you should definitely do so.
Hugs and smiles
Sep 252008
Sep 242008
Today’s tutorial on SCS was written by the sweet and super talented Corinne Somerville. She shows us how to make a spiral pop up card.
I made this card this morning. I still have to do decorate the card front. But first I have to run to the dentist and get my teeth cleaned.
So you will get all the details later. Here are at least the ingredients:
Stamps: Full of Life, Eastern Bloom
Inks: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla and Tangerine Tango Cardstock, Urban Garden Designer Paper
Acc: scallop square punch (for an my little place to write your message), Trio Flower, Ice Rhinestone brads, large oval punch, silver brads, sponge dauber, dimensionals, sticky strip, paper piercing tools, Oval Nestabilities
Sep 232008
I love today’s inspiration picture. Jenn had sent it to me a while ago. I picked the colors and the silhouette look from this challenge.
The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 6″ piece of Bashful Blue cardstock folded in half to make a 3″ x 5 1/2″ card base.
One of the border stamps from Beautiful Borders was stamped in Chocolate Chip on a 1 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. It was overlayed with a transparency strip of the same size. I taped them together on the top of the strips and paper pierced the bottom edge. You can’t see the acetate layer on the picture, but it makes the stamped strip shiny and add more resemblance to the glasses.
I added a Chocolate Strip underneath both layers. That bottom of that layer was punched with the Scallop Edge Punch. The layers were adhered to the bottom half of the card base and tied Chocolate Chip Taffeta Ribbon on the upper edge of the layers.
The sentiment was stamped in Chocolate Chip on Whisper White cardstock and punched out with the small oval punch. It was layered on half of a 1 3/8″ bashful blue circle and half of a chocolate scallop circle. I added a paper pierced border underneath the sentiment. These layers were adhered to the top right of the strip. I used a modified version of the WSC8 layout.
My little flower was punched out with the Three for you Punch out of Bashful Blue cardstock. The edges were sponged with a sponge dauber and Bashful Blue. A 1/4″ Whisper White circle was added in it’s center and topped with a brown brad. The flower was adhered with dimensionals.
Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles
Use the colors or the pattern from this image of SimRin Glassware….anything that will inspire you to create your card.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Check out the cards made by the Inspiration Challenge Team:
If you upload your image to your splitcoast gallery, don’t forget to add BIC24 in the keyword section. That way your card will appear in this search: SCS Submissions
Random.org picked #56.
That is Lisa Hjulberg with this beautiful, masculine card.
Check out her blog The Craft’s Meow for more of her work.
Thank you all for participating in the challenge. Your cards are beautiful!
Hugs and smiles
Sep 222008
I had a little bit time to play yesterday. Here is a card I made for the Way to Use it, the Limited Supply, the Inspiration as well as the Featured Stamper challenge.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half, followed by a 4″ square of Whisper White cardstock.
A 3″ square of Green Tea Designer Paper was mounted on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Baja Breeze cardstock and paper pierced. White Taffeta Ribbon was tied around it.
The Upsy Daisy image was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink on a 2 5/8″ square of Whisper White cardstock. It was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Old Olive cardstock and paper pierced on the white, nonstamped edges.
The sentiment was stamped in Baja Breeze ink on Whisper White cardstock, punched out with the large oval punch, layered on Chocolate chip cardstock and cut out again by hand.
Last I added two 1/4″ circles out of Baja Breeze cardstock, topped with brown brads (SU needs to start carrying those and white brads. I NEED them!).
Have a wonderful Monday! Hugs and smiles
Sep 222008
Kirsten Brown send me this great card.
Thank you, Kirsten!
Sep 212008
Keri Sereika sent me this beautiful card this summer.
You can see more of Keri’s work on her blog Pink Lemonade.
Sep 202008
I thought I would make a matching box to yesterday’s card.
I started with a 5″ x 11″ piece of Acetate.
I scored it at 2″, 5″, 7″ and 10″ with my Scor-It. I prefolded the scores with a bone folder and taped the box shut with Sticky Strip.
For the bottom and top I cut a 5″ x 6″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. I scored it at 1 1/2″ and 3 1/2″ on the 5″ side and at 1 1/2″ and 4 1/2″ on the 6″ side. The edges were punched with the Scallop Edge Punch.
I layered each side with Whisper White cardstock topped with the Ski Slope Designer Paper. Around both the top and bottom lid, Red Taffeta ribbon was tied around.
The Acetate was adhered to the bottom with Sticky Strip. The sentiment from the snowman from Merry & Bright was stamped on Whisper White cardstock in Brown Palette ink, punched out with the small oval punch and adhered to the bottom of the box under the ribbon knot.
For the top tag, I stamped the snowman again in Brown Palette ink on Whisper cardstock and colored it in with Aqua Painter and Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red and Old Olive Classic ink. It was punched out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch, layered on a 1 3/8″ Chocolate Chip circle on top of a scallop circle that was punched out of the Ski Slope Designer Paper. I tied the tag to the ribbon with silver elastic cord.
Sep 202008
Christina sent me this gorgeous card!
She is a sweet customer of mine.
Thank you so much Christina!
Hugs and smiles
