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Oct
30

A girly card…

Posted by DeAnna

We have friends who are expecting their first child in March. We’re so excited for them! They also just found out it’s going to be a girl. I’m kind of bummed about it since I was hoping they’d have a boy and I can give my boy clothes that Matthew has outgrown to them. Instead I’ll just have to wait until January to see if our neighbor’s daughter has a boy. ;D At any rate, we’re getting together with our friends this evening for dinner and I made a card for them. I think it’s very girly, but sophisticated as well. What do you think?

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I used perfect pearls on the pink panel and I love the shimmer it gives. The patterned paper are from Green at Heart by Basic Grey, as with the chipboard leaves. The alpha stickers are Chatterbox that I’ve had for ages. I used Hero Arts background flourish stamp in Spun Sugar Distress Ink on the cardstock to soften the stark white. I think it adds just the right touch. I heavily distressed the patterned paper using my Tim Holtz edge distresser and an acrylic bracket shape from Fancy Pants. I handmade the flower using some of the handmade paper I mentioned in my last post. Love that stuff. I used the Spun Sugar Distress Ink to saturate the paper and then my heat tool got a major workout trying to get it to dry!! I like how soft it is against the strong pink patterned paper.

I really hope they like it – she’s in marketing and he’s a graphic designer so they both have a good eye!! ;D

DeAnna

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Oct
26

Busy crafting

Posted by DeAnna

I have not been very busy at work so instead I’ve been crafting.  One thing I like about working from home is that when things are slow, I still have to be at my computer waiting for a job to come in.  That sounds like an oxymoron, but it’s not.  It is dedicated time that I am in the den, without my kids bugging me or interrupting.  If there’s nothing for me to do for work, then I am crafting.  That’s a good thing.  Here are some of the most recent things I’ve made, all of which are destined for Etsy.

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Hand made flowers from hand made paper (which I bought ages ago for our wedding invitations and just found what was left of it when I was purging ;D)  They are very delicate but I think they are gorgeous!

DSC_8213 Another set of hair clips.  I’ve been making these ribbon flowers lately too – so fun!

DSC_8185 A set of four Christmas cards.  I used papers from Basic Grey’s Wassail paper line.  I cut them with my Tim Holtz/Sizzix scallop die.  I hand colored the reindeer with my Copic markers and my white gel pen (Signo) on the kraft cardstock (Bazzill) and punched it out with my EK Success circle punch.  I inked with ColorBox inks and stamped the sentiment using Fired Brick Distress Ink.  Both stamps are Imaginisce.  I think they are adorable ;D

I have the Basic Grey 6×6 paper pad of the Pyrus line and I love the colors and bold patterns in it, and I’ve been trying to make cards with it lately, but I’ve been struggling with it because of its bold patterns.  I follow the blog of Jill Foster.  She shows a card that inspired her and then her take on the inspiration.  I love to look at her bold colors and beautiful distressing and inking.  Today when I saw her inspiration card by Shari Carroll, I instantly knew what to do with that patterned paper!  I can’t wait to play with it this afternoon.  I love when that happens ;D

I can’t believe it’s almost Halloween!!  We don’t even have decorations up yet :(   We at least have pumpkins which I’ll be carving on Thursday evening.  I love carving pumpkins ;D

Be back in a few days with more stuff…

DeAnna

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Oct
20

New holiday card…

Posted by DeAnna

I made this card last night late, really late!  I finished working at midnight and stayed up until almost 1:30.  Boy did I want to keep sleeping this morning!  But I absolutely love it!  I have seen a number of people using wide ribbon and ruffling it and adhereing it to a card.  I think it looks really neat and adds such great depth and texture to the card.  Not exactly good for mailing though, so this will go to someone special ;D

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First I die cut some Neenah card stock then stamped the polar bear (isn’t he cute?).  I colored him in with Copics.  I stamped the polar bear onto a sticky note and cut it out and placed it over the colored image to act as a mask.  Then took a Hero Arts border stamp and stamped it multiple times using Versamark.  I heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then inked the edges and lightly in the center and took care not to get any over the polar bear.  Then I removed the mask and inked the edges a little darker to give it more depth.  Next I dealt with the card base.  I inked the Hero Arts background flourish with distress ink, then spritzed it with water to dilute it and give it a softer feel.  Then I stamped it on the front of the card base and spritzed lightly with perfect pearls.  I stamped the sentiment using my Hero Arts markers, and colored just the snowflake with the distress ink, then lightly breathed on it right before stamping to reactivate the ink.  I punched out the sentiment with my EK Success circle punch, distressed it with my Tim Holtz distresser and inked the edges with silver colorbox ink and faded jeans distress ink.  I decided I needed something else and was looking at my ribbon and saw some blue satin seam binding I’ve had forever and decided to cut it in half and use it on the bottom of the card.  I put adhesive on the back with my American Crafts this and that permanent adhesive roller (which I love, by the way) and then just crinkled/ruffled it as I was placing it on the card.  I adhered the die cut panel over it, placed the circle and added a button and a silver star with some embroidery floss.

The little bear and sentiment are both from Imaginisce (I don’t know if you can get them online anywhere, I think they are from a past collection – I got them from my local scrapbooking store).  I love how they package just one stamp that coordinates with their paper lines and they are super cheap.  I’ll be buying these often ;D  My stamp collection is certainly growing!

