Live like a Butterfly....

Hello & Happy Friday Crafty Friends!!

Another week has gone by and I'm excited for the weekend!!!

Still very busy running around and hope one of

these days things will lighten up!

I've had this card sitting on my desk for

a long while - It's a FOILED CARD!!

You guys know I LOVE to FOIL!!!

But I just never put it together, so I

finally sat down and put everything together and

I gotta say... I LOVE the way it turned out!!

I'm using Digital Images from Polka Dot Orchard

So I used my Laser printer and printed out the sentiment & Butterflies

on a piece of vellum -

Then I grabbed some Pink/Gold Foil and placed it through

my laminator and everything came out beautifully -

I hand cut the butterflies, cuz I wanted 1 for the inside of my card

Then I Laser printed this fabulous design on a piece of 

Neenah Solar White cardstock and grabbed a piece of 

Pink Fushia Foil and put it through my laminator as well

I made sure to leave enough space on my vellum to over hang on

my white cardstock piece and attached the two together

so no adhesive would show through - Then I cut a piece of

Gold Foiled Cardstock out and attached them all together

and added some Fun Foam to the back for Dimension

and adhered it all to a White Card base -

The Butterflies were attached with Multi-Matte Medium glue and

I just added glue where the foiled design is so it wouldn't show through -

I added a piece of Gold foil strip to the inside to complete

my card - I also added a couple of Lucy's Cards Gems -

This looks so elegant up close and in person!!!

Floral Flourish Background 3

Live Life Like a Butterfly

**** And just so you know... I took the image (Above)

and enlarged it so I could just get the butterfly

images... then I erased what I didn't want

and sized my butterflies accordingly -

That's one of the benefits of digital stamps

they can be sized up or down and you

can remove sections you don't want - 

Most regular stamps you can't do that with -

so it's a nice way to get even more creative with what

you have!!! ****

Have a Magical Weekend!!

Theresa

5 minute Elegant Birthday

Hello & Happy Monday Everyone!

Did you guys have a good weekend?

I was busy trying to do a million things in just 2 days! 

How crazy is that? It's not like I don't know better! 

You can't just cram a million things into one weekend!

Ooh, well... I tried too anyway and now it's back to work as usual!

Just waiting for Friday to come back around! hahaha

I thought I would show ya a quick Birthday card -

This looks so Elegant and yet it took me about 5 minutes to make! WHAT?

It's ALL in the PAPER!!! 

** Products Used **

Cardstock - Papertrey Ink Black, Fun Foam

Designer Paper - KaiserCraft (Violet Crush)

Stitched Rectangle Frame Die - My Creative Time

Celebrate Word Die - MFT (cut 3x's)

Slanted Strip Sentiment Die - MFT

Sentiment Stamp - MFT (Birthday Greetings)

Fine White Embossing Powder - SSS

Clear Adhesive Gems - SU

Versamark ink, Embossing Buddy, Stamparatus, Heat Tool,

Side Kick Mini, Gemini Jr.

Thanks for stopping by!

Theresa

Spread your wings birthday...

Hello and Happy Wednesday Wonderful Crafters!

We are 1/2 way through the week already and
I can't wait for Friday to come! :)

All this week I'm showcasing some digital stamps

I got from my Awesome crafty friend Jessica over at:

Polka Dot Orchard

She's been working hard at making new digi's and I just think
they're wonderful! 

Here's a set of cards I created recently --

As you guys know... I work at an Elementary School - So I always
have to have Birthday & Thank You cards on hand at ALL times for
the Teachers & staff - They are my most requested cards! :)

I'm using the Spread your wings digital stamp set 

for the lovely Bird images and the Happy Birthday Sentiment

On this card, I'm using the Good Morning Spring Digital Stamp set

for the Thank You Sentiment

The background design I created in my Silhouette program using the

Rondelle Digital Collection by Prima -

I sprayed both card fronts with some Acrylic Sealer and added

Fun foam to the backs for added Dimension -

I Popped up the lovely birds and colored them in with some 

Alcohol markers and finished off my card with some tiny clear gems

I just LOVE the colors on these cards ---

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a Fabulous Day!!

Theresa

Lovely Swap cards....

Hello & Happy Friday Friends!

YAY!!! The weekend has rolled around again!

Ooh, how I like the weekends! 

I don't know about you guys but I tend to

just stay in my PJ's all weekend long!

