Pretty Paper Craft Cards and Scrapbook Pg with Leftovers

This was a class that I had taken at the Brisbane Scrapbooking and Papercraft Expo - I had told the teacher that I would never have chosen the paper but it made some beautiful cards.  I'll be more open when looking at paper now.   The first 3 cards were Jane Clark's (the instructor's) designs - the last two cards and the scrapbook page I designed with the leftover papers and die cuts.  Here is a link to the video with a little more information:    Pretty Paper craft cards and Layout

Happy Birthday Card for Gabby

I just wanted to share the Birthday card I designed for my Grand Daughter Gabby.  She is turning 3.  I made a pocket card out of Lilac Cardstock and then adhered a small white paper doily to the front.  I slid a vellum tag that had a lilac string attached onto a lilac ribbon with white polka dots and tied it around the pocket.  I wrote Happy Birthday on the vellum tag with a white gel pin.  The paper doll was a free svg download from www.quillingpatch.com - I used the fairy pattern.  They have some amazing paper doll downloads for various occasions.  I cut it using my Cricut personal die cutting machine.  When I put this doll together, I cut the bodice out of cardstock but taped a piece of irredescent wrapping paper to the bodice.  The two piece skirt pattern was cut out of two shades of plum/purple cardstock and I used the cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder to emboss them with dots.  I then gathered a piece of light gray tulle and used fabric glue to glue it to the top of the skirt and then glued the bodice on top.  I cut two "shoes" by just tracing the feet on cardstock and shaping them like shoes and covered them with purple organza.  I cut two of the hair sections and one of them I put glue tape on the back of and then cut rounded strips from it and glued it down to the base hair section to give it the appearance of real hair.  I then tied a narrow purple ribbon around the bun.  I had a Peachy Keen stamp set for doll faces but they were too big for this size paper doll so I just looked at the stamp and then free hand drew the face on the doll.  I colored the inside of the mouth and the cheeks with a atyou Spica marker"Twinkling like stars" in the color:  14 - Blossom.  I added gold glitter glue to the star at the tip of the wand.  I cut the wings out of clear acetate from recycled packaging and added clear glitter glue that had some irridescent glitter in it.  Thank you for looking.

My Handmade version of an Australian Gumnut Flower and A White Pom pom B...

GP Flower and PDC Butterfly

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I would share the talents of these two artists.  I have just tried the flower that Gabrielle Pollaco (http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com) has a tutorial on.  I had to alter it somewhat because I did not have the punch that she used for the center of the flower but I managed it by using the smallest flower on the Tim Holtz tattered Florals die and it worked out just fine.  Then I made the gorgeous butterfly that Penny Duncan (http://pennyduncancreations.blogspot.com) designed and created.  She also has svg files and tutorials on how to use them and how to make her designs.  I will have to borrow more of their designs because they really are talented and inspiring.

Accident Prone

Hi Everyone,
This is a layout I did of my Grand Daughter who had accidentally found and taken some ibuprofen and had been rushed to the hospital.  (One of my older grand daughters had figured out how to get the lid off of the bottle and had scattered them around the room and Suri got ahold of some)  It was so scary and my son took this photo with his iphone and sent it to me to reassure me that she was ok.  It is very hard for me because I live in Australia and my son and his daughters are in Missouri in the US.

I used the Graphic 45 "Curtain Call" for the background paper and mounted it on cream colored cardstock.  I cut a square in the center and folded back the paper to create a "frame" around the photo and attached the points with black star brads.  I tore sections out of the edge of the background paper and stamped portions of one of my flower stamps with versa mark embossing ink and then embossed them with black embossing powder.  I then stamped "poison" with one of my halloween stamps and OOXX with another stamp I have and embossed them and slid them inside the tears on the edge of the page.  2 of the flowers are made from grosgrain ribbon and the 3rd is from a wired ribbon that I shaped into a rose.  The center of the polka dot flower is from an old costume jewelery ring that I had and I just snapped the ring off of the back and glued it to the center.  The title was made using rub ons applied to cream colored ribbon and the bandaid was from a sheet of Jolee stickers that I have had for a long time.  I stamped portions of  my "Music Collage" stamp (by stampabilities) on the tag and on the torn paper at the bottom right of the photo and then embossed with black embossing powder.

My 2011 Xmas Card Design

Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to share my 2011 Xmas Card.  I used a stampin up stamp called Happy Christmas Mate from 2009-2010 collection.  I stamped it on watercolor paper and then used watercolor pencils to color the design and then I scanned it and duplicated it multiple times on a page and printed the images on watercolor paper so that I did not have to color each one.  I had so many cards to do I didn't have time to color each one.  I apologize but I do not know the name of the paper I used for the background or the paper I used to cut he flowers from.  It was something I picked up from my local scrapbook store and had what I interpreted as waves and hibiscus flowers which was appropriate for an Australian Xmas Card. I scanned in one of the flowers and imported it into word as a watermark and then Typed Happy Holidays mate over the water mark and I used a diecut to cut out the stamp.  I then used stickles for the lights and the centers of the flowers on his swim trunks, puff paint on his beard and then glossy accents for the splashes of water.  Thanks for looking!