First Birthday

A friend at work asked me to make a card for a friends' daughter's 1st birthday.  I was happy to oblige but really didn't have any images that would work for a 1st birthday.  So I went to one of my favorite online sources for digital images and found the perfect image.  This is image is from Mo's Digital Pencil.  I colored it with my Copic Ciao markers.  The card stock is all from Stampin' Up! (Whisper White, Pretty in Pink and Soft Suede).  I also used a new Edglits Die and textured impression embossing folders by Stampin' Up!  My oval and scallop oval are Spellbinders Nestabilities dies.  The glitter is done with an SU 2-way glitter pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  You can check out Stampin' Up Products on my Stampin' Up! blog HERE

Two "Vintage" Image Birthday Cards

I made two birthday cards for 2 of my friends celebrating birthdays this month.  I enjoy making cards with "vintage" digital images I find on the internet.  These two cards feature images with flowers.  I love daises and roses so I made 1 card of each type of flower.  They are very quick and simple to make.  The most time-consuming part is cutting out part of the image from a duplicate image and adhering it to the base image with layering tape to give it a dimensional effect.  I finished the cards off by adding glitter glue to the flowers.  The layout is the same for both cards but I varied it slightly.  The daises felt more casual so I placed that image panel a little off center and the rose image felt more formal and I left it straight.

Happy New Year Vintage Cat Image Pleated Paper Medallion

Happy New Year.  This pleated paper medallion is one I made with a "vintage" digital image I downloaded from Vintage Holiday Crafts website.  I printed two of the images out and cut the cat and holly out and popped it up with layer foam on the other image to give it dimension.  I then used Diamond Stickles for some sparkle.  The paper is Holly Berry Bouquet from Stampin' Up! and the gold waffle paper is also from Stampin' Up!.  I had the gold silk ribbon scraps on hand that was used to wrap a Christmas gift given to me a few years ago (it was too pretty to throw away).  I sincerely hope all my friends and family have a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2012.  I especially wish all my crafting friends more crafting time and more money to do all the wonderful crafty things you want to do this year.

Happy Birthday Sailor Pleated Medallion

This is a medallion I made for my brother.  He was in the Navy and I thought this cute little Sailor would be perfect for a medallion I made for him with the stars and patriotic paper I bought at a local scrapbook store.  I originally used the paper for  my 4th of July medallions seen in my post from July 4, 2011.  To make the Stars I punched out 4 star shapes for each one and layered them together and covered them with Crystal Effects (Stampin' Up!) and then sprinkled some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (Stampin' Up!) and let them dry.  The Brother and Happy Birthday were stamps that I stamped on white paper and cut out.  Some glitter glue to finish off the edges.  I have a tutorial for the medallions on my Stampin' Up! blog Stamp With Me Cindy G.  Click HERE to see that tutorial.

Two More Yoga Cards

Having a great time making yoga cards for my friend's yoga studio.  Here are two more I created with stamps I got from American Art Stamps.  On the first one I used the flourish stamp from Stampin' Up! set Elements of Style for the background.  For the image panel I combined the Tree Pose stamp with the sentiment portion of the American Art Stamp Take Time to Savor.  The rest of that stamp has some cat tails on it so I just inked up the sentiment portion to use with the yoga stamp.  I used Stampin' Up! Tempting Turquoise to go with the Whisper White card stock.  The card is embellished with So Saffron ribbon and a hibiscus sticker from (K&Company) and Basic Rhine Stones (Stampin' Up!)

 For this card, I used another yoga stamp and the sentiment is another stamp that I just inked up the sentiment and not the flowers that went with it. The hibiscus is used to embellish the cards because my friend uses it in her logo as her studio is called Ohana Yoga. 



Yoga Cards

I am honored to have been asked by a friend to design some cards for her to sell at her yoga studio.  Lisa is an amazing yoga instructor and I'm so sorry that she moved and I can no longer practice with her but I am glad that we are able to stay in touch via facebook.  It was fun designing these cards and while I love my Stampin' Up! products, it is fun to design with something else every once in a while.  My card stock is Stampin' Up! though.  I also got to use my Copic Ciao markers that have been sitting idle for quite sometime.  I still need lots of practice with those.  The stamps are from American Art stamp.  I found them through a post I placed on Splitcoaststampers.com looking for yoga stamps.  I think these are perfect and they do have more poses available so I think I will have to get a few more.  The card above features the Tree Pose stamp.  The colors are current SU colors Melon Mambo and Tempting Turquoise.  The background of the Melon card stock is stamped with a stamp from the SU Delicate Doilies set.  I found the hibiscus dimensional stickers by K&Company at Michael's.  Lisa told me her logo contains an hibiscus flower as her practice follows the theme of Ohana so I looked for something to tie into her theme.  Below are two more cards the first one using the Downward Dog pose and retired SU card stock (Only Orange and Real Rust I believe).    Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out my Stampin' Up! blog HERE for the latest I have been creating with my Stampin' Up! products.



Halloween Medallion Banner

 Made a few medallions and then strung them together to make a vertical banner. I used some vintage-style images I downloaded from The Vintage Workshop and some I had on my Stampin' Up! My Digitial Studio software.  Below are close ups of the individual medallions.