Happy Birthday Candles Card

I created this card for my nephew Hunter's birthday.

·         Step 1: I took a piece of vanilla cardstock and cut with my paper trimmer to 6” x 9”.  I scored the card down the center so the card measures 6” x 4 ½”.

·         Step 2: I took a piece of pattern cardstock and cut to 5 ½” x 4”.

·         Step 3:  I took both the card base in vanilla and the pattern cardstock and cut out a circle in both pieces using my Darice Embossing Essentials Circle Die set and my Cuttlebug.

·         Step 4: I adhered the pattern cardstock onto the vanilla card base using a glue stick.

·         Step 5: I took a white ribbon and colored it using Lindy’s Flat Fabio spray in Caribbean Blue.  I tied the ribbon around the edge of the card. I added a piece of white twine cord to create the bow.

·         Step 6: Using a happy birthday stamp from Tim Holtz Simple Sayings stamp set, I stamped the saying in versamark and used Recollections Embossing Powder in Glacier.

·         Step 7: I cut some strips of white cardstock to create the candles and cut out the flame parts of the candles using the Celebrations cricut cartridge. 

·         Step 8:  I took the candles and used a dot background stamp and stamped each candle in versamark ink pad.  I used Ranger White Embossing Powder and covered the candles and embossed with my heat gun. 

·         Step 9: I colored each candle using a different colors distress stain by Tim Holtz.  The colors I used was Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, and Squeezed Lemonade.  I took the flames for each candle and used a glue stick and colored with yellow glitter.  I positioned the candles on the inside of the card so they can be aligned with the circle cutout.  I glued down using a glue stick.

·         Step 10: I stamped the sayings on the inside of the card using Distress ink pad in Broken China.  The stamps I used are from My Favorite Things birthday clear stamps.

·         Step 11:  I took some money and folded up and used a paperclip to attach the money to the card.  The money was used as the cake in the card and was placed over the candles.

Alcohol Ink Ceramic Tiles

Colored using alcohol inks and blending solution.

·         Tile 1: countryside set – shell pink, willow, cloudy blue

·         Tile 2: summit view – sunset yellow, sunset orange, purple twilight

·         Tile 3: cranberry, eggplant

·         Tile 4: conservatory set – honeycomb, botanical, poppyfield

·         Tile 5: cottage path set – meadow, slate, currant

·         Tile 6: cranberry, currant, botanical

Who Are My Friends Journal Page

1.       Spray the background with lindy’s sprays (caribean blue, danny zuko’s denim, whale watch blue, luscious lime, ponderosa pines olive, sea glass green)

2.       Stamp flowers using jet black staz-on ink pad. Stamp sets used are Inkadinkado beauty stems from here and Inkadinkado doodle flowers.

3.       Color the stamped flower and vine images with gel pens.

4.       I took some brown markers and created the branch and used my cricut to cutout the owl die-cut.

5.       I also cut out the word friends? With my cricut and applied to the journal page.

6.       I took black soot distress ink and blended the edges of the journal to create a dark look.

Lindy's June Color Challenge

Hello everyone,

This is my first attempt at participating in a craft blog contest.  This is for Lindy's Stamp Gang June color challenge.  Please find the link here, Color Challenge


I used more than 2 of the products that was required for the challenge.  I used Pink Ladies Pink, T-Bird Turquoise, and Summer Lovin Sun sprays and the Bonjour Butter embossing powder.

Please see the steps below:

Triangle Baby Theme Mixed Media Wall Art

Step 1: I took several pieces of pattern cardstocks in pink, yellow and blue colors.  I tore up many pieces.  I used mod podge and collaged the pieces of cardstock all over the triangle box.

Step 2: Next I took some stencils (stars, squares, circles, rectangles) and added designs all over the box using modeling paste. 

Step 3: I started to determine where I wanted to add all my embellishments.  I used a bunch of different items.  The theme I was going for was baby and shapes.  Most of the embellishments were shapes such as triangle, square and circle die cuts.  I also have buttons, wooden circles, square chipboard pieces, metal square embellishments, etc.  I glued everything in place with quickgrip and e6000 glue.

Step 4: Once everything was dry I sprayed with Lindy’s sprays (pink ladies pink, t-bird turquoise, and summer lovin sun).

