To the Nine Note Cards

Hello Bloggers!

Goodness! it is July 1st already! And it is the 4th of July weekend.  I smell B.B.Q already.  If you are going to have burgers throw in an extra one for me because I'm coming. :)   

I didn't have the 4th of July card but I was making some quick, simple, and postage friendly cards.
 Some cards I made using the One Sheet Wonder technique and some I used the Clean and Simple technique.

The pattern papers were from SU called To the Nine.  I always leave all my cards blank both the front of the card and the inside of the card.

There are lots of  One Sheet Wonder templates out there but I somehow like this one the most.
 
Thanks for stopping by again.  Have a great weekend!  Enjoy the long weekend if you are in the states.

Helen

CAS Note Cards

Hello,

I love pattern papers and I  had accumulated so  much because I didn't want to let it go.  I know it is silly of me. I finally decided to use them.  I saw these cards here and I happened to have the same designer papers so I made these note cards.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend!

Helen

CAS - Purse - onally

Good Morning,

I saw this purse here a while ago and on many other blogs and had been wanted to make one.  I finally did it.
Here is my version.

 The chain on the handle was inspired from Michelle at Pink Paper Paradise. I bought my chains from The Home Depot. It was sold by the foot.  I was going to cut every other chain which mean I would waste many chains but my husband offered to help me.  He said he could separate each chain for me without cutting the chains and he did!  Sometime he can be so helpful. :)

I made a box purse before.  You can see it here.   I didn't like the closed box for the cards so I made my purse open like this for easy access to the cards.  There was a problem with my purse.  It won't stand up!  So to hold the two pieces together, I added the band and tucked it under the front pocket.  Problem solved!

 

The inside pockets was inspired from here.  I think I put at least 5 cards on one of the pocket and the other pocket it's for the envelopes.  Now looking at the handle I should have covered those brads. May be next time.

Thanks for taking a peak!  Have a great day.

Helen

Asian Artistry - Plant

Hello again,                                                                                                                                             

Today I have two more cards using the Asian Artistry stamp set. These two cards will be my last two cards using this stamp set for now. This is an old sketch from Mojo Monday. These two cards are identical. 

The only different is the round corner for the first card and the ticket corner for the second card. I like the second one better.

  

It took me sometime to think how to stamp the plant because I wanted the flowers to be red and the plant in gold. It would be real simple if I have had gold ink but I don't.  So  I inked the plant in Versa Mark.  Then with a wet paper towel I wiped out the Versa Mark from the flowers.  I then stamped the image and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.  

Next, I stamped the image on  transparency  and lined it up with the gold image.  Then I took the Real Red marker and colored just the flowers section of the image. With my homemade stamp-a-majic,  I stamped the flowers.  Then outline the flowers with versa mark pen and heat embossed the flowers with clear embossing powder.  I was happy how it turn out.

Again, the cards had no sentiment. I am waiting to order the Modern Label punch so I can use it with the word window punch.  I am not a stamper.  Most of the time when I stamped the sentiment directly on the card I always messed up.  I definitely don't want to mess up these cards.  Since I created two cards for each image, I decided to make a purse for them and made them into a set. 

 

Here is the purse.  I always wanted to make a purse but never get around to make one until I saw Michelle's purses here.  I absolutely love her purses.   So I decided to make one.  This one looks more like a box instead of a purse but it will do for now.

 

I spent way too much time on this purse/box because I didn't know what I really wanted so I stopped after each layer to think what I should add next.  I decorated  around the box like this picture here.

I hope you've enjoyed today's post.  I am so glad you stopped by today.  Have a lovely day!

Helen