Self-Scraplifting

I've been going through pictures of my old projects recently and found this card. I think it might be my favorite card I've ever made. I made it years ago. There's absolutely nothing unique or special about it, but it makes me happy. The colors are awesome and it is crisp and clean.

I thought it would be fun to scraplift the card- would I like the design as much with different colors and sentiments?

I started with a sympathy card.  They are my least favorite type of card to make (and send), for obvious reasons.  I do like how this turned out.  It's simple yet elegant, and definitely somber enough to convey sympathy.

From Flamingo Scraps: Marks Paper Co. patterned paper

Other: Making Memories rub-on, Marvy punch

Next I made a birthday card.  It's amazing how changing up just the colors and patterns can completely change the mood of a card.  An interesting note about this card- there was a flaw on the upper left quadrant of the paper that I didn't notice until after I glued everything down.  I brainstormed how to save the card and came up with the idea of punching