Friday, March 28, 2014

Get Well

Today my eBosser came!  WOOHOO!!!!!

In my previous post, I used some already-cut embellishments on a card because my Grand Calibur machine broke; the handle snapped off while I was cranking with a too-thick shim in the sandwich. So I bit the bullet and ordered an eBosser online, and it came today. 

Using the eBosser and a few pieces I had already processed, I made a card for Joan's Touch weekly challenge:

A current challenge at Joan's Touch gives these guidelines:  use pink and white, a lattice, some flowers and a product sold at Joan's Gardens. I used these tools to make the card:
  • Cuttlebug Swiss Dots EF
  • Spellbinders Fancy Lattice; Bitty Blossoms
  • Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish
  • Leaf EF
  • EK Success Butterfly Punch
  • Stampin' Up Frame
  • Get Well Stamp
  • Liquid Pearls
  • Iridescent Ribbon
  • Bow Easy
  • Pop Dots   
Here is the card:


I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:
Mar 29 613 Avenue Create  -  Challenge #64 - AG UE  
Apr 03 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE  
Mar 31 TTCRD - AG 2E #2
Mar 31 LOC - AG 5E #3
Apr 01 Word Art Wednesday  - AG 5E #2 
Apr 02 Totally PaperCrafts - Think Pink 3E #1 
Apr 03 4 Crafty Girlz - AG 3E #3
Apr 03 Crafty Catz - AG 3E #1 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings, 
Ginny B.

  • Romans 10:9-11
    If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Using Some Already-Prepared Embellishments

A couple of days ago my Spellbinders Grand Caliber machine broke; the handle snapped off when I was cranking some dies with a thick shim. I ordered an eBosser, but it will take a few days to arrive. Rather than invest in another crank machine, it seemed more advantageous to put that money toward what has really been something I've wanted for a long time.

Since right now it is not an option to use dies or embossing folders, I delved into a stash of things previously cut.

A current challenge at Joan's Touch gives these guidelines:
  • Use pink and white
  • Use a lattice
  • Add some flowers
  • Use a product sold at Joan's Gardens

I have a wonderful Spellbinders lattice die and also a lattice EF, but cannot use either one of them and did not have any pre-cut or pre-embossed on hand. The biggest challenge was to somehow get a lattice onto this card, so I looked online for some free lattice papers and found some here. There was not a pink choice, so I manipulated the color of one of them in Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

I also used these:
  • Spellbinders Wonderful Wings Diecut (already had the butterfly cut); Fancy Framed Tags Two (also had this pre-cut with a sentiment I had printed out from computer, and with pink ink, no less!)
  • Martha Stewart Wild Flowers Border Punch; Stylus Tools
  • Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish
  • Iridescent Glitter and Pink Glitter Glue
  • Liquid Pearls
  • Pink Ribbon
  • Bow Easy
  • Pop Dots
It is easy to see from the picture how the card was made:





I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 25 Word Art Wednesday  - AG 5E #1
Mar 25 Totally Papercrafts - Beautiful Borders 3E #1
Mar 28 Crafty Catz - Bling It Up 3E #1
Mar 29 613 Avenue Create  -  Challenge #64 - Anything Goes
Mar 28 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE  
Mar 31 TTCRD - AG 2E #1
Mar 31 Just Inspirational Challenges - Monchromatic 3E #1
Apr 03 4 Crafty Girlz - AG 3E #2
Apr 13 Brown Sugar Challenges - AG 2E #1 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT  

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Psalm 119:18

Today I am posting a card that meets the requirements of the challenge at Joan's Touch, which are: must have some items sold At Joan's Gardens, have neutral colors, a corner embellishment and a picture. 

The card base is ivory and on top of that is a textured beige grasscloth patterned paper; next is a piece of kraft paper that has been run through a Paper Studio EF. The picture, which is in sepia tones, is printed from the internet, and the sentiment is generated from my computer and is die cut with a Sizzix Scalloped Oval die, and the edges of the oval are inked in brown. In the upper left corner is a Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco B corner diecut piece. At the bottom is a piece of ecru lace and it is topped off with an ivory double-looped bow that was made with Bow Easy. For an extra feminine touch, three liquid pearls were placed in the lower right hand corner of the picture.

This card is for a lady, but the picture and the sentiment could easily be used for a man's card, particularly if this color palate is used. The kraft paper background could also have a more angular embossed design if the card is for a man. I am telling this to myself for future reference because it is hard for me to come up with masculine themes.  :o)

Here is the card:


I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 25 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1

Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE
Mar 27 Brown Sugar Challenge - AG UE
Mar 28 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 28 Stampin' for the Weekend - AG 1E
Mar 29 613 Avenue Create - AG UE
Mar 29 Time 4 Scrap - Pearls and Lace UE
Apr 02 Cut It Up Challenges - Must Use Diecut 1E 
Apr 12 Bunny Zoe's Challenge - AG UE 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.
Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Savior Is Born

Today's card is for Christmas and is fairly CAS. The colors used are mainly taken from burlap, twine and gold. The brown burlap and twine and the scratchy, rough texture of them symbolizes the humanity of Christ and His humble birth. Born in a common stable with no luxuries, and no bed except the place where the livestock come to feed. The gold symbolizes His deity. He is Son of God, Son of Man; fully God, fully man.

