Get Well Riley!

It's Fun-Filled Friday! This week was a Riley challenge. I took it to the extreme and made a whole Moose Week. I hope you aren't sick of them yet. What's the plural of moose anyways - mooses? Today's card is also my "get well" card of the week for my friend Monica. I am making her a card a week until she recovers from her surgery. Here is what I came up with :

This card is using alot of the same elements you have been seeing all week - Nesties, border punches, and of course a Riley Moose. This one was super easy to make too. I actually started with my paper and colored my image based on that. I love how the coloring came out too. I used my Nesties Labels 1 on this one. I added some stickles to the pattern paper to bling it up a little.

Supplies :

• stamp - Hanna Stamps Sick Riley
• paper by KI Memories "it's a girl paisley", card stock by Bazzill
• miscellaneous - Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 1; Stickles; Prismacolor pencils; gamsol; Martha Stewart Doiley Edge Punch;

So did you join out Fun-Filled Friday challenge this week? I would love to see what you came up with. Let me know if there's anything you would like to see me try. I love to be challenged!

I am very happy to say I am doing well with my resolutions this year. I'm back on my diet, crafting more often and keeping my blog updated. And I was getting back into working out again until I slipped shoveling snow and then again in the garage. I am a big klutz and me and ice don't get along all that well :) My foot, arm, and knees have been recovering from my falls so I am taking it easy with the working out for a few days.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Moose Week Day 2

Here is another moose card for you :

I made this card with my Mom in mind. It's actually for her birthday. This is so her! Every morning she has her cup of coffee and a cupcake :) Not a big, yummy, homemade cupcake, just a small Hostess sized cup cake. This one was also simple, I used my Nesties and based the colors off of the cupcake ribbon I have been itching to use. I hope my Mom likes her birthday card - and notices the similarities:)

Supplies :

• stamps - Hanna Stamps Coffee Riley Moose; Stampin' Up Riveting "it's your day"
  
• card stock - Bazzill, the glittery card stock I don't know the manufacturer of
• miscellaneous - ribbon by Michaels; black Versa Fine ink; Prismacolor pencils; gamsol; Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 2 set, circles, and scallop circles; Cuttlebug; Sizzix crease mat; Fiskars Threading Water border punch; red Stickles
  

Here's a close up of my sentiment, and you can see the cute ribbon. I added red stickles to the cherries on all the cupcakes. I also put it on Riley's cupcake too.

I decided to cut down on my "how I made this card" segment of blog posts. Let me know what you think? Would you prefer detailed instructions for every card? Hope you are having a great week. Tonight is my last night of work then 4 days off - I can't wait!

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Moose Week!

Since this week's Fun-Filled Friday is to use Riley images, I decided to have a week of full of Moose cards. It may be silly, but I was having so much fun coloring them the other day I thought why not make a few extras.

Here is Monday's Moose card :

My DH was nice enough to let me purchase some Nesties for Christmas. I got a full circle set, and the Labels 1 and Labels 2 sets. I was so excited to play with them - used them over and over again (so you will be seeing alot of them). One of my girlfriends had heard about using the Sizzix Crease mat with your Nesties to cut and emboss all in one run through your Cuttlebug. I must say it worked very well. I recommend trying it. I had to play around to get the right size shim and I always run it back and forth in my Cuttlebug a couple times, but that's just what I do.

You can't see it very well in the picture, but I cut and embossed the scallop circle right on the card base, then again on the pattern paper. I then placed a lighter blue card stock on the inside of the card. Next, I colored and cut out Riley and glued him to the center of my lighter blue card stock. I also used my Just Rite stamp set to stamp the Relax sentiment. This was a very simple and quick card to make.

Supplies :

• stamp - Hanna Stamps Coffee Riley Moose
• card stock - Bazzill
• pattern paper - Scrap Works pacific vibrant
• miscellaneous - Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Nestabilities Scallop Circles, Cuttlebug.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today's card. I have had a busy weekend having to work Friday, Saturday, Sunday and now today and Tuesday. I work 12 hour shifts on midnights so my work days tend to drag. Well, check in tomorrow for another moose card I made this weekend. I am trying to keep up my 5+ posts a week - so if you have any suggestions or comments let me know.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Fun-Filled Friday Challenge Announcement.

Well, another Sunday is here and you know what that means - time for our Fun-Filled challenge announcement. This week I get to challenge Jen. I was looking around my mess of a studio trying to think of a good challenge and realized I have several stamps I haven't used yet. So I thought of my most recent purchase - Riley's. So this week it's time to get those Riley moose's inky. I bought a bunch from Hanna Stamps before Thanksgiving and still have a few I never used. I swear there is a moose for every occasion!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend. And make sure you check in Friday so see our Riley cards.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Cuttlebug Tutorial

CUTTLEBUG TUTORIAL

This is my first tutorial so I hope all goes well. I'm going to show you how I create a card with 2 different Cuttlebug embossing folders. So lets get started.

Here are the supplies you will need:

• Cuttlebug and both your B-plates
• 2 Cuttlebug embossing folders
• card stock
• Scor-Pal (optional)

Step 1

Cut your card stock to the size you want for your card (I usually cut mine to 4" x 5 1/4" so that there is a bit of a mat when I center the card base on the card front).


