The Open Sea Card

This is a card that I Cased from Teneal blog.  I used Early Espresso, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla card stock/ink.  I also used my paper piercer and The Open Seas and Perfectly Penned sets.

Graduation

Last weekend my son, Luke, and my daughter, Sierra both graduated from Crossroads College!  Luke will go on to get his Masters and Sierra will continue to get her Bachelors.

This card was made using there large and small star punches, silver, basic black, and whisper white card stock, basic black ink, glue dots, a star embossing folder, and the zig zag border die.

Spring Robin Card

This is the card that I made for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge and the Color Throwdown Challenge. I used the colors shown above, Neutral Designer Paper, Neutral Brads, the Owl Punch, Circle Punches, the Scalloped Border Punch, and the Bird Punch. I also used the dot embossing folder in the Big Shot, and I added Bashful Blue ink and Card Stock.

Wednesday "Belli Challenge" - New Set

Chris's Wednesday "Belli Challenge" - Scraps

This week's "Belli Challenge" on www.chrissyd723.blogspot.com is scraps - what do you do with all of your left overs?  I learned this technique on the Stampin' Up cruise that I just got back from and this gave me a good excuse to try it. First you lay all of your little scraps of card-stock on the sticky side of sticker paper the you can just get at a office supply store.  Then you sprinkle embossing powder over the top and shake off the excess.  The embossing powder will stick to the sticky part of the sticker paper.  I found that the metallic embossing powder worked a lot better than the non-metallic.  Then you heat it with your embossing tool.  I used Not Quite Navy Card-stock and Ink, Blue Bayou Card-stock, Soft Sky Card-stock, Silver Embossing Powder and Brads, Phrases for a Fried Stamp Set (From the Occasions Mini Catalog) and White Taffeta Ribbon.  To see more great ideas for using scraps, go to Chris's web-site.

Chris's Wednesday "Belli Challenge" - Scraps

Since I had scraps from doing my Dahlia Fold Bag, I used the extra to make this card.  I used the 1-3/8 circle punch, Tempting Turquoise Ink, Card-stock & Grosgrain Ribbon, It's Beautiful jumbo Wheel, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Bali Breeze Designer Paper, Whisper White Card-stock, River rock Card-stock, and Ice Rhinestone Brads.  The tutorial of how to do the Dahlia Fold is on www.splitcoaststampers.com

Dahlia Fold Bag

This gift bag is made using the Dahlia Fold Technique.  I wanted to try making it and decided for my first try to use larger circles to fold.  It was really easy to do.  The tutorial on how to fold this is on www.splitcoaststampers.com .  I used Tempting Turquoise Card-stock, Ink & Grosgrain Ribbon,  a White Gift Bag, Clear Button, Bali Breeze Designer Paper, a Corner Rounder, and the It's Beautiful Jumbo Wheel.

Accents and Elements Mini Photo Album - outside

This is the Accents and Elements tin that comes full of self-adhesive die cut flowers.  We made this tin to hold cards at the last convention.  I decided to make it into an accordion album instead.  I used the Accents & Elements, Build-a-brad, Chocolate Chip Card-stock, Blue Bayou Designer Paper, Wid Wasabi Card-stock, Wild Wasabi Ink, Ticker Tape Alphabet, and Monogram Alphabet Lower.

Accents and Elements Mini Photo Album - inside

This is the inside of the album before it unfolds.

Accents and Elements Mini Photo Album - inside

This is one side of the inside of the Photo Album.  I still have to add the pictures.

Accents and Elements Mini Photo Album - inside