DASHER FOR THE TROOPS

A bunch of us at work are doing cards for the troops.   They will be signed and sent out by Friday 12/09/11.  This is through the American Red Cross.  I am pretty excited about this as it is a first time sending cards over to the troops.  I made them pretty simple since I was making a bunch of them.

SUPPLIES:

PAPER: was from my stash,  It has a marble effect if you look really close.  I used a vanilla and a gold.

STAMP: Stampin Up Dasher

MISC: Frame with oval shape, Big Shot, Stampin Up lattice emboss folder, Stampin Up gold emboss powder, versa-mark, heat gun, craft bond spray adhesive.

1. To create the oval in the center of the paper, you need to place the frame on the big shot platform not on the sandwich plate. put the paper in the embossing folder, then place it on top of the frame.  Now you put one sandwich plate on top of the folder and run it through the big shot.

2. Once the sheet is dry embossed, use the versa mark to stamp your image within the oval. Then emboss with the gold powder.

3. Spray the Craft Bond spray adhesive on the back of the image and attach within 15 seconds to your main card.  For the main card I used a yellow/gold and a vanilla color.

Please leave me a message letting me know what you think!


                                        HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

MDS BABY CARD

WOW!  It has been a really long time since I have blogged.  I was trying to assist a friend of mine in coming up with a baby card.  So, I thought I would share.  I created this on MDS, but the embelishments are ones that I have downloaded and can not remember which site I got them from.  I hope you enjoy! The card shows the front image and the inside image. Please leave me a note and let me know what you think.





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ROBIN

MOTHERS DAY

I made a mothers day card for a friend of mine to send to her mom. 

I cased this card from ZGRANDMA on SCS. 

 I really liked how it turned out and hope that her mom loves it just as much I do. 

I was having a hard time with the paper flowers, so I used some of my prima flowers I had.

All supplies used are from Stampin Up unless noted.

Paper: very vanilla, yellow, glossy

Ink: gold/brown spray mist, melon mambo, yoyo yellow, only orange, glorious green

Misc: ribbon (my stash), flowers (prima), fire rhinestone brad, hodgepodge hardware

I misted the glossy cardstock with the gold/brown mist and set it aside to dry for a few minutes.

Then I used a sponge, dipped into my ink pads and swished and swiped it on the

glossy cardstock in random patterns.

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ROBIN

COLOR WITH A BLUR

I played with a same b/w technique adding color back in and I also blurred the background and the glass in the front. This is my son and my 2 nephews.  They are all boy and definately the BOO CREW!

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ROBIN

FLOWER POWER

I wanted to play again with changing a color photo to black & white and then bringing back a touch of color.  Again I used the Corel  Draw program.

This time I used a picture that my sister-in-law took.  I hope you enjoy this one. 

Praise god and Happy Easter to everyone.

Original photo that is gorgeous to begin with.

The after effect with just the yellow. 

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ROBIN

COREL PAINTSHOP PHOTO PRO X3

I learned something new with my Corel program.  I have had it for a while and just keep learning a little bit and then I use it and then I go back to learn some more.  Today I learned how to take a color photo, change it to black and white and then add a touch of color back in.  I found a picture on a blog that I really liked for a kitchen and what I want my kitchen to look like. I hope you enjoy this and if you are looking for a great photo editing software, I would so suggest this program.

BEFORE W/ ALL COLOR

AFTERWARDS WITH JUST A TOUCH OF COLOR!

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SASSY THANG!

I had 2 birthday cards that I was asked to make. 

 I came across this digital download from

McMahon Five Designs

and could not resist the cute hippo named SASSY. 

On the inside of both cards, it says

"Happy Birthday You Sassy Thang".

SUPPLIES: All supplies are from my stash unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock (blue, pink grey), corner & side scallop punch (Stampin Up),

black ribbon, prima flowers, lt pink brad, 

3d foam embelishments, stampin write markers (Stampin Up)

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ROBIN

Happy Easter

I wanted to try the technique called Bum pain background found on the videos on My Digital Studio.  I was just playing around and wanted to try the circle instead of the square as I wanted hills.  So I was just going through the downloads and decided on a few from my Easter section.  I hope you enjoy!

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ROBIN

Congratulations

I have a wedding coming up in a couple of months, but I found this card from Valerie Salmon and so I decided to case it in MDS. I hope you enjoy!

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ROBIN

MDS BIRTHDAY CARDS

I made a couple of quick and simple cards on MDS for birthdays.  One is A little bird told me and the other is Whoo's birthday .  I cased the original design from Lesley at Always Playing with Paper. I just love MDS and I hope you enjoy!

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MONSTER HIGH

My daughter Kaley had a birthday party to attend today.  We went shopping and one of the things we got for her friend was this MONSTER HIGH purse.  So when we got home, I made the card to go with the purse using the Stampin Up set JUST JAWING.  I made some alterations, but tried to make it as close to the purse as possible.  I took the pictures (see below), and there was a ton of items in the background, so I was playing with my COREL system and managed to come up with the layout below using my MDS and some fun fonts I downloaded. I hope you enjoy!

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: just jawing

PAPER: bright pink, whisper white

INK: black stazon, basic black stampin write marker

Misc: black embossing powder, ribbon and rhinestones from stash

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SO GOOFY?

Another layout from the kids at the park.

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KID ZONE

More pictures of the kids from 2004 or 2005.  I did not mark the photos very well. 

Not to mention, I love taking B&W photos.  It has such an elegant look.

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LITTLE MAN

My little man and his many ways to learn things. 

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AMERICAN AS OREOS?

The kids love all holidays.  They had received a flag and was showing their AMERICAN pride.  It all goes together so great.  Zakary is wearing a shirt with an american skateboard, Brennan has his daddy's shirt with a Bald eagle on it and Kaley is holding the OREOS they are eating!

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TEEN SCENE

This is my teenage son and the normal everyday occurences.

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PURRRRRFECT

Here is a layout for from our cats over the last 7 years!  We still have Yogi and Gracie. 



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 ROBIN

KAT N ROBIN 2

OK, Here is 2 layouts created in MDS with the same picture.  Which layout do you like better?



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 ROBIN

A NEW STAMPINGFROG

Needing a new change for the blog so I created a new header.  I created the header in MDS with a kit I downloaded called TOADALLY LOVE YOU! I got this from My Memories.  Since I created the new header, I had to finish creating a new page.  So I chose a picture with Joe and I.

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ROBIN

PINT SIZE PICASSO

Here is another scrapbook page from when Brennan was younger.  We were painting the lower part of his room blue.  Taking down the Winnie The Pooh border at the top of the room and putting on a new border around the middle of the room. 

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ROBIN

DONT LIKE MY DRIVING?

Still having fun with MDS and my old photos from when the kids were little.  Can you tell I have the roll with mostly Brennan right now.  I am working on the other kids and creating an album for each one.  I used DENNYDAVIS.NET to come up with my title.  I love this website for titles, quotes, poems and anything else that I need to make my pages pop.

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MDS PAGES_OLD PICS 2

Here is another 2 page layout from when Brennan was younger with his daddy and a balloon.

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MDS PAGES_OLD PICS

I am having so much fun with MDS after learning new things and downloading free items from papers, embelishments, alphabets, fonts and so much more.  I downloaded some old pics that I had put on cd's.

 This is Brennan when he was younger.  I came around the corner to see him standing in a chair with the butter on the counter and ready to dig in.  Why do my kids go for the butter straight with a spoon or just dig in with their hands.  I will never know, but it was so fun to catch them doing it.

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ROBIN

VALENTINE SUCKERS

These are some of the Valentine suckers that we created for a few very special people.

SUPPLIES:

Valentine suckers are the first most important item.

PAPER: Whisper white, Rich Razzleberry

MISC: Pipe cleaners, big shot, petal card die cut,

1. After cutting the die cut, fold up only 2 sides and use some heavy duty glue or a piece of sticky strip.

2. Cut a small piece off the tip of the heart, so that your sucker can slide right down in

3. Once the sucker is in the heart, then you wrap a piece of green pipe cleaner around the sucker stick

4. Then take another small piece of pipe cleaner cleaner, create a petal and then attach to the stick as well.

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PURSE BIRTHDAY

Here is another wonderful and very quick design from the UCC (ultimate crafters companion).  This purse is so adorable and would be great for any girl.  I can see so many designs from simple, to elegant to rock style, to funky. I did another one that I embossed unlike this one I used a border punch. On the inside you will see I just put a fun note.  But what about a gift card, money or special receipes. Need I say more about this purse.  Not only for a birthday, but anything your heart would desire.  Enjoy!

SUPPLIES:

PAPER: metallic brown (old stash),  very vanilla (SU)

INK: none

STAMPS: none

MISC: ultimate crafters companion, crop a dile, eyelets, ribbon, velcro, stickers, eyelet border punch (SU), paper flowers, rhinestone brad (SU), rhinestone gems

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN

POP UP BIRTHDAY

I have a brand new tool for the 2011 year that is great for any scrapbooker, card maker and crafter!  It is called the ULTIMATE CRAFTERS COMPANION. Some of you may already know about this and maybe even have it.  I love the projects that they show on the DVD and so quick and simple.  I made the 2 cards below in a matter of minutes.  These are for some receipents birthdays this month. I hope you enjoy!

SUPPLIES: 
PAPER:  NOT QUITE NAVY, WHISPER WHITE (STAMPIN UP)
STAMP: HAPPY BIRTHDAY (STAMPIN UP) Not sure what set, I keep this one out all the time.
INK: OLD OLIVE CRAFT (SU), METALLIC PENS (PENTEL)
CHIPBOARD: SCALLOP CIRCLES (MAKING MEMORIES - JIGSAW SHAPES),  WISH EMBELISHMENT (MISS ELIZABETH)
MISC:  ULTIMATE CRAFTERS COMPANION, BIG SHOT, LARGE SCALLOP CIRCLE DIE, BUTTERFLY PUNCH, STICKY STRIP, DAZZLING DIAMONDS, PAPER CLIP ( used on the back to keep them standing up)

HAVE A STAMPING GREAT DAY! ROBIN