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Jul
19
Doggone wild with ribbon weaving
Filed Under DT: Crafty Math Chick, Dogs | Leave a Comment
Crafty Math Chick got creative with ribbon for this card.
She attached the woven ribbons to the background and then layered the blue scalloped circle, the brown paw print circle and then a Riley cut out on the very top.
Personally I didn’t know there were so many doggy related ones out there! Great job!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
3021-C Little Riley
Jul
15
Family Holiday invitation
Filed Under Cats, DT: Georgia, Dogs, Summer | 1 Comment
Isn’t this the cutest invitation. Georgia has such an eye for putting colors together – the aqua waves with big polka dots and the bright sunny polka dot orange. I love too that she used thicker pop dots behind the Family Holiday label, Yardley kitty and the waves – it really adds such dimension.
She also sent in a picture of the actual invitation with Scooter down at the bottom – notice he’s sporting the same colors she used on the front. To finish it all of two different ribbons were tied at the top. Kinda makes me wish I was part of the family and getting one of these in the mail. :)
eat cake graphics stamps used:
2011-F Yippy for Yardley kitty
3034-G Scooter’s day at the pool
Jul
11
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Filed Under DT: Christy, Dogs, People, Travel | Leave a Comment
Christy wrote…
This card was an attempt to use coloring to demonstrate the movement of Stuart and his puppy. The first image was ever so lightly colored with Prisma Colored Pencils, the middle image was colored a little darker with Prisma Colored Pencils and Gamsol. The final image, giving the impression that Stuart and his puppy are right in front of you was colored with Copics. May this card encourage you to used various mediums to give images the idea of movement.
Once the images were colored they were cut out and placed in order. Going around the outer edges of the cut images with a black fine point pen made them just pop right off the paper. Appropriate shadowing and a few black dots gave a nice grounding effect. The ribbon used was a nice carry though of color movement. A few pieces of the same ribbon were cut and tied onto a large circle brad. The frayed tiny pieces were just the right touch. It was fun to brainstorm a new embellishment using what I already had.
What a great idea to go from faded image to vibrant one. I think the black outline really pulls things together and ties in nicely with the Dymo tape words. And of course it’s always nice to be able to use something you already have in a new way! Wahooooo!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1074-G Stuart and puppy Scooter fly
Jul
9
For the Brave book
Filed Under Animals, Bears, Book, Cats, DT: Kriss, Dogs, Holiday: 4th of July, People, Summer | 2 Comments
What a great project Kriss has sent in! Using the kids from Maple Lane she’s created a wonderful book. I just love the distressed stamp in the corner, her use of cork (something I’m certainly going to have to try) and all of the details – the flags, the brads – oh just everything!
You can click on the picture to get a closer look. Below are her very detailed instructions – thanks so very much Kriss!
- Paint two 5 ½” x 8 ½” chipboard with red acrylic paint. Two to three layers may be needed to completely cover chipboard. Once dry, gently brush on snow paint with Ranger’s Acrylic Paint Dabber to soften red.
- Using Watermark Resist ink, stamp flourish in upper right corner of front cover. Emboss with white embossing powder.
- Cut cork with Keyholes Mover and Shape die (a label shape). Attach to lower right of front cover.
- Stamp For the Brave with black ink on white cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Trim to 3” x 5 ¼”.
- Cut light blue cardstock to 1 ½” x 5 ¼” and punch bottom with Effervescence border punch. Attach to bottom of stamped image, and mount both to 4” x 5 ½” black cardstock. Attach to front cover.
- Stamp saying of For the Brave with Watermark Resist on navy cardstock and emboss with white embossing powder. Cut strip close to top and bottom of saying, and attach to front cover with white brads.
- Mask For the Brave to allow cat only to be inked. Ink image with Jet Black ink, remove masks, and stamp on white cardstock. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Cut into circle shape. Layer on top of navy circle and red scallop circle. Attach to cork label with Pop Dots.
- Stamp For the Brave with black ink on white cardstock again, this time for both the flags. Crease your cardstock back onto itself along the “stick” of the flag, and then cut out three sides of the flag; keeping the folded-section intact. Do this for both flags. Color with watercolor pencils and blend. Attach each flag to a decorative stick pin, by gluing the stick pin inside the folded flag. Insert flags into Pop Dots on back of scallop circle/cat.
- Attach silver sticky-back dots to cork label.
