Cards for Swap Partner

Hello from hot and humid TX!  I love the heat though, my hubby calls me a lizard b/c I love it so much, LOL.  I wanted to pop in and share some cards I made for a swap I am in where we send our partner  2 cards for what the months theme is and then also some handmade embellishments for them to use that you made yourself, can be any type of things for cards and such.  I made my partner 3 cards and the theme was Summer, beachy stuff.  Here are my three cards and I used Spellbinder dies, brush markers,and blender pen, fabric, stickers, clear stamps, outline stickers and hand made bling........  So here they are:

This was such a fun swap, looking forward to the next one.  I hope she will love the cards and the goodies I made for her.  I'll be sure to let ya'll know.  Well I do believe that's all I have for today.  Thanks for popping by and visiting.......

Crafty Hugs

Chrisb

Accordian Card, my 1st one

Hello crafty peeps.  I ran over to my Mom's and used her camera to snap a picture of this accordian card I made for my niece's up coming birthday.  I have had this die form Elizabeth Craft for almost a year and decided it was time to put it to use.  I used outline sticker on sookwang, type of dble sided tape.  Then colored them with Copics and stuck them to the card. Sentiment is from Power Poppy, love their stamps!

Did the card in my niece's favorite colors, blue, green and yellow.  Well it was fun to make and I am very happy with the end product... Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful evening.

Also entering in the following challenges:

    Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Outlaws Color Challenge - Tuesday  Color Challenge

Until next time 

Tootles

July 4th cards and 1 birthday

Hello all my crafty peeps.  Just showing a few more cards I made.  Need to really get my card giving stash back up I am down to just a few Thank You cards and that just won't cut it!  Anyways here are my recent makes:  

 

OK so these are nothing fancy but still fun to make and that's the most important part, right, enjoying what we make.....

Until next time,

Tootles

Birthday Card

 

Happy Monday Crafty peeps!  Thought I'd share a card I made for a friends birthday this past Saturday.  

Used plane white card base, Cuttlebug Polka Dot embossing folder on teal card stock, die cut a spellbinder decorative elements, picot circle die, added some daisies and of course had to add bling!  Then used birthday sticker sentiment from Elizabeth Craft.  And there you have it......

Hope you have a fun Monday!

until next time

Bye By.....

Couple more cards.....

Hello from beautiful fall weather Texas.  Today is absolutely a gorgeous day outside.  Did a lot of  housework and made lunch then went for walk with MIL.  Was really a nice walk.  Now I want to share a few cards I made in the past few days.  First card is done with stamps and stickers, very CAS, but still a fun card. The second card was done with the outline stickers and microfine glitter, yes I am still tring hard to get it down.  Colored glitter with copic markers.  Going to enter in a few challenges for the heck of it.  Enjoy!

 

(card group weekly Challenge - masking) 

Entering this card in the following Challenge(s):

Through the Craft room door - Anything Goes

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Autumn not Halloween

( Birthday card for a girl friend)

Entering this card in the following Challenge(s):

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
 

Thanks so much for stopping by, I love to hear from all of my crafty friends. Hope your having a great day!

Until next time

Tootles

A not so perfect card.......

Happy Friday!  It's another dreary gray cloudy day here.  I have been playing around with Peel off Stickers, micro-fine glitter and Copic markers.  So far I have only made 1 that turned out the way I actually wanted it to and tossed 3 others.  So today I thought I'd share the card that I made that has a few issues, it's still an OK card, but just not as great as I would of liked.  Apparently I need a little more practice with this card technique.  Well anyways here is my not so perfect card!  

