Evinadas Creativity Haven

Daughters Thank You cards

2012-01-29T19:44:00.001-05:00

Here are some 3x3 Thank You cards that my 6 yr. old daughter made for friends who gave her Christmas presents. I think she did a wonderful job. She picked out all the stamps and paper, mom helped with punching and cutting mats. She's turning into a great crafter. The stamps are from Studio G and the bird and owl are Stampin Up punches. The tree was colored with chalks. The bird she used her crayons on and the smiling flower was paper pieced that she cut out herself

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Holiday Gift card holders and wine tag

2012-01-02T12:16:00.000-05:00

Here are a few samples of some gift card holders that were made for family. The stamps are from The Angel Company (images), the sentiment is Studio G and the paper line is from my stash. The holders are belly banded. The first photo is a wine topper that I had made as my tag. The stocking is flocked. The snowflakes are punched and a piece of white shimmer cardstock was placed behind them. The borders on the other cards were using an EK Success border punch. I used nestabilities to layer the images.
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Winter mini album

2012-01-02T11:58:00.000-05:00

This mini album was made for my daughter-in-law who does not scrapbook, so I kept the mini very simple. I used DCWV winter stack that I am still trying to use up that I had bought a few years ago. The stamps are from Studio G and Stampin Up. The snowflake embellisments are confetti from Walmart. and I used Tim Holtz on the edge die for the pockets. I used Kathy Orta's card and envelope technique for the mini. The cards and envelopes are Recollections from Michaels. For more pictures I have added a slide show of the mini in detail.

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Awesome craft site

2011-12-03T12:54:00.000-05:00

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Breast Cancer TP mini

2011-10-01T08:40:00.000-04:00

This mini was made for a friend who has someone battling breast cancer. I wanted to make something she could look at through those rough times and brighten up her day. This was made from toilet paper rolls and I used the cuttlebug ribbon die on each of the tags. I kept this fairly simple so it wasn't too overwhelming.

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Creative Time for Me's August Sneak Peek

2011-08-15T21:56:00.000-04:00

Check out Emma's new August sneak peek going on right now at Creative Time for Me. She has some awesome stamps and new dies that can be used with your bigshot or cuttlebug. Love the stitched circle embossing die. She has some great projects on her site.

Simple Sympathy Card

2011-05-27T18:08:00.000-04:00

Sympathy cards are some of the hardest cards to make. Here is one I recently done for a freind. The stamp is from Stamping Up. The image was stamped on white textured cardstock and cut with a rectangle Nestabilitie die and layered with a scalloped Nestabilitie die cut from patterned paper. The background is white cardstock that I ran through the Cuttlebug with a Stampin Up embossing folder.
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Baby Shower banner and table decorations

2011-05-09T20:48:00.000-04:00

I was asked to do some decorations for a baby shower and this is what I have come up with. The banner was made using the SCAL program and my digital cutter. I welded the letters on top of the bottle so they would cut out of the bottle and placed green cardstock behind the letters. The top of the bottle was embossed with the Cuttlebug and the swiss dots folder.

The baby carriages were made using some designer series paper and cut out with SCAL. The images on the flowers are from The Angel Company stamps and colored with markers, they were then cut out with Nestabilities scallop circles and embossed, the outer scallop is a Stampin Up scallop punch that was embossed with the Cuttlebug swiss dots folder. The images are mounted on wooden skewers that were cut in various sizes. I placed batting in the carriage to help hold them in place and topped the batting with felt.

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Teacher Appreciation

2011-05-03T18:11:00.000-04:00

This card was made for Teacher Appreciation Day, my daughter has a wonderful teacher this year and we wanted to let her know that.
This is a regular A2 size card. For the chalkboard I stamped a woodgrain stamp on a tan cardstock and cut a frame with nestabilities square dies, this was layered on the top of a piece of black cardstock that was stamped with white craft ink. The ribbon is from Micheals. The apple, chalk, backpack, scissors and ruler are cut from a Disney Cuttlebug cut and emboss die. I used stickles on the scissors and glossy accents on the apple.

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Simply Charmed Bunny with homemade flowersoft

2011-05-01T20:08:00.000-04:00

This bunny was cut from the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge. I hid the face features so I could use a Peachy Keen critter face stamp. The carrot was ran through the Cuttlebug using a Stampin Up embossing folder and the leaves were cut twice, the top layer was feathered. I had taken a styrofoam ball and shaved it with my grater, I then applied glue to the areas I wanted fluffy and sprinkled the shredded foam on top. I love the texture it created.I had used this same technique on a bigger bunny for a bulletin board at work for a spring layout.

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Happy Easter!!

2011-04-24T08:25:00.000-04:00

I would just like to Thank everyone for taking the time to check out my blog. This card was made for all of my crafting friends. May you and your families have a wonderful Easter.

Easter chick treat

2011-04-18T11:45:00.000-04:00

These adorable little chicks were made for my daughter's class. The original idea came from a wonderful crafter who has some awesome tutorials and cards on her site. Please visit her site if you would like directions on how these were made. Here is a link to her site http://www.frenchiestamps.com

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Magic birthday card

2011-04-09T09:03:00.000-04:00

This card was made for a friend's birthday. I used a stamp from Stampin Up and colored it with copic markers and cut out with square nestabilities. that was layered on a square scalloped nestabilitie. Using a stamp-a-ma-jig, I stamped the image on a piece of acetate to match up with the colored image and adhered both pieces with a Stampin Up round tab punch (I adhered one end to the back of colored image and the other end to the front of acetate so that it created a hinge). This is a 5x5 card with two background layers, the acetate and image are sandwiched between a layer of cardstock that is mounted to the card with dimensionals, when you pull up on the tab the colored image is revealed under the acetate. I framed the image with a scalloped square nestabilitie with a square cut from center and embellished the corners with brads.

