Art of the Fold - One Page Booklet - Flower Circle - Blossom

size closed: 2.5"dia

Our AofF for May is anything using 1 piece of paper. I've done them in square shape where it opens and lays flat again. But this time I decided to glue some of the pages so the booklet opens like a normal book... I love the results.

I used value pack black cardstock which is medium light weight. Folded like a normal construction (fold in half (landscape mode) and each section folded in half again and repeated in (portrait mode.) getting my 16 little squares.

Cut the 1st and 3rd score lines from one edge to the 3rd score line. Repeated from the other edge and cut the middle score up to the 3rd score lines. Then start accordion folding from one edge to the end. You should have a nice little booklet.

But you don't have a NORMAL booklet... so start gluing to make them pages... 

Draw a circle that's larger than your folded booklet and cut the corners away to give the illusion of a round booklet which will keep your spines safe.

I used geli prints, pink and blue cardstock using a floral punch and adhered them to each page alternating color etc. Then cut smaller flowers and Peel Off glitter centers.

Added text to the geli print flowers in a funky hand with a gold gel pen.

words:  Blossom (on the cover) and Blooming (on the inside - 1 letter per page).

Art Of The Fold - Circle Flag Book - Dragonfly Floral

Our challenge for our  November 12th meeting is to create a Flag Book. Then one of our members created a circle one. She gave us a diagram with 32folds which I tried but couldn't get my sections folded equally and got frustrated... So a few days later, mulled it over and decided to try one with less folds and this is the result. I like it but it doesn't have the same interaction I get with the original folding.

 

Size open: 9"dia including letters

Since we're continuing with our goal to use what we have... I raided my off cut papers... and geli print stuff I made. so this one is made of all scraps.

I cut my circle to 7"dia from heavy weight copy paper, folded in half both ways to get a 90º fold, then measured from 1 point  to the next quarter point and divided that into 4 sections and scored through the center point, repeating until all sections were divided. Creased the fold lines. It doesn't show in the image but the sections are slightly raised.

Created the black cut into a partial circle and adhered the 8 sections to every other folded section.

Die cut the letters Sizzix Alterations Bigz XL Word Play Alphabet from a piece of white cardstock I had sprayed with Distress Spritz (Peacock Blue, Worn Lipstick, Weathered Wood & Fossilized Amber), love the shimmer. Final touch added a small punched out heart between the words.

All the other items were cut with various size punches from geli print papers. I added a 3D pearl sticker to each floral center and glitter to the dragonfly wings.. 

MC Mar/16 - Easel Flourish Emblem - ECD Birthday Wishes - When I...

Card Closed

I really was in a mood to create a feminine very involved card... I kept adding and playing... Love the way it turned out.

I'm using a couple dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs "Birthday" (from "Happy Birthday" 2pce set) and "Wishes" (from "Best Wishes") also available on Quietfire Design Here and Here. Also using the Anemone die set and soft finish cardstock.

And while I'm using bits and pieces I decided to do the same with the quote and make one all my own BIG GRIN. Using the main part from Quietfire Design "When I Saw This..." and the little word "made" from "If I Had a Star..." using a stamp positioner.

I'm also using a bunch of various elements from my stash and some quilled elements from my last quilling session.

So to see all the details and descriptions and more views, just click on any image. Enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Crafty Calender Challenge  monthly Mar  Special Female
Dies R Us  #44  shaped card
Polka Doodle Challenge  #8 Bingo: charms, animal, sentiment; polka dots, nature, lace; wings, tag, flower
All Sorts Challenge  #353 Feminine
Avenue 613  #166 glitter
Sunday Stamps  #121 pink, brown & white
Frilly n Funky  3 of something (3 quilled flowers, 3 die cut flowers, 3 folds)
Inky Impressions  #283 for a female
Penny's Challenges  #268 anything goes
The House That Stamps Built  #39 more than 1 fold
Sisterhood of Crafters  #51 dies and or punches (used both - the rose buds are punched petals)

MC Sept/14 - Quill Flower - Give Thanks

I got the newest calligraphy stamps from Quietfire Design - they're gorgeous as usual. And for a  limited time they are 20% off. So had to use one of them...
Give Thanks set.

I also saw a die with matching embossing folder (Tim's Layered Leaf) and said to myself... I can make one of these... so made it in three sizes and embossed it using my Cuttlebug....

And I was in a mood to make one of these Chrysanthemum type flowers...

