A Ladies Diary Tio by Tee

Look what I did with three pieces of Graphic 45's a Ladies Diary patterned paper, one sheet of tan cardstock, half a sheet of chipboard and embellishments from my stash....

First, I cut my chipboard into three pieces 3x6, 1x6 and 6x6. I then cut apart my patterned paper and used Scotch Quick Dry to glue the papers onto the chipboard. Then I got out my Tim Holtz Distressed Ink Pads in Frayed Burlap and Victorian Velvet and went around all the edges using Tim Holtz foam applicator.

  I used my Cricut and Flower Shoppe Cartridge and cut some rolled flowers at 3" and 2". I applied a heavy coat of Victorian Velvet.I used a straight pin and some beads used several glue dots to hold it in place.I added some stickles and rock candy to finish it off.

I then made a Dresser Card

And finally a small gift box.

Marci With Lantern

 

Today I bring you a card using a digital image by La La Land called Marci with Lantern.   She comes with accessories (a string of lanterns and a sentiment) which you will see on my card.  She is such a cutie too.

Below the photos will be a list of supplies I used to create the card. I had so much fun making this card. 

I only colored her face, hands and hair with Prisma Colored Pencils.  Her outfit was paper pieced using Asian theme paper.

      (Clicking on photo will give you a larger view).

 

 

Supplies:

Card Base – Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80#

Red Paper- American Crafts Specialty Cardstock, Foil

All Around Punch-Loops by Martha Stewart

Digital Image Set – La La Land (includes Marci, lanterns and sentiment)

Spica Pens – Gold and Red

Hanging Lanterns – Ranger Glitter Glue – Stickles

Butterflies – Memory Box – Butterfly Delights

Large Lantern w/sentiment– created in Paint Shop Pro

Ribbon – My supplies

Note:  After taking initial photos I added Gold Glitter Tape to the inside of the card above the butterflies.  I tried to capture the beauty of the glitter tape with my camera but I couldn’t.  The glitter tape is by American Crafts.  Check with Kim and she can order it for you.  It is gorgeous!!!!!!

 

Come back soon to see more projects by the Cutters Creek Design Team,

Fran

Tropical Box and Mini By Ms. Pebbles

Hello everyone! :)
With so many different styles of cigar boxes out there, I had to do another one! :) Now since I took soooo many photos, I will try to keep the reading to a minimum. :)

I used our Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue collection throughout the entire box as well as the mini!

I made this flower using some of our Color Me Crazy flowers and some I had in my stash. I also made the stick pin with some pearls I had in my stash.

Here I used Glossy Accents to enhance the flowers in her hair and I used Shimmerz on her eyes and lips! Here's some more views of the outside of the box.

 This is the front.

This is the side. I did both sides pretty much identical.

This is the back.

This is the inside with the mini in it.

I tried to get a good pic of the inside to show that I used some Diamond Stickles to accent the fish on the paper all around the inside and just used some felt from my stash for the bottom.

Now for the mini! :)

List of products I used:
  Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue
  Graphic 45 Tropical Travelogue Tags 2
  KaiserCraft Rhinestones
  Blingz/Shimmerz
  Distress Stickles-Mustard Seed
  Liquid Pearls-Platinum
  Color Me Crazy
  Stickles-Black Diamond
  Stickles-Diamond 
  Stickles-Xmas Red

Remember, if we are out of stock on any item, contact Kim and she may be able to order it for you! Thanks for looking everyone! :)

Quick and Easy Backgrounds by Chris

Get out your glimmer mist and regular card stock or watercolor paper and spray away. I used at least six different glimmer mists on each of these papers and sprayed till they pooled. 

Then, take a piece of plastic wrap (just a tad larger than the paper), crunch it up, and then decide how you want to blend colors.

 Lay the plastic across the paper pushing the mist puddles together. When you like what you’ve blended, pull up the plastic so it isn’t completely smooth  in places to create a abstract design (see photo). Now walk away and let it dry. I let mine dry overnight. When I pulled the plastic off, I had these gorgeous papers with a lovely webbed design. Both papers have a gorgeous shimmer. The watercolor paper is bumpier, but that is how it started.