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Cars shaped card

2011-03-26T19:51:00.000-04:00

This card was made using my gypsy and the Disney Cars cricut cartridge. I used the route 66 sign and welded two of them together to make a shape card. I then cut out all the layers and used the gypsy to hide contours and make the shapes the way I wanted. The stamps are a fiskars stamp set that I used to emboss the background and stamp the car. I colored the car with watercolor pencils and added some sparkle to the detailing with squibbles iridescent.

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Cow birthday petal card

2011-03-13T09:26:00.000-04:00

This card was made for a friend who loves cows. I wanted a cow standing up and did not have one on my cricut cartridges so I used a program to convert an image for cutting. I love how I can use these programs to compliment my cricut cartridges. The cow was cut at 3.5 inches and layered. I shaded around all the edges. I used a piece of DCWV's Flower Shower paper pack for the background and grass. The blades of grass were cut from Disney's Pooh and Friends cricut cartridge to add a little more dimension. The party stamp is from Studio G. I then incorporated the envelope to become part of the card by mounting the card base to the envelope. The envelope was cut from Stampin Up's dsp. I then stamped on a circle with a Stampin Up set and made the circle into a tag. The ribbon is from Stampin Up.
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Hello Kitty Butterfly with Peachy Keen Stamps

2011-03-06T09:31:00.000-05:00

I tried out my two favorite things on this card (Gypsy and Peachy Keen's Wide Eyed Kids face stamps). If you have not tried Peachy Keen stamps, you don't know what your missing. Kathy's stamps stamp perfectly without much pressure and they bring life to your projects.

I used the butterfly from Hello Kitty Greetings cricut cartridge and hid the contours in the face and body for stamping and highlighted with a jelly roll white gel pen. The designer paper is from Prima "Rock on Love". The side accents are from Gypsy Wanderings cricut gypsy cartridge. I will add a sentiment later.

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Paisely birthday card - hula hoop dog

2011-02-27T10:36:00.000-05:00

This card was made using the Paisley cartridge that my daughter and I made for her friend's birthday. She picked out the colors that she thought her friend would like. The background papers are from the Flower Shower stack from DCWV. I used Scribbles glittering crystal 3d paint on the collar and hoop for some added sparkle. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set embossed with white embossing powder ad placed a bling on each side with my i-rock.
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So many cakes birthday card

2011-02-26T19:06:00.000-05:00

Wow it has been awhile since I have posted, sorry about that. I will try and post more often. Here is a card that I had made for a friend's birthday. I used the Prima Rock on Love stack that I had in my stash for the papers and a Stampin Up stamp. The frostings were made with liquid applique for the puffy white and glossy accents on the chocolate and cherries. The stamped image was colored in with Stampin Up markers. These are vibrant colors for me so it was a little bit of a challenge and looking at it now I should have shadowed underneath the cakes. I used Martha Stewart twine as the bow on the side.
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Decoupage Vintage Wooden Box with mini

2011-02-01T18:56:00.000-05:00

This was a Michael's dollar box that I have covered using Vintage Findings paper from my stash. I first painted the outside of the box with white craft paint. I then tore the papers and adhered to the box with modpodge and sanded the edges and front button. I distressed the button with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink. I was going to distress all the edges of the paper with Tea dye but forgot (maybe next time). The flower was made from dictionary paper that I cut out on my cricut with Accent Essentials cartridge and distressed with Rose Red ink and then formed into a flower, added a brad in the middle and I added some diamond dust to the petals. I then added a bling swirl freehand with my i-rock. I then added some lace that I had picked up at Joanns. The mini book was made from the same papers layered on coasters. I included 4 pockets that I included inspirational tags on. The tags were stamped with various Stampin Up stamps. I used my music score stamp to add more a background to the plain cardstock pages. The mini is binded with ribbon. The little flowers were made with the cover paper by using Stampin Up's 3 flower punch and 2 flowers from the Boho Blossoms punch.

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Hello Kitty Gift set

2011-01-29T12:01:00.000-05:00

My daughter's best friend in kindergarten just recently moved away and she wanted to make something for her. So we took out the Hello Kitty Greetings cricut cartridge and cut out a few Hello Kitty shapes. The purse was made using Stampin up card stock and micheals ribbon and the sentiment is from a micheals dollar stamp. Inside the purse we had made a small beaded bracelet with a Hello Kitty bead in the middle for her to wear. The purse came out 4x4 squared. The brad on the purse is from Target. On the card we had used Stampin Up papers from a mat stack. The sentiment on the card is a stamp from "The Angel Company".

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Paisley Birthday Card with action wobble

2011-01-24T19:35:00.000-05:00

This card was made using the frog from the Paisley cricut cartridge. The tags are from Stampin Ups jewelry tag punch an old Stampin Up set. The frog is placed on the card with an action wobble.

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Owl Birthday Card

2011-01-13T13:16:00.000-05:00

This card was made using DCWV Flower Shower stack. This is a regular A2 sized card. The red swirlies in the corner are from a Martha Stewart corner punch. The owl was punched out using Stampin Up's Owl punch and the branch is from Stampin Up's Bird punch. I then placed some Su ribbon on top of one another and placed on the card, added bling with my i-rock and added glossy accents to the leaves. Thanks for looking.

Thank you card

2011-01-08T11:25:00.000-05:00

This card was made using a stamp set from Me and My Big Ideas. I stamped the flower and colored it with my Stampin Up inks. I cut out the flower and curled the petals and placed a brad in the center. I stamped the image on rich razzleberry cardstock from Stampin Up and placed the cut flower on with dimensionals. I added some black bling with the i-rock and then matted the rich razzleberry on a white cardstock, I then used a stampin up label punch for the sentiment and inked the edges and placed behind the white mat. The photo corners are from a Stampin Up punch and I ran them through a cuttlebug folder. The card base is white, followed by a rich razzleberry mat and then a dsp mat which has the ribbon attached.

