Dream! - New Handmade Greeting Card | Ribbon | Paints | Die Cut's

Dream! - New Handmade Greeting Card | Ribbon | Paints | Die Cut's Woohoo!! Here it is! Its been a while since I've posting a handmade card, but this one was worth the wait if you ask me. Actually, I've been working on Thanksgiving cards, but lets be honest, the only people who visit this blog are my friends and family, and I really didn't want to SPOIL anything. So those cards are coming later. I desinged this after a sketch for 'My Favorite Things'

I hope you enjoy this wonderfully colorful card! And remember to dream! :)

This is the 'sketch' I was supposed to follow.

Handmade Thank You Card - Stamped and Heat Embossed

I made this beautiful card for my wonderful Grandma, who was able to visit our family this past weekend. I remember her favorite color being red, so I used this reddish/pink paper I had recently purchases. I hand stamped and heat embossed the pattern in the background. I also used my SLICE die cutter to cut out the tag and tag scallop. It was a simple enough card to make, but it is PERFECT in construction. Everything has to be good for Grandma :) I hope you enjoy it!

Old Window Piece --- Made New Again!!

I love anything old! Tell me its older than me, and I'm practically in love. My parents replaced the windows on the front of their house, and I was rewarded with several 'vintage' window frames for my artsy pleasure!! I was not smart enough to take before after pictures (which I will strive to do now when i re-work a project) but here are final shots. It is taken with my Android phone, so the quality isn't great. One day, I will own an actual camera again, until I break that one too.

The frame has great shape!

The distressing was fun to do, first time ever.

Straight on, brings nice color to my drab apartment walls.

Be sure to use detailed paper! Go the extra mile and use some scrap booking skills to create a window pane of memories.

I used a mix of several blue/turquoise acrylic paints to paint the wood frame. Once dry, I then did a brown watercolor 'wash' to give it a rustic look. There are some really cool 'drippings' that you can't see in the picture. Then, I simply cut and pasted some beautiful scrap booking paper to the back of the window facing front. I used double sided clear tape (the red crafty one) so you wouldn't notice the tape. It is there if you look REALLY hard. Be creative with the paper!! The top left and bottom right, I actually embellished with scrap paper from the other cuts, but there is so much more you can actually do.

I've seen project similar to this, where each from resembled a scrapbook with photos, memorabilia, etc. Quite charming.

This window pane now hangs in my bedroom! Love it!