Christmas in July

Friday Try-Day started off with three great cards they expected and then

 the ladies got a special surprise of a 

Christmas In July Card!!

This Splitcoast Stampers inspired card was so much fun to make, 

and they loved using the traditionally "halloween" Drippy Goo punch for the candles.

Here's how to make one for yourself!

Begin with an A2 background in red... 8.5 x 5.5 folded to 4.25 x 5.5

White 4 x 5.25 embossed with Snowflake design by Cuttlebug (Provo Craft)

Red cardstock cut to 2.75 x 3.75.  Add strip of punched Drippy Goo across top. 

Cut red/white piece into three - 1 x 2.75, 1.25 x 2.75 and the remainder is 1.5 x 2.75.

Use corner rounder (I used We R. Memory Keepers 1/4 Chompers) on candle edges.

Distress sides of candles with Vintage Photo Distress ink for depth.

Layer candles to desired positions and trim bottom edges evenly.  Glue together.

Place as single unit on card, 5.8" from the bottom of white card.

Punch out four holly leaves and six branch punch pieces.  Mold with ball stylus.  Adhere.

Use standard office hole punch for berries.  Mold to cup shape, invert and glue in place.

Add flames cut from flower petals.

Accent with red and silver Stickles.

Enjoy!  I'll be back with you again soon!

Happy crafting ~

Simple Silhouette Images

This month's Friday Try-Day cards featured several varied techniques, as usual, and I'll start with this trendy look of using a detailed stamp, and blocking it out to make it a silhouette.

We started by punching a sticky note "sun" and deciding where we wanted our horizon to be.  

Sketch in a very light line with a permanent pen.

Using a stencil brush and yellow ink, brush back and forth to add the yellow layer all the way across the card.  Place the sun mask along the horizon in desired position.

Now begin brushing in layers of orange, pink, and purple for the sky.

Add blues and greens for for the water.

Stamp the bird, tree and grasses.  

Color in all open areas with a marker, creating the silhouettes, extending any areas to edges as necessary..

Use a fine line pen to add water movement lines. 

Add your sentiment of choice to the water area.  

This technique works best as a card front layer, as the marker will bleed through the cardstock. 

Mat and add to folded card for finished card ready for presentation. 

This works very well with all sorts of stamped images, including ones that didn't give a good impression the first time, and can be saved this way!  

I hope you enjoyed one of our Friday Try-Day projects, and will give it a TRY yourself!

See you again soon with more ..........

Happy crafting ~

Yudu Cardmaker Projects

Who can resist a great sale?  I found a super sale on the Yudu silk screen CardMaker, and have been having a lot of fun working on some cool projects.

With silk screen you get crisp, clean images with extraordinary detail.

The Cardmaker offers pre-burned screens with images and sentiments.  

You squeegee ink over the screen, making as many copies of the image as you want. 

This image was screened with a mask, allowing use of both pink and chocolate inks.

It can be used on lots of different surfaces, like this soft pink cotton.

This baby onesie needs a bit of heat setting with an iron,

 and the image is permanent!

Check out Provo Craft for the Yudu Cardmaker for lots of versatile printing fun.

More later ...............

Happy crafting !

Friday Try-Day Cards and Projects

Last month our Friday Try-Day project was a Card Box ensemble to hold cards for all occasions.

It is nice to have an organized place for all of the cards we create as we are learning all of the new techniques we try out, and those great designs we CASE from Pinterest!  LOL

Today I am sharing one of our Friday Try-Day cards from April, which was waiting in the box for a time, sadly, when it would be needed to cheer someone in need.

"Just a Little Prayer"

The inside sentiment says "That God will keep you in His care".

That seems appropriate for the 

I FEEL THE LOVE PROJECT for this month.

This blog, and the work they do is very precious to me. 

Madison, the teenage founder of this Non-profit organization is a talented

young woman with a giant heart.  Since she was 16 years old she has chosen a different family

 each month that could benefit

 from receiving handmade cards. 

This month's story is of a 6 month old angel named 

Baby Mason

who was born with special needs,

and then tragically died at the hands of a drunk driver. 

My card will be delivered to his grieving parents.

I hope you will take a moment to check out this website, and 

perhaps join in sending a card...

There is a new mission every month.  

The lace stamp set as well as the sentiments are available from Close To My Heart.

The lace was heat embossed in white onto pale gray cardstock,

then distressed with Sapphire Blue ink over the top.  Use a paper towel

to buff the image and bring the white back to brilliance.

The butterfly was cut from the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, also from CTMH. 

The pearl brads are from Making Memories.

Mat with black, and mount on a blue card.

Line with another gray insert with the sentiment stamped in blue.

I hope you are inspired to do something creative today.

Happy crafting ~