For:
Unscripted Sketches: sketch
Crafting For All Seasons: fall colours
Scrapbook Sisters: leaves
Do You Stack Up: swirls
The Play Date Cafe: wine, smudge, leather parchment
Paper Sundaes: anything goes
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Give Thanks
Disclaimer: No stamps were harmed in the making of this card.
For:
Unscripted Sketches: sketch
Crafting For All Seasons: fall colours
Scrapbook Sisters: leaves
Do You Stack Up: swirls
The Play Date Cafe: wine, smudge, leather parchment
Paper Sundaes: anything goes
For:
Unscripted Sketches: sketch
Crafting For All Seasons: fall colours
Scrapbook Sisters: leaves
Do You Stack Up: swirls
The Play Date Cafe: wine, smudge, leather parchment
Paper Sundaes: anything goes
First Hallowe'en Card
Of this year, that is.
For:
One Stitch At A Time: favourites - Gotta be my digis.
Lollipop Crafts: anything goes
Hiding In My Craft Room: Hallowe'en card
Simon Says Stamp: anything goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges: anything goes
Little Darlings: Hallowe'en
Digi Stamps 4 Joy: anything goes
Paper-Crafting Journey: die cuts and/or punches
Moving Along With The Times: spooky Hallowe'en
Art Impression Stamps: Hallowe'en
4 Crafty Chicks: anything goes
For:
One Stitch At A Time: favourites - Gotta be my digis.
Lollipop Crafts: anything goes
Hiding In My Craft Room: Hallowe'en card
Simon Says Stamp: anything goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges: anything goes
Little Darlings: Hallowe'en
Digi Stamps 4 Joy: anything goes
Paper-Crafting Journey: die cuts and/or punches
Moving Along With The Times: spooky Hallowe'en
Art Impression Stamps: Hallowe'en
4 Crafty Chicks: anything goes
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Shaker Card
Sub-Titled: Whose Bright Idea Was It To Make A Shaker Card Anyway?
Hmmmm....I guess that would be me. So the story.....(at this point feel free to either get comfortable while I expound or skip the blather and scroll down to the card).
For awhile now I'd been thinking about giving a shaker card a try. Then I saw this card and I practically started salivating. I wanted to make a card exactly like it. Problem was I had no pumpkin nesties, no acetate and no foam tape so really, no means to make a shaker card.
The next couple times I was out shopping I bought some acetate and some foam tape. So, I had the basics. Yesterday I had some free time (Well, not really "free" time, more like time I didn't want to spend doing something "productive.") so I decided to get started.
But still no pumpkin nesties. Now, I didn't really want to make a shaker card with a digi on the inside, kinda like a snowglobe idea, I wanted to make a card almost exactly like the one I'd been inspired by. Lacking any sort of nesties that would work meant I had to turn on THE CRICUT. (dun, dun, dunnnn)
I have alove/hate relationship with my THE CRICUT. (dun, dun, dunnnn) I don't know about your Cricut but mine is slightly evil (as I quickly glance to my right to make sure it's not watching me type this). Scanning my meager selection of cartridges I noticed that the Plantin cartridge had an apple. Great, that'll do.
I turned on THE CRICUT. (dun, dun, dunnnn) As usual, it growled it's menacing growl at me for interrupting its slumber. Now, to make a shaker card, you need a frame. So, I set about making an apple frame. Aye-yie-yie, total failure. I figured that if you cut an apple at 5" then cut an apple from the same spot at 4.25" you'd have an apple inside an apple. Nope, not even close. THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) gobbled up two pieces of cardstock with relish (and I mean with gusto not the condiment) while I tried in vain to make an apple frame.
Determined not to be beaten so early in the game, I took one of the intact 5" apples and one of the intact 4.25" apples, taped them together, and on my second try, managed to painstakingly cut around the smaller apple with a craft knife to make an apple frame. Ta-da! I turned and chortled at THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) and then quickly hit the power button before it could retaliate.
But, as you know dear reader, that was a mistake. I still needed the beast. When I powered it back up I swear its growl was a little more menacing than usual. I fed it the patterned paper. It actually went off without a hitch. Then came the acetate. THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) balked. Even with the blade on 6 and the pressure on Max all I got was an apple shape outline carved into the acetate. Fine, I could deal with that. Out came the scissors and I trimmed it out.