Back in a day or two with some more projects.

DeAnna

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Oct
13

Another 2S4Y card…

Posted by DeAnna

I loved the sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You and I decided to do another card for the challenge.  This is a card I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while but it totally came together tonight and I LOVE it!!  What do you think?

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Lots of different products on there, including Hero Arts, Basic Grey, Tim Holtz dies and paper clip, EK Success border punch (can you tell I like that one a lot??  I’ve used it a bunch lately ;D)  I’ve also used perfect pearls spray a lot!  I love the way this flower has come together, and the Note to Self stamp (Basic Grey) with the friends are special treasures (Hero Arts) is a perfect match.  There’s also American Crafts cardstock and Bazzill kraft cardstock, and I used both  Ancient Page and Distress Ink to add depth and texture.   Now I have to start thinking about Christmas presents and get to making some of them.

I think I’ll have another update post on Friday instead of Thursday.  Thanks for looking!

DeAnna

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Oct
11

Bonus card today…

Posted by DeAnna

I thought I would post a bonus card as a card I made matches the 2S4Y sketch this week.

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All papers are Basic Grey, as well as the bling.  The hello friend stamp is Stampendous and the branch/leaves is from the Pyrus bitsy stamps from Basic Grey.  The ribbon is unknown from my stash, and the linen bracket is from my old cross stitching days.  I used an EK Success border punch on the green paper and one of my spellbinders dies for the linen.  I used some Ancient Page chocolate ink for the edges and some twine I got at Walmart to string through the hello tag, which is also pop dotted.  I really love this card, I think it’s elegant and I love the layering I achieved on it.

Sorry for the horrible photo.  I’m looking into getting a light studio for my den.  We have such horrible lighting in our house, even though we have gigantic windows.  First of all, we live near Vancouver.  At this time of year it’s pretty gray most of the time, or full on raining, so that just kills the lighting for sure.  Secondly, all our windows are north facing pretty much (except for 2, and the ones that are south facing look directly at the house next door), so, we don’t get much direct light at all…  And add to that the fact that I take most of my photos late at night, not a good combination!  So, hopefully my photos will have better colour and lighting soon…

Anyway, hope you like it and make sure you check out 2S4Y!!

DeAnna

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Oct
11

A simple fall card…

Posted by DeAnna

I love the Imaginisce Apple Cider line right now – so beautiful! The woodgrain is what I bought it for, but the rest of the papers in the 6×6 pad are just gorgeous ;D You might remember the card I showed the other day with my new flowers that I’ve been making:

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Beautiful colors, right?   I thought I would play around with some other papers and I made a simple fall card. I’ve been really into circles and flowers lately, I am not sure why. Anyway this is what I came up with.

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I saw the back side of this paper and wanted to make a tree with it, of course. So I cut a bunch of circles and made it into the tree. Then I hand cut a trunk and applied it over two other papers for a simple quick fall card. I heat embossed hello fall with my American Crafts alpha stamps and AC Zing copper embossing powder.

This weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada, so (like every year) we were in Kamloops. We went to a bowling alley for our niece’s birthday party (which was a blast except of course for the fact that even Kyle beat my score – my game just isn’t what it used to be ;D ), then we had turkey dinner Sunday night and we’ll be home Monday afternoon. These visits always seem to go by so quickly now. Anyway, back to routine…

DeAnna

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Oct
08

Cool new paper flower

Posted by DeAnna

I’ve been working on this really cute new paper flower that I absolutely adore. I made a whole bunch from the Max and Whiskers Basic Grey 6×6 paper pad:

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And then I used the same type of flower on a card using Imaginisce’s Apple Cider 6×6 paper pad (which I love – isn’t the woodgrain lovely??).

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I have visions of putting these onto a canvas with some paint and word art…

We’re heading to Kamloops this evening for Thanksgiving and our usual birthday celebrations. Rob’s side of the family has a bunch of birthdays in October, all within a month of each other. In order they are Rob, me, our niece Hannah, his middle sister, and his youngest sister from September 23 to October 24. Craziness!

DeAnna

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Oct
04

birthday weekend…

Posted by DeAnna

So Saturday was World Cardmaking Day and a lot of sites participated and had prizes and such. It also happened to be my birthday and I got a few new scrapbooking goodies too! I tried really hard to make a card but I just didn’t have the time :( Between going shopping, getting ready for a dinner (an umpire’s banquet), and then going to a movie, I just wasn’t able to pull anything together. Sunday was a day for sleeping and cleaning. Rob and I have been running three days a week, and Saturday was supposed to be our run day, but it was so busy we decided to do it Sunday instead. It feels good to be running again.

Today I’m just plain old tired. Matthew’s had a bit of a cold and hasn’t slept well the last few days. Today he was awake sometime shortly after 7. I tried to wait it out to see if he would go back to sleep but 20 minutes later he showed no sign of going back to sleep, so I got up. Tonight I work from 7 to midnight and then Kyle has swimming at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, so I’m going to be paying for it tomorrow afternoon for sure! Oh well. He’s a good sleeper most of the time, so I try not to complain too much ;D

I’ve been making a few cards and some really cool new flowers but I haven’t had a chance to photograph them yet. Hopefully this evening while I’m working, if I get a chance, otherwise tomorrow and I’ll get them up for my usual Thursday post.

DeAnna

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