Card Stock

Watercolor Paper

Products from Cutters Creek

ANY AND ALL Glimmer Mists by Tattered Angels

Embossing Ideas by Laura C

Do any of you love Pinterest?  It's one of those things,
once you start....it's a wonderful source of inspiration
and ideas....but you can really get lost in time!....lol.

One thing I have found...is a lot of great crafting
tutorials....not always something new, but so
many that make you go "oh yeah...I forgot
about that technique", or...."I never did try that cool
tutorial".

This is the inspiration for this post...3 great techniques
for embossing powder, that give 3 completely unique
looks.

This technique is using embossing powder to make
a piece that looks like embossed metal.  You just
use a piece of foil cardstock (I used gold) and
stamp the image you'd like in your favorite
embossing ink and sprinkle with embossing
powder in the same color (gold/gold, silver/silver).

I used the Stampers Anonymous Holiday Wishes
stamp set for this card for a little "Christmas in July":

The gold piece is mounted on AC white glitter paper
and used a Spellbinders Edgeabilities die to finish it
off (Kim can order these dies!).

The next technique can give a stamped image a
patina, or a distressed look.  You simply stamp
an image in a color, then after you clean off the
stamp, randomly apply some embossing ink to
the same stamp, and re-stamp over the same
area, sprinkle with embossing powder in a
contrasting color (I used Stormy Sky Distress
Ink and white embossing powder).

This pic is of the stamped image (top) and then
the embossed image (bottom):

 It really changes the look of your project!
And I finished off the card by stamping the
circle image in Festive Berries Distress Ink
and added some Kaiserkraft bling:

The last idea, is to used embossing powder
to make your own embellishments.  This is
a chipboard cut out made with a Tim Holtz
die--Kim can order....or she has several in
the store that are fun!

After cutting it out, it's sprayed with two
colors of Glimmer Mist (I used Coffee
Shop and Dragonfly):

Next step, once it was dry, was to stamp an
image with black archival ink, I used a stamp
from the Tim Holtz Urban Tapestry set):

Then you apply embossing ink directly to this
piece, sprinkle with clear embossing powder,
and this is the "look in progress":

And then the final piece:

This would be a great piece for a card, scrapbook
page, or a mixed media piece.

So are you ready to break out that embossing powder?
So many different looks, and fun techniques out there...
hope I've given you or at least reminded you of, some
fun things to try next time you craft, to give your
project a little more texture and fun!

Happy 4th Of July Project by Fran

 

I’ve been making cards for about two years and never made one for the Fourth of July.  So there’s no better time than this year to bring you my first 4th of July card, cupcake holders and paper rosettes to celebrate the 4th.  The card and cupcake holders came from a pattern created by SVGCuts. com.  The rosettes were hand made using the Martha Stewart Score Board.   Everything was cut using the Cricut Expression.  And all the glitter was created using  Stickles Glitter Glue by Ranger.  White rosette was distressed with Distress Ink pad, color-Faded Jeans.  All papers used were from my own supply of solid colors.   Other photo props are from my kitchen :)

             (Note: Click on photos for a larger view)

   

Thank you for stopping by, Fran

Masking Resist Project by Chris

Played with the new Splitcoaststampers tutorial using art masking fluid as a resist and my distress inks. I tried the same image twice just for practice. My handwriting is awful and I think I need a much smaller brush to write nicely next time—or maybe not write at all, but I did enjoy the process. I used two series of Distress Inks on both sets of images: greens and blues. I started with Shabby Shutters, then Bundled Sage, then Peeled Paint, and of course, my newest addition, Mowed Lawn. For the blues I started with Tumbled Glass, added (you got it!) Salty Ocean, and, finally, Stormy Sky. The seahorse was another Distress Ink—Worn Lipstick. For the sand on the bottom of the ocean I inked some Brushed Corduroy and then used Vintage Photo around the other three sides to give some depth to the image. My Perfect Layers tools came out and I made two 1/8-inch mats. All I need to do now is mount them on a card base and send off.