Mother's Day Card

This Mother's Day card was made with a 10" x 7" transparency sheet then scored and folded to make a 5x7 card. One thing I have found with transparencies is that your hands need to be really clean and free of lotions or oils because it's really easy to get "smudges" and finger prints on the transparency and they are hard to get off. There may be a trick to it that I just haven't figured out yet! I am also going to be experimenting with different transparency stock. The one I've been using has felt sort of "grainy". That may be a good thing when stamping directly onto the stock. The brand I've been using is Hammermill - 4 mil thickness. The next one I'll experiment with is 3M Write-On Transparency Film. It doesn't show the thickness on the box so hopefully it's strong enough to stand up for a day or two. If you have any preferences with your own transparency experience, please leave a comment or email me with your opinions. I'd really appreciate it!

Supplies:

Cardstock: SU Groovy Guava, SU Shimmery White

Designer Paper: The Paper Studio-Blush Double Floral

Stamp: Happy Mother's Day (All Year Cheer II) by SU, Love You Mom by Hampton Art Stamps

Ink: Brilliance-Rocket Red Gold

Die Cuts: Spellbinders Nestabilities

Thank you so much for looking! And Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!

Eight Week Card Swap: Week 3

This week we need to use buttons on a card. I have tons of buttons, but I never really knew what to do with them. I bought packs and packs of them some years ago, and here they sit waiting to be used on something beautiful. After I started on the card, I realized that all my buttons did not go with my color theme, so I went and bought clear flat square buttons in 4 sizes by Tim Holtz. As you can see I didn't use those either! Aaaggghh! More buttons I don't need!! Do you have any suggestions on how to use buttons or links to great button cards? I think I'll need to paint my existing buttons since I don't like the colors anymore! (They are pale colors and jewel tones.)

I didn't even know where to start on this card and it shows that the buttons were one of the last thoughts on the card. I wanted them to blend in so I took some pale green buttons and colored them with my Manganese Blue Copic marker. It gives a mottled appearance, but I like it. Then I colored some hemp with the same marker and dabbed some crystal effects on top to hold the knot.


I really like the look of transparencies so I decided that the card would be a transparency pocket card. I just went with the flow to see what would happen.
The two pictures have completely different color casts so I guess that's Photoshop! (definitely NOT the person using Photoshop!-I think I need a little more practice... :) The second card shows part of the transparency pulled out from the pocket.

Supplies: 10x7 piece of transparency to fit an A7 envelope.

Paper: Creative Imaginations-Friendship Wash

Cardstock: SU! Ivory

Ink: Color Box Ice Blue and Prussian Blue Chalk, Staz-On Cotton White, SU! Not Quite Navy

Marker: Copic B34 Manganese Blue

Stamps: SU: Ephemera, The Art of Life, Sage Advice, Small Script

Transparency Birthday Card

This card idea came from Nichole Heady's blog that I love to visit frequently. Papertrey Ink has beautiful products so check those out also. She gives the directions on how to create this style of card! You can see her fabulous creations at: http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2008/03/page/2/

This birthday card is for my husband's birthday. He's fairly busy at work, so I'm pretty sure he won't visit my blog this week! I started off by cutting the transparency and cutting the white cardstock and then put patterned paper over the front of the white cs and inside the white cs. The transparency folds over on the left where the brads are. It forms a lip to tuck the top page of the trans under to secure it.

This second pic shows the card in the open position and you can see the front of the transparency over to the right. I didn't trim the edge that fits under the lip at the brads until I was completely done so I knew I had enough to "catch" under the lip.


The back shows white cardstock and the brads are hidden. I didn't want to be able to see them on the back side.
Picture number 4 shows the front. I placed this initial greeting on the top of the trans and then put cs on the back in the same size to hide the glue. I think it turned out pretty good. Then the birthday greeting is on the inside where the other patterned paper is located. (Picture #5)

Details: Stamps: God's Blessings, Frames with a Flourish by Stampin Up; Cardstock: Basic Grey-Color Me Silly, Stampin Up Whisper White, Marker: SU! Elegant Eggplant; Ink: SU! Cool Caribbean, Spellbinders Nestabilities; Brads: SU!

Thank you for looking!