Take Me Back in Time

Hello everyone,

A couple of years ago I took a card class. In the class we made two masculine cards, something I had not done before and it has inspired me to make more. I gave one of the cards that I made in the class to my father and the other to my husband. My husband still has his card and my father framed his and hung it in the garage beside his adored Mustang.

I recently made another card for my dad, a vintage car card. He said that he is going to frame this one as well and hang it beside the other one.

I have to say, I think the Art Deco Cricut cartridge has to be my favorite cartridge so far. I say this but I haven't cracked open my Outdoor Man cartridge yet. It may be a tough choice and they may both become my favorite.

Lets start at the back of the card. I saw this technique online a while back (I can't remember the source, sorry), where you ink the flat side of the embossing folder and then emboss the paper. What a fantastic technique. It allowed me to add colour to the flat portion of the paper and not the embossed portion of it. I did a test where I did not ink the embossing folder but inked the embossed pattern instead. As you can see, the test sheet did not make it to the card. I much prefer the lighter red embossed pattern and the dark brown background.

In keeping with the vintage look, I inked the edge of each framed paper. This is a technique that I use often and find that it gives the paper - patterned or solid colour - a little more pop.

I absolutely love how this card turned out and from my father's reaction you can tell that he loved it too.

Until next time, Happy Paper Crafting!!!!


Used from my inventory:

• Recollections cardstock
• EL-017 M-Bossabilities
• Walnut stain distress ink
• Big Shot
• Scotch Advance tape glider
• Cricut Expression
• Art Deco Cricut cartridge
• Stampin'up 2-way glue pen
• Paper and cardstock from my leftover pile

Let's Ride

Hello everyone and happy Sunday

The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamps is "Anything Goes", so here goes anything.

I have started collecting cardboard that used to end up in the recycling bin. I guess I am upcycling items around the house. The collection began as I was about to throw out a frozen pizza box. The box was clean and the cardboard was the perfect thickness to be sturdy but yet embossable.

Pair the saved cardboard with a little tin foil and you have a fantastic metallic look to work with.

I started by cutting the cardboard to the size that I needed and then ran it through my Xyron machine. I placed the sticky side of the cardboard to the non-shiny side of a large piece of tin foil. I trimmed the tin foil, leaving enough to wrap the edges of the cardboard and taped it to the back.

I ran the metallic paper through my Big Shot using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I completed the look using the Tim Holtz Industrial Technique that I learned in his Creative Chemistry 102 online class.

I love how it all turned out and I doubt I will ever buy metallic paper again. However, my stash of cut out cardboard boxes has increased significantly.

Thank you for visiting and hope you will stop by again.

Till next time, happy paper crafting.




Supplies used from my inventory:

• Tim Holtz - black soot distress paint
• Cuttlebug embossing folder
• Kelly's outline stickers
• Recollection cardstock
• Sookwang Creative tape
• Peel-off's magic tape
• Glitter Ritz - cool highlight
• Copics - 0, 100, R89, B91, C5, E77, W5
• Stampin'up ink - sahara sand
• Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous - Road Trip CMS128
• Big Shot
• Scotch Advance tape glider

Supplies purchased:

• None

Let the Season-ing Begin

This week Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge is to create a card with a summer food and/or drink theme.

The card I created was inspired by a gentleman at work who asked "Can you make a card with food?"

Well, yes, yes, I can; at least with a food theme.

It was also inspired by Kim Reid's "When I Need You" card in the CardMaker magazine, Summer 2013 issue. I enjoy the style of her card.

I had the idea, had the supplies and usually it ends there. However, due to the intent of Three Cs blog  "to get motivated to use the supplies I have hoarded for years and to push my creativity to the next level" and a very inspiring challenge from Simon Says Stamps I got working in my craft room getting thought to paper.

This card challenged me a bit more than the first three cards posted. I wanted to cut the little man using the Block Party Cricut Cartridge but did not have any skin colour paper. Nor did I like my choice of paper for his hair. I opted to cut these items in white and used Copic marker E01 & E11 to give him his skin tone and E37 & E77 for his hair colour. I also used Copic marker C3 to shade his chefs hat and the metallic items.

The other challenge was the salt and pepper shakers. I tried different techniques and products in order to achieve the metallic look for the bottle covers, as well as a salt and pepper look to its contents.

My first try was Glitter Ritz but that was too shiny.

The second try was colouring the different parts of the bottle with the Copic markers - not quite the result I wanted.

Third try was to emboss. Third try is always the charm. I cut out two sets of the salt and pepper shakers. The first set, I cut the tops off and embossed them with the Martha Stewart - sterling silver embossing powder. The second set, I roughly embossed the salt bottle with Martha Stewart's bright white embossing powder hoping to keep a grainy look to the powder. The pepper bottle, I embossed it in two layers. the first layer was embossed with black powder, then I reapplied the Big & Bossy embossing ink and lightly sprinkled with the bright white powder. I finished the bottles by gluing the metallic covers to the embossed bottles. The look that I got, with the supplies I had, is probably the closest I would get to looking like the real deal.

 

My photography skills did not pick up the details of the salt.

Items from my inventory used to make this card:

• Various card stock and pattern paper
• Block Party - Cricut Lite - Dad 1 and Grill 1
• Copic markers
• hair - E37, E77
• skin - E01, E11
• metal and shadows - C3
• grass - YG63
• sky - B0000
• Tombow glue
• Circut Expression
• Recollections - brown cardstock
• Stampin'up - Classic stamping pad - Cherry cobbler and Sahara sand
• Circle stamp - unknown
• Unity Stamp - Splatter it
• Fiskar paper trimmer
• Viva decor - Pearl pen - cream and black
• Cricut cartridge - From my Kitchen - salt & pepper
• Martha Stewart - sterling embossing powder
• Big & Bossy - embossing ink pad
• Marvy Embossing heat tool
• Zapdots foam dots
• Sharpie permanent marker
• Stampendous! black embossing powder

Purchased:

• Nothing 

Just Add Metal

Hello Everyone,

Over the past couple of weeks I have been familiarizing myself with the blogging world by reading other crafting blogs, mostly blogs on scrapbooking and card making. It is fantastic to see people’s creativity with such a simple product like paper.

I found in my search, DT Calls. They provide a list of 95 web addresses to different monthly, bi-weekly, weekly and daily challenges.  

Besties Challenge Blog is amongst the 95 addresses listed. Sherri Baldy, owner and author of Besties Challenge Blog doesn’t only post weekly challenges but also provides a list of upcoming challenges so that you can plan ahead. The challenge for May 27^th is to “add metal to your card”. I jumped all over that challenge since I had ideas and the supplies to bring it to fruition.

Card done! Happy about the addition of metal! Can’t wait to show people! Very excited!!!

Then I reread the challenge rules on Besties Challenge Blog. It appears that in my excitement I misread them the first time. I did follow the spirit of the challenge and added metal to the card, but I also had to add a Bestie image. My card does not qualify for the challenge or for a chance to win some Bestie images but I am still pleased with the card and will give it to my husband for father’s day.  

I think the card is quite appropriate for him. Not only is it very manly but it has a vehicle/machine type of look to it.  He is a mechanic at heart, has a love for automotive and remembers every single customer by the vehicle they own.

For the metal look, I passed a piece of Art Emboss medium weight aluminum in the Spellbinder M-bossabilities EL-017 folder through the Big Shot. To save anyone from “paper cuts”, I folded under all the cut edges of the aluminum (I am cringing at the thought of an aluminum cut). Each piece of aluminum was then taped to a distressed and inked piece of cardstock.

This card was brought to you by the following supplies:

From my inventory:

· Art Emboss medium aluminum

· Spellbinders M-bossabilities EL-017

· Big Shot

· EK Success - Binding Edge Edger Punch

· Making Memories distress tool

· Tim Holtz - walnut distress ink

· K&Company Engraved Garden adhesive chipboard

· Various cardstock

· Brads

· Zapdots - foam dots

· EK Success - Major League baseball stickers

· Scotch - Advance tape glider

Purchased:

· Nothing