Imagine That Digi of the Month

Hi all.  Today I am posting my card that I made for the DOTM.  It is called Maggie's Apples and Maggie is a sweet cow!  Last month's players received this brand new set, to play in this month's challenge.  If you missed that challenge, you can get this set FREE with your $10 order in the shop.  Or, you can buy it at a reduced price all of this month so you can come and play!  Everyone who plays by September 28th will receive a free set to play in next month's challenge.  I colored my "Maggie" with alcohol markers and cut with out with a Spellbinders die.  I used some of the Imagine That digi paper and added a bow.   

Don't forget to check out the DOTM challenge page and see how easy it is to win a new set to use for next month's challenge.  We have also just started a new program called Cherry on Top.  Someone will win a new set, if their challenge card is chosen by our design team.  You must play to win!  Keep watching the blog after the first of next month to see if you are the winner.  

I will be posting some other new cards that I have made, soon.

Till next time...

Ribbon Wreath

Hi all.  I am posting these cards to show what I am making for Christmas cards this year.  They 

are called Ribbon Wreaths.  I got inspired to make these wreaths when I saw a card online that 

had a perfectly plain white wreath.  I'm not even sure what it was made out of.  But, I thought it would be really nice to wrap ribbon on it and so I actually made my first one as a 4th of July birthday card.  You can see that one in my previous post.  The technique is really quite simple and after you make the wreath, you can decorate it with ribbon, bows, rhinestones, punches, etc.  One of my examples is for a winter card that I added snowflakes that were actually waste from a border punch.  You can use any kind of background (stamped, designer paper, handmade background or even embossed).  The actual wreath is made by using 2 circle die cuts of different sizes.  

This card is being entered in the following challenge:

Addicted to Stamps Challenge Blog 

I hope you will try my technique.

Till next time...

February Digi of the Month

Hi all.  I am a bit behind on getting my Digi of the Month (D.O.T.M.) DT inspiration card done.  I have finished it and would like everyone to get a chance to play in this month's challenge.  If you played last month, you should already have the new stamp set called Mailbox Kitties.  If not, you can purchase it from the store.  The price has been reduced from $3.00 to $1.95.  In fact, all of the older stamps have been reduced!  There is even a new category of $1 digis.  Now is the time to go to the store and pick up the ones that you don't already own.  My DT card for this month was done a little differently from what I usually do.  After I colored the image with alcohol markers, I fussy cut it and made several layers to place the image onto.  I used a lace heart doily, a couple of layers of cardstock, one of which I dry embossed with my heart embossing folder.  I used my new ribbon from the Dollar Tree and added a couple of threaded buttons.  

Don't forget to play along with our Feb. Digi of the Month challenge.  Please be sure to check out the other designers' projects while you are at the site.  

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Christmas in July

Hi everyone.  This week's card for The Cutting Cafe Design Team is from The Christmas Card Fun files.  When I originally made my card, I used ribbon under the cut out windows.  The whole thing buckled and I was not happy with it at all.  I was going to try doing another card with a different shape, when I found the 3 ornament pieces sitting on my desk.  I decided to do something different and I took the pieces and did some Zentangle on each one.  I pop dotted them onto a die cut, embossed paper.  I attached a little gold string on each one and framed them with a larger, green die cut paper.  I glued the whole thing onto red card stock.

Zentangle card

Original card with ribbon

Check out the other submissions by The Cutting Cafe's wonderful and talented design team.
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Be Blessed!
Until next time...

Card Box Organizer

I am on vacation right now and have been trying to post my latest creation for The Cutting Cafe.  We were to make either a Card Box Organizer Set or The Dresser Box Template.  Due to my time constraints, I decided to go the easy way and make the card box.  I really like the way it turned out.  I used 2 pieces of 12x12 designer card stock for this project.  After putting it together, I added some ribbon, silk flowers and leaves and also a vine from a MFT die.  Easy peasy!

Box & Lid



Top of Box

I won't be able to have anything for next week, due to my being away, but I will return with my next project in 2 weeks.

Until next time...

Strawberry Shaped Card

Well, this is strawberry week at The Cutting Cafe.  I decided to use the The Strawberry Shaped Card for my project.  It is just one of many strawberry sets that are available at TCC.  I really like the idea of doing a shaped card.  I enjoyed the house so much last week that I decided to keep with the shaped cards.  I used 4 different papers on this project.  Two are designer papers (the strawberry shape and the leaves), one is a textured card stock (the chocolate dip part) and glossy photo paper (for the seeds).  After cutting out the images, I sponged some texture and assembled the pieces.  The chocolate dip was an afterthought.  I added little white dots to accent the outlines and used a Clear Star pen on the dots on the leaves to make them sparkle.  I hope you are able to see this in the picture.  It always seems to show up better in real life!  I found this piece of ribbon (don't know where it came from) and used a very small grosgrain ribbon to tie the ribbon into a bow.  The tiny ribbon was white and I colored it with Copic markers to match the edge of the bow.

 Outside of card

Closeup of ribbon (You can see the sparkle much better.)

I guess that's all for now.  Don't forget to check out the other designers and see what they have made.

Also, please leave me a message so that I will know you were here.  I read all comments!

Until next time...