I run around all week and get my stuff

done just so I don't have to do anything on the weekends!

Is that bad? or smart? Either way... I look forward

to putting my PJ's on and just chilin'! LOL

Here's a couple of lovely cards I thought I'd share with you today...

The Peace & Comfort card was made for my local card swap group and after

making it I thought I could turn it into a Birthday card as well for another teacher -

I love it when a card design can be universal!!!

I designed this card in my Silhouette Program and used some

Pretty Prima (Rondelle) Digital paper -

*** PRODUCTS USED ***

Cardstock - Recollections 110lb. White, Bazill White, Papertrey Ink Black

Stitched Rectangle Frame Die - My Creative Time

Stitched Long Skinny Rectangle Dies - Lil Inker Designs

Peace & Comfort Sentiment - Close to my Heart

Happy Birthday Sentiment - Can't Remember (oops)

Sheer Shimmer  Frost Spritz was used on the flowers

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Dimensionals, Fun Foam,

Misti, Gemini Jr., Cameo, Canon Printer, Clear Acrylic Sealer

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a PJ Wearing Fantastic Weekend!!

Theresa

Elegant CAS card....

Hello & Happy Thursday Everyone!

Today's my day to take over the blog at:

SumMore Fun Stamps!!!

 I thought I would share an Elegant CAS Thank you card!

I don't know about you - but sometimes you just need a

Quick card - Also an Elegant one at that!

Sometimes all you need is a Beautiful Stamped Sentiment and

some Beautiful papers to make it happen!!

That's where this card comes into play!!

I'm using the Thank You (2873-J) Stamp set

From Victorine Originals and some Beautiful 

papers from DCWV (Lilac Love)

I started out by grabbing the pretty papers and deciding on the

stamp I planned to use - Then I grabbed a Stitched Scallop

border die and cut out enough room so

my large sentiment would fit nicely onto my card front

Knowing that my Designer paper had gold foil on it

I knew I wanted my sentiment to POP with gold as well

So I stamped my sentiment right onto the

paper with some versamark ink then

added my fine gold embossing powder 

I carefully heated up my sentiment with my heat tool

only heating up small sections at a time

(I didn't want to warp) my Elegant paper with the heat

It came out PERFECTLY! I was so excited to 

see the transformation of the gold embossing (Who Doesn't?)

After I let it cool for a minute I wanted to add a 

Stitched Rectangle border around my design

for a nice finished off look

Then I added a piece of White Fun Foam

behind my card front and set it off to the side for a minute

While the card front was very pretty - my plain white

card base didn't do it justice -

So I decided to add foil to it!

I folded my Card front in half and 

I adhered some Scor Tape all around the border

on the front of my card

Then I grabbed a piece of Gold Foil from

my stash and laid it right on top 

of the adhesive - I used my Bone Folder

to rub the foil into the adhesive

(making sure it would stick)

Then peeled off my gold foil - to find

a beautiful gold foil frame!

Now that I was happy to have the foil frame

it was time to adhere the card front to my card base

and Voila My card Shimmers and shines with gold!!!

I added some gold sequins and a Prima

Flower I found in my stash!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a FANTASTIC DAY!!

Tiara Rondelle Birthday Wishes..

Hello & Happy Tuesday Everyone!

It's Challenge Day over at Die Cuttin Divas!

The Theme this week is BIRTHDAY!!!

We also have an AMAZING Sponsor for this Challenge!

Spellbinders

-- Here's what I created to inspire you --

Spellbinders was so kind to send each Design Team Member

a lovely Die set to use on our Challenge -

I received the Shapeabilities Tiara Rondelle Etched Dies

I also pulled out a couple of other Spellbinders dies I had

in my stash - My Flowers are the Die D-Lites Blooms One Etch Dies

and I grabbed my Nestabilities Standard Circles Die

I'm using the DCWV Black Currant Paper Stack

amd my Birthday Sentiment is from 

Jaded Blossom called Special Birthday

The Black Gems are from Michael's $ bin

and My card size is a 5x7 

                         Now that you've seen what I've created - Head on over to

Die Cuttin Divas , join in the fun and create something

with this Theme! Make sure to leave some Blogging Love

for ALL those Fabulous Design Team Members

over their - They work really hard to make FUN

Challenges for you & ME! 


Have a FABULOUSLY CRAFTY DAY!!!

Theresa