Fall Creative Inspirations

I hope you enjoy these latest cards I have created.  

I will be posting the photos for the latest 

Close To My Heart workshop later this evening.  

Blessings

 This is what I created for the  Ladies WOW group invitations for October.

The stamp is from Close To My Hearts Stamp of the month.

I coloured it in using Permacolor Premium coloured pencils.  

The stamp Blessings is one I picked up at JoAnn Fabrics while in the states

 The Card stock was from Michaels. Instead of ribbon I drew a black line 

under the top card stock before stamping the harvest stamp.

The dimensions for the card is 41/4 X 5 1/2 (A2)

 This background embossed image is from England 

(purchased at our local Orilliacraft store - Paper Kapers).  

It is also a die cut which allows the backing to show through,

The Butterflies are Martha Stewart punches.  

  Both butterflies are glued in their middle sections only 

allowing the wings to stand up.  

The sparkle edges are outlined using Stickles. 

(Brown (Lg) and iridescent (Sm)) 

 I added a little bling to the centre of the embossed top flower.

The Thank You stamp is from the Dollar Store and  is centred 

on a Spellbinders Labels die cut edged with red ink matching 

the wings on the smaller butterfly,

The body and wings of the smaller butterfly are emphasized 

with iridescent Stickles.

Wedding Bells are ringing

This is a cute design I did using a digital download 
from Cuddly Buggly
I retouched the hair using Primsa Color pencils 
to match the hair colour of
the bride and groom, their skin tones and 
painted the shoe colour to suit their colours also.
I love bling so I added the bow 
on top of the embossed Spellbinder die.
It is doubled embossed First with Cuttlebug 
embossing frame and then with the
Spellbinders Grand Caliber smallest die.  
The matted frame is sponged coloured
with Colour box midnight blue ink. 
The background is a pearl light grey card stock
and it sits on a fiber gold paper.  
I had a lot of fun creating this one.


Here is the verse I used inside.

Ever wonder why God gives us two?


A right hand to show the left what to do.


One ear to listen and one to hear


the problems of others,
their laughter and fears.


One eye to watch and one to behold


the beautiful treasures
that life has to hold.


One foot to travel and one to stand tall.


Two feet to land on if we should fall.


One man to stand by a woman's side;


One woman to cherish being his bride.


The love between partners
comes shining through


and that is the reason
God has made two.



Place Card design

Recently I was asked to design a larger than normal place card for a seniors residence.The colours match their green table cloths and yellow napkins which are the colours of the residence's logo.

Place card dimensions 4X 4 1/4"  The green name plate is 3X 3 3/4"The decorative edge are Martha Stewart punches  as well as the Monarch butterfly (edge and body is chocolate marker) 

This is the greeting that was chosen for the inside of the place card for each lady attending the breakfast at the residence.

Here is another greeting I found that I enjoyed as well. 

Maybe you would enjoy it for one of your cards!

Decorative doily edge card

              The Following are invitations I created for our church ladies group for May.
I love the lacy look of this design.  If I remember correctly the inspiration for this card came from a site by card-making-magic which I found on You Tube.  Check out the many other  videos uploaded from card-making magic.There you will find many beautiful creations made with Spellbinder products!! 

This is the Mom's Day invitation card for this month's Women Of Worth meeting.  Each month I design a different invitation for the ladies as my contribution.  I usually adhere the details (speaker, etc) with a removable tape on the inside of each card  and ask the ladies to recycle the invitations by adding a personal note and  use it as a greeting card to a friend or relative.

The Mother's Day stamp was from Michael's.I found the Violet stamp pad colour around the edge andfor the stamped lettering enhanced the card.

I added this frame from Cricut Cartridge sized at 3"

Finished card/invitation..Enjoy!

1. Cut  Pink (8 1/2 X 11") card stock to measure  8 1/2 X 10 1/2" .  

2. Cut diagonally (Right to left) from the top right corner 10 1/2  

    down to 4"on left  side of paper's edge.

