Tuesday, June 30, 2015

It's A One Flap Of a Card

I had fun making todays card for a co-worker.  She gave me a stamp set from Stampingbella and it is called Wiz.   She was showing me some stamps she bought and Wiz was one of them.  I mentioned how I adored him.  When she got her order in, she gave him to me as a gift.  I wanted to thank her by using Wiz.



I found a fold I wanted to try called One Flap Fold.  I had to design my own dimensions to fit the Wiz but it was easy enough to do to make this fit an A2 size envelope.  After stamping him with Memento Tuxedo Black, I painted him with Twinkling H20's to give his entire image a shimmer.  It is hard to take a picture of the real shimmer.  At first I left the background white but it was too bright.  I used Shimmerz which is another shimmery paint to make a swirling background like dusk setting.  The crystal ball has crystal effects to give it that glassy look.  
*side note: did you know if your Shimmerz dried up you can just use small amount of distilled water and your paint is good as new?*

The bottom background was fun to do.  I wanted the look of stars because to me Wiz reminds me of having a cosmic energy.  I took a larger piece of black cardstock and lightly sprayed bleach on it.  The black turned like a purplish grey color where the bleach removed the color. 

I used a Q-tip to rub blue, pink and yellow chalk into the bleached areas to form planets.  I also swirled some color across the black cardstock to make comets etc.  The last part was made from a toothbrush and watered down white paint.  To make the splatters like stars, dip the toothbrush bristles in the paint and using your finger fan it across the bristles over the paper and it will spray little tiny globs.  Good idea to protect your area and to wear disposable gloves unless you don't mind fingers full of paint!  After it was dry, I sprayed it lightly with hairspray so that the chalk would not rub off and cut it down to size.  

I cut three sets of Sizzix thinlits words and glued them on top of each other to make the words thicker.  Top layer of the words was cut from a heavy shimmery cardstock. I wanted to raise the thank you up high enough to give the image a place to rest against to keep it in the up position.  The image lifts up and lays flat for mailing. 





I hope she enjoys it.   Thank you for stopping by! 

Netta

Monday, June 29, 2015

Your Getting Old When

Where I work, we love to poke fun when it is someone's birthday.  No one takes it seriously.  One of the reasons we all get along so well is we do make work fun when we can.  One of my co-workers had a birthday and I was heading off on vacation.  She said to me "Don't forget my card!". lol  They love seeing what I will come up with.

The card I made is a 6 x 6.  Not my usual A2 size so I had to even make the envelope to go with it which is fine.  That means I get to play with my Envelope Punch Board.

The Fancy Fold on this card is called a Peek-A-Boo.  When the card is closed, you see one image through the peek-a-boo hole.



When you open the card you see another image slide into view!



You can put two images to view but I chose to put my Happy Birthday in that spot.  

Hope she likes yellow!

Thank you for stopping by...
Netta


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Wishing You a Wonderful Day

Another simple card from the Stampin Up class last Sunday that I just finished up this morning.  Also I added a little sparkle to the cupcake as well.  What is a birthday card without a little something added!   It's simple and I love it.  Especially the colors.


Have a wonderful crafty day!
Netta

Monday, June 1, 2015

SBRUS Challenge # 45-Hello!

This is going to be a quick post.  Yesterday I went to a Gulfcoast Stampers & Scrappers get together to see the new Caddy that will be released tomorrow.  

All I can say is WOW...I need to be working overtime to pay for all I want/need LOL

Meanwhile...we made this card in class.  I like the idea of diecutting words.  May have to add them to my list of "must have".


Have a great day!
Netta