The stamps are from Sassy Stamps, and the matching manger die was ordered to coordinate with the manger stamp. The manger scene is colored with pencils and markers. The ovals were cut from the Plantain Schoolbook Cricut cartridge.

Here is the card:



I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 18 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #3
Mar 20 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 23 Completely Christmas - Christmas AG UE
Mar 24 Flourishes - Touch of Gold UE
Mar 26 Crafting by Designs - AG 5E #5
Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE
Mar 26 Crimbo Crackers - Cute Christmas UE
Mar 31 Ladybug Crafts - AG 3E #3
Mar 31 LOC Anniversary Challenge - AG 5E #2 
Mar 31 Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - Christmas UE


Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.
Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Peach and Teal

There are a lot of border punches in my punch drawer, and I intend to use them, but forget. Today I pulled one out that has lots of swirlies, which always add to the femininity of a card. The Joan's Touch challenge for this week, which I am entering, is to use teal and peach, a circle, and a layered butterfly, so those were the main guidelines for this card.

This card took a long time to make because it was a trial and error kind of thing; lots of things were tried with the layout. First I had it in a portrait orientation, but decided landscape would be better. Then the layout took FOREVER to get right. Sometimes it looks like there is something missing, but you lay something else down on the project, and it either does not go, or it is just too much. So this took about 4 hours!  :o)

I punched the border with a swirly EK punch and laid that over a teal piece, then stitched around the edges with my sewing machine.

The circle element is Spellbinders Medallion One cut in peach and laid over a teal circle. The teal circle is dabbed with some white ink to give it some contrast from the darker teal underneath the border cut.

The experiment of the day was the layered butterfly. I wondered about putting a layer of sparkly gold-flecked tulle in between the paper layers, and to save time, I cut the white patterned paper and the tulle together with a Spellbinders Wonderful Wings die. Well, it stuck to the paper so perfectly that I thought I would try it with the teal layer and a layer of parchment paper, too. The parchment paper was not as successful, even with trying to glue it down. It would not stick to the paper and was not stiff enough to make a layer by itself. So the tulle on that layer was pitched. Parchment layer is on the far right:


I got some black wire from a bead store recently and made antenna for the butterfly. The abdomen has three liquid pearls. It is placed on the peach medallion. Two more double-layered butterflies were punched from two different Martha Steward punches, and the top layers were glittered. A small liquid pearl is in the center of each one. The leaves are Poppy Stamps Lorelai Leaf in white and gold vellum. Teal swirlies are placed on the right. They are from a package of cutouts that came in a package from the craft store and are a metallic teal color. The sentiment is stamped from an Our Daily Bread Hyacinth stamp set, and is framed with Spellbinders Ribbon Banners and attached with pop dots.

Here is the card:


It's amazing how you can take a picture of the same thing with the same light turned on, but because of the time of day and the light that comes through the windows, the colors show differently. In the above picture, I tried my best to get the true colors, but it is only close. After awhile, I just said, "That's enough!"  :o) This one is pretty true to the actual colors, though.

In this closeup of the layered butterfly, you can see the gold flecked tulle on the top and bottom layers of the butterfly:


I am also entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 18 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2
Mar 19 Hobbybook Designers Challenge - Make It Girly 3E #1
Mar 19 Tuesday Throwdown - Stitching 3E #1
Mar 19 Crafting by Designs - Things with Wings 5E 5E #1
Mar 20 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 25 Butterfly Challenge - Stitching and Butterfly 3E #1
Mar 25 Crafting by Designs March Challenge - AG 5E #4
Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE
Mar 31 Ladybug Crafts - AG 3E #2
Mar 31 LOC Anniversary Challenge - AG 5E #1

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

From Our House to Your House

I think I need help. I have a really neat die that has been in my drawer for maybe a year, and today was the first day I took it out and used it. I see something that is so neat and just have to have it. Then I get it and it goes into the die drawer and I forget about it; but I still keep on ordering goodies.

Well, today this cute little door die from Cheery Lynn got used. It came with a screen door piece, but that did not seem appropriate for a Christmas card, because, unless you live in a warm climate, you don't have your screen door open at Christmas time...  So, I backed it with another piece of the same color and it looked more like a front door. The red was not as vibrant as I had hoped, so I spray painted it. The doorknob is a brass brad.

I saw this cute little wreath on someone's blog one day and thought it would be  fun to replicate. Wish I could tell you whose blog it was, but that was awhile ago, and it would really be hard to find it again. I started out with a ring cut from dark green paper and glued pine sprigs from a Martha Stewart punch around it to make the wreath. A gold three-looped bow tops the wreath.

