Lakeside Retreat

April's a beaut with the new paper pumpkin called 

"lakeside retreat"

Here's card number one from the kit.

I always like to change my cards up a bit from 

the kit by just tweaking them slightly.

I barely changed this one up by adding the greeting to the top

of the card instead of the bottom, then added some

glitter to the rainbow trout.  

This was a great father's day kit, the background paper

is gorgeous! 

Mini Coffee cups

Now available in my Etsy shop!

I've added two other mini coffee cups, 

now available are the mini Starbuck's, Dunkin Donuts and Chick fil A.

You pick!

Chick Fil A cup 

Etsy shop mini cups Here

Beautiful scenery card take 2

Morning!

Back with some sample ideas on the scenery card.

A few of you asked what this looked like.

You can see I chose scenery paper, then below cut 1/2" strips.

Layer up you card, then using dimensional dots add your 1/2" pieces to the card.

I didn't line up mine very well with this one! but you get it!

I suppose this shows you it doesn't have to be perfect to look decent!

beautiful scenery card

This is a fun technique to try.  I saw this demonstrated, you choose

a designer series paper that has a scenery.  Cut two pieces the exact size,

I cut mine 4 x 5 1/4".  Set one aside. 

Take your other piece and start cutting it into 1/2" sizes till you are done.

Now it's time to layer and adhere the pieces to the card. 

In doing so, you will leave a space between adhering each "slat".

You may have a few pieces left over. Just discard them. 

This is the end result.  It gives you a 3D effect. 

Pretty cool huh?

Just add your greeting and there you go, doesn't need much more to pop! 

Perfectly Peared

Using up the rest of the perfectly designer paper, 

This is the last of it!

They turned out so pretty! 

These card are very easy, just cut the designer paper

and fussy cut a few pairs and add them with dimensionals

to make them pop. 

Perfectly peared round 2

Happy wednesday!

Back with round two of the perfectly peared set and designer paper. 

I have officially used up all the scrapes from this paper series.It's fun to fit all the pieces together to make the quilt card. 

Perfectly peared...

It's was a perfectly pear weekend!

I pulled out this gorgeous paper and decided to try and use it as

I have been with many other designer papers lately.

The patchwork/guilting technique. 

I cut my card a regular sized A2 then used cut strips of the paper

at 1 1/2" each.  Take your adhesive and add pieces, they will hang

over the base of the card.  Just cut away the excess when you have the

card filled.  It's like a little puzzle and a great way for you to use

up your pieces of small amounts of paper.  

You can also cut your strips smaller if you like. 

This paper gives me Hawaiian vibes....

I used the aqua painter to color in the pear with coordinating ink tones.

Have you tried this technique yet?

If so,  send me off your pics!