- Cut either white cardstock or notebook paper to 5 ½” x 8 ½” for the pages of your book. Place pages between covers and punch holes at the top with Bind-It-All. Bind book together with white owires.
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1160-S For the Brave
Other supplies:
2- 5 ½” x 8 ½” Chipboard
Acrylic Paint, Lipstick Red, FolkArt
Acrylic Paint Dabber, Snow White, Ranger Industries
Archival™ Ink Stamp Pad – Jet Black, Ranger Industries
Watercolor Pencils, Prismacolor
Blender Pen, Marvy-Uchida
Watermark Resist, Ranger Industries
Embossing Powder, Seafoam White, Ranger Industries
Border Punch, Effervescence, Fiskars
White Brads, Making Memories
Cork, Unknown
Keyholes Mover and Shapers, Tim Holtz, Sizzix
Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilties, Spellbinders
Pop Dots, Ranger Industries
Stick Pins, Making Memories
Silver Sticky-Back Dots, Unknown
Corner Flourish Stamp, Close to My Heart
White, Red, Light Blue, Navy & Black Cardstock
White Cardstock or Notebook Paper
1” White O Wires, Zutter
Bind-It-All, Zutter
Jul
8
Happy Birthday cupcakes
Filed Under Birthday, DT: Crafty Math Chick, Dogs, Food | Leave a Comment
Crafty Math Chick created this cute Happy Birthday card using yummy cupcake treats. It looks like Poindexter is trying to get a paw full of that pink icing. Better watch out!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
3009-D Poindexter
8140-D Diet? There’s Cupcakes!
8153-C Happy Birthday (bold text)
Supplies:
Paper: Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Kraft (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Other: Cupcake punch (Martha Stewart), CB EF, circle punch, rhinestones, corner rounder
Jun
3
Are we there yet?
Filed Under Cats, DT: Crafty Math Chick, Dogs, Travel | 3 Comments
Crafty Math Chick writes…
When I first saw Lewis & Trudy’s Wild Ride I instantly paired it with Are We There Yet? and envisioned the little car driving on a road made of saddle stitched ribbon – thinking it looked like a road. When I looked I thought the Maple Lane House would work nicely with these two images as a “We’ve Moved!” card. For something a little different I scored only part of the card base and cut around the top of the roof and treetop with a craft knife so it would stand out from the top of the card. For the grass I simply took two strips of wild wasabi and cut into it with a scissors (grass is a great way to use up green scraps!) and pulled out a few blades with my hands for dimension.
This card is just too cute! I love the way she used ribbon for the road – I never would have thought of that. Great coloring – the little red car just pops off the road. It’s nice too that she carried just a little accent of red on the house as well. Great job!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
6018-P Maple Lane House
8016-E Lewis & Trudy’s Wild Ride
8110-E Are We There Yet?
Supplies:
Paper: Gina K. Luxury Cardstock, Wild Wasabi (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other supplies: ribbon, Copic markers, pop its, scissors, craft knife & mat
May
28
Just keep paddling
Filed Under DT: Georgia, Dogs, Nature, People, Summer | 5 Comments
Georgia says sometimes she thinks she’s paddling upstream… and if she keeps going, she’ll get there…wherever there may be.
This card is so vibrant with the orange background against the teal blue water. I love how she picked those up when coloring as well. Looks like she tore the paper for the water and layered the stamp in between. Very clever and oh so cute!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1158-J Paddling in the canoe
May
27
You are special
Filed Under DT: Georgia, Dogs, People | 1 Comment
What a perfect card for a little boy. I think both the doggie and the little boy are enjoying their time together.
Georgia used a bit of layering for this one. The doggie background paper is just a perfect find. Then she used brown gingham tied off with the polka dot ribbon and a big brown button to top it all off. Great job Georgia!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1138-M Grooming (MMM-boy with dog)
May
22
A new puppy!
Filed Under DT: Crafty Math Chick, Dogs, People | Leave a Comment
Crafty Math Chick says she just loves this image! I do too. :)
I don’t know how she did it but she found the perfect embellishments – the pawprint brads and the background paper, “Fido”, “Spike”, “Princess”, “Spot”… too cute! I love all the layers and her touch of a shadow under and around the stamped image. Great coloring job. Two paws up for sure!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1063-I Felicia and Sparky
Supplies:
Ink: Palette Noir
Paper: DP from DCWV Pet Stack, Ridinghood Red, So Saffron, Bashful Blue (Stampin’ Up!), main panel: Gina K. Luxury Cardstock
Other: paw print brads, ridinghood red striped ribbon (Stampin’ Up!), Marvy Uchida Mega circle punch, Copic Markers, pop-its
May
14
Happy graduation
Filed Under DT: Christy, Dogs, People | 1 Comment
Christy says this card came about because of a silly joke, so the card sentiment of course could be changed to fit other occasions as well.
