The Weathered Old Barn

Recipe: Digital Kits: Natural Beauty Word Art by Kathryn Estry, Earth Renewed by Joyce de Jonge, The Gourmet Kit Free Sample by Silva Romeo and Overlay on the Weathered by by DSP Tina Chambers Font: Britannic Bold

Swap Card

Here's a few of the monthly swap cards I received.

The card base is made with white card stock for a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card. I inked the tulip with Celery and the leaves with New England Ivy, stamped on white card stock, then embossed with clear embossing powder. I then colored the tulip with Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, and Fire Brick Red. The leaved are colored with Peeled Paint and Celery. After the tulip was dry I trimmed around the edges then inked all the edges with Peeled Paint to cover up the white edges. I stamped French writing on tan card stock with brown ink to create the background behind the tulip leaves.




I used a combination of pop up dots and glue to attach the flower to the card. The bottom of the stem is glued, while on the top of the stem I used pop up dots. The flower has pop up dots also. I tied a ribbon around the front and inserted an eye pin into the knot with two beads on top. The ribbon is bias tape I had lying around.







I used Walk In My Garden Cricut Cartridge and cut the tulips at 1 1/2" and and 3" out of red and green card stock. For the inside of the card I layered the 1 1/2" tulip onto two squares of card stock that was used on the front. The 3" tulip is on the outside of the card.

Recipe: Cardstock: White, Dark Brown, Tan, Tan Swirl Paper, Red, Green Ink: Brown, Ranger Distress Ink - Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Fire Brick Red, Peeled Paint Close To My Heart - New England Ivy Stampin Up: Celery Stamps: Hero Art - French Writing, Tulip Stamp Misc: Ribbon, Eye Pin, Beads, Pop up dots, glue, clear embossing powder

Sketch Recipe:

Dark Brown Paper: Card Base: 5/ 1/2" x 4 1/4", Background paper 1: 2 1/4" x 4" Background Paper 2: 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"

Accent Paper 1: 4 x 3 3/4 Accent Paper 2: 2" x 3 3/4" Accent Paper 3: 3"x 3"

Recipe Page

Here's a recipe page I'm making for my Guys. I used the recipe cards from Diana Burton, typed up the recipe and printed out on white card stock.



Recipe: Digital Set LTA Recipe Cards by Diana Burton, Slice of Summer Calendar Bonus by Amanda Thorderson,

Happy Birthday

I used the Stampin' Up Wow Flower Stamp set and the Simply Sent Card Elements kit for this card. I used pop up dots behind the large sticker and medium stickers and behind the button.

For the inside of the card I selected a color from the DCVW mat stack and matted a piece of the Flower Power Designer paper. This covers up the ribbon in the inside of the card.

Recipe: Stamps: Stampin' Up Wow Flower Stamp Set, Paper: Stampin' Up Perfect Plum card stock, Flower Power Designer Paper, DCVW card stock Misc: Black Ink, Whisper White Ribbon, Flower Power Die Cuts, More Mustard button, pop-up dots, glue

Giveaway Alert!

Melissa from Creating from the Heart is have a giveaway. Take a look here.

Thank You

Here is another card using the Wow Flower Stamp set and Simply Sent Card Elements kit. Once again I used pop-up dots behind the first two layers of the flower. I also used a small pop-up dot behind the button.










For the inside I used the same color of the DCVW mat stack to mat the Flower Power Designer paper.

Recipe: Stamps: Stampin' Up Wow Flower Stamp Set, Paper: Stampin' Up Old Olive card stock, Flower Power Designer Paper, DCVW card stock Misc: Black Ink, Whisper White Ribbon, Flower Power Die Cuts, Old Olive button, pop-up dots, glue

Overflowing

This weeks challenge was to use overflowing on your page. I started out with the definition as a piece of word art on the page then decided not to use it. If you want the word art click here.

Recipe: Digital Kit by A Work in Progress - Out and About

Happy Birthday

I used the Stampin' Up Wow Flower Stamp set and the Simply Sent Card Elements kit for this card. I used pop up dots behind the first two stickers for the flower.







For the inside of the card I selected a color from the DCVW mat stack and matted a piece of the Flower Power Designer paper. This covers up the ribbon in the inside of the card.


Recipe: Stamps: Stampin' Up Wow Flower Stamp Set, Paper: Stampin' Up Rose Red card stock, Flower Power Designer Paper, DCVW card stock Misc: Black Ink, More Mustard Ribbon, Flower Power Die Cuts, mini brad, pop-up dots, glue

I Can Handle This

This is the second challenge I've signed up for at Hummies World. The first challenge here is to use "I can handle this!" in the title or part of the title. Well this title fits perfectly to what's taking space in our garage. My son has been working on his car, waiting for parts, painting parts, and putting it back together again.

Recipe: Digital Kit: Poppylium Designs - Motoring Font: Ewie D

Dragonflies

After making the butterflies I had to try dragonflies. I used the Cricut cartridge DoodleCharms for the dragonflies. I cut the dragonfly that is on the front of the card at 3 inches and the smaller ones at 1 inch, make sure you use the blackout function.

For my embossing folders I used Tiny Bubbles, Snowflakes, D'Vine Swirl, and Floral Screen working from the largest layer to the smallest layer. For the the dragonfly I again used the Stylized Flowers.









I do not have a dragonfly punch so I glued the dragonfly on the top inside front and bottom right hand side second page.


Now this doesn't look bad, but I wasn't quite happy with how it turned out so I opened up Design Studio and made a card insert. For this I used the George cartridge for the rectangle and the dragonfly from Doodlecharm.


I did emboss the dragonflies for the inside of the cards with Snow Dots to give them a little extra pop.

I cut three extra dragonfly to decorate the front of the envelopes.








