Accordion Style Card Holder Tutorial on SCS!

Good morning, everyone!

If you don't already know, I have a new tutorial up on Splitcoaststampers!

I managed to do the video tutorial under 10 minutes!

Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Accordion Style Card Holder

FREE Pink Cat Studio Digital stamp with purchase, TODAY ONLY!!

Today, Melissa is releasing some of her most popular rubber stamp designs as digis! If you purchase anything from the digital or rubber store today you will receive the Lily the Mermaid digi stamp for FREE! After you make your purchase Melissa will personally email the free digi to you within 12 hours of your purchase.

Hop on over to the Pink Cat Studio blog to check out all of the beautiful samples created by the Design Team!

BTW, remember this card with the pink handmade rose?

My tutorial is now up HERE!

LLWWC 36 - Altered Embellishments

Hi everyone! It's time for La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Maureen is our challenge hostess this week! 
Her challenge: ALTERED EMBELLISHMENTS.
She wants us to take a store bought embellishment and change it in some way!
She has these suggestions as examples: 
Cut a petal off a flower to make a butterfly, sew a running stitch through some ribbon and gather to make a ruffle, take any embellishment and color it with paints/inks/markers, etc.

Maureen is using Birthday Cake Maya on her card so it is on sale for 20% OFF through next Tuesday!

I made a pretty two-toned bow out of ribbon for the challenge. I also took two flowers and put them together with a brad for a layered look.


Here's my card using Cupcake Rosie:

I used the sketch for this week's Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #53

Here's what I did to make the bow:

Now hop on over to La-La Land Crafts to see all of the fabulous samples created by our awesome Design Team and Guest Designers!

Scallop Envelope Box Tutorial

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!
The leprechauns were very busy in our home in the wee hours of the mornin'.
I stayed up until 4am so they must have come out sometime between then and 6am when the boys got up.
The family room is trashed!! LOL! Green glitter everywhere!

I have some AWESOME news to share!!

My Scallop Envelope Box Tutorial is now up over at Splitcoaststampers!!!

When Beate emailed me a few months ago, I thought I had done something seriously wrong and I was in trouble. I wonder if she gets that a lot. Anyways, I have been holding on to this since the end of last year and could hardly wait for today to finally arrive!

I have both step-by-step pictures as well as my very first video tutorial!

Please take a look and let me know what you think! If you have any questions, please leave them here or there, under comments.

Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!!

Ringing in the New Year with a Triangle Treat Holder!

Before I get started, I would like to wish my family and friends in Japan:
新年あけましておめでとうございます!

To all those who are already celebrating 2010: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope that everyone else has a wonderful and safe New Year's Eve!

I have been getting quite a few requests for the Triangle Treat Holder that I had posted a week ago for La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge.

There is another site that I blog for and I decided to post it there. The blog is called "The Crop Spot" and it is on Scrapbooking Supplies R Us site, which is the online store linked with Memories Live On... an awesome local scrapbook store that I teach at.

Here's are some sneak peeks for the tutorial...

Check out the Triangle Treat Holder Tutorial!

Leave me a comment there or here and let me know what you think of the tutorial.

Wishing you all the best in 2010!!

hugs,

LLWWC6 - Paper Pieced "Trick or Treat" Lala

It's time again for another La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Before I go on to this week's challenge, I just wanted to thank everyone who participated in last week's challenge. Congratulations to our four winners (second was a tie!) - Victoria of Blue Jelly Too, Carolyn of Handmade Treasures by Creative Card Corner, Alexandra of Scrapbookende Zwergnase, and April Rose of April's Roses! It seems to be getting harder every week to decide on the Top 3! Such awesome talent out there! I can not wait to see what this week's challenge brings on!

Sheila is our host this week and she has chosen paper piecing as the challenge!

She says:

"This weeks Challenge is Paper Piece it!! I'd love to see your Paper piecing I love this techinque and love to see what others do with it, you can use other items to embellish your creations with to, like gems/flowers/ brads, just go for it and have fun"

I had so much fun with this challenge!

Here's what I started out with:

"Trick or Treat Lala"

This is what Lala ended up looking like after I was done piecing her together:







The card:






Just in case you are curious about the process:

Base:
I colored Lala's face, arms, hands, and legs with E0000 and E00. R00 for blush.

The shirt/sleeves:

The jumper:

The pumpkin:

The mask:

The hair:

I used Clear atyou Spica glitter pen to add some bling:

Pitch Black and Lavender atyou Spica Glitter pen used on this cutie:



Let me know what you think!
Come join in on the fun!!! Click HERE!
I want to see what you come up with!

Quick coloring tutorials and a giveaway!

I made this Acetate Treat Holder for a tutorial over at Scrapbooking Supplies R Us.

I also made this quick and easy card.

Before you head over to the acetate holder tutorial, I wanted to show you how I colored the pumpkins on the tag and on the card.

For the tag, I stamped the image on watercolor paper in Staz-On.


I inked up my craft sheet with Tim Holtz Dried Marigold Distress Ink.


Before applying color to my image, I like to "wet" the work surface.


Then I pick up some of the Dried Marigold off of the craft sheet and start "painting" the pumpkin.


Here is the image after several layers of color:


Then I started to "pull" the colors from the pumpkin out onto the surrounding area.
This allowed me to create highlights on the pumpkin and add some color to the watercolor paper.





Here I added some bling with my clear atyou Spica pen.


A quick and easy way to rough up the edges is to simply use your fingernail!

I used Copics on the card. The paper I used is Coconut Swirl (Bazzill).

I used the chiseled end to give the pumpkin a quick coat of Y17.

I used YR04 to add some dimension to the pumpkin...



Then I went back over the entire image with the first Copic, Y17



I used G99 once to cover the stem and leaf.

Then I went over it again to create some shading.

Here's the pumpkin as is:


Here is the same image with a touch of gray all around the image:

Now for the information for the giveaway!

Everything you see on the little card can be yours!

- Copics I used (Y17, YR04, G99)

- Happy Halloween Pumpkin stamp (Hampton Arts)

- a bottle of Spooky Dew Drops

- Boo to You "Monster Mash" paper

- Boo to You "Frightful Friends" paper

- 1 yd of Orange swirl ribbon

Simply go to my Halloween Acetate Treat Holder tutorial on Scrapbooking Supplies R Us.

Scroll all the way down to my signature and click on "Leave A Comment".

Leave me a message there about what you thought of both tutorials (coloring and treat holder) by this Friday (Sept. 25th) and you will qualify for the drawing!

Good luck!!