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Christmas mini mini

2010-12-30T20:28:00.000-05:00

This is a mini Christmas mini that I had made for my daughter-in-law to carry in her purse or whatever she would like. This mini was made from Laura's design on Following the Paper Trail. It came together really quickly. All the tags were stamped with a background stamp I had purchased last year at Micheals. The tops of the tags are from a Stampin Up stamp set that I had used dimensionals on and added sparkle accents too. The 2010 was stamped on shrink film and punched with Stampin Up's ornament punch and heated with a heat tool. The embellishments are from Recollections. The designer paper are from DCWV and Stampin Up past Christmas collections. The front cover was stamped and embossed with the same stamp used on the tags. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the inside of the covers.

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Jingle Jangle Blog Party winner

2010-12-20T19:26:00.000-05:00

THANK YOU!!! to everyone who hopped along to my blog for the Jingle Jangle blog hop. This was my first time participating in a blog hop and it was alot of fun. I can't believe how many followers I have gained Thank you!!!

Congratulations to

"craftaholic said... I love the angel ones!! TFS!!!"

ilovetonkinese2athotmaildotcom
http://ibecircled.blogspot.com
Rexann December 17, 2010 9:32 PM

You have won the Stampin Up stamp set "Yummy". Please email me with your information and I will get that out to you asap.

Angel Ornaments Directions

2010-12-18T09:48:00.000-05:00

Since I have had a few requests on the angel ornaments, below is the link that I found on youtube. Please check out her blog as she has some gorgeous angels on her blog.

Angel Ornament video click here

Carol's blog: http://chocolatecraftsandbearsohmy.blogspot.com/

Carol has some beautiful projects on her blog. To see the angels just scroll down a little. Enjoy.

Jingle Jangle Blog Party Giveaway closed

2010-12-17T23:32:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the Jingle Jangle Blog Hop!

For the blog hop I decided to use what I have in my stash. The first set of ornaments are 3" round coasters that I have covered with patterned paper from last year's winter stack. On the reindeer ornament I had used the reindeer image from the paper stack and cut 1" circles with my punch to create a scalloped border. I then placed this image onto my coaster that was covered with patterned paper. For the banner I used a inkadinkadoo stamp and embossed in gold embossing powder and layered that onto velvet ribbon. I put dimensionals on the banner and then placed a holly button with the shank removed to the coaster. On the back of the ornament I used the pattern paper for a journaling spot. I used metallic paper to make the top of the ornament and embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder.

On the second ornament I had cut out Santa, Mrs. Clause, Elf and the reindeer out of Paper Doll Dress Up and layered them with different patterned papers. Again I covered a coaster with patterned papr and just adhered the cutouts with dimensionals. I used green metallic paper and the same cuttlebug folder to emboss for the top of the ornament with Stampin Up's Tab punch.

The second set of ornaments are made using one 7" circle cut in half and a 4" circle cut in half. Directions for these ornaments come from another crafter on youtube since these are not my original idea.

Now for my giveaway - Giveaway closed
I will be giving away a Stampin Up wood mount stamp set "Yummy". This stamp set is great if you like making the treat bags as gifts. Please leave a comment if you would like to enter the giveaway. You do not have to be a follower of my blog although I do appreciate you becoming a follower and taking the time to check out my blog. Thank you for stopping by.

Now onto the next blog.

Gale    http://www.thehappystamper.com/

Ruthie http://septemberninth.blogspot.com/

Felisa   http://felisa21.blogspot.com/

Debi    http://dizzylizzyscreations.blogspot.com/

Evelyn   http://evinadas.blogspot.com/ (That's me)

Janie   http://www.typicalscrapbooker.blogspot.com/

Joy   http://joyslife.com/

Mari (Momo) http://madebymomo.blogspot.com/

Meredith   http://www.meredithscraps.com/

Nicole   http://primpedinpaper.wordpress.com/

Raven   http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Theresa   http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Tracy   http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/

Yolanda   http://yoliebean.blogspot.com/

SVG Cuts 12 Days of Christmas

2010-12-15T06:56:00.000-05:00

Check out the awesome giveaways over at SVG Cuts.com They are running a 12 days of Christmas series and there are some awesome prizes and Mary is doing some fantastic crafts. And while your there check out the SVG Cuts.com website, they have great svg kits that are great for cutting out on your cricut with SCAL. There is a kit for every season and then some. You won't be disappointed.

Christmas Wreath Advent Calendar

2010-12-04T10:35:00.000-05:00

The idea for this wreath came from Jackie Topa, check out her blog here. I made this wreath using Stampin Up's petal card punch and the leaves were cut from my cricut using Scal. Directions for this wreath can be found on Jackie's blog she has a video on making the boxes. You can do many variations with these boxes. I cut the leaves with textured cardstock and on some of the leaves I scored down the middle to create a more 3d effect. I sprayed the leaves with smooch spritz in the yellow gold. I used the Martha Stewart punch for the ferns in between and attached the crystals with my I-rock. Each box has a stamped image inside. The brads are regular office brads that I had colored with my Sharpie markers and stamped snowflakes on with white Stazon ink. Thanks for looking.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2010-11-25T11:39:00.000-05:00

Here is a card I made for Thanksgiving. The turkey is a D.O.T.S. "Terrific Turkey" stamp and I stamped it with stazon ink on watercolor paper and used my Stampin Up markers to color him in. I then cut some leaves with a cuttlebug die and adhered them on my image. I used the I-Rock to attach the bling on the leaves and on the card. The background paper is some old paper I had in my stash. Each layer was matted on dark brown cardstock and then added to a crumb cake A2 size card base. And then I added a ribbon bow. Thanks for looking and to my family, friends, and fellow crafters THANK YOU!!! for inspiring me each and every day.

