Follow Your Dreams...

My latest card is an easel.

Had fun with this one!

Loved digging out all my JustRite stamps and combining sets.

  

The challenge this month is "Wings".

 

The airplane stamp is from "Going Places Vintage",

the Carte Postale is from "Greetings from Paris",

and the sentiment, "Follow Your Dreams"

is part of the OLD, OLD set "All Occasion Nested Sentiments".
 

 

 

 

I heated embossed everything I could ink up,

and then carefully colored the plane with Copics markers.

The little airplane charm and metal gears are from Michael's,

and the paper is DCWV, "Cinnamon Luster" stack,

with the map background stamped with an old world map from

my very, very old stash.

I hadn't made an easel card in a long time, so I was feeling crafty! Also, I love to work with 6 x6 cards, so this worked as a SQUARE card also!

 

Let's just say, I really tore up my room for this one! LOL!

 

This terrific challenge can be found at

JustRite Inspiration

and goes until Wednesday, August 21st,

so you still have time to enter!

Also, entered at:
Cards for Men (use Metal)
Here Come the Boys (Square card)
The House That Stamps Built (Wings)

Word Art Wednesday
 

And as always, thanks so much for reading my post today!

Please leave a comment so I know ya'll are out there!

 



Three's no crowd here...

This week, JustRite has terrific a new challenge!

"Three's company", meaning you must use three or more coordinating patterns

on your project.

 

This one I simply couldn't resist.

 

That and the fact that I have a very limited number of JustRite Stamps, and would love to win some!  They have some of the sweetest stamp sets ever!

The ones I love the most are those that coordinate with my Spellbinder dies!

Could a person ask for more?

 

I am trying to get some Christmas mojo, which is pretty difficult when the temperatures are still over 100 here in Arizona.
 

 

I used an OLD Christmas stack from DCWV that isn't from last year,

but the year before!

Talk about pulling out your old stash.

I actually like all the patterns in this stack and have no idea why I still have any of it left.  But there it is...

 

I wanted to give this "postal card" image from "Greetings from Paris" a holiday feel, and decided to go simple.

Just like a card would have been posted years ago.

Things were simpler then..sorry.  I regress.

 

The sentiment is from JustRite's

 "Christmas Nested Sentiments", another stash from the past.
(This one I couldn't even find on the store site)

  

I started out thinking I would layer several elements, and really pile it on,

but then chose to stop while it still looked like a holiday card we would have

received back in the 40's-50's. (No, I wasn't born until the later fifties

so I wouldn't actually remember!)

 

Hope you enjoyed today's trip down memory lane,

even if they were all someone else's memories.

 

 



Hanging 3D project!

The current challenge at JustRite Inspirations

is to create a 3D project as a home decor piece, gift, etc. 
and
Flourishes asks that we use 3 elements beginning with the same letter!  FUN!

("B", beads, bow, butterfly, brown ribbons, border stamps...)
This was made for my mother for her boudoir...in other words, her master bath.

The photo is one I've used before.  It is her 1951 high school graduation picture!

Everything was far more formal back then.

For these sweet little framed images, I used
JustRite's, "Fleur de Lis Labels Twenty"
and "Greetings from Paris",
which I stamped on dark brown cardstock and
embossed in cream powder.

This amazing, realistic looking "Lace" below was created using the

"Lace Border" stamp,

and heat embossed onto vellum!  Love this effect!

I then glued the two sections of "lace" to a strip of ribbon to hang my photo frame and stickpins from.

These stamps show so much detail and look so sharp when embossed!

The butterfly and crown are Tim Holtz' Grungeboard that has been painted brown , crackled, painted cream and then sanded to highlight the embossing.

The tiny bling is Recollections.

The stickpins I made myself.

The DP I used to cover the wooden hanger is "Lady Couture", DCWV.

Lastly, the little epoxy frames are those I picked up at Michael's when they

had them for 80 cents each! Wish I had gotten tons more!

Thanks for reading through this entire post!

I hope my mother likes this as much as I enjoyed making it!

Pastels for Spring!

The challenge at JustRite Inspirations this week is

"Perfect Pastels!"

How absolutely gorgeous to see all of the beautiful

design team posts!

On my card, I took inspiration from the colors and the black of the vintage typewriter in the inspiration photo!

I tried something new this time around and am not sure how I feel about it.

I heated the ribbon on the edges to allow it to curl slightly, hoping to give it more texture and not look so flat. 

In the photo, it appears to be just crooked ribbon or paper...

Perhaps not a technique I will use layered under another element again.

IRL, it really looks pretty.

I added a sparse amount of crushed glass to the butterfly wings, also.

Jury's still out on that one, too...

To break down my supplies, I used:

JustRite stamps; Fleur dis Lis Labels Twenty,
Greetings from Paris,
and

Victorian Nested Frames and Sentiments (No longer available)

Dies; Spellbinders, Nestibilities Labels Twenty and Fancy Tags Three

Papers;  DCWV, Prima, and Echo Park

Embossing Powders, Crushed Glass Glitters, and inks;  Stampendous

Hope you enjoyed, and remember to always TRY new things.

I may very well use that technique on another project and LOVE it!

This card has also been entered at
Victorine Stamps (Anything Goes)

JustRite is so totally "just right"...

My card for this week's JustRite Inspirations challenge...

     Use JustRite stamps to make your own designer paper!

The background was made by stamping rows of the fleur de lis border from the

"Greetings from Paris" stamp set, heat embossing each row in black as I went.

The "postcarte" from the same set was stamped in Momento, Rich Cocoa.

(Notice that adorable little postmark that is also included in that set!)

I inked up the postcard really well so that it has a seriously vintage look,

and added the crocheted trim for a color POP!

Note, also, that the g.c.d. paper I used was heavily textured. This makes for a very interesting look when you stamp and emboss, not allowing the image to stamp solidly.

Fantastic when you're going for that old, vintage effect!

I love the cameo craze, so I couldn't resist including a soft bow and a sweet

black and cream cameo and homemade bow pin!

Still needed something...hmm...

some subtle black Zva swirls topped it off perfectly!

What I have is yet another card with my FAVORITE colors..red and black!

Enjoy your weekend!

More Pretty Butterfly Greetings!

Spring is here!

 I love the idea that Spring is here and along with it comes all
the gorgeous colors, textures, and terrific challenges!

I used some K & Company paper that I'd had for ages along with their chipboard butterfly.  The birds on the print just cried out for the jute and raffia border! I mounted it all on a kraft background and added the pretty, little Prima flowers to top it off! 

The sentiment is from JustRite's, "All Occasion Sentiments" set. I love that font!

For some reason, when I cropped and tried to soften the edges of my card, it picked up the pattern of the paper on the card! I still haven't figured out Adobe Photoshop CS5....ugh...

I liked my Elements much better!

 Challenges entered:

Shabby Tea Room (Lilac, Blue, Yellow, Kraft and a butterfly!)

     And the prize is a great collection of JustRite background stamps! 

     ohhh....be still my heart!

JustRite Stampers (Spring colors and a butterfly!)

Paper Sundaes (Spring blossoms!)

Sentemental Sundays (Spring/Easter)

The Ribbon Carousel (Raffia and jute)