Click here for the Design Studio File.

Persuasion

I've signed up for a couple of challenges at Hummies World. The first is challenge is Themed Thursdays. I seem to be focusing on just one type of project and want to get back in the habit of doing more than just that. I also want to be able to use Photoshop Elements without looking at how to do something because I've forgotten. The first challenge is Persuasion.

Recipe: Digital Kit by A Work in Progress and Stacey Scraps Doodle Bug

August Desktop

This is my Desk Top for August. I'm using the Digital Kit by Amanda Thorderson again from Digital Scrapbook Pages.

The Song Lyrics are from John Mayer's song "Say" from the movie "The Bucket List". Click here to listen to the song, and here for the lyrics.

Recipe: Digital Scrapbook Kit: Amanda Thorderson's Song of Hope Calander Mini and Poppy Notepaper Font: Adobe Garmon Pro

Cards and Envelopes ...

Using the Card Feature on the Cricut. I needed to make a few card to cheer a friend up so I thought I would do a tutorial for you.

***Even though I am showing you how to do this in Design Studio you do not need Design Studio to do this. ***

First determine the size of the card you will be making and set the dial size to that. I am using 4 1/4 for my cards and envelopes. Now leave the dial size alone. You will not need to use it again for this project.

To make the card top press the card feature button and select your image. Load your paper and cut.

Now select the shift lock button and your card feature button again. You may need to cut a couple of different times for the shape to get all the colors cut. I cut four different times for this flower. Twice for green, one each of red and purple. I like to decorate my cards with an image on the inside.

For the card base select the card base, load your paper and cut. The Cricut will score and cut. I have been using 8 1/2" by 11" card stock for card base and another sheet for the envelope.

For the envelope select the card feature button, shift lock, and the envelope. This is the envelope that goes with this card. Load you paper and cut.

I loose just a little bit of the flap when I use and 8 1/2 x 11" piece of paper. It's not a lot, I just make sure that this flap is folded to the inside. When folding you envelope be sure to use a bone folder. I use red line tape for the flaps on the envelope. Since I'm making this as a gift I leave the red plastic on the last envelope flap.

Now that you have all of your elements cut you can assemble your card and envelope.

I like to run my card top through the Cuttlebug to add some interest to the card. I used the Stylized Flowers for this card.

Depending on how you emboss your card front depends on where you window will be. For this reason I use double sided paper.

I then tie a ribbon around the window and the side of the card top before I glue to the card base. I cut off the top of the green tulips before I glued the leaves on. I used pop up dots behind the purple and red tulips.

How you glue the card front to the card base will determine whether you have card that opens to the top or the side.

As I said I like the same design to the inside of my card. I glue the green tulip base to the side, then glued the purple and green tulips on top.

For the Dragonfly Card I used the Argyle folder, Sunflower Card - Bird Call Folder,Turtle Card -D'vine Swirl and the Bumble Bee Card - Mesh folder

Recipe: Cricut: Walk in My Garden Paper: 2 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11", scraps of green, red, purple Misc: glue, ribbon, cuttlebug, pop up dots, red line tape

Wishing You Well . . .

This is for Cheryl, I hope she is feeling better.

I started with a white background and using the Distress Inks in Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint I inked the background. I used foam pads instead of the felt ones. White the ink was drying I make a picket fence with the George Cartridge and cut it out with my Cricut. I distress the fence with Antique Linen. I stamped the butterfly and while it was drying I decorated the fence. The tulips and small flowers are some from Mom's stuff, so I don't know the name of the punch. I used the Martha Stewart Branch punch for the flower stems.

I used pop up dots behind the fence to give it a little more interest. The daisy's have small rhinestones in the middle of them.

Seal the envelope then cut 1 1/2" off of the top (the short side of the envelope) Using the same distress inks color your envelope. I do both the front and the back of the envelope and envelope top. I stamped the swirls on the envelope front of the envelope only. I then run the envelope, not the top, through a paper crimper.

When you finish a project do you use your punched and punch some of the left over paper. I do, this is where the branches and larger flowers came from.

To decorate the envelope top I used two punched flowers, a couple of the punched branches and a rhinestone in the flower.

The branches are actually a dark green but show more of a brown in this photo.

The inside is decorated with paper from Karen Foster's Micro Paper Bundle. I cut a sheet of the paper into 1 1/2" squares, glued onto a white background at 1 1/2" and trimmed to size. I then decorated with a couple of punched flowers with rhinestones for the flower centers.

I then stamped my sentiment in Color Box Pigment Ink Royal Blue.

Click here for the Picket fence file.

Recipe: Paper: White Card Stock, Micoro Papr Bundle Stamps: Close to My Heart - Say It in Style, Autumn Leaves - Spring Swirl, Ink: Tim Holt's Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint Color Box Pigment Ink - Royal Blue Punches: flowers, Martha Stewart branch punch.

Fabric Giveaway

Karen has Soriee Honeybun. Click here to check it out.

Sisters

I did this layout for the Scraplift Challenge at Digital Scrapbook Pages.


Recipe: Digital Kit by Glenda Ketcham - Digital Scrapbook Experience Mini Kit, Digital Art By Steph - Risen and July 03 Freebie, Handmaid Designs - NSD 2009 Challenge Kit Font Elegant

August CD Calendar

The Popsicles are cut from the DoodleCharms Cricut Cartridge at 2", 1 1/2". and 1". I cut the tag from Fabulous Finds at 1" and stamped August in purple ink. The bright colored yarn is some left over from when the guys were little and making the beaded pony bead animals. I thought it went well with this background paper.

Recipe: Paper: Scraps of pink, off white, tan, white, and background paper Stamp: Perfectly Clear Stamps set Save the Date Ink: purple, Misc: ribbon, safety pin, glue, pop up dots.