Motorcycle Birthday Card

2010-11-13T10:16:00.000-05:00

Off to my nephews birthday party, but I thought I would share the card I had made for him. He is fond of motorcycles and dirtbikes so this is what I came up with. The card base is a standard A2 size card of Stampin Up's Pacific Point cardstock cut 5 1/2 x 11 and scored in half. I then matted a piece of tin foil (that I had embossed with my diamond cuttlebug folder) on a piece of black cardstock. The motorcycle is a Stampin Up stamp and so is the sentiment. I colored in the motorcycle with pacific point and going gray ink with my blender pen and sponged the edges with pacific point ink, then matted the image on black cardstock. Mini brads were placed in all four corners and then the matted imaged was placed on the card with dimensionals.

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Christmas Box Card

2010-11-11T19:40:00.000-05:00

I had seen the directions for this type of card on a fellow crafter's blog Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds and knew I wanted to try this so here is my take on this type of card. The gingerbread men are from a TAC set that I stamped on Kraft cardstock 3 times (on two of them I excluded the heart and left the heart on one and colored it with a red marker). Glossy accents was used on the heart of the gingerbread man and the others I placed some tiny buttons from my stash. I filled in the frosting lines with my white gel pen. The two background papers are Stampin Up's Bermuda Bay cardstock stamped with snowflakes in versamark ink. The top and bottom gingerbread people are mounted on dimensionals and the middle gingerbread man is mounted on dimensionals on one side, on the other side is a piece of velcro. The ribbon is red cardstock punched with the lace border punch from Stampin Up. I then shaped a bow from the cardstock and added that to the foe ribbon and added a pearl in the middle. The sentiment is a TAC stamp with Bermuda bay snowflakes lightly stamped in the background and punched out with the SU large oval punch and matted on an SU scalloped oval. I used my white gel pen to doodle dots on the scallops. The inside of the card box has a piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock that I stamped snowflakes with white ink and then used a word background stamp with versamark and clear embossed over the top. The tags are from a TAC stamp set that I had left over from last year that I had made up.

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Fall Banner

2010-11-11T11:33:00.000-05:00

Watching all the banner blog hops I decided to create my own fall banner. The banner was cut from my cricut using Scal and the letters were cut from a storybook font on my computer using Scal. I embossed the letters with the pumpkin cuttlebug embossing folder and layered them on a black shadow mat. The paper used was from an older Debbie Mum Holiday paper stack which I had in my stash. I challenged myself to use one paper stack on this project and to use up what I have. I used 3 (12x12) sheets from that stack for this banner. One paper I had cut out the images to use as embellishments (sayings, glittered leaves, glittered pictures etc.) I did use some textured cardstock for mating and to cut out some cuttlebug leaves that I ran through my crimper. Large black eyelets were used in the corners of each banner and the banner is connected and hung with raffia.

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Birthday card

2010-11-07T09:31:00.000-05:00

Here is a birthday card that I had made for a friend. I used an oval frame and the birthday cuttlebug folder for the background and sprayed with some homemade glimmer mist and used my sponge dauber with ink to outline the cuttlebug image. I stamped the cake and sentiment using a Stampin Up set and colored in with my markers. I then placed some beaded trim around the oval with glossy accents (this was tricky since the beads kept moving, I should have used my glue gun for instant tack but you know how it is when you want to use something you cannot find it). I then tied a bow on the front and mounted the card front onto my card. I then added some bling and sparkle to the candles.

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Spooktacular Halloween mini

2010-10-31T21:17:00.000-04:00

For my finale in the Halloween series I had originally wanted to video this mini but my computer had other ideas. So I will try to explain this as much as possible. The outside is an unfinished wooden gravestone that I had bought at Michaels and painted with black acrylic paint and sponged with gray and gold shimmer paint. I left the bat emblem black. I then sealed with a sealer. I added the stitch witchery (thanks Yolie for the tip) to the front for a spider web and added some spiders from halloween confetti. Then I added the skeleton and added some bling in the eyes with my I-rock. You open the gravestone to reveal a mini inside. The papers I used on the mini were from last years Recollection and Making Memories Halloween papers. I used the Martha Stewart bat fence for some of the pages and the Cuttlebug cut and emboss gravestone for the journalling tags. I used Martha Stewart's drippy goo punch and EK Success Hole border punches for the photo mats. I then placed various epoxy stickers throughout the mini and used the web confetti for photo corners. On the front of the mini, are two charms from Michaels that I got last year I believe they are from the Spook Alley collection. I had fun putting this mini together with my daughter. She had fun painting the gravestone and picking out the stickers.

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Halloween series #6 Card Set

2010-10-30T10:15:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the delay in postings, been having computer problems. Don't you just hate that when you need to get something done and it doesn't work.

Well for today's halloween series I have a card set. These are a standard A2 size cards. For the background I used Coredinations paper with the pumpkin embossing folder from cuttlebug and sanded the images to make them pop. The stamped pumpkin images were made using Stampin Up's wide oval punch, I punched out 5 from designer paper and sponged the edges and layered each one behind the other to make a pumpkin, then I punched out a circle in the middle of them. This was then layered on top of a stamped image that was colored with watercolor pencils and the water pen. I then layered it onto a black cardstock layer and then onto rich razzleberry layer. I attached a black twine bow and leaves from the SU leaves sizzlet. I then placed it onto the card with dimensionals. The stamped images are from The Angel Company. I added a strip of gathered designer paper to the front of the card and stitched down the middle. The hat and kitty are mini punches that I punched out and used glossy accents on. The sentiments are from a Studio G stamp set and punched out with an EK Success ticket punch. The card front was layered onto an orange cardstock and attached to a Rich Razzleberry card base.

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Halloween series #5 Frankie

2010-10-26T19:54:00.000-04:00

This card was made using an older Stampin Up set. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored the image with my Stampin Up markers and distressed the edges. I then layered the image on a purple designer paper layer and distressed the edges. The ribbon was added on the side with the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher (love this tool), and then I layered it on a piece of Coredinations paper that I ran through my cuttlebug folder and sanded the top. I sprayed this layer with Smooch Spritz. The saying stamped on the card is "Kick up your heels with a halloween squeal". I stamped Kick up your heels on the front and "with a halloween squeal" on the inside of the card.

