Recycling Candy.... (boxes)

It's so busy getting ready for Christmas!  My cards are almost done...
I know leaving it to last minute are we??? :) 

Wanted to share with you another recycling project I worked on last month.  We do not have small kids with lunches so the only time we buy small packs of chocolate is at Halloween.  Since we only had 8 kids this year at the door, we had a fair amount of chocolate left over.  I emptied all the Smarties boxes into my bowl in my craft room and thought it was a shame to waste all these pretty boxes.  (I am to bright colours as some are to shiny and glitter) 

So cover an 8 1/2" x 11 sheet of cheap paper with sookwang sheets, then peal off to reveal the stickiness.  Place cut box sides to sheet in a fun pattern. 

When you run out boxes, go find other candy wrappers to use!

 

Voila!  Brightly coloured 'paper' ready to use in your cards! 

Here are a couple of the cards I created...

 

The best part is you can use any wrapping that you have alot of the same...  Granola Bars, gum wrapping, etc...

 

 

Vibrant Colours

Hello All!

This week's challenge at My Heart Pieces is 'Vibrant Colors'.  I cannot think of anything more vibrant than baby boys' things.  Bright colours, wild combinations and fun!  I used one Priyanka's newer images 'It's a Boy' for this card.  Used my SU! dye markers to colour it all in, and used my Spellbinders to cut out the image and the two mats behind it.  Red twine wrapped around the left held my red tag stamped with Happy Birthday.  Numbered fabric tape along the bottem corner with a punched circle in red to highlight the '1'. 

 

I also created on that may not be as vibrant, but I love to make baby cards, so since this is a boy, I stuck with the blue/teal colour pallette.  Used blue and white twine to make it look like it was a picture hanging up on the blue button.

 

Have a great week and join us on this challenge if you have a chance to create!

Scraps

What to do with scaps after doing a project?  I tend to make multiples of a project like Christmas cards rather than do individual unique pieces.  I love unique cards, but as I send about 100 each year, I like to keep it an easy but elegant design that I can duplicate.  Anyway, this creates a lot of scraps of pretty paper I just cannot bear to throw away!  Shimmer paper is a weakness of mine and I just cannot waste any of it.  Check it out:

SO, I weave it, punch it and make all sorts of backgrounds for cards.

Have fun!

Occation Cards for Mom 3.0

I forgot to include some more of the all occation cards I made for my mom a couple months ago!  So here are samples of the last set I made for her.  I used Magenta stickers and paper.  Also used wrapping paper, velour paper, tea bag paper, SU! flowers and pearls.  Lots of fun!

 

 

 

Mom's Christmas Card

What to post today????
Well I have my mom's Christmas cards...
Every year for a few years now, I create some Christmas cards for my mom to send to her family and friends.  She only sends out about 20-25, so it's an easily doable project for me.  This year she basically said you decide the theme and colours.  I knew mom was not a fan of overly religious cards, so I designed this for her.

We are a French Canadian bilingual family, so some of the cards were done in french in respect for those who do not speak alot of english. 

I'll post my Christmas cards a little later, after I have sent them out. :)

Inspirational Photo Challenge

WOW! It's already been two weeks!  I've been busy making cards and scrapbooks for shows that my girlfriends and I were selling at.  I will show you some of those another day though. 

This week our challenge at My Heart Pieces is making a card using the following photo as inspiration.  As Priyanka put it: "you can make anything which is inspire you, it can be a teddy bear,red roses,the color of anything from the picture,ribbon, candle, pearls anything"  

I picked the image called 'Hide and Seek'  for the flowers which I saw in the picture... The red, blue and gold colours talked to me also.  I coloured all my images with water coloured crayons and a water brush.

So my first card is a 5x6.5" black card topped with gold Magenta mesh paper held in place with red flower eyelets.  The image was cut out with Spellbinders Labels 8, then layered onto a likewise cut blue panel with red ribbon accent.  Finishing touch is red flowers accented with white pearl centers.

My second card is also 5x6.5".  I trimmed the image then matted it on dark blue, then on red.  The multicouloured paper on the right hand side is actually my scrap paper from cleaning my brush as I watercoloured the four images :)  Then I accented it with a yellow/gold fibre wrapped around a string of pearls.

 

My third card is also  5x6.5".  This time I tried cutting out my image and then matting on blue, then onto red flocked card, then on the card front with a piece of gold card tucked in between.  Then I tied a piece of gold fabric ribbon in a bow and adhered it to the top right corner.  And it really needed some pearl accents in the bottem left corner too!  Couldn't forget the pearls!

 

My last card is a 6x6".   I covered the card front with handmade paper that had a wide red ribbon placed on it.  I trimed the image and matted it on yellow then stuck it in the middle of the card.  And yes, I HAD to add the pearls again :)



Something Cute

Hi there!
This week at My Heart Pieces we are to make something cute.  I think Mermaids are cute!  And so this image was selected and coloured with my markers, twice, then one cut out.  Yes, her skin is blue.  I love the look of popping out a portion of an image to give it depth!  Dug around and found the small seashells I stole from my mom's collection and then added the gold negative sheet from making sequins. (I got it from my friend I have NO idea where to get more! LOL!)  It was a happy fluke that the paint chip I chose to use had the bottom colour listed as Ocean Sea!  Final card is 6x6".

 

Of course I had to keep making cards! :)
This one is also coloured with markers, then I believe it is called 'fussy cut' out the image with small scissors and a blade.  I wanted to show off the Alcohol ink background I cut out using Spellbinders Labels 20 then embossed with a shell pattern (that did not show up very well).  Placed this on blue mulberry paper then saw some pale blue netting out of the corner of my eye.  So I added it over the entire thing and secured with gold brads. Card size is 5 x 6 1/2".

And this last one I took my watercolour crayons and brush to.  Used my Spellbinders Label 22 to cut out the image then hand cut a thin mat onto metalic blue paper.  This is matted onto my girlfriend's hand made marble paper, then patterned vellum.  Nice and elegant, as well as cute!  Card size is 5 x 6 1/2".