Step 5: There were four embellishments I kept to the side.  I took a pink pacifier die cut and colored using grape fizz perfect pearls. The duck safety pin I embossed with lindys bonjour butter embossing powder.  I took a paintbrush and added some t-bird turquoise lindys sprays to help the embellishment blend with the rest of the design.  I took a baby word die-cut and sprayed with t-bird turquoise and pink ladies pink lindys sprays.  Once dry I covered the entire die-cut with rock candy distress crackle paint.  The foot I sprayed with t-bird turquoise lindys sprays and stenciled stars on it with ocean reef blue Delta acrylic paint.

Bedazzled Frames

I created these frames for pictures I was giving to my mother.  I put pictures of all the pets in the household and of my myself.

Step 1: Took some dollar store frames and glam them up.

Step 2: Take some queen & co. rhinestones and gems and flower bows and adhere to the frames with super glue.

Step 3: Take some silver glitter washi tape and apply to the frames.

Magical Land Mixed Media Canvas

My best friend Courtney turned 30 in July.  I wanted to make her something since she has admired things I have created.  She has loved unicorns ever since she was young.  I created this mixed media canvas with tons of bright colors and a beautiful unicorn at the center of it all.  The inspiration for this is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXTgnNXpd6M and her birds of a feather mixed media project.

Step 1: I took a canvas that was 8 ½” x 11”.  I put a coat of gesso over the canvas and let dry.  I took some cardstock pieces I ripped from the Prima Jodie Lee Fairy Better Collection Aquarelle cardstock and used mod podge to apply to the canvas.  Run your finer over each piece you glued down to help with air bubbles.

Step 2: Apply a thin layer of a gesso white wash to blend the pieces into the background. Set with a heat tool.

Step 3: Take gesso and go around the edges of the pieces to help with the contrast. Take a baby wipe and remove gesso that got onto the center of the pieces and reveal the cardstock pattern.

Step 4: Use whale watch blue, tiffany blue, frozen jack frost and mix equal parts in a cup.  Add in a mini mister. Take cosmopolitian pink and spray some areas of the canvas and let the excess run down the canvas vertically. Set with a heat gun. Take wild honeysuckle coral and spray and let drip down the same way. Set with a heat gun.  Take sea grass green and spray a bit heavier and let drip horizontally compared to the other colors that dripped vertically. Set with a heat gun. Spray the mixture of blues and tip vertically quickly for a small drip and set with a heat gun.

Step 5: Take a crafters workshop 6x6 mini ledger, chicken wire stencil, and a polka dot stencil and apply to areas of the canvas using texture paste. Clean the stencil in-between each use and set each area with a heat gun.

Step 6: Take some Prima flowers solid flower vine in yellow and cover in gesso, apply a few coats.  Spray with frozen jack frost lindy's spray.

Step 7: Take some chipboard circles and tags and apply gesso around the edges.  I used chipboard pieces from Leaky Shed Studio assorted chipboard tags.  Take some pattern cardstock from Prima Jodie Lee Fairy Better Collection Aquarelle and apply it to the chipboard pieces with mod podge.  Do not put a top layer of mod podge. Fussy cut them out of the cardstock. Sand the edges.

Step 8: Take some cardstock from the Recollections Rainbow Pixels cardstock and fussy cut some honeycombs out. Adhere these to chipboard using mod podge. Do not put a top layer of mod podge. Fussy cut them from the chipboard. Sand the edges.

Step 9: Cut a clock with the Tim Holtz weathered clock die cut and cover with a few coats of gesso.

Step 10: Take some Recollections Floral Embellishments white roses, paper flowers pink/blue garden romance, Prima flowers kindled sienna roses, and white fabric roses bouquet and cover with gesso.

Step 11: Take some metal pieces (junkyard findings vintage trinkets, large paperclip, grapevine designs domino pieces, nuts and bolts, single stories DIY clothespins, finnabair vintage trinket metal flowers, junkyard findings heart gears, tim holtz metal ink pen nibs, junkyard findings clock hands, tim holtz locket keys, finnabair vintage trinkets bottle cap),  and cover with gesso.

Step 12: Take a Martha Stewart adhesive die cut large doily and cover with gesso.

Step 13 : Start creating the canvas and determining the placement. When applying your pieces and to make them level add pieces of chipboard behind pieces to prop them up.  Puddy in the cracks with texture paste. Use a glue gun, glossy accents and e6000 for gluing your pieces.

Step 14: Once everything is applied add some texture paste into the cracks and spaces around the edges.  Add a bit to some of the embellishments.

Step 15: Go over with a few more layers of gesso to the embellishments.

