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Showing posts with label Lindsays Stamp Stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lindsays Stamp Stuff. Show all posts

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Getting Ready for Sweetest Day with a sale!

 Hi All, I thought you might enjoy a peek at a sweet little 
Sweetest Day card I made.  I am sure you could use this for any occasion, even no occasion, lol,  just a chance to send a sweet suggestion to the one you love.  I used Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Ooh LaLa SVG for the corset and cut it using MTC and my Zing.  Such a cute way to send a love note or make it small and stick it in an invitation to a bridal shower with the brides bra and panty sizes.  Speaking of Lindsay, swing by her My Graphico shop and take advantage of the 40% off sale she has going on October 3rd through the 5th!  
Just in case you noticed, I had to have an envie liner to go with this, the shoe is from laobc, there was only 1 shoe so I positioned them together in MTC, the shoes positive is on a piece of Zyron paper so you can use it as an envelope sealer too.  I edited this in Pic Monkey because my photography is poor, it is actually black and white in real life, sorry the photography does not reflect it.
 That's it for today, thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Bridal shower invite

Hi All, a few of you asked about the invites I made with my daughter for her friend.  The set in the picture above is the invite along with the tiny corset insert which she will put inside the envelope with the brides lingerie sizes. The die cuts ( dress, corset and words Bridal Shower) were all cut on my Zing die cutting machine with MTC software.  We embossed the dress and corset.  The (dress Beautiful Gown) and (corset Ooh la la ) are cut files from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.  Lindsay offers these files in a printable form also so if you don't have a die cut machine these are easy shapes to print and cut by hand, I just would not recommend doing 50 of them, lol!  The digital damask print paper is from Cupcake Cuties.  We dotted the "i" in Bridal with a tiny black rhinestone, the same I used to trim the corset with.  I could not get a good shot but the waistline on the dress has the little red gel rhinestones from Joanne's.
So are you wondering what I did with the negative cut on the dress?  I purposely cut them out of the front of a card so I could re use my scraps and make some quick note cards, I guess they would make cute matching thank you's too, I just thought of that, lol.  I just inserted a piece of the damask behind the front and embossed the white card front, you can see it below.
Well, that's it, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Playing with Perfect Tears


I made this card using one of my Perfect Tears Rulers, a little water and my Yasutomo Pearlescent Watercolor Set.  It was so was so easy to make, I just dragged the paint brush along the edge of the ruler and tore off the strips of paper.  They tore "Perfectly" of course, then I just lined them up in layers from the back of my die cut.  Speaking of die cuts, this beauty is from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, Beautiful Gown Cards SVG set.  a timeless classic.  In fact I will be using it again to make some Bridal shower invites later this week.  So what to do for an envelope liner?  This is beginning to be a bit of a challenge, but I think I met it on this one.  I embossed the liner to match the card front and then added a few strips of perfectly torn papers to it. For more information on the Perfect Tears Rulers and to get a 5% discount, click on my link above or from my side bar.  PS, make sure you check out the newest Perfect Layers ruler you can see it on the video here , please use my coupon code Bove5%.  Well that's it for today, thanks for stopping by and thank you for the wonderful comments, I don't say it enough, but I really do appreciate them.  
Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Start Your Engines!


 Hi All, this was a really fun set to work with, Start Your Engines by Gecko Galz.  I usually have a tough time with guy cards but these came together really easily.  The envie liner in the first 2 cards is just the racing trim enlarged in Word.  The gorgeous paper in 3 and 4 are from Bold Black and White from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff .  The 5th card used paper from Gecko Galz Chocolate Box set.  As you can see I used my Perfect Layers Square and Rulers to get the precise layers on all my cards, see my sidebar for a coupon or click on my link above.  You can see I made a mistake when I made my frames, I should have framed the images in black then red then black, I did not like the look without that extra layer of black so I added a very carefully placed trim of black Stickles on the first 4 images since I use Art Glitter Glue to hold it all in place and there is no going back from there!  
See the little tags?  My DH advised me that the envie liners were "dumb" because once the envelope gets sealed no one knows it's there.  He assumes everyone tears it open like a savage, ha ha.  He did have a good idea though so these are my first (successful) attempts at envelope sealers.  I tried making round ones but I can't seem to figure out how to down size the image without losing all the definition.  I ran the first 4 scraps through my Zyron (it really does make stickers) and the last one was printed onto an address label.
Well that's it, thanks as always for looking.  ~Diane

