Art Every Day - Day 4

I made it to Day 4 - wooo hooo!! LOL! Baby steppin' it, folks!! I'm going to have to do some planning ahead and hope that Blogger cooperates while I'm gone if I want to keep this streak going. *fingers crossed*

Here's a card I made for a friend:

And she's truly amazing!!!

Now I'm off to make a couple of thank you cards, and a commissioned piece! Happy crafting, everyone!!!

Art Every Day - Day 3

I actually made TWO cards today, and started on a third!!! (That one you'll see tomorrow!) The other card is similar to this one, but you know me, I can't make exact duplicates of things without the wiring in my brain starting to sizzle, lol!!! This is a CAS card (Clean And Simple), but I thought it was a perfect "get well" card, especially when you aren't able to send real flowers. What do you think??

Art Every Day - Day 2

All finished!
My Card Candy Convention 2011 Swaps!!!
All items used are from Stampin Up and currently available!
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Featuring the stamp set "Tags Til Christmas", (# 121169)

Tag Instructions:
Holly Envelope

Punch envelope in Cherry Cobbler, with petal card punch. Fold three sides to form, and secure with sticky strip. Use white gel pen to edge remaining side. Stamp holly image with Always Artichoke & Cherry Cobbler markers, on Whisper White paper. Punch out with small oval punch. Attach image to envelope with a dimensional.

Snowman Shaker Tag

Outside

Inside:

Peek-a-Boo Frame Die

Base: 1 3/4" circle punched from Night of Navy card stock
Image: Stamped in NofN ink, hat colored in with black marker, scarf colored in with Cherry Cobbler marker. Punch out image with 1 3/8" circle punch. Use adhesive to attach punched image to base.
Shaker frame (3rd largest): Center frame over image. Fill with a pinch of Mica Flakes. Remove top liner and cover with acetate circle, punched with 1 3/8" circle punch.
Top of tag: Use peek-a-boo frame (small circle one) and cut out a NofN die cut. Stamp image on Whisper White cardstock with NofN ink. Punch out with 3/4" circle punch. Fold a 1" piece of 1/8" white ribbon in half and attach to back side of image with sticky strip. Add additional sticky strip to the circle, and adhere to the center front of the frame. Using a two way glue pen, draw a circle around the outer edge, and sprinkle with Dazzlin' Diamonds glitter.

December 25th tag

Base: Punch silver glitter paper with decorative label punch
Image: Stamp image with Bashful Blue ink on Whisper White paper. Punch out with large oval punch. Layer image over Bashful Blue scalloped oval layer. Cut 1 1/2" satin ribbon in Bashful Blue, fold in half and cut at an angle. Using a paper piercer and mat, make a hole through image layer and ribbon. Attach small silver brad. Use sticky strip to attach ribboned layer to base.

Santa tag

Base: Cut out Basic Black base with the large tag punch.
Image: Stamp image in Real Red on Whisper White card stock. Punch out with small tag punch. Adhere to base layer. Using Basic Black marker, color in the belt portion. Using Gold Smooch, paint in the belt buckle. Use large pearls for the buttons. Make a 1/8" circle at the top of the tag with a Crop-o-Dile. Attach Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.

Ornament tag

Image: Stamp image in Elegant Eggplant ink on Whisper White paper. Cut out with the ornament punch. Attach medium and large rhinestones as shown. Make a small bow with 1/8" grosgrain ribbon, and attach at the top with a mini glue dot.

Merry Christmas tag

Base: Punch out the base with the decorative label punch, with Early Espresso card stock. Cut into quarters diagonally and set aside.
Image: Stamp image using Always Artichoke and Early Espresso markers, on Whisper White card stock. Using the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes (#115370), use the Stamp-ma-Jig to center sentiment on tag, and stamp in Always Artichoke ink. Using a two way glue pen, randomly dot pinecone and branch with glue. Sprinkle with Dazzlin' Diamonds glitter to look like snow. Punch out image with the decorative label punch. Use the cut Early Espresso base shapes to form a frame around your image layer. Fold Always Artichoke seam binding to form ribbon shape; attach to the back of tag with sticky strip. Punch out a blank Whisper White layer with the decorative label punch. Adhere this to the back of the tag, to cover up the ribbon.

After you have made your tags, add dimensionals to the back of them. Carefully add a mini glue dot to each dimensional, being careful to NOT remove the paper backing of the dimensional. This way the glue dot will stick to the acetate lining in the envelope. When you are ready to use your tags, the backing of the dimensional will stay with the glue dot on the acetate, and you will have a ready adhesive to stick the tag to your card or project!

The back side of my sheet of tags:

Pretty nifty, huh???

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Minnie, my crazy cat, decided that the crinkly strips from the mini glue dots were just too good of a "toy" to pass up! She normally doesn't EVER play with anything - cat toys or not - so I had to take some pictures of this rare event!! I guess even cats can appreciate the quality of Stampin' Up products, lol!!

No! No! You can't throw it away!!!!

And finally, finally my swaps are DONE!!! Now I just have to worry about packing - yikes!!!

Art Every Day - Day 1

Leah from Creative Every Day is hosting her annual "Art Every Day Month" this month! I heard about it on Rita's blog, (thanks Rita!!) and was intrigued!!! I have so many things I want and need to do, and my mojo has been seriously lacking of late. So...what better than a little nudge and accountability to get ya going again??? Perfecto!!

I signed up for a Card Candy Swap to be held at the upcoming Stampin Up Convention. And then immediately regretted it!!!! Not because I didn't want to do it, but because I was terrified that whatever I came up with (and it was realllly hard deciding on what to do to begin with!), wasn't going to be *good enough*. Now I'm hardly a stamping novice.....but.....this is like....HARD CORE, lol!! Does that make any sense at all?? Well, I was intimidated. And that doesn't happen very often! (thank God!)

I also don't like repetitive stamping. I like to make ONE of something, and that's it. Assembly line creating isn't my thing. At all. Except they all had to be the same. (I hadn't thought of that either when I decided to do this, lol!!!) *grumble, grumble*

My desk during the "creating process":

I did a mock up of the first set, and then went about duplication.

I think I used just about every punch I own, lol!
(Not really, but it seemed like it!)

I also used A LOT of pop-dots, sticky tape and dimensionals!!
A LOT, A LOT, ALOT!!!!

Tomorrow I will have them all finished, bagged and tagged for Convention! AND I will have detailed instructions in case anyone would like to make up their own sets!!!! I think they turned out pretty cute and will make fun "toppers" on Christmas cards!