Canvas Flower

Now that the holidays are over, it's time to make lots of thank you cards for all the fabulous goodies I got for Christmas! Oops! I just realized that I missed the deadline (what a way to start the year off!), but I just had to participate in the ColourQ Challenge. Check out the gorgeous scarf and you'll see why...


Here are the DEEtails:

I love the simple pop of of color on the mannequin in the inspiration photo, so I wanted a simple card to go along. I started with some scraps of canvas and my Scallops 2 Bigz Die to make my flower. It was a bit tricky to get my flower to crinkle and stay crinkled, so I tucked some smaller crinkled circles between my layers of canvas to give the flower some body. Then I added this pretty brad from my stash. I tucked some "leaves", made using the wings from my Bird Punch in Old Olive. I added my sentiment in the corner from PTI's Signature Greetings, then tucked a crinkled Eyelet Border under one side of my Basic Black card stock. I adhered everything to my Basic Gray card using Stampin' Dimensionals. Hope you like it!

Soaring By To Say Hi

I can't believe it's 2011! Today is the first of the New Year's Cupcake Inspiration Challenges! I hope you'll play along with this week's inspiration image.

Here are the DEEtails for my card:

I started stamping some Martha Stewart butterflies on vellum and cut them out. I layered them onto a second stamped image on Real Red card stock and folded the wings a bit. Then I added some Rhinestone Jewels to the centers. I tied a Real Red satin bow to a piece of Basic Black card stock and added a vellum tag, made from a Decorative Label punch and a stamped sentiment from PTI's Everyday Button Bits.

Special DEElivery:

This card is for sale at my Etsy Shop.

Happy New House!

Happy New Year! I wanted to share a Christmas present that I made for my Sister-in-Law's husband. The couple moved into their first house this past summer. My husband's side of the family draws names among the siblings for the holidays and I picked Luke. I knew exactly what I wanted to make him. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a photo of the framed project, but here it is, right before going into the shadow box. And here's a photo of the actual house.

DEEtails:

All items are Stampin' Up!, unless otherwise noted and pieced together with various adhesives, including SNAIL Adhesive, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, and non SU! 3-dimensional adhesives (for various heights):

Brick - made from Cajun Craze, Dusty Durango, Really Rust, Creamy Caramel & Chocolate Chip cut into tiny rectangles and pieced together
Siding - made from layered strips of Sahara Sand
Windows - made with transparency paper (non SU!) framed with Whisper White
Shutters - made from strips of Cherry Cobbler
Roof - made from textured Basic Gray card stock, cut into rectangles and layered
Door - made with transparency paper (non SU!) framed with Whisper White, backed by Cherry Cobbler with a More Mustard handle
Light Fixture - made with More Mustard card stock and a Rhinestone Jewel
Column - made with a strip of Sahara Sand card stock
Gutter - made with a strip of Sahara Sand, scored and bent
Steps - made with Early Espresso card stock
Sky - Bordering Blue card stock, stamped with image from Branch Out in Early Espresso ink
Grass - textured Old Olive card stock