Solera Paper Crafters January 22 Class

Well I decided to play catch up for those that have purchased scrapbook or card kits from me.  I always put directions in my kits, but I thought that if you wanted to make additional cards at home with your own paper, you could certainly do that just by looking at the finished cards or scrapbook pages.

Here is the finished card that I taught at the Solera Papercrafter Group on January 22.  WOW I did say catch up didn't I.

Well this group is in a 55 and older community.  Some of us have limited income so I decided to give them templates for folded cards.  That way they can continue to make additional cards at home.

This first card is called Double Dutch Fold.  You can find several examples on You Tube, but some of the papercrafters in the group do not do computer.

Here is the finished card!

I used an Anna Griffin Lace Die and Tim Holtz Tattered Rose die cuts.  The individual flower pieces were distressed using Daisy White Close to my Heart Ink.  And the 3-D effect of the flower was achieved by using the McGill Paper Blossom Molding Mat and either the 5MM or 6 MM Molding Tool.  After all the individual flowers are molded, they are placed on top of each other making sure you off set each petal.  The final step was to place a gem in the middle of the flower.

This fold is called Double Dutch because you have a fold coming down from the top and also two folds coming from either side.  The top fold meets the two center folds.  

I think it really turned out pretty good.  We are sold out of this kit!

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 14

This is the last day for me on the Let's Scrap Leap Around the World Blog Hop....here are the last 5 of the 50 cards I made this month.  Whew.  This was a lot of fun and I'm going to miss going on the site everyday.  So let's begin:

Card 46 is made with glitter and stickers.  On the flower sticker, you take off a section at a time and add the glitter from dark to light.  So, I took off all the sections of the dark green first...then glittered that...next the brown, etc.  You use double sided glue sheets and they are heavy duty so the glitter just shines.  This technique uses little glitter, but you will have it all over you for a couple of days and all over your craft room for weeks.  I just love this glitter and play with it as often as I can.

Card 47 uses the same vinyl stickers as card 46, but this time I didn't glitter it in.  I placed the sticker on a piece of acetate and filled in the back with alcohol ink.  The papers and ribbon are from my stash.

Card 48 uses scrap paper and a stamp from Outlines.  Take a moment to check them out.  I love their stamps and they are so original and clever in showing you how to use them...a lot of layering.  Here I colored the hearts and flowers with alcohol ink.  I made 3 stamps of the heart and layered it with pop dots.  I added liquid glass in the center of the flowers and liquid pearls all over the heart.

I make cards and send them to the troops through Mothers Cookies - a group of women that send out packages every single month.  These cards go to the troops for their use.  Something to write in and send home.  I used sizzix dies to cut the flower and pocket, a Close To My Heart stamp for the stitching and a wood stamp I had for the sentiment.  Stickles were used to add a little bling to the flowers.

My last card is a card I made for my mother.  I used the masking technique.  First I stamped the House Mouse onto the paper.  Then I covered it with another image of the same stamp and cut out.  Then I stamped the Close To My Heart band-aid all over the card...then filled in the spaces with another CTMH stamp.  I used water color pencils to color the mice and hearts.  I finished this card by using my black writer to write the words Get W....on the mouse's tail.

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 12

This weekend was a busy one.  Saturday I spent the day cropping with friends.   Sunday we all went to the Riverside County Date Festival in Indio.  We had fun on all the rides and fair food is always good.  Well, I added 4 more cards for you to review.

In card 37 I used another one of my Penny Black stamps.  Mimi is sooo cute in her green outfit...like any girl, it's all about the shoes and Close to My Heart had the perfect stamp for shoes and sentiment.  The papers are DCWV.  Mimi's hat is 100 Black.  The reds are R24 and 27.  Her hair is YR21, E30, 33 and 35.  For her skin, I used E000, 00, 11 and R20.  Her dress is G00 and G02.  I penned the floor and her shadow is C1.  As always, coloring Mimi puts me in a happy mood.

Card 38 was another fun card to make because I got to play with my alcohol inks.  I used caramel with my blender ink on my stamp pad and just bounced my way around a piece of shinny cardstock.  Then stamped with one of my mounted stamps.  Thinking of You is another mounted stamp and the sentiment is raised with pop-dots.  The papers are all scraps.

Again, card 39 uses paper from my scrap bin.  The stamps are mounted.  I'm not sure where I got my mounted stamps....I bought them quite awhile ago.  I rounded the corners of the card to soften the edges and added 3 pearls as shown on the sketch.  I colored the leaves with copics YG11,17.

The sketch for card 40 used eyelets.  But, to tell you the truth, I forgot how to set eyelets in the middle of the page.  I've used my crop-a-dile for so long now and they can only be set so far in....  I used a CTMH stamp for the faux stitching and sentiment.  My stamp was longer than the area I needed to stamp, so I masked each side so the stamp would be just where I wanted it.  Instead of eyelets, I used buttons.  Most of them are black, but the center and 4 corners are navy blue.


Only 10 more cards to post and then I'm done.....whew 50 cards in 29 days....needless to say, I'll have my cards completed for the whole year.

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 5

Hi everyone and thanks for visiting me.  This is day 5 of card making for me and I have 3 more cards to show you from the Let's Scrap sketches.

This card was made from scraps I had.  I used the Tim Holtz Rosette die and the Sizzix side kick.  The zig zag stitching is the Sew Happy stamp from Close to My Heart.  The paper lace is a Martha Stewart punch and the rub on is also from my stash.

Card 13 is my Valentine's Day card for my hubby.  His favorite color is blue.  He keeps asking me to put my blog on his favorites but I have to wait a few more days.  HEHEHEHE.  The paper here is from Quick Quotes.  I used the Plantin School Book Cricut cartridge to make the rick rack.  The stamps are from CTMH Mad About You and I used CTMH Indian Corn Blue ink.  The ribbon is also CTMH.  I'm a consultant for CTMH so have a lot of it.  I love that their inks, papers, ribbons and embellishments all match.

This is a simple card to make.  The papers are from my scraps.  I used the Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge and a sticker from a Pine Cone Press card kit.  I used a CTMH writer for the black ink work. And, that's it.  Fourteen cards completed and soooo many more to do.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think...