Month: June 2017

Here we go with day three of my blogging attempts. It is starting to come a little more easily, but I know there is still a long way to go before this is where I want it to be.

Today’s card is made using stamps from At Home with You, All Things Thanks and Colorful Seasons, as well as the At Home dies and the Woodland embossing folder. After all, it is a cabin in the WOODS! And, a cabin in the Canadian woods near a lake is where my heart really would like to be.  The roof and stone step were made with embossing folders I have had a long time and don’t remember the company.

I started with an Emerald Envy card base and adhered the Woodland embossed Early Espresso panel to the card base. The cabin itself is a piece of raw wood from the Wood Textures DSP, adhered to the woodland with Fast Fuse. I didn’t want it to be too big and hide the ‘trees’ so I cut it smaller than I normally would for a mat. The door is stamped in Soft Suede on another piece of Wood Textures DSP, then die cut. Gotta LOVE that paper! I am so glad it will be around for awhile.

I placed a scrap of Daffodil Yellow behind the cut out windows to add a welcoming glow from inside the cabin. The door opens, so I put apiece of Whisper White behind the door and stamped a sentiment. The door looked a little blah, so I used a black marker to color the door handle and lockset. The whole door assembly was liquid glued to the wood panel.

For the lamp by the door I used the stamp and matching die from the At Home bundle, stamping the image in soft suede and coloring in the flame and candle with my Emerald Envy and Daffodil Yellow Stampin’ Write markers. Using a couple of Stampin’ Dimensionals I adhered it to the cabin wall by the door.

For the stoop I used an old embossing folder that looks like stone and sponged a piece of Smokey Slate with some Basic Gray ink before doing the embossing. I adhered it with Fast Fuse to the cabin and the card base, placing it under the door and lining up the bottom with the edge of the card stock. I was happy with the final look.

The Grateful sentiment, the sign and the ‘hanger’ were all stamped with soft suede, with the sign on a scrap of the white Wood Textures DSP, running the grain horizontally instead of vertically. I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to attach it to the door.

The pot was stamped with Basic Black on Smokey Slate and cut with the matching die. The Tree in the pot was stamped with Emerald Envy on Emerald Envy card stock and cut with its matching die. I adhered the tree to the cabin with Stampin’ Dimensionals, overlapping the door for a more realistic look, then used more dimensionals to pop the flower pot over the tree and setting on the stoop.

The ‘cabin’ looked unfinished somehow, so I dry tested the roof, meaning I placed it where it would go but didn’t glue it down,  and it still looked bare. I thought perhaps corners in a contrasting color would do the trick, so I cut narrow strips of Emerald Envy and liquid glued them to the edge of the wood panel. Well, what do you know? It worked. I now had a more finished look, except for attaching the roof.

We’re still not finished building our cabin though. We need a roof. How to make it look like a cabin? Hmmm. I had this old embossing folder I had never used and thought it could look like a metal roof. So, I embossed a scrap of Emerald Envy with it and used scissors to fussy cut angles to make it look more like a roof. I adhered the top to the cabin wall with liquid glue and stacked 2 dimensionals on each corner and in the middle to add some depth, the way a roof would be.

The first attempt didn’t look quite the way I thought it should, so, roof #2 went on. I hope contractors don’t have to do a roof twice!! And, our card front is finished. Whew.

For the inside, I used a piece of the light distressed paper from the Wood Textures DSP, the same as the door, and stamped the sentiment from All Things Thanks, and a twig, from the Colorful Seasons set, in Early Espresso. I then glued this to an Early Espresso mat and into the card base and the card was done!

This is a GREAT set and one that I am sure will be used for many different styles of card. Can’t you see it as a Christmas card? A For Your New Home card? Maybe a beach hut?

If you don’t have a demonstrator I would be happy to help you.

 

Good afternoon Everyone,

This is day 2 of blogging for me. Whew! Getting everything set up and operational is quite a chore, at least for me. I am fairly proficient in using the computer and Photoshop, but a complete newbie when it comes to setting up all that is necessary to have a successful blog.  At least, a successful blog is the expected end result!

For today’s post I am showing a card I did recently for a birthday using the Falling Petals embossing folder in Mint Macaron (now retired) as the backdrop for my art piece. I wrapped a piece of Old Olive ribbon around the Falling Petals and adhered it with Fast Fuse. Dry arranging all of the flowers and leaves to look the way I wanted them took a bit of time, but was worth it. They were all adhered to the background with liquid glue, which was then adhered to a Whisper White mat with Fast Fuse.

I did this card a couple of weeks ago and don’t remember which dies I used to cut Old Olive, Blushing Bride and Whisper White for the flowers and leaves, but they were not all from the same set.  The great thing about paper crafting is that you can take a basic idea and make it your own by choosing your own colors, stamps and dies.

The art is simply an oval cut from the WONDERFUL new Daisy Delight Designer Series Paper with an oval Stitched Shapes die. Once I decided on the flower bunch in the DSP that I wanted to use, I just chose an oval size that was appropriate. I then adhered that to a Blushing Bride oval cut with the scalloped Layering Ovals. This was then adhered over the  flowers and leaves with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

A few tiny Pearl Basics for the flower centers finished the card front.

For the inside I stamped the sentiment from Big on Birthdays in Old Olive on a piece of Whisper White card stock that I had cut into a rectangle with the Layering Squares die, using a technique from Amy Koenders, which you can find here.

I lightly sponged the very edges  with Old Olive ink to make it pop off the mat of Daisy Delight DSP. I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the stamped floral image  above the sentiment, so I fussy cut a bouquet from the DSP and liquid glued it over the top of the stamped design. I like this much better, don’t you? The mat was then glued into my Blushing Bride card base and the inside was done.

OOPS! I just hate it when I am done with something and see an ink smudge where it isn’t supposed to be!! This was on the upper left corner of my sentiment piece, so I camouflaged it with a little fussy cut flower. I thought that was a better option than starting over on the inside of the card.

After SNAILing the card front to the Blushing Bride card base the card was done!

So that the envelope didn’t look too naked I fussy cut a small bouquet from the DSP and adhered it to the lower front of the envelope and covered the flap with more of the same paper. WOO-HOO! Finished.

I hope you like this card and bear with me a few more posts until I get this all figured out. Sorry, no card cuts this time, but I think you can figure it out.