Miss You (12/09/2013)

This card is for a friend - I was missing her, so I made this card, inspired by a silhouette card I saw on Lawn Fawn's blog, which you can see at:
http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/2013/08/cha-links-card-from-christy.html

I partial die cut a dog from Lawn Fawn's Critters at the Dog Park, and the pine tree from Critters in the Forest Lawn Cuts.  I also stamped, colored and cut out the dragon fly from Critters in the Forest  stamp set too. 

I colored the background with Distress Inks. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Happy Birthday (12/08/2013)

Another card I made a while back for a friend's birthday.  Let's say Howdy shall we?

I used an assortment of Lawn Fawn (MY FAVORITE STAMP COMPANY!!!) stamp sets for this card.  I used Flutter By for the flowers, Blissful Botanicals for the foliage, and Blissful Botanicals Lawn Cuts to cut them out with!  I also used the You've Got Mail stamp set for the postcard and stamp.  The sentiment is from Happy Everything set, which truly does cover everything :)

And, I used Distress Inks to color the panel on the front, and also colored panels for the inside so it was easier to write the message.

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Thanks for being my friend! card (12/08/2013)

Here is another silhouette card.  Another card inspired by the Lawn Fawn blog, which you can check out at:
http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/2013/08/cha-links-card-from-christy.html

I used Lawn Fawn's Critters at the Dog Park stamp set for the sentiment and the coordinating Critters at the Dog Park Lawn Cuts die cuts to make the silhouette of the doggie.

I masked a negative circle, used Distress Inks to make the sun, then covered it up with a circle mask, and used Distress Inks to color the sky.  Then, I partial die cut the doggie on a piece of black paper, and then free hand cut the hill around the base of the doggie.  Layered it all up, and used silver embossing powder on the sentiment.

I also used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Journaling Card Lawn Cuts and die cut a sweet little heart.  Added some clear Wink of Stella gel pen for sparkle, and then covered it with crystal effects glue to give it some dimension. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

I Ruff You! card (12/08/2013)

This 'lil card is a silhouette!  I LOOOOVE this!  And, I did a partial die-cut so that the black paper is one piece, with the doggie silhouette and the hill. 

My card was inspired by a card I saw on Lawn Fawn's blog, which you can see at:
http://lawnfawn.blogspot.com/2013/08/cha-links-card-from-christy.html

I used Lawn Fawn's Critters at the Dog Park stamp set for the sentiment and the coordinating Critters at the Dog Park Lawn Cuts die cuts to make the silhouette of the doggie.

I masked a negative circle, used Distress Inks to make the sun, then covered it up with a circle mask, and used Distress Inks to color the sky.  Then, I partial die cut the doggie on a piece of black paper, and then free hand cut the hill around the base of the doggie.  Layered it all up, and used silver embossing powder on the sentiment.

I also used Lawn Fawn's Stitched Journaling Card Lawn Cuts and die cut a sweet little heart.  Added some clear Wink of Stella gel pen for sparkle, and then covered it with crystal effects glue to give it some dimension. 

This makes me smile! 

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

I HEART U card (12/08/2013)

This card is another simple, to the point, card.

I inlaid the "I," "Heart," and "U" in the red circle's negative space.  I used Lawn Fawn's Cole's ABCs Lawn Cuts, Hearts Lawn Cuts, and Silver Sparkle Single Cord.  I added a swipe of clear Wink of Stella pen to make some sparkle.

Simple, easy, fast, and it says what it is :)  I hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Inlaid I HEART U Circle Card (12/08/2013)

This little card is sweet and to the point:

I used Lawn Fawn's Cole's ABCs Lawn Cuts, and the Hearts Lawn Cuts to make the shapes.  I inlaid the same shapes, cut from pink and white paper into the red negative space to inlay the sentiment.  I tied a sweet bow with Lawn Fawn's Silver Sparkle Single Cord hemp twine. 

I finished it off with a few swipes of clear Wink of Stella pen for the sparkle on the heart. 

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Sending Dog Park Love (12/08/2013)

This card I made a while back.  I made a card for a friend, who loves dogs, to let her know we were all thinking of her during a recent struggle.  There were seven of us in our group, so I made sure I had seven doggies on the card :)  Let's say hello shall we?

 I used Lawn Fawn's Critters at the Dog Park stamp set for the pups, the bones, tennis ball, etc., but also used the dragon fly from Critters in the Forest stamp set, since my friend loves dragon flies!  I also used Home Sweet Home for the sweet little house up on the hill. 

