Monthly Archives: June 2012

Jun 26

Sneak Peek: Spellbinders Summer Spectacular Day 6

Hello friends, and welcome to Spellbinders™ Blog Frenzy! I hope you enjoyed the posts done by the other Design Team members so far; perhaps you were the lucky ones to win some goodies! There are still lots of chances to join us, and I’m happy to share my bit with you today!

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  • Waltzingmouse - Sewing Box Christmas; Say It Loud Winter Holiday clear stamp sets

Here are the brand new dies and embossing folder!

EL-013 Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities™
MSRP US $9.99
Approximate Die Templates Sizes: 5 x 7″

S4-377 Fancy Framed Tags One
MSRP US $24.99
Approximate Die Templates Sizes:
Oval Tag: 4 1/8 x 1 ½” (Insert: 1 ¾ x 1 1/8″)
Rectangle Tag SM: 4 ¼ x ¾” (Insert: 2 3/8 x ½”)
Rectangle Tag LG: 4 1/8 x 7/8″ (Insert: 2 ½ x ½”)

The project that I’m presenting, is a Christmas gift set that consists of a CD case with a matching card. Below you can find the step-by-step instructions on how to recreate the card.

Begin by embossing a piece of vellum cardstock, with the Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities™.

Trim the vellum cardstock to 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4.9 x 4.9 in), keeping all of the bottom scene. Sponge carefully with Color Box Whisper Grey ink. Pressing the ink pad too much against the vellum will cause the ink smudge the non-embossed areas. You will want to lighten the embossed parts only.

Mat the vellum first with Teal cardstock, then with Black cardstock. Sew around the edges. Don’t mind the nasty fold that was created by sewing, this part will be covered with a label.

You can now create your card base from white cardstock. By trimming it to 14 x 28 cm (5.5 x 11 in), you’re left with just enough border around the panel, and you only have to trim on one side, because the cardstock length is just right.
After you cut it, you can score the card and set it aside.

Now we can proceed to the label! Cut and emboss the oval/scalloped oval, and sponge with an aqua ink of your choice. I used Versa Magic Sea Breeze.

Assemble the oval by adhering the pieces together. Stamp the snowflakes with teal ink (I used Versa Magic Turquoise Gem) and sentiment with Wicked Black ink as shown. You don’t have to stamp in the immediate left and right corners, these parts will be covered.

Die cut and emboss the tag from Fancy Framed Tags One, using the insert so that you’re cutting out the “window” too. Sponge through the die with aqua ink, like you did with the ovals.

Adhere 3D Foam Squares to the back, and attach the tag to the oval as shown.

You can now tie the ribbon across the panel, and attach the label over it, using foam tape. Once that’s done, you can adhere your panel to the card base.

Die cut/emboss/sponge another tag from Fancy Framed Tags One, this time without using the insert. Stamp the sentiment and attach the tag to the bottom of the card.

Lastly it’s time for the finishing touches, like adding some Liquid Pearls in Pewter to the label and tag. You can also use pearls or rhinestones.

Voila! We got ourselves a nice Christmas card :)
The matching CD holder is meant to hold a recorded Christmas message (perhaps from the kids taking center stage??) that you can then send to the family that lives far away. You can also put a CD with your favourite Christmas carols in.

This time I embossed the Winter Wonders M-Bossabilities on white cardstock, and sponged it carefully with aqua ink. The embossing folder happens to be just the right size for the holder, so all I needed to do is take an A2 card, emboss it with the two different patterns, trim slightly and fold in the middle.

The Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! Begins on June 21st and will end on June 28th, 2012. It consists of 24 individual prizes and one grand prize drawing. Enter the Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! by visiting the participating blogs each day.
At the end of each blog post, click on the “Enter HERE” to open the entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating blog to receive that blog’s newly revealed dies. The Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants who sent entry forms from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

**THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED**
**Enter the contest by clicking HERE**

Thank you for joining me today, friends! There’s more goodness to see and more changes to win, on two other blogs today. Please stop by to see what Linda Duke and Julianna Hudgins have in store!!

Questions? [email protected] No entries will be accepted at this email address.

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Jun 25

Don’t forget to have fun!

Hello, friends! Today has been glorious!
Although I was seemingly doing nothing special, I was doing it with a different mindset to the crappy norm that unfortunately was prevailing in the last weeks. I’m sure you must have noticed as well, from the tone of my posts. Hmmm?
The last couple of days have been groundbreaking, if I dare say so! More on it some other day, though… tonight is a happy post time (nearly bed time for me too, duh!), and it took a form of this little cutie from Some Odd Girl, Dancin’ Mae :)

No Copic list this time, I was a little chaotic and mixed the colours until I wasn’t sure what exactly to list… I could’ve done better with my colouring as well! My experiments don’t always give off good results.

For the papers, I matched some different My Mind’s Eye and October Afternoon paper pads. The die cut is Star Circles Nestabilities®.
I also added the sentiment from Waltzingmouse (Half Pint Heroines), on a banner strip.
Speaking of which, don’t hesitate to ask me for no more banners… lol. Really. I can’t stop.

