Framed flower with Lace and Ribbon Card

I know it's not Floral Friday but I made this card specifically for the challenge at 

Moving Along with the Times

I would not have reached for my lace if it wasn't for the bingo challenge.
The tiny bow is wrapped around the lace to bunch it up.
The flower stamp is by Clearly Besotted. Center die cuts are by Spellbinders.

I did the diagonal: ribbon, patterned paper, and lace.

Thanks for looking.

Peach, Flowers, a Heart, Borders and a Deep Red stamp card

I stamped the plaid background stamp by Deep Red Stamps with Hero Arts ink onto white cardstock. I matted black cardstock behind it and adhered both pieces to a scrap of patterned paper. I cut the borders out with the Cricut and the Ribbons and Rosettes cartridge. For the flower, I adhered one to the base and layered on top of it two folded in half flowers. I covered the seam with the heart punch by Creative Memories.

Thanks for looking.

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Misting Powdered chalk idea

I did an enjoyable and simple thing with metallic chalk this week. 

I added it to a spray mister of water and then sprayed it on a watercolor piece of cardstock for the first card and regular cardstock for the others. I used a Mini Mister by Ranger Industries to combine the two. I was generous with the amount of chalk I added to make the color brighter and more vivid. You could always use less for a fainter look. Check out my examples below.

Then after it dried I stamped these shell stamps, using a masking technique over the sprayed chalk area. The spray reminds me of sand. 

Here is a close-up of the chalk spray mist. It gives a great sparkle.

Products-Stamps by Stamp N Plus, ink  by Tsukineko and Stampin Up, border punch by Martha Stewart, a masking paper by Inkadinkado, ribbon by Stampin Up, circle punch EK Success, a watercolor paper by Hobby Lobby, cardstock by Bazzill

Here is another example using the chalk spray mist.

Products-Stamps by Stamp N Plus, ink  by Tsukineko and Stampin Up, border punch by EK Success, ribbon by Stampin Up, die cut by Spellbinders, cardstock by Oriental Trading Co, Bazzill and Pioneer

I found that if you hold the mister back so the spray was lightly hitting the paper the more even of a look I got. The closer the mister was to the paper the bigger the drops of chalk would be. See the example below. 

Products-Cardstock by Hobby Lobby and Bazzill, die cuts by Cricut and Spellbinders, flowers by Oriental Trading Co, and Bazzill with leaf by Prima

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the different ways to use powdered chalk by Stamp N Plus.

Brown Sympathy and Get Well Cards

I taught a class how to make this first card on Thursday and then another full group today as well. It is fun to teach. The only iffy thing I have about it is I make up the stuff so long ago that when it comes to the day of the class I have to remake the card or whatever so I am fresh with what I am teaching. I just made up another class that I won't teach until the middle of September. On that one I took a ton of notes on each little step that I did to make the layout. It's a good workout for my brain, that's for sure. So I taught the ladies how to distress the edges using different tools they probably already have at home. One being an emery board. It works like a charm on the embossed cardstock. I also have small pieces of sand paper in my stash that the husband gave to me. That works well too. I also use the emery board on the edges of the brown paper too. It just gives a little worn look to it. 

Isn't Crackle paint on that die cut fun to look at? I just adore Crackle paint right now. I love trying out new things to do with it. Did you know that Smooch ink dries on top of Crackle paint but doesn't dry on Liquid Pearls paint by Ranger? I found that out last week while playing around. It looks so cool applied to the Crackle paint. Next week I will have a project showing you what I did. But for now here are my two cards. I will quit talking now:)

The second card says Feel Better Soon. I'm not fond of the brown embossing powder that I am using. Does anyone have a suggestion of a good medium brown colored embossing powder that rocks? I am all ears. On this card I used a stamp by American Crafts Dear Lizzy Warable stamp set. I put distressing Stickles on the edges of the flower.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed the tip at the top of the page and will come back tomorrow for more inspiration.

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.