More from Last week

On Saturday I managed an mostly cream on cream card for Lee's VSN challenge after all. I had it stuck in my head it "had to have" lumpy flowers on the card ( because, that's the mood going on here at the moment right) and my storebought flowers all have green leaves on them, so when I was doing the Inspiration challenge I came across a card Kittie made where of course she made her own beautiful roses and somewhere in the past I had picked up that die she used ( because, I've seen her too too many cool things with it) so, I was able to make those flowers my self. go me, the flowers took more time than the whole rest of the card so, one one hand its a cool die to own but, it wont stop me from buying store bought flowers either. 

The half a doily is an left over from the last paperbag card, the basket was cut when I was doing Jen's diecuts and the lace is vintage, its machine stitched to that stamped linen panel. the bow came in a tackle box of ribbon bows and flowers I bought at a yard sale years ago ( no mfg info) I think that sentiment is from teeny tiny wishes. this one is 5 1/2" square in real life. 

The saturday Inspiration challenge took us to this site called packaging of the world and I had come across this and LOVED IT, every detail... so, trying for the graphic-coolness with some CAS this is what I came up with that measure tape is vintage, the button does not have the vintage weight to it, may be a craft button. the sewing machine is one of those Tim Holtz blueprints ones. the sentiment's from Gina K's sew pretty. this one is 5" square in real life. 

So speaking of vintage and treasure hunting, I doubt if anything here besides the roadrunner pin is truly vintage but, I came across these at a yard sale this morning and picked up this pile for 5.00 so, it wont hurt my feelings to discombobulate them and use them on something ( I think ) I still have that pack of fake Cameo's from that french laundry line that came out a few years ago still sitting on the desk haha. 

was just tossed together, the train ( Tim Holtz) was stamped with Memento and colored very slightly with copic's and prisma pencils. the ribbon is from Micheals a very long time ago and the printed paper is from Simple stories. 

Last weeks sketch challenge kinda looked like this. the Giraffe's are from Great Impressions colored with copic's and prisma pencils. the on my mind is from MFT and the Love is from Stampendous. 

used up another of these blue flowers so there is still one in the pile waiting its turn. lace is vintage, sentiment is from Northwoods. (that white washed flower is from Impress) 

An Wedding Paperbag Card

for the heck of it because, most the stuff was still on the table after work today from last night. the sentiment on the cover is from PTI cut with an spellbinders die and layered on another spellbinders diecut, The flowers are wild orchid crafts and I think the text bloom is either recollections or Prima. Bo Bunny printed papers. 

the whole cover tied closed, the seambinding is one piece run under the printed papers on the front and back covers. 

a Look at the inside, the sentiment on the left is from Outlines, the sentiment on the right is from Penny Black. the Parisian Doily diecut is from PTI, the trim is vintage, the papers are all Bo Bunny ( except the lined kraft is from SU its heat embossed those lines) this piece removes from the pocket. there is also the trimmed off piece of shipping tag from yesterdays card for my grandparents tucked into the large pocket on the right on this one. the ribbon is offray, the metal clip is I want to say Heidi Swapp but, that is a guess. this one is 4 1/4" X 4 1/2" closed in real life. 

Paperbag Cards

This is an altered paper bag. ( an white one from Paperbilities) and closed it measures 4 1/4" X 4 1/2" I did not have to trim it. the photo paper is from Bo Bunny, the seambinding is hugsnug, the sentiment is from the My Favorite things set called just my type diecut with an spellbinders labels trio die, the heart is an cheerylynn die called Celtic Heart. The wood veneer camera was pressed into an vintage sepia pad for that color. the edges of the papers were inked with some creamy brown fluid chalk ink. 

This one is headed to my grandparents who moved out of state last November where it's warmer and they are closer to well everything. services wise. here they lived 50 miles out of town so they were able to go out to lunch maybe once a week and they spent a small fortune in gas for vehicles to get here, now they can go out to lunch every day so, I'm going to pick up a gift card to tuck into the flap on the left and write a note on the tag on the right and add some photos to the larger tag that will pull out of the bag. the shipping tags were stained with some distress stains. 

