Frog Wars Side Step Card

A spoof  on Star Wars side step card.  I took the photos before the card was finished.  After taking the photos I lightened the glow around the light saber and added clear sparkle glitter to it, but you will have to use your imagination since I gave the card away before taking another photo.

Stamps are the Frog Wars set from Wild Frog Creations Rubber Stamps.  Took two photos cuz the first did not show the Hans Solo frog's legs very well.  It's actually cuter in person, especially since I fixed the light saber.  For a kid's birthday.

Here it  is from a different angle, showing more of the steps:

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Easel Card Valentine

I will be wuithout a computer soon for about a week, so will be behind in my reading.  I may be able to check in daily at the library, if it ever warms up enough that I want to go out again after work.  Anyway  . . . short post, getting done quickly.

Another Valentine - Easel Card.

Here is the front of the easel card and below that the card opened up.

Image used is the Kewpie Doll stamp from Wild Frog Creations Rubber Stamps

I got a little teensy bit carried away when adding the flowers to the bottom of the card. It looks like a memorial in a cemetery to me, lol.

I am entering this card into the following challenges (click the link to go directly to the challenge pages):

1. The Cheerful Stamppad's Challenge #10 Be My Valentine

2. Crafts and Me Challenge  Red

3. Pennys Paper-Crafty Challenge #46 Heart a Flutter

4. Scrapbook Sisters Challenge #21  Red Red Red

5. Simon Says Challenge Love is in the Air

The Stamp Man Challenge #13

Over at The Stamp Man's Main Blog Challenge #13 is to post your favorite project from last year.  They are also having a blog hop with prizes.

It was hard to pick my favorite project, but I finally decided on my Wild Thing Zig Zag Accordian Card.
Im posting another pic of it here, but click the above link if you want to see more details and pics.

I'm off to enjoy the blog hop!

3-D Picture Frame or Tunnel Card

I've heard this type of card called many different things but most commonly called tunnel or  3-D picture frame.  When making a card which uses templates, special cuts or patterns, I usually make 2 because of the time involved.  I did not follow that rule this time for some odd reason.  I simply forgot . . .*sigh* . The "tunnel" or frames are on the inside (scroll down for photo).

This card is an odd sized 7" X 5 1/4".  Card front background was made using the Texture Duet technique
from the Oct/Nov Technique Junkies Newsletter.  Image was colored with pencils, torn and attached to the top.  Added a couple flowers and will put a greeting of some sort in the upper left corner when I am ready to send this off to someone.  I'll post 2 pics of the outside. The first shows the truer colors, but at an odd angle:

The second shows full front, but the colors are too bright due to little old me trying to play with getting the colors on this one a little brighter.  Nothing seems to be going quite right this week.

Here is the photo of the inside of the card where the "tunnel" comes into play.  The outer 3 layers of the frame were not stamped.  Instead I used some 3 different scrapbooking papers from Art Impressions, cut and glued onto very light weight cardstock.  I found the lighter weight cardstock works better than heavier weight for this in the past.  Thanks goodness I remembered that. Inside scene was colored with both pencils and chalks. Cottage and tree stamp from Wild Frog Creations, pine tree stamp from StampinUp.

VooDoo Wall Hanging

I think I've had way too much coffee, as most of the pics I took turned out blurry.  At least some of the close ups are decent.

At any rate, this was made from a piece of a used priority mail box.  Spray painted black then sprayed again with black webbing spray and the webbing only shows up on the close up of the verse.  All of the voodoo doll stamps, rune stones etc are from Wild Frog Creations Rubber Stamps. Here's a close up pic of the front, scroll down for a pic of the entire piece:

This is a close up of the bottom left with the verse and the shrink plastic rune stones and rune symbols.  Hmmm, guess I should mention that I stamped all the images, enlarged them and printed out on the shrink plastic to get thicker embellishments, the earrings and pendant.  Only the doll in the pocket is NOT shrink plastic.  This is the only pic that shows the webbing spray clearly.  Click on the picture to read the verse better:

                                                           

The big center thingy at the top is a piece of copper metal hand engraved (well, I did use engraving tools) and heated with a heat gun to get the color changes in the metal.  I'm afraid the face doesn't show very clearly either.

And here is the entire finished piece. It has jute wrapped around the edges and the earrings and pendant are removable.  The doll in the pocket is removable also.

It's a little late, but this was to be given to my daughter to add to her Halloween decorations.

Intended to be comical and use some of my stamps, NOT poking fun at any religion as I respect everyones individual religous beliefs.

Wild Thing Zig Zag Accordian Fold Card

Birthdays are coming up in September, so I've been making cards . . . finally.  Here is the one I've just finished and guess what?  I forgot to put Happy Birthday anywhere on it!

This card also fits right in with the GC67: Random Redhead Challenge: Go 3D  over at
Gingersnap Creations blog.

Scroll down for all the pics, there's several.  I used a TJ technique called a Zig Zag Accordian Card, but I altered it to suit my needs.  The base of this one is actually 8 1/2" wide.  Wasn't sturdy enough to suit me at that size so I added braces to the bottom.

The embellishments on the base include a black panther peeking from behind the bushes where he lays in wait of prey and a tribal carving.  The leaves, flowers and bushes are all hand cut and glued only at the base

so the tops float freely and are also layered with 1/8" thick mounting tape and 1/4" thick mounting tape.

Front of Card

The monkey stamp is from Diamonds rubber stamp company.

Inside of Card

Guess I can write happy birthday in.

Base of Card

Detail photos came out blurry.  Figures.  I may be able to retake them later, but these will do for now.

Guess this card will have to be put into a box instead of an envelope.  Oh well, I had fun doing it.

Altered Box Love Potion # 9 additional Info

I hade several questions on the assemblege in the post below, so thought I should put a few notes here.  Sorry I didn't do this earlier, but making the entire piece in just a couple days (work days during the week at that) overwhelmed me to the point that when I posted the project way past my usual bedtime that night I forgot to add any actual info.

The base is actually a CD case, primered with plastic primer, painted gold, cov ered with itty bitty gold beads on the top, 4 gold balls as the pedestal feet, gold ribbon around edges and decorated with crystal balls on each corner made from wooden and glass beads.  The shell pieces were just scattered randomly for the photo, they are not meant to be attached to the piece.

The bottle is a tiny vintage glass bottle with a vial type glass dropper.  Don't know the original use.  It is filled with clear hair gel that is tinted with a drop of blue paint and a drop of glitter.  A pinky ring with a heart on it was used as the decoration on the bottle.

The box itself was painted with gold acrylic and  rubbed with blue, copper and red metallic rub on's before it was sealed.

Sunday Stampers Challenge: Numbers Entry

Here is my last minute entry to the Sunday Stampers Contest  Week 107 - Numbers.

My number is Number 9.  I made an altered box.  I will be adding more to this piece next week, but it is essentially done right now.  I just want a bit more . . .

Here is the front of the piece closed:

Here is the inside:

Close up:

Back:

Hinge Side:

Clasp Side: