A shabby swap
I am so glad that I have this card to show you in my reserve stash. The flu/cold that my girls have has finally hit me hardcore today. Serious sore throat, stuffy nose and fever action. I haven’t gotten out of my jammies at all and I don’t care, because I am sick. Poor Ava couldn’t even eat her dinner tonight, it literally made her toss her cookies at the table. So much fun…….to be sick and have sick kids. I really wish I could “call in sick” as a mother when I am the one that’s sick!
But back to my card……………………
My favorite things had their first official swap hosted by Jen del Muro on their SCS forum. I decided to pick the “Meet me at the cafe” set for my swap cards. This card was the whole reason I had my mom lend me her sewing machine and thank goodness we got it fixed in time!
I love this card! It all makes me so happy! The sewing, the distressing, the distress ink. I even gave the gal in the dress a pearl bracelet! There was a lot of steps, more than probably should be used on a swap but I’m glad I put in all the work. Luckily, one of them will be coming back to me!
I’m off to take my medicine and veg out to my ‘Golden Girls’.
Stamps: Meet me at the cafe-MFT
Ink: graphite black, distress ink-antique linen
CS: sage, river rock-SU white-papertrey Cosmo Cricket DP “little girls”
Accessories: sewing machine, copics, liquid pearls, sponge, distress tool, sakura stardust pen, chocolate taffetta ribbon, dimensionals.
The final swap countdown!
I finally, finally finished! I signed up for a Papertrey swap in September with the release of the first Holiday sets on SCS. I was to make 15 cards using my “Take a bough” set due on November 1st. Well, in my head I kept thinking November 15……..WRONG! About 2 days ago I see the thread again and read the date and start panicking! Luckily Keeva aka Brownee said as long as they are in her hands by November 5th all is ok. WHEW!
So last night I had about 10 hours of sleep, good sleep too! I felt so refreshed this morning and ready to craft! So I got to work on those swaps and they are now ready to go priority, or overnight to Keeva’s house.
I also got my cuttlebug today! I’m so excited!!! I had no idea that it came with 4 little bonus embossing folders and a shape to cut out. I thought I wouldnt get to play with it until the nestabilities came, but was I wrong! I got to ‘bugging and I’m in love! Even with just those silly little bonus dies, I love it and I’m so glad I bought it! Of course when it came Sean heard me open the door and said “Did you get something?” quickly I said “Mmmmmhmmm!” and ran down to my craft room. Once I showed him what I made and how much cheaper it is then buying the hand punches individually he liked it.
Instructions:
1. Starting with a piece of always artichoke cut and folded to standard size. I then wrapped some satin ribbon around the middle.
2. Next I cut a piece of white CS to 3 3/4 x 4 1/2.
3. Then I cut a piece of soft sky CS to 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 and stamped the branch in chocolate chip.
4. I stamped the leaves in always artichoke.
5. Then I applied liquid applique to the branches and poured glitter on top of it then heat set it for glittery sparkly snow.
6. I stamped the ornament holder and sentiment in pallette black ink.
7. Then I stamped the ornament in really red ink, and the pattern in white craft ink.
8. Next I placed a page pebble over the ornament, and adhered this panel to the white layer.
9. Finally I placed the layers on the cardfront with dimensionals.
Voila! Easy, breezy and simply perfect for the Holidays! This set makes cards really fast but also elegant and pretty. I love it oh, so much!
It was so nice to craft today. Now I need to get ready so we can take the girls, and Martin trick or treating! I will be home in time for all the festivities on SCS tonight though! Hope you are all having a great Halloween!
The DEETS:
Stamps: Take a bough-papertrey
Ink: chocolate chip, always artichoke, white craft-SU pallette noir
CS: always artichoke, soft sky, white-SU
Accessories: liquid applique, glitter, page pebbles, dimensionals, satin ribbon
Simple swap
This is my second to last swap for a while, I have one more using the newest papertrey holiday releases. I think I will “chill” for a while and get moving on my Thanksgiving, birthday party, Christmas cards.
I signed up for a demo only swap on SCS a couple weeks ago and I really waited til the last minute, well technically I have a week left! LOL! I’ll pop these puppies into the priority mail tomorrow and voila! Swap complete.
I had no idea what I was going to do for this swaps cards. It had it’s restrictions; SU only products, current catalog and Christmas themed full sized cards. So I didnt want to make cards with the set I’m using for my own Christmas cards and get burnout. I decided to use my “Wishing you cheer” set that I received in my starter kit.
Instructions:
1. Starting with a piece of close to cocoa CS cut and folded to standard size, I adhered a piece of red 5/8 gg ribbon.
2. Next I cut a piece of white CS to 3×3 and stamped the snow in soft sky then the snowman and tree in stazon black.
3. I colored in the snowman and tree with SU markers; real red, ballet blue, almost artichoke, old olive, summer sun, black and pumpkin pie.