I decorated up the inside too:

The inside has more doggies, and more dragon flies!  I added some stickles to the dragon fly wings, and attached some dragon flies onto a spiral of acetate - they "float and fly" when you open the card!

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Critters in the Sea B-day Card (12/08/2013)

Today's card makes me so happy!  I was inspired by Yainea's Interactive Spinning Critters in the Sea card on Lawn Fawn's blog.  My Mom love dolphins, and when I saw Yainea's card, I just had to make a similar card for my Mom.  I changed the dolphin "swim path" from a circle to more of a wave, like the dolphin was racing along the top of the water and jumping out. 

I used Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Sea stamp set, which is one of my favorites!  I stamped out the critters and seaweed, and colored everything with Copic markers.  I also used the Wink of Stella clear pen on the dolphin to give him a little extra sparkle.

I used some embossing folders to give the water some bubble texture, and the bottom of the sea some sandy texture.  I used Distress Inks to add some color to the water and sand respectively.

I also stamped out the "happy birthday" sentiment in a Lawn Fawn alphabet stamp.  I hope you enjoy it :)

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Cherry Blossom Festival Card! (04/01/2013)

Today's card was fairly fast and easy, and a little bit different for me.  Let's check it out!

I was recently in Washington DC, and the Cherry Blossom Festival was in full "bloom" and I wanted to commerate that event with a little card as a thank you.  I used two Memory Box dies, Woodland Branch and Fancy Blossoms.  I cut two branches from brown cardstock, and used several scrap pink cardstock and patterned paper for the flower blossoms.  I added dimension to my flowers with some stylus balls and shaping mat.

I made the card from white cardstock, inspired by Wendy's recent card at Stampadoodle.  I cut an oval using Spellbinders Classic Ovals die.  I then cut a strip of paper about 1-1/4" wide, placed it across the oval from left edge to right edge, and cut that.  I scored the strip on the far left edge, layered the oval strip over the oval base, and adhered the strip on top of the oval base.  This became my "top" of the card which can swing open to reveal the hand-written note.

Then, I layered the branches over the oval strip, and placed my cherry blossoms on the branches, then gave a little sparkle of Star Dust stickles inside the blossoms for a little extra somethin'-somethin'!!

All in all, this came together really quickly, and I used scraps for all of this!

Happy Cherry Blossom Festival!

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris

Pattern Play Easter Bunny Sighting! (03/19/2013)

Howdy!  I am currently taking an Online Card Class, called Pattern Play, taught by the amazing Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire.  These two ladies are amazing, and it has been really fun to learn from them, and the guest designers.

Jennifer recently showed us how to cut pattern paper in descending die cut sizes, and then layer them all back up together and mix-match the pattern paper.  I took her idea and came up with these fun easter bunny cards.  I used the new Happy Easter set from Lawn Fawn for the stamps, and I used oval spellbinders dies and a ribbon spellbinders die to make the banner.  The sentiment is also from Lawn Fawn's Happy Easter set.  And, all the paper came from my stash, some of which no longer had the strip identifying manufacturer, so who knows what paper it was!  Sorry!

Jennifer showed us four different ways to layer the patterned paper, and I did each card using one of her techniques.  Here they are:

1. Mat oval shapes with white cardstock (draw outside edge of die and cut it with scissors to create the perfect shaped mat to frame the die cut paper).  I also layered the ovals with foam adhesive for a LOT of dimension.

This is really subtle, but can you see the little pink blush I put on this bunny's cheeks?

2. Edge each edge with a light gray marker (I used T1 Copic) and traced along the inside and outside edges of all the ovals.  All the ovals are on the same level, no foam adhesive here, although I popped up the bouncin' bunny.

3. Edging the inside and outside ovals edges with Distress Inks.  I used two colors, and alternated them for each oval.  I popped up the bunny on this one too, but the ovals are the same layer.

4. Popped up oval layers.  For this style, Jennifer suggested placing a solid white cardstock die cut oval base under each of the oval rings, which makes it easier to mount on the adhesive.  I did this, and it sure made it easier.

And, here is a close up, side shot of the layers, to help show the actual dimension

These cards were FUN to make, and relatively easy.  And, I really liked using some fun patterned paper that I have been hoarding.  I LOVE patterned paper, but do find it pretty difficult to use, especially on a card.  Jennifer and Kristina are opening up my eyes and broadening my horizons!

Thanks for stopping by, have a magical day!

Chris