Halloween Card - Haunted House

Here is another Halloween card I made at the expo. Again the Image is a sticker that I matted and cut out. Hope you like it :-)

Halloween Card- Frankenstein

Here are the cards I made at the Scrapbook Expo. As my Bday card post explains, I had planned to do other stuff but ended up Going shopping for the paper and stickers at the expo and making cards. The main image is a sticker I matted and then cut out by hand.

Happy Birthday Card for my Grandma

So my friend and I went to the Scrapbook Expo in Ontario on Oct 22nd. We took the day off and spent the WHOLE day and NIGHT shopping and being creative. I brought some scrapbooking to do but forgot my already started albums and I have to follow a theme so I ended up making cards. This card I made for my Grandma's 87th birthday. I bought the paper and the cupcake sticker from the expo. I'm really trying to go outside my box and use more then 2 patterns and types of paper on a card. I really liked the way these worked together. My only flaw on this card was that when I sprayed the glimmer mist we bought, it must of had a chunk stuck cause I ended up with blotches of gold glitter spray and of course its on the brown where you can see lol I do like the card a lot though.

Boss's Day Card with Matching Envelope

I was hired to make this card for Boss's day. I used Stampin Up Happy Birthday paper and Stickers (the b) and CTMH stamps in Playful Upper and Lowercase letters. I was really happy with the way it turned out. It was quite late when I took the picture and I didn't have time to take one in the morning so I'm so for the horrible picture of the inside but you get the idea. It was one heavy card :-) The envelope I made with the Martha Stewart score board. Even my 6 yr old DD used it. Hope you like it!

Birthday Card

This was yet another co-worker card. This one however was for a co-worker I consider a friend as well. She LOVES bling and TOLD me to make sure her card was blingie (is that a word? lol) I used stickles on the paper and over the stamped sentiments. I also used my new iRock (I had to buy 2 the first one didn't work) and added the silver to it. Her name is Susan and her last name starts with a D. After my "Guido Party" I call her Susie D and I'm G Dizzle (I know I'm silly) So this really is a fun card more then anything. Oh and she loved it!!

Pink Flower Card

I made this just cause I liked the paper. It's doesn't have a sentiment on it yet, I figured I could use it when I had a need for a card :-)

Baby Card

So I have a friend that is expecting and I wanted to make a congrats on your pregnancy card for her. I used the Nursery Tails Imagine cart. I have to say that I was very pleased how it came out. UPDATE: She is having Twins! I told her I have to make her another card. One for each baby :-)

Anniversary card using my new Imagine Machine

This was my first project with my Imagine machine. I made it for my husband for our 5th wedding anniversary.

Birthday card for my Boss

 Here is another card for my Other boss I made for us to sign. Again it was a quick one I made on my lunch break.

Hello Kitty

This was another request from a co worker for a birthday card for a hello kitty lover. Added lots of bling!

Apple box (Bus)

I bought my kids apples at Target. They came in this cute school bus box. Well one day we were at home as my daughter was getting over the stomach virus and I decided to craft with her to get her mind off it. "It worked!" :-) she wanted to make the people in the windows so we got out Everyday paper dolls cricut cart, my peachy keen stamps and this was our little creation! I think it came out great. She keeps it on her desk in her room.

Single card invitation

I was asked to make a single invitation for someone to ask a girl out. Here is the card he gave her. It was my first time making a scroll but I had a vision and went with it.

Jury Duty - How I got through my day :-)

I got called on Jury Duty one day and decided to bring my copics with me. It was funny cause I had a few people watching me. This is what I colored. Haven't had time to make it into a card yet :-)

Birthday Card

I made this quick and simple bday card for my boss on my lunch break. I used the SU happy birthday paper and sticker set. Hope you like it.

