Dream!

I finally got some of these fabulous snap stamps. Of course, the first time I use them, I didn't even snap the letters together. I just liked the size of the minis for this card. I had bought these Basic Grey rub-ons a while back, not realizing that they matched the Perhaps collection. So I decided to pair the rub-ons with the 6x6 version of the yellow butterfly paper (Daphne). Then the butterfly seemed so lonely there, so I thought, maybe a little word and dot trail. I did "dream" first, but still felt a bit too much empty space, so I added "imagine", and "believe", and pieces of another butterfly. Only pieces, since there had been an incident with the butterfly sticking to the wax paper backing (I thought the wax paper was supposed to prevent that?). The rest of the card seemed to come together. This is a weird colour combination for me, but I really like how it turned out!

I've got some fun, exciting news, but I don't know if I can share it just yet. Soon, I'm sure!

Just a little note card

I bought this fun Basic Grey paper from the Blush line (this one is called Tease) and thought that it'd be fun to try and get some of my chipboard to match the floral and dotted designs on it. I painted a floral piece of chipboard the light pink, then used various circle punches to make a layered flower center in the colours of the paper (I used caribbean, caramel, chocolate, and cranberry). I also added little dots all around the flower using the chocolate marker.

Let the madness begin...

Tonight is the first of 2 nights of VSN (virtual stamping night) at SCS. Here's my first of hopefully many projects. I may not post them all here, but they will be over at my gallery there. If you've got some spare time, I highly encourage you to participate. It's lots of fun!! The first challenge was to either make a chocolate bar wrapper or a cocoa holder. I made a cocoa holder using a bunch of my holiday Basic Grey papers. I used the Fruitcake collection, as well as some Dasher papers, and some undressed Chipboard, which I, of course, dressed up!!

Copper Garland Monogram

Here's a card showcasing more of the papers I picked up on Monday. The elaborate background is Basic Grey's Garland. I also picked up some brushed copper cardstock.

I handstitched the x-stitches with copper thread. The copper scalloped circle was made using the corner rounder (check here for details on how to do that). The vanilla piece is some covered chipboard. The m is made by Heidi Swapp. I sponged Sage Shadow all over, then stamped Paisley in white craft on top of that. I finished it off with a piece of twill tape with some copper eyelets. Now I just need to send this to someone whose name starts with the letter m. I just liked the way the m looked, I have no recipient in mind yet.

Glittery Chipboard Ornaments!

Hello everybody! Sorry for the lack of weekend updates, I was busy making the Family Christmas cards. I even got my mom to help. We only have a few more to make. We did 2 designs, each design had 2 versions, the mail version (i.e. FLAT so it could be sent at the .51 rate, and not the 1.05 rate) and the in-person version (not so flat, bows and knots and whatnot).

Today, I had time to go to a local scrapbooking store. I saw the Holiday Undressed Chipboard by Basic Grey. Is that stuff ever fun. The shapes are crazy detailed! So I picked up a pack, as well as some Fruitcake paper. I've only made one so far, but they are so easy. I covered both sides (one already has adhesive). Then I sanded it, covered one side in versamark and coated with iridescent ice. I tied some silver cord through the top, and look at that, a lovely ornament. Just think, you could decorate your whole tree with Basic Grey papers. It'd be a gorgeous tree too. And you wouldn't have paid tons of money for the ornaments!

Monogram Keychain

I bought the Colorbok chipboard bundle because it had an interesting variety of shapes. However, there were several shapes that I already had. A few of those shapes fell in the "what the heck am I ever going to do with this?"-category. The shape in particular, a long rounded rectangular tag. This tag isn't the right proportion for most of the cards I make, and I don't do that much scrapbooking, at least not right now. So what to do?? How about make a personalized keychain. With some Basic Grey Hang Ten papers and matching letter stickers, some Mod Podge, and a few jump rings, this cute little keychain was created. After creating the keychain, I also saw how this exact design would work well on a scrapbook page. A group of them (without the jump rings) would make a cool title.