Click on card image to see all the details and descriptions etc. Enjoy

And it fits for these challenges:

Simply Create Too  #69 something new (Tech or purchase) - the die cut/embossed leaves, this style of quilled flower
Brown Sugar Challenge  #110 lace
Fab n Funky Challenges  #227 tic tac toe: lace, buttons, flowers; stitching, doily, ribbon; charm, die cut, pearls
Delightful Sketches  not square
MIM Challenge  #160  Indian Summer
Melon Headz Friends  2 or more dies
Cute Daisy May  leaves
Reasonable Ribbon  #102 autumn colors + ribbon
Die Cut Divas  do something new: the die cut/embossed leaves, this style of quilled flower
Little Scrap Pieces  anything goes
Catch The Bug   embossing
Hiding In My Craftroom  #164 Fall
Sweet Stampin Challenge  the great outdoors
Totally Gorjuss  #252 bling
Cuttlebug Mania  embossing
Bearly Mine Challenge  Monthly Sept Autumnal color change (see below)

Color Throwdown  #308 (see below) (the melon color is in the leaves)

MC Mar/14 - Easel Window Spring - The Hum - HB

top view

I'm really enjoying making easel and multi fold cards lately... So here's another easel card, but this time as a window.

I asked Suzanne from Quietfire Design to make a calligraphed "Spring" word to eCut. Love what she came up with. I put it into a frame on my electronic cutting mat and welded the elements together to create the word/window.

Anyway, you can see all the details and descriptions by clicking on either image. Enjoy.

I'm also using a sentiment and quote stamp from Quietfire Design.

And it fits for these challegnes:
Card Mania Challenge  #42 use something new (the eCut word & the Anna Griffin embossing folder)
Perfectly Rustic  #18 hexagons
Papertake Weekly  Bingo: gem, die cut, flowers; ribbon, free, punched shape; button, glitter, lace.
Aud Sentiment  #102 anything goes + sentiment
Delightful Sketches  use green
Inky Impressions  #150 use green
Lil Red Wagon  #228 add dimension
Penny's Challenges  #168 anything goes
The House that Stamps Built  #228 flowers
Sisterhood of Crafters  #5 sentiment as focus
Cute Card Thursday  #312 for a girl
Pan Pastels UK  #10 use 3 textures (glossy, heat embossed, dry embossed, glitter, dimensional elements)

QF Rubber - Happy Family Days - HB

ID: QF Rubber - Labels 1 - HB

You can NEVER have enough "Happy Birthday" stamps... and I'm so glad Suzanne from Quietfire Design  came up with another one for my repertoire. It's paired up with a beautiful flourished frame that fits Spellbinder's Label 1 die (5 stamps on the "Happy Family" set). Love it, Love this card, it makes me sooooo happy (pun intended) love the vibrant colors and fun-ness of it.

side view - you can see the score lines

I stamped the Flourish Frame along left and right side edges of cream cardstock using Versafine Black Onyx, embossed with clear embossing powder, colored it with Prisma colored pencils and a Lyra blender pencil. Used my Scor-it board and made vertical score lines every 1/2".

Layered my panel onto a bright red cardstock, then a side folded cream card (5"w x 7"h).

 Stamped the sentiment and Flourish Frame with the black, clear embossed, die cut with Spellbinder's Label 1 and sponged Distress Mustard Seed and then some Wild Honey around the edges. Adhered to card with 3D foam tape.
Punched out a bunch of small and medium sized Sakura blossoms (Carla Craft) from decorative paper that had the same colors. Die cut the leaves (Dee's Distinctively "Large Green Leaf") and added some Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils to the green decorative paper I used to give it a more Limey color, wet with my water brush. Adhered the elements, then added matching small and medium rhinestones in the centers of the flowers.

Punched out the butterfly (EK Success layer punch) - another piece of decorative paper (my stash is very slowly dwindling...), applied glue and sprinkled with Stampendous "Crystal Snow"

Click on images to see larger versions etc. Enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Craft Your Passion  #123 put a bug on it
Totally Stampalicious  Use your favorite colors (since I love all colors, this is my combination...)
Creative Craft Challenge  Just a sentiment
Belli Challenge  #150  Winged things
The House That Stamps Built  #82 use scoring lines
Crafty Mess Challenge  #15 just words
Colour Q  #150 see image below

MC May/12 - Red Leaf - Thanks

It's been a while since my last post, but that's not saying I haven't been creating. I worked on and finished my 2 calligraphic pieces I'll be entering into this year's Stampede contest - but I can't upload them till June 27th - Sigh!!

