Hexagon Overlay Cards

You may remember my Hexagon box with matching card/envelope set; well, I had so much fun using my cutting machine to cut those overlays that I decided to make some larger, individual cards with the same files. I'm calling them "overlay cards" until I can think of something better.

My husband suggested this layered design, and I used the "Offset" tool in Silhouette Studio to create the layers.

I made the sentiment layer using the font Eccentric Standard:

I bought a paper pack of Autumn colors at JoAnn's, which gave me a nice mix of colors for this one. I added some gemstones and a wooden embellishment that I painted with a gold leaf pen.

My mom has been making white-on-white cards, so I used several white papers, gemstones and pearls for this, which will probably become a Wedding card:

These cut amazingly well on my Silhouette, although there's a bit of cleanup. Man there were paper pieces everywhere! I used ZipDry as my main adhesive, but for the fine cuts I used a ZIG glue pen. To do that, I use a coated paper (usually a piece of junk mail) as a mat.

These are pretty addictive, so you'll be seeing more of them! Thank you for visiting,

Popsicle stick flower Easel card - Crafting with Dragonflies GDT

I'm pleased to be guesting designing along with the talented Crafting with Dragonflies team for their next two challenges! Today begins their two-week Make your own flower embellishment challenge.

I made an easel card with two punched flowers:

We enjoyed many a Popsicle this summer, so I'm trying to find a creative use for them! I punched a hole in it with my Crop-O-Dile. The flowers were made with a Recollections 3-in-one stamp/punch set:

This is a fun punch; you ink one of three flower shapes, place it into the punch, and you get a nice punched flower with an embossed edge. It works really nicely; I recently used it with my friend's two young daughters and we were all very entertained!

I got fancy and used Versamark watermark ink and heat-embossed the stamp. Then I ran the shape through my BigShot with an embossing folder, and then lightly sanded the Core'Dinations paper. I did the same thing with the leaves, which were cut with a Sixxiz die. I shaped the flowers and sprayed them with a matte coating to help retain their shape. I punched a hole and secured the flower with a brad.

The "Best Wishes" sentiment is a gold sticker that I colored with a silver Sharpie before adhering.

For the background on the front of the card, I inked an embossing folder with China Blue distress ink and ran it through my BigShot. I used the same technique for the "grass".

Inspiration/Challenges:
Crafting with Dragonflies #14: Make your own flower embellishment (on its own or on something, card, scrap page whatever...No Halloween)

A Gem of a Challenge #103: More than one Fold
Crafting When We Can #56: Make your own flowers
Fashionable Stamping Challenge #59: Make a Card
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Anything Goes

Many thanks to the Crafting with Dragonflies team for letting me join them for this fun challenge. Hope you all will join us! Thank you for visiting,

Cute Halloween - Love to Create GDT

I'm very pleased to be guest designing with the Love to Create team this week! I was one of the prize winners for Love to Create's "Fancy Folds" Challenge, and being invited to GD was icing on the cake. 

The Love To Create Challenge theme this week is "Halloween" and our sponsor is Stamp Fairy, so I used their adorable Barry Halloween digi stamp:

The bear was covered with Teddy Bear Flower Soft, and the bag was colored with Copics. I ran the ghost-sheet layer through my sticker machine and covered it with white satin ribbon (May Arts). I cut out the eyes and covered them with Glossy Accents.

For this Tall Step Card, I used Glenda's tutorial at The Stamp Camp. The base DP is from October Afternoon's Witch Hazel Collection, and the three coordinating DPs are from Graphic 45's [out-of-print] Magic of OZ Collection. I edged everything with a bright orange ink.

The Clear Shapes are from Making Memories (they are actually adhesive, so I left the backing on), and the tiny license plate is by Junkitz. The little candy-corns are from a rubber stamp set by Studio G, and I colored them with Sakura glaze pens.

I'm entering this set into the following challenges:
(Oops! I scheduled this post and then forgot to enter the challenges I had selected! So I'm entering them on Wednesday instead of Monday; This isn't back-linking, it's more like late-linking!)
A Gem of a Challenge #103: More than one Fold
By LORi Designs #58: Trick or Treat

Simon Says Stamp: Halloween/Halloween Colors (5th entry)
Stampavie and More: Bear

Thank you for visiting,

Fall Foxes with Freckled Fawn

This week we're going Embellishment Crazy at Pile It On! Our sponsor, Freckled Fawn generously supplied our DT with some of their great goodies to work with, including adhesive gems (available in their September kit) and wood embellishments (available in their October kit). As soon as I saw their little wood veneer foxes I knew exactly what I wanted to make:

I usually decorate my wood pieces somehow, but in this case I just left them as-is, except for adding a bit of red paper behind the heart in the mushroom. The large gemstones on the corners are also from Freckled Fawn. They come with adhesive foam, and so really stand up nicely on the card.

I made the fox/chevron pattern with Cali Arroyo's Chevron Tile Silhouette cutting file, and cut it on my Silhouette from kraft, orange-red, orange, and cream papers. I mounted the kraft frame onto a white card, and then indivudally placed in the different colors to make the chevrons. This seemed like a better idea when I thought that all the pieces would be the same size; I didn't realize that each piece was unique until after I had taken them all off the mat. Sigh. Oh well, it kept me busy for quite a while! And was absolutely worth it.

I used some plastic templates to trace the hearts on white paper & a scrap of DP. Even with my die-cutting machines, sometimes handcutting is still the best!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Baffies Kreativladen: Autumn
Lady Anne's Challenge: Autumn/Fall
Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge: It Is Fall
Perfectly Rustics: Pattern Paper
Stamping Sensations: All Creatures Great and Small
Use It Tuesdays: Creatures (hoarded supply: "Family" plastic embellishment and small gemstones)

Thank you for visiting,and hope you'll join us this week at Pile It On,

There's a light ... Over at the Frankenstein place ...

There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light
In the darkness
of everybody's life.
–The Rocky Horror Picture Show

My sister-in-law is a huge fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I've wanted to make her a card using this Dr-Frank-N-Furter-inspired digi stamp by IKEsWorld for years.

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Can you believe that it's the 40th anniversary of TRHPS‽ I dusted off our old VHS tape of the movie and watched some it while "researching" this card. And yes, I danced the Time Warp along with the movie; I think it's the law!

I colored the image with Copics and glitter pens. The gloves & vest were printed on shiny black paper, and I painted the vest with ZAZZ glitter. I added tulle stockings with Glossy Accents.

You can read more about this card design, as well as see the cards I made for the rest of the family, in this post.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Craftitude Challenge #51: Anything Goes
IKE'sWORLD Challenge #3: Anything Goes + IKE'sART image

Update: This won a Top 3 spot at IKE'sWORLD. Thank you!

Thank you for visiting,