Valentine Card

  Well, it is getting near Valentine's Day so I
 thought I should get going on cards.  I had recently seen the
technique of inking an embossing folder to get a two color emboss.  It is much like pottery and is very elegant.  So, I played with this a bit and came up with a card base done in pink and white.  Then I took a Quick cutz heart die and cut 2 hearts in 2 sizes with red and pink paper.  I ran the pink heart through the swiss dots folder and popped both hearts on foam tape.  I think it turned out elegant and simple.  The shading on the embossed card can be tailored to the look you want.  Great technique and one I will use a lot.

                                                      Close up of the embossing effect.

910 pm:  Well more cards made!  This next one uses the same color embossing as the one above but a reversed image..the colored part is the unraised part and the white is the raised embossing.  I then cut out a frame from Ornamental Iron 2...page 54...lace 2 in pink at 2 3/4 inches and then the  lace 2 shadow (on the left) at 2 3/4 in in white.  I popped the frame and shadow on 2 thicknesses of foam tape.  I then stamped the greeting  in SU chocolate chip.  The stamp is a Michael's dollar bin stamp.
I think it is a great girly card with the pink........Having fun today crafting....hope you are too!

Amy

New Year Craft Room Clean Up

Well, started cleaning up and organizing my craft areas.  I quilt as well as papercraft so have many bits and pieces around.  Found a bag with left over scraps from wedding crafts......Teal everything!!!   Will be giving away lots of teal projects this year! Fortunately I am not finding too many duplicates so I feel pretty good about that! I am notorious for buying the same things several times!!!UGH....
No recent crafting moments but will share a adorable little gift box I made for a Christmas gift.  The box file is from SVG Cuts.Com....I used a glitter paper with packages on it and added a bit of bling with a glitter box embellishment!

Loved the way it turned out!!

Have a great evening!

Amy

Close of the Weekend

Well, it is Sunday night and it is back to work tomorrow. My son starts back at college this week and I am wishing him all the best!  Not much time to craft this weekend..paying bills, grocery shopping, errands....and of course....football!  I am a fan but there was definately too much testosterone in my house this weekend, couch coaching was at its all time best!

Anywayyyyyyy....   my daughter recently got married and I made these letters from svg files at SVG Cuts.com  (awesome site).  I thought they turned out great...their living room is decorated in black, greay and burgundy so I used a variety of papers and embellishments to make the set.

Hope you have a great week!
Best,
Amy

Sharing a Card or Two

So to begin my return to blogging, I thought I would share a couple of cards that I have made recently.
I have to tell you that I am a CardzTV fanatic and just love the videos Mary does.  I am also madly in love ( not romatically of course) with SVG Cuts.  Mary and Leo are so creative and continually supply their followers with great new designs.  I am putting a Sizzix Eclipse on my birthday list as I think it would make my designing and SVG cutting better. 

I needed a "male" birthday card so used a brown/blue/green plaid background paper, cut happy birthday and popped it up and added some skinny blue ribbon and a green bow.  Simple, Male ...worked well.
Don't you sometimes find that guy cards are tough......I try to always keep some made as I seem to have a lot of men in my life...like that part!!!!

Have a great weekend!
Amy

New Year, better nlogging

So I have neglected my blog for several months. Wedding, holidays etc kept my focus elsewhere. So , in this new year, I want to regroup and work on my blog. I want to share my creations of paper and fabric! More to come!!
Amy