4. I also added Christmas red stickles to the tree, white gel pen to the tinsel on the tree and liquid applique for the snow below the snowman and tree.
5. This was layered onto a 3.25 x 3.25 old olive square, and then again onto a 3.5 x 3.5 real red square. Then it was adhered to the card base using dimensionals.
6. Finally I used my real red marker to ink up the “wishing you sparkle” part of the sentiment and stamped it on the bottom right corner.
Even though this had a bit of coloring and some heating for the liquid applique these came together really quick. A great mass production card.
There’s still time to enter for my giveaway, right Allison?
The DEETS:
Stamps: Wishing you cheer-SU
CS: Close to cocoa, old olive, real red, white-SU
Ink: soft sky, stazon black-SU
Accessories: SU markers (colors listed in instructions), 5/8 red grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals, Christmas red stickles, white signo gel pen, white liquid applique.
Corie’s swap
Today in my mail, along with some MORE Gina K stamps, I got my cards from the swap I did with Corie over at http://creationsbycorie.blogspot.com/. It was a Holiday swap, current catalog sets and all SU supplies.
The cards are so much fun! And this was by far the best swap I’ve been in! Although I’ve only been in 2….but still, Im saying it was great! I thought I would share the cards from the swaps, they are fabulous! And the Merry X-Moose card is a WOWEE card, I definately want to try to make that tree sometime.
If you would like the information for any of these cards, leave a comment or email me and I’ll give you what I’ve got! Thanks to everybody for participating…..it was a lot of fun!
Filed under swaps | Comment (0)A quick card
Yesterday I had my xray and they found nothing wrong, which is good. But at the same time, there’s still no explaining why my back is hurting. So I went to get some accupuncture done and that single time has made the biggest difference! The Dr. was able to get rid of ALL of the pain between my shoulders, and greatly reduced the pain in my middle back. I have another appointment for accupuncture on Tuesday after my training session, and the accupuncturist is actually located at my gym. Which, I dont have to tell you how convenient that is.
Anyway, so today I wanted to make a card. I was inbetween doses of meds and wanted to hop downstairs a bit. I have 3 swaps that Im in. One is a demo only swap for Christmas cards, another is a glitter swap and the 3rd I just signed up for today is a swap with the new Papertrey Christmas sets! So much fun! But I havent made any yet. Although, since Papertrey JUST released last night I cant really make any until they come.
So here is an idea that I may use for one of the other two cards, I like the layout but I’m not crazy how the glitter turned out. And there is a weird little spot in the middle of my snowman that Im not fond of. There is also some clear EP on the poinsettia image, although it doesnt show up in the picture, it’s a nice touch IRL. I decided to use Beate’s weekend sketch as my starting point.
Instructions:
1. Starting with a piece of old olive CS cut and folded to standard size. I used my corner rounder on all 4 corners, then sponged in old olive ink and then again in chocolate chip ink. I then stamped the snowflake from ‘perfect presentation’ in old olive all over the front and set it aside.
2. Next I cut a piece of chocoalte chip CS to 3.5 x 3 and used the open argyle from ‘all in a row’ around the corners in chocolate chip ink.
3. Then I cut a piece of real red CS at 3 x 2.5 and sponged the edges in real red ink. Then I used my distresser tool around the edges.
4. After that I cut a piece of old olive CS at 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 and used my ticket punch on the edges. Then I sponged in old olive ink and then again in chocolate chip ink.
5. Using the snowman stamp and versamark ink pad I stamped it onto the old olive. Then I used heat and stick powder and red SU glitter. I adhered this to the red CS, punched with my 1/16 handheld punch and added pewter brads. Then used dimensionals and adhered it to the chocolate chip CS.
6. Taking my 5/8 inch red grosgrain ribbon, I wrapped it around the bottom of the card and adhered it in place with some snail.
7. Then I stamped the poinsettia image in real red ink onto white CS and cut it out with my 1 1/4 circle punch. While the ink was still wet I poured some heat and stick onto the image, then heated it and put some clear EP onto it and set it again.
8. I then punched out a 1 3/8 inch circle and adhered the two together.
9. Next I used my scallop punch with chocolate chip CS and then used my paper piercer on each scallop. I then added some sponging around the edge with chocolate chip ink. And then adhered the layered image to the scallop.
10. Finally I adhered the layered scallop to the cardfront with dimensionals and the layered snowman to the cardfront with snail.
And there it is! My medication will be kicking in any minute and then I’ll be out! I hope to make another card tomorrow and then be in full crafty action by Monday! I hope everyone is having a GREAT weekend.
The DEETS:
Stamps: Perfect presentation, all in a row-SU
CS: Old olive, real red, chocolate chip, white-SU
Ink: old olive, real red, chocoalte chip, versamark-SU
Accessories: sponges, dimensionals, pewter brads, heat and stick powder, clear ep, red glitter, 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches, 1/16th handheld punch and scallop circle punch-SU
