Flowers and Lace Album

I finished the album I showed parts of yesterday.

This album is 5"x7", and is made to hold six 4x6 photos. It would work for either a girl or woman, or for a wedding.

This is the cover. I used Spellbinders Fancy Tags Three shaded with VersaMagic Sky Blue, and accented with Liquid Pearls for the label.

The album is like a book, and when you open it, you see these two spots for photographs. The photos slide easily under the lace borders, and that is what holds them in place.

When you open the two photo pages outward, there are spaces for four more photos.

The DP is Colorbok, and all flowers are Recollections. The greenery is the MS Branch Punch, and the lace is an MS border punch. I applied the Offray ribbon after running it through my X shaped Xyron. I used Liquid Pearls for accents and in the flower centers.

I have listed this item in my Etsy Shop.

I'm working on a different kind of album

This is what I've finished so far. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get the covers done and upload the rest. I'll also try to take better photos. Right now, the Liquid Pearls are drying. Update: The completed album is here.

This album is 5"x7", and is made to hold six 4x6 photos. It would work for either a girl or woman, or for a wedding.

The album is like a book, and when you open it, you see these two spots for photographs. The photos slide easily under the lace borders, and that is what holds them in place.

When you open the two photo pages outward, there are spaces for four more photos.

The DP is Colorbok, and all flowers are Recollections. The greenery is the MS Branch Punch, and the lace is an MS border punch. I applied the Offray ribbon after running it through my X shaped Xyron. I used Liquid Pearls for accents and in the flower centers.

Hopefully you will be able see the rest tomorrow. Update: The completed album is here.

Nautical Happy Birthday

I had this double sided paper which I wanted to use for a card with one of my Just Rite stamp sets. Since I live on an island in Maine, and we have the largest lobster landings in my town, I wanted the lobsters to show up on the card as well as the brown striped paper on the other side of the card, which worked better with the stamps, so I cut the paper out as the whole card so the lobsters would be on the inside. I probably should have trimmed the white on the inside circle since it partially covers up the Happy Birthday on the larger circle. You can read the happy birthday on the card in person though.

The DP is from Websters Pages, and the stamps are from Just Rite and Stampendous. The blue paper is Mulberry paper applied to CS with my Xyron, and the red paper is from Walmart.

I stamped it with Stazon because I couldn't remember which inks were waterproof, and I wanted to color it with watercolor pencils. The little anchors are from a Martha Stewart punch.

The die cuts were all done with Spellbinders.

German Scrap Santa Card

This is another card made from my collection of German scrap. He is on Core'dinations white pearl cs which was embossed in my Big Kick using a Sizzix embossing folder. The pearl cs is mounted on gold mirror card, which is mounted on Anna Griffin red glittered paper. The pearls are Queen & Co. The red glittered paper is mounted with my Xyron onto more pearl paper which I cut to size for the card. I added gold glitter to the centers of the snowflakes.

Anna Griffin Merry Christmas Card

This card is similar to an example on last year's Calisto cardstock pack. I cut the label from one piece of AG paper, and mounted it on red and green AG pine cone paper. The green background paper is applied using my Xyron to cardstock cut to make a 5x5 card. The light tan paper behind the red is the back of a sheet of AG cardstock which matches the background of the label. (I didn't like the colors in the pattern on the front). I cut around it with patterned scissors. Then I added AG holly die cuts, and used Queen & Co. cranberry colored pearls for berries to add dimension and a richer color.

Card using Anja Style Stencils and Spellbinders

This one didn't come out very well. My xacto blade was dull, and living on an island,  we have to drive 40 miles to get a new one. It doesn't look as ragged in real life as it does in this photo.

The moire paper is mounted onto a white card using my Xyron Creative Station. The Anja Style Stencil by Marianne Designs was flopped when I embossed and cut it to make the top and bottom match, and I put green ribbon behind the center slots.

The design in the center was cut from spellbinders dies, and I added the cutouts from the green part to the four corners, putting Queen & Co. pearls on top. Then I added a narrow bow made with Offray ribbon.

Easel Card with Drawers

This is the first time I have made an easel card with matchbox drawers underneath. I painted the drawers blue inside and out, then added paper to the long edges to make them match the background paper, and added brass brads for drawer pulls.

The white card stock is Core'dinations Pearl, and the green is moire paper mounted on card stock with my Xyron. I made the blue patterned paper on my computer.

The dies are Spellbinders, and the 3D flower was in my stash. (Most of my flowers are punched out and in separate pockets in an album). The pearls are Queen & Co. and the ribbon is some I got at JoAnne's. The die cut on the front was outlined with a Sakura Pen Touch, and I used a tiny dab of gold glitter glue in the centers of the flowers.

Filigree Butterfly Card

This card uses an Anja Style Corner by Marianne Designs and a filigree butterfly by Cheery Lynn. The butterfly is mounted on a flower from Spellbinders. I love all the cutting and embossing dies we now have access to!

The pink moire paper was bought at craft store and mounted onto white card stock using my Xyron. It's a regular weight paper, and mounting it on card stock enables me to use it like any other card stock. I am always on the lookout for beautiful papers. The lavender paper is some linen textured card stock I've had for a while. The pearls are Queen & Co.

Embossing Plus Christmas Card

This card uses Core'dinations Pearl paper, some green paper sold in sheets at our local craft store mounted on card stock with my Xyron Creative Station, gold mirror card, (the mirror card looks black in the photo), Queen & Co. pearls and a die cut.

Okay, the reason the gold looks black is that it wasn't gold I used, it was a very dark green. Oooops! That's the problem with putting older cards you no longer have on your blog. You don't always remember the details.

I cut and embossed the frame with a Cuttlebug Embossing Plus folder in my Sizzix Big Kick, and outlined the poinsettia leaves with a gold Sakura Pen Touch.

Christmas Cards

Here are some more bad photos from my phone that I took last winter. The top two cards were done with my Spellbinders, and the bottom two were done with my Pazzles Inspiration.

The top two were done on paper I mounted to the cards with the Xyron Creative Station. The bottom two were from a project in the Pazzles Craftroom. I did the background with my Pazzles using a Sakura glue pen and embossed the backgrounds with some embossing powder I had, then used the Glue Pen in my Pazzles to do the gold outlines which were then sprinkled with embossing powder and melted. I sort of messed up the poinsettia on the first one, so I used a Dresden Santa on the second instead.

Pink Rose Card

I made this card using a Spellbinders Nestability, gold Dresden trim, Queen & Co. pearls, gold outline stickers, and some moire type paper sold in sheets at a local craft store. I applied the paper using my Xyron Creative Station

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My first blog

I have been making cards and doing other paper crafts for as long as I can remember. I recently got the Pazzles Inspiration, and joined some groups. Most of the girls have blogs, and I decided this would be a good way for me to show off my creations and share designs too. Now I just need to get some photos taken of my cards to make this blog worth reading!

Until I got the Pazzles, my other card making tools were the Sizzix Big Kick and the five inch Xyron Creative Station. I love the Sizzix, but felt limited by what was available. I have quite a few dies and embossing folders from Sizzix, Cuttlebug, and Spellbinders. I like the Spellbinders dies the best.

I used to love the Creative Station, but now the adhesive refills are getting so expensive that I only use them for a few things. They started out a $5.99 a year ago, then went to $10.99, and now are at $23.99 in my area. That's a huge increase in price, and makes it so I can't sell cards and make a profit if I use the Xyron. I used to love using it to put fancy lightweight paper onto my cardstock. It was the only way to add things like mulberry paper to my cards, but with cost of refills four times as much as it was, there is no way I can justify using it. I also was not happy with Xyron's customer service.

Pazzles has amazing customer service, and you talk to real people who care! They also have an awesome website, and there are tons of forums and blogs with free or inexpensive files to download. I'm still learning to use mine, but I knew there was a learning curve before I sent for it.

I got the Embossing mat and tool and the pen tool when I ordered mine. I haven't tried embossing yet, but the pen tool is wonderful! Today I used the Sakura Quickie Glue Stick in the pen tool, and sprinkled embossing powder on, and embossed nice fine lines beautifully. I also used some of the Jelly Roll pens to write on things with the pen tool. Between the Pazzles, the Sizzix and my printer, I can do almost anything I want now. These tools have almost made my rubber stamps obsolete!