A Tutorial

Hello crafty friends. Today I have a tutorial for you, well actually I told Momma Mary of Carolina Cards that I would do a tutorial of a card I had made that she wanted to know how to do. So this is for you Momma Mary!!! 

The card is this card. First you want to start with what ever paper you will use for your layer and size it to the size you want it. I used SU watercolor paper I had in my stash since I wanted to use my Zigs and water brush, it measured 5 x 3 3/4. So I didn't need to cut it down any, but if you need to cut your panel down then do it now. Once your panel is to size, you will want to stamp your image in the left hand top corner. You can also put something in the right hand bottom corner if you wish, like leaves. My stamp set didn't have any leaves, so I didn't stamp anything in that corner. 

Next you want to cut out a rectangle, square, circle, whatever shape you want to use in your panel with what ever kind of layering dies you like to use. You can place it in where ever on your panel, I chose to off set to the right with my stitched die and cut it out with my Big Shot.

This is what you should have now. Set aside the one with the rectangle cut out of it. We only need the solid rectangle piece to work with right now.

You will color this one using what ever color medium you want. I used my Zig Clean Color Pens. 

Here is mine all colored, so now I'm ready to add everything to my card base. 

I decided to add a black panel to my card and then place my cut out panel on top of that. I did it that way because my watercolor panel is a vanilla color and my card base was white. Place the "cut out" panel on the black panel. Then you can either inlay the cut out colored rectangle back in the negative space or you can pop it up with foam or foam tape. I chose to just inlay it back in the negative spot on my card.

And that is all there is to it this type of card. Easy peasy, lemon squeasy! Now all I have to do is place a sentiment on my card yet. I think this will be a birthday card for my birthday card stash. I hope this has help you Momma Mary and anyone else who wanted to know how to make this type of card. 

Thanks for stopping by today and visiting with me a spell. You always bring so much sunshine to my life and your comments always put a wide smile on my face. 

Edited to add that this tutorial was inspired by a card that I CASed in a challenge. See link above to see my original card with the link to the challenge.

Crafty hugs, 

Card Recipe:
Zig Clean Color Pens
SU Stamp set-Regarding Dahlias
SU Water color paper
black paper from my stash
My Creative Time-More Stitched Rectangular Dies

Memory Quilts, Pillows and a card!

 Hello my crafty friends, I'm here with my 7th card today and one of my favorites. Although, I would like to try and remake it so that it is more softer in the coloring. This is also one that I didn't make double of this time. I tried to make this card extra special, not sure I achieved that as I think it should look more soft, but I tried. A good friend of mine told me after Dwayne passed that she would make me a quilt out of his clothing if I wanted her to. Well....I did and I was so touched that she offered to do that for me! The thought of snuggling under a quilt made from hubby's clothing sounded like heaven to me. Not only did she make a queen size quilt for me, but she also made a lap throw for when I watch tv in the winter months....and 6 pillows for the grands....and 3 more pillows for me....and a lap quilt for Bret since he was the youngest of the boys and had less time with his dad than the other boys did. Now is that a wonderful friend or what?!!! First we went through his clothing and I picked out the clothes that I wanted her to use. Dwayne had 40 t-shirt alone! Yes, he had more clothing than me because businesses would give him t-shirts all the time. Next she took the clothing home with her and she sat down and hugged his clothing and cried a few tears, then she got to work. And work she did! I just can't believe all she did for me, the grands and Bret. So I just had to share how they came out. 

This is the lap quilt, it is pretty large in itself as it goes the whole length of the couch almost.

 The grandchildren's pillows-each has a piece of his jeans, a sweatshirt he wore all the time, a dress shirt and a piece of his jammy pants.

 And here is the queen quilt! The 4 squares, two on each side where you see the triangle pieces, are the quilt pattern: Stairs to Heaven. Those we around the center t-shirt, which was his Corona t-shirt. He enjoyed having an ice cold beer after unloading hay and straw. He didn't drink a lot, if he got a case of beer it would last over a year down in the basement fridge. But when it was hot and he was hot, then he enjoyed a bottle of beer. My friend included buttons, labels, stains at my request, zippers, etc...The red pieces you see, the really real red fabric is his one piece long johns. Half is in my lap throw and the other half is on the bed quilt. Love that! Now see the pillows? The one on the left was made from his sweatshirt (he had a lot of them since he dressed in layers for work), she took the pocket and put on the shirt with his jeans. The pillow on the right was a t-shirt and his jeans are inside the neck line. The middle pillow are his hankies, in the center my sweet friend cross stitched a heart and in the center of the heart she put "I love you Dear". That's how Dwayne always said he loved me. Well, we always called each other "dear", rarely used our given names with each other. Now I need to find some blue pillow shams to go behind the pillows she made. Bret's throw is pretty much like mine, so I didn't take a picture of it...yet anyway. Now am I blessed or what?! What friend would do all of this?!! A very good one that is who! She knew what I was going through as her sister passed from cancer too many years back. And she made her nephew a quilt from his mother's clothing as well. She also made herself and her mom some pillows from her sister's clothing. My friend is just a very special person to me and I just adore her and I am so thankful for her.  I just love snuggling under in my bed and placing his clothing up to my cheek. So this is why I needed a special card.

