Happy Mother's Day

From Heidi...

Adriel and I worked on some Mother's Day cards last week. I love the 3-D flower effect, so I made 4 cards using it. The pink and brown card with a touch of blue had a Victorian and vintage look to it, so I sponged the blue with Creamy Caramel to make it look more vintage.

We lived in No. CA for almost 15 years among all the beautiful Victorian Homes. These cards reminded me of those homes...and since the flowers are 3-D, I told Adriel they reminded me of the 3-story Victorians. It's kind of a joke...because she was the one who posted my other dimensionalled flower on Etsy. One of the tags she gave it was triple decker, or 3-decker...something like that, so it had struck me kind of funny. So these cards are known as the 3-D, 3-Story, Triple Decker Victorian cards. Thanks again for looking!

Triple-Decker Fifth Avenue

From Heidi...
Just in case you haven't had enough of the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set yet, here's one more for you. I didn't come up with the paper-pieced and dimensionaled floral idea, I cased the idea form another card I saw on SCS, I love how this effect gives depth and dimension to this floral design. Adriel placed this card in our Etsy shop and gave it the triple-decker name...kind of a fun description of it. Thanks for taking time to look!

Paper Piecing Part 2

From Adriel:

A couple of weeks ago, I showed you all a card I made using the paper piecing technique. Here's another one for you...

I wasn't crazy about how this one turned out, so I made another one...

I'm drawing a blank on the name of this set... errrr. It's retired, but still, I should remember things like this better! Okay, I looked on SCS and found the name... Sparkling Summer. Cute set! I stamped the images first on the white CS and colored them in. I stamped the images again on white CS and used sponging to color in some of the images and then followed with Stampin' Write markers. I cut out the images and used dimensionals to attach over the existing image. It's a fun technique! I had a lot of fun with this card. This is in preparation for our technique classes at Tumbleweek Rec. Center this coming winter.

We are getting ready for a lot of different things right now! Next month, we will be hosting our Christmas Card Stamp-a-Stacks... we've got several of you coming to those and we are looking forward to that! Hamilton Library also asked us to do an accordion album with the teens next month. We also will be doing two craft shows in November. We'll let you know about the dates and times of those shows later. Anyway, we are two busy bees! Our stash of crafted items is growing by the day (almost) and we are working hard! I hope we will see some of your familiar faces at these events coming up! Stamping and papercrafting are great ways to make friends! Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

Paper Piecing Card

From Adriel:

Hi! I have been wanting to try this technique (paper piecing) for quite awhile and finally sat down the other day and did it. This is my first attempt, so nothing to get too excited about, but it was still fun. I'm working on another card with this same technique and I'll share that when I'm done. If you want to know more about this technique, check out the tutorial over at SCS.

Recipe:

Certainly Celery CS
Tempting Turquoise CS
Whisper White CS
DS paper (Flowers for You)

In Full Bloom set
Basic Black classic ink
Certainly Celery Stampin'Write marker
Bashful Blue Stampin'Write marker
White satin ribbon
Tombow adhesive

I stamped the flower and stem images on Whisper White CS. I then stamped the flower images on DS paper and cut them out. I used Tombow adhesive to adhere my flowers to the Whisper White CS. I put the cut flowers on right where the image was stamped on the Whisper White CS. I used the Stampin' Write markers to color in the stems, leaves and the little dots around the images. I took a strip of Certainly Celery cut the same size as the Whisper White panel and cut little lines into one edge of it to resemble grass. I guess it does... I guess it's more interesting than a flat piece of CS. Anyway, tied the ribbon around into a bow, attached the panel with dimensionals to the Tempting Turquoise panel. Assembled the rest of the card as you can see in the pic. It was a fun technique to try! I really enjoyed it!

BTW, I think my mom did a GREAT job on all the Christmas cards she posted! Good job, Mom!