Archive for February, 2010:
SD 31 Colour Challenge: Pink, Orange, Lime Green
Cathy used Happy Moose
Isn’t this moose fun? Cathy and the rest of the team got creative with today’s colour challenge: Pink, Orange and Lime Green. It’s a happy colour combination, and we hope you will join us in this week’s challenge.
Beth used Pretty Little Pumpkin
Jennifer used Picking Flowers
Karen used Mixed Berries
This week’s prize is a $15 Gift Certificate to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies store. Please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Blog, specifically on the Challenge #31 Blog Post, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword SD31.
Deadline for this challenge is next Friday, March 5th.
Subscribe to the comments for this postATC Stamp People
One of the ATC swaps I’m in requires me to create stamp people using a stamp–stamped or store bought. Canada’s current postage stamp has the Queen on it, so I turned her into a fairy, using Stamping Bella’s Gertie (lulu collection). Wings were created by cutting out the dress bottom, and using stickles to add a little sparkle. I made a few extras and plan to send Queen Elizabeth one of these with a little explanation as to why she was turned into a fairy. I hope this puts a smile on her face.
I’m heading to Toronto to visit my daughter this weekend and I’m so excited. This will be my first visit to see her new apartment. She lives in the heart of downtown Toronto and loves it. We can walk home from the bus station. Why a bus? I will not drive on Toronto’s busy roads. Go figure–I’ll drive in Detroit without a problem.
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Stringing You Along
A while ago I submitted the idea to Pat and shot the Stringing You Along technique for the Technique Junkie Newsletter. This technique really pops with my Tim Holtz stamp. It almost looks like tie-die, eh?! My yummy background is the Faux Designer Paper technique, also from the Technique Junkie Newsletter. Lots of hand stitching was added around the edges and on the buttons.
Do you favour flowers or buttons on your cards?
Tim Holtz stamp comes from Croppinsville.
Mono Die Challenge
Good morning girlfriends. Are you having a nice week so far? I am–Diana Enns and I are having fun playing. This week we challenged each other to create a card using the Mono Die technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter. This is such a fun technique and one that I like to use to create elegant cards. While browsing vintage downloads at Twisted Papers, I came across this dove and thought it would go well with my background. This card would work for Easter and for a wedding.
You might be interested to know that if you sign up for the Twisted Paper newsletter, you have access to free downloadable images. The quality of their images is excellent.
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Tutorial Tueday: Layered Fifth Avenue Floral
While cutting the Stampin’ Up Fifth Avenue Floral folder, I got the idea to do some layering. It’s quick with little fuss, and one I think you might enjoy.
Supplies:Â Fifth Avenue Floral folder, ink, sponge, paper cut into three sizes from full rose and smaller
Cut out three circles and then emboss with the Fifth Avenue Floral folder.
Lightly sponge colour onto rose.
Layer rose.
Hope you enjoyed this fun flower.
For a list of tutorials, please see the Tutorial page.
Happy New Year
Happy Chineese New Year
Donnie and I had a wonderful time with our friends at our local Chinese Restaurant to celebrate Chinese New Years. I chose red as my background on this Brayered Brilliance (recent issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter) because I learned, through reading 7 Chinese historical novels over the past year, that red is a very important colour in Chinese society.
Lisa See writes a variety of wonder history Chinese fiction. I love to read books that intertwine fiction with historial facts. I read all of Lisa’s books last year, and moved on to other authors of historical Chinese history.
Love mystery? Then read Dragon Bones, Flower Net and Interior. Lisa’s other two books may not appeal to many, but they did to me.
I read close to 50 books last year, and have already finished off four of Iris Johanson’s books this month.  She writes action packed thrillers that grab my attention in the first paragraph of the book. Currently, I’m into “Sail” by James Patterson. Oh my gosh, this is such an excellent book.
What are your top three must-reads?
Stamps are from Stampin’ Up
SD Sketch Challenge
Good morning. We are starting out our weekend by giving you a sketch challenge. Flip it, add to it, do whatever you like.
Here is our sketch
Kim used Raspberry Chocolate Rose
Beth followed my teabag fold tutorial and created her own teabag fold.
Rose used Hoo Hoo There
Karen used one of our Sarah Kay stamps
This week’s prize
$15 gift certificate
Simply link us up to your card and mention us on your blog or your chance at this week’s prize.
Chinese New Year Reflections
This is my first attempt at one of Zindorf’s tutorials. This tutorial is called Dream Garden Reflection. A full index of Zindorf’s tutorials can be found here.
Stamp set is from Stampin’ Up.
Herringbone Technique
Good morning. Today Diana Enns and I are challenging each other to create a card using a narrow cuttlebug folder, and then turning those pieces of paper into a Herringbone card.
When I saw Diana’s black Technique Junkie Herringbone card, I thought I was looking at designer paper.    It was only through an e-mail to Diana that I learned it was indeed a handmade background using one of her cuttlebug narrow folders. Talk about creative thinking!
My card was made using the Organic folder. Â Flowers, from SU Fifth Avenue Floral, were watercoloured. Â Diana made a wonderful card and you can see it by visiting her blog Crafts and Adventures from the Enns’.
Thank you for stopping by!
How to Create a Teabag Fold
Teabag folding has been around for a very long time. It was invented by a woman in Holland who created the Teabag fold by using teabag paper. There are so many interesting folds. Today I will show you one of those folds.
My card measures 6 1/4″ x 6 1/4″ because I used 3″ x 3″ squares of paper. I wanted to work with large pieces of paper for my tutorial for a better visual. You may want to start working with 3″ x 3″ paper until you get the hang of how the paper folds. 2″ x 2″ is a good size to use for your cards, especially if your card is the A2 size, and shouldn’t be too hard to find even if you’re cutting larger pieces down to get the right size, though we’d advise to use the right materials, as the paper you’re printing your elearners certificate on probably isn’t the right type for card-making.
Supplies: Glue Dots and 8 square pieces of paper.
Fold your paper corner to corner in each direction.
Using the folds as your guide, fold your paper so has two wings as seen in this photo.
Lay your paper flat. Take one of the wings and lift it up.
Fold the wing forward to form a small triangle.
Turn the paper around and create another folded triangle as you did above.
This is what your paper will look like once the two small triangles are made.
The next step is to add a glue dot and place the papers inside each other. Add a glue dot to the area I am pointing to.
Place one of your folded pieces of paper on an angle like you see on the left. Take a second piece of paper with the point in a downwards direction. Slip the second piece of paper downwards ensuring that your paper is tucked behind the small triangle of the paper to the left.
After your eight pieces of paper are attached, this is what the folds will look like.
Finish your card with embellishments.
For a full list of my tutorials, please visit my Tutorial page.
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