Gabby's card

Wow! It's been a wild few months. We moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania since I last updated. We are getting settled and I finally had some time to blog! All of my crafting supplies are still packed so I am not going to be able to stamp for a while. I don't think I want to tackle unpacking those boxes until my kids are back in school. I've got a lot of reorganizing to do!

I found a photo of a birthday card I made for a dear friend's daughter. She is such a carefree little girl with a smile that just melts your heart. She has an amazing joy in her even though she's been through so much. If you want to read her story, see her Caring Bridge site: http://www.caringbridge.org/cb/inputSiteName.do?method=search&siteName=gabriellewysocki
I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she said "Elmo!" I wanted her card to be bright and happy just like her so I used the yellow from TAC's Brighten My Day paper pack for the background. I layered it onto red and blue cardstock and stamped her name with TAC's Classic Alphabet.
For the face, I punched some red cardstock with the circle scallop punch and cut a strip out of the center to make it the right shape. (You could use the oval scallop punch to make this much easier.) Then I punched a scrap of black cardstock with the scallop punch and cut it to make the mouth. Then comes the fun part. I used my red flock to make the face fuzzy! The nose was some scrap fiber I had. I added googly eyes and there was Elmo! It was a fun card to make.
The items used to make this card can be found on my TAC website under the Products tab.
I hope you like this playful card and if you wouldn't mind, please say a prayer for Gabrielle and her family.
Thanks and Blessings,
Elaine

Simple Card

I took a break from working on my house to make this card for my extraordinary Mother and thought I would share it with you. I just love this horse set!

This was a very simple card- most of my cards are very simple but that doesn't mean it doesn't take me hours to create. I actually enjoy the process and usually change my idea for a card 1 or 2 or 9 times before I'm through. Then I look at it and I wonder "how in the world did I spend 2 hours down the basement making this card?" Anyway, I really enjoy playing and trying different things and using my new toys. I used my Crop-o-dile and deckle scissors and that's about it for this one. To make the brown rectangle look distressed, I just rubbed my Burnt Sienna Palette pad all over it. The saying came from TAC's "Bookoo Blessings" set. Now you can go make this card and it will take you 10 minutes! Have fun!

Spring Flowers

Spring is finally here in Ohio!
I hope my fellow Buckeyes
have gotten to spend some time outside
enjoying the weather. The daffodils are out and they are just beautiful.
Here is a picture I took in my yard yesterday.

Today was a little cloudy and sprinkling in the morning so I thought I'd do some stamping! I decided on a card because I wanted to try out my new Scor-Pal. I found a piece of vellum in my scraps and thought it would be fun to play with. I scored the edges and diagonals with the Scor-Pal. It was so easy! Then I stamped the flower from "A God Thing" on top with my New Canvas and Raw Sienna Palette pads. I wanted it to be simple and elegant but I though it needed something so I added some balled up fiber to the center of the flower and some cut ribbon to the leaves. Now it's more cutesy than elegant but I like it better. The greeting from the "Be Still" set was stamped with my Jardin Moss Palette pad.

I'm excited to try some more projects with my Scor-Pal. Go to Scor-Pal's site to see all the fun things you can do with it.
http://www.scor-pal.com/projects.htmom/projects.htm
Contact me to see how you can get it for half price!!!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful, flowerful spring!!! Thanks for visiting!

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Hello again. I finally found some time to stamp! It's been crazy at my house. We are trying to sell our home and I've been busy cleaning and packing. I had some stamps from last month that I hadn't even cut! If you know me, you know that is very rare. I like to cut them as soon as they arrive so I can play with them! Well, I finally got them cut and I wanted to make a scrapbook page with my new "Starburst Flowers" set. (pictured below) I bought them because they reminded me of Dandelions.

Don't you just love Dandelions? I know men hate them because they "mess" up their yard but I love my yard when it's dotted with yellow. Then the white dots come and the kids blow the seeds and make more yellow! How can you not love Dandelions? They are so easy for kids to pick and SO abundant. Especially in my yard. No one would mistake our yard for a golf course, that's for sure.

I do have one thing I don't like about Dandelions. They always manage to find my garden. I don't mind them in the yard as long as they stay in the grassy part. lol

The scrapbook page was created from a very simple layout I'd seen before. For the circles, I used a Coluzzle with nested circle and large nested circle. The Coluzzle is one of my oldest scrapbooking tools. I really love it. It takes the guesswork out of cutting circles or any shape for that matter. You just place the clear template over what you want to cut and run the special knife through the channel. It works great.

The stamp sets I used on the page are Starburst Florals, Little Things, Punctuation (for the journaling lines), Spring Dream, Flourishes and Simple Bet. See the "Products" tab on my TAC website for these and more of my favorite products.

http://elaine.ismyangel.net/Products/Default.aspx

Thanks for visiting!!!

Scalloped Valentine

I just got my order in from the new TAC catalog and had to play with my new toys. This is the 3" Giga Scallop Circle Punch.

It is so easy to use. I don't have any really nice punches like this. It is the first one I've gotten from TAC. The other ones I have take a lot of pressure to go through the cardstock and don't leave a very clean edge but this one is NICE. It works great!

Here is a card using TAC's "Friendly Note", "Wishing You", and "Running Stitches" sets and cardstock from the "Pop Rocks" collection.

I wanted to show you a fun way to add extra sparkle to your images. Here is a close up of the hearts.

To get this effect, color your image with Watercolor Pencils and use a Versamarker to blend. Be very careful to stay inside the lines when you're blending! Then before your Versamark has dried, you add some Sparkle Embossing Powder and heat it as usual. For the vase, I just used Transcendence Embossing Powder (you could use any clear EP) to make it look shiny like water.

Look under the "Products" tab on my TAC website for the items used to make this Valentine card.

http://elaine.ismyangel.net/Products/Default.aspx

Faith tag album

Faithbooking is such a blessing. I like it because it gives my scrapbooks a higher purpose. I can tell people about my faith and what God has done for me by just showing them my scrapbooks! What a simple way to witness! Most of my pages are just regular pages of my kids with a relevant Bible verse added somewhere. You can journal prayers or blessings to a page also. It is a way you can spend time with God while you're creating.
Boy, I was excited when I saw all the new faithbooking word stamps in TAC's new catalog. They reminded me of a project I did a while back. I had some beautiful nature photos that I wanted to faithbook. I thought I'd try a tag album. I used TAC's Sands of Time cardstock for the tags and I printed the Bible verses to go along with the photos with my computer. Although I personally like searching the Bible for the perfect verse, TAC has made projects like these a lot easier by offering sets with Bible verses and other great quotes. One of my favorites is called "Be Still". Here are some more word sets to use in your faithbook. "Faithbooking", "Nurture Your Soul", "Heavenly Father" and "My Spiritual Journey". Use these to inspire you to create faithbook pages or make a card to inspire someone else. Go to my TAC website and look under "products" to see these sets. http://elaine.ismyangel.net/
Thanks for visiting!