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Halloween series #4 Puss and boots halloween

2010-10-25T19:27:00.000-04:00

This card was made using the Cat and Friends stamp set from Inkadinkadoo. This cat reminds me of Puss and Boots. I stamped the cat on watercolor paper and colored in using Stampin Up markers and a water brush and then distressed the edges. The stamped layer was layered onto a orange layer which had the edges distressed and the they were layered onto a purple patterned paper layer. The dotted background was layered on a purple patterned layer and added to the black card. A 1/2" strip was cut from the purple patterned paper and attached diagonally to the card front layer. I used my dymo label maker to add the trick or treat. I finally added sparkle to the leaves, patches and buckle on the hat.
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Halloween series #3 Ravens

2010-10-24T13:15:00.000-04:00

This card was made using Stampin Up's "Aviary", "Graveyard Gala" and "From the Crypt" stamp sets. The purple background paper was stamped with the skull in From the Crypt and embossed with clear embossing, then crinkled to get the aged effect. I tore the edges of one side and sponged around all the edges. The black background was embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder and the edges were distressed. I stamped the birdcages and ravens and cut them out. I attached the birdcages with dimesionals and placed a brad in the top of each cage. I strung some beads on a corsage pin for the stick pin and placed it into the ribbon. The orange tag was a Studio G stamp clear embossed and then cut out and attached to the ribbon. I added some black brads around the corners of the purple layer and added some sparkle with Scribbles glittering crystal 3d paint (great alternative to stickles).
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Pink Stamper Challenge

2010-10-23T14:47:00.000-04:00

This card I am going to include in the halloween series that I made for Robyn's challenge on My Pink Stamper. The Challenge was to used the colors; pink, green and purple. I used Paper Doll Dress Up cricut cartridge for the monster costume and ran it through the Cuttlebug using a fiskars texture plate, then I ran my melon mambo inkpad over the top to bring out the embossing. The bag is also from Paper Doll Dress Up and I went over the trick or treat on the bag with a black gel pen. The ribbon and patterned paper I had gotten last year from Michaels on clearance. This card was fun to make and I made it in 20 minutes (would have been shorter but my daughter kept interrupting me). Thanks for looking.

Let the Trick or Treating begin

2010-10-22T18:54:00.000-04:00

I will start out my Halloween series with this cute little treat bag that was made from a standard A2 size envelope. The stamped images are from Stampin Up's "Fang-tastic" set. I used watercolor pencils and the water brush to color them in and sponged around the edges of the white cardstock. I used Glossy Accents on the bat and bow tie. I mounted the stamped image onto a piece of old olive cardstock and placed on the bag tilted. The bag front was covered with a piece of patterned paper. The top of the bag was scallop punched and folded over. I used Stampin Up's scalloped ribbon border punch for the lace, then a black ribbon was tied between two punched holes to secure the bag closed. Thanks for looking.

Stampin Up Fishing card

2010-10-03T08:33:00.000-04:00

This card was made for a co-worker who loves to fish. I first stamped the fishing lures on the card in crumb cake for a background, then I took glossy white cardstock and added ink and alcohol on a sponge to add the marbled effect on top of that I stamped the fishing stamp using black stazon ink. I matted that on a piece of yellow cardstock that had the lures stamped in gold and then matted onto a piece of old olive cardstock. The sentiment was stamped on yellow cardstock with the lures stamped in gold on the background and punched out with the word window punch and layered on the modern label punch and brads were placed at both ends. All stamps are from Stampin Up.

Thanks for looking.

Stay tuned, I will have a Halloween series coming up with a few Halloween ideas running through my mind.

Old School Challenge

2010-09-24T19:16:00.000-04:00

Here is my submission for Emma's old school challenge (make a card without using your cricut). This was not too much of a challenge for me since I am still old school and use my stamps and patterned papers alot. My cricut I use for alot of projects but not always on my cards since my cartridge collection is fairly small. The stamp is from Stampin Up which I stamped on cardstock and bleached out the centers of the flowers and glossy accented the leaves. Thanks for looking.

Brayered Deer Birthday card

2010-09-20T17:35:00.000-04:00

This card has to be one of my favorite cards. I used the brayer in Marina Mist and Night of Navy for the sky and water. The stamp set is from Stampin Up. I mirrored image the stamp to reflect in the water. I used SU weathered background stamp for the background on the card and also on the photo corners that were stamped and embossed and then popped up with dimensionals. With my white gelly roll pen I did some highlighting in the tree and water. I am very pleased at how this card has turned out. Thanks for looking

Aviary card

2010-09-13T20:20:00.000-04:00

This is a 4 1/4" square card. The base is crumb cake (craft card stock) stamped with images from Stampin Up's "Aviary" stamp set stamped in crumb cake ink. I then placed a 1" strip of Bermuda Bay card stock stamped with the swirl from SU's "Elements of Style" set in versamark ink. Layered on top of the Bermuda Bay is white card stock punched with SU's lace border punch. The main image is stamped on a 1 5/8" x 2 1/8" white card stock. The cage is stamped with Soft Suede ink and the owl is stamped with Bermuda Bay ink. I punched out a Bermuda Bay lace border and cut in half for the scallops on the side of the white card stock. I placed the main image on the card with dimensionals and added a crystal brad to the top of the birdcage. I then placed 4 crystals on the white lace border. Thanks for looking.

