The Egg Hunt!

I've been busy creating Easter cards for the grandkids and thought I would incorporate them into a few challenges as well! First up the color throw down group asked you to use a robin's egg blue, garden green and certainly celery and off white if possible This was for CTD85. Ok I can do that. Next, the girls @ Cuttlebug Challenges asked for an Easter project #76. Of course you needed to use the cuttlebug to emboss and any stamp you choose. I can do that too. I'm exploring the "A Child's Year" cartridge by Provocraft so scanned through it to find an Easter image. I thought the boy and girl separate images of gathering eggs in their basket was great so I at least have a start!
Since I have been taking classes at My Creative Classroom, I thought I would include my newly learned resist technique. I used some matte cardstock, Studio G image of the Easter egg and Ranger inks, 2 shades of green and one of blue with a drop of pearl, Stazon embossing ink and white opaque embossing powder. What a stunning combo for Easter eggs! Notice how great the embossing shows up, I love this technique, its like magic!!! After cutting out the Girl in both shadow and patterned paper @ 3" I used the new folder from the Asian cuttlebug folders for the basket weave on the basket and a flower embossed background behind the girl. I also am loving the Spellbinders scalloped ovals, they added the perfect touch to cut out my Eggs from my resist paper. A little ribbon, rhinestone and a few accents with the copic markers and my card is complete. Now I have to make 2 more girls and 4 boys and I'm done, piece of cake!!!

Anniversary card

I thought I'd give you a behind the scenes look at the beginning of one of my cards. I guess it really is a process! I usually throw out some colors so at least I have a starting point. For this particular card I wanted to use the gorgeous background paper I "created" with the alcohol inks. The blues and greens were so perfect and they almost looked like flowers. The silver added the right amount of glitz! I didn't want to do the typical hearts and flowers for an anniversary card, instead I thought of young love, the beginnings of a long friendship. A Child's Year cart has the most amazing features on it. This one of the boy and girl was perfect for the sentiment I wanted to display. The tree was from Don Juan and the fence from Everyday Paper Dolls.

sweet treats ice cream card

For those of you following me, you know I'm all about learning new techniques! My grand daughter Alexis turns 6 shortly (where does the time go!) so I decided to incorporate some of my alcohol ink papers and combine it with the sweet treats cartridge.The ice cream cone, layers and shadows were all cut @ 3".

Of course I had to emboss with the cuttlebug! The ice cream layer is the one I'm talking about. I like to think of it as strawberry,bubble gum and vanilla all rolled into one! The strawberry was cut from regular pink card stock then M Stwarts' glitter on top. When doing this glitter technique I run the die cut in upside down so the tacky part is on the front, the glitter sticks great, then I use zig glue on the back to adhere to the project. The decorative border was cut with a Fiskar edger and the fabulous paper is from My Mind's Eye Home collection. This paper is just so decorative and seems to have endless possibilities! No card would be complete without some bling so I chose to use pale pink pearls ( say that 3x fast!!!) from reflections. I just know she is going to love it!

baby shower card

I had a great time at Tiana's baby shower today! Of course I had to make a card so I went thru some embellishments in my "stash" and realized I had a left over crawling baby. This was the same baby I made for the "Baby Cakes" for Cecilia's homecoming party back in December. The baby was from Everyday Paper Dolls. I just welded the head onto the body, voila: crawling baby! The baby letters were cut from the Mini Monograms at 1". Needless to say the card was a huge hit (that and the baby carriage using MTME pattern). I thought it would be nice to show this off to the girls at Bitten By The Bug 2, they do such amazing designs over there!

Alcohol Inks

I'm almost done with the Masterz class for the Bind It All. I hope to finish the last 4, yes 4, more projects. I love the on line classes @ www.mycreativeclassroom.com. The classes are posted for quite a long time with both pdf files and videos. Its nice to be able to work at your own pace while learning extraordinary techniques. The latest class I am taking is working with Ranger alcohol inks. These give such interest to all sort of glossy materials. These lanterns I got at Michaels' several years ago but never got around to doing anything with them. Voila, alcohol inks! The fairies I also had for quite a few years and thought hum, citronella candles around the patio table, perfect! I also learned how to "dye" coffee filters and then decided to turn them into flowers for the favor boxes for Cecilia's christening. I couldn't find a pretty paper to match so I used the inks and coffee filters to make my own! I think they turned out really pretty. Three more weeks of classes with the inks and then I think I'll just get busy trying to incorporate what I've learned in these 3 classes to create some really unique projects. The creative juices are flowing, lol!!!