March Papercrafting Class

For March I've designed a set of 3 cards that my papercrafting group is going to make.  I tried my hand at making a chalkboard card using one of Close to My Heart's quick cards stamps. I like how it turned out, but I'm not sure how much it looks like the chalkboard cards floating around out there on the internet.

It's the one on the left hand side. I used black cardstock, embossed the image in white embossing powder, and then colored the dragonfly with some pencils. I added a bit of white pigment ink to give the chalkboard look, and outlined the image with a white pencil.

The other technique is the Buzzing card. For that one I sponged 3 different ink colors on the stamp (it too is a single image stamp) and then stamped the whole thing on Colonial White cardstock.

The Happy Birthday card is a little more involved. No fancy techniques were used for stamping, but the card itself is more than just what you see here. It opens up.

This card uses the same stamp as the Buzzing card above, but I've cut out the bee and the sentiment. I got the instructions for making this foldout card from
http://craftingwithjoanie.blogspot.ca/2013/02/how-to-make-s-fold-flap-card.html

All cards are made using the Buzz and Bumble paper pack from Close to My Heart.

Happy crafting!

Welcome to my blog! My goal with this is to showcase some of my scrapbook and card artwork. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy creating it. I mostly use Close to My Heart products, but every now and then I'll throw something else into the mix.

Let's get creating, shall we?  For this inaugural post I'd like to show you something I made for the men in my life - my husband and two boys - for Valentine's day. We needed some new glassware, and so I bought some glasses and dressed them up. Then I filled them with candy. I set them out on the table and there they sat, perfect, until my husband got home.

You see, he brought me some roses, and I put them into a vase. Then I set the vase on the dining room table and walked away, probably to start cooking dinner. When I next went into the dining room, the vase had somehow overturned (I'm blaming a cat for that one) and water was everywhere. Luckily it didn't get to the wood on my grandmother's teak dining table because I have a protective pad on it, but a few of the wrappers on these cute glasses had slid down, and the water blurred the ink. So my cute little glasses were now smeared and unreadable. No one really seemed to mind though. Luckily I had snapped a few photos before the rose incident.

I used the following to make the heart and the wrapper around the glass. All products from Close to My Heart unless otherwise stated


All My Love, a retired stamp set
Affection, stamp set
Perfect Fit Frames, stamp set
Cricut images from Close to My Heart's Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges
Lagoon, Tulip and Cotton Candy inks
Tulip, Lagoon and Colonial White cardstocks
Patterned paper from the Stella paper pack
Foundry pin clips