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Bold Black and white

 Hi All, I wanted to share these quick and easy cards I made using my favorite Bold Black and White card stock from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and the gorgeous digital stamp set I won from Gecko Galz Pin it to Win it called Bellisima , a really stunning set!  I wish I were a better photographer so you could see this, I printed the silhouette stamp onto some glossy photo paper, the 4x6 size I bought at Dollar Tree.  It really gives it a totally elegant look!  The card stock really makes it I must say.  I was aiming for quick on these so I just edged my card in black ink, not as nice as when I mount it on the black card stock.  I cheated on the ribbon and only cut 2 short pieces.  I am planning to make a few sets of these for my friends.  Well, that's it, thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Monday, February 11, 2013

3rd grade humor

My Daughter teaches 3rd grade in Kentucky, I wanted to make something special for her class so I used Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Photo Booth Props to make these mustache cards.  I did case the sentiment from quite a few different sources on the internet, so it is not my original idea, but I saw it so many places I would not know who to credit.  I photographed these in a hurry so I could ship them out to her, I made 30 of them.  I also did not have the right size envelope so I ended up cutting down some 6x8 envelopes to fit these 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cards.  I made the envelope liner by using Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Envelopes and Liners SVG and I inserted the mustache cut out.  The mustache and heart pop are on the inside of the card.  I think her kiddos will love them.
Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Blue eyed camels

 Hi, my friend Meg asked for a card with camels and palm trees, and who knew, Lindsay had just the right set!  I made this card with Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Arabian Nights Party kit, I cut the SVG with the landscaped hills, trees and camels.  I covered the trees with some tree bark on a roll I found on clearance a long time ago, first time I used it, but for 50 cents I knew I would get to it eventually, ha ha.  The Sun and grass are SVG cuts from Birds Cards, I had some real grass scrapbook paper that I cut the grass SVG from.  Sorry, the cloud was already cut out and in my stash, I don't remember who it came from.  The only envelopes I had in my stash for this size card were silver or red, so I used the silver and added some cloud background paper to the liner and used a little Tim Holts distress ink to add a few more clouds to the envelope too.  I think the pretty blue eyes I placed on the camels really set it off!  I used 2mm clear rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty and I colored them the perfect shade of sky blue!  If anyone sees any palm tree with camel challenges for me to enter this into let me know!  
Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
Be sure to catch Lindsay's Create some Love sale going on now!
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Friday, August 24, 2012

A funny thing happened

 Above is my 1st try (see the little bomb ornaments?)
Today I thought I would share this with you.  A funny thing happened on the way to making this Christmas card.  I had this great idea for this tree with Stickles for ornaments and and little wires hand made into ornament hangers, sounds great doesn't it?  Not, my son looked at it and said the ornaments look like little bombs, ha ha he is right!  Not exactly what I had in mind!  
 I remade it with some sweet little gel stickers I found on clearance at Joanns.  I also used some Goose Bumps Spray and then sponged on some Tim Holtz Distress ink.  I am much happier with the finished result.  The lovely cut file is from Alaa Studios this is actually the negative cut out, it is a beautiful file and a bargain at $1.00.  The green paper is a large polka dot print I copied onto glossy photo paper, it really changed it up.  The Envelope Liner is Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and I used a gold leafing pen and a ruler to gilt up the border.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff 1 day sale

Hold on to your hats, 2 posts in 1 week!  Check out this 1 day sale sale at My Graphico, all the designers including Lindsay's Stamp Stuff are all on sale 50% off for 1 day only!
How fun is this!  I made these fun cards with Lindsay's new set called Photo Booth Props SVG and Printable.  And as with all of Lindsays sets for those of you without die cut machines, they are printable too.  I cut the images out of black card stock and then mounted the cut piece on to the white card.  Makes for a fun set, and you all know how I love matching envelopes!  I made the fun collage at PicMonkey a free photo editing site.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Christmas cards

