A Moxie Fab Trigger and Rainy days

To start off my post I wanted to share my card for the newest Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. 

 Don't you just want to go here? I love how inviting it is and it also makes for a great challenge.

 Here is my card to go along with the trigger.  There were two things in particular that caught my attention in the trigger. That wonderful, red print one one of the pillows that looks like a stitched design and the striped, blue pillows.

 I also liked the combination of white, blue and red.  I used an embossing folder to create the lines in the blue, Vintage Core'dinations cardstock and then sanded my squares. I thought that was a great way to mimic the striped pillows.

 I tried to figure out how I could created something that would have that red, stitched look and I thought of a technique I have read about but not tried yet.  I took one of my embossing folders and I a red Ancient Page stamp pad and gave one side of the embossing folder a coat with the red ink. I then inserted a piece of white cardstock and ran this through my Cuttlebug. The embosssed design then had a slight red tint to the design.  After I cut this piece out with a Spellbinder Nestabilities label shape, I added a little more of the red color to the cut and embossed edges. 

 The flower is by Recollections and that was added over a piece of white tulle that is tried in a couple bows. 

 It is raining here today, something we seldom see except for this year when we are getting our fair share. My card using a new collection by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker is so fitting. Notice the badge on my sidebar showing this collection, It's Raining, It's Pouring. I just love every part of this cute set.  You can also see this card and several others in a blog post at Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker.

 The little turtle with his umbrella is a die cut that I cut out. I added Aleene's Paper Glaze to the dots on the umbrella and his boots.

And this is what we were up to last night! Our youngest grandson collided with a coffee table. The interesting part of this is that the coffee table had padding on two sides to hopefully prevent something like this. Anyway, our daughter ended up in the emergency room for a couple hours last night to make sure all was OK. The damage looks worse then it actually is, I guess.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HUGS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials and Core Vintage/Core’dinations
Spellbinders Label Nestabilities
Sizzix embossing folders
Red Ancient Page stamp pad
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sticker letters – Making Memories
Flower - Recollections
Tulle
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

"TREES" are in right now

It seemed that for Earth Day, lots of designers were using trees in their creations and so I thought I would share this little set of cards I created.

One of these was recently published in the April CARDS magazine but since I had created a set of three based on the same design elements, I thought I would share the other two.

I used a set of papers by Quick Quotes. I just love these prints and I loved how they worked together on the chipboard trees. The chipboard trees are by Maya Road. When you buy these, you get a whole tin of tops of trees and trunks of trees and it is fun to mix and match them. I always use something like Mod Podge for my glue when glueing paper to chipboard. I like that you get a good uniform coat without warping, etc. I didn't coat the top of the covered trees with the Mod Podge though because I wanted the natural look of the paper.

The common element in all of the cards is the white, Cuttlebug embossed background and the little heart brad. Various "thank you" rub-ons were used as the greetings.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CHIPBOARD TREES cards

Cardstock: Prism

Patterned paper: Bandana Rama Collection/Quick Quotes Papers

Heart Brads – Hobby Lobby

Chipboard: Maya Road

Rub ons: Making Memories

Cuttlebug embossing plate – Swiss Dot

Mod Podge for the glue - Plaid

Machine Sewing

Sandpaper

CPS #90 and 2 Sketches 4 You cards

Yes, I got in an early start to Christmas with this weeks Card Positioning Systems Blog card. And my color scheme is a little "out of the box" too.
It was fun to combine a couple patterned papers from the Irresistible collection by Quick Quotes papers for this.

One of my absolute products right now is this yummy, green glitter by Clearsnap. LOVE this green and I want to use it on everything! So green snowflakes might not be very traditional but I think it works!!! I used Plaid's, Liquid Embossing Finish first and then sprinkled a generous amount of glitter over that. One thing about using this kind of liquid for my glue is that it is dimensional.

And, again, I love to use sketches so it is just a natural to want to follow the current 2 Sketches 4 You sketch, Kazan's sketch #13.

I so love this bright yellow lace paper and pairing it with this great blue patterned paper was fun. The butterfly is a 2 step Cuttlebug die. One step cuts the butterfly shape and then there are four choices of embossing plates that fit perfectly. The embossed design on the butterfly was accented by rubbing with a Powder Puff Chalk stamp pad by Quick Quotes. I also stamped a "writing" stamp with the same blue stamp pad over the yellow letters to make the pieces go together a little more.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 90 – JOY card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned paper and Joy label – Irresistible/Quick Quotes
Snowflake punch and scallop border punch – Martha Stewart
Green Glitter – Clearsnap
All Night Media Liquid Embossing Finish and Metallic Dimensional paint– Plaid
Rub-on word – Christmas – Making Memories

YOU’RE ONE IN A MILLION card

Materials list:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned Paper – Quick Quotes
Yellow Alphabet Lace paper – KI Memories
Blue Hawaiian Powder Puff Chalk ink – Quick Quotes
Writing stamp – Hero Arts
Scallop border punch – Martha Stewart
Butterfly die and embossing plate – Cuttlebug/Provo Craft
Rub-on greeting – Melissa Frances
Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.

Creating Backgrounds - PART 10 - Glimmer Mist

I have shared some ideas for creating backgrounds using Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels before but I just had to pull them out again. I picked up a couple new colors recently and of course, I had to try them out.
What I had mostly wanted to accomplish with this first card was to create a fancy, colored paper to stamp the bird on. I actually did stamp and emboss the bird first and then colored that paper with a couple colors of Glimmer Mist.

One of my new colors was Coffee Shop so I sprayed that and then accented it with a little bit of the Key Lime Pie. I thought that little bit of green helped my piece match my background paper. From the side, the Coffee Shop brown has a copper sparkle. The leaves on the stamped piece were accented with Platinum Stickles. The background piece that this circle sits on was punched on both sides with the Stampin' Up notebook punch and then stamped with the alphabet stamp by CatsLife Press. The punched edges were distressed with the Tonic Paper Distresser and inked/colored with the Powder Puff chalk inks by Quick Quotes. If you haven't seen or heard of these stamp pads before, you need to take a look. Great colors and they are so easy to work with.

For this next card, the flowers are part of a piece of Irresistible patterned paper by Quick Quotes. I cut out the flowers and they were plain white with the black outline lines. I filled in the bottom petal of each of the flowers with the Icicle Stickles. The Icicle Stickles has a chunkier glitter in it.

The help the flower match the purple patterned paper I used for the card, I sprayed the flower with the Fully Purple Glimmer Mist and then I used the new Copper Metallics to spray the entire front of the card. This color is meant to give a nice "Glimmer" to the project rather then a strong color change. Notice how it colored the Stickles. I wish you could see the really cool GLEAM the card has from the Copper.

Thank You for Visiting, Linda (lbpost)

I LIKE YOUR STYLE card

Materials list:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned papers – Bob’s Boxers/Quick Quotes Papers
Bird stamp – Inkadinkado
Alphabet stamp – Catslife Press
Greeting stamp – Printworks
Pearl brad – Gartner
Powder Puff stamp pads – Quick Quotes
Platinum Stickles – Ranger
Hole punch – Stampin’Up
Machine sewing
Ribbon
Coffee Shop and Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

MISSING YOU card
Materials list:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned papers – Irresistible and Bandana Rama Collection/Quick Quotes Papers
Icicle Stickles – Ranger
Fully Purple and Metallics Copper Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Rhinestone swirls – Prima

Rub-on greeting – Making Memories