Happy Late Birthday Nicole!

My friend's birthday was back in May but i never got around to posting the card i made for her. Basically i just coloured a bunch of flowers and glued them to a card based, added buttons and stamped CELEBRATE. If you would like to know how i coloured the flowers you can go to one of my older posts called Altered Book Box.

Bookmark

I made this bookmark for the book I'm reading now, Going Bovine by Libba Bray. I cut a piece of kraft card stock 1 1/2 by 4 1/2 then stamped a wood grain onto it. I glued on some pink flowers and added some glossy accents to the centers as well as a few little dots. I then punched a hole and added some ribbon.

Happy Birthday Cara!

It was my friend's birthday on Sunday and I made he a card but I'm only getting around to posting it now.

1. stamp "let's Party" on white card stock

2. tie green ribbon around white piece

3. glue white piece to green piece

4. glue green piece to patter paper

5. glue pattern paper to blue card base

Spring Card

Finally Spring is coming and the snow is melting! (I probably just jinxed it now) Anyway I made this card to put in an Easter gift. I thought it was pretty spring like.

1. used masking tape to make a boarder around the card

2. stamp/ emboss with clear powder a good grain stamp

3. use distress ink over the embossing it will leave a resisted effect

4. peel off tape

5. cover butterfly shape chip board with paper

6. layer the smaller butterfly on top of the bigger

7. Use glossy accents to make it shiny

8. cut a bunch of circles from pattern paper

9. layer them and attach with brad

10. scrunch up the paper circles to make it more dimensional

11. Attach flower and butterfly to card

12.use marker to add detail

Happy Birthday Natalie!

Today's my friends birthday so I made her a card.

1. emboss a gold wood grain on one side of a white card base

2. glue on a piece of pattern paper with gold shiny bits

3. emboss "make a wish" on a piece of white card stock

4. use the embossing pad to rub ink straight to edges of the white piece

4. emboss also with gold embossing powder

5. tie ribbon around it

Back?

I'm back from my little crafting vacation and I'm going to start posting again but I think a little less regularly. I think I'll do like 4 or 5 posts a week. I might do less but I'll be sure to do at least 2. Anyway I'm also coming back from another "real" vacation to Quebec with my French class. I had tons of fun and we went to the Albert Gilles Copper Museum. We got a little tour which was really cool. Albert Gilles made the large copper doors for the Saint Anne Basilica in Quebec City and also did work for Walt Disney. He even made 50 silver pieces telling the story of Christ. Website: http://www.albertgilles-copper-art.com/

We also got to participate in a little workshop where we created our own little copper piece.

It got a little banged up in my suit case :( but I'm still pretty proud of it. it's nothing compared to the amazing things they do at the museum and I really appreciate what they do considering how hard it is.

Basically the process of making what I did was to:

1. take a drawing and lay it on top of the copper sheet

2. take the "pointy" tool and trace the picture

3. remove picture and flip the metal over

4. using the "pointy" tool, draw lines slightly in from the others so create a little gap

5. with the "flat" tool push the most inner shape out to make it 3-D on the front side

(it's really hard to push it out a lot, just saying)

6. With the "really flat" tool, on the front side smooth the metal around the image

¨Repoussé¨ (metal embossing) is a dying art and so I'm really glade I got to try it out.

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I'm going to take a little crafting vacation. We'll see when I get back but I'm not really feeling it lately. Quality over Quantity right?