 
Hi, I'm sorry I have been away from posting new cards.  I have a bad case of Sciatica that makes everything I do very painful.  Couple that with the wood floor installation, and my craft room being the catch all for all random pieces of furniture that get in the way of it.  My craft room is like an obstacle course and I have not seen the color of my desk in months!  But I did get these Christmas cards started.  I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest by Susie, you can see it at her blog Summerwalk designs.  I changed it up a bit but I loved her idea.  The letters are a Stencil cut from the SCAL cutting program.  The rounded rectangle shape is one of their program cuts too, (it was a square)  I just layered 1 inside the other.  The Envelope Liner is from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.  I used 3 rows of glittered ribbon under the stencil cut on the Joy card and I am not sure if you can see it, I used white glittered paper behind the Noel.  The penguin embellie is from Jolee's boutique, part of my Christmas stash from my daughter last year.  I added a little Stickles Eucalyptus and Magenta for trim.  I photographed the cards with some of my favorite Christmas bulbs, the blue one dates back to the 30's, I'm not sure about the pink one.
I hope everyone is surviving this strange summer of 2012.  This is one of the hottest and driest on record here in Michigan.  
I hope to get a few more cards done this week, sorry to be away for so long.  I feel bad, I have been visiting you and I know you have come back and commented and I still have the same post rolling. (It was a good one with all those goodies from my friend Valerie).  But I did need to update it with something new!   Thank you for all of your sweet comments and emails wondering where I had gone and if I were OK.  I am touched to know so many sweet blogging friends, thank you all for checking up on me.  It will be easier to craft once my house is not in a constant state of upheaval too.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Asha with Friends

I love this stamp, it reminds me of how my daughter would try to grab on to my son and practically strangle him when they were young.  The stamp is called Asha with Friends, the designer is Lia Stampz.  She was so gracious, when I purchased the stamp she allowed me to compose 5 sentiments of my own to go with the image and she emailed them to me.  She does this with all of her images, this is one of my 5, I love how she added the little heart to it.  I used  Lindsay's Stamp Stuff  Decorative Doilies to cut the square doily and I used the negative as my envelope liner, the paper is Stampin Up.  I found a new trick for my bows.  If you look closely I used a tiny rubber-band to make the cinch in this bow.  I kept playing with it and I could not get it right then I remembered I had some of the teeny tiny rubber-bands left over from when my kids wore braces, I had stuffed them in with my craft stuff, sure I would figure out a use for them some day (10 years later, lol).  It really made a perfect bow.  
Just a note here, we will be picking up the wood for our floors this weekend, I may be posting sporadically for the next few weeks, months, years?  I don't know, I'm not sure, how long will it take us to install the floor ourselves?  At some point we will have to take down my craft room, won't that be a nightmare, you did read that I saved rubber-bands for 10 years didn't you, ha ha.  I hope it goes quickly and without too many problems.  That's it for today, as always, thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Changing paper colors in Word.


 Lindsay's Stamp Stuff is having a great sale, 50% off  on May 25 and 26 so stop by and see what she has!  I made this card with the multi colored chevron paper from Lindsay's  Hugs and Kisses Valentine papers, that's right Valentines papers!  The paper in the set is shades of red, pink, yellow and green.  I pulled the image up in Word and went to my tools "change color" (I have added change color to my toolbar because I use it quite often) and I selected both the light blue and the darker blue right below it.  I love changing paper colors in Word, it makes your papers so much more versatile!  Of course I used my Perfect Layers rulers to get that clean 1/16" edge behind the lighter chevron layer.  That really gives it so much more dimension.  Follow my link and use Bove5% for 5% off Perfect Layers Rulers. The Tinkerbell stamps are from JoAnns I colored them with Letraset markers and Spica Atyou sparkle pens.  I used Stickles on the wings.  I printed the lighter chevron on copy paper and used it for the envelope liner.  I am sure Kayla will love this card, after all she loves Tinkerbell.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut the birthday sentiment and I trimmed it with StampinUp Stampin Spots Almost Navy.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Warm Wedding Wishes

 Good Morning.  This card uses Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Beautiful Gown Cards SVG set.   I cut the dress in Kraft and in white vellum.  I embossed the vellum and the card front, added some gold corner stickers, pearls and I used my Spellbinders to cut the computer printed message.  I added a little Tim Holtz distress ink to make the white on white stand out a bit.  I'm sure you can tell I used my  Perfect Squares tool  to get the precise edges and alignments on this card.  That's it, thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Sweet 5 x 5 note cards

 I made these sweet 5 x 5 note cards with Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Beautiful Gown Cards SVG set.  I love how easy these were to put together.  I used the pretty Cosmo Cricket papers I won from Laurel on her  Inspired by challenge blog  to line them with.  I was able to get 3 inside linings out of 1 6x6 sheet too.  I cut the sheet 3/4" x 6"  3 times and glued that to the inside so it shows through the scallop when the card is closed, then I cut 3,  2" wide pieces from the remaining sheet.  I always use a white paper liner inside my cards so you can't tell I skimped on the designer paper.  I embossed the cards before I glued the insides too.  Well thanks for looking.  ~Diane
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Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and My Graphico will be offering 40% off Sunday 5/13/12  Be sure to check out Lindsay's new watercolor painting sets!

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Here comes the Bride

And yes. this was fun, just like playing with Barbie dolls!  Best part is that you can snag this and any of Lindsays other fabulous sets for 40% off on Thursday 4/26/2012.  Lindsay made this awesome Printable and SVG set called Beautiful Gown and Favor,  I love it!  Thank you Lindsay, I hope you will sell a lot since you were so sweet to make the set.  She let me make the pieces for the cover. =)  I used the SVG to cut the dress, and I used the printable to cut the vellum overlay, my cricut is on it's last leg!  I embossed the vellum then added the lace to the skirt.  I used the same lace with the veil and added lots of rhinestones, just because!  I used my Perfect Layers rulers to get the nice clean borders, love that tool!  I used some foam mounting tape under the dress to give it some lift.  I don't think you can see it, but there is a piece of  sheer tulle under the lace veil.  The white dress on the white embossed background did not pop that much, so I added a little Tim Holtz distress ink in Antique Linen.  This photo makes the envie liner and the antique linen look much deeper than they really are.  
 I am linking up to Make it Monday , and a really big thanks to all the ladies on the DT who make this possible and take the time to visit us.   Mary J, Rene, Lisa M, Shirley Anne, Chrissy, Michelle, Karen and Kerrie.
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Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

Friday, April 20, 2012

Another Pink Saturday rolls around.

Thank you Beverly for hosting the Pink Saturdays, they are always such a pleasure to participate in.  I have met so many wonderful bloggers through your site and I have seen so many beautiful blogs because of your sharing spirit.   And in the true spirit of Pink Saturdays I will share another one of my favorite stops  Pats Pink Apron.  Pat is witty and fun, her blog has great recipes and gorgeous tablescapes.  Tablescapes, last year I would not have even known what that meant.  There is another whole world of bloggers who showcase the most beautiful table settings with the prettiest china, the kind that make you drool.  Pat shares another of my passions, collecting cookbooks.  I hope you will take some time and visit Pat at Pats Pink Apron.  
For today's card I used a beautiful free print from Emily at Sweetly Scrapped, she shares such beautiful vintage graphics on her blog too.  I printed it on the Epson matte presentation paper that I grabbed at Staples for $2.99 for 50 sheets.  I always watch Staples for great bargains on photo paper it makes a huge difference when printing vintage artwork and digital papers.  I also used my Perfect Layers rulers to get the precise edges and alignments on this card.  That beautiful square doily was cut from Lindsays Stamp Stuff Decorative Doilies SVG.  I used some Tim Holtz distress ink on the lace and the edges of the card.  I embossed the white card stock too.
OK, so by now I guess a few of you have noticed I have a problem with Word Verification.  I learned something new yesterday, after requesting something more legible to enter, for the 15th time, at a sweet bloggers site, I noticed there was also a "?" button along with the (garbled) audio and pick another scribbled unreadable mess button.  I pressed that little button and it let me "Contact Us" that allowed me to tell Google  I  have a problem reading the new version of Word Verification.  I hope a few of you will take a minute and let them know what you think about it too.  Maybe if enough of us complain they might figure out something better.  Thanks for looking and thanks for listening.  ~Diane
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The Stamp Man - shabby chic / distressed
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Pretty Dresses


I have some exciting news to share, Craft Corners contacted me and and asked to feature my blog in their Best of the Web collection.  You can see my card along with more of their awesome picks at their site Craft Corners Best of the Web .  Be sure to check out their post on Craft Room Organization too, I found it really interesting!  Thank you for featuring me, I am really honored. 
 I must admit, this card was totally inspired by, the challenge at Inspired By this week, thank you Laurel for hosting the challenges they are so much fun and truly inspiring.  BTW, I won the challenge there last week :) thanks again Laurel.
I used the Pretty Dresses SVG cut file from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff along with her Hugs and Kisses paper.  The background paper is from a writing pad that had clouds in the background.  The grass and fence cut files are from Birds Cards, she always has such wonderful freebies.  The clothespins are from my stash, purchased from Dollar Treasure at least a year ago!   I originally had a pale pink and white polka dot dress in the middle and I did not like it so I colored over it with my Canary yellow Promarker, I like how the polka dots did not wash out.  I used some foam mounting to pop up the grass, fence and the dresses too.  I don't think this would mail very well, the clothespins are a bit delicate so I will have to save it for a hand delivered card. 
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Thanks for looking.  ~Diane
More inspiring challenges to enter into here:
Paper Pretties - Create a card for girls
 Die Cuttin Divas - Garden theme
Oldie but a Goodie - In the garden  ( old clothespins)