Quilled Glitter Birthday Balloons Card

First day of spring is here!!! Everything in small portions--winter felt way too long this year!

Today I present to you a card that I made for a co-worker's birthday yesterday. I remember her sporting argyle socks and expressing her love for the pattern, so I found this embossing folder (Darice brand) with the impression for the white background. It works well in my old Cuttlebug!

I don't know if you can see from this side view, but the center is popped up and this enabled me to slip the balloon and conceal the stems of the flowers behind the square.

The writing I put together in my Word processor and printed it out. Simple as that!

These quilled balloons I left as a symbol (without the string on the bottom) and I applied glitter to one of them to jazz it up a bit. :) The glitter stayed put pretty well from what I could tell--didn't create a huge mess and detach too much--yay!









Btw, head over to Spanish Crafter and leave her a comment on this post to enter in her giveaway!

Enjoy your day!

P.S. This card was inspired by My Paper Obsession's card and The Sweetest Thing's Sunday Sketch!

Vintage Key to My Heart Card

Hello everyone! It has been busy all around--summer days fly by especially quickly don't they? All of the heat is making my cats very inactive during the day, but it has been quite the opposite for me. :D 

Each week there are free live concerts at the park near my home. I would like to attend one, but my boyfriend is working in Pennsylvania during the weekdays now so I feel like all the mood is gone when I come home from work. Do you ever feel that way?--you want to do something, but going alone is just not as fun as with your partner so you end up not going altogether. 

Anyway, on to more exciting things...!!!

This week, we're all kicking it old school at Tuesday Alchemy--vintage! You can see how amateur I am in this area through my card! xD This is my interpretation of "key to my heart."

 I'm normally more of a modern girl, so it was quite a challenge for me. I do apologize if you feel offended that I interpreted vintage crafting as inking the corners in brown and using other muted colors. :X My knowledge of crafting vintage is very limited.

 The words are rub ons and the heart was colored in yellow acrylic paint with bits of white here and there. The surface dried a bit crackled, so I took that as a cue to dab on brown Perfect Pearls to attempt a distressed look. 

It's an awesome prize this week as Flonz is giving away a cool $20 Store Voucher to one lucky winner! Enter your vintage crafts for a chance to win!

This card will be entered in:
-Make It Monday #99

First Time With Someone Else

I hope everyone's long weekend was as great as the weather here! It was a comfortable 75 all weekend long with no rain and a lot of sunshine.

On Sunday, I made a card for the first time with someone else. Ellen needed a wedding card and it was her first time. I wasn't very good at giving instructions, but she picked up on things quickly anyway. :P This is what we came up with:

Butterfly Thank You 2

This is a variation on the Butterfly Thank You card posted on 8.26.2010. The only real difference is in the color palette (I used pink instead of all the blues) and I set the background with embossing powder instead of Perfect Pearls.

You can see how differently it shimmers in the light as compared to the Perfect Pearls application. 

Supplies (may not be linked to the exact product that I used):
-White cardstock
-Felt butterfly
-Rhinestones of various sizes
-Patterned paper
-Adhesive
-Butterfly stamp
-Pigment ink
-Border punch
-Heat gun
-Glitter embossing powder
-Watermark ink
-Glitter glue 

Butterfly Thank You

I've been rushing through thank you cards like there's no tomorrow! I just found out 2 days ago that we'll be moving again. I'm worried that I won't get to them for another year if I wait until we are settled in!

Supplies (may not be linked to the exact product that I used):
-White cardstock
-Felt butterfly
-Rhinestones of various sizes
-Patterned paper
-Adhesive
-Ribbon
-Butterfly stamp
-Pigment ink
-Border punch
-Perfect pearls
-Watermark ink
-Glitter glue

The first picture shows how the glitter from the embossing powder glimmers in the background. Important: Make sure you do the embossing on the white cardstock backing BEFORE you add any of the other pieces. Sometimes it may smear onto other pieces that you really didn't intend to emboss it on or the heat gun may ruin other accents on the card from overexposure to heat and we really wouldn't want that to happen! Either way, the idea is to prevent as many "do overs" as possible! The sides of the smaller squares of paper have been inked in blue, so that it softens the edges and sort of gives it an additional tiny frame.

Leave me a message if you have any questions!

20-Minute Birthday Card

Lately, we've been having to deal with searching for a new apartment. Everything is so expensive around here and, unfortunately for us, we can't skimp on the space because we have a lot of furniture. I dread having to go through this process. We were hoping to stay here longer, but the neighbors and landlords are a bit too much on the psycho side for our liking. lol

Supplies:
-Cardstock
-Patterned paper (DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies)
-Border puncher (Martha Stewart Edger Doily Lace)
-Adhesive
-Scalloped circle
-Circle
-Ribbon
-Cake stamp
-Silver embossing powder
-Heat gun

Here's to a better week ahead,