Hello

Hi everyone.

Today I've got a card based on an inspiration challenge issued by Teri Anderson for Technique Tuesday CT.

Here is the card I made

I used the Hello by Ali Edwards stamp set and a few favorite embellishments - a Websters Pages cabochon, a Studio Calico wood veneer heart, an Amy Tan vellum heart, an MME enamel dot, and some patterned papers from Studio Calico Darling Dear and Basic Grey Hey You.

You can check out the rest of the cards made for the challenge here on the Technique Tuesday blog.

Happy Mother's Day

So Mother's Day kind of snuck up on me this year.  I didn't think about making cards until Friday and I only made 2.  This top one I just love!  I used the Hipster Mom digital kit.  This is a really fun kit with some great sentiments like "I *heart* Tattoos" and "the 90's were 10 years ago".  The Super Fly Mom here looks like she's cut out and pop dotted but she's not.  I added a drop shadow.  This was a very easy to make 1 layer card!

Then for this one I used the More or Less collaboration kit, which I think you can still pick up for free if you play along with the Pixels and Co iNSD Blog Hop.  Each stop has the letters for a coupon code that will give you a free checkout.  Everything is one layer except the banner  which is cut out and added to the card front with the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher.  The font for the sentiment is Jane Austin.

I thought this weekend would be busy with my daughter's travel softball, but yesterday's games got rained out and today's also got cancelled.  In anticipation of not doing anything on Mother's Day I bought myself 2 new pairs of shoes!  But then we went out to dinner and gelato yesterday and now I've got everyone here today, too.  Maybe we'll go and visit my Mother in Law today.

Whatever your plans, I hope you have a great day!

May Studio AE from Technique Tuesday Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Technique Tuesday Blog Hop for May!

Today we are featuring the Heartfelt kit

I used stamps from the kit on my Project Life page for week 17, April 21-27.

This was a big week, with my little boy Willie turning 6 on the 23rd and me turning 46 on the 24th.

Anytime someone tells me that they want to do something special for their 40th birthday I tell them to have a baby the day before they turn 40, then spend their 40th birthday in the maternity ward with a brand new baby.  Best birthday ever!

Besides the Studio AE stamps I also used From the Heart, which is the vertical journaling block.

I made this special card with an old picture of Willie and I in the hospital when he was 1 day old :)

So there are a few more stops on the hop:

Ali

Tobi

Daniela

Nichol

Laura (you are here)

Teri

Sharyn

We are doing a random draw from comments for a $25 gift certificate to the Technique Tuesday store.  The winner will be announced on the 15th on the Technique Tuesday blog.

Thanks for stopping by.


Supplies:  Technique Tuesday Studio AE May 2013 Heartfelt stamp set; Technique Tuesday From the Heart stamp; Technique Tuesday Story Cards; Tsukineko Memento ink; Copic markers; Simple Stories Sn@p patterned papers; MME Hootenany patterned paper; Echo Park Everyday Eclectic patterned paper; Elles Studio Calendar card.

Glitter Love

Hi everyone.  Just a quick share today of (another) pub reject to the Supply Savvy idea book call.  I submitted this tag to the Glitter category.  It's pretty simple, made with Technique Tuesday's All My Love stamp set and Candy Apple Red Iridescent Glitter from this pack sold by Martha Stewart Crafts

These glitters I've used so many times and really gotten my money's worth from the pack.  What's great about iridescent glitter is that it is semi transparent.  You can still see the stamping or patterned paper or whatever you've got underneath.  So for the tag above I stamped the heart in black ink on another manilla shipping tag, then gave it a quick paint with Mod Podge to act as adhesive and sprinkled the glitter overtop.  The Mod Podge only takes a few minutes to dry and then you can cut it out.

Here is one of my favorite cards ever made with iridescent glitter from the Martha Stewart pack

I made this a few years ago using some digital leaf stamps that are now retired.  I printed them in black ink on white cardstock and then did the same thing with the Mod Podge and iridescent glitters to coat the leaves.  The sentiment is from one of the first ever Technique Tuesday Studio AE stamp sets.

Thanks for stopping by.

It's National Scrapbooking Day!

And with the exception of World Cardmaking Day, one of my favorite days of the year!

Technique Tuesday is hosting a challenge at Scrapbook.com to stamp on a scrapbook page.  You can use any stamps you want, they don't have to be made by Technique Tuesday.

Here is a layout I made for the challenge

This photo is an Instagram that I thought I'd include in my Project Life album but then when I looked at my photos for that week it didn't make the cut.  I still liked it so it got its own page.

The stamps used are It's a Date, In Stitches, and Seasons.  For the Celebrate Spring I used Memento Lilac Posies dye ink and then to juice it up a bit I stamped overtop of the dye ink stamped image with Versamark and then clear embossed it.

Then the rest of the supplies are a mix of old and new.  That's why we have stashes!  The ombre paper from Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm and the Heidi Swapp Mint Green Color Shine are fairly new.  The journaling cards from Echo Park Everyday Eclectic are from last summer.  The flair, tin pin, arrow, and doily came in Studio Calico kits from last year.  And the yellow labels are also from Studio Calico and way old.  The page size is 9" x 9" (thought I'd add this, if things are looking out of proportion).

I hope everyone has a great NSD and gets some time to scrap and shop the great sales that are going on this weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.

Studio AE May Stamps

Hi everyone.

May is here, and so is a new Technique Tuesday Studio AE stamp set.

So cute!

Here is the card I peeked a few days ago.

I thought it would be fun to turn the journaling block into a pocket.  We give the gift of cash or gift cards quite often.  My daughter would prefer an itunes card, but my niece would probably like it just like this, with some cash :)

Be sure to check out Teri Anderson's super cute card made with the set here on the Technique Tuesday blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nothing is better...

Hi everyone.

Today I'm sharing a recent submission that didn't get picked up.  I made this for Paper Crafts Supply Savvy and submitted it to the ink category.  This is my favorite technique using Ranger Distress inks, where you flick water on it and it resists the water, making the little droplets.  For this background I used the foam blending tool and sponged Tumbled Glass and Broken China on white cardstock, then did the water flicks to try to get the look of rain for this springy card.  The cherry blossoms and birds are from Martha Stewart Crafts and the sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's So Very Thankful stamp set.

I did 6 submissions for Supply Savvy and got 1 picked up (yay!) which I'm very happy about considering we got that extra week's extension.  I don't know what the final numbers were but I'm sure there were a ton of submissions.  Can't wait to see the issue!