Make It Monday #295 Z-Fold Card with Ashley

 

The first card I can post that I made at my friend's house.  I'm down in Portland for 9 days for SAF and just visiting and creating with my BFF.   This is the card I made for Ashley's MIM

I came down on Sunday afternoon to beat the Solar Eclipse traffic.  Ran into most of the traffic in Washington.  Got here about 7:40 pm.  We didn't create that night just visited and caught up.

And of course, we had to view the eclipse on Monday morning.  We drove about 20 minutes away and saw 100% of it but for only about 30-40 seconds.  And it was so awesome.  

So we got started crafting late and ran into problems with computers and getting me set up so we could both post without signing in or out.  So needless to say we are having to sign in and out, so if you get a comment that doesn't sound like one or the other of us chances are we didn't sign ourselves out.  Lol....

Ashley's cute card

 

PTI's Life is Beautiful, Beautiflul Butterfies, Quilted Summer, Clearly Besotted Thinking of You

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Make It Monday #289 Building Wreaths with Small Images

 

A card for this week's MIM 

Lizzie's Card

 

 PTI's Embellished Elegance, Life Is Beautiful & Banner Sentiments in Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, New Leaf, Green Parakeet, Terracotta Tile, Summer Sunrise,  Nuvo Crystal Drops

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PTI's Make It Monday with Lexi's Stamping Outside the Box

 

I love when a card comes together so easily and it is one that I really like.  I had this piece of watercolored cardstock in my stash that I used to cut out the butterfly. (Life is Beautiful)

And the frame is from Fabulous Frames in Soft Stone that hasn't seen much love at all for a long time.

Sentiment also is from an oldie, Asian Fusion.

Used a Perlen Pen and Spectrum Noir on the butterfly spots.  

Love how CAS this is.

Click MIM to play along

Here is Lexi's cards

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CAS Mux Up - January

 

Colleen, my BFF gave me some Alcohol Inks for Christmas and I just had a chance to play with them.  It took a little practice to get some pretty backgrounds, watching Loll's video a couple of times.  I finally got a few pretty backgrounds, but now what do I do with them?

I struggled with this a bit but finally came up with this lovely butterfly.  Haven't made a butterfly card in forever....

I am entering this in CAS Mix Up 

  

I used stamping, Alcohol Inks on Yupo paper, die cutting and dry embossing.

PTI's Life is Beautiful, Darice butterfly EF,  PTI's Keep It Simple, Thinking of you and some PPP sequins.

 

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CAS Mixed Media April, 2016 & Live Love Cards

 

My card for 2 challenges

CAS Mixed Media 

 

 

 &

 Live Love Cards

Use a butterfly 

 Memory Box Fantasy Floral stenciled with Distress Inks for a nice soft background

The butterfly is a technique  scrunching plastic wrap and applying Liquid Pearls on paper and then sponging ink.  This was some backgrounds that I had made when visiting Colleen the first of March.

PTI's Keep it Simple - Thinking of You, Life if Beautiful

 

PTI's 9th Anniversary Celebration - Create Along With Us - February 2016

 

My card that was inspired by

 Dawn's Card

 

PTI's Embossed in white Life is Beautiful and Butterfly Dreams then sprinkled on Brushos and spritzed with water.  Love how it turned out.

Stitched Pinked Edge Label 

A second card

I also decided on doing a second card using Botanical Blocks, III.
I really liked this card by
Heather 
 
I used Distress Inks to water color.
Delicata Gold Ink
And gold Uniball for the outside border
Brass Perfect Pearls 

On Line Card Class Day 1 Brush Techniques and washes,with Dawn

 

My second card from Day 1 making your own Deco background.  Mine seem to be a long bolder colors than Dawn's

Embelleished with PTI's Life is Beautiful in Polka Dot Vellum with some gold thread behind it.

Keep It Simple Get Well

Altenew Academy Stunningly Simple Watercoloring Techniques Day One

 

Lesson One for Altenew's Watercoloring Class

Ombre Background

PTI's Life is Beautiful on polka dot Vellum 

Distress Inks Scattered Straw & Fossilized Amber

ColourQ #324 -2

 

A second card for ColourQ using the positive from the first card I did.

 

PTI's Life is Beautiful, The Paper Studio EF, Liquid Platinum embossing powder on the vellum and side stripe.

Make It Monday #224 with Danielle, Two Toned Stamped Sentiment

 

I love how striking Black & White is, then add a pop of red and we have a card for 

MIM 

PTI's Diagonal Stripe cover plate, Think Big Favorites #2, Life is Beautiful die in Pure Poppy and a few Pretty Pink Posh Sequins.

