Aspiring to Creativity

Playing with Crackle Paint

I had to try out my grungeboard and crackle paint!

After crumpling up my card in order to distress it (Tim Holtz Walnut Stain), I realized that I really should have just crumpled and distressed a mat. Whoops!

Also, I finished this card in a very big hurry and so did not give it any extra sort of details. Oh, well.

Who can handle that much cheese???

Lucky Me Family

March St. Patrick's day themed page. Take a picture of your family in March, circle the date the photo was taken in the circle of date numbers around the stamp 'MAR' on the scallop circles cut using Spellbinder's Nestabillities. The large golden shamrocks were cut using the cricut and the text using the Curved Learning cartridge.

Both the scalloped circle and the text "Lucky Me" is raied with 3D tape.

This turned out to be a gift for my friend Stef. We are all lucky to have family, those that we love and are very dear to us.

Ribbon Flowers

Learn how to make these gorgeous flowers here!

Encouragement

Thinking of You

"Get Well Soon" seemed inappropriate for someone who had been diagnosed with cancer and so this was my end result. Very quick, very simple, but I got to use my new Labels 4 Spellbinders Nestabilities and try stenciling for the first time (I used Tim Holtz Scattered Straw distress ink).

Grandmother

I was so touched by my grandmother sending Valentines for each of the children, that I made up a thank you/Valentine card for her.

This is a different style for myself but when I saw this chipboard sitting on my pegboard, it said "Grandma" to me. The butterfly trail is beaded wire that I got at Michael's for like 50 cents. I stitched it to the paper in a few strategic locations. The patterned paper was distress inked with Tim Holtz Tea Dye which was not quite the color I meant to use but worked out alright. I then distressed the edges of the paper with my Tim Holtz tool. The stamp is from Papertrey Ink's Women of Life set and has 3 tiny pearls in front of it.