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Jul
09

Another dinosaur card

Posted by DeAnna

I attended a class at Photo Express about a month ago that was an all-occasion Copic card class. We made three different cards, and I absolutely loved the dinosaur stamp they used and I am so happy with the way my coloring turned out. Check this out:

I colored most of the dinosaur in my lightest green, leaving the nails and teeth white. I then colored highlights with my darkest green (I only have two greens and they aren’t even in the same color family but they look good together so I go with it ;D). Then I went back with my lightest green and blended the highlights in. Then I went back and added dark green to the spots. Then I decided I didn’t like his belly just being the light green so I used my colorless blender and removed some of the color and then colored over it with my buttercup yellow (Y21). I love the way this turned out. I did pretty much the same thing with the teeth/nails. I colored them in with my yellow and then used my colorless blender to remove some of the yellow near the tips. The card was for a boy who was turning 1 so I used blue for the present and since I don’t have an orange Copic I used dark purple to contrast with the blue in the party hat. After I cut him out I used one of my black markers to color around the image to hide the white paper which is a major pet peeve of mine.

I have no idea who makes the stamp since we didn’t get to use the actual stamps. PE stamped the image multiple times and then copied them on their copier for the class members. It worked out well since I have enough materials to make several cards, but they didn’t provide us with a materials list.

I have a couple other cards to make from the class, and I’ll share them soon. I haven’t scanned in any of the layouts I have been doing recently yet, and we’re in Kamloops visiting for the weekend now so I’ll have to share those next week. I’m very excited about some of the layouts I have done in the last week too ;D I’m totally in a crafty zone right now and I hope it doesn’t go away anytime soon ;D

Have a great weekend!

DeAnna

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Jul
03

Teacher thank you cards

Posted by DeAnna

I had to do some quick teacher thank you cards last week after we came back from camping for Kyle’s last day (a fun day) of preschool. He goes back to the same preschool in September three days a week and I’m glad I’ve been able to keep him at the same school instead of having to move him because they don’t do infant care. I have been able to stay at home and not return to a “job” (although I am working from home for a new company) and that meant I didn’t have to move him so that both kids were at the same facility. He’s enjoyed this year tremendously and his learning exploded throughout this last year. I have a set of stamps from Basic Grey that I love (Tree Hugger), it has the cutest owl and a hand drawn speech bubble, and a couple of little smiley faces, along with a bunch of other stamps in the set. I decided to use the owl, since really, owls are notoriously linked to teachers ;D I paired the stamps with some Basic Grey paper from the Green at Heart 6×6 paper pad and a kraft cardstock base. Check it out:

I stamped the owl once using Memento ink in brown and then stamped on white cardstock with Green Memento ink and coloured it in with my Copics the cut it out and adhered it without popping it. Isn’t the owl just adorable? I love the funky googly eyes! On the inside I used the large Thank You from the Basic Grey set. I finished it off with a double bow with some of my floss from my cross-stitching days many moons ago. Finally I have a use for it!!

That’s it for today. Have a great weekend!

DeAnna

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Jul
01

Happy Canada Day!

Posted by DeAnna

Just a quick post today to show off a card I made for a friend who hosts an infamous Canada Day warm-up party every year. They are great neighbors and I thought I would thank them by making a card for them. I have no idea who makes the stamps I used, I can’t tell from the wooden base, but I bought them from Michaels and I knew I would get some good use out of them, especially this year with Olympic themed layouts and all. The paper I bought from a dollar store nearby, the leaves were cut with my QuicKutz Squeeze and the maple leaf die, and the button is from a bag of buttons at Michaels. The floss is from my stash of DMC floss. It was a quick and easy card to put together and I love it! I colored in the heart and the EH! with my R59 Copic and used the blender pen to give some highlights to the heart. Top it off with a kraft cardstock base stamped with the Hero Arts background flourish with VersaMark and we’re good. I put one of the stamps from the Hero Arts Essential Sayings set on the inside as well.

We are actually going camping in the states this weekend (go figure – for the Canada Day weekend ;D) I’ll be back next week with some layouts I did recently.