This card was made specifically for a friend who just got back from a European cruise and stopped off in Amsterdam and bought me some "Neuhaus" chocolates - absolutely delicious. Yum!!

I was inspired by these red leaf, white blossomed flowers that are growing in my condo complex. They're just so pretty. So a little calligraphy, a little punching and a little die cutting and voila. Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy

And it fits for these challenges:
Kaboddle Doodles  #121 Anything Goes
Flourishes  #171 Thank You
Top Tip Tuesday  #77 something older than 6 mths (leaf die and leaf stamp)
Penny's Challenges  #80 anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge  anything goes
Card Makin Mamas  #46 use punches (Martha Stewart double edge punch "Blossom Trim" for the flowers) not dies

MC Mar/12 - Scroll Frame - Just Because

I had another friends play day yesterday and we had a great time. She was playing with my newest punches while I was slaving away with her taxes... ROFL.

Anyway one of the punches was the EK Success Scroll Pattern which I love. I've done a couple cards using it already, so thought I'd see what I could make using my electronic cutter and a scanned image of the pattern. I've got 3 variations from the same cut out. Two other cards will come at a later time, one uses the cut out as a stencil, another thermal embossed the positive piece which had all these nice colors on it from using it as a stencil and the this card which uses the negative pieces left on my cutting mat.

So to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy

I'm using one of the 10 tiny sentiments from  Quietfire Design

And it fits for these challenges:
Reasonable Ribbon  #44 Spring + ribbon
Cupcake Craft Challenge  #183 spots/dots
Fashionable Stamping Challenge  #17 Bingo: metal, sewing flowers; lace, distress, buttons; words, bow, vintage.
Kaboodle Doodles  #110 green
Scrap Creations  Ribbons & Pearls
Fab n Funky  #112 St Pat's, Green or something Irish
Simon Says Stamp Challenge  Use Green
Crafty Ann's Challenge  #61 Spring
Simply Create Too  #9 Spring
Totally Gorjuss  #123 Spring
Wags n Whiskers  #75 use Green
Two Sisters Challenges  #83 spots/dots
Crazy 4 Challenges  #128 use Green
One Stop Challenge  #174 handmade flowers
Pan Pastel UK  #10  add a flower
Cupcake Inspirations  #152  See image below

Cupcake inspiration image

MC Mar/12 - Positive Negative - T of Y

There was one challenge I really wanted to do and have left it to the last minute... The challenge was to use the positive and negative of a punched or die cut element. I love using both parts of punches, die cuts or even when I use my electronic cutter.

I'm using my electronic cutter for some of the petal shapes in the bottom flower. I wanted 4 sizes of the same flower shape...

Anyway to see more details and descriptions just click on card image and enjoy.

I'm using a sentiment stamp from Quietfire Design

And it fits for these challenges:
Paper Playtime  #69 use dies (if using Cricut create a flower)
City Crafter  #99 use the positive and negative of a die cut or punch (the border on the left is the negative, the centers of the flowers is the positive)
All Sorts Challenge  #145 say it with flowers
Crazy for challenges  #127 Spring is in the air.
Our Creative Corner  Tic Tac Toe: Blue, Sticker (border on the left, home made), flowers
The Secret Crafters Saturday  #176 no image, just words

MC Mar/12 - Quilling - Thank You & T of You

So continuing on with quilled flowers... these are 2 simple cards each having a quilled flower.

To see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.

I'm using sentiment stamps from Quietfire Design

And it fits for these challenges:
Crafty Catz Weekly  #22 Punches & Dies

MC Mar/12 - Tim's Tech - Mosaic A Smile

Tim decided this year not to do the 12 Days of Christmas in December, but rather to do a tag a month. I'm still trying to decide which method I prefer. The adrenaline rush of working every day on a different tag/technique, or leisurely working on 1 per month...
He started the 1st one in Feb, which I did not work on... This is Tim's 2nd technique tag. The Mosaic technique is really nice and quite adaptable for all kinds of projects.

And on another note, went over to Paper Pastimes (my main rubber stamping store in Calgary) yesterday for a quilling afternoon with friends. Mari, one of the ladies showed us how she made a two colored petaled flower. Pretty. We all worked diligently making them. When I got home I finished it off by adhering it to a base circle, adding the texture gem in the center and then adhering it to the tattered flowers.

