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Little drink umbrellas can easily be snipped apart to make fans for oriental cards. for this card I used a mosaic punch to trim out the right side, added a graphic, the fans, and some gold peel-off trim.
This Cuttlebug background was brayered over using a glue pad and then sprinkled with ultrafine glitter. After dry I applied a tag and peel-off greeting.
Serendipity squares are tiny bits of collage that are created with leftover scraps from previous projects. I take a sheet of printed cardstock and sort through saved scraps to find ones that coordinate with the background colors.
I tear the scraps into small strips and chunks and then glue them randomly over the background until the original print is almost obscured. Finally, I use my papercutter to turn it into squares of between 2 centimeters up to 1 inch.
This is the pile of squares I ended up with this session:
I select three or four of them that have a similar look to them and use them together on a card front.
This time I placed them over a heart sticker and added a couple of pre-made butterfly embellishments.
This circle background was made with the Cuttlebug and sanded to expose the white core of the cardstock. Organza ribbon creates some interest and the greeting is a sticker.
I'm sure I have mentioned how much I dislike quilling. But I challenged myself to do it so here it is. These little dresses are from a 'new store' ad that came in the mail last week. They reminded me of Easter so that's where I took the card.
I quilled the flower and the bunny and gave him a little pom-pom tail. The text is a fabric sticker.
The outside is no great shakes - just a large collage text sticker.
The inside, however, is a great multi-level pop-up designed by RobertSabuda.com
I used vanilla scented essential oil to blend colored pencils on the back of this parchment. I initially drew the arrangement free-hand with a mapping pen and white ink.
My 'natural' began with a photo of a field of wildflowers which I mounted to a tag. The cardstock matches the flowers better than this photo would indicate. A text block and punched flowers add a bit of interest.
This mountain photo is from a cruise brochure (Alaska) and I've mounted it on blue cardstock and banded it with border stickers.
The text block is a vellum sticker and the deer is a rub-on.
This dragonfly is made from an old CD. I crackled it and then heated with a heat gun so I could cut the shaped out with scissors. The body is made of a knotted ribbon and I added a crescent shaped rhinestone for the head.
The smaller dragonflies are peel-off stickers, the band of flowers is a border sticker and the text is a fabric sticker.
King Tut is the King in this card. I put together several elements having to do with Egypt and added a fabric text sticker.
This harlequin is a free stained glass pattern that I colored using watercolor markers and cut out. The stickers used for the border came with the little jingle bells so I used those on the cap and cape.
The text is a fabric sticker that I colored with markers.
This is my first try at encaustic. I used regular crayons and my regular iron (covered with aluminum foil) and just winged it.
I call this "Sunset on the Lake".
Here is another all-digital creation using CorelDraw. Nothing is sweeter than honey and a friend!This could be used as a general greeting or as a 'thank you' note.
Glitter tapestry is created by covering cardstock with adhesive and laying a piece of lace down over it. The exposed adhesive then gets glitter poured over it and pressed down. Shake off the glitter and remove the lace. The rest of the adhesive is now exposed and a contrasting glitter is sprinked over it, pressed down and shaken off.
And the result - not my cup of tea. But it meets the criteria of the theme!
On a photograph of my favorite waterfall, which was run through the Xyron for adhesive, I recreated the scene in fibers. Matching thread was used in the sewing machine to overstitch the fibers, therby flattening them and holding them permanently in place.
How long have I been holding on to these little basket stickers? Just long enough! I stuck them to an irridescent sheet and applied Easter egg eyelets in and around them. The holes looked a little naked so after mounting onto the base card I glued a little rhinestone in the center hole of each egg.
I painted this ceramic frame on my cruise in January. I designed it myself and painted using brushes. I used a fine-tip squeeze bottle to add black outline to everything to mimic the look of pen-and-ink.
I designed this new cross for paper embroidery. First is the pricking layout for the holes:
Then the guide for stitching between the holes:
I'd love to see the results of your use of this pattern.
I learned how to do bandana print from another art blog. I used glossy cardstock and applied a polished stone background sans the metallics. I spritzed with rubbing alcohol and then dried to get a washed red background. Over this I stamped images in black Staz-On. When this was dry I used a white paint pen to sketch details on the stamped images.
The background of the card is denim printed tissue paper. The pocket is a sticker that has a fold-in flap to make the pocket useable. Into it I tucked a tag with a greeting and I glued rhinestones where the rivets would be.
