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Love – Hold it Tight

January 23rd, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 13 Comments »

It has been a few days since I have had a chance to post. Work has been hectic this week, attempting to finish a project before everyone but ME goes on a holiday to Thailand! I am certainly not looking forward to the next couple of weeks. Fingers crossed the hosting servers don’t come crashing down!

To help clear my head I had to make some cards. My first one is “Love – Hold it Tight”. I think Mo Mannings gorgeous stamp says it all. :)

I used the gorgeous Pink Paislee Cupid Collection paper and cut out the flowers and love heart flowers. I stamped a flourish onto the coordinating pattern on the back and tied twine around it.

I joined the flowers together using a DIY metal brad and added buttons to the centre. I stuck a crochet butterfly behind which I positioned to look like leaves.

I coloured the stamp using my new copics. I finally got some new colours, but they are all light so now I need to start picking up some darker colours for shading.

I have layered the different elements using silicone and mounting tape.

This card fits into a number of challenges this week.

  1. A Spoon Full of Sugar – Lots of Layering
  2. Crafty Creations – Valentines or Love (Card Theme)
  3. Creative Belli – Hearts (heart shaped flowers)
  4. Cute Daisy May – Flower and Ribbon (Cut out flowers, ribbon and twine)
  5. Humble Pie Stamps – Bling (metallic brad, buttons and pearls)
  6. Incy Wincy Designs – Colour Me Wonderful (Loving my copics!)
  7. Inky Impressions – Pink and Hearts (Pink pp, flower, buttons & ribbon and heart shaped flowers)
  8. Little Paper Shop – Buttons (Button flower centres)
  9. Raise the Bar Challenge – Debut Day (New) (New stamp and copic marker colours)
  10. The Craft Garden – New (New stamp and copic marker colours)

I hope you like my little creation this week. I look forward to your thoughts and appreciate each and every comment you all take the time to leave.

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Crafting!

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Enjoy Life’s Moments

January 4th, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | 2 Comments »

I woke up this morning to a package at my desk, yay! My new goodies I ordered last week had arrived! I was a very lucky girl this Christmas and to my surprise Jase had bought me a Cuttlebug! Of course I couldn’t wait to use the Cuttlebug but all the craft stores were closed for THREE whole days! You can imagine my anticipation for Monday to come around. lol

However, this did give me time to research online and find out all the things I wanted to purchase first up. I found this great site ScrapbookBoutique that has a huge range of dies and embossing folders for a range of machines on the market. So I placed an order for some Cuttlebug items plus some gorgeous Magnolia and Mo Manning stamps which I will experiment with later.

Stamp Something has a new challenge on called “New Somethings” where the challenge is to create something with something you haven’t used before, so I thought I would play around with the new “Funky Circle Frames” Cuttlebug die.

For some reason I had pictured the circles as being whole and I was going to make layered flowers from them and to my brief disappointment I realised they were cut out circle frames. However I wasn’t going to let this beat me! I was making flowers!!!

So I had an idea to cut up some small pieces of tape and when the die came out I stuck the circles together in different places on the back so that I could use a toothpick to curl up edges that hadn’t been stuck together.

I finished off with some buttons on top and then created the rest of my card around it.

And here is a close up of the flower from the side.

So I may have been disappointed at first but it made me think outside the square and I think in the end it didn’t turn out too bad.

Some food for thought: Can you think of something you can do different with something you always use the same way? Please send me a link or add a comment with your examples! Looking forward to being inspired by your creativity…

Happy Crafting!

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Animated 21st Birthday Card

January 3rd, 2010 | Posted in: Craft Projects | No Comments »

My younger cousin Steff turned 21 last year and I wanted to make her something special for a keepsake.

Steff was learning sign language a few years ago and somehow we picked up this funny ongoing custom where we ‘wiggle’ our ears to one another when we see each other. This lead me down the path of creating an animated card. Steff loves and collects everything to do with elephants so it was a given that I would have to implement an elephant on the card.

After a little bit of thought and some research on Dreamstime (stock images) I found the perfect image to use for my idea.

Technique

I printed the image multiple times and cut around each image. My plan was to layer the images to add dimension. (plus I needed the layers to hide my device!)

I wanted the ears to wiggle so I somehow had to come up with a way to make it work. After some experimenting (and a lot of hacking) I manged to find a way by joining the ears on each side together with some wire that was attached to elastic. The ribbon was attached to the centre of the wire and when you pulled on it the elastic would stretch and then spring back when released.

I layered the multiple cut out images on top to disguide the mechanical devide I had created.

After completing the elephant I began working on the background.

I distressed some papers for the background by adding ink to the edges and using a nifty distressing tool that is a little plastic holder with a V cut out and a knife in the centre. (you could also use scissors)

I then attached the elephant and additional embelishments as well as a little tag that shared a memory of mine from our childhood.

If I make another animated card like this in the future I will attempt to take some step by step photos.

Happy Crafting!

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