Spring Slimline Card

Are you as ready for spring as I am? It can’t get here soon enough but, still a little ways off where I live. So, in the meantime I’m making a Spring Slimline Card with lots of colorful card stock from CutCardStock! And, I’m adding black and gold to make these colors pop! 

Materials

Card stock: Classic Crest DUPLEX Epic Black – Solar White 120lb Cover wt,  Gold Bright FOIL 10 pt Card Stock, DCS Discount 8.5×11 Card Stock: Amaranth Pink,  Lessebo Colors Premium Bubble Gum Pink,  Astrobright Lunar Blue Discount Card Stock,  Pop Tone GRAPE JELLY Discount Card Stock, Lessebo Colors Premium AMETHYST Discount Cardstock, Lessebo Colors Premium SUNFLOWER YELLOW Discount Cardstock, Lessebo Colors HUNTER GREEN 83lb Cardstock,  Pop Tone GUM DROP GREEN Discount Card Stock,  DCS Discount Card Stock: Canvas Textured Mantis Green Card Stock

Flower Dies, Sentiment Die, Border Die, Embossing Folder, Adhesive

Creating a Focal

I am using the Large Die Set of the Month for January, Botanical Atrium, from Spellbinders for my focal. 

Start by die cutting the atrium frame out of the Gold Bright FOIL 10 pt Card Stock . Then cut the solid backing piece out of Classic Crest DUPLEX Epic Black – Solar White 120lb Cover wt.

Next I die cut a variety of flowers, foliage and butterflies out of the pink, purple, blue and green card stocks.

Assemble flowers.

Begin arranging and adhering florals to the black back piece of the atrium.

Finish adding the florals.

Add the atrium frame over the top of the florals. Adhere the 3 tiny butterflies to the frame.

Card Base

My slimline card base measures 4 x 9 inches. Cut a piece of the Classic Crest DUPLEX Epic Black – Solar White 120lb Cover wt to 8 x 9 inches. Score at 4 inches along the 8 inch side and fold.

Cut a piece of DCS Discount Card Stock: Canvas Textured Mantis Green Card Stock to 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches.

Emboss the top part of the Mantis Green piece with an embossing folder.

Adhere the green piece to the center of the card base.

Die cut two border pieces out of black card stock for the top and bottom of the card. Cut a sentiment and shadow piece out of black and gold.

Narrow gold strips will add a little something extra to the two black border pieces. Cutting a third, wider gold strip will cover the bottom of the embossing.

Adhere the borders and the gold pieces.

Completing the Card

To complete the card design adhere the focal piece to the center of the card with foam tape. 

The sentiment goes beneath the focal piece. Adding with foam tape gives dimension.

I am so happy with the overall design of this Spring Slimline Card and hope you like it.

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St. Patrick's Day Layout

Am I the only one that is a little slow in getting scrapbook layouts done for photos that have been sitting around for awhile? 

Hi there! It's Judy here with a St. Patrick's Day Layout project created for Clear Scraps.

And, yes, it's taken me awhile to get this one done! It's done with one of the photos from my daughter's trip to Ireland that took place in 2007! 

I have a Shamrock Mini Shaker and thought it would be a perfect embellishment for my layout.

So, I went ahead and put the shaker together 1st thing.

The solid chipboard piece and one of the chipboard form pieces are colored with a green sparkle pen. 

Glue and glitter were added to the colored form piece.

2 other form pieces were layered and adhered to the solid chipboard.

Sequins were added as the shaker bits.

The protective film was removed from both sides of the acrylic piece.

The acrylic piece is glued on top and then the glittered piece is adhered to complete.

Now to assemble the page.

I started with a 12 x 12 inch piece of green card stock.  Gold and white card stock are layered on top for the layout base.

The photo was matted with gold and green card stocks.

Next, I added a piece of orange card stock to the base. I also die cut 3 circular frames and added.

2 patterned papers from the St. Patrick’s Day Clipart and Papers Kit by Scrapbook Gems were printed, cut and added.

I printed and fussy cut some shamrocks and banners from the scrapbook kit. I also pulled out a rub on, printed and die cut other elements for my title.

The photo and title are added.

Start adding shamrocks and banners.

Finish by adding the rest of the shamrocks and the shaker.

Thanks for taking a look at my layout project!

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March at Morgan's ArtWorld

New month, new challenge at

Morgan's ArtWorld!

If you enjoy entering challenges and have not joined us please do.

It's always ANYTHING GOES and you can enter with 

any images from any company.

For my DT project this time around I am using

Fiesta Digital Stamp.

I colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut.

my background is pretty simple with just a white floral die cut 

layered onto a pink background.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment which was fussy cut.