Step 16: Spray a layer of cosmopolitan pink.  Heat set.  Spray with wild honeysuckle coral.  Heat set. Spray with sea grass green. Heat set.  Spray with the blue mixture. Spray with the silver.  Spray with luscious lime.  Heat set.  Keep applying with the colors from earlier until you get what you like.

Step 17: Take three Leaky Shed Studio Chipboard shapes unicorn medium and take some tacky glue and glue the three pieces together.  Once dry color the unicorn using perfect pearls in blue raspberry, sour apple, pink gumball and grape fizz. Adhere to the canvas using e6000. 

Step 18: Take Unique Pages chipboard magic word and cover with a few coats of gesso. Once dry apply wild honeysuckle coral spray, cosmopolitan pink, and silent night silver. Once dry apply a layer of stormy sky distress ink with a blending tool.  Adhere to the canvas using tacky glue.

Step 19: Add some Finnabair art ingredients glass beads in crystal to the nuts and bolts and the bottle caps using glossy accents.

Step 20: Once everything on the canvas is dry, highlight with a couple of coats of gesso.  Add a last layer of frozen jack frost. Dry overnight and highlight one more layer of gesso on all embellishments as the light is coming from the left.

New Baby Card - Hi Grayson!!

My best friend Courtney was pregnant with her first child, Grayson.  I made this new baby card for her baby shower.  It was so much fun.  The games were fun and kept everyone entertained and interacting.  I loved the backdrop she had for pictures.  It was a scene from the Disney movie, Bambi.

The design of the card was inspired by a pin I saw on Pinterest.  Pin from Stampin Up, http://lvstmpn.wordpress.com.

·        Step 1: Take light gray cardstock and measure for the size of your card.  This card is 6” x 4 ½”.  I cut my cardstock to 6” x 9” and folded in half and creased.

·        Step 2: I took white cardstock and cut to 5 ¾” x 4 ¼”.  I took a distress marker in pumice stone and created the frame by making dash stitch marks. I glued the piece to the card using a glue stick.

·        Step 3: I took some yellow pattern cardstock from the Recollections Fashionably Chic paper pack and cut to 3” x 4 ¼”.  I took the Martha Stewart scallop dot punch and punched the edges.  I adhered in the center of the card using a glue stick. 

·        Step 4: I took some green pattern cardstock from the Recollections Fashionably Chic paper pack and I cut the pattern cardstock to 2” x 4 ¼”.  I took the distress marker in pumice stone and created the dash stitching marks around the frame of the cardstock. I adhered on top of the yellow pattern cardstock and centered.

·        Step 5: I took some blue pattern cardstock from the Recollections Fashionably Chic paper pack and cut two squares using my Cricut machine and the accent essentials cartridge that is 2” on all sides. I cut 2 squares out of white cardstock as well. I glued the white squares onto the blue squares using a glue stick. I took the pumice stone distress marker and added dash stitches to the frame of the cardstock pieces.

·        Step 6: I created the lion and the hippo using the Stampology Mindys Zoo 2 stamp set.  For the lion the colors inks I used was Staz-on ink pad in jet black for the outline.  The lion was done in Colorbox ink in sunflower and ochre.  The hippo was created using Staz-on ink jet black for the outline.  The hippo is Staz-on ink in dove gray and distress ink in Spun Sugar. I fussy cut the images out using my small detail scissors.  I adhered the animals to the squares with dimensional dots.

·        Step 7: I stamped the saying “hello” and “new baby” in Staz-on ink dove gray.  The “hello” stamp is from Technique Tuesday Say It Happy Stamp set and the word “new baby” is from the Lawn Fawn A Birdie Told Me stamp set.

·        Step 8: I added some rhinestones which are Queen & Co. in baby blue and light green.

·        Step 9: For the inside of the card I cut a rectangle 3” by 2” in the blue pattern cardstock and a white rectangle in the white cardstock that was 2 ¾” x 2”.  I adhered together using a glue stick. I added the dash stitch frame on the blue cardstock with a distress marker in pumice stone.

·        Step 10: I created the giraffe using the Stampology Mindys Zoo 2 stamp set and used Staz-on ink in jet black, Staz-on ink in timber brown and Colorbox ink in canary.  I adhered the giraffe using dimensional dots.  I also added some rhinestones.

·        Step 11: The white cardstock was cut to 51/2” x 4 ¼”.  I added the frame using dash stitch marks in distress marker pumice stone and adhered using a glue stick.