Hello and happy Friday!! I have a couple of things that I've been working on to share with you today. First up, I have an 8x8 scrapbook page that I made of my son when he was seven. I'll never forget when he his his first real home run. He came running into the dugout from home plate, so excited, saying "Mom, did you see that monster of a home run I hit?" It was the cutest thing, and I"m not sure who was more excited. Tyler, or his dad. When I received my dies from
The Scrapping Cottage this month, and I saw the mini baseball die, I started to wonder how it would work to pair that die up with my Make A Monster Faces from
Peachy Keen Stamps. Well, here is the finished product, and I'm thrilled with the way this turned out. I simply cut the die cuts from white card stock, then stamped the monster faces. I then proceeded to add details and shading with my Copic markers. I took a white gel pen and added stitching to the edge of the black frame, and the sentiment is computer generated. This page will spark the memory of that very first home run forever.
Now on to my "cool" card. I took three of the Cottage Cutz mini dies from the August release at The Scrapping Cottage, and put together this fast and fun "How Cool" card. There's nothing more cool than ice cream, popcicles, and sunglasses for summer, and this card has it all. Once again, the die cuts were cut with white card stock and colored with Copic markers. This yummy K&Co. Citronella paper was perfect, and I can't tell you how lucky I am, because I always color my images/die cuts first, THEN go looking for paper to match. So far, this has worked out for me, because I always manage to find the perfect paper. I don't know how it works, but it does, so I'm not going to change the process!! LOL!!!
I hope you've enjoyed my summer projects today. The summer is quickly winding down, but I think I'll hold on to it as long as I can by making good use of all the fun summer themed dies that I have yet to play with. Thanks so much for stopping by today. I wish you a glorious day and of course happy crafting!
What kind of TREAT does ever Dog want. . even at Halloween? . . . .a BONE. This week I decided to create a shadowbox for Halloween.
The first die that I used was the Cottage Cutz Puppy front and back Die. I left the flower out of his mouth and added a treat bag with TREAT or BONE replacing the traditional Trick or Treat. ( I used my Dymo LetraTag Maker with white paper on very small size for the lettering). I cut the tail twice . . once in red to give him a red tail and added a hand cut arrow. Than cut his forehead in red, added two horns, and added part of the scarf from the die in red. The Dog was made in rust color card stock, highlighted in white and orange ColorBox ink.
The tree was made using the Cottage Cutz Spooky Tree Die. To get the tree to be more dimensional (reason for the box). . .I cut two trees, used a white glue (Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive) to glue the two trees together, but working fast. . . . lay the two trees directly on top of each other. . but slide each branch a bit to create waves or bents. This way when the glue dies it will dry curved and wavy. I know the picture does not show it very well but the tree is about a 1/2" thick (wavy). I generally don't say to much about glues, it is everyone own thing, but years ago a professional artist who does origami told me about Scotch Quick-Dry Glue (Red/Purple Label). He said that it was great for paper, dyes quick and strong. He said he didn't have to hold his folds as long before they dried. I love it (Acid Free/Photo safe). Comes in a 4oz bottle or carded 2oz. bottle. Available wherever Scotch products are sold (Did that just sound like a commercial?)
Opps. . . I think I have the photos backwards now, but will start with the box which is 4"x5" on the outside with a 3"x4" window and 1/2" thick. There is an additional piece of paper that slides into the box with a wacky shape window. I used foam core board to create the 1/4" lift to the center window. (above shows the foam core stripes on the back of the wacky window. Build your box (do not seal one end) Add a yellow moon using card stock and Crystal Stickle, Than glue the tree to the (front) center wacky window attaching at base of tree and one side branch. Add Glue to the foam core board and slide into the box. Seal the end of the box. You now have your shadow box with tree and moon. The treat bag was made with a 5/8" x 3/4" rectangle and a 1/2" and 5/8" circle punch (cut small than large)
Add the Dog to the front of the box. I used polka dot orange card stock for the box, so all I did was add jewels and Stickle here and there. You can attach a card to the back. . if you want it to be a shadowbox card. O' Forgot. . add a bit of stickle to the tree for moon glo. . . .Thanks B
I added bling for sprinkles....looks almost good enough to eat, doesn't it.