Step 2

We will be using the following Cuttlebug formula for this :
A-plate, B-plate, embossing folder (with paper in it) and B-plate. (as shown below)


Now put your card stock in the embossing folder and use the recipe from above. I try to line up my embossing folder along the edge of the Cuttlebug so that I can keep my embossing folder as straight as possible. I then put my B plate on top but make sure the part I DON'T want to emboss is sticking out of the plates (as seen in the picture below). Now run it through.



This is what you should have when you take out your card stock.




Step 3

Line up your unembossed side of card stock in the 2nd folder. This probably is the toughest part because you want to make sure the paper is straight.


I then run it through my Cuttlebug leaving the extra paper sticking out of the plates like in the previous step. This is what you should have when you take out your card stock.



Step 4 (optional)

Now comes the optional part. You can now use your Scor-Pal to create embossed lines between the 2 different embossed portions. If you want to do this make sure you leave a little space between them when you run them through the Cuttlebug. Then placing the paper embossing side down line it up on your Scor-Pal.

Here is what that looks like when you are done.



Well, I hope that was simple enough. What did you think? I really enjoyed trying it. If you have any questions let me know. Stay tuned next week I have a theme in mind... Any guesses on what it is? Hope you are having a wonderful weekend - and staying warm. It's been so cold here in Michigan.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

Fun-Filled Friday

Happy Fun-Filled Friday!

Well, this week Jen challenged me to make a Gate Fold card. Amazingly enough this was a new one for me. Here is what I came up with:

For this card I started with my image. I stamped it on smooth white card stock and colored it with my Prismacolor pencils blended with a colorless blender pencil (No gamsol!! Thought I would try something new). After that was done I realized it was a rather large image and had to figure out how it would work with a gate fold card. I decided to make my card 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". I then took a piece of fuchsia card stock and cut it to 5 1/2" x 11". Then I used my Scor-Pal to score it at on the 11" side at 2 3/4" and 8 1/4". Then I folded it to make sure both sides lined up. Next I cut 2 pieces of cream card stock to 2 5/8" x 5 3/8". Then I cut 2 pieces of light pink card stock to 2 1/2" x 5 1/4". Layered the light pink on the beige and then glued that on each of the front panels. Next I used a technique I saw on my friend Beth's blog using corner punches. Here is the link. Basically you cut out the corner punch to the size you need and glue it over the top of your corner (does that make sense?). So I punched and cut out the corner punch 4 times on the beige card stock. Then I glued the corner pieces on the 4 corners of the card front. Then I cut my image to making sure I cut out the flowers and stems so they appear to hang over the mat. Then I layered the cut out image on beige and then again on darker pink. I used the same technique with the darker pink card stock and the corner punch. I then glued my corner pieces to all 4 corners of my layered image. Then I glued my layered image to the left front panel of my card. Here is a partially open view of my finished card:

Supplies:

• stamp - Serendipity Stamps (#L281)
  
• card stock - The Paper Company
  
• miscellaneous -EK Success Wrought Iron Corner Adorner Punch
  

Don't forget to see Jen's Gate Fold card. If you joined in our Fun-Filled Friday challenge make sure you post a comment with a link to your work. And check back Sunday for the next Fun-Filled Friday challenge announcement - My turn to pick the challenge. Are there any challenges you would like to see in the future? Let me know, I'm always looking for new ideas.

Do you have any big plans for the weekend? This is my weekend to work so I have to work Saturday and Sunday night, and I have to work overtime tonight so no fun for me. Well, enjoy your weekend and make sure you stop by tomorrow for my first tutorial! I hope it turns out alright.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy

With Sympathy...

Well, I must be a glutton for punishment. After struggling with one Sympathy card swap I joined another. Of course I had the same trouble coming up with a design as I did the first time. My friend Kathy and I had taken a class at a local stamping store and I tried to get some inspiration from the different samples there. Then I came home and looked through many many many galleries trying to get ideas of what I wanted to do. This is what I came up with :

I knew I wanted to use vellum, and I really have been wanting to try the technique where you use 2 different embossing folders on one sheet. So I decided to go for it. (I will post a tutorial on how I did this another day). I didn't think to look for a tutorial or anything I just jumped right in. I learned quite a few things while attempting this, and used up a bunch of my scraps.

Here is a different angle so you can see the embossing a little better:

I guess I'll explain how I made this card... I grabbed a beige card stock and ran the lower 2/3 of it through my Cuttlebug using the Birds and Swirls embossing folder. Then I ran the upper 1/3 of it through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder. Next I took a piece of vellum and cut it to 4 1/8" x 3". Then I used my Martha Stewart Lattice border punch on both sides of the vellum. Next I cut a strip of light beige card stock to 4" x 2". Then I stamped my sentiment in gold ink centered on the strip of light beige card stock. Then, I centered my card stock on the vellum and glued the vellum centered between the two embossed sides. Then I glued the whole card front to the center of my A2 card base.

Supplies:

• stamp - All Night Media Say it with Stamps "with sympathy"
  
• paper - The Paper Company, vellum - Paper Reflections
  
• miscellaneous - Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots embossing folder, Birds and Swirls embossing folder, gold Versa Color ink, Martha Stewart Lattice Border Punch
  

Sadly, I am not overly excited about this card, I think this would have made a better Wedding/engagement card, but it's what I came up with. I also learned a new technique. What do you think? Have you made any sympathy cards you would like to share? If so please leave a link to yours in the comments.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's Fun-Filled Friday card. And Saturday I'll try to post a tutorial on what I learned using 2 embossing folders.

Happy Crafting,
Kimmy