I wanted a brick background, but all the EFs I own have the bricks going the wrong direction, so I went outside and took a picture of the side of my house and printed it out for the "house" background.  The sentiment is printed from my computer and punched out with a Stampin' Up punch.

Here is the card:


However, the door smashed up against the bricks just did not look right, so I added a door frame beneath the red door and attached the whole of it to the brick background with pop dots. The upper corners of the frame are scored:


I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 13 LOC - Use Die Cuts UE
Mar 13 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 14 Jo's Scrap Shack - AG 3E #2

Mar 15 613 Avenue Create AG UE
Mar 18 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5# #1 
Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE
Mar 28 Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - Christmas UE

Mar 31 Ladybug Crafts - AG 3E #1
 
Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Green and White Birthday

Today I am posting another monochromatic green and white birthday card. These are the elements used in making the card:

  • Sizzix Flourish Dots and Ribbon Set EF
  • Spellbinders Floral Oval; Bitty Blossoms
  • Cheery Lynn Mini Fanciful Flourish
  • Memory Box Pippi Butterfly
  • Martha Stewart 5 Leaf Punch 
  • Bow Easy
  • Liquid Pearls
  • Green Ink
  • Silver and White Ribbon
  • Iridescent Glitter
Here it is.




I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 09 Joan's Touch - Green, EF, Oval 3E #2
Mar 11 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2
Mar 12 4 Crafty Girlz - AG 3E #2
Mar 13 LOC - Use Die Cuts UE
Mar 13 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 14 Jo's Scrap Shack - AG 3E #2
Mar 16 613 Avenue Create - AG UE
Mar 17 Crafty Creations - Happy Birthday 2E #2
Mar 25 Crafting by Designs - AG 5E #2
Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.


Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.


Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT 

Friday, March 7, 2014

And Heaven and Nature Sing

Today I made a CAS Christmas card and used some printouts from a site that gives free downloads of labels and background Christmas paper. The site is at World Label. I want to give credit to them and thank them for their generosity. It is so kind of them to make this available.

Starting with white cardstock, a printed out background paper was laid down. Before doing that, I attached a piece of wide red ribbon that was in my stash. The labels are free, and you can type any sentiment you want from your computer, so I put in some words from the Christmas carol, "Joy to the World." It is layered on top of the ribbon with pop dots. The little birdie and branch are from a new Stampin' Up punch I got in the mail yesterday:  Large Two Step Bird Punch. The branch on  which the little bird sits is included in the punch. The bird is also attached with pop dots to elevate her. She has a little white liquid pearl eye.

Here is the card:



I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:

Mar 08 613 Avenue Create - AG/Stash UE    
Mar 10 Creative Moments - AG/Swirls and Pearls 3E #3  
Mar 11 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #2
Mar 12 4 Crafty Girlz - AG 3E #1  
Mar 13 LOC - Use Die Cuts UE
Mar 13 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 14 Jo's Scrap Shack - AG 3E #1 
 
Mar 25 Crafting by Designs - AG 5E #1
Mar 26 Just Keep on Creating - AG UE
Feb 28 Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - Christmas UE 


Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.





Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.


Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Monochromatic Birthday

Today's card looks simple, but has a technique I had not tried before. Starting with white cardstock, a white layer is put on that which has been run through an EF (Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls). I didn't want to put a lot of pieces on this embossed layer because I think it is so sweet and should not be covered up, so a lot of "white space" is kept so that the background is clearly visible. Next is a green leafy swirl (Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish) cut from paper I have had in my stash for a long time; then two ovals, one green and one white with a sentiment (Sizzix Scalloped Oval Framelits). I wish I could tell you the brand of the stamp used in the sentiment, but it has been of the package for awhile, and the brand is unknown. The new technique is this: I took some tulle and knotted it, putting the knot in between the green oval and the white oval, then taping the ends on the underside of the embossed layer. (This was done before the embossed layer was secured to the white cardstock base, of course.) The knot serves as a natural elevator to the white sentiment layer.

The little bird (Spellbinders die) is sprayed with silver and iridescent glitter dusts, and is placed on the sentiment with a pop dot. Liquid pearls are added to finish the card.

Here it is:



Glittery bird:


Tulle accent:



Liquid pearls:


I am entering this card in the following challenges ending:
Mar 06 Card Makin' Mamas - Layers  2E #2  

Mar 06 Crafty Catz - AG 3E #1  
Mar 06 Sister Act Card Challenge - AG UE
Mar 08 613 Avenue Create - AG/Stash UE  
Mar 10 Creative Moments - AG/Swirls and Pearls 3E #2
Mar 11 Word Art Wednesday - AG 5E #1 
Mar 13 LOC - Use Die Cuts UE
Mar 09 Joan's Touch - Green, EF, Oval 3E #1
Mar 17 Crafty Creations - Happy Birthday 2E #1
Mar 25 Crafting by Designs - AG 5E #1

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always appreciate your visits. As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,
Ginny B.

Romans 10:9-11
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT