The Sky is the Limit

Good morning!  Alicia with your inspiration today.  I have a created a Spring scene with several dies from the Dies R Us store.  I started with Lawn Fawn Stitched Kite dies and designed from that element.

On my first card, I cut my kite out twice, once in silver and once in a stamped image.  I then inlaid the stamped version in the frame of the silver.  

On this second card, I used a stamped frame from one die and a solid kite background from another die.  There are so many options with this set.  I kept a little bag of extra parts for the next time I play with my kite die.

Dies R Us Products used:

Lawn Fawn Stitched Kite dies

Avery Elle Pierced Cloud

Memory Box Dies Open Studio Stitched Rectangle

Other ingredients:

Stampin Up Tie Dye stamp set

Avacado Arts stamp set

Creative Memories paper

Ranger Raven ink

white and misc card stock
foam dots

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I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2017/03/challenge-155-popping-good-times-with.html until 3/21x

http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2017/03/challenge-69-borders-andor-edges.html until 3/27x

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia



Kite card with Authentique Favorite

I recently participated in a "kite" swap.  I purchased the actual kits in the $1 bins at Michael's.  I just knew I would have some papers to match.  I think they turned out cute.  Here are my contributions:

Ingredients:

Authentique Favorite papers

Avocado Arts Sentiment

Michael's paper kites

Spellbinders Scrapmart exclusive clouds

Graphic 45 Bon voyage blue ink

Mixed Media Stormy ink

Quick Quotes Blue Moon, Buttercup, Coal Miner

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2015/07/challenge-165-create-card-set.html until 8/12x

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/08/challenge-118.html until 8/13x

http://papercreatorscrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/challenge-41-challenge-winner.html until 9/1 (1of3)x

http://pathofpositivitychallenge.blogspot.com/2015/08/challenge-29-opportunity-august-3rd.html until 9/6   Opportunity!  the sky's the limit!x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Card Creations by my little friends...

I recently took a family vacation to the North Carolina coast. When I say family, I mean family...including my four nieces.  I took along a tote of crafting stuff to keep us occupied should we have a rainy day.  You know there was a couple of those!  Luckily, the rain never lasted all day but over the course of the week, we were able to play several hours.  Here are the best of the projects my nieces created:

 

Hana really did some experimenting with technique here.  She inked a Tim Holtz diecut which was on textured paper.  That really turned out neat!  She also used a Stampin Up embossing folder on some pink shimmer paper.  On the inside she created a scene with an Avocado Arts set of stamps, too cute!

 

Here's a second card from Hana.

 

A card from Morgan.

 

Briana came up with this idea.  I brought a Colorbox rainbow pad that I have because I thought the girls would enjoy it.  Briana put her little finger right in the middle where the colors come together.  Just adorable!  I told her to use it as her signature on all her cards.  Morgan borrowed the idea here. 

 

Christina made the bird card.

 

Here's the inside.

 

Another one by Christina.

 

The butterfly card below is by Briana.  She stamped and painted the butterflies with Sparkling H2O's.  I used the Creative Memories postage punch to punch them out.  Then she assembled the card and added the glitter glue.  She is seven.

 

Here's some embossing B did on the pink shimmer paper, then inked it.

I had so much fun playing with my nieces!  I sure wished they lived closer and we could visit more often.

 

Thank you Cards

While volunteering at the CKC in Cincinnati a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to also work for Avacado Arts.  I managed her make and take while she taught a class for a couple of hours.  Of course, I traded for merchandise and got these cute stamps in exchange for my work.  I used two of her stamp sets here:  February 2012: wishes and Kind Thoughts and another unnamed set.  I scraplifted the tag make and take and made it into a card.

The best thing I learned from her make and take was the reverse stamping to "color in" the stamped area as done with the grass and owl.

Here is the original make and take.