Beach Fun

Beach (noun) A place of relaxation, rest, and tranquility 

Having fun playing with Karen Burniston's new Katie Label Accordion.   

For this project I used Katie Label Accordion, All - Seasons Tree, Graphic 45 By the Sea Collection.  The stamps are By the Tide from Stampin' Up

Using pictures of my grandsons at the beach.  To create the coral I used a branch from the All - Seasons Tree.  I used a Copic markers to give the sea animals stamps just a little color.

Karen Burniston Card Challenge "Fly"

The word is "Fly" - How will you interpret it?

The first thing that came to my mind was the saying "wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall?" 

I decided to design a card with two friends chating in a coffee shop.

   

Supplies:

Karen Burniston's Lucky Label Pop Up and Accordion Fancy Label from her Pop It Ups collections

Art Impressions - Coffee BFF

Prima - Cling Mounted Stamps #551056 (fly)

Distress Ink - Vintage photo and gathered twigs

Memento - Tuxedo Black

Stampin' Up - Morning Cup Stamp

My Favorite Things Stamp - Western Backgrounds

Bazzill Paper - White, Wheat, thick plastic

Authentique - Promise three

Copic - BV000,BV01,BV02,RV42,E11,E13,E17,E25,E47,E57,YR24,YR27,B39,B45,C5,R17,BG02

 Coffee BFF was stamped using Tuxedo Black onto Bazzill White.  Colored with Copics

Cut Bazzill white 10 3/4 x 4 1/2, stamp bottom using the wood grain stamp from My Favorite Things. (Vintage Photo ink), cut  Promise three 4 1/2 x 5 3/8.  Attach Promise three as wall paper of the coffee shop.  Cut think plastic 4 x 4 1/2, then cut lucy label using thick plastic piece.  I made a little alteration to Lucy label.  Cut a little off each side of the label.  Lucy Label was attached to card using red line tape, the attach BFFs using your favorite glue.  Next I attached the Coffee Shop sign using foam squares, then fly was stamped.  Front of card: Cut Wheat 4 1/4 x 5 1/4, cut Promise three 1/2 x 4 1/4. Morning cup was stamped on a scrap of wheat and fussy cut.  Morning cup is attached using mini foam squares.

I hope you enjoyed my little fly on the wall card.  All supplies (except stampin up stamp) were purchased at Scrapp'n Savvy in Spring Texas

National Scrapbook Day - Pride Layout

Take pride in how far you've come and have faith in how far you will go.

                                                                           -Christian Larson 

Materials:

Bazzill Basics Paper - Cream Puff 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 (4), 4 3/4 x 3 5/8(1) , Steel Blue 12x12 (2)
Authentique - Pride Collection: Triumph 12x12 (1), Foundations 12x12 (1), 4x6 (4)
Your favorite brown distress ink (Vintage Photo was used )
Pride Collection Sticker sheet: Quote, Banner (3)
8" Natural Jute

*Cut 1/4" off all for sides of the Triumph, Cut 1/2" off of top and one side of the Foundations

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Ink all paper (optional)
Adhere Triumph to Blue Steel
Quote will have blue border.  Trim to your liking.  On this layout it was trimmed to the red line.
Adhere Cream Puff 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 to Foundations (red side) 4 x 6 to make photo mat
Adhere two photo mats and quote to Triumph. Refer to picture for placement.

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Ink all paper (optional)
Adhere Foundations to Blue Steel
Adhere Cream Puff 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 to Foundations (red side) 4 x 6 to make photo mat
Cream Puff 4 3/4 x 3 5/8 is for journaling
Adhere two photo mats and journaling mat to Foundations.  Refer to picture for placement

Tie a knot on side of jute, place on page at desired link tie knot on the other side.  Adhere banner sticker to jute on page. (the banners will hold jute onto page)  Refer to picture for placement.

Hope you enjoyed this project.