Next I glued the now very fingerprinty piece of acetate to the apple frame. A bit of glue squished out of the frame onto the acetate but by this time I wasn't going to sweat it though normally I'd be peeved. Grab the foam tape......and discover that the tape is too wide for the frame. Grrrrr. Yes, at this point I realized that I should most definitely have made the frame wider. Well, there was no way I was going through all that again so that meant cutting the foam tape in half. What fun that was.
Okay, foam tape on, microbeads poured onto acetate and ready to put the patterned paper on the back. I touched the patterned paper to the tape, decided to adjust it a bit and pulled it off, which caused 47 microbeads to bounce up off the acetate and onto the foam tape. I uttered aloud, "You've got to be kidding me."
After a lot of muttering, more than one swear word and a sore back from hunching, I managed to carefully scrape all the microbeads off the tape. I slammed (well, not literally, but metaphorically, fer sure) the patterned paper on the back. And there I had it, one apple shaker.
Now, I could go on about this card to talk about how I discovered that the apple had a leak and was losing microbeads (which I plugged with some more foam tape) or how I decided that the apple should really have been rounder and smaller and how I actually considered making another one or how I had planned on it to be a very fun looking card but it ended up going through a whole bunches of makeovers (about 5 I'm thinking) but at this point even I'm getting bored with this post so I can only image how many times you've thought, "For the love of Mrs. Marshall's tarts [yeah, I know you don't know who that is but I just had one (okay, two) of her tarts about an hour ago and they are thee best tarts in the universe and I love them so much that I would marry them if I could, seriously) would you show the gosh-darn (feel free to insert the expletive of your choice of gosh-darn just doesn't do it for you) card already!"
Wow, that last paragraph was pretty wacky, even for me. It's possible I'm a bit tart-drunk. I am a bit of a light-weight.
So, finally here is the card.
Just so you know, it looks a lot cooler in real life. Plus, you get that added sensory bonus of the whole shaking part as well.
So now I can cross "shaker card" off my bucket list. Not that I have a bucket list. And if I did, yeah like I'd put something something like "make shaker card" on it. Okay, yes, I probably would. But it would definitely be below "eat more of Mrs. Marshall's tarts."
For:
Fussy and Fancy: try a new technique
Lily Pad: bling
Gingerloft: distressed
Pile It On: fall colours
The Squirrel & The Fox: anything goes
Aly's Sunday Challenge: add a bow
Incy Wincy: distressing
Kaboodle Doodles: lots of layers
The Kraft Journal: fall + kraft cardstock
Tuesday Throwdown: fall
Scrap-Creations: anything goes
Anything Goes: anything goes
Crafting For All Seasons: fall colours
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: fall
Scrapbook Sisters: autumn colours
365 Cards: Day 207 - Sweet Treats Masculine Style (Hmmmm.....is it pushing it to say an apple is a "treat"?)
Southern Girls: anything goes
Delightful Challenges: Happy Fall y'all
Do You Stack Up?: duo - bows, gems and an even number of microbeads, yep I counted *snicker*
4 Crafty Chicks: fall
Hmmmm....I guess that would be me. So the story.....(at this point feel free to either get comfortable while I expound or skip the blather and scroll down to the card).
For awhile now I'd been thinking about giving a shaker card a try. Then I saw this card and I practically started salivating. I wanted to make a card exactly like it. Problem was I had no pumpkin nesties, no acetate and no foam tape so really, no means to make a shaker card.
The next couple times I was out shopping I bought some acetate and some foam tape. So, I had the basics. Yesterday I had some free time (Well, not really "free" time, more like time I didn't want to spend doing something "productive.") so I decided to get started.
But still no pumpkin nesties. Now, I didn't really want to make a shaker card with a digi on the inside, kinda like a snowglobe idea, I wanted to make a card almost exactly like the one I'd been inspired by. Lacking any sort of nesties that would work meant I had to turn on THE CRICUT. (dun, dun, dunnnn)
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I turned on THE CRICUT. (dun, dun, dunnnn) As usual, it growled it's menacing growl at me for interrupting its slumber. Now, to make a shaker card, you need a frame. So, I set about making an apple frame. Aye-yie-yie, total failure. I figured that if you cut an apple at 5" then cut an apple from the same spot at 4.25" you'd have an apple inside an apple. Nope, not even close. THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) gobbled up two pieces of cardstock with relish (and I mean with gusto not the condiment) while I tried in vain to make an apple frame.
Determined not to be beaten so early in the game, I took one of the intact 5" apples and one of the intact 4.25" apples, taped them together, and on my second try, managed to painstakingly cut around the smaller apple with a craft knife to make an apple frame. Ta-da! I turned and chortled at THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) and then quickly hit the power button before it could retaliate.
But, as you know dear reader, that was a mistake. I still needed the beast. When I powered it back up I swear its growl was a little more menacing than usual. I fed it the patterned paper. It actually went off without a hitch. Then came the acetate. THE CRICUT (dun, dun, dunnnn) balked. Even with the blade on 6 and the pressure on Max all I got was an apple shape outline carved into the acetate. Fine, I could deal with that. Out came the scissors and I trimmed it out.
Next I glued the now very fingerprinty piece of acetate to the apple frame. A bit of glue squished out of the frame onto the acetate but by this time I wasn't going to sweat it though normally I'd be peeved. Grab the foam tape......and discover that the tape is too wide for the frame. Grrrrr. Yes, at this point I realized that I should most definitely have made the frame wider. Well, there was no way I was going through all that again so that meant cutting the foam tape in half. What fun that was.
Okay, foam tape on, microbeads poured onto acetate and ready to put the patterned paper on the back. I touched the patterned paper to the tape, decided to adjust it a bit and pulled it off, which caused 47 microbeads to bounce up off the acetate and onto the foam tape. I uttered aloud, "You've got to be kidding me."
After a lot of muttering, more than one swear word and a sore back from hunching, I managed to carefully scrape all the microbeads off the tape. I slammed (well, not literally, but metaphorically, fer sure) the patterned paper on the back. And there I had it, one apple shaker.
Now, I could go on about this card to talk about how I discovered that the apple had a leak and was losing microbeads (which I plugged with some more foam tape) or how I decided that the apple should really have been rounder and smaller and how I actually considered making another one or how I had planned on it to be a very fun looking card but it ended up going through a whole bunches of makeovers (about 5 I'm thinking) but at this point even I'm getting bored with this post so I can only image how many times you've thought, "For the love of Mrs. Marshall's tarts [yeah, I know you don't know who that is but I just had one (okay, two) of her tarts about an hour ago and they are thee best tarts in the universe and I love them so much that I would marry them if I could, seriously) would you show the gosh-darn (feel free to insert the expletive of your choice of gosh-darn just doesn't do it for you) card already!"
Wow, that last paragraph was pretty wacky, even for me. It's possible I'm a bit tart-drunk. I am a bit of a light-weight.
So, finally here is the card.
Just so you know, it looks a lot cooler in real life. Plus, you get that added sensory bonus of the whole shaking part as well.
So now I can cross "shaker card" off my bucket list. Not that I have a bucket list. And if I did, yeah like I'd put something something like "make shaker card" on it. Okay, yes, I probably would. But it would definitely be below "eat more of Mrs. Marshall's tarts."
For:
Fussy and Fancy: try a new technique
Lily Pad: bling
Gingerloft: distressed
Pile It On: fall colours
The Squirrel & The Fox: anything goes
Aly's Sunday Challenge: add a bow
Incy Wincy: distressing
Kaboodle Doodles: lots of layers
The Kraft Journal: fall + kraft cardstock
Tuesday Throwdown: fall
Scrap-Creations: anything goes
Anything Goes: anything goes
Crafting For All Seasons: fall colours
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: fall
Scrapbook Sisters: autumn colours
365 Cards: Day 207 - Sweet Treats Masculine Style (Hmmmm.....is it pushing it to say an apple is a "treat"?)
Southern Girls: anything goes
Delightful Challenges: Happy Fall y'all
Do You Stack Up?: duo - bows, gems and an even number of microbeads, yep I counted *snicker*
4 Crafty Chicks: fall