PaperFections

Glittery Bird Holiday

A very happy Thanksgiving holiday to all my US friends out there! Since today officially begins the holiday season (can you believe it's here already?!!), I thought I'd share a holiday decoration I made for my home. You can find all the details on how to create this door hanger/wall hanging over at the CLASSroom today. While you are there, be sure to check out the post directly below mine, for a holiday treat for yourself! Ms. Ellen has a special store 3rd anniversary blog giveaway going on and you won't want to miss it! Also, you'll want to get some rest today so you can gear up for Ellen's Black Friday through Cyber Monday specials that begin at midnight PST TONIGHT!! You can read all about that sale and specials on the home page of the store! I hope you are enjoying the holiday with family and/or friends ... I am! And I'm truly thankful for each and every one of you who visit here! Happy Thanksgiving! Read more →

Wreath Angel Decor

Today in Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom I'll show you how to make this home decor for the holidays, I hope you'll join me! The holidays will be here before you know it, won't they?!! A few last minute reminders about some sales Ellen has going on at the store: Don't forget that the Spooky Savings sale is still in effect this week through the 31st ... 35% savings on in-stock Halloween items. And all Ranger items are also on sale until the end of this month -- 15% off! You can find all the details about both sales HERE on Ellen's home page. Read more →

Copic: Recently Reinked & Webster's Sneak

I thought every so often whenever it's time to reink some of my Copic markers, I'd let you all know what those colors are. That means these colors are some of my favorites that I use most often! I'll also add this information in a running list on my Copic Info Page, for easy future reference. So here's today's: Recently Reinked: W1, B41, BG11, BG72, YG03, YG91, YG93, YG95. And just a quick note to let you know I have a card posted over at Ellen Hutson's the CLASSroom today, using some of my highly-anticipated favorite, GORGEOUS, Webster's Pages new 6-inch papers ... I hope you'll join me there! Read more →

Write It On Your Heart

If you are looking for details on how to create my Webster's scrapbook page featured on Terri Conrad Designs blog, you can find the post here on my blog. And if you weren't coming here to look for that information, you'll want to visit Terri's blog to see and download the beautiful "Write it on your heart" journaling cards she's creating for you each day. Enjoy! Read more →

Pearly Butterfly Pair

It's a little difficult to see in this photo, but I tried out making my own "glimmer mist" from Perfect Pearls. I hope you'll join me today in Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom to see how I used it on these Summery cards and find out some other Fall color combos I came up with! Read more →

Scrapbook Art

"Beauty ... ... is not in the face. It is a light in the heart. I will let my light shine." Isn't that a beautiful quote on this lovely Webster's Pages paper, designed by Terri Conrad? I thought it fit nicely with this photo of my youngest ... a totally unsolicited pose she struck for me while on vacation earlier this month! It was so adorable, I had to make it into a piece of scrapbook art. Please join me today over at the CLASSroom and I'll share how I made this page. Read more →

JustRite + Inks and Terri Conrad

I wanted to share another JustRite project with you today. This card also uses one of the Winter CHA 2009 new release products that is now available -- the beautiful Trompe Script Lowercase Font! I used it in combination with the upppercase "E" from the Trompe Script Uppercase Font, on the smaller of the Harmony Rectangle Stamper Set. My card is 5.50" square and uses this week's CPS 110 sketch -- I let the design of the patterned paper carry out the flourish element on the left side of the sketch. May Arts taffeta ribbon is from one of Jody Morrow's ribbon shares. Spellbinders Tags 5 was used to die cut the tag. It's popped up on dimensional foam tape. Tonic Edge Distresser and machine stitching completed the card. Ink and paper details follow below . . . I recently had a question asked about the best types of inks to use with JustRite products, so I thought I would share that information with all of you, too. For any products you previously owned before this release, I've found that chalk inks work best in covering most of the JustRite larger surface images (including larger fonts) better than dye-based inks.... Read more →

