Valentine Card and Roses

Another Valentine Birthday Card made using the Heart Pivot Die by Karen Burniston. This card made for a friend who's Birthday is on Valentine Day. The card is made using red cardstock and pattern paper the decorations. The greeting and birthday cake are stamps used by Stephaine Barnard (The Stamps of Life).

When it comes to Valentine Day, how can you not have roses. I made some roses with coffee filter and dye them with orange/red acrylic paint. Love how the colour turned out.

Birthday Heart Card

After watching these Youtube videos of Karen Burniston introducing her new line of pop-it-up. I couldn't wait to get my hands on those dies. I ordered a few from Elizabeth Craft Designs, gosh does E.C.D have a lot to offer from that website. Don't you just wish you got all the money to order everything you want.

Anyhow, once I got them in the mail I couldn't wait to start...but just didn't know where to start. My creativity for card making isn't all that good, but I would love to try. Especially from watching all of Karen Burniston's video, she made it so easy, and everything she picks seems to match/coordinates perfectly. Well, I thought I'll do birthday cards since I have a some friend's birthday coming up.

I used the Heart Pivot Card die to make the birthday cards since the month of February is also Valentine's Month. So it's a good idea to combine the both.

I first tried using plain cardstock, but it didn't turn out as nice as I would want them, even with the touch of pattern paper here and there. So I discard that idea.

Then I tried using pattern paper cardstock, and it turned out to be ok. I glittered a few hearts with red and gold sparkles to add as deco to the card just to give it some more colour. As for the stamps, they are from Stephanie Barnards's Stamp of Life Collection.

Here are both of the cards.

 

 

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas Cards and Poinsettas

This post is a little over due, which I'm suppose to post back in december. It's been a well busy month or two for me. What I'm showing here are christmas cards I made. You know how much I love making flowers. Poinsetta's, this beautiful flower, how can it escape this year for christmas. I have two poinsetta dies that I purchase a while back (Spellbinders and Tim Holtz), and they've been sitting on my shelves for a while (unopen), so it's about time it comes out of the packaging.

I decided to use Spellbinders to make these poinsetta (no particular reason, just random). When I make flowers, I can't just make one, not my nature. I make a mass production of them, well sounds a lot, but not the commerial ones....when I say mass production, it's about 20-40 of them. Plus, this will take me a good few days (up to a week) to finish.

 

 

Above are two pictures of my poinsetta. I made them red and white. I loved how it turned out. I've adapted the technique I used from make flowers by Susan Tierney-Cockburn, that is veining, and molding. It gives it a 3D effect, a more realistic look. Then I used the sparkle mod podge to coat the top to give it a shiny look.

 

These flowers are now a part of my decorations for card-making. For the card I used Stephanie Barnard's Circle Flip-it framelit die. Love Stephanie's die, it makes card making so much easy and faster.

 

 

Another thing I made, is this little christmas house (not sure what you call it). I used Tim Holtz Luminary Die. Inside is a litle minion (made of quilled paper). Outsdie decorated with the poinsetta flowers.

 





Hope you like them.

Birthday Cards

I have received some stamps from the mail from "The {Stamps} of Life by Stephanie Barnard" before the start of the long holiday. I was pretty excited to start making something using my new stamps. The stamp set I've used are "Scream4icecream" & "Cake2build", as these are the only stamp set I have. With limited supplies and medium creativity, I came up with these creations. The 3-tier cake i made with embossing each tier to give it some texture. One thing I did with the word "Celebrate" was I stamped it twice with two different colours. Originally I thought it would give it a background highlight, but it turn out looking blurry, which is neat in a way. It can be a technique used to play a trick on the person.

I like the birthday ice cream with the candles, found it quite cute. I even tried to make a wrinkly texture for the ice cream cone. Have you ever received an ice cream as a birthday cake. It's something different.