Triple Easel Card by Chris

I recently received my Graphic 45 Bird Song pack from Kim, and once again fell in love with this company. It’s perfect in every way for an anniversary card. I started with a piece of Bazzill cardstock cut to 11x7.5 inches. Scored and folded it in half lengthwise. Then I divided the top half in thirds (roughly 3.7 inches each), and cut from the long edge to the center score line. The center-piece was scored side to side across the middle. The two side squares were scored diagonally from the top outside corner to the lower inside corner.

Now all that was left to do was decorate. I needed 3 squares at 3.7 inches and 3 squares at 3.6 inches (Cherry Blossom sheet). I also cut 2 rectangles from my stash—one at 10 13/16 x3 5/8 inches, the other at 10 ¾ x 3 ½ inches. I then took the other 8x8 piece of Bird Song Cherry Blossom, and used my We R Memory Makers Lace Kerchief Lucky 8 punch, did a combined cut, and then cut the edged square in half to use as my mat. Layered on this was another piece of Bird Song fussy cut to imitate the inner mat created by the punch. The sentiment (computer generated) was layered on top. To make the “lip” for the card to rest against I cut a strip from the Good Fortune page and matted it with black and burgundy Bazzill paper. All cuts were inked with Tattered Rose Distress Ink and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. To make the “lips” for the two side easels I used Prima Fairytale Roses in White and colored three of them with Glitter Glam’s Lady Bug that Kim ordered for us through the club.

The two outside panels were layered with the birds from the Tranquility sheet. [Make sure you double check, which way the panel will stand before adhering the decorative squares. (Gee, I wonder why I might be telling you that--J?)] The center panel has a Kaisercraft Wood Flourish from the Fancy Hearts packet. This heart was also painted with Lady Bug Glitter Glam and a Sharpie gold paint pen and I used Glossy Accents to attach it.

Holiday Blog Hop-Mousetrap Memo Keepers by Chris

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing!

I first used a pair of pliers to remove all extra hardware from wooden mousetraps (leave just the mouse clip) and then,  painted the edges with paint dabbers and under the middle spring. I cut two pieces of decorative paper for each trap—one at 1 3/4x2” and the other at 1 3/4x1 5/8”. Edges were inked and then pieces were glued down with my ATG. I wrapped each base with ¼” scortape with which I adhered the chosen trim. Each trap was decorated differently (see below) and magnetic strips were added to the back so they could be hung on a refrigerator.

Ornament: Red Pepper Paint Dabber with Ideology Holidays Past base paper, inked with Festive Berries Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: ornament cut at 4” from Inkessentials Shrink Paper. Image was colored with Copics: R29, YG67, Y28, B05, shrunk, and decorated with Gold Stickles. Red Tinsel Twine used for edges.

Snowman: Sailboat Blue dabber with MME Winter Wonderland base paper, inked with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: snowman cut at 1 ¾”. Decorated with Stickles: Cinnamon, Orange Peel, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass Distress stickles and Marvy Liquid White.

Snowflake: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright, inked with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. Joys of the Season cartridge snowflake cut @ 2”, embossed with Wow Neutral Ultra Shimmer. Blue Tinsel Twine edging.

Tree: Bottle paint dabber with MME Winter Wonderland and covered with Picket Fence Distress Stickles. Christmas Cheer cartridge tree cut @ 1 ¾” embossed with Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder. Gold stickles and green Tinsel Twine to finish.

Candy Cane: Red Pepper paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper, MME Winter Wonderland Tape, and Festive Berries Distress ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge candy cane cut at 1 ¾”. Bottom layer embossed with red embossing powder and red Tinsel Twine used as the edging.

Poinsettias: Bottle and Snow Cap dabbers used with Ideology Holidays past paper and MME All is Bright paper. Spellbinders Poinsettias cut from mulberry paper. Stickles: Silver, Gold and green Tinsel Twine to decorate.

Poinsettia Print: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper. Picket Fence Distress Ink, and edged with blue Tinsel Twine.

Check out Cutters Creek Store for:

Paint Dabbers,  My Mind’s Eye papers, Ideology Holidays Past paper, Distress Inks, Stickles, Distress Stickles, Wow Embossing Powders, Ideology Tinsel Twine (Winter), Marvy Liquid White, Scor Tape, Glossy Accents

Now for details on blog candy! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month we are giving away  the Ink Pink Collection by Jillan Vance.