My 30th B-day invites

I finally got these done! I'm so excited!!!! We are having a "Guido/Guidette" Party for my 30th. I wanted the invites to be fun and kinda with a bachlorette party invite feel to them. Here is what I came up with. The crown is from Indie Art, the 30 is from Hannah Montana and I welded it to make the assembly easier. I wrote the poem and the lips are clip art.

Happy Birthday Card

So this card I made for a co-worker, however, the stamped image was colored in during my copic certification class. The teached said I had good blending. I also learned how to do the glow (blue) in the background using the colorless blender pen and saturating the paper. I also learned that using a dark grey instead of black looks much better (ladybug spots)

Finally the Wedding stuff I made :-)

I gifted these to my husband's niece for her wedding. I made I think 60-75 save the dates and just about 60 invites 2 of which I made in spanish :-) The stamp is from the Stampin Up wedding collection.

This is the front of the invite when it was closed. The ribbon/paper you just slide down to open. The WHITE or main part of the invite was one of those boxed wedding invite sets from Michaels. It was boring so I used only the main part of it and added their wedding colors. The yellow and green paper is also SU. Ribbon is from Michaels.

This is the whole set together and open. I was VERY happy with how it turned out! :-) In the pocket is a separate reception card as well as a response card.

This is the matching votive candles I made for the tables. I think I made 70 ish of these too! The stamp and punch is SU and I measured and printed their names on paper before I stamped and printed them.

(PS This pic I took with my new iphone 4! Doesn't it take awesome picture? lol)

Baby Shower Invitations

July and August have turned into very busy months for me with weddings and birthday parties and a baby shower. I'm hosting a baby shower for my good friend in August. I found great decorations at Oriental Trading.com and created the invite to match. Hope you like it :-) I used New Arrival for the girl, an embossing folder for the background and of course had to add some bling. When creating the poem for the inside, I wanted to incorporate her other kids as well so I made it fun and added each one of them so they too feel special.

You can see the decorations here...

Copic Ciao's

So after my certification class I came home with samples of the sketch markers and my husband and I talked about the difference. I told him that I can keep my Ciaos and add the other colors in Sketch. Well he told me to sell my ciaos and get the set of all sketch so if you are interested in my 5 month old Ciaos, please let me know. I have all 144 colors with cases.

It's official.... I'm a certified Copic designer!

So I wanted to update everyone on how my class went. It was in Riverside so it took me about an hour to get there. There were a total of about 20 ladies, mostly store owners and shop workers. I learned a few new techniques like tip to tip blending, how the blender pen REALLY works, the airbrush system, how to feather (which I was actually already doing but didn't know what it was called :-) How to put a shadow or highlight behind an image and also how to use the blender solution to create cool textures with different fabric etc. All in all I learned a lot and was also told I did good work which makes me feel great! I'm going to keep coloring and I look forward to making videos in the future with some of the techniques I've learned.

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Dream of Scrappin' said...


OH My what funny stories...Thanks so much Gina!
At a swarm dinner an off color comment was made about the size of the hostesses dinner. We laughed until we cried and lots of pictures were taken. The following day at the swarm, the challenge was to scrap the picts and then the hostesses' husband picked the winning LO~without knowing the joke. It was hilarious!
Thanks again!

Siobhan

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Owl Happy Birthday Card

I made this card for my co-workers birthday today. She loves owls. I used Sugar and Spice Cricut lite cart for the owl and of course added bling!

My DD's New Cricut Bag

I bought a bag from a wonderful lady named Yvonne on the Cricut MB. She knew I was looking for a bag for my daughters baby bug and she got in touch with me. It's a jewelery tote but works perfect as a bag for her baby bug. We used Vinyl and acrylic paint to personalize it. Her name is cut out with Hello Kitty Font and the bear is cut from the new Sugar and Spice Cricut Lite cart. Of course she had to add bling to it. Not sure the bling shows up in the pictures though.

 

My favorite of the weekend...

C.C. Designs, Copics and CTMH paper! My favorite of the weekend. I LOVE the paper!