I added 3 glitter dots to complete my design.

I hope you'll join in this month's challenge.

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Mother's Day Slimline Card

Happy Saturday!

It's time to share some inspiration for this month's

Polkadoodles Card Making and Craft Challenge.

I'm creating for Mother's Day this week!. I made a slimline card using one of the digis from Sheepy Sheepy Sheep Sheep Spring Easter Printables. The digi was printed, colored with Prismacolor Pencils and fussy cut. I used a sentiment from Spring Flower Mothers Day Friends Greetings Sentiment Printables. The papers I used for there background are from Noodle Panda Set 1 Printable Papers. I added 3 glitter dots for embellishment.

I hope you join us!

You have until March 6th to enter.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have great weekend!

Just for You from Bella

Well, here we are at the end of another month!

So, I'm popping in to share an inspiration card for

Conie Fong Art & Design! 

I just could not resist coloring up this adorable little bear!

Bella with Gift

She was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and, of course, fussy cut.

My card design was really quick and simple, using a 6 inch cut apart 

from the Garden Charm 12 x 12 inch paper pad from Recollections. 

I matted the piece with gold and navy card stocks.

 The sentiment was cut with dies from Crafter's Companion.

I popped Bella and the sentiment with foam tape.

And, there you have it!

I appreciate you stopping by and hope you have a great weekend!

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Dinomite Birthday Band Card

As a former musician and music teacher I love anything having to do with music, so I was really excited when Pajama Crafter Stamps came out with the cute Dinomite Birthday Stamp Set. It is perfect for creating a cute and fun birthday card.

Cute dinosaurs playing instruments! Who could resist playing with these stamps? 

I didn't quite have a card design in mind so I decided to go ahead and stamp all 5 characters and color up with Prismacolor Pencils and a little glitter gel pen.

The double star stamp in the set is perfect for creating an emboss resist background.Stamp with Versamark ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Blend with inks to match the dinos. I cut this piece to 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches.

I fussy cut the dinos, stamped one of the sentiments and die cut 2 squares and 2 stars.

My card base measures 5 x 6 1/2 inches. A piece of purple card stock measuring 5 x 6 1/2 inches covers the card base.

The music note stamp from the set adds something a little extra to the white square and star.

The sentiment was a cut with an oval die.

I adhered the purple card stock, embossed piece, 2 squares and stars to the card base.

Pop each dinosaur with foam tape and add the sentiment to complete.

I had a lot of fun putting this cute Dinomite Birthday Band Card together!

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Challenge Recognition

Beautiful Bride Canvas

 Hey there! 

Sharing my Beautiful Bride Canvas Wall Art project for CutCardStock. 

I love to color and, pretty, female, portrait style digital stamps are my favorites. So, looking through my images I came across one from Digital Morning called “Tenderness”. This beautiful greyscale bride image also contains pretty flowers. I knew I had to color her up and make flowers out of card stock for some dimension to create a unique canvas.

Focal Image

I start by printing the image on a 8 1/2 x 11 inch piece of Cougar White Smooth Card Stock.

Color the image. My favorite coloring medium are Prismacolor Pencils.

There is a veil in the image. I decide to trace it onto a piece of CTI Glama Natural Translucent Vellum using a white pencil color. This is an alternative to coloring the veil.

Once I finish the coloring I fussy cut the image. Even though I will cover the flowers I go ahead and color them just in case they peek through!

Next, although I will be using a white canvas I decide to add a little color underneath the image. This is done by adhering a piece of Coral Stardream Metallic Card Stock.

Then I decide to tear a border around the image. This also provides a little texture.

Prepare the Canvas

My canvas measures 9 x 12 inches. Wanting some texture, I adhere crumpled tissue paper to the canvas with decoupage medium. Then I paint with white acrylic paint.

Adhere the image to the center of the canvas.

Add the vellum veil piece. I am gluing the vellum in areas where flowers will cover.

White pearls enhance the image.

Make the Flowers

I die cut 3 different sizes of 5 petal flowers with Lessebo Blossom Pink Card Stock to form my roses. Cutting between each petal of each die cut helps with shaping and forming the roses. 

Roll and glue the smallest die cuts for the rose centers. Adding a layer at a time and going up in size makes it easy to vary each rose and make them look more realistic.

Add the roses to the canvas, covering those on the image.

Die cut and shape the smaller flowers. I am using Lessebo Bubble Gum Pink Card Stock and Cougar Smooth White Card Stock. The flowers are layered. Add pearls to the centers.

Complete the project by adding these last flowers.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my Beautiful Bride Canvas Wall Art project. I hope you take away a little inspiration from it!

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