Lucky Me and Hugs

First off, I want to share my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. 

 Lawn Fawn is the sponsor.  I have adored their stamps for awhile now but just never had the opportunity to play with any. I picked this wonderful sentiment set for my card.  I love sentiment stamps, rub-ons, stickers, anyway I can get them.  Most often they are one line, simple sentiments like Happy Birthday or Thinking of You.  Sometimes it is fun to have a larger sentiment that becomes the focus of your card and these fit that bill. 

 I used a Spellbinders Nestabilities label to show off the stamped sentiment, the edges were rubbed with stamp pads to help show them off.  I love this patterned paper by Graphic 45, I used both sides of one piece. 

 For my next card, I wanted to play in the "Chevron" challenge at Moxie Fab.  The above sample gives you an idea of what they are meaning when they say "Chevron". 

 I took one piece of patterned paper by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker and cut it apart.  I thought that by cutting along the design and staggering layers of it, gave a look similar to the "Chevron" example. 

 Here you can see where I left the layers 3 dimensional by not gluing it all down.  The letters for HUG are Thickers.  They were actually white but I rubbed them with a yellow stamp pad and then coated them with Aleene's Paper Glaze. 

And now for a few photos...

 It is Baseball season around here and we have two grandsons playing.  I caught this adorable glance from this one as he was walking out on the field to take his place. 

 This one is running somewhere, not sure if it was running the bases or not. 

And, this one is just taking it easy watching one of the others run around.  No cares!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 218 – I’M LUCKY… card

Materials:
Stamp set – Hello Friend Courtesy of Lawn Fawn stamps
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Bohemian Floral/Le Cirque collection/Graphic 45
Stamp pads - Clearsnap
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Circle cutter – Kreaxions
Jewels - Recollections
Foam tape- 3M

HUGS

Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – We are Family collection/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Thicker letters – American Crafts
Two birds sticker die cuts – Be Mine Valentine collection/We R Memory Keepers
Aleene’s Paper Glaze

Stamps, embossing and punches

Gotta love tools! Can us crafters ever have too many?

I say NOT! My first card shows off some pretty cute stamps by My Favorite Things and an embossed background thanks to a PaperTrey, Inc. texture plate. 

The circle background piece was created with a circle design background stamp stamped with green embossing powder and then sprayed with color sprays.  The little raindrops are created with Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip, just the right amount of glitter to make them fun.

My second card shows off my very first blog post at Just Imagine Crafts as part of the Kreaxions punches design team. Go on over there for the close-ups and the how-tos. I show some photos of punching the borders. 

One thing I do want to point out though is a new product find for me. We all struggle with attaching rather bulky elements to our cards and I grabbed a little bottle of Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue. I was at my Joann craft store and I found this glue in a little trial size. I think this might be one of my new most favorite products since it does grab fast. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

IT’LL BE OKAY card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Versafine Black stamp pad

Clear embossing powder – Stampendous

Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels

Stamps – My Favorite Things and She Created Art/Studio 490/Stampers Anonymous

Texture plate – PaperTrey, Inc.

Copic markers

Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint – Tulip

Self Adhesive rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.

Scallop scissors

Foam tape – 3M

Sandpaper

THANKS A BUNCH card

Materials list:
Black Magic Core'dinations Cardstock
Kreaxions circle cutter
Kreaxions 4-in-1 922 Fountain punch
Sentiment clear stickers – SRM
Resin flower – Pink Paislee
Tulle
Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue
Sanding block - Core'dinations