Papercraft Star Challenge 9 - Photo Inspiration

This week at Papercraft Star the designers were asked to use this picture for inspiration



The hot air balloons caught me right off the bat and looking at them I remember growing up and seeing a balloon in the sky and thought what would it be like to be up there and could just dream of flying high in the sky. And that was how this card developed.



I created the balloon using my gypsy of course. Cause can you believe I don't have a cartridge with a hot air balloon ... well not yet at least ;o). I used my trust old George and basic shapes and walk in my garden for the basket (but that could easily be changed with another shape). And lots and lots and lots of glitter. Gotta love the glitter!!!! The inside reads: "Everyday is another chance to make your Dreams come true."

I hope you will join us this week at Papercraft Star and submit your project for the challenge.

Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
* White Stack
DCWV
* Spring Stack
* Glitter Boarder Punch Stack
* Shimmer stack
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes
* Walk in my garden
Fiskar Texture Plate - basket weave (embossing on basket)
Pop Dots
Martha Stewart Glitter Essential Colors set
Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly Punch
Stamps:
* Studio G Stamp - Dream
* Stampendous Cling day dreams - inside quote

Papercraft Star Challenge 7 - Picture Inspiration

This week the Papercraft Star design team was asked to come up with a project using this picture as our inspiration.

Everytime I looked at this picture the stripes just kept screaming my name. No matter how hard I tried to find other inspiration in the picture the stripes won out. So settling on the stripes I realized I had the perfect paper for this Challenge. I made this entire card using one cricut cartridge .... Yep you guessed it my favorite basic shapes cartridge. GEORGE AND BASIC SHAPES. :o) So without further ado here's my card for this week



Supplies used:
Cardstock:
Recollections (Michael's brand paper)
* White Stack
American Crafts
* Amplified Rockabilly (open stock at M's)
* Striped paper
* Blue Paper
* Rassberry paper
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes - card base, color squares, colored overlays
* Alphalicious - i miss you
Pop Dots
Ribbon - "Special value ribbon"(Michael's $1 Bin Ribbon)
Martha Stewart Button Punch

Papercraft Star Challenge 3

This week over at Papercraft Star the designers were asked to create something using the following sketch

Since I was working on this card July 4th weekend why not keep with the spirit of the holiday (hope you all had a wonderful safe and happy holiday). I decided to make another 4th of July card.





To make the card base I used Vellum and Alcohol Inks. I used Sail Boat Blue and Watermelon. To make it just drop a few drops of one color and move the paper around so it spreads. Then add a few drops of the other color again moving the paper so the drops spread. Continue doing this to get the desired effect that you are looking for.

Supplies used:
Vellum
Cardstock:
White, Blue, Red (any brand will work, just used scraps for this card)
AC Specialty Paper - Foil
* Silver
Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks (Sail Boat Blue and Watermelon)
Martha Stewart Glitter:
Crystal (on the white squares)
Garnet (on the red heart)
Martha Stewart Tinsel
Garnet (on the red squares)
Martha Stewart Metallic Glass Microbeads
Lapis (on the blue squares)
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* George and Basic Shapes - for the card base and squares
* Independence Day- for the "4th of July" and the "I {heart} USA"

Happy Birthday Easel

So I wanted to make an easel card. But of course I had to make it with the cricut. Soooooo I created a cut file using the Cricut Design Studio. This is the first easel card I made (please excuse the paper clip it didn't want to sit on the easel LOL)





Heart - Lovestruck
Flowers - PSB
Squares - GBS
Card base - GBS made in DS
Butterfly - MS punch punched twice (top layer vellum colored in alcohol ink)
Butterfly border - MS PATP
Birthday wishes - Studio G stamp
Swirls and Asian Bundle for the embossing.

Some of the flowers are on pop dots

Butterfly Birthday

I have been making sooooo many birthday cards lately. It will be nice to start something new next week for my scrappy/crafty vacation weekend. But in the mean time here is a birthday card I made for one of my dear friends (Hi Rach!!!!!).



Close up of tag


Another view


Card base was made in DS using GBS and Graphically Speaking (GS)
Butterflies were made with the MS monarch butterfly punch. The top layer is vellum colored with alcohol ink (something I really love to do lately). LOL
Ribbon is from M's
and the Birthday tag is cut from my nesties Labels 9 and the stamp is from Stampendous.

Enjoy!

Congrats

My sister asked me to make a congrats/retirement card for someone at her company so this is what I came up with



Another view


Card "receipe"
Card base is a clear acetate card. For the card base I use overhead projector transperancy sheets (which you can get at any office supply store).
Patterned paper DCWV
Glitter is MS
Stamp is a studio g $1.00 stamp
Flower petals cut on the cricut
MS border punch

Bunny Card

Here is a cute bunny card I made from a stamp and using the MCPT technique. The scallopes were made with my nesties in the cuttlebug and the Martha Stewart Loop punch.

Photography meets Paper Crafting

Since both of my hobbies are paper crafting and photography I thought paper crafting could meet photography. Yes we need pictures to scrapbook but why can't my pictures be used in cards? Well they can. I made some cards using pictures that I took for my photography class.

This is the photograph:



Here is the card (valentine's day card):



Another card I did using a photograph and Martha Stewart Leaf punch is this great fall card.



Here is the orignal picture:

It's amazing what you can come up with when you think "outside of the box". Well hope you enjoyed these two cards. I'll have more to post hopefully tomorrow! Have a great night. :o)