So can you see where the purple color is leaching out into the yellow?  I think maybe I used to much pressure when coloring with the copics.  It's not horrible but it could be better!  All products except the card base and black stone bling are from Elizabeth Crafts.  I love this technique, just need to practice it a bit.  Elizabeth Crafts has some cool outline stickers and their transfer sheets and dbl sided tape sheets are all very reasonable.  If you have never checked Elizabeth Crafts out, you should.  They have a great gallery and face book page with tons of pics for ideas.   I actually learned about this technique from a dear online card making Friend, Deloris. She sent me a card that was "gorjuss" earlier in the year and I have been wanting to try to make one since.   Well this was just to show that even someone who has been card making for some time has trouble sometime too, LOL

So this card was made for the Tuesday Color Challenge over at Outlawz. here is a pic of the color theme:

 At least my colors look right, even if the card is not perfect, LOL!

This card is being entered in the following Challenge(s):

             Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge  

It definitely will not win, but just had to share it anyway..... :)
Have a fun weekend.

Until next time,
Bye by

Another new technique I learned.....

Hello all.  I just have to share with you a new technique I learned this week from another online card making friend.  I really had fun with this one.  It's called Burnished Micro Glitter, maybe you've heard of it or even tried it, but I had not. And I just had to try it out.  

First a Tip: It's tricky when you first start...try not to touch the sticky stuff on the Sookwang paper

use the covering paper that says Sookwang to hold your sheet while attaching sticker

 

You start by cutting card stock to the card size you want.  Then you attach your card stock to one side of the sticky Sookwang. Then remove the sticker from it's backing...carefully...and don't toss the negative as you can transfer that with transfer sheets as I showed yesterday.  Now remove the backing from the sticky side of the Sookwang, place your sticker where you want it.  Then using a coffee filter cover the entire sticky side with the sticker on with the warm highlights micro fine glitter.  You then take your finger and rub the glittter into all of the sticky parts and the sticker.  It will start to feel velvetty like and not rough and that will tell you it done. Then you can shake the left over glitter back into its container.  Now you color with copics or other alcohol markers.  Be careful to use a light hand when coloring and do not press hard just go lightly and carefully, the alcohol markers can bleed thru if not careful.  Takes a little practice but is oh so fun!

 

 WaLa you have a card front!  Here is the sticker image and the card:

 

 OK so now all you do is build your card.  That's all there is to it.  Fun right?  I really like this and will be doing more of this technique for sure.  You can get more info on this technique by searching You Tube for "Burnished Micro fine glitter technique" videos.  And you cane get the supplies at Elizabeth Crafts and/or Frantic Stamper, both have online stores.  I have also heard some stamp stores carry the stuff too but you will have to do your homework to find it.  Hope you enjoyed this technique b/c I sure did.

Have a great day...

Until next time.

Tootles

New technique to me....

Hello, I must first off welcome another follower to my blog.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 
Now I decided to try something new to me that i found out from a fellow card maker and friend. This technique uses the negative part of stickers.  You know what's left on the paper backing when you use the positive sticker image.  So don't toss these out you can still use them.  Here is a card I did with the negative sticker image.  It's very CAS and I actually really like it. Here it is: 

It's really cool and easy to do.  I used some sticky transfer paper called Stardust.  You peel the backing of and add the negative sticker to it and put the sticky side back on the backing paper and burnish the image with a bone folder. Make sure you do this very well than take the backing off and stick it to your card or what ever you want it on.  Then just peel the Transfer paper off carefully.  It can re -used so do not toss it.  I put my sticker on some card stock and circle punched it out and attached to the card front with foam dots.  I also scored some lines to top left and bottom right sides of card front.  I then decided it needed a bit more so added the negative of a few flowers stickers, done the exact same way as I did the center sticker and added to black gemstones too. And Voila, you have a card.  It was something different to try.  The stickers are from Elizabeth Crafts as was the transfer paper.  A friend had given me a few supplies from her stash for me to try the technique out and I do think I will be ordering more, it was fun to make. 

Do drop back later this evening or possibly tomorrow for another new technique to me it's called "Burnished Micro Glitter" I believe and it is a lot of fun too.  See ya soon.  And thanks for coming by for a visit!

Until next time,
TTFN