3. Score card stock at 3" and 7 1/2"
4. Punch decorative edge along the diagonal edge

5. Fold in a mountain valley fold as shown.  
6. Decorate as you desire.

The butterflies were chosen from Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridge 
and cut using  1" setting with 5 depth and 4 speed.

and the floral edge was a Martha Stewart border punch.

Here I dressed the card for a greeting card I will use for
Mother's Day this year.  The butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch.

The flowers and leaf branches are from the CTMH Cricut cartridge with the centre

flower cut 1/4"   smaller than the base flower.  The pearl in the larger flower was

 coloured to match the mauve using a Bic Marker. The double bow accents the 

circle punch and the Close To My Heart stamp (I Love You).  

The larger flower measures 1 1/2" (centre 1 1/4")  small flowers 1"and centre 3/4"

Enjoy your creativity with this design.  Leave a comment or any questions you might have. and I will do my best to answer them.  Blessings on your day!

Reverse Vinyl Shadowed Lettering

Reversed Vinyl (Shadowed) lettering

Recently I was asked to do a School sign which would adhere to the inside of their front windows.

I searched to find any tutorial for Reversing Letters for Vinyl adhesive but was unsuccessful in finding anything listed on You Tube or the Cricut web site.  After speaking with a Cricut rep on  How To proceed with using my Cricut expressions machine and their Vinyl adhesive and receiving a negative answer to such a tutorial on Reverse Lettering, I decided to make a video reference for anyone wanting to work with vinyl adhesive for the inside of a car or building window.  Here is my tips and tricks.  If you have succeeded in doing this, please comment on this blog as to any tips or tricks you might have learnt.  Thank you.....Blessings

The lettering was to fit in a 36" window panel.   I used a 12 X 24" Cricut mat, placed the  Shadow Colour  adhesive vinyl sheet and using the free program download "Craftroom"  from Cricut.com I choose the text box and typed the word Chedoke (School name).  Then because it was a 24" word I chose the Flip horizontal tab and the reversed word looked like the above photo.  HINT  if your letter is 12" or less you could use the Flip vertically tab to reverse the word.

The second word was equally long therefore I flipped it horizontally also.  I removed all the excess vinyl,

exposing the lettering as you see them here.  I removed the project (with the backing paper) from the 12X24 mat.

I then placed the transfer (red lined) paper on top of the exposed (Non-Sticky side) vinyl as per instructions inside packaging and burnished the transfer paper to the lettering.  The transfer paper is rather sticky when the backing is removed - I removed its backing paper only a small portion at a time, lining up the corner and top edge with the corner and top edge of the vinyl letter backing.  Move slow and steady and things will go great.

 Proceed with the burnishing process as per instructions. 

The letters which were to be placed onto the red shadow welded letters were not welded and as you see here they were also Flipped horizontally on the 12 X 24" mat..  This helped to line up the individual letters on the red shadow welded letters.

I cut out the individual letters.  Using the backing and Non-adhesive side of the vinyl it was easy to

trim a small margin around each letter. 

Here you can see how close I trimmed the lettering.  I  then  flipped over the shadow letters,  peeled back the White (No Red lines) backing and centred  the individual letters non-adhesive side down onto the red adhesive shadow lettering and peeled off the trimmed white waxy back paper exposing the adhesive side of the black letters.  This precess left the red (Shadow letters) adhesive and the black (individual letters) adhesive facing up.  I then recovered the whole project with the peeled back White (no red lines) backing  and the wording was now ready to be transported fearlessly and later adhered in place to the school's inside windows using the same method as described on the instruction sheet inside the vinyl packaging.

The You Tube video link explains the process also.  

Easy Fold Corner Bookmark Video

Below is the video How To.  Hope this helps with details.
Leave a comment and  maybe a photo of your finished bookmark. Enjoy!
Blessings on your day!!