And here it is. I hope it is special enough cause I really don't know how to thank her for all she did for me. If you have any ideas, I would love to hear them please! How do you thank someone for all of that? What can I do to repay her?? Or to let her know how thankful I am??? 

Recipe is at the bottom. As always, thank you for stopping by and visiting with me a spell. I hope I didn't bore you with this long post but I appreciate you hanging in with me this long. You always bring sunshine into my life which now a days isn't always an easy thing to do. But I find that this is one of the first places I want to be after I get out of my funks. Crafty hugs, 

Card Recipe:

My Creative Time Stamps and Dies-"Mom"-flowers
                                                         -"You Are Fabulous"-sentiment
I won a $50 gift certificate to My Creative Time and this "Mom" is one of the stamp and die sets I got. Isn't it a beautiful one?!!! 
Zig Clean Color Brush Pens
Score Board-Martha Steward- to make my score lines around the card
sequins

Masculine Thank You Cards

Hello my crafty friends, back with two more cards for you today. These are more masculine thank you cards.  I love the way this typewriter card has a "tropical" feel to it. The little flies are so stinkin' cute! They are from a Paper Tre Ink stamp set, which was a gift from Aunty Darnell! Thanks Auntie!!!! 

 Here is my fishy thank you card. The bubbles have glossy accents on them. My blue panels are popped up on foam tape. I think those little gold fish are so dang cute. lol All my stamps are from the NBUS mountain that I have!! Yay for using up some more NBUS!!!

Card Recipe:

Card 1:
Paper Tre Ink-Boy Basics Frog Hop Stamp Set-fly-NBUS
Stamp Up-Secret Garden-leaves-NBUS
My Creative Time-Once Upon A Time-typewriter and sentiment

Card 2:
My Creative Time-You're a Great Catch-fish, bubbles, seaweed, sentiment-NBUS
Technique Tuesday-Budding Poppies-sentiment
Zig Clear Color Brushes

Poppy Flower Cards

Hello my crafty friends, as promised I'm back with a couple more cards that I've made. Remember I made 10, I know I still can't believe it myself. lol But because they are all simple and CAS, they were easy to make. Anyway, on to the cards for today.

A while back, Momma Mary aka Mary from Carolina Cards sent me some brusho's for my birthday. Thanks Momma Mary, I am so loving them!!!! This first card is my first attempt at playing with them. I need to watch some videos I think, but over all I was pretty happy with the way my background turned out. I will list the colors I used in the recipe below. Oh and the brusho's and stamp set are NBUS to boot!!! Yay for using some of my NBUS! The color of my poppies are the same as the on the second card, not sure why they aren't showing like the second card. My photographing skills aren't the best, but you get the point. I embossed the flowers in clear embossing after stamping in black ink. 

Remember I said I was going to try and make at least two of each card I make. Well for the most part I've held true to that, but there are a few cards that I haven't made doubles of. I'm ok with that because like I said, I've been pretty true holding myself to that goal. This one is more plan and CAS. The little white dots are Gain sent boosters (free sample) and they are really yellow in real life. lol Edited to add that the sent booster were not my idea, I got the idea from my friend Hazel over at My Card Attic. They smell so good, but I don't think I will use them much on my cards. They are so thick, so you wouldn't be able to mail them. But for hand delivery, they will be fine and will make the card smell so nice.

As always I want to thank you for stopping by and visiting a spell with me. Your comments always bring sunshine into my life making me grin from ear to ear!! Crafty hugs, Brenda

Card Recipe:
My Creative Time-Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies & More
                              More Stitched Rectangular Dies
                              I can't find what stamp set I used for the sentiment on card 1
                              Plane & Simple...-Happy Birthday (card 2 sentiment)
Zig Clean Color Pens
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Tumbled glass
Brusho's-Rose Red, Moss Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna
Technique Tuesday-Budding Poppies (2014)

Thank You!!

Hello my crafty friends, remember me???? I didn't think I would be gone for so long, but it has been a busy time around here. Between babysitting some of my grandchildren to elderly sitting...mowing, trying to spray and ducking rain drops, I haven't really made the time to post. But believe it or not, I did work on some cards and got 10 made! I can't believe it myself! So I will be posting here and there since I got the photo's edited and ready to go. 

First off let me thank some very generous people here in blog land for sending me some beautiful birthday cards, thank you so much for thinking of me. I didn't even see any of my family on my birthday because I was helping a friend out taking care of their aunt and my friend. She had to have a heart cath done and then came home. The doctor didn't find any blockages, which was a good thing, but what was causing her mild heart attacks? Well...turns out that her blood was way to thick. The doctor could hardly get the cath through her blood! So she is on beta blockers now, so hopefully that will do the trick. Once I get my birthday cards photographed, I will be adding them to a "cards from friend's" page. That is my next goal to get done.

This weekend, Sunday to be exact, our local hospice is having a butterfly release. So myself and my boys are all releasing a butterfly in memory of my husband. Bittersweet!! He has been on my mind so much here of late. I do well and then bam! I'm blue and teary/weepy, missing him so much. Funny how it comes on like that. I just finished staying with my friends elderly aunt for 5 days over the holiday. I was happy to help out so they could go away, but am so glad to be back at my own house and in my own bed. Anyway that is just a little of what's going on in my life at the moment. Sorry if I have bored you! You know I tend to rattle on like the old fool that I am!!!

Ok here is the first two cards I have to share. Both using the same technique as the last card I did. I wanted to try it out a few more times because I just love the look. lol I think it is such a pretty and elegant look. I'm not the best at coloring, but I think it will pass mustard. Is that the saying???? lol I'm pretty pleased with the way these came out and look forward to trying some more different flowers in this technique. 

As always thanks for stopping by and visiting a spell on the patio with me. Your comments always bring sunshine into my life! I know that I am behind on my visiting and commenting, but I promise that I will be by soon to try and catch up with what you all have been making!!! Crafty hugs, Brenda

Card Recipe:
SU stamps- Blended Bloom & Because I Care
Zig Clean Color Pens
My Creative Time-Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies & More
                                     More Stitched Rectangular Dies

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Hello my crafty friends, I'm here to announce the winner of my $25 gift card. I used Random.Org to select a winner. The winner is.........Loll Thompson!  Loll I have sent you an email and will wait to hear back from you. 

Thank you all for stopping by and seeing all the inspiration the Cardz TV Gallery designers had for you. I wish I could give you all a gift, but I can't. :( I do appreciate you all very  much and loved reading all your wonderful comments! So thank you for them! 

I know I haven't been posting much, it is a busy time right now with mowing and such. My son's also plan on putting in new floors in all the rooms for me this summer as well, so that will be a job and a half. Especially when it comes to clearing out my craft room. Also I'm still not into creating a bunch yet since my husband's passing, but I do plan on starting some scrapping after I reorganized and clean/purge out my craft room. Hopefully it will be easier to move when the time comes for the guys to do the flooring in there. So stick with me a bit longer, I'm half way through the firsts so hoping that things will get a bit better with me and my funk. I always appreciate your visits, they always bring me sunshine and smiles and lift my heart! Crafty hugs,

Card Recipe:

Cardz TV Gallery Blog Hop!

I'm so glad you could join us today for our Cardz TV Gallery Blog Hop! Grab your favorite beverage, sit back and relax, and get ready for some fun, inspiration,and the chance to win some blog candy too! Our hop is all about celebrating birthdays! So hop all the way through and be inspired by birthday projects!
Here's what I made for today's blog hop using Cardz TV Stamps Good Times. A birthday banner, a birthday tag and a birthday mini album. On the banner, each banner has a sentiment on it from the Good Times Cardz TV Stamp set. I had some little plastic balloons, candles, party hats, etc....in my stash so I glued them on the banner as well. I have no clue where I got them from, I think they were given to me.

The tag for a gift bag or gift box.

A one page mini album. You can find the directions on how to make it from Maymay Made It here. I also used the stamp set Good Times in this mini and I used some cut ups from the paper as tags for the pocket.

What's a blog hop without some blog candy! I will give away a $25 gift card to store of your choice, JoAnn's, Hobby Lobby, or AC Moore. To win, make sure you leave a comment on my blog if you are a follower. If you aren't I hope you will consider following me, I would love to have you as a follower! Also, don't forget to leave a way that I can contact you in case you are the lucky winner! I will use random.org to pick a winner and hopefully will announce the winner on Monday. Mary will be giving 3 sets of Cardz TV Stamps for her blog candy, so if you’re a follower of Cardz TV, just leave a comment on her blog! Mary will use random.org to pick a winner, and will announce the WINNER on Monday!

Below is a list of all the stops in today's Cardz TV Gallery Blog Hop. If you get lost, just come back here to check the list and find your way again!

BLOG HOP LINE UP:

Mary - http://cardztv.blogspot.com/

Jeri - http://www.bugnme.blogspot.com/

Gloria - http://www.girliascards.blogspot.com/

Julie - http://www.readysetstamp.com/

Faith - http://thecraftingprofessor.blogspot.com

Karen - http://www.littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/

Kim - http://www.cardcreationsbykim.blogspot.com/

Brenda - http://www.friendscraftinwithfriends.blogspot.com/-You are here!

Melissa - http://www.melissa-moecreations.blogspot.com/

Brandy - http://mypaperdollworld.blogspot.com

Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com

Anita - http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca

Shelly - http://cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/

Thank you for hopping with us today…we hope you had fun!

Recipe:

CardzTV Stamp Set "Good Times"
My Creative Time Dies-Tag, letters, balloons
Maymay Made It-"Place Photo Here" Stamp-set called "Action!"

Tim Holtz Rosette Die

DCWV-Celebrate Paper Pad

Jen Hadfield Banner Dies