DeAnna

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Jun
29

Matthew’s birthday party

Posted by DeAnna

Well, Matthew is a year old now and I’ve finally gotten around to getting my photos looked at and uploading some of them to my Flickr gallery. I was so happy with how the cake turned out. Matthew’s birthday party was a baseball theme and started with the invitations:

I used my Silhouette to cut out the circle card base on kraft cardstock. It was an image that had other designs being cut for the front of the card, so I ungrouped them, then removed the parts I didn’t need. Then I chose the baseball. I resized it to fit on the card base. I ungrouped that too and copied the stitches to another document. I left the stitches in the original baseball and regrouped it so I could copy and paste it with the stitches into a new document numerous times on the same page. If I am mass producing cards such as invitations or thank you cards I will place as many of them on a sheet as I can by using the copy and paste feature. I also created a document in Photoshop with the text of the invitation for the inside of the card. I saved it as a .bmp document and pulled it onto a document in the Silhouette software. I copied the outside of the baseball and pasted it on top of the text document and moved it until it was over the text I wanted to be cut out. I printed it on lightweight plain cardstock (from Staples I think) and then ran it through my Silhouette – voila! My own print and cut ;D Assembly was super easy once I had everything cut out, and I inked with Ancient Page Sandalwood around the outside of the card, inside text, and over the stitching and the edges of the baseball. I really wanted the baseballs to look like gamers, not pearls (in baseball talk, a gamer is a rubbed up game ball, and a pearl is a brand new unused ball).

Then I got to work on the cake using my Silhouette again! Here are the pictures:

I was so happy with the results! My husband commented that the bases are too far back in the running path, but other than that he was very excited about the cake I used the baseball field image on the Silhouette, and used the negative space in the template to mask off the running path. I sprinkled green crystal sugar to make the grass and the infield, then piped by hand the bases and the fair/foul lines. I piped a bit more chocolate icing for the pitching mound and a small strip of white for the pitching rubber. Not too shabby, eh?

Lastly, the thank you cards. Super easy using more craft cardstock, the same white and red cardstock from the invitations and some of my baseball paper stash (I think it was Karen Foster but I can’t find it on her website – I’ve had it a few years now). The thank you stamp is Basic Grey. The baseball border stamp is TPC Studio. I stamped the thank you in green Memento ink, and the baseball border in red Memento ink, and coloured in the baseballs with a white watercolour pencil.

Next I’ll show you the invitations for Kyle’s birthday party – but you can get a sneak peek if you check out my Flickr gallery here.

See you soon!

DeAnna

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Apr
30

Kevin & Kylee’s wedding album…

Posted by DeAnna

Another quick post to show you the album I created for Kevin and Kylee’s anniversary (which I was actually early for! It’s not until June ;D). I am very happy with how this album turned out, I think I went out of my box a bit and used some embellishments I hadn’t ever used before. Then I made a card to go with the album and got a chance to use my Copic markers (which I am totally addicted to ;D!!!) Without further ado, presenting….

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Some of the scans don’t do justice to the layouts. The flower I created to look like the flower in Kylee’s hair looks much prettier in real life, it looks a bit dull in the scanned image. I used acrylic pieces on the inside cover page and inked them with ColorBox chalk inks. I love the dimension it created on the page and how it highlighted the photo of Kevin and Kylee during the ceremony. I recolored the word art from Jessica Sprague in Photoshop to match the colors I knew I would be using before I printed the photo. I did that with a bunch of photos actually, look closely and you’ll see which ones I’m talking about. I used some clear embossing over different colored inks, and some fun die cuts using my silhouette. I wish I had my Copics before I started the album – I might have done a few images with some coloring ;D

You can also look at my Flickr gallery here if you want to see the products list. I’ll do a post about my favourite layout from this album in a few days. I’ve wanted to do a layout like this for a while and I’m so glad I finally got the chance to do it ;D

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Feb
01

Dino card Silhouette quick tips…

Posted by DeAnna

Kyle recently went to a birthday party of a friend from preschool. The theme was dinosaurs, so I made a dinosaur card using a dinosaur silhouette cut out on my Silhouette (haha).

To make sure all my elements would fit on my card I started with a standard 8.5 x 11 inch document. I drew a rectangle the size of my card, in this case a 5.5 x 4.25 inch card. I chose the dinosaur silhouette I wanted to use, and scaled it down to fit inside the rectangle. Then I used the type tool and typed out the word DINO-mite and scaled that to fit as well.

Once I had everything laid out the way I wanted it, I started a new document and moved my dinosaur to the second document because I wanted my text and the dinosaur silhouette to be on different coloured paper. On the first document I also deleted the rectangle I drew since I was only using it as a reference. I then sent both documents to output and voila, I had everything I needed for my card cut out and ready to put together.

I don’t have a picture of it yet, but I will get one soon. I was really happy with the way the card turned out, especially since I’m a bit of a novice card maker. I’ve really only made our christmas cards and a few birthday cards for friends.

On a side note – I’ve reached 100 downloads of my templates and kits! Woohoo! I’ll be back later today or tomorrow with a freebie that I’ve been working on.

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