I'm also using a Quietfire Design quote stamp

Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Craft Your Passion  #99 Paper Piecing
Crazy Challenge  #108 Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles  #108 Shades of Purple
Top Tip Tuesday  #71 Stitching ( I actually went to my sewing machine this time...)
Flutterby Wednesdays  #192 Anything goes + BFly
Simon Says Stamp Challenge  Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday  #206 Inspired by the coming of spring
Do You Stack Up  #61 Things with Wings
Paper Play Challenges  #12-9 Something old (embossing folder), something new (the quilled flower & the mini tattered flower die)
Pixie Dust Studio  #116 Buttons
Shelly's Images  Use spots & dots

MC Feb/12 - PCGadgets - Get Well Soon

Continuing on with only using my scraps, this is another card that I've only used my scraps...

And I'm using all three of my Purple Cow gadgets I got the other day - Trim It, Wire It & Pin It.

Also using a tiny sentiment stamp from  Quietfire Design

To see more details and descriptions, please click on card image and enjoy.

and it fits for these challenges:
Cooking it up with Katie  #89 Use something that comes on a spool (wire), sentiment + metal (the butterfly staple)
Flutterby Wednesday  #190 Anything with wings
Color Create Challenge  #90 Lilac, Blue, White & Kraft
Cute Card Thursday  #204 Flower Power
Digi Doodle Shops Best  #95 Anything goes
Do You Stack  Up  #59 Layers
Moving Along with the Times  #136 Get Well Soon
Southern Girls Challenge  #38 Distress (definitely distress the wire...)
Crafty Catz Weekly  #20  Favorite Things (my new Purple Cow gadgets)
Shelly's Images  Anything Goes

MC Jan/12 - Cone Flowers - Love

Sorry that it's been a while since my last post, have been busy at work - tax time...

Today's card is another "Love" card, using a new petal shape for my cones. Usually I just fold my sides of the circle over once, but this time I used a scalloped circle and folded them back to create a little ruffle in the petal. Will do this again, love the look.

It's also the first time I've ever made a frame around a punched out tag.

I'm using a quote from  Quietfire Design, lots of charms, glitz, lace, ribbon, and layers. Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenge  #176  Love
Inspiration Avenue  Alphabet/text

TSG Clear Stamps  #140 Love is in the air
My Time to Craft Challenge  #171 favorite embellie (usually handmade flowers)
Tuesday Throwdown  #82  Charms
Belli Challenge  #135 fancy frame
Cooking it up with Katie  #88 hearts, punches & embossing
Crafts & Me Challenge  #68 Pink & Sparkly
Crafty Purple Frog  Show us some love
Flutterby Wednesdays  #187 embossing + BFly/faerie etc
Do You Stack Up  #56  Ribbons
Moving Along with the Times #132 use flowers as focal or background etc.
Paper Play Challenge  #12-4 Lace
Craft Catz Weekly  #117 things with wings
Fussy And Fancy  #55  Polka Dots
Raise the Bar  #89 Pink, Silver, Ribbon &  Tag
Shelly's Images  Use text
Stampin for the Weekend  #25 Embossing
Totally Papercrafts  #101 Pearls & Lace
All Sorts Challenge  #139 Hearts
Crazy 4 Challenges  #121 Lots of  Layers and embellies
Drunken Stampers  #82 Use something new (the flower petal folding tech)
Mark's Finest Papers  #92 4 layers
One Stop Craft Challenge  #167 Stitching (FAUX or real)
Secret Crafter Saturday  #170 Ribbon
Corrosive Challenges  #141 Hearts
The Crafty Pad  #155 Valentine/Love
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge  #149 Diamonds or pearls

And Anything Goes Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Challenge 
Digi Doodle Shops Best   #91
SSDS Challenge

Shabby Tearoom inspiration image

The Shabby Tea Room  #97 white/cream, silver, pink, Sparkly & Bright & Inspir Image (see at right)

2 Sisters Challenge  #76 Sketch (see below)

2 Sisters Sketch

Winner Quietfire Design Butterfly Blog Flutter & MC Jan/12 BFly Iced Cupcake

Good Morning all, and thank you so much for all your lovely comments and participation in our blog hop. I thought an iced cupcake would be the perfect ending to our hop... and don't forget the butterfly circle stamp set is on special at 20% off till January 23rd.


