Welcome Kris and Ryan!

 

 

Please Welcome Kris and Ryan!

Hello Friends! Friday is finally here and we get share new digital stamps and digital papers from our 2 new illustrators!!!

Easter Frame Line Art PNG

Card by: Sue

Easter Frame Colored PNG

Card by: Kristine

Easter Carrie Line Art JPG and PNG

Easter Carrie Colored JPG and PNG

Card by: Kristine

Card by: Kristine

Pretty Paisley's DP

Card by: Sue

Hoppy Easter JPG and PNG

Card by: Sue

Card by: Michelle P

Lil' Monster JPG and PNG

Card by: Michelle P

Card by: Michelle P

Card by: Michelle P

Pa's Paper JPG and PNG

Card by: Michelle P

Card by: Michelle P

Card by: Michelle P

Have A Blessed Week!

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A Ladies Diary–Graphic 45 Paper Collection

 

I get this 8x8” paper pack in my mailbox from Cutters Creek.  The paper is by Graphic 45 (one of my favs) called A Ladies Diary.  I look at each sheet of paper and the prints are beautiful on both sides.  Yep it is double sided.  A card makers dream.

I ponder a while and wonder what papers will I use.  And what image will I need to find that will go with the theme.  And then color it.  Then it hit me!  I will fussy cut one of the images from the paper and it will be my focal point.

I chose three prints to make my card.  And added black paper from my stash as the accent color.

Surprisingly what I thought would be a hard task to pull it all together started to flow so easily.  It took me a long time to make the card because I added die cuts, flowers,  butterflies,flourishes  using only the 3 pieces of paper from A Ladies Diary and the black paper from my stash.

Below the photo will be all the details on what I used to make the card.  And you can click on the photos to get a closer view.

Sidebar:  It couldn’t happen at the worse time but the battery to my digital camera died.  No it didn’t need re-charging it died and was not fixable.  New one ordered.  So Kim of Cutters Creek reminded me I could take pictures with my iPad Mini.  My first time for this but what made it worse I had to sync it to my computer first .  When it rains it pours.  The photo images do not do the card justice but you still see how awesome the card turned out.  I don’t think I will be able to let go of this one

Recipe:  Graphic 45 A Ladies Diary Designer Paper,  All items in black is Neenah Paper  (Classic Linen in Black),  Spellbinders Nestabilities Timeless Rectangle (Front & Inside), We R Memory Corner Chomper (Deco Corners), EK Success Retro Flower Punches, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Silhouette Portrait (black flourishes and leaves),  Black Diamond Stickles, Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive, and Kool Tak Double-sides Permanent Tape (awesome).

Remember if there is something you need or want and its not available in the Cutters Creek Store just contact Kim.

Thank you for stopping by,

Meet Sasha!

 

Well I was lucky to get this project completed before I was hit with a nasty sinus infection.  But I am not going to whine it about because I want you to meet Sasha.  What an adorable digital image. Gosh if you haven’t worked with digital images before you are really missing such an opportunity to find so many wonderful images over at McMahon Five Designs Store.

A friend of mine in another group did the cutest dry erase board and I’ve been wanted to do one too.  I had no clue that it could be so easy.  But after reading how she made her board I said I could do that.  So I went scouring in my craft closet (that needs cleaning out) and found an empty 8x10” frame.  I really liked the wood tone on it so I left it alone.  But you could alter the wood to match what you are making or to a room.  Well I guess I said enough.  Here is the photo of my dry erase board which Sasha so elegantly adorns it.  Details of all the embellishments will be below the photo.   And how I colored Sasha using my computer and Prisma Colored Pencils.

Sasha Acrylic Stamp $2.38

(You can click on the photos to get a closer view)

 

Don’t forget to visit the M5D Blog to see the other designs from the Design Team and the BIG NEWS!

 

 

Supplies:

Sasha Digital Image – McMahon Five Designs

Butterflies – Martha Stewart Punch

Flourish on the corner of frame – Silhouette Store

Flowers – Digital image from McMahon Five Designs

Stickles Glitter Glue – True Blue (center of flowers) by Ranger

Designer Paper used for Flourish, Butterflies, and inside of frame – DCWV – Mango Frost Stack (12x12”).

Flowers – Yellow gold paper from my stash.

Adhesive used to mount all the embellishments – Glossy Accents by Inkssentials.

Prisma Colored Pencils – Sasha’s hair and some shading on the parasol and dress.

Paint Shop Pro – Colored all of Sasha’s skin and make-up, her dress, and most of the parasol (including the shading).

Glitter pens – CL. Gold and Melon green used on the flowers on the parasol, border of dress, and on the shoes. (CL. Gold by ZIG, wink of Stella and Melon Green Atyou Spica Glitter pens).

 

 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you left me some love :)

McMahon Release-Easter Strawberries

 

I’m so glad you stopped by to take a peek at my card created for McMahon Five Designs.  The digital image I chose was a group of luscious strawberries.  I will admit that they are my favorite summer fruit.  And every Birthday which is in April I get a Strawberry shortcake.  And guess what? I eat the largest strawberry in the center.  And if you know me well you know that the largest strawberry belongs to me. 

Back to my card.  If you have been following me lately you probably noticed that I am using my Paint Shop Pro (PSP) Program to color some of the digital images.  This time I used PSP to color the entire image.  Lots of fun too!  Details about the card are below the photos.

 

Easter Strawberries JPG and PNG

*Inspired by this delicious photo from Pinterest :)

Mmmmm! Strawberries dipped in melted chocolate and decorated with candy writers.

I chose this sentiment for my card.

 

I printed the digital image of the strawberries on gold iridescent card stock by Recollections. The shimmer is very subtle.  I love that card stock.  It gave the strawberries a nice shimmer to them.  I mentioned earlier that I used PSP to color the digital image.  And used several plugins to achieve a dripping look on the berries.  I don’t know if you can notice it but it really looks cool in person.  I could have never done that with my colored pencils because I am not an artist by no means.  I used a strip of glitter ribbon by American Crafts and the color is Spinach.  The paper bow is a remnant from an paper Easter Egg just sized smaller with the cute flower in the center which is part of the digital image.  I re-sized and colored them in PSP.  And I added Stickles Glitter Glue in lime green to the centers.  The stripe paper is from my stash and for the life of me I cannot remember when I bought it and where I bought it.  Its double sided but I stuck with the one side.  On the inside of the card I printed the sentiment on plain white card stock.  Then cut it out using the Spellbinders Mega Nestabilities Curved Rectangles. I used two sizes to get the frame to enhance the sentiment.  And the border below the sentiment was made with a Martha Stewart punch.  Last by not least the card base is Neenah Card Stock in White.  If you have not ever used Neenah paper before you just have to try it.  It works well with Copic markers and Prisms Colored Pencils.  I’m sure other mediums work well but I only tried Copic markers and Prisma colored pencils on it.

Now you just have to hop over to McMahon Five Designs Blog to see what the other design team members did for their project.  And if you have time leave a little love for them.  We all need love, right?

 

Thank you for stopping by,

Bunny Box and Bunny Eggs

 

I cannot believe how quickly the first week of National Crafting Month is flying by.  So far you’ve seen Four great projects from the Design Team of Cutters Creek.   Today my project is a cute Easter Bunny Box.  The Box template is a creation by AR.

I wanted to create the bunny box with a Shabby Chic look and I think I captured it pretty good.  I first cut the Bunny Box template on my Cricut Expression using SCAL.  I used plain white card stock for the first cut and then patterned paper for the second cut.  I glued the pattered paper to the white card stock and this process gave it more stability.  After I glued all the areas of the template to form the bunny I added the shabby chic touches.  I inked the edges of the rabbit with Photo Vintage Distress Ink.  I added a a bow made from seam binding which was inked also with Vintage Photo.

The flowers were inked with Vintage Photo too plus I added some Star Dust Stickles to each of the flowers.  I used a Prima Rose for the center of the bow.  The bunny’s tail is also a paper rose I created.  The eyes are pearls from Kaisercraft in Champaign.

All the paper eggs are from the Silhouette Store made especially for this project.

 

Cutters Creek Products:

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad (Vintage Photo)

Kaisercraft Pearls (Champagne)

Stickles Glitter glue (Star Dust)

Adhesive – Scotch quick-Dry Adhesive

SCAL – Sure Cuts A Lot Program (Version 3)

Other products used are from my personal stash.

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I hope you like my project.  Let me know by leaving a comment below.  I know I had fun making it for National Crafting Month.  And I hope that I inspired you to make something too.

Fran

New McMahon Five Designs Release

 

Sometimes when I select one of the fabulous digital images to showcase I get just a little stumped on how am I going to bring the image alive.  How am I going to make it look what is in my mind’s eye.  Well the image I chose really was a new challenge for me.  And the reason for that is I always need a sentiment in my mind to go with the image.  The name of the image is Jenna and the artist who created Jenna is Jeni.  I really wanted to make Jeni proud of her image and how I presented it on paper.  Detailed information about my card is below the photos.

 

Jenna Acrylic Stamp $2.38

 

The sentiment reads: I only think of you on two occasions day and night!

 

Close-up view of image.

 

Jenna is colored with Copic markers (skin and hair) and Prisma Colored Pencils.(Dress).  The moon is an image I found online and created a .png file and pasted it on the card using Paint Shop Pro (PSP).  The three shades of the sky were created in PSP too.  The grass and dirt were applied with Prisma Colored Pencils (Gamsol technique).  The papers are from a stack I bought probably about 2 years ago and rarely used by Colorbok.com called Patterned Paper, Stickers, & Punch-Out Pack – Bright (I am not sure if it is still available).  It was purchased at Wal Mart.  The butterfly is from a die cut made by Cheery Lynn Designs (D130 Butterfly Bundles – Set of 7). The flowers around the butterfly and in the corners were punched out using the Retro Flower Punch (highlighted with Stickles Glitter Glue).  The cut flowers Near the image are from the Silhouette Store called Three Doodled Flowers by Snapdragon Snippets LLC (also highlighted with Stickles Glitter Glue).  The inside of the card repeats the same color themed paper and added dew drops in green to the corners.  The corners were cut from 1-1/2 inches squares cut diagonally and I used the Corner Chopper (Stub by Crop-A-Dile).

 

Why don’t you stop over at the M5D Blog and see all the other creations created by the Design Team.  And don’t forget to leave them some love. Thank you!

 

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