The image was stamped and colored with Copics. The tiny graduation hats are computer generated, cut out, and glued to the heads of those intelligent robots. The black ribbon was added to the top and the 2010 is hanging down with a little yellow safety pin.
She adds, “While this is a silly card, its seriously filled with wonderful graduation wishes.”
Thanks for the project Christy. When I first drew these guys I thought they were just silly. Apparently I was wrong since they are all sporting mortar boards – this most certainly means they must have passed all their exams!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1053-S The Boys (stick robots)
May
1
Do you remember looking up at the stars when you were a kid and wishing? Or maybe it’s even something you do now. When I originally drew Mia, teddy, Sweet Pea and James looking up I thought of so many things they could be looking at – stars, cloud shapes, birds…
I think Pam did a lovely job and has once again made wonderful use of her Tombow markers – such an eye for shading!
To make the twinkling stars in the night sky – she used the blade of her cutting knife to scrape off the watercoloring to reveal the plain watercolor paper underneath. That is a nice, neat way to show the light paper when you need to. What a great technique! But she also says, just be careful not to press so hard that you rip your paper and scene!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1061-L Looking Up
Other supplies:
CS – (Bazzill); Paper –Accademia (Fabriano); Ink – Black StazOn (Tsukineko); Tombow markers, waterbrush, foam tape, black hemp twine (CTMH), computer generated poem.
Apr
27
Sometimes you’re the fire hydrant…
Filed Under DT: Pam, Dogs | 2 Comments
Pam said this wasn’t one of her usual card themes but I don’t think she could resist! I agree with her sentiment – some days you’re the fire hydrant but sometimes you get to be the dog! Woof! I love use use of the black borders to give importance to each piece. And the little black bow, I’m sure Mr. Peedles would love – hopefully not to chew on though. :)
eat cake graphics stamps used:
3016-F Mr. Peedles
9046-E Fire Hydrant
Other supplies:
CS – (Bazzill); Paper –Accademia (Fabriano); Ink – Black StazOn (Tsukineko); Ribbon – ¼” grosgrain (Offray); Tombow makrers, water brush, foam tape, computer generated sentiment.
Apr
3
There’s cupcakes! With SPRINKLES!
Filed Under Birthday, DT: Crafty Math Chick, Dogs, Food | 3 Comments
Look at all those delicious cupcakes! Crafty Math Chick used Cupcake the dog in this cute Happy Birthday project. What perfect background paper! And I love her use of jewels as cherries on some of the tasty treats. Diets will most definitely go out the door for this project!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
3038-I Cupcake the dog
8140-D Diet? There’s cupcakes (text)
8153-C Happy birthday (bold text)
Supplies:
Stamps: Cupcake the Dog, Diet There’s Cupcakes!, Happy Birthday (bold text)
Ink: Palette Noir
Paper: DP by the Paper Studio, Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa & Purely Pomegranate (Stampin’ Up!), Gina K. Luxury Cardstock for image
Other: Copics Markers, Pop Its, adhesive rhinestones, pink & baby blue Stickles, scissors
Mar
30
It’s always nice to share
Filed Under DT: Georgia, Dogs, Food, People | 2 Comments
Georgia’s made yet another TOO cute card! I love her color choices – the bright yellow-orange, the hot pink background and her signature lime green ribbon.
This is actually one of my favorite stamps – a little sketch I did from a long ago memory. I had a St. Bernard growing up and we shared everything, she was my best friend and constant companion. I always think of her when I see this stamp.
Thanks Georgia for making it into such a wonderful card.
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1137-M Unselfishness (MMM-ice cream)
Mar
29
Billy and Sparky at the window
Filed Under DT: Georgia, Dogs, Holiday: Christmas, People, Winter | 1 Comment
Georgia’s in the holiday spirit again. This time she used Billy and Sparky looking out the window. Again I love the black framing she’s done, just really makes the image pop out. And I simply must go to the craft store and get some lime green grosgrain ribbon! I love the added red jingle bell. Wonderful card Georgia!
eat cake graphics stamps used:
1104-J Billy and Sparky at window
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