The two challenges that I combined on this card, both have been waiting patiently since the beginning of the month, saved in the Firefox tabs and hoping that they’ll get their chance.
There, there… how could I possibly resist? :)

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed it! I will see you tomorrow, it’s my turn to chime in with the Spellbinders Blog Frenzy projects. Yippee!
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Jun 24

Sketchbook Saturday Challenge #65

Hi, friends! Fancy another sketch?? I’m late… I wanted us to take as much out of the weekend as we can, while it lasted. Now that it’s gone, I slipped into my craft space with pleasure, to work on the design that I had in mind since Friday…

I hope you’ll like this one. It’s one of my favourite layouts and it leads to so many possibilities. Here’s my take…

I stamped the flowers from October Afternoon’s 5 & Dime stamp set, with Old Paper Distress Ink, on the beige card, to create my background. I die cut the largest circle from Crown Circles Nestabilities®, from My Mind’s Eye Lost & Found 2 - Blush stripey paper, and arranged the apples and the sentiment from PTI’s Fruit Fusion: Apple set on it. I stamped both using Memento Love Letter and Olive Grove inks.
I added some Kaisercraft lace & rhinestones, and Maya Road striped twill ribbon.

The colours that I used, come from the ultra yummy Challenge #30 from The Ribbon Reel:

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A few things to keep in mind if you decide to use my sketch:

- You’re kindly asked to save the image onto your computer first, and if you make a card based on it, please link back to this post.
- If you upload your card to an online gallery, use the code SSC65.
- Feel free to share the link to your creation via the Inlinkz widget, so that I can come and check it out!
- The colours/elements mean nothing towards the card. All styles, colours and supplies, as well as slight alterations of the sketch are welcome.
- A new sketch and sample is posted every Saturday, but you’re welcome to play any time! Just leave a link in the comments section after Inlinkz widget closes.
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Jun 23

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge 103

Happy weekend to you! It’s a lovely, sunny day here in Melbourne, quite surprisingly after the last week’s miserable weather. We are sure to make the most of it!
In the meantime, how about a new Waltzingmouse sketch??

I admit that I was a bit unsure as of how to tackle this one, and so I cheated…
It’s Christmas in June, ladies and gentlebugs! I used one of my favourites from WMS, the Nordic Winter set. I stamped the stripes in Memento Angel Pink and Lilac Posies, and the reindeer in Pistachio, in a frame embossed with Labels Four SM Nestabilities®.

Here’s a better look at the dimension & embossing:

I took my colour inspiration from ric#14:

Hop over to the Waltzingmouse Sketch blog, to see more from the Mischief Makers and play along! See you again soon,
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Jun 21

The Craft’s Meow June Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the June Release Blog Hop at The Craft’s Meow!!
If you made your way here from Larissa’s blog, perfect! Otherwise you can join our festivities by starting at The Craft’s Meow blog.

The Craft's Meow

Earlier this week, the Teamies have been sharing the sneak peeks of six new stamp sets to join the TCM family. You had multiple chances to win win one of these sets, and I hope you were the lucky ones! If you weren’t, fret not!
You’ve got the ultimate chance to grab ALL SIX sets, simply by visiting and commenting on each stop in the hop!
The deadline to comment is 9:00pm PDT, Sunday, June 23rd.

I’m sharing two cards with you today. The first one features my favourites from the release, Stitched Flowers and Stitched Sentiments from Nina Brackett. I absolutely LOVE this whimsical bouquet, it’s perfect for colouring! I pulled out my Copics, added some shading to bring the blooms to life and outlined them with light grey marker for further impact. Then I stitched some colourful buttons to the center of each.
A couple of days ago I filled the sentiment with Copics too, this time I left it as it is. Let me tell you, these sentiments are so much fun!!

The card also features some My Mind’s Eye papers (Stella & Rose), Kaisercraft lace and my favourite striped twill ribbon.

I based it on two recent challenges, ISSC20 sketch and cQc#142 colours:

For my next card, I put together some utterly lovely Basic Grey papers and die cuts (pb&j), and the stamps from Lovely Labels 14 and Oh Deer.
I first stamped the flowers from Lovely Labels 14 on white card, with Memento Angel Pink. Then I stamped the sentiment from the same set, with Memento Love Letter on pink card and cut out the banner.
The deer from Oh Deer was paper pieced with the BG paper, and I’m pretty happy with how I matched the pattern with the stamp.

This time I used the Card Patterns sketch 170:

From here, jump on over to Jackie’s blog! Thank you for visiting, have fun hopping along with us :)
Don’t forget, that one of the newly released sets, Summer Fun is your June’s Gift w/ $50 purchase in the TCM Store!!
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Jun 21

CASE Study Challenge #96

Here’s my first post for today, folks! A little bit later I’m popping in again with The Craft’s Meow June Release Blog Hop, so stay tuned…

Like on every Thursday, a new CASE Study challenge has begun, and this week we serve you more inspiration from our June Muse, Joy Taylor:

Apart from my favourite aqua tone, I was really taken by this little plane stamped in black on kraft. How awesome is this look! I decided to swap the plane for a little vintage buggy from Stampendous, that I picked up recently. I added to it just a tiny little hint of pink, by colouring the shade with a Copic marker.


The card also features PTI stamps (A Little Argyle, stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and Palette Fresh Snow), and the sentiment is from the stamp set that I designed for AnnaBelle Stamps quite a while ago, Baby Joy. Let’s face it… illustrator I am NOT, but I did have my moments… lol

The Design Team prepared some beautiful samples today as well, click on any of the links to be taken to their blogs:

Joy Taylor (June Muse)
Amy Wanford
Christina MacLaren
Clare Buswell
Debby Hughes
Jean Martin
Maureen Plut
Teneale Williams
Teresa Kline

Then hop over to the CASE Study blog, where you’ll find the challenge details and a link list to share your creation! See you later,
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