Spring Meadow Kraft Card

Core'dinations makes it so easy to create cute cards with lots of texture in just a few minutes. This is really great if you have to make multiples of cards for parties, thank-you's, etc. The Deco-Edge Kraft Cards and Envelopes are a real treat to use, not only for the trendy kraft color, but also with the fancy cut edge, half your work is already done. Kraft is also a great color choice, because it can be used for masculine and feminine projects alike.


Spring Meadow Kraft Card Supplies:

• Kraft Deco-Edge A2 Cards and Envelopes
• Sand-it Gadget
• Tim Holtz Classic
• Darice Dandelion Embossing Folder
• PunchBunch Mini Cherry Blossom Punch
• Imagine Crafts Pico Embellisher - Wedding Dress
• Pearls

 
 Step 1. Cut a panel of blue cardstock to fit on the card front.
 Step 2. Emboss the panel and sand the image with the Sand-it Gadget,
 Step 3. Adhere to the card base.
 Step 4. Add dimension to the flower buds, by add a dot of white with the Pico Embellisher, to each of the dots on the design.
 Step 5. Punch small flower to layer over the flowers. Distress the flowers with a Sand-it Gadget. Step 6. Finish the flowers with a small adhesive pearl in the center.
This is not my typical color palette, but I think it is a great combination for spring. Add the distressing, and it reminds me of a favorite pair of worn blue jeans. ~Gini

A Cup of Tea Warms the Soul

 
Spring is almost here - but for anyone that still needs a pick me up ....this card should do the job.  We'll soon be seeing blooms and butterflies, but until then.......

Supplies

Graphic 45 Botanical Tea Paper

Hampton Art/G45 Botanical Tea Stamp Sets -1,2,3

Dusty Attic Chipboard

Stampendous Embossing Powder

Core'dinations Cardstock

Want2Scrap Pearls

PunchBunch - Cherry Blossom, Sparkle

Creative Expressions Dies: Blossoming Branch, St. Lucia

Xyron Adhesive

VersaMark Ink, Memento Ink

Blossom with Belles n Whistles

It's a new challenge at Belles n Whistles - and what we are looking for are flowers on a shaped (not square) card. My sweet card is made using a Fairy Nice Flower stamp and Echo Park's Little Girl paper. I cut my card out using one of the Grand Spellbinders dies (my favorite way to make shaped cards). The flowers were made using Punch Bunch flower punches and Core'dinations cardstock. You have two weeks to play along with the BnW challenge, for your chance to win a stamp of your choice.

Chapel Road Stamps Inspiration

This month, at Class Act/ Chapel Road Stamps, we are sharing with you masculine creations.
I used the ATC -Ferns for my backgound, and after coloring it with Distress Inks, I painted a layer of Distress Paint in Rock Candy over the top. It really makes it look like an old and worn piece of wood. I embossed the sentiment from Northern River, using gold embossing powder. The flower was made using Punch Bunch punches.

Be sure to stop by next week for more inspiration highlighting the Chapel Road Stamps.

Beary Scrap May Sketch

Sometimes it's good to go rummaging through drawers - you find things you forgot about. This weekend I was looking for something, and stumbled across this little purse template (from about 10 years ago). I thought, hmmm.....that was cute, and didn't think any more about it. Then I pulled out the papers that I wanted to use for my Beary Scrap card this week - Cosmo Cricket Upcycle - and I saw the papers with the little purses...and a light went off! So sometimes projects come together after careful thought and planning and other times - it's just a happy whim!

After I put the purse together, I added some Tim Holtz chain for the handle, a handmade flower to dress it up a little and some Kaisercraft pearls to finish it off.

So do you have a great project story that just fell together? I'd love to hear it!

Challenges:
Simon Says: Anything goes