All winners will be posted on the Quietfire Style blog on Saturday January 21st. If you are one of our lucky winners, please contact Suzanne privately with your snail mail address within 48 hours or a new winner will be chosen.  (Her email address is in the sidebar of the Quietfire Style blog)

And the winner from my blog is #63:
cindy b. said...
Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us. Beautiful!! cindy b


I thought the iced cupcake would be a tasty ending, so I whipped one up, putting lots of icing and butterflies... I won't say what flavor the cake or icing is - use your imaginations. BIG GRIN

Of course it's using the newest stamps from Quietfire Design. And to view more details and descriptions etc, just click on card image and enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Cutie Stampers  #119 forgotten decorations or not used in ages (the word brad, eyelet punch)
Incy Wincy Designs  #130 Bold & bright
The Pink Elephant Challenge  #131 Favorite color (reds)
City Crafter  #92 decorate the inside and outside
Creative Card Crew  Seeing red
Fashionable Stamping  #13 Butterflies or bugs
Papertake Weekly  Buttons, bows, bling & bloom
Scrap Creations  Die Cuts
Crafty Creations  #153 Valentines card
Crafty Purple Frog  Anything Goes
Fresh Brewed Designs  #79 Buttons & bows
Fab 'n Funky challenges  #104 Bingo: Hand made embellies, digis, 2 DP's; unused stamp, flourish, lace/twine; vintage, lace, BFly
Flutterby Wednesdays  #186 Anything goes + BFly
Lili Red Wagon  #116  use 2 different ribbons
Penny's Challenges  #71 Ribbons & bows
Aud Sentiment  Challenge  #46 Use the word "Love"
Moving Along with the Times  #131 something with wings
Paper Play  #12-3 use ribbons
Card Makin Mamas  #37 use something old - more than 6 mths (the brad is a couple years old...)
Crafty Ann's Challenge  #57 use or do something new (the rubber stamps and this shape of card)
Frosted Designs  use vellum or acrylic or transparency
Raise the Bar  #88 use circles
Simply Create Too  #5 Love is in the air (we must have crossed paths in space...)
Totally Paper Crafts  #100 make your own flowers
Wags 'n Whiskers  #71 Valentine/Love card.
2 Sisters Challenge  #75  embossing wet or dry (both)
The Secret Crafter Saturday  #169  Food or Drink
SSDS Challenge  Have a heart
Stamptacular Sundays  #147 Texture
Our Creative Corner  Inspir. Image the cake, icing and topping on the cake were my inspirations (see below)

Our Creative Corner inspir image

MC Jan/12 - White on White - Hugs

Well there was another challenge using white on white, but this one didn't allow any other color... and then there was Flourishes challenge of a tri-fold card and the rest evolved again, glitter rhinestones, half pearls etc..

I'm using a Quietfire Design quote stamp on the front.

To see lots more details and pics, click on card image and enjoy.

And it fits for these challenges:
Die Cut Dreams  #105 White on white - no color
Incy Wincy Designs  #127 Anything goes
The Pink Elephant Challenge  #129 Anything Goes
Flourishes #150 Tri Fold card (Flourishes stamps on inside flaps)
My Time to Craft Challenge  #170 XOXO Hugs & Kisses (see the inside of card)
Paper Take Weekly Anything goes
Reasonable Ribbon  #39 Sparkle & ribbon (3 ribbons and lace on front)
Scrap Creations Something new (rhinestone flourishes) & old (quote on front & all the textured papers)
Top Tip Tuesday  #67 Anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown  #79 something shiny (lots)
Delightful Sketches  Hearts

MC Nov/11 - White on White - Poinsettia

It's been a long while since I've done a white on white card - so one of the challenges calls for that - BIG GRIN

I'm using one of the mini 10 word sentiments from (Quietfire Design)

And to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image. Enjoy

It fits for these challenges:
Kortudfordring  #50 Clean and simple (2nd submission)
Stamps Fun Creativity  #72 Winter
Creative Craft challenge  Clean & Simple (2nd submission)
Paper Take Weekly  Xmas card
Top Tip Tuesday  #59 anything Xmas (2nd submission)
Dutch Dare Challenge  #138 punches & dies  (2nd submission)
Rainbow Lady's challenge  #178 Poinsettia
Crafty Ann's challenge  #53 Floral frenzy   (2nd submission)
Wags 'n Whiskers  #67 Xmas themed
Totally Gorjuss #142 Xmas traditions (lots of Poinstettia's around the house)
The Crafty Pad  #147 White on white
Stamptacular Sunday  #138 Punches & dies (2nd submission)

MC Sept/11 - Sapphire - Let it Snow

Well I picked up these decorative petals at Michael's the other day - regular $16.99 and got them for $1.69 - what a great deal for 300 petals. Half were a metallic gauzy type and half were a creamy white with pink splotches. Why cut your own petals when you can get them for this price. So out came the low melt glue gun and voila a flower emerged. BIG GRIN.

