Happy Easter

Another entry for Art Impressions. One of my favorite ladies again.  This time she is celebrating Easter.  I used yellow striped design paper for my background.  I stamped the lady twice , once on whisper shite card stock and the second time on design paper.  I colored her with Stamping Up pens and then cut her out.  I cut her dress off the design paper and glued it to her .  I next put dementions on the back of her and put her on the card.  I used the same design paper for the eggs and placed them at random on the bottom of the card,  Inside I put "How do you want your eggs..scrambled or sugar coated?".  Another card to make. 

Hi again.  I made this card at Christmas this past year.  I love the stamp selection from Art Impressions.  This beautiful woman is dancing "like no one is watching" and having the time of her life. I am going to use this card in the Art Impression weekly contest.  I used standard card and attached a sheet of design paper to the front of the card leaving 1/8 of an inch on each side.  I stamped two trees on the design paper .  Next I stamped my dancing lady on to whisper white card stock and then ontgo this gray shiny paper.  I colored in my lady with the Stamping Up pens and then cut her out.  I cut out her dress from the gray paper and glued it to her.  I then placed dimentions on the back side and attached her to the card.  The banner was cut next and attached at the top.   Easy card tol make.

New Cards

I could not resist doing this picture on a card.  It reminds me of when we were kids .  I used a Stampin Up Easter stamp set.  I stamped the boy , girl and rabbit on whisper white card stock. I used wooden crayon pencils to color them in and mineral oil to smooth out the pencil lines.  I carefully cut them out .  I then used a piece of green card stock for my back ground and cut another piece of whisper white on top.  I then stamped the boy , girl and rabbit again on the new card stock.  I colored them in and then went on to draw in the background.  I used a porch similar to what ours looked like when I was a kid.  I drew the door , the porch, the boards , steps , pillars , window and grass.   Oh and the flower pot.  I next took the first set of boy, girl and rabbit , put stamping demensions behind them and stuck them over the pictures on the porch.  I glued the layers, green first and the drawn card on top.  I wrote my own message inside.  So draw your memories on your own card. 

I like sharing my blog.  I was trying to enter a contest "Challenge" with Art Impressions over the weekend but alas , I don't know all the tricks of connecting my blog to the entry site.  I guess I will try again next week.  Well to those girls in our Card group that are interested in my designs I will share a few today.  The stamp above comes from Art Impressions.  I love her.  She is a woman who is happy with herself and enjoys life.  To start I stamped her on Whisper white card stock and colored her with  Stamping Up pens .  I then cut her out carefully.  I placed her on the front of a card and proceeded to draw the area surrounding her.  It is a porch of sorts which is suppose to be along a bayou in South La. I guess it would be more of a dancing area since I included a sign for a dance.  I drew in a few cypress trees and some grass and of course "Charlie"  the alligator.  What place in South La. on a Bayou would not have its own personal alligator?!.  If you look carefully you will see that she is on the edge of the wharf extending from the porch.  I then put Stamping Dimensions on the back of my lady and placed her there on the wharf.  I added the words later "oops" and inside the card I wrote:  Sorry I forgot your birthday. Oh don't say you can't draw.  Everyone can draw.  So what if your tree does not look like mine.  How do you know there isn't a tree that looks exactly as you draw it.  You are an artist and what you draw is your creation.  Have fun.  Enjoy.   

Another "container" Money or gift card

 

So here we go for another "container".

I found an interesting design card stock which was bight and colorful.  The paper was 12" wide so

I I scored the card stock every 4 inches thus having two score marks.  I trimmed about 1/4 of an inch

from the back panel so the flap would fit on the inside of the card.  I then selected a "Girlfriend "

stamp set, (the 4 ladies proudly struting) and selected two of the ladies I wanted to use.  I covered the

remaining ladies with a piece of card stock and lightly pressed my ink pad over the remaining two

ladies.  I colored them in with the wooden crayon pencils and used mineral oil to smooth out the pencil strokes  .  I then cut them out and put it aside.  I cut a scalloped oval in the bright orange and flued the ladies in the center .  They overlapped a little which is what I wanted.  I used another punch to cut out a phrase rectangle and stamped the words "Lets Celebrate".  I then glued the big oval to the outside center of the card and the phrase at the top.  I used dimentions for the ladies.  On the inside of the card, I cut out a rectangle half the size of the card stock and then punched the half circle at the top.  I glued that along the edges and bottom and attached to the center bottom of the card.  Over it I cut out two scalloped ovals (spellbinders) and stamped Birthday wishes in the center and added a small butterfly beneath it.  To the inside left side of the card I added on of the "golden oldies" which I stamped on white card stock, added a skirt to her bathing suit and put designs similar to the card design coloring everything with wooden crayon pencils and again using the mineral spirits to smooth the crayon.  I then glued her to the card.   A quick gift idea when you don't know what to purchase for  someone.

A GIFT BAG FOR ANY OCCASION

A  gift bag is always a quick solution for a gift to someone.  If you don't have a box you create your own bag.  I like this idea as you can choose the paper to suit the person you are giving it to.  On this bag I took a smaller bag that I had handy and took it apart to use as a pattern.  I placed it on the selected paper and went to cut it when I realized the paper wasn't quite large enough.  Easy solution, I just folded over the side panels to half their size and put it back on the "crossword paper design" I had chosen.  I cut out the rectangle a bit taller than the actual bag.  I also left the overlap on the side seam to have enough to glue the edge.  After the piece was cut out I folded my paper the same as the bag.  I then glued the overlap to the side edge.  I then folded the bottom portion to form the bottom of the bag.  I cut a scalloped oval with the spellbinder(using a light shade of black) and put it aside.  I took one of my girldfiend stamps (ladies sharing coffee and cake) and stamped it onto Whisper white card stock from Stampin Up.  I made the table cloth have a checkered look like the crossword paper and then colored everything with wooden crayon pencils. I used mineral oil to smooth out the pencil marks .  I next cut out the ladies and glued Stampin Up deminsions  on the back and stuck it in the center of the black oval.  I glued the oval to the bag I had made.  I next typed out a greeting and printed it and added it over the oval.  I used medium gray tissue paper to fill the bag.  You may view the photos above.