This was the first one, and its all Miss Paula's fault. see she threw down the challenge to the gals playing along in the make 100 things in 100 days challenge ( without shopping until you hit your quota) so, ( these became projects numbered 179 & 180 for me since the beginning of the year) and this particular bag is a tiny little one that is also from Paperbilities and measures 3 1/2" X 2 1/4" X 6 3/4" in real life. it is large enough to hold a gift card on the inside. I had found this slit punch in the closet from SU ( don't remember its real name anymore. ) but, I used that on the printed paper lining the pull out tag to "catch" the end of the gift card. The flowers on the cover are old Prima Hydrangea petals and the button is unknown the string is from May Arts. 

a look inside, in the flap are two small shipping tags trimmed to fit and the Happy Birthday (rubber soul) was punched with another SU handheld punch that I don't know its name either. the opening to the part where the gift card tag hides was punched with an 1" circle punch. the printed papers on this one are from basic Grey. This one is headed into the booth pile and I have no clue yet what I may charge for this but, I am planning to make a few more since I have a whole package of these bags in the closet. 

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This gives the illusion of an tidy desk eh? I'm grinning at this still, found these lace butterflies and the bling covered heart button on the card at a yard sale a couple weeks ago. not sure what I will do with them yet, so they are sitting front and center so I remember I have them.

Welcome to the mess, a while back I had promised a lady I would cut her some frilly die cuts to try them some time "later" which I meant as after the booth. figured I may as well get started on them before I forget altogether. and of course I had already "forgotten" that tattered lace carriage die needed to be taped down and to use the metal cut shim with it. I think I am going to write on the envelopes I am storing these dies things like that as I come across them just to save future paper some day. off to the right is an card I put together after glancing at the scs sketch challenge today at work. not sure how close or off it is yet but, will go post that next ha ha. Thanks for visiting. if your curious about this and or would like to play along this blog hop starts at Julia's Blog and you can read the details and such there. 

White on White Baby

Sometime last week I had read there was a technique challenge to emboss on vellum and I've done it both ways heat or dry many times over the years but, it stuck in the back of my mind and then I read the sneak peek for VSN that Lee's challenge was to do white on white with color OK on your sentiment. and this is a combination of those but, I think the green on the leaves is too much green to squeak by for that but, I had fun doing this anways. This particular PSX stamp is not fun to color but, it does look cool embossed.  It's an old Personal Stamp Exchange # K-1191 stamp. 

the Baby is heat embossed with SU white on some PTI vellum cardstock and then that was machine stitched to a piece of stardream opal and both of those are edged with pinking shears. I have done this over and over the pull up the top layer to make it pop, it shows really well the light going through the vellum this way and the cool thing about the vellum is it holds this shape a little better than printed paper does. I just use my fingers and fold it up at the stitching line. This card is boxed and will not go into an paper envelope. the sizzix lace folder was used on a scrap of stardream opal (and that is it's name, its sold in a package from sizzix with another folder and this ones name is literally "lace") and I cut that out by hand and added some opal liquid pearls to it. the flowers are from wild orchid crafts & prima, the lace is vintage. the Congrats is from Stampendous done on a scrap of kraft and is up on pop dots. 

More of Last weeks cards

our son turned this on Friday. this one is A-2 in real life. sentiments from Impress and the die numbers are from PTI. 

the My Sentiments exactly sentiment was heat embossed on some chalkboard black card stock from Micheal's ( it says recollections on the wrapper) this paper has a cool texture to it and I ran my fingers all over it before I stamped on some ( don't do that ever place you touch it, the embossing powder will stick) way worse than smooth cardstock. this chalkboard paper also gets a funny smell to it when its being heat embossed but, that does go away after. I kept checking it to see if it was going to burn or something. but, it did take the brief heat for doing it. the other two sentiments were stamped on the inside ( just like that ) this was done for our neighbor whose birthday was saturday. 

the stamps on this one are from SU. the dress is from blooming with happiness and the sentiment I think is teeny tiny wishes ( maybe ) 

this one sold at the booth yesterday.

just pushing around scraps this was an Size 8 tag. with an mega unity tea cup on it. 

this sentiment was done with the some of the sweet and sassy happy mail from last weekend. the doily is an Martha Stewart thing, the heart was cut with an primitive sizzix die on scraps and inked with some satin red. the lace is vintage and the yarn was tied to one of my Christmas gifts from Paula last year. the seambinding is from hug snug. 

I have some crop shots of the booth taken Saturday with my phone but, I dont know how to get them from the phone to the computer yet and will just edit that post when I do.