Back to School Teacher Gift

2010-09-11T19:18:00.000-04:00

This project was made for my daughter's Kindergarten teacher as a back to school gift. We had bought some teacher peg stamps that have sayings on them "Good Job" etc. and decided to make a box for them to go in. There are four different stamps and one ink pad in the box. The card was made using the Stampin Up "Greeting Card Kids" that I stamped on paper and then my daughter used SU's watercolor crayons and the waterpen to color. She chose the colors and did all the coloring herself (Libby did a great job on trying to stay in the lines, her Kindergarten teacher should be proud of her). The designer series paper is from DCWV's flower shower spring stack. I punched out one of the stars and placed a rhinestone brad in the middle, layered the star on a 1 1/4" circle and then on a 1 3/8" circle and used a dimensional to adhere to the card. I used a red marker to do some stitching on the layers of the card. I then used glossy accents on the apple and the buckle on the books. This was a fun card to make with my daughter and it got her excited about going to school.
Thanks for looking.

2 Step Bird and Owl Punch Paperclips

2010-09-04T19:23:00.000-04:00

A friend had asked me to make her some big paperclips, so I used the two-step bird punch from Stampin Up along with SU Punch Potpourri and stamped the bird in Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo ink. I stamped the birds twice and punched them out (Bird and wing from same color), and used dimensionals to attach the wing. I then punched the branch with certainly celery dsp and attached the branch and bird onto a 1 3/8" circle punch, which attached to a certainly celery scallop punch and then onto a chocolate chip Lg. scallop punch. I then made a pocket from crumb cake card stock for the paperclips to sit in. The for you stamp is from a SU hostess set punched with the curly label punch, I layered that on top of another curly label punch cut in half to appear as if it was bigger than the label. I stamped the flowers from the Punch Potpourri set and punched out the large flower with the Boho Blossoms punch and placed a itty bitty button on top with a glue dot.

The Owl paper clip was done in the same way as the birds except I used the owl punch (love this punch). I used the SU lace border punch across the middle of the scallop and layered the owl on the lace border and Lg. scallop.

Thanks for looking.

Books are Fun SCAL project

2010-09-03T22:17:00.000-04:00

These were cut using the SCAL program and the cricut. Each book cover was embossed with a sizzix texture plate. The books are 7" are were made for a bulletin board at school to welcome back the Jr./Sr. high classes. I had also made a book for the staff later. The cricut has been an awesome tool cause I can cut anything out for any occassion. Thanks for looking.

Fairy "Thank You" cards

2010-08-29T18:51:00.000-04:00

I was recently RAK'd a set of Studio G Series 28 stamps "Fairy Set" from an awesome crafter on the Splitcoast messageboard. Although Studio G stamps are not of the highest quality stamps (sometimes you need to condition them to stamp well), I think this set is awesome. I made a set of four 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" cards. I used four images of fairies from the set and colored them in with watercolor pencils and waterpen. The pixie dust circle around the fairies are from the cuttlebug cut and emboss die fairy dust I found at Big Lots. The "Thank You" stamp in the corner is from a stamp set from The Angel Company. I used Scribbles glittering crystal 3D paint on the wings (This is a cheap alternative to stickles). I cut a one inch strip for a belly band and embossed with the "Textile" cuttlebug folder. The pixie dust circles and belly band were misted with some homemade glimmer mist (would love to try the real glimmer mist just can't afford it) and lightly brushed across embossing with a gold ink pad. I layered some paper flowers from Michaels dollar bin and placed a brad in the center. I used the "Tiny Tags" stamp set to stamp the sentiment and the Jewlery tag from Stampin Up to punch out the tag and placed that on the flower with the brad. There are some really awesome, kind people out there who get overlooked by all the negativity in this world. I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to meet with some of them. Thank you!! and thanks for looking at my creations.

License Plate family sign

2010-08-26T19:59:00.000-04:00

This sign was made for a dear friend of mine. All pieces were stamped with the License plate stamp I found on clearance from Micheals and cut out. I glimmered all the pieces with my homemade glimmer mist. In the first picture the fishing pole was cut using the cricut and I embossed the pole handle with a cuttlebug folder. The fish and fishing lure background are from a Stampin Up set. In the second picture the flower was done using Accent Essentials cricut cartridge and the Tim Holtz flower technique, a placed a clay rose center in the middle of the flower. The music stamp is a background stamp from Stampendous (love this stamp). In the third picture the panda is an Inkadinkadoo stamp and the tummy was flocked, the bamboo background is from Stampin Up. I attached the pieces to chipboard and covered the back with DSP. I strung all pieces together with swivel barrels from the fishing dept. at my local store. The letters are from a Heidi Swapp stamp set. I am very pleased at the way this sign has turned out. Thanks for looking.

Stampin Up Wedding Card

2010-08-11T10:59:00.000-04:00

This card was made for a friend who recently got married. I used the Cuttlebug embossing folder "birds and swirls" for the background and stamped an image from an older Stampin Up wedding set colored with a blender pen and Stampin Up inks. The ribbon is Stampin Up's white organza (gorgeous ribbon). The "Mr & Mrs" is an older Stampin Up set "Fancy Flexible Phrases", I use this set alot. The colors are Baja Breeze and White. Used the flower from Stampin Up's Itty Bitty Shapes Punch pack for the added flowers and placed a pearl bling in the centers. Love the elegance of this card. Thanks for looking.

Spongebob card

2010-07-13T21:10:00.000-04:00

This card I had made for my grandson who loves Spongebob. I used the Spongebob cricut cartridge and I must say this was one of the hardest cuts that I've had to do with my cricut, there are so many small pieces and this was a fairly big card. Even though it was time consuming I was pleased with the outcome. Thanks for looking.

Retirement pockets

2010-05-09T19:44:00.000-04:00

So I was asked by my co-workers to create some pockets to put inside a book for each person retiring this year. I made each pocket unique to the person. The pockets are 4x5" and will be filled with a gift card, they wanted to keep the packaging on the gift card for the recipient that's why the pockets are a bigger size than the normal credit card size. My favorite is the Elvis pocket. I took apart a floppy disk and used the inside as the record and cut out a silhouette on my cricut using scal. The music paper was from the Elvis song "Love me Tender" which I had printed on my computer and distressed.

