Head start on Easter by Mindy

I just got back from vacation and I had a little extra time at home. I decided to get an early start on Easter. I love this little Magnolia chicken image.

I colored her with my Copic markers. To make the image look distressed like the papers , I kept going over it with my w00 marker to tone down the brightness.  My papers are from My Mind's Eye. I sewed around the border of every layer.  My image is cut out with a nestabilitie using my cuttlebug. 

It feels good to get a head start on a holiday for once. The supplies used from the Cutters Creek store are Copic markers and My Mind's Eye papers. 

What Does the Fox Say? By Mindy

That is a very popular question lately and I think I've found the answer. I will reveal it at the end if the post.

I made a quick and easy Valentine's card using my Cricut, the Wild Card 2 cartridge, and some My Mind's Eye paper. I have to admit, that little fox is what sold me on this cartridge. 

I used some core'dinations cardstock for my base and sanded it to bring out the embossed design. I then cut the heart and the adorable little fix out of different patterned papers from the My Mind's Eye  6x6 pack. I finished the card off with some faux stitching and some googly eyes.

Now to answer everyone's question, what does the fox say?

Happy Heart Day of course, it's almost Valentine's Day!

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My Mind's Eye papers
Core'dinations Cardstock

Embossing Paste Technique card by Cindy

Hi everyone,

Today, I am sharing a project that I have up on the Cutters Creek Design Team blog. My project uses a new technique, embossing paste!

I laid my stencil on top of my card and spread the embossing paste over the stencil. I used Wendy Vecchi white paste. After it dried, I colored some of the hearts with my Copics, some with Wink of Stella and some I put Glossy Accents on top and then dumped some pretty Tim Holtz distress glitter on top of it. The heart was cut out with Sizzix Framelits and I also used My Mind's Eye paper. I attached my ruffled ribbon to the back of my heart and to my card using Scor-Tape.
If you are interested in any of the products that I used today, be sure to visit the Cutters Creek store.

Birthday Time With Mindy

As soon as the new year starts, so do the birthdays in my family. I always try to start on them early so they're ready to go when I need them.  

I made this card with some masculine papers from My Mind's Eye. 

The little elephant is from Create a Critter 2.  He's holding a couple of balloons attached with some floss. I can never find sentiment stamps when I need them, but I think it's pretty obvious this one is for a birthday. 

Thank you for stopping by and looking at my card. Don't forget to stop by the store and see all the great stuff Kim has for you. 

12 Days of Christmas, Day 6 by Cindy

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team blog 12 Days of Christmas. Each day the design team members will be sharing a fun holiday project.

 

Today, I am sharing how I used non-traditional paper and paper pads to make some holiday cards. The paper I used is from Cutters Creek, as part of the 6x6 paper pad club. I also used some bling and tuxedo black memento ink. I also used a "candy cane" striped embossing folder. Be sure to watch the video to get the full recipe and see how it all gets put together.

If you are interested in these products be sure to visit the Cutters Creek store. Be sure to visit the blog again tomorrow when we share another project.

On the 3rd Day of Christmas... by Mindy

Hi, it's Mindy and it's my turn to post my 12 days of Cristmas project. I collect a lot of stamps and sadly, several of them remain unlinked. For the project I decided to break one of them out and ink it up!

The image I used is from House Mouse. They have so many cute images and they're fun to color. I colored these little guts with my Copic markers. I used Liquid Pearls to add some snowflakes. All the paper I used is from My Mind's Eye.

I hope you have enjoyed the projects so far and don't forget to check out the remaining ones.  

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Copic Markers

My Mind's Eye paper

Liquid Pearls

It's Beginning to Look...

It's starting to look a little bit like Christmas. I'm ready to start shopping and put up my decorations. One great way to get in the Christmas spirit is to get started in your Christmas cards. I decided to challenge myself on my first one and deviate from the my usual bright and cheery Christmas colors.

This paper pack from My Mind's Eye is soft and muted. I tried to match it with my copics as best as I could. I popped my image up from the burlap strip with some 3D adhesive and added a paper poinsettia to the corner. This card was quick and simple to put together. I didn't want to overwhelm myself on the first one. 

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Trick or Treat

I've been spending a lot of time trying to get my scrapbook room organized and put everything in a place that makes sense. In doing that, I've become reacquainted with things I haven't used in a while or, even worse, forgot I had. I found this little Tilda holding a pumpkin and knew I wanted to color her. 

She's so cute and perfect for Halloween time. I colored her with copic markers to match the colors in my favorite My Mind's  Eye paper. It's hard because the colors in the paper are so muted. I matted the image with a couple of rectangle nestabilities and then finished the card off with a Cutters Creek gardenia.

I guess it's time to put my Halloween images and paper up for another year. I've had a lot if fun playing with some old friends. 

EEEEEEEK

Hi, it’s Mindy and  I have a Halloween card to share with you all.  My copic markers and I have a love hate relationship. I love to color with them and then I hate how what I just colored looks.  I’m trying to just have fun and color, not worry about light sources and shadows and all that.  It worked this time.  I started doubting the image and almost started over, but I made myself stick with it.    I also have a love hate relationship with my scrapbook room.  I love having a room devoted to scrapbooking, but I hate going in there because it’s such a mess I can’t find anything including my desk.   I decided it was time to tame the beast and get it organized.  I’m not all the way done, but it’s 90% better than it was.  Also, since I’ve been so busy organizing and rearranging my supplies, I’ve found all kinds of things I haven’t used in forever.  So enough with all that, let’s get to the project. 

I used the My MInd’s Eye Mischievous paper pack.   I love this paper because it’s Halloween paper, but it’s not too Halloweeny.  I colored my image with my copic markers.    I wanted the image to match the distressed look of the paper so I dulled down all the color by going over them with a pale warm grey or light tan color. 

After I finished coloring the image, I went over the entire thing with some old paper distress ink then I edged it with some black soot distress ink.  I went over some parts of the image with my copic spica pens, but it’s too hard to capture in the picture.  For the sentiment I used some black Wow embossing glitter.  It was great to reconnect with some of my old supplies.  Sometimes you need to deep clean your scrapbook room to remind yourself of what you have (and what you don’t have but you really really need).
One thing I discovered while cleaning was that I had a problem with my 6 x 6 pads.  I have them stored vertically in a little drawer.  When I use a pad, I put all the scraps back inside the pad.  I’ve found when I pull the pad out by the top, the scraps were falling out.  I saw this idea on Youtube and it worked great.  I put the scraps in a clear envelope and attach that to the back of the pad so the scraps and the full pieces are all together.  In this case since the pad was pretty empty, I put the pad and the scraps down in the envelope.  This has been working great. 
  
I hope you have enjoyed my Halloween card and that I have encouraged you to reconnect with some of your older supplies. 
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Distress Ink
Copic Markers
Wow Embossing Glitter
My Mind’s Eye paper
Clear envelopes