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Posted on January 19, 2010 by Driven to Ink

Here is my next Cupcake card that follows a similar format to yesterdays card, but it has a portrait orientation instead of landscape.

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I wish I had the time to use Liquid Applique on all 99 cards I’m making because I absolutely LOVE the result. I sprinkled ultra fine prisma glitter over the liquid applique on this cupcake before heating it up. I’m not one of those people who has the patience to let Liquid Applique dry before heating it and I actually prefer the bubbly, fluffy effect you achieve from heating it while it’s still wet. If you were to allow it to dry first it would be slightly smoother when heated.

I’ll be back on Thursday to post my next two cards as I won’t have internet access tomorrow and will spend the day “baking up” some cupcake cards. See you then!

Gift Card holder

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Driven to Ink

It’s been a long time since I last entered a Hero Arts Challenge, so I thought I’d give it a go with this card I made on Monday night…

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I still haven’t mastered the art of photographing my cards but someday I’ll figure it out. I am LOVING the felt shapes by Little Yellow Bicycle. I stuck this felt ornament to a white circle and stamped an Autumn Leaves image in the center with two shades of VersaColor ink, then glittered it up with my Sakura Stardust pen. The front of the card is scored at 1″ from the right side and folded back to hold a gift card in place. I secured the top and bottom with a bit of Scor-tape. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the green shape is one of the AccuCut Antique Accent Frames.

I have 52 cards left to make and two days off to do it… send some creative vibes my way tomorrow, please!

Birthday Birds

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Driven to Ink

I used a reverse masking technique for this card by punching a 1.25″ circle out of a post-it note (near the sticky side), then stuck the reverse-mask down over each dot one at a time so I could stamp each bird inside of the dot without going outside the lines.

Birthday Birds

Supplies: Hero Arts Decorative Birds, You Hoo Owls, Birthday Messages, Bird Greetings, and Clear Smooth Gemstones (coloured with yellow Sharpie); A Muse Mod Dots Notecard; Tombow Dual Brush Pens; EK Success Circle Punch, Signo White Uni-ball pen; Onyx Black VersaFine Ink

Brooklyn's bunny…

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Driven to Ink

More exciting news – I got an honourable mention on the Hero Arts Blog for last week’s Hearts challenge! I made this card for my neice Brooklyn’s 2nd birthday because she loves bunnies.

Happy Birthday Bunny

Supplies: Hero Arts Happy Day Animals, Three Stitched Hearts, Birthday Messages, Celebrate Simple Joy (tiny heart); Signo White Uni-ball Gel pen; Pinecone VersaColor Ink; Frost White Colorbox Pigment Ink; Watercolor Pencils; Kraft cardstock; miscellaneous buttons & ribbon.

to blog or not to blog…

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Driven to Ink

I’m slowly easing into this, maybe I’m overly ambitious to attempt the daunting task of updating two blogs… I also maintain the blog for The Paperie, where I work full-time. Most of the cards seen here have likely appeared on the Paperie blog as well.

Here’s one card I made recently… who says you have to stop making Christmas cards once Christmas is over?

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Supplies: Hero Arts DesignBlock Flourish, Script Writing & sentiment; Basic Grey Winterland (Wreath); X-Mas Red and Lime Green Stickles; Pinecone VersaColor Ink; Spanish Moss & Crimson VersaFine Ink.

I love the technique of using Stickles to colour in the berries and leaves instead of markers or pencil leads. I learned that little trick from an A Muse card sample that was sent to The Paperie.

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Driven to Ink

When I saw this patterned paper from Basic Grey I knew it would be “peared” perfectly with the Partridge Tree stamp from A Muse.

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Supplies: A Muse Partridge Tree stamp; Hero Arts Peace Holiday Word Border; Basic Grey Offbeat 6×6 Paper Pad; Marvy Punches; Spica Twinkling pens; Golden Star Gelly Roll metallic pen; Onyx Black VersaFine; Brown Tombow Marker

Classic Window

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Driven to Ink

I love the Classic Window stamp from A Muse – the options are only limited by your imagination. In the card below I thought it would be funny if this clever Bandit was coming out of the window on Halloween with his loot – what better night to walk around in your burglar garb?

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Supplies: A Muse Classic Window, Bandit, Tiny Pumpkin, and Happy Halloween stamps; Tombow Markers (Purple, Grey, Orange, Black); H20 WaterColour Brush; pencil (to draw “siding”); Onyx Black VersaFine Ink, various cardstock.

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Supplies: A Muse Classic Window; Hero Arts Halloween Stencil Print, Ink’n’Stamp Web & Cat stamps; EK Success Circle Punch; Tombow Markers (Orange, Yellow); H20 WaterColour Brush; Onyx Black VersaFine Ink; VersaMark; ColorBox Tangerine Chalk ink (to ink the moon); Reminisce Holoshimmer patterned paper; various cardstocks.

I'm a winner!!!

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Driven to Ink

Forgive my excitement, but this is the first time I’ve won something I was seriously excited about since the time I won a trip to B.C. back in the twelfth grade…

Check out the Hero Arts Blog today – the Countdown Calendar that I made for a class I taught this past Sunday at The Paperie won FIRST PLACE in the Hero Arts Paper Challenge last week! VERY thrilling, especially considering all of the ridiculously talented folks who submit to the contests.

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Supplies: Karen Foster 8×8 Countdown Calendar; Making Memories Fa La La Patterned Papers; Hero Arts Jolly Christmas ClearDesign Stamps; EK Success Paper Shapers 5/8″ Circle Punch; double sided tape, Basic Grey Precision File Set (to sand edges).

This Calendar can be made in 2 hours or less! All you need to do is cut twenty-five 1.5″ squares out of some patterned paper and adhere the squares to the box. Using double sided paper, like the Making Memories Fa La La collection, will make it even easier to coordinate colours.

Before taping, you should place all of your squares on the surface of the Calendar to plan where each colour will go. Then work on one box at a time, tracing the half circle on the reverse side of each square with pencil so you know exactly where to place your punch. The finger openings are slightly off-center on some of the boxes so tracing is a good way to ensure you have proper paper placement each time.

Once your half circles are punched, adhere the squares to each box and sand the edges with the Basic Grey File kit, using the largest file for the sides and the smaller file for the finger openings. Adhere the number stickers that came with the Calendar to the right corners of each box.

Stamp a few critters from the Hero Arts Jolly Christmas ClearDesign stamp set on Ivory paper, colour, cut out and adhere to some of the boxes, trimming off the excess so the animals appear to be peeking. That’s all there is to it! This project can be used year after year, and if you ever got sick of the colour scheme you could turn the individual boxes around and decorate the other side!