Now you may have noticed some snowflakes on the card and the stamped sentiment saying "Let it snow...", but then when you get to the bottom of the card that's where it says, "I've got spring in my heart", and with that I can handle the winter that's around the corner.

There's lots of bling in the ribbon (metallic & glitter)

This week's theme over on Created By Hand and Quietfire Creations is "Sapphire"

Anyway to see more details and descriptions, just click on card image and enjoy.

And I'm using a Quietfire Design Xmas stamp.

And it fits for these challenges:
Digi Stamps 4 Joy  #26 Spring with handmade flower
Pennys Challenges  #61 Inspiration Image (See pic below)
YNS Challenges  #50 use a song for inspiration (Let it snow)
Cute Card Thursday  #180 use at least 1 punch (technically I used 3, although only 1 is visible)
Moving Along with the Times  #114 Handmade flower
Paper Play Challenges  Wk 35 Make your own flower
Trimmies Craft Challenge  #118 Sketch (see below)
Craft Your Days Away  #28 Make your own flower
Marks Finest Papers  #71 Bling
Cute Daisy May  Bling it
Stamptaculars Sunday Challenge  #127 Sky's the Limit (anything goes)

I tilted the sketch

MC July /11 - Metallic - Flower Sampler

I've been wanting to make a flower sampler for a while now and after finishing this one, realized I can make at least one more if not two... So this may become a series. Sheesh. Really like the way it turned out.

There are so many varieties of hand made flowers out there that it's hard to keep track of them. I make them, sometimes come up with twists and then go on to the next one and before I know it a couple months have gone by and I forgot all about the first one I made that I loved.... No more, now they'll be a gentle reminder on my wall. It will be framed in a black metal frame as soon as I get one this week.

And the theme this week over on Created By Hand and Quietfire Creations is Fireworks or Metallic - I guess i went with metallic, although originally I thought the fireworks word said flowers. Oh well, it manage to work out anyway. BIG GRIN.

Anyway to see details, descriptions etc, just click on image. Enjoy PS I also managed to sneak in a rubber stamp from Quietfire Design - one of the Quote Marks stamps that I love.

And it fits for these challenges:

Pile it on Challenge #26 circles (many of them are made with a circle punch or die)
Ooh La la #83 Summer Flowers
Shabby tea Room #68 use your favorite papers & embellishments (love Bazzill, rhinestones & brads)
TSG Clear Stamps #113 Use 3 different punches/dies (lots of dies on this one)
Anything Challenge #44 Something starting with letter "D" (Distress Inks)
Scrap Creations Anything but a card
Top Tip Tuesday #40 Something starting with letter "T" (texture, Tim Holtz stuff)
Wednesday Stamper Use at least 1 rubber stamp (the quote)
Digi Doodle Shops Best #65 Anything Goes
Do You Stack Up #26 Squares
Paper Play Challenge #26 Anything but a card
Shelly's Images Recycle/Reuse (Cola can and newsprint)
Trimmies Craft Challenge Gardening (well besides my real garden, this is how my other garden grows BIG GRIN)
Prairie Faerie Fridays #56 Swirls & Pearls
Totally Paper Crafts #72 Bingo (Punch/dies, emboss & ribbon; The only ones I didn't use were buttons & lace...Big Grin)
All Sorts Challenge #110 Anything Goes

Revolving Center cards

So had a wonderful play day with some friends. First got the serious stuff out of the way (auditing our Guilds financial stuff, then got into show and share and playing...

I've done revolving center cards before. I remember making a birthday card for my aunt eons ago. I'm so glad my friend re-introduced me to them today. So click on the card at left to see how we made the flower, which she also taught us today, and some closeups and more details etc.

Then I got a lesson on using Pen Score - moldable foam, something else I've had for eons, tried a couple times and then just left alone - didn't like it. I like it now BIG GRIN. The background for this card on the right was made using that material. It worked so well. Thanks Fran.

So you can click on the card to the right to see more details and descriptions for that card too.

PS both cards use the latest Quietfire Design rubber stamps. The one on the left uses "Invisible tears..." and the one on the right uses "How old would you be..." they also both are using a quote from the Friendship set.

Enjoy.

MC May 11 - Just Because

I got my new rubber from Quietfire Design last night, but it was too late to play with it other than cut the stamps from the sheet. There were over 20 stamps - sentiments like the 2 on the front of this card, and quotes like on the inside of the card. They're just gorgeous.

Anyway to see close ups and details/descriptions, just click on either card image. Enjoy