Webster's Cupcake

I have another project featuring Webster's Pages' beautiful Journaling Cards over at the CLASSroom today ... I hope you'll stop by to see how I made this cupcake birthday card! Read more →

Red Fruit Copic Coloring Tutorial

Here's that Copic fruit coloring tutorial I promised, on how to color the red fruits on THIS card -- all stamps are from Lockhart Stamp Company (Strawberries #2067, Apples in Chintz Bowl #2054, and Cherries in Colander #2077) and were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Neenah Solar White cardstock. Since I would only be using a portion of these images for Inchies on the card, that's why you'll see a square box penciled over the stamped images. Some of the fruits outside of the boxes I tested for different colors, so that's why they may vary from the fruits/colors inside the boxes. All of the fruits used these Copic Sketch markerrs. The strange looking YR31 on the lower right end is a custom color, mixed with about one-third YR31 and two-thirds Colorless Blender fluid, to make a lighter YR31 shade. You can do this by filling an empty sketch marker, which are usually available for sale at most retailers that carry Copic products. Remember, for best shading results use at least two, if not three, different shades in the same color family: You can see a closer view of any of these photos, by clicking on them. STRAWBERRIES... Read more →

WSC73 and Dirty Dozen Challenge

This week, Cami is hosting the Weekend Sketch Challenge -- you can find the sketch and her sample on her blog, linked above. I also combined this challenge with the monthly SplitcoastStampers.com Dirty Dozen Design Team/Alumni challenge -- to remake one of your oldest cards, changing at least three elements! I just so happened to have used this same layout on a card that I posted within my first two months as a Splitcoast member (October 2004) ... here it is (please be gentle!): The full details about the above card can be found at my Splitcoast upload HERE. And here's my remake of the card today (and sample for Cami's sketch): This card makes me smile, on the first day of Spring! I changed the stamps, ribbon ties at the tops of the squares, and the colors/cardstock to patterned vellum. I thought it was funny I was working with Inchies, even over four years ago! My Inchies today, are mounted on the lovely museum-quality matboard White Inchie Squares by Inchie Arts. Karen Lockhart's fruit images were a perfect fit with these gorgeous new Webster's Pages Designer Vellum cards. I used Lockhart's Strawberries #2067, Apples in Chintz Bowl #2054, and... Read more →

WSC72-April Showers

Since I was a little too late to try and get a March calendar made, I figured I would skip ahead to April! This is my usual 6-inch square calendar page that hangs in THIS stand. Jenn is hosting this week's Weekend Sketch Challenge -- you can find the sketch and her sample at her blog this morning. As soon as I saw the layout, I thought it would be perfect for my calendar! I used a Webster's Pages' Mini Calendar Journaling Cards and stamped the dates with JustRite's Medium & Large Numbers made for the C-45 Monogram Stamper, but on the new little 1-3/16" Wood Stamper that will be available next month. The other layered papers are from Making Memories Chloe's Closet 6-inch designer papers and spiral journaling book (found at Michael's). The chipboard letters are Maya Road's Noah alphabet - I just colored them with the same Night Sky chalk ink and then sprinkled them with transparent glitter while the ink was still wet. The new Lockhart Itty Bitty Umbrella was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Neenah Classic Cream cardstock and punched out with Martha Stewart's supposedly 1-inch scalloped punch -- it's actually 7/8 of an... Read more →

