You Should Try This New Card Making Technique

I'm a big fan of The Penny Black Blog and love all the card making ideas that they share each week.
On February 17th they showed a new "Creative Dies Dimensional' technique.  Click on the link and it should take you to the Penny Black blog post.

Here  is the card that I created using this new technique.

I used watercolor paper as the base and painted it using my aqua brush and some Broken China colored  Distress Ink.

I followed the instructions from the video and used four layered  die-cut. This flower die is from Memory Box.

 Distress Ink and my aqua brush were used to paint the flowers, leaves and stems before the whole flower die-cut was glued to the card base.

 I dyed the rayon seam binding ribbon by using the pink Distress Ink that was used to paint the flowers and a little water. Dried it quickly by using a heat gun.

Have a great day and I  hope you'll check out the instructions for using  this new watercolor technique and make a new card, then leave me a comment and tell me how you liked it.

Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy

A Birthday Card For A Special Girl

It's my youngest granddaughter's birthday so I thought I would share the birthday card that I made for her.

The image used on this card  is a favorite of mine from "A Day For Daisies". I colored the digital image by using colored pencils and blending the colors by using baby oil.

There are an assortment of dies used and all of them are from Spellbinders. My all time favorite embossing folder was used for the base.

Have a great day!
Kathy

My New Butterfly Mini-Album

Even though I haven't shared a blog post for the past few weeks I really have been busy.
It's time to finish some of those UFO's. UFO's are Un-Finished Objects and I have many of them.

Here is a little "Butterfly"  mini-album that I started last winter and completed this past month.

Click on the photos to make it  Larger.

I love butterflies and I bought this paper pad in both the 12x12 inch size and the 4 1/2 x 6 inch also. All of the pages in this book use papers from the smaller paper pad.

All of the cardboard used for this book and most all of the albums that I make are from cereal boxes.
I used "Laura Dennison's" Stack The Deck binding method for this little mini.

 Here are some of the pages from my album.

This is the first page in the book and the tag that fits into the side pocket.

The ribbon used on the tags is rayon seam binding. It"s wonderful stuff, and  can be dyed to match your project.

  There are twelve pages in the book. Each one used a fussy cut large butterfly from the paper pad to embellish the pocket flap.

That's it for today.
Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you'll come back again soon and please leave me a comment to let me know if you liked my mini album.
Ta Ta For Now.
Kathy

My First Outlawz Challenge Entry

Isn't this little girl just the sweetest little thing? She is from "All Dressed Up Stamps" .  Visit their challenge blog and check out their shop to find more darling digital images like this one.

The filigree background die used on this card  is from Spellbinders.
 The trees and the bunnies are dies from Memory Box and were cut from Pearl paper.
 The purple card stock base was hiding out in my paper stash.
 I used my nearly new, hardly used Prisma-Color pencils and I used "Baby Oil" to blend the colors.

Thanks for visiting my blog today. I hope you will stop back again soon.
Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy

A Card Made With Never Before Used Schtuff

This Christmas card uses a few NBUS or Never Before Used Schtuff and is being entered in the NBUS Challenge #3.
I won a blog candy giveaway and the zig zag background stamp was part of the prize. This is the first time I've used it and I really like it!
The fancy oval is also new. I cut the oval out of pearl paper.
I bought the tree die about a year ago but this is the first time I've used it.

 

I'm also entering the CASE-ing Christmas Challenge #3.

This is the card that I used for my inspiration :

Card by DT member Judy.

 

 

 

 

 

CASE-ing Christmas Card Challenge #2

 This week I'm entering the CASE-ing Christmas Card Challenge #2.

 

This is my card. As you can see I was inspired by the  layered and embossed banners and the large flower.

 

 Card by DT member Pat.

 This is the card that we are to take our inspiration from:

 

Please click on the badge  above  to go to the challenge blog and view all the entries in this weeks challenge. 

I think I'll put a counter on the side-bar to keep track of how I'm doing with this years Christmas cards.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope you have a terrific day. Come back again soon.
Ta Ta For Now,
Kathy

 

Christmas Card Challenge Blog

This was the first time in many years that I didn't send out handmade Christmas cards. It wasn't that I didn't have any made but I forgot to pack the box that had all of my cards in it. They are still on my closet shelf in Minnesota. I'm starting this week to make a supply of holiday cards that will be left in Arizona.

This new challenge blog should help me accomplish this.
I found a new holiday card challenge blog "CASE-ing Christmas.

This is the very first challenge for this new blog and here is the card that I made for the challenge.

 This is the card that we are to use as our inspiration card.