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After all the work stitching this card I dropped the stamp on it after making the greeting. Rats! So I used a waterbrush and wet just the secondary ink to create a shaddow behind the main text. Nice save, huh?
The centers of these flowers are sticky backed glitter domes and I mounted on folded yellow cardstock.
Ddd
The last one I showed of this stitching was distressed and organic looking. I decided to go with a 'fresh' look for this onewith bright pink flowers. The centers of these flowers are sticky backed half-pearls.
I stamped the greeting with Adriondak 'bottle' ink and mounted the panel on folded pink cardstock.
Ddd
It's been quite a while since I shared some of my favorite recipes. So here are a few for you to try out.
½ onion chopped 1 t. minced garlic 1/8 c. each margarine and olive oil | 4 chicken breast, cubed 2 cans water chestnuts, cut match stick style 1 can bamboo shoots 1 can whole cashews | to taste: Mongolian fire oil, ginger, Yoshida’s gourmet sauce, soy sauce, Worcestershire, teriyaki sauce |
Sauté onion and garlic in margarine and oil. Add chicken and cook till done. Add water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and cashews. Make sauce over all adjusting as you go. Cook 5 minutes to blend flavors.
4 cups water 2 cubes chicken bouillon ¼ t. curry powder 1 t. garlic powder | 2 T. onion flakes 2 t. tarragon 2 t. basil 1 T. sugar | 1 t. cinnamon whole chicken breast 2 cups dried noodles 1 cup whole almonds |
Make stock of all liquid and spices. Bring to boil. Drop in finely cut pieces of chicken. Cook 2-3 minutes. Drop in noodles and almonds. Simmer till noodles are done. Drain. Toss with ¼ cup olive oil to coat. Serve.
TERIAKI SAUCE
Makes 1 gallon
1 quart vegetable oil ½ gallon soy sauce | 3 cups brown sugar 3 Tbsp garlic powder | 3 Tbsp ginger powder 2/3 cup fruit juice |
Stir well into 1 gallon container. Keeps months in fridge. Stir before each use.
Enjoy!
Ddd
Been doing a lot of challenges lately. This is the latest, a 'pull out album'. I made mine into a brag book for a friend who is a new gramma. She'll show off those baby pictures with pride in this little album. It holds up to 14 photos.
I decorated it with Beatrix Potter stickers.
Ddd
Theme of the challenge: Trees... Did I do it?
This process was inspired by Michelle Zindorf's blog. I did direct-to-paper smearing of Whispers inkpads to create all the color in the background then used two stamps that each have multiple trees to create the distant and foreground groves. I also used 2nd generation stamping to create the tree reflections in the pond.
I applied a clear text sticker in the open field and then added gold sticker trim and four orange brads. When mounted on a black panel over a blue folded cardstock base, the card is complete.
Ddd
I've been hanging on to this 3D cutting sheet for years. It just seemed too complicated to cut. But I finally dug it out and used a fingertip craft knife to cut it and, though it took a long time, it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.
I used a Cuttlebug folder with dots behind the cutting and made a frame out of two nesting Spellbinders dies. It is mounted with pop-dots for dimension. Two silver dragonfly stickers are mounted on the same blue and cut out then glued with more pop-dots.
A polkadot paper was layered over folded blue cardstock and trimmed out with silver peel-off borders. A sticker was bordered with more of the blue and everything was assembled.
Ddd
On assignment from one of my groups I created this folded card style for the first time. It is called a 'joy fold' (for reasons I do not know.)
I enlarged mine from the original and decorated with a floral border sticker. The small square (tucked under the ribbon and flower) lifts up and the lower front folds down.
You can see that I carried the front bottom border right around to the inside of the flap.
Ddd
Another of those 'free pattern' finds that I love! This one stitched up so quickly that I did three of them at the same time... all the blacks, all the silver, all the leaves, all the flowers. Each was done on different background colors and has different colored flowers, though.
For this one I gave the flower centers some glittery dots, cut with a nestabilities die, and hit the edges with some distress ink. Mounted on a brown cardstock base.
I added two cardstock stickers for balance.
Ddd
I made this card to answer a sketch challenge on one of my groups. The original was turned 90 degrees clockwise but didn't work so well for my hot air balloon so I rotated it.
I used a Cuttlebug border, ribbon, flower brads, a silk flower, blue rhinestones and a thick acrylic sticker.
I pulled my color palate from the balloon stitching.
Ddd
I started a new category for postings called fantastic folds. This is how I will note those projects that take unique creases and folds in their creation.
Today it is the diamond fold which I upsized half-again from the original instructions. I used stickers and gold peel-offs to trim this out to create a valentine.
Love how this stands up for display.
Ddd
Yep, sometimes it pays to get up in the morning (I hate to admit it, though).
This was my reward for being up early last week. Isn't this just beautiful? It is the view from my dining room.
When a challenge asked us to combine embroidery with parchment I started looking for a unique way to do it. The background is a beautiful printed paper I have been hoarding for years. Over this is laid a parchment with subtle yellow stripes and Then I pulled out some glittery stitching stickers.
The stitching is done with verigated thread that picks up colors from the background paper and copper brads connect the corners.
I attached it to a peach folded cardstock base and added a silver greeting to the center.
Ddd
Temari is generally a thread winding on balls in a criss-crossing pattern. One of our group leaders challenged us to do paper embroidery with the same concept. I adapted this from someone else's pattern, adding more holes and completing the stitching a little differently as well.
I used verigated thread for this, working on a shaving cream background. This is attached to a folded maroon card base and a gold greeting sticker was the final touch.
Ddd
I used part of two stitching templates to create my own frame for this 3D cutting. The background is a textured scrapbook paper and I stitched with verigated thread.
I added little heart brads at the four corners and mounted on a maroon folded card base.
Ddd
Stitching stickers on a rose printed scrapbook paper are the starting point for this card. I arranged a whole line of them and did the stitching with bright red thread.
The stitched panel is mounted on a folded black card base and gold stickers are attached at the corners.
I don't usually decorate the inside of my cards but in this case it was necessary so a greeting could be added. I attached another piece of the red rose paper and added a plain red panel to the middle of it.
Ddd
I found a template for a 2010 CD calendar with blanks for photos. I used CorelDraw to add photos of my own art projects to the months and printed the pages back to back on cardstock. A quick trim and I am all set for the new year.
Some of the pictures are of cards I've made, some are photos I've taken, and some of other projects I made, like this snowman candle.
Ddd
I found this project at http://qbeesquest.blogspot.com/2009/10/darling-drawers.html and could not wait to make one of my own. I used printed cardstock for the cabinet and solid cardstock for the drawers.
A Nestabilities labels die was used for the 'mirror' element using some of the printed card scraps and a bit of light blue solid card.
I added pearl-faced brads for drawer pulls and tied a grosgrain ribbon at the back of the cabinet.
This makes a pretty and solid little dresser using 5 sheets of cardstock.
Ddd
As I sat doodling in my sketchbook one day I tried to think up unique ways to make Christmas trees. One of the successes was those stamped and covered with snowflakes and this was another of those ideas.
My very generous sister-in-law saves her paper scraps from projects and sometimes gifts me with a grocery bag of them. I have so much fun sorting out all the bits and pieces! These trees were the leftovers after she had punched out trees for her own project YEARS AGO! I have been holding onto them forever and finally had the right project to use them!
I glued them to a printed scrapbook paper and added a glittered puched star to the to pf each one. Then I used more of the glittered cardstock to cut photo corners for framing on the green folded card base.
Trash to treasure!
Ddd
I have finally exhaused my supply of Cristmas cards made this year. If I feel the temptation to make any more I promise to save them for posting next holiday season... or maybe intersperced throughout the year.
Seems like a stretch to call this 'collage' but maybe 'mixed media' would work.
What media? Old card illustration, green cardstock and Stickles.
The illustration already had red and silver foiling and the foil greeting as well. Nothing left for me to do but cut it out with a Nestabilities die, glue it on, and trim it up with a bead of that fantastic glitter glue.
Ddd
Sometimes I wonder if I ever send a Christmas card with salvaged parts back to the person who sent the original to me? If so, I hope they enjoy the transformation!
I bet by now you could recite the steps and parts that make up this card. Try it and test yourself. The answers are below:
1) green folded cardstock base 2) holly printed paper salvaged from inside an ole envelope 3) red paper 4) forest green cardstock with rounded corners using a punch 5) illustration from an old Christmas card cut with Nestabilities die 6) thick acrylic sticker mounted on green cardstock and trimmed before application to the card.
How did you do? I bet NOBODY got the printed paper from the envelope, though!
Ddd
