Let Them Eat Cake!

 Everyone should have cake on their birthday, even if you are on a diet! However, if you are one of those who never eat sweets or cakes kind of person, then maybe you can just admire this cake and smell the roses! I created this card specifically for Our Creative Corner's Challenge "photo inspiration - baby shower". You chose at least two details from the photo and create a project around them. I decided to go with the coral and turquoise colors, the flowers, and of course, cake. I love cake! I love baking cakes! I love decorating cakes! I love eating cake! I love giving someone a cake I made! And now I love creating paper cakes! Who knew...I just wish I could eat it!?! 

I am also submitting this card to the Lisa Somerville's Blogger's Challenge "texturize it". There's a lot of texture going on here! I am super proud of how my bottle came out. This faux vintage glass look technique is from Wendy Vecchi, but I tweaked it some. I wanted to recycle and I didn't have any empty, unused glass bottles, so I used an empty "plastic" matte medium bottle. I applied Gesso instead of Glue N Seal, and after crackling, I used Distress Ink instead of Distress Stain, but still the same principle. I love this! That Wendy is a smart, crafty cookie!

Remove label and lid cap and wash thoroughly. Apply a layer of Gesso and let dry.

Apply a very heavy layer of Distress Crackle and let air dry. Apply Distress Ink to cracks and work in really well.

Reduce, reuse, recycle! Here's the package from the Prima flowers. I love the color and images on their packaging.

Use Watermark Reist (love this stuff) and stamp images on craft card.

Do the same on the Prima packaging. Ink all edges with Distress Ink.

Stamp writing image on flower petals with Distress Ink, and apply metallic paint dabber to the edges of the petals.

Cut bottle in two, and save the other half for another project. Tie ribbon on and add flowers and embellishments.

For the cake, I used Espresso and Bronze Paint Dabbers to stamp the image. The cake plate was covered in Crackle Accents and the cake in Rock Candy Distress Stickles. Liquid Perfect Pearls makes the decorative border on the cake layers. A long bead and wire cord are used to make the candle. I added Dew Drops for the cake plates feet and a piece of ribbon for the doily. More Dew Drops are used on the vase and embellishment in the flower bouquet. The sentiment is stamped in Distress Ink, heat embossed, and Crackled. A decorative border of Liquid Pearls is added.

 

 

Supplies:
Prima:flowers
From My Stash: ribbon, journal frame, bead (candle), peach colored cardstock

Craft Paper Card	Fall 2011 Limited Edition Distress Ink Trio	Crackle Accents	Paper distresser	Glossy Accents	Paint Dabbers - Espresso
Copper Acrylic Paint Dabber	Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint	Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Powder	Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles	Bisque Liquid Pearls	Watermark Resist
Dew Drops Mint Chocolate	Melody Ross Domestic Bliss Stamp Set	Glitz Background Stamp Set	Jubilee Pins	Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Hot Air Balloon Heart

Amour c'est magnifique! So true, so true! I love Love! Valentine's Day is a fun day to show love to your peeps, but actually we should show it everyday. Here is a card that can be used at any time of year and not just Valentine's. All the stamped images are from the Artistic Outpost's Paris Exposition stamp set. I love all the images on this set, but I really have a thing about hot air balloons. They have always fascinated me. I think the two balloons eluding to a heart works well here, even though it's not perfectly shaped. I had a super fun time dressing up Madame. She was very cooperative and seemed to enjoy modeling for me. She finally choose the vintage, zebra printed, mink stole with diamond brooch brad. And, as she has the perfect shaped head for millinery, she had to have this black burlap cloche because it donned a huge, handmade, red grosgrain rose, even Coco would approve!

The balloons were stamped on transparency with StazOn and colored in with permanent marker. The Eiffel Tower is stamped with Distress Ink and crackled over, along with the Amour. All the background images on the craft paper are Distress Ink stamped and heat embossed with clear UTEE. Watercolor pencils were used on Madame and the sky, and all of Madame's make-up was done with Glaze Pens, as well as her gorgeous blue eyes. Distress Ink borders all of the cardstock. I created the rose by tying lose knots in the ribbon and gathering it into a circle, finally adhering it at the bottom.

 

  

I am entering this card in Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stamper Challenge for "my eyes adored you". Don't you think her eyes are looking at someone adoringly? Oo la la!!! Hels is also sharing the love with some blog candy as she celebrates the Sunday Stamper's 4th birthday...so cool!!!

Supplies:
Uchida Marvy: Pigmented Artist Markers (red)
From My Stash: black and white cardstock, red ribbon, red thread, rhinestones, zebra ribbon, burlap

Jet Black Stazon	Crackle Accents	UTEE - Clear	Ink Blending Tool	Glossy Accents	Fall 2011 Limited Edition Distress Ink Trio
Tumbled Glass Distress Ink	Pumice Stone Distress Ink	Blue Glaze Pen	Red Glaze Pen	Sepia Glaze Pen	Watercolor Pencils
Paris Exposition Stamp Set	Craft Paper Card

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Love...Time Well Spent!

 Hello crafty souls!!! I wanted to show you the whole master-board that I used on the Queen of Hearts ATC, that I am also using on this ATC for the All Things Tim Yahoo Group February swap.  I used the whole 8x12 inch sheet with the exception of a 3x1 inch piece that I can still use somewhere else. It has been a while since I've used a master-board, but I will now do so often as it makes doing sets of ATC's a snap. You can do a series where you make changes to each, or do all of them the same way. I also am submitting this ATC to Lisa Somerville's Blogger's Challenge for "elements of time". Here's a quick tutorial for creating this master-board.

I dabbed on Alcohol Inks, letting the it dry a few minutes between coats, onto Glossy Cardstock.

I stamped several Valentine images using Archival and Distress Inks. I heat set them with a heat gun. I stopped here for the Queen of Hearts ATC.

For my Love Time ATC, I used the remainder of the master-board.  I cut my cards and added a winged image to the hearts. I rounded corners and added foil lace, a clock and spinner, and the computer generated sentiment.

 

 

Supplies:

32 Degrees North: Dresden Foil Lace

The Paper Studio: Clock Faces

Crackle Accents	Idea-ology Game Spinners	Mini Ornates Stamp Set	Glossy Accents	Gloss Finish Paper	Jet Black Archival Ink
Winter 2011 Distress Ink Pack	Worn Lipstick Distress Ink	Fired Brick Distress Ink	Aged Mahogany Distress Ink	Snow Cap Mixative	Watermelon Alcohol Ink
Red Pepper Alcohol Ink	Pitch Black Alcohol Ink	Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool	Love Struck Stamp Set	Cotton White Stazon	Urban Grunge Stamp Set

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!