Baby Elephant So Blessed card

Wacky Holidays continue with
Elephant Appreciation Day

The elephant and sentiment are Close to my Heart stamps. The elephant is colored in with Copic markers.

The die-cut behind the elephant is by My Mind's Eye.

The background paper was created with glimmer mist or Smooches sprays. I was trying to figure out which ones were still spraying. There weren't very many.

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Fruity ATC cards

My cards today were for the ATC swap. theme: the color orange, primary orange. The tangerine chipboard is a clothing tag that I cut off the edges with corner decorative scissors and inked the edges orange. The background is a Stampin Up canvas background stamp. I stamped it onto orange cardstock with white Studio Calico paint. I inked the edges orange.

The yellow cardstock on the right side is by Paper Reflections.I sprayed the cardstock with orange Smooches spray by Clear Snap. Once it dried, I stamped a Hero Arts tropical leaves stamp on top using Tsukineko green ink, which I think is called bamboo leaves. It's faint but I like that. Then I randomly cut the edge off to keep the orange in site.

I cut up these Hawaiian menus that Grandma had saved from their cruise in 1985 to get all the little words. (Oh yes, she still had them) I adhered the words to the tag and outlined them with,a white Sharpie marker. The fruit stickers are by American Crafts/Amy Tangerine, the pineapple brads by Eyelet Outlet and the rhinestones from my stash.

The only difference between this second one and the rest is, I added some Spellbinders dies above the tag. It may have been to cover up a mistake. It was also stamped with the leaves stamp. 

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AU Football layout

Another layout done for the nephew book. There is a bunch of Cricut cuts on this one so I'll start there. I arranged the stars on the Cricut Craft Room to be evenly spaced out because I was using it as a stencil. I cut the stars background by using the Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge. I did so in multiple colors for future layouts. It took me some time to plan it out and I really liked the look. I used the Creative Memories Total Sports cartridge for the year. The name in the bottom right area had to be blurred out but it was cut out using the Don Juan cartridge. 

I noticed on the pictures that everything orange was from AU. I looked up the AU logo and found it was for Auburn University. I liked the look of the logo but was having trouble finding this font in my collection of cartridges.

There was no short supply of problems while trying to find a similar look. I ran into simple things like the opening of the U wasn't wide enough to fit the A inside. I tried manipulating the letter by stretching it in all the right places and was unsuccessful. It looked weird. Then I noted the tops and bottoms of the letters are square not rounded like in the layout below. Another thing going on with this long process was I wanted a shadow to go behind the letters and that wasn't always an available option as shown here. So I ended up using the Lyrical Letters cartridge Jumbo font. I made two of the same size and off centered them behind. It doesn't look exactly like the real logo but I really gave it a Girl Scout try. 

Moving on, the football helmet is a chipboard embellishment by Paper Accents that I colored orange Smooch Spritz. I was having trouble getting them unclogged to work properly. I opened the bottle of an orange spray, poured it on the helmet and worked it through with my finger, Worked wonderfully and took much less time then mixing some red and yellow paints together to make an orange acrylic paint. 

The orange paper is by C-Gull and I placed it on the this funny angle for something different. The blue starry background was sprayed with a blue Smooch Spritz.

Thanks for looking.

SB.com-Sports

SB.com-Cricut with hat

Birdcage kind of Love

I think today's card could be used for a couple of occasions such as bridal shower, anniversary, thank you and maybe even a birthday. The shaped card base is from Michael's and the patterned paper in black is by DCWV. The white cardstock is by Neenah and the black by Recollections.

The die cuts are the negative of yesterdays card which you can see just below this post. The frame has another layer that I cut out in white however I didn't end up using the white on yesterdays card. I took the inside piece of cardstock and laid on top of it a netting from some fruit. I then sprayed it with Glimmer Mist and a touch of Smooch spritz. The Glimmer Mist is by Tattered Angels and the Smooch is by Clearsnap. On the die cuts is a bird cage sticker by My Mind's Eye with a rub-on by DCWV for the chain.

I stamped the corners with a rubber stamp by Deep Red Stamps. You can find Deep Red Stamps HERE or HERE. I heat embossed them using ink by Versa Mark and embossing powder by Stampin Up. You can find that flourish stamp set HERE or HERE.

To finish my card I placed a rub-on sentiment by Kaiser Craft over the embossed stamp area. I wasn't sure it would work but was willing to try and it worked great. Those rub-ons are good quality.

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges:

http://blog.oozak.com/- Anything goes
http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/- Fancy Flourishes
http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.ca/- Anything goes Bday
http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com.au/- Anything goes
http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/- Birthday/Anything goes
The House that Stamps Built - No square cards
http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/- Birthday

Loving cards

I'm showing a wedding card and a with love card today with similar colors. I really like the peach color and keep finding myself reaching for it over and over again.

This card has the following products in it: PP by KCo (I just cut with the wave of the paper free hand);
flowers & brad by LSS-Smooch ink by Clearsnap-embossing folder by SZ;
peach paper by MM-background stamp by HA-ink by VM-embossing powder by SP-distressing ink and tool by RI;
white CS by RE-sentiment by Fiskars-ink by Clearsnap.

 
This next card's base is by Studio G, which I buy at Michael's;
CS by Bazzill, RE and Dollar General;
PP by KCo (I drew the line of the card base on the back of the PP and free hand cut it out to match the card)
die cuts by SB-embossing folder by CB by PC-ink Tea Dye by RI;
flower and brad by LSS;
scallop circle punch by SU-spray/mist Smoochie by Clearsnap;
ribbon by OF; Border punch by EK; Rub on by Kaiserkrafts.

Thanks for stopping by a taking a look at my most recent creations. More to come for the next 4 days.

Friday's Clearsnap project

Hey everyone,
You should head over to the Clearsnap blog for your chance to win amazing prizes from them. I wanted to show you a card I made using their products. It's a Christmas card and I know you are probably thinking it's too early for that but I have to start early or it doesn't get done the way I want it to.
For this project I dry embossed a piece of Echo Park's Merry Christmas paper with my Cuttlebug and one of their folders. Then I took the Clearsnap ink and went over each embossed piece of the embossed pattern with the ink. I love the way it turned out. Their new line of Smooch Inks are super fun and can be found at the link provided or at Michael's (I saw them at the store but can't find them online to give you a link). Before I adhered all my embellishments, I sprayed the card base with a new Smooch color for 2011 called Green Olive and then an older one called Vanilla Simmer.

Other supplies include: felt border by OTCo; sentiment by EP and card base by RE.

This next picture is a "close up" of the Smooch Ink. My close up shots are a work in progress. My camera and I need to practice at it more. But you get the idea. Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.