Thanks for looking,
Evelyn

Spring cards

2010-04-06T19:27:00.000-04:00

The first card is a birthday card for a co-worker. She loves birdhouses so when I got the XL bird punch from Stampin Up I knew I had to make her card from it. The papers used are from vintage findings and Stampin Up. I cut a strip of the vintage finding paper to place on top of the ribbon to match the birdhouse. I used the scallop border punch from Stampin Up for the roof of the birdhouse.

The second card was for a dear friend for Easter. I used the Serene Spring stamp set from Stampin up and colored with the watercolor wonder crayons and water brush. I used the decorative scalloped border from Stampin Up and glossy accents on the bunny. The paper is from American Crafts.

Thanks for looking

Just a few birthday cards

2010-03-06T18:38:00.000-05:00

Here are a few cards that I have made recently for some co-workers on their birthdays. The first card was done by using a cuttlebug folder that I just received and the butterfly image is from a tac (The Angel Company) stamp set. I colored in the image using my stampin up watercolor crayons. The ribbon is a velvet ribbon from michaels.

The second card: I had used another image stamp from tac and used my stampin up watercolor crayons to color the image.The button was actually a cover up of a mistake (gotta loves those mistakes), I had put on glossy accents in the middle of the flower and accidently touched it before it was dry so what could I do well grab a button. Loved the way it turned out.

The third card was made using a 2 step stamping image from tac. The underlayer was ran through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder and then I swiped it with my white ink pad. The ribbon is from michaels.

Thanks for looking. Hope you like the cards.

Daughter's first card!!!

2010-02-16T12:36:00.000-05:00

This card is my 4 1/2 year old daughter's very first card that she has colored all by herself. She picked out the stamps and used the waterbrush and Stampin up's watercolor crayons to color her images. Mom of course cut out the images and helped with cutting the paper. Then she placed the images on the card with pop dots and added some bling. I think she did an awesome job on this card.

And here is a card mommy made while Libby was busy doing hers. I used shimmer spray on the embossed background. Although the picture does not show it the balloon and cake are sparkly.

Thanks for looking.

Valentine Train Card and License Plate

2010-02-14T15:22:00.000-05:00

Sorry it has been a while since I posted. Life just got in the way. I have made this train card for my grandson along with the license plate for his room. And guess what I did my very first video!!! I have posted my video on my youtube channel which you can check out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg51XDviKBs

I will post more videos when I have them ready.
Thanks for stopping by and looking at my projects.

First Mini Album

2009-12-20T21:10:00.000-05:00

Well I did it, I created my first mini album! This was challenging since I am so used to making cards. I used the DCWV holiday collection christmas stack for the papers. I used Laura's envelope idea at Followin the Paper Trail in the middle to create more room for tags and photo inserts since I left the middle open for the most pictures. This album was done for a friend at work. The word family was cut out on the cricut and the hand made with love on the back was cut from the cricut using the wild card cartridge.

Thanks for looking.

Another paper doll dress up lantern

2009-11-30T20:36:00.000-05:00

For this lantern I used the paper doll dress up and did a christmas theme. I used the christmas tree, santa, mrs. clause, 2 reindeer and the elf. The lantern was done using an SU wheel in real red for the sides and a snowflake stamp from the SU Christmas Punch stamp set (since there was going to be a few of us ladies we wanted to do the lanterns with stamps to cut down on designer paper). I did make one alteration to the lantern pattern. I cut out a hole to allow for the battery operated tealight to be secured to the bottom of the lantern with the hole giving you access to the battery and on and off switch for the tealight.

Thanks for looking.

Thanksgiving Lantern

2009-11-08T18:53:00.000-05:00

Came across a cut file from paper pastime for this lantern and decided to make one for Thanksgiving. I used Cricut's Paper Doll Dress Up for the pilgrims and indians. The paper is an old stack from Debbie Mum from last year or so. The faces are a Peachy Keen stamp set. This was a fun project and I plan on getting one of those flameless candles for the inside. Thanks for looking.

Halloween treat box

2009-10-14T06:42:00.000-04:00

Here is an A2 size treat box for Halloween goodies using the trick or tweet stamp from Stampin Up. I used the drippy goo punch for the drippy border and added glow in the dark squibbles to that.
Thanks for looking.

Chrysanthemum pumpkin display

2009-09-20T18:37:00.000-04:00

The chrysanthemum flowers were cut with the cricut using scal and an svg file from svgcuts.com. The flowers were made with textured cardstock and sponged and curled for dimension along with the leaves. The pumpkin is a craft pumpkin for a local scrapbook store with the top cut and floral form added to the inside for the flowers to sit into. The butterfly design was cut from the cricut using vinyl. And the final touch was the ribbon bow. This was a fun but long project, but the outcome was worth it.
Thanks for looking.

Teacher backpack

2009-09-07T12:59:00.000-04:00

Here's a backpack that I made for my child's preschool teacher which we filled with monogrammed tissues, monogrammed notepad and pen and a monogrammed paperclip holder for the teacher aide. The buttons on the backpack are the stamps that I used on the pack colored on shrink plastic and punched and heated. This was a fun project and a great way to start off the school year.

Animal baby card

2009-08-29T21:15:00.000-04:00

This card was made for my nephew who recently had a baby. I've been wanting to use this set (The Angel Company's So Silly stamp set) for a while and just never got around to it. The images were stamped and then colored with inks using a blender pen and then I embossed over the entire square with stampin up iridescent ice embossing powder. I layered those images on the black and then on the background paper from the DCWV Animal Crackers stack. Thanks for looking.

Best Wishes flower soft card

2009-08-29T20:57:00.000-04:00

This card was made using the Stampin up retired stamp set Happy Harmony which I stamped in Wild Wasabi ink and 2nd generation stamped for a shadow image. Then took some tombow glue to the first image and added flower soft. I also added some pearl skittles on the designer paper strip which is layered on top of a strip of chocolate chip cardstock that has been punched with the eyelet border punch from stampin up.