Stamp-A-Faire 2015 Opening Night

 

This year for Stamp-A-Faire Colleen came up to my house as tomorrow is my dad's 95th birthday.  We are celebrating with family tonight so we can participate in tomorrow's events.

She came up on Wednesday and we went to our favorite store Impress at Southcenter.  We found this glitter paper that we could iron on and that is how our shirts evolved.  I used Life Is Beautiful, Framed Out and Scripted Alphabet for my shirt.

Sunday, Colleen and I will drive down to Portland and I will spend a week with her for one of our yearly visits.

We have so much fun together, but believe it or not we have not made a single card.  We have been in my craft room though and done some organizing and watching videos.  But tomorrow we will be  stamping all day.

Make It Monday #217 with Laurie Creating Custom Borders

 

My card for  MIM 

Using other stamps to create your own border.  I wanted to use something different, hence the butterflies.  Not sure if it makes a good border.

Ok, so first of all I put the butterflies on the top of the card and then realized it needed to be underneath the top section.  I was able to get the butterflies off without much problem but the backs of the butterflies were not so easy to get the tape off so I opted to put them directly on the back of the card.   So a little improvising and I made it work.

PTI's Life is Beautiful, Heart 2 Heart #10, Bigger Blooms for sentiment, Bitty Dots vellum paper

Hero Arts Ombre Inks for butterflies.  The stripe is ink to paper.  And some bling

Mask-erade Day 2 Jennifer - Large Masks, Small Stamps

 

My first card for today using a large mask and small stamps in versamark and then embossed.  This was the technique from Jennifer.

PTI's Life is Beautiful, Keep It Simple Sympathy embossed with Zing Lavendar and Liquid Platinum

Muse #110 by Tenia Nelson

 

A card for the Muse Challenge

PTI's Circle Scribbles, Life Is Beautiful on Gold Adhesive Paper, Classic Kraft & Vellum

Stars from Monthly Moments Journal Card #5

Sentiment - Boutique Borders Thanks embossed with clear embossing powder

Strip of Washi Tape

 

Make It Monday #200 with Dawn - Layering Cover Plate Die Cuts

 

My card for MIM.  Click to play along.

PTI's Quatrefoil & Life is Beautiful in Lemon Tart and Orange Zest.  

Double ended banner embossed in white

Irresistible dots 

Clean & Simple #4 Day 1 with Julie Faux CeramicTiles #2

 

Really liked this technique from Julie so decided to make another card this time with a butterfly.

PTI's Life if Beautiful in Fresh Ink Peach & French Lavender

PTI - Aqua Mist bitty dots paper

The Paper Players - Tic Tac Toe #211

Avery, my 8 year old granddaughter made this card.

 

Avery's Card for The Paper Players

which she pretty much did all on her own with minimal help from me.

She picked which challenge she wanted and she wanted to used embossing paste, with PTI's New Leaf green,  Life is Beautiful, Double Ended Banner embossed with Zing, Leaf embossing powder.

She designed it herself picking out what she wanted.  I made the bow and put the embossed sheet on the card, stamped the butterfly and the sentiment.  When she makes a one layer card she does all the stamping herself.

Chevron stencil.

Vellum overlay of New Leaf stamped butterfly. 

 

Make It Monday #176 with Laura Bassen - Backgrounds with embossing paste.

My card for MIM

Made a stencil with 2 Quatrefoil die cuts.
PTI's Life is Beautiful in Berry Sorbet and Vellum.
Wonderful Words Thank you

PTI's Quatrefoil with Dreamweaver Pearlescent Embossing Paste in Berry Sorbet, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise and Harvest Gold.
I have a house full today, my three granddaughters and son, so this was made in stages
My 8 year old granddaughter helped me mix the colors for the paste.  She worked on one while I did the other   She is the only one who seems to want to make cards and she is the youngest.  The other two just want to color images or play with all the gadgets.  So while we were letting it dry we all sat down and played Yatzee.  It is going to be 95 today, too hot to go outside.

So here is the  Birthday Card she made with Garden Grace and Butterfly Dreams in Berry Sorbet, Hawaiian Shores and Tropical Teal.

MIM #171-1 Pop Up Die Cuts with Betsy

 

A second card for MIM 

PTI's Life Is Beautiful

Lemon Tart ink and pattern paper

Royal Velvet for second layer of die

 

Colour Me #25 Colour Me Subtle & CASology #100

 

A retirement card using the colors from Colour Me 

Memory Box  Flower Stencil in Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst and Aqua Mist.

PTI's Life is Beautiful stamp making my own ink pad with the same colors as above on a baby wipe.

PTI - Christmas Label Die

Also entering in 

CASology