2nd side of Niece's Door Hanger

Hello everyone.  Happy Weekend.  Sorry I have been MIA lately, but I have been trying really hard to be nice to my left shoulder  and I have been making lots of projects the past week too that I will share with you all the beginning of May.  They are for my Guest DT spot over at Gecko Galz.  I had such fun making all the stuff and I am really excited to share it with you all.   But for now I want to show off the 2nd side of the door hanger I made for my niece who is turing 13 on Wednesday.  Drum Roll Please:

I used Yellow Bazzill paper to cover the back.  Added Recollection Bling Pearls and Flowers.  The digi image was colored with watercolor pencils and OMS. Image is one of Sherri Baldy's big eye girls, just adore them!  Now I just have to hope my niece will be as happy with this as I am, LOL.

Well hope you have a fun relaxing weekend no matter what you are doing.

Until next time
Tootles

Happy Friday

Hello and Happy Friday everyone!  I am i such a super fun mood today.  I have some good news.  I have been chosen to be a Design Team member over at the Created with Love Challenge blog for the month of May.  WOOHOO, I am so excited, that makes 2 Guest appearances for May for me.   Today is a totally crafty day for me I am working on finishing some of the projects for my May guest DT spot over at Gecko Galz and my first card for Created With Love Challenges.   Now if you not checked out Created with Love Challenges You  really should.  They have weekly challenges and prizes.  You can only enter your card in a total of ten challenges though so be sure to read the rules carefully.  They have a bunch of very talented and creative ladies on their DT that are sure to inspire you to get crafty.  And don't forget to stop by Gecko Galz too.  They are a very retro vintage site and blog.  I absolutely am having a blast making my projects for them.  And I can not wait to be able to share all the things I have come up with.  They are very different for me and I am pretty happy with how everything is coming together.  

I am also want to share a cute card I made for Challenge in one of my card groups.  We had to use a tag or make a tag.  Well those of you who know me know I am not a tag fan. But I decided to give it a try.  I am still not a Tag fan but the card is cute, LOL.  Here it is.

 

Well i have one last thing and that is to welcome another follower to my blog, Thanks so very much for following me.  So that's it for today.  I need to get busy crafting.......

Have a wonderful Friday.

Until next time,

TGIF

Hello and Happy Crafty Tuesday

Hi all.  Sorry I've been gone a few days.  I have injured my rotator cuff  and trying to give the arm a break for a bit per doctor's instruction.  I will be working on a bunch of items over the next few weeks for my Guest Design Team spot over at Gecko Galz for the moth of May. I am really excited about this because it is making me think outside of my comfort zone and do something different.  Can't wait to show you all what I come up with. 

Also wanted to welcome another new follower, Thanks for the love and hope you will pop in often.  Hope everyone has a wonderful Tuesday.  I am off to start getting things together for my projects and challenges for this week, so pop back daily to see if I have any surprises for you. 


Until next time,
     Tootles

HAPPY EASTER

TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE !

Teenager's Room Door Hanger

Happy Sunday everyone.  It's Chris here back with another fun and easy blog project for The Stamping Shack, where I am a DT member.  This time I made Door Hanger for a Teenage Girls room.  This will be my niece's birthday gift next month.  Now on with the project.

Supplies: 
Foam Board - cut to 4 x 9
Ruler
Circle Cutter
Color Pencils
Embellishments
Printed Digi
Card Stock of your choosing
Foam dots
Liquid Glue
Die, for sentiment
Blade
Nail file, large one

1. Print and color your digi with color pencils or what ever coloring item you choose.  I used color pencils. The image I chose is from the Stamping Shack store and is called " Chatty Girl" from the Lilliputs Range and  can be found here.  Color and put aside.

2. You should have a 4 x 9 piece of foam board ready to have a 2 3/4 in circle cut in the top about 1 inch down.  I filed the inside of circle with large nail file to soften inside edges a bit. 

3. Now cover with your choice of card stock.  I used a pretty yellow from Bazzill. Glue to foam board and be sure to cut whole nice and even. make sure to leave enough paper to fold over the side edges and glue down. Or you can add some ribbon or lace to edges. I just stuck with paper.

 

4.  At this point all you need to do is place your digi where you want it.  Then die cut your sentiment and attach.  Then add any embellishments you like.  I added flowers from recollection and some bling centers, plus some rhinestones.  And here is the finished project.  

 

You could also decorate the other side too, any way you like and make it 2 sided.  Hope you enjoyed this and have a fun Sunday.   Do stop by the Stamping Shack often as all the DT members put up some wonderful projects too. 

Until next time........

    Happy Sunday

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

Here comes Peter Cotton tail....

Hello Peeps, it's time again for another Challenge over at The Stamping Shack Blog where I am on the DT.  The theme this time is Easter.


First off... Here are the Rules!

1.  Anyone can enter as long as you are a follower of our blog.

2.  You can enter up to 3 times per challenge.

3.  You must have fun!

And that is as complicated as it get!

The challenge will run from 8am GMT on 15th March until 8am GMT on 31st March. (USA times are approx. 5 hours off UK times I believe, just so you know).


Here is the card I made for the challenge.  I am not thrilled with it, was having a bad Mojo day when I made it....but that's all part of it I guess.  The image I chose is called " Daisy with Bunny" from the Oscar and daisy Range and can be found here.  

 I colored the digi image with Tombow markers. Used tape runner to attach all pieces together.  Added blue & clear gemstone bling and the punched flowers where recycled from another card that I had around.  I also used deckle edge scissors to trim around white rectangle after printing the sentiment.  And that is it!  

So please do go by the Stamping Shack Blog and join us for a fun Easter Challenge and be sure to check out all the awesome inspiring work by all my other teamies. There are some really cool creations this time around by them.  Hope to see you there......

Until next time
Tootles