Elephant birthday card

2009-08-26T21:02:00.000-04:00

This card was made for a friend who is turning 50. She loves elephants and also has a great sense of humor so this image was perfect for her. I cleaned up the image in inkscape and then cut out the image using SCAL and my cricut. The beer drops are done using skittles. She loved this card.

Thanks for looking

baby shower bootie - SCAL

2009-08-18T21:22:00.000-04:00

For this project I had received a template from a fellow crafter Pinkcrafter99 for this baby bootie. I did not want to go through the hassle of cutting out by hand so I loaded the template into inkscape and created an svg for scal to cut on the cricut. I then cut out the bootie with scal. Because this is for a friends shower I wanted to incorporate the stamp used on the invitation with the bootie, so I stamped the image on shrink plastic and colored with permanent markers then I punched out with a 1 1/2" scallop punch, this made the button for the bootie.
Thanks for looking.

Evelyn
Evinadas.blogspot.com

Halloween Peek-a-boo shaped card

2009-08-16T08:55:00.001-04:00

Well Halloween is just around the corner and I decided to come up with a fun card. I knew I wanted to do a house card so I took a regular card 4.25x5.5 and made a peek a boo card. I cut a frame on top and chimney on the front of the card. On the inside of the card I stamped my image on white cardstock and layered on black. For the shutters I cut slits to form the slats on the shutters and then stamped and second generation stamped with the stamp set SU pocket silhouettes. The rubber stamped image inside is from the angel company.

Thanks for looking.

baby shower invitation

2009-08-09T09:02:00.000-04:00

I have a friend who wanted me to come up with a baby shower invitation with the theme of turtles. Since I do not have any turtles in my stash I checked my daughters stamps and found a cute little turtle. My friend wanted to keep these simple so here is what I came up with. The baby outfit was not my idea a fellow crafter Kylie did this idea and I just added my version ( you can click on her name for the video.) The second card is a pocket card. I used the cuttlebug invitation embossing folder for the you're invited. Thanks for looking.

Stampin up Knobbly Gnomes cards

2009-08-07T18:00:00.000-04:00

Although I cannot afford copics and currently use ink pads and blender pens, one of these days I wish to get myself some copic markers. The following two cards I have stamped and colored with my ink pads and blender pens and then embossed over the images to do some sponging. The stamp set is a retired set from Stampin Up "Knobbly Gnomes", the leaves and swirls are from The Angel Company (Sorry I do not know the name of this set.) Thanks for looking.

Multiple cards

2009-07-31T22:38:00.000-04:00

Since I didn't post a card last week, I thought I would update with a few that I have done in the last few days. I have decided to pull down a stamp set and see what I can come up with, thought this would be a great way to use all my sets without ignoring some. So whatever stamp set I have pulled off the shelf is what you will be seeing. Hope you enjoy.

On the first card the santa image is from "The Angel Company" I used fun flock on his beard, hat rim and ball. The strip of ribbon is some old velvet ribbon I have had around for years and just never used. The sentiment is a new hostess set from Stampin Up punched out with Stampin Up's curly label punch and layered offset on another curly label punch out.

On the second card, the monkeys are also from "The Angel Company". I used Stampin Up's spiral punch to create the border of the film strip. I also used Stampin Up's modern label punch and word window punch on the sentiment.

The third card image is from Stampin Up. I embossed the background with Stampin Up's spooky skyline wheel and then layered the image on white and then on black. The ric rac ribbon I found this morning at a garage sale for ten cents and it glows in the dark.

Birthday Card using Cricut Expression and SCAL

2009-07-19T13:56:00.000-04:00

This card is my first attempt at trying out a program that I had bought for my Cricut expression. This program is awesome and it will work on all 3 cricuts. The layout for this card was cut on the cricut expression (happy birthday and inside frame) after designing it in SCAL [Sure Cuts A Lot Software]. I used a white card base and layered with Stampin Up's certainly celery cardstock and stamped image. The frame was cut out on Stampin Up's in-color rich razzleberry cardstock. The certainly celery cardstock and frame were stamped in versamark using the rubber stamped image in the center for texture. The image in the center was stamped with Stampin Up's razzleberry ink and then stamped a second time to create a lighter image. I added a white organdy ribbon and some dazzling diamonds. I also added two word window punches that were ran through the cuttlebug using the swiss dots folder.
Thanks for looking.

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Hello Kitty Butterfly with Peachy Keen Stamps

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Hello Kitty Gift set

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Thank you card

Christmas mini mini

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Motorcycle Birthday Card

Christmas Box Card

Fall Banner

Birthday card

Spooktacular Halloween mini

Halloween series #6 Card Set

Halloween series #5 Frankie

Halloween series #4 Puss and boots halloween

Halloween series #3 Ravens

Pink Stamper Challenge

Let the Trick or Treating begin

Stampin Up Fishing card

Old School Challenge

Brayered Deer Birthday card

Aviary card

Back to School Teacher Gift

2 Step Bird and Owl Punch Paperclips

Books are Fun SCAL project

Fairy "Thank You" cards

License Plate family sign

Stampin Up Wedding Card

Spongebob card

Retirement pockets

Spring cards

Just a few birthday cards

Daughter's first card!!!

Valentine Train Card and License Plate

First Mini Album

Another paper doll dress up lantern

Thanksgiving Lantern

Halloween treat box

Chrysanthemum pumpkin display

Teacher backpack

Animal baby card

Best Wishes flower soft card

Elephant birthday card

baby shower bootie - SCAL

Halloween Peek-a-boo shaped card

baby shower invitation

Stampin up Knobbly Gnomes cards

Multiple cards

Birthday Card using Cricut Expression and SCAL

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