Mermaid flower card

I just love this La la land crafts stamp of  mermaid Marci. It is always so much fun to colour in and create with her. I did this card for a friend who was leaving and she loves wearing flowers in her hair. The base card is from a pink pack by Kaszazz. I embossed the white card on the cuttlebug to create the frame. The mermaid is cut out and stuck down. (I think) The writing is just mine. The flower is created using retro daisy punches, spritz them with water (not too much) and then using tweezers, curl them into the centre of each petal. This gives 'sausage' type rolls of each petal. When you've done 3 large and 2 medium , then you're ready to build the flower. Finish it off with a diamante or some enamel accents.
The image was coloured in with Tria markers.
Hope you enjoyed and are feeling inspired to create !
Take care
Deb
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Welcome Little One card

I made this sometime ago for a friend who was having a baby. This card was a little larger than average because it needed space for lots of people to write. The pram is just a circle cut in half. The circles can be punched with the circle punch or rolled through the cuttlebug using nestibilities. With the yellow half circle, I used a texture embossing folder on some yellow cardstock and then rolled it through the cuttlebug to get a smaller circle shape to fit in. I did use mounting tape on the pram to lift it from the background making it stand out more. I stamped a Kaszazz giraffe stamp , coloured it in with lyra crayons and a water brush. The rest is quite self explanatory with the embossing and layering , pearl embellishments and ribbon.
I'd like to challenge you today to look in your scraps draw, find some patterned paper and see if you can use it on a card.... centre everything around this paper. Have fun !
Have a great weekend.
Take care
Deb
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Magical castle Card

 

When I got this great castle stamp, I had no idea how I was going to use it! This card just evolved over time. I coloured in the castle using Tria markers, the ivy, which is a separate Kaszazz stamp and the little front mushroom were all in tria markers. I then used the brick embossing folder for the cuttlebug and created a texture behind. The word " magical moments' is a kaszazz stamp.
Once all the elements of this card were all together, I added sparkle using ice stickles so that it gave it a more magical feeling. I think the challenge we face with some stamps is to see how many ways we can use them. Do you have a stamp that you're not sure you know what to do with?? Why don't you share and lets see if we can come up with some suggestions.
Well, I hope you have a magical week filled with sparkle.
Take care
Deb
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Erin's birthday cards

Today was Erin's birthday, and these were her made cards. The Butterfly one was made by me. It's quite self explanatory really. I used the cuttlebug for various embossed effects. I layered the butterfly with black under- the trick is if you want the card to look like it is see through, punch out the same colour as the background and layer it under the punched shape. I then used sticky bling to bling it up!
The second card is from my sister, Di. Her style is more cute than mine. She obviously also used the cuttlebug for texture, but made the fence using the cricut - very cute. Not sure I agree with the sentiment, but she felt safe saying it as she is miles away! My kids love getting Aunty Di's cards because they are always of such high standard and meticulously done. Thanks Di.xxx
I hope these have inspired you just a little to pick up some card, a stamp and a punch and create something wonderful this week.
Take care till next time.
Deb

Kris Kringle with Kaszazz consultants!

 I created these to pop a small gift in for each of the consultants going to the Christmas lunch. All using SB essentials and foundations paper with various bling from the sticky bling.

This wallet was made using brown bazzill which I embossed with a CB die called mini mosaics. After that I inked the cardstock with distress ink and then embossed with clear embossing all over to give a leather look. The rest is really straight forward if you have the tutorial to follow which I did. Go to http://www.splitcoaststampers/ and search wallet, to see the tutorial. It's really cool and a lot easier than it looks. Anyway, this was what I gave my present in. We each had to create a container of sorts to house the present. It had to be Kaszazz products. It was lots of fun and everyone made such cool containers!

Sorry for the long wait between posts, I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and New Year!
Now, I'm back.....
Hope this has inspired you. If you create a wallet too, can you email a pic to me so I can pop it on the blog?? That would inspire even more peeps.
Take care
Deb

Di's Birthday Card- cute teddy...

Here's another Tri-fold card! I made this for my sister's birthday. She's very partial to cute stamps and teddies. The teddy stamp and punches are Kaszazz. I coloured the teddy using copics that Di gave me. They are awesome for creating a beautiful shading effect. I used some shimmer cardstock that has been retired from Kaszazz but I had some of. I CB the paper to create that lovely texture. I used the scallop punch for the base of the card - layered always looks good. In each scallop, I put some little sticky bling. The rest is quite self explanatory. The only hint I have when making cards like this, is, use magic mount for the front(scallop) section so the card resists moving forward.

These cards are really fun to make. All you do is,with the card in a landscape position, score about 1 " on the right side of the white card, fold it on the score. Then fold the actual card to the 1" score line. Have a second piece ready, size 3 .5" by width of card. Adhere to the 1"fold.

I hope these instructions are good enough. Give it a try and email me your beautiful cards.

I"ll post them on the blog and then do a little draw for some FREE STUFF !!

Entries must be in by 29th August.

Happy Creating!

Deb