Birthday card featuring bright gift wrap, gold foiled cardstock and colourful sequins

 One of my grandson's is becoming a teenager!!!  How does that happen??  I started with a large green card front, added two pieces of this bright gift wrap which matched up very nicely in the middle.  I taped the joint in the back before adding it to my card.  I found the greeting in my stash, added some green washi tape, added four rows of paper piercing, layered it onto a red orange cardstock and then onto a gold foil one.  I added a line on all four sides with a fine tip black Sharpie and then added colourful sequins with glue dots. Some of his favorite colours and a great teen card!!!  Therese

All occasion card featuring decorative paper, washi tape, ribbon and colour printed goose

 I have been busy with travelling and garden.  I finally got to the cards I need for my family this week.  I colour printed this goose (CLKER) and worked the rest of my card around it.  I trimmed a piece from this leather look gift wrap and tore in two and adhered the two edges to my large brown card front.  I filled the gap with coordinating washi tape and then adhered the rest of the pieces down over it.  I watercoloured a bit of a background and foreground on the goose, added four rows of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel and the trimmed and embossed a layer of brown cardstock.  I added a large ribbon flag to the embossed layer with a staple and then added my goose.  I mounted this large piece to my card front over the gap using 3D foam tape.  Glad to be back to card making!!!

Therese

Sewing - adhesive business cards holder for better documentation of my fabrics

I have been using sticky notes to identify the contents of my boxes of fabric.  I have had to cross off and redo so many of them as items are shifted from one to another.  After a bit of brainstorming I decided to buy some adhesive business card holders in clear plastic.  I have adhered them to the front of my boxes and will now be able to change up the content list or simply rewrite it when necessary.  I have paper cut offs by my paper cutter so I have just cut them to size so I can easily remove them.  I will store them in one of the boxes so I can change them.  I found a lot of projects which I had lost track of because the post its were too small.  I am happy to be able to find what I am looking for and am planning to finish off projects this winter.  

Therese


 

Happy Hallowe'en!!

  Wishing everyone a Happy Hallowe'en!!  Enjoy the Trick or Treaters and their wonderful costumes!!  We are handing out individual packages of hot chocolate this year.

We have been doing it for several years and the kids are always excited to get them in their bags.  

A good treat for sorting the bags when they get back home!!

I have added an electric light to my Jack O Lantern this year due to the rot around the stem. I have used a small clip on light and it is BRIGHT!!!!!!  No missing it this year!!  It is in the front window ready for the kids start coming around.

Therese

All occasion cards featuring watercoloured images, decorative paper strips over decorative paper backgrounds

I am finally getting to making up the last of the card kits I prepared for my last cardmaking session in September.  You can check the first few here.  I added the decorative paper to my card front, layered the coordinating paper scraps to a strip of cardstock to use as an embellishment and then watercoloured my image.  I added paper piercing (PTW) to my images, layered them onto the coordinating squares and then mounted them to my card fronts.  I mounted the strips over the images using 3D foam tape.  I made up two kits with a Christmas theme so I now have two more to add to the box.  I am way behind in making the cards I am glad to have a couple more.  Therese

All occasion cards featuring metal dragonflies, die cut frames and embossed vellum

 I made up the last of the card kits I created for my last card making session.  You can check then here.  I see from checking out the link that I did not embellish my cardstock with a Versamark image before proceeding!  So many options when a person is creating!!   I added the embossed vellum strip using double sided tape on the back where it is hidden by the frame or the center element.  Added the frame and the embossed square over the vellum inside the frame.  Finished all the cards off by adding the metal dragonflies using 3D foam tape. These are off to my stash for later use!!  Therese

Christmas cards featuring colourful napkins and layered greetings

I made these Christmas cards for my sister.  She owns a daycare and wanted some nice cards for her employees.  I used these beautiful napkins and added layered greetings.  The cards and envelopes were in the stash she left here a few years ago and so I dug through my Christmas napkin stash to see what would work with the 5" x 6.5" card fronts.  These ones worked perfectly!!  I used 3 napkins that featured the gift and the ornaments - one in each corner.  And 1 napkin that featured 4 different scenes with snowmen!!  I separated the layers to leave only the top imaged layer of the napkins. 

 I cut white papers that allowed enough room all the way around the images so I had a bit to fold over.  I trimmed the images to size and then glued the images to my papers folding the edges to the backs.  I trimmed coordinating cardstock layers and then glued my images to them and pressed them to keep them nice and flat. 

When I started gluing my large focal elements to my cards I found that the ones with gifts and ornaments needed card fronts that were less than stark white so I just added some diluted grayish watercolour to the outside edges of those cards and I ironed them flat once they were dry.   They worked out really well.  I added inserts with a Christmas greeting and they were ready to go!!  Therese

 

Crafting - a beautiful butterfly magnet made out of blue mussel shells from PEI

It is hard not to collect blue mussel shells when you see them on the beach in PEI!!  My sister and I collected more than we anticipated but when it came time to head home we culled the collection to enough to create a few butterflies and put the others back on the beach for someone else's collection!!  I made this butterfly magnet for my sister with four shells and a small piece of drift wood for its body.  I love how it turned out!!!  She is going to display it on the walls of her home where there is corner bead so they can go anywhere along the corners or where there is a screw (those are harder to find).  I used a wooden fork to make the substrate and hot glued the shells in place and then added a bit of glue in the center to glue the drift wood to.  I added two rare earth magnets to the back using hot glue as well.  Love how it turned out and makes a very unique souvenir of our trip!!  Therese