Materials purchased at Scrapp'n Savvy

Bluebonnets

"Bluebonnets are to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland"

I love this time of year, Spring is in the air and the Bluebonnets are in full bloom.  Since I cannot find the time this year to go to the hill country and take pictures of the Bluebonnets.  I decided I would play with a few of my new die cuts and make a card. 

 

 I wanted to play with my new Die Cuts, Wink of Stella brush, Bazzill paper and Authentique Paper.  When I see bluebonnets I always think of the country and what better thing says country than a picket fence.  I was inspired by a Facebook post from Karen Burniston, Designer, Karen showed how Karen Aicken used the post from her Lots of Pops Pop-Up die to make the fence.  So I thought I would try it out.

Supplies:
Karen Burniston's Lots of Pops Pop-up Die Cut, Garden Bench Pop-Up Die Cut, All-Seasons Tree Die Cut, Katie Label Pivot Card Die Cut
Deadbeat Designs's Bluebonnet Die Cut
Tim Holtz's mini bunny die cut
Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters, Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
White Pigment Ink pen
Wink of Stella Brush - White
Zig 2 Way Glue Chisel Tip
Scrappy Glue
Authentique Foundation One paper - cut to 6" x 12"
Authentique Elegant Three paper - cut to 6" x 12"
Bazzill - french vanilla, white, blue bell, blue jean, hillary, sugar daddy


To make the inside of the card I used Foundation One paper from Authentique.  For the fence to pop I used the pop-up die twice.  Aligning the center of the pop-up die over the fold about a 1/4 inch from the left and then again the left side of the die cut is lined up on top of the far left side of the first die cut. Please see below for placement.

You will need to fold it a little different than normal. The ends and middle are folded in ward the two little ones on the top and bottom are folded in ward.  The big sections are folded out ward.  This will create a shelf or in this case two shelves side by side.

I then cut out 9 posts from the Lots of Pops Pop-Up  Die. Then I ink it using Vintage Photo distress ink.  Cut two strips 1/4" x 4 1/4" these are used to hold spaced out posts making the fence. The Bluebonnets and bunny were attached to the fence prior to the fence attached to the pop-up.

Bluebonnets: cut two large out of Bazzill Blue Jean and three out of Bazzill Blue Bell, Bluebonnet leaves cut out of Bazzill Hillary. White ink pen and Winks was used on Bluebonnets for accent. Attached Bluebonnets using scrappy glue and  pop dots on some of the Bluebonnets to/ give some dimension.
Grass: cut out of Bazzill Hillary using the grass die cut Garden Bench Pop-Up die set, used versa marker on some of the leaves to make them darker.
Bunny: cut out of Bazzill Bling Sugar Daddy (this paper makes the bunny look like a choc bunny)  Purple is my favorite color so I had to add a purple bow. :)  Now set the completed fence aside.

Clouds: cut two large and two small out of Bazzill White using the clouds from the All-Seasons Tree Die Cut

Before adhering the Pop-up part of the card to the outside of card.  Cut around 1/4" on the sides and top of the top portion of  pop-up card.  with this being done now the blue lace from the outside of the card will show.  The bottom of the pop-up card was inked with Shabby Shutters Distress ink with a little Vintage Photo added close to the pop-up to give the grass and dirt look.

Ribbon was added to the front of the card.  When attaching the inside to the outside the ribbon was tucked in between the top section of the inside to the outside card.

Once you have the inside and the outside attached then the fence is added.  The clouds were attached using pop dots. To attach fence to pop-up base on card. Adhesive was only added to the bottom part of the posts. using a tape runner.

Used a little play on words for the salutation.  "Everybunny looks good in Bluebonnets"  printed it and then used the large decorator label out of the Katie Label Pivot Card die cut.

Now that we have the inside done lets move to the outside of the card.  Cut one small Bluebonnet out of Bazzill Blue Jean and two small Bluebonnets out of Bazzill Blue Bell.  Leaves out of Bazzill Hillary. Use your favorite adhesive to adhere to the front of the card.  I used Scrappy Glue.

I hope you enjoy making this card as much as I did.
  
Supplies I used for this project were all purchased at Scrapp'n Savvy in Spring Texas.