Kelly's Craft Room

Father's Day part 3

Ok, last one. This is my Father's Day gift set for my father-in-law. I bought the clock in a box thingy, and made a card and mini album to fit inside of it. I did not take pictures of the mini album, it is really simple inside and the pictures are cut to the page size, so there are very few embellisments inside. The card is mostly PTI. Ripe avocado and stampers select white are the colors that I used, with a little Chatterbox paper (?) as a mat. PTI's Men of Life with Dark Chocolate and Ripe Avocado inks make up the focal image and sentiment. The mini album is held closed with PTI Ripe Avocado ribbon and a Maya Road ribbon slide. The ribbon is adhered to itself with redline tape (or whatever it is called)

Father's Day part 2

For my Dad's Father's Day card I used the same layout as I posted yesterday. With this card however I used all scraps from my scrap drawers. I have no clue what manufacturer/ lines this paper is from. The CS is PTI's Vanilla that I distressed with lots of Distress Ink. The sentiment is from SU, "dad" rubons from Creative Imaginations, the ribbon is Maya Road, the wrench charm I have had for ages and lots of edge distressing.

Fathers Day part 1

I finally got back down in my craft room this weekend! The girls and I made Father's Day cards for Eric. For inspiration I followed the sketch from Mojo Monday and the Loonie Stampers Challenge #45

This is what I came up with:

I started with the PTI Vanilla Base (4.5x8.5... I think) and layered it with the Smokey Shadow. I knew that I wanted to emboss the Vanilla with the herringbone embossing folder (Cuttlebug) but had a hard time figuring out the focal image. My first try used the Wise Owl set.. but it did not fill out the space enough. I do not have many masculine PTI sets, so I went digging through my other stamps and found these SU sets. The images are actually from two sets, but I do not have the names with me. I stamped the star on scrap and trimmed it out, popping it up on the focal image for some dimension. I also discovered my MM edge distresser. I have had it for at least 2 years, and had never used it. I really like the texture that it gave to this card, adding to the masculine feel.
The sentiment (For My Husband) is from PTI's Men of Life set. I would have used that for my focal image as well, but my husband has already received a couple of cards using that set, so I did not want to use it again for this one). A brad, some Spring Rain grosgrain ribbon and a staple finish off this card.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: PTI- Men of Life, SU
CS: PTI Spring Rain, Vanilla, Smokey Shadow
Ink: PTI Smokey Shadow, Spring Rain
Ribbon: PTI Spring Rain
Other: Cuttlebug, herringbone embossing folder, rectangle nestabilities, MM edge distresser, misc brad

Little Miss Independent

This is my other layout that I made this weekend. More MME PP. The mat for the main focal picture is from CS out of my scrap drawer. I think that it is Bazzill. I used the Fiskars threading water border punch to mimic the scallops in the PP. My title started out with just the "Miss independent", but I decided that I needed another embellishment down there, and pulled out my "red" drawer. I was playing with a scrap of red fabric, started pleating it and liked what I saw. So I taped the pleat down and ran the fabric and my LO through the sewing machine. Then I just trimmed down my pleated fabric to the size I wanted it. Much easier than trimming it to that width and THEN trying to sew it! The MM (I think) metal "i" was also in my stash. I have had that forever, I think that it came in a kit a couple of years ago. Finally I found the perfect place for it!

Journaling reads " Of course it spilled right after I took the picture. Lauren - January 15, 2009"

Supply List:
PP, Chipboard - My Minds Eye
CS - Bazzill
Rubons - Creative Imaginations
Stickers - American Crafts
Metal "i" - MM
Bling - The Paper Studio
Misc - Brads, bookplate and red fabric from stash

New Layout!

I actually had time to play downstairs this weekend and made a couple of layouts! Here is the first one that I made. I pulled out some MME paper and Title that I had. The background is actually a scalloped edge paper, I had to put a piece of chipboard behind it to take the picture. There are some details that are hard to see without enlarging the picture. The pink scallop circle on the left is actually embossed with the Paisley embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I then added small bling to each scallop. There are also small bling on the 4 corners of the title block as well as dotting the "I". Finishing off my visual triangle is some bling in the center of the button (on the pink flower). The large pink mat behind the focal picture was run through the crimper, and I added 3 SU buttons to the right to fill in the empty space.  The chipboard circle being used as the flower center is from MME, and I used a rub-on in the center of it. Originally I had a flower rub-on in the middle of the words with some bling in the center. The rub-on came off (partially) and I had to cover it with the button.

The journaling reads "Megan and Emily, January 2009, Emily's 5th Bday"

PP and Chipboard - My Minds Eye
CS - Bazzill
Rubons - Creative Imaginations
Buttons - Stampin Up
Flower - Heidi Swapp
Bling - Paper Studio
Misc - Fiskars Crimper, EK Success Mini Border Punch, Cuttlebug embossing folder and Scallop circle Nestabilities