Peel and stick and Sakura pens

This is for a class on the peel and stick stickers line and the Sakura gel and soufle pens. The are so much fun to play with! The gel pens give a stained glass look wheras the Soufle pens are more opaque.

This first card uses a dragonfly peel and stick. I colored it with a sharpie before I put it onto the transparency. I then colored it with the gel pens and sprinkled with glitter. Looks so pretty in real life! The piece with the dragonfly is popped out on pop dots to add dimension!

For this card, I put the butterfly peel and stick onto the transparency and set it aside to dry. The card is a square with a window cut inside using the nestabilities dies. Once the gel pens were dry, I adhered the transparency into the window of the card and placed a piece of printed paper inside to make it pop!


This last card is a gel card that was cased from Candice's card here on Nichole Headys blog. For this one though, the fish stays in place when you pull out the tag.
Have a great day!

So what's the secret?

Try as I might, I just can't seem to get the hang of posting to my blog regularly. I've tried doing it on weekends, but lately that hasn't seemed to work either! So, if any of you have some secrets to posting regularly, would you mind sharing? I have a ton of pics of projects I've done, but I just can't seem to get to blogging them. I also can't seem to get to posting them on SCS anymore either!

So here's a card I did a few weeks ago for a contest at my LSS. Now I am not actually eligable for the contest because it's where I teach classes, but we were encouraged to make a card as a sample so people didn't feel intimidated by being the first one. The cards were supposed to be funny, so this one says " A kitty by any other name..." on the front, and the inside says " ... is still a furball that poops behind the couch"


I was totally inspired by the layers and texture that snap-scrap-stamp over on SCS puts into her cards and decided to case her technique. I absolutely fell in love with it and hope I've done her justice! The stamps are from Pink Cat studio, the cat has been flocked, the eyes have diamond glaze and I added stickles to the flower. Love the look!

Easy gift!

I had this idea at 10pm last night. My 4yo had a birthday party to go to today and I had the idea of stamping all the dress up Lily images onto white cardstock that I had put self adhesive magnet onto. I cut out each image and placed them into the DVD tim that I got from Effectuality earlier this month (great experience...totally recommend them!) I also put a package of Crayola twistable pencil crayons into the tin (perfect fit!) so my DD's friend can color them herself. Now of course I need to make them for my girls cuz they want them too!

Scrap Cards

I had some scraps left over from some projects that I decided to put to use instead of finding a place to streo them:) It just happened to coincide with Jany's challenge to use your scraps. I ended up making 8 cards altogether using scraps ( I did need a bit more cardstock for the card bases, but the rest is scraps!)

The images are from Pink Cat studio. I just discovered them 2 weeks ago and fell in LOVE with Lily! All the images were colored with copic markers are were super quick to make! I love productive days!

Super simple card

This is a super simple card that we did in a Tombow Markers class I taught. The technique with the markers was super easy and I LOVE how different it came out every time! Just scribble the markers onto a piece of transparency that is a little larger than the piece of White Glossy paper for your card front. After you have covered the transparency with color from the markers, you mist the ink 2-3 times and lay it wet side down onto the glossy cardstock. Rub the ink around to get the best coverage and then lift the transparency off and let dry. Once it is dry, I stamped the grasses from a gel-a-tins set in black stazon, matted with black cardstock and adhere to the card base. It was amazing to see all the different looks that everyone in the class came up with!

Hoping for spring to come!

Here's a card we did for a tombow markers class. It is watercolored with an aquapainter. Super easy to do too! you just use a scrap of acetate or clear transparency and scribble with the marker color onto the transparency and pick up the color with the aquapainter. This one was done using watercolor paper and was stamped in Saddle Brown Stazon. Ohhhh, can't wait for spring to get here!

Trying to get back into the swing of things.....

I'm really missing my craft room! We are in a rental for the next couple of months and I don't have a space of my own and I don't like it! Don't I sound spoiled! Here's the card holder (to go with the card stack class) that I promised to post a long time ago!

Cut list:
1 – 8 ½ x 7 ¼ - 2 scoops – strawberry smoothie
2 – 1 x 8 ¾ - Flamingo Bazzil
1 – 5 ¼ x 5/8 – Flamingo Bazzill
1 – 3 ½ x 3 – Flamingo Bazzill – for scallop rectangle
1 – 3 x 2 ½ - white

Other supplies:
4 – lg mint green brads
2nd largest rectangle nestabilities from small set to cut and emboss white piece
2nd largest scallop rectangle nestabilities from large set to cut flamingo bazzill
Corner rounder
Whispers ink – grand cranberry and sugarloaf green

Instructions:
1 – Cut and emboss white piece and cut out flamingo bazzill piece
2 - Stamp 3 flowers on white piece
3 – Score Strawberry smoothie paper as follows:
Score 1” along both long sides
Turn ¼ turn
Score at 3 ¾” and 4 ¾”
4 – Cut on the 3 ¾” and 4 ¾” score line up to the 1” score line on both sides (so you should end up with 4 - 1” cuts. Put adhesive on side pieces (1” areas) and stick together to make a box to slip the cards into. Set aside.
5 – Take the guard off of the corner rounder. Use it to create scallops on one side of the 2 5 ¼ x 5/8 pieces and both sides of the 2 – 8 ¾ x 1 pieces. Attach the pieces that are punched on 1 side to the top of the box as a decorative scallop edge. Use the brads to attach the 2 handles. To make it easier to attach the brads, place the handle where you want it to be and use a crop-o-dile to punch a small hole to thread the brad through. Open the back of the brads.
6 – Attach your stamped piece to the front and it’s ready to slip the cards inside and give as a gift!