The Ink Pink Collection includes:
• Pray for the Cure Stamp Set in your choice of Round or Rectangle
• Pink Acrylic Stamp block in either 3x3 for the Round set or 3 x4 for
the Rectangle set
• 5 Charming Jilly Charms, Breast Cancer themed, made of fine pewter
right here in the USA!
• 5 A Jillian Vance Design Pear Pins to attach the Charms onto your
projects.
• A sample of Rinkle Ribbon, vintage ribbon to wrinkle and crinkle, ½”
wide and Made in the USA.

This collection is worth over $45!!
In addition to all the wonderful products in this collection, they
coordinate with Spellbinders Nestabilities!!!
The Round Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Beaded Circle S4-292
Classic Scalloped Circles S4-124
Standard Circles Small S4-116
The Rectangle Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities:
Large Labels S4-168

 To enter to win all you need to do is leave a comment on each blog as you hop along.You will have until 12:00am on Monday October 29th to leave a comment with a way for us to get a hold of you.   We will use Random.org to select a winner on Tuesday, October 30th and will post the winners name by 9:00am.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris) - http://www.cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/
Pebbles - http://sheissocrafty.blogspot.com/

Tee - http://tee-myspot.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://www.ourmadhouseof4.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://savingmine.blogspot.com/

Laura - http://www.scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Fran - http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/
Deanna - http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to leave a comment before hopping along to Kim’s blog. Thanks for hopping by and we hope you enjoy the hop and get many wonderful ideas!

 

Christmas with My Mind’s Eye by Chris

I made this quick and easy Christmas card in less than ten minutes. I started with brown kraft paper folded to a 5x7 card size. I then cut the lighter swiss dot piece from My Mind’s Eye All is Bright pack at 4 &/8 x 4 1/8 inches. The darker piece (the reverse side of the swiss dots) was cut to 3 1/4x 4 7/8 and glued slightly overlapping the lighter piece. I fussy cut the word Joy from a chevron piece in the same pack and glued it over the seam. Then using my distress ink Peacock Feathers, I stained a piece of seam binding, crumpled and dried it, tied it into a two loop bow and attached with a Glue Dot .

Castle Card by Chris

Template designed by “A Path of Paper”, svg created by “Denise’s Scrapbooking Room”, and card decorated and played with by me! This was so much fun and so perfect for my granddaughter. I used tons of scraps and loads of goodies from Cutters Creek.

I love how the Pow Glitter Paper just glimmers as the roof and as the name-tag base. The name-tag was cut with my ebosser (yes I got one and it works beautifully). I used Spellbinders Shapeabilitie: Fancy Labels Two that I further glitzed with Nestabling. The flowers are from my stash, but they have a touch of glam—Times Square Glitter Glam that is! It was one of the clubs choices, and I think I’ve fallen in love with it.

The flower centers and turrets are decorated with I-Rock Glams. Outlines of the turrets and different stripes are all stickles: Orange Peel, Silver, Thistle, and Aqua. Another Spellbinders Shapeabilitie—Parisian Accents—backs the numeral 6, which is embossed with silver and trimmed in I-Rocks. The sentiment page is doodled with Gel pens. The mat is inked with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and the stamp is perfect pearls on versamark. But the surprising elements (at least for me) are the new Deco Stickers from Ecstasy that edge the sentiment mat. They don’t look like much on the sheet, but when you peel them off and lay them on the page, there is a bit of dimension and color. I am so glad I ordered these in every color!

If there is something I’ve used and you don’t see it in the store, be sure to contact Kim. She always tries to help out and can point you in the right direction or maybe, special order something for you. Have a great day.

An Experiment with Mirrored Paper by Chris

I cut a mirrored sheet to fit in a Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder (but there are a ton from Cuttlebug that would work just as well), and ran it through my ebosser using the basic embossing sandwich. It made a deep, crisp emboss.

To highlight the embossing I took off the protective sheet and swiped the front of the card with Stazon Ink and set it aside to dry. I had a sliver of silver left over so I inked and embossed that with the word poison from another embossing folder.

I matted the larger piece and used my Perfect Layers tool to cut at 1/8, and the sentiment on a piece of orange ribbon along matted both the image and the sentiment were then mounted on a 5x7 cardbase. I did have some trouble keeping the mirrored piece glued down. Not sure if the embossing was so deep that it didn’t have enough of the sticky back touching the cardbase, or if the size was a bit heavy for the front of the card, but to secure it I used some Gloo adhesive. Next time I’m going to try some alcohol inks. What about you?

(Note: this surface is truly a mirrored surface—trying to take a photo and not having too much light or me reflected in it proved too much of a challenge for me--J. I hope you can see its beauty even with my poor photography skills.)