Framed "Imagine"

After recently moving, I have been going through crafting withdrawls. So, after all children were in bed one night and my house was quiet, I decided to try a couple of cards, even though my craft room is trashed and I can barely get around. So this what I came up with supplies that were easily accessible. I got a couple sets of Frameabilities when traveling over Christmas, on clearance for $9, each. I love finding Spellbinders on clearance, since there is no such thing as too many Spellbinders. The image is stamped in Weathered Wood Distress ink. I sponged around the edge of the image panel and over the frame with the same. The image panel is from the center of the smaller frame from this set.

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co-Imagine

Inks: Tim Holtz-Weathered Wood Distress Ink

Paper: GP White, Recollections Scarlet

Extras: Scalloped Frameabilities, sponge

Difficult Card

I always find sympathy cards difficult to make, amoung other things, I would much rather be making cards for a happier occasion. I always find getting the right thing for a sentiment on a sympathy card even more difficult. This card finding the correct sentiment even more so, because this was for family after my grandmother died. I used a sentiment found on a spread sheet on SCS that struck a chord with me and printed it on vellum. I cut it out using Label 11 nesties and used it as an overlay for the background.

Stamps: Unity-Bella Doilies

Paper: Georgia Pacific White, Vellum

Ink: Memento Rhubarb Stalk

Extras: Label 11 Nesties

Christmas Presents: Set 1

 I absolutely love making things for people, so this year for Christmas I made some little albums using the Clear Envelope Brag Book tutuorial on SCS. I made 5 total for various family members using pictures from a family reunion this summer.

I found these to be great gifts, as they are so simple to put together. It was a blast going through to pick out pictures to put in them, and remembering little things about that particulare moment and telling stories to my kids about the pictures while they were helping me try to pick.

I found the thing that took me the longest for these was picking out the paper and stamps I wanted to use, after that it went relativily quickly. I used 12x12 paper for the covers and used one piece for the back cover/spine and a piece from one of the other papers for the covers on the books.

The image panels were matted on paper matching the back cover. The image panels have various techniques used on them, from just stamping to sponging to paper piecing. I wanted to make each one different from the others or as different as possible using the stamps I had picked out.
                                          

Stamps:Unity-Picture Perfect, Perfect in Every Way, Treasure to Me, Good Times Vintage Banner
Paper: DCWV Natural Stack, Georgia Pacific White, Recollections Cream
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, London Fog, Potters Clay, Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand
Extras: Twine, Eyelets, Snaps, Sponge, Glitter, Crafter's Pick The Ultimate glue, xyron glue runner, foam dots, copper gel pen

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, hope everybody is having a wonderful holiday, or at least a relatively smooth holiday as I know it can be very stressful at this time of year. I thought I would share my card from this year and then hopefully get around to posting some of my other crafts that I did for presents this year over the next week.

 

 This is my Christmas card for this year. I was playing around for ideas using this tree stamp and came up with this design using oval Nestabilities. The oval around the tree was done by putting the embossing mat done and the card face down on top of it, then putting the nestie inside the card to run it through my Cuttlebug. As the bug usually needs something to shim nesties when embossing, I put a card I had messed up in between the nestie and the back of my card to prevent an impression on the back of my card while providing the shim.

Stamps: Unity-Joy and Wonder Set
Paper: Georgia Pacific Cardstock
Ink: Versamark
Extras: Spellbinders Nestabilities-Classic Ovals Large-biggest die, Stampendous Pirate Gold EP