Based layout on Sabrina Alery's card in a recent Cards publication. PTI guitar die with black brads.
Charcoal sparkle cardstock is from American Crafts; sentiment is computer generated. Memory Box Licorice cardstock base. Finished card size: 5.5 inches square.
Pink Petticoat interior sentiment; PTI music bar & notes. Happy Friday!
Bella Blvd Birthday Girl papers, Divine Twine, metal rimmed tag. Finished card size is about five inches square. Tag die is PTI.
Handmade envelope using same papers. Hero Arts sentiment.
Notebook was part of the birthday gift ensemble for another friend of youngest daughter. Letter 'd' was glitterfied using this method.
Notebook interior; finished size is 6 x 8. Happy Tuesday!
Basic Grey Serenade buttons and paper; doily; spritzed a 4.5 inch diameter doily with a pale gray-blue Sprinkler (Icebox) and layered underneath the white, English-style one. Walnut ink stained formerly ivory #12 tag anchors it all. Finished card size - I believe this was 5 x 7 or 5 x 6 inches - it sold last week at the local artisan fair I do a couple of times each month; one-of-a-kind, ornate pieces like this go quickly.
Delicate linen thread; round 1.5 inch diameter metal-rimmed tag; Zva crystal (symmetrical flourish), Papertrey ticket die (cut using Serenade paper) and stamps.
...and a handmade, bubble-lined envelope of course!
I didn't hit the gym this morning - pushed it hard yesterday. I'm 'bout half-way to getting my 10 million pound t-shirt (Technogym key database conveniently keeps track of total weight lifted)...cuz you know...it's all about the t-shirt! Hey it's almost Friday - yippieee!!
Memory Box dies, tiny tag was dyed with a walnut ink solution and stamped with a Papertrey Ink stamp. Cardstocks are Bazzill white textured and Card Shoppe.
When the above pictured catalog arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, I was instantly given a vision of today's card.
Taking images and color combinations from magazines and creating a card or notebook from that visual cue is a source of pleasure for me. Best wishes for a wonderful week and in 2013!
I put together only two colossal Basic Grey Serenade kits - in each of these kits there is a package of paper flowers and canvas flowers.
Card base uses Spellbinders grand scallop circles and the flags and banners from the kit. Finished size is five inches in diameter.
Card interior - Papertrey Ink stamps and banner die.
The photo above shows the entire package of Serenade flowers used - one on the notebook, five others at the top left (created most these based on the product packaging photo), and two machine-stitched card fronts using up the little extras.
Notebook uses a Zva vine, 7gypsies tissue paper, butterfly pins and crochet/velvet ribbon.
Flower center is from Jolee's.
Notebook interior - another flower used on the interior pocket, as well as two Memory Box dies (Pocket Gift Tag and Perfect Gift Card) - makes a nifty pocket for post-it notes once the recipient has removed the gift card. Finished notebook measures 5 x 8 inches when closed.
I'll detail the other cards made with the Serenade flowers in Monday's post - next week I hope to detail my latest love - how I make custom envelopes, as well as bubble-lined envelopes. Best wishes for a great weekend and Happy Birthday Bevie!
Mrs. Coburn was my humanities teacher in high school - I recall her teaching that gothic arched windows were to keep the human eye looking upward, toward the heavens. She was an amazing teacher.
Ranger's alcohol inks were muddled on their glossy cardstock, then die cut. Memory Box Grand Gothic Luminary Window die used with the Grand Gothic Window. Papertrey sentiment and banner die; Making Memories brad. Memory Box solid cardstocks used (boysenberry, vanilla bean, kraft (interior), squash.
Customizable cards are today's project - I did this before here, and today's project is a gift as well. This set is being sent to the kind Frontgate rep that handled the giveaway a while back.
Be sure to scroll down to Monday's post to be entered in the Frontgate giveaway!
Inspired by Kittie Caracciolo and her amazing work with Memory Box and poppystamps dies - I opened my packages of the grand window and shutter, and was amazed at the detail in the die-cut images.
I had to google 'shutters' to see how they are attached to a house, as I don't have any and couldn't find the binoculars to look at my neighbor's house across the street, cuz they have them 
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Still playing with this Sizzix circle-flip die - October Afternoon's Woodland Park papers and chipboard pieces (butterfly) used, along with Memory Box/Poppystamps Carousel Bird Cage and Meadow Leaf dies. Zva crystal flourish and Divine Twine in Lemon.
Interior sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, and the Spellbinders scalloped rectangle (the long ones) was sponged lightly with Peeled Paint Distress ink. Thinking about getting this flip die in the fancy frame style. Thanks for stopping by!
I've finally developed a neatly-finished notebook that has the ability to allow the user to remove the old pad and replace with a new one.
October Afternoon 9 to 5 papers, designer brads and flower-sack die-cuts, May Arts chevron twill, compass, Papertrey notepads and Take Note set used.
Handy pocket on the interior.
Side shot of the removable notepad. The notebook base is reinforced with a piece of hidden chipboard.
A frontal shot of the finishing job. The spine is decoratively reinforced with tissue tape. Thanks for looking!