Lemon Pound Cake Recipe

Here's that good old fashioned Lemon Pound Cake recipe I promised you! Of course, the perfect accent for this 4" x 6" recipe card was Karen Lockhart's Lemons & Bay. I stamped the image with Memento Rich Cocoa onto Neenah Natural White cardstock and then left some of the bay leaves sticking "outside the box" when I trimmed around the 1-inch square image: The image was mounted to an Inchie Arts White Inchie Square and then colored with these Copic markers and that lovely new Sand Copic Spica Glitter Pen that will be coming next month: The soft, pretty paper I used is from Webster's Pages Feather Your Nest collection. I cut out one of the butterflies from this sheet and placed him at the top of the card: I printed the recipe onto Neenah cardstock and then trimmed it to approximately 3.25" x 4.75". The recipe is continued on the reverse side and there's also a lemon glaze included. Here's the copy and paste version for you: Golden Lemon Pound Cake from Sharon Harnist 2 C. sugar 1 C. butter, softened 4 eggs 3 C. All Purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt... Read more →

CPS104-Singing Inchie Birds

I used CPS#104 sketch for this card's layout. Selecting paper to fit the sketch was easy -- this pretty pattern is one sheet from Webster's Hello Beautiful Journaling Cards. They are sized 4.75" x 5.50" which makes for a neat sized card, I think -- it will fit in a 5.50" or 6" square envelope. Karen Lockhart's sweet little Itty Bitty Birds seemed perfect for this "Sing and make music in your heart" sentiment on the paper. I stamped them with Memento Rich Coco ink onto some plain tan colored Webster's paper and colored them with Copic markers R20, R39, BG10, BG13, E00 & E13. I punched them out with a 1-inch square punch and mounted them onto an Inchie Arts White Inchie Square -- this gives the focal point prominence on the card and gives it nice dimension. The burgundy dotted paper is more from Webster's regular Hello Beautiful collection. For the lower right horizontal element to the sketch, I just cut a slit in the paper and tied my favorite cream silk ribbon around the heart in the patterned paper. Card base is Prism Razzleberry Dark. Supplies: Lockhart stamps, Memento ink, Copic markers, Inchie products available from Ellen... Read more →

Stitched Together With Love

Here's a recent 12" heritage scrapbook page I made, using Webster's Pages Hello Beautiful patterned papers -- this is my husband's Dad and my Mom (our childrens' only living grandparents). I used JustRite Stampers' Special Occasions & Times New Roman papercrafting fonts for the "Family" title. The letters were inked with ColorBox Warm Red and Dark Brown fluid chalk inks. I cut and bended the title into a banner shape and faux stitched the straight edge, adding some tied buttons: The "Stitched Together With Love" title blocks were made to resemble a quilt, by using Spellbinders Classic Square Nestabilities to cut out some patterned paper. I then custom made the "Stitched" and "Together" by using JustRite's Special Occasions & Times New Roman papercrafting fonts again. The "With Love" is a center from JustRite's Harmony Classic Circle Stamper II Stamp Ensemble. I faux stitched around each square, and then matted each square with Spellbinders' new Inverted Scalloped Square Nestabilities (available sometime in March). I printed the photo in sepia tones and matted it with a cut of the new 12" Grand Classic Lace Border I previewed in Spellbinders new CHA release of dies. The Tags Trio was stamped with JustRite's Times... Read more →

Unity Meets Webster's Via CPS!

At CHA last month, I finally had the chance to meet most of the Unity Stamp Company team and thanks to their kind generosity, came home with a few of their darling stamp sets that I'd been wanting to try. I chose to use this sweet bird from the Hey Chick! set and combined it with some of my favorite Webster's Pages paper. This week's CPS#102 made it all happen (I flipped the sketch just a little)! I stamped the bird, using Unity's fabulous & unique acrylic/wood mounting system, with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto Neenah Classic Natural White cardstock and colored her with Copic markers BG13, R39 & YG95, to match colors in the patterned papers. Clear Copic Spica glitter pen highlights all the red coloring on the bird. I loved the feel of the wood handle on Unity's acrylic block! I made a frame with the Cuttlebug Concentric Hearts die, placed it over my colored bird and machine stitched the two layers together. A sparkly blue button accents this focal piece. It is popped up over a layer of Webster's Pages Hello Beautiful (Love Note) paper that was cut with pinking scissors and matted with Prism Rose Dark... Read more →