Funny Easter Card

Today I am sharing with you an Easter  card I made with
Gel-A-Tin Stamps Easter Bunny collection. 

I had a little fun with the Easter egg stamps in this collection. 

I printed the sentiment using my computer and then I stamped the 

pretty egg stamps from this collection in rows.  I used my 

Fiscars Stamp Press to help align my stamped eggs images.

I colored in the one egg with a green Faber Castell Pitt Pen and 

added a bit of Tattered Angels Glam to make it shimmery. 

This Easter card is perfect for anyone that has a good sense of humor! 

Gel-A-Tins Stamps Supplies:

Easter Bunny Collection

Other Supplies:

Stamping Cardstock ~ Papertrey Ink

Archival Ink ~ Ranger

Pitt Pen ~ Faber Castell

Glam ~ Tattered Angels

Glues ~ Helmar

The card actually makes me giggle and I hope it makes you giggle, too.

Decked Out Gingerbread House Card

Yesterday was my day to post on the Gel-a-tins Stamp Blog.  I shared one of my favorite holiday cards I have made so far this season. The Gingerbread House Collection is so perfectly festive!   

I heat embossed “Santa’s Candy Cane” Gelly Powder on the top of my snow hills to give them dimension. I stamped and heat embossed the snowflakes. I also stamped the gingerbread house twice so I could fussy cut and layer the snowy roof and chimney. Both were heat embossed with the Gelly Powder.  

For windows and doors I stamped the candy accents, fussy-cut the stamped images and then adhered them to the house.  I embellished the stamped candy canes and gumdrops with Crystal Effects and glitter.  

Gel-å-Tins Supplies:

Gingerbread House Collection

Groovy Santa Collection 

Santa’s Candy Cane Scented Gelly Powder

Other Supplies:

PaperTrey Ink Cardstock

Queen & Co Pearls

Helmar Craft Glue & Zapdots 

I've got another idea brewing for the Gingerbread House Collection and hopefully will have time to create it and share before Christmas is upon us!

(Forgive the change in font/size halfway through the post. Blogger is having some fun with my fonts today!)

Quick Holiday Cards

Something about this season inspires my creativity.  Could be all the family filled activites, the smiles abound, the pretty decorations, or all of the afore mentioned.  I have been a card making fiend the last two days. I'm sharing four of them with you today.

I am submitting my snowman card to the Christmas Love Campaign.  The campaign encourages us to create something special and share it with anyone!  I am sharing my card with a friend who is having a bit of a rough time this holiday season. She always had a wealth of kind words and support for me, so this is my time to give back to her.   Unity stamp is making a $3 donation from the sales of  "One Of A Kind Winter" stamps (snowman & sentiment) towards the Christmas Love Campaign.

My stamped snowman was created using markers.  I used some whimsical colors to dress him up.  The snowflakes and sentiment are stamped in Ranger Ink.

This simply made washi tree Christmas card is make with Unity's "A Little Bit Washi" stamps set by Susan K. Weckesser and Ranger Ink.  I started by stamping the largest washi tape stamp at the bottom working my way up the tree by size. The tree trunk is just one of the washi stamps turned sideways. 

This simple Santa card just puts a smile on my face. Partly because I love the vintage santa images and partly because it came together in less than 5 minutes.  Who doesn't love a cute card that whips up quickly?

I punched three 1/5" circles and three 1" circles out of the same kraft cardstock as the card base.  I stamped the Groovy Santas (Gel-a-tins Stamps) on the larger circles and matching "ho, ho, ho" sentiments on the smaller circles.  The stamped circles are given a bit of height with Helmar ZapDots.

I used the layered tag made for the Core'dination's crop a few weeks ago as the inspiration piece for this card.  Just adding a little bit of pink distressed cardstock and a stamped sentiment with this tag made for a sweet feminine holiday card.

Have you been making holiday cards?  Please share a link any you have made with me in my comments.  I'd like to visit your blog and give some holiday love!

Feminine & Festive!

Quite often I find that my holiday cards are unisex.  Stepping out of my self-induced holiday card mode, I created a festive and feminine card for my first project on the Gel-a-tins Blog.    

I heat embossed the fun candy stamp images (Gingerbread House Collection) that decorate the dressform and the chipboard snowflakes with Gel-a-tin's "Santa Candy Cane" Scented Gelly Powder.  It really does smell like candy canes!  This speckled pink Gelly Powder really pops when you heat emboss it.

The dress and snowflakes are accented with Studded Gelly Gems Roll-Ups. I cut a small strip for the dress belt and cut individual silver studs for the other accents. They were so easy to cut and use! 

Here are some basic instructions on how to create this card:
~ Create a 4"x8" card base.
~ Cut & adhere a 3.75" x 7.75" piece of patterned paper.
~ Spritz dressform w/ mist, allow to dry thoroughly.
~ Stamp images onto dressform with VersaMark, heat emboss with Gelly Powder.
~ Completely cover chipboard with VersaMark, heat emboss with Gelly Powder.
~ Stamp sentiment onto envelope.
~ Adhere doilie to card base,  1/4 from the bottom & right side.  Trim excess doilie on right side.
~ Adhere Gelly Gems as accents on the dress form and chipboard with Helmar Premium Craft Glue.
~ Ahere decorated dressform, stamped envelope and chipboard snowflakes.
~ Share with a friend. 

I hope I have inspired you to create a festive and feminine card today!  

Gel-å-Tins (http://gelatinstamps.com) Supplies:
Gingerbread House Collection
Groovy Santa Collection (sentiment)
Santa’s Candy Cane Scented Gelly Powder
Studded Gelly Gem Roll-ups

Other Supplies:
Bazzill Cardstock
Pink Paislee Paper
Basically Bare Dress Form
Tattered Angels Mist
Memento Ink
Jenny Bowlin Envelope
Helmar Glues 

Hard Core {Holiday} Crop Take 2

Today I have three more projects for you using Core'dinations Cardstock.  If you didn't read my post yesterday, Core'dinations is having their annual Hard Core {Holiday} Crop.

Tami's Clean & Simple "10 Minute Card" Challenge is so up my alley!  I pulled out some pink & green Core'dinations along with the fun Retro Circles embossing folder to create this card.

I sanded down the embossed surface with the Core'dinations Sand It Gadget.  The pink & gold dots are CandiDots by Craftworks Cards, they are attached with Helmar Zapdots.

Sticking with clean & simple, I created two tags for Rebecca's Layered Tag Challenge.

I created my own tags using Core'dinations Cardstock and my very old tag punch (no idea who the manufacturer may be). I love that you can stamp on the Core'dinations Glitter Cardstock!

My last Core'dinations project I have for you is a gift bag for Leica's challenge.  If you saw my Decorative Gift Giving Class on Helmar Live Ustream, you know that I love to decorate my own bags!

This kraft bag came in a pack of two from the Dollar Store.  I embossed and sanded the green & red Core'dinations Cardstock.  The brown card used in the half-circle border is lightly sanded along the edges. The Santa stamps in my tag are from the "Groovy Santas" by Gel-a-tins Stamps.  I just love these retro chic Santas!

If you haven't checked out the Hard Core {Holiday} Crop challenges, you should.  They are fun! We could all use a little fun in our Monday!

Have a great week!

Turning out to be a great week!

I love it when life goes as planned.

Often I feel like someone is giggling as they throw a wrench in my best laid plans.

I try to go with the flow, but sometimes it just isn't that easy and occassionally not pretty.  

Which is why when things go as planned I am grateful.  

The beginning of the week felt like everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

So I am estactic that this weekend is going great! 

What is so great you ask?

Well, today my daughter, Lily, busted her booty at her playoff soccer game. 

 Did they win?Nope. They tied.  

Now they have to win tomorrow to make it to the state playoffs.  

BUT (yes,I am starting a sentence with the word but), Lily ran hard, fought hard, and was aggressive.

Who could ask for more?

Yesterday I found out that I made the Gel-a-tin's Design Team.  

I tried out for this team on a whim, hoping that they would notice that my stamping 

skills are as good as my daughter's soccer skills.  They noticed!  Woo Hoo!

This is the card that I designed just for the Gel-a-tins DT call....

Stamping on Washi Tape was not as easy as I had imagined it would be.  The tape is slick!

I had to stamp the sentiments a few times before getting them lined up (and not smeared). 

Love how it turned out! 

Now we are off to double Halloween party. Kiddos in the afternoon. 

Adult bonfire tonight.  The costumes are ready. The food has been cooked. 

It is time to have some fun!

I think the rest of this weekend is going to be just as great!  

Hoping you have a great weekend, too!