Framed Collage

I am still working on my shabby-chicness techniques….I see such beauties out in blogworld and try to recreate them, but I still need some practice!  I created a little frame with some cardboard and Nesties, then painted it, tried to distress it and ended up spraying it with some Gold Glitter Spray from Krylon---NEAT STUFF!  A little swoosh and my whole creation was glittered in a second!  Unfortunately, it is difficult to see in the photo:

I did some collage stamping on the background, added a chipboard bird’s nest and some lace & ribbon, then finished with some bling & little tags that don’t mean anything, so I guess this card will be whatever I need it to be when the time arises!  Meanwhile, this fulfills a few challenges:

• Play Date Cafe 82 colors of Cocoa, Baja & Saffron
• CAS-ual Fridays challenge 3 to use bling
• City Crafters Challenge 58 to use a frame
• The Kraft Journal – CAS for Make It Monday

Thanks so much for visiting today!

• Stamps:  Nature Walk, Style Beautiful, Postmarks (PTI) Numbers (unknown)
• Paper:  Crumb Cake, Confetti White
• Ink:  Crumb Cake, Soft Sky
• Acc:  Seam Binding, Rhinestones, Nesties, Paint & Glitter Spray, Lace, Twine, Susan Wingett chipboard nest

Cheery Chipboard

I never use chipboard….well, never is a strong word.  Hardly ever!  But Ann at Creative Antics led me to a cute blog called wee Memories; they are having a challenge to use chipboard.  AND the Everything But The Kitchen Sink blog is having a button challenge!  And buttons I DO use! It also qualifies for the Limelight Sketch Challenge 53:

  So I pulled out some retired SU chipboard, some colorful DP scraps from various makers and some buttons and went to work:

I apologize for the odd photo—my sister is visiting and staying in my spare bedroom, which is also my photography “studio”!! LOL!  So I set up my photo area on the floor of my craft room and was taking this picture practically laying down…..anyway, here it is!  I did some stitching and made a cute little tag; this card is larger than an A2; I had some larger envelopes so I just made it to fit one of them!!  Plus it needed to be bigger to fit those fun flowers!  I used circle punches to punch the centers out of the different DPs…such a great help!  And made for some fun embellishments on the inside:

They are good for covering up smudges that your inky fingers may have made, too…..just sayin’,  in case that might happen to anyone….

Thanks for visiting today!!!

• Stamps:  Best Yet (ret SU), Birthday Centers, CHF
• Paper:  Naturals White, Baja Breeze, Thrift Shop, October Afternoon; Home, MME; Garden Variety, Cosmo Cricket 
• Ink:  Rose Red, Old Olive
• Acc:  Chipboard (ret SU), Daubers, Circle Punches, Brights & Neutral Buttons, string, Large Tag Punch, Dimensionals,  Pinking Hearts Border Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Small Heart Punch, Brights Brads, Sewing Machine

CAS76

Good morning, peeps!  I have been away for a couple days and boy, how the email and reader posts pile up!  Please don’t think I am ignoring you…..it’s the season for gardening, canning, weeding, VBS, stamp camps, vacations and whatever else summer can throw at me!  Somewhere in there, there’ll be a baby, too!  So please forgive me if I seem to be MIA!

I did not get to stamp my Saturday Christmas card, so the pretty sketch at SCS today for CAS76 was just the ticket. Here we go:

I used a sweet vintage chipboard piece from my Brenda Walton box, added some seam binding trim, then mounted it on a panel of one of SU’s new In Colors, Pear Pizzazz.  On top of the Pear Pizzazz, I added a mat of Very Vanilla that was embossed with the SU Finial Press EF.  Some ribbon loops were added using a gold-threaded satin & organdy ribbon I had in my stash!  Really clean and simple!  Thanks for looking today!

Catching up on Christmas

I have missed making my weekly Christmas cards on Sunday the last couple weeks because of all the family obligations going on, so I did three quickie ones today by digging into those beautiful Brenda Walton chipboard tags I got just before Christmas:

I matched them up with some Graphic 45 Christmas Past DPs (LOVE this paper) and a few Christmas vintage sentiments.

The last one is actually a punchout from the Christmas Past tablet—I trimmed the outer panel a bit to fit on the card, then also trimmed the inner panel (which also punches out) and raised it up with some dimensionals and added some punched fir branches, some blingy berries and a little vintage sentiment.  EASY!!!  And I was finished in time to make dinner! :D

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions about any of these projects, please email me!

Little Chipboard Album

I guess I am at that age where SOMETIMES I cannot sleep.....so I just get up and stamp! Last night I thought I would make a little chipboard album as a gift for my upcoming workshop hostess. I wanted to put a little chipboard embellishment on it (May's special) and add some cool Stylized Silver HPH and Summer Picnic DP (Mini Catalog)! I used some coasters I purchased from my sideline, sorry I can't tell you where!!! I don't know if my hostess has girls or boys, so I thought I couldn't go wrong with a mini brag book in a patriotic theme! The inside piece is a piece of textured Ballet Blue, 12" x 3 1/2", scored every 3". The outside of the chipboard is covered front & back with the same cardstock, stamped with the star from A to Z Accents--a great set, by the way! The inside is covered with the red dot from Summer Picnic and embellished with the same stars, as well as the star from Holiday Blitz, punched & popped up. The sentiment on the front is stamped with Rough Edges Alphabet on Confetti White. The chipboard circle is actually inked with Encore Silver ink; hard to see in the photo, but it looks cool with the HPH! I wrapped it all up loosely with Real Red grosgrain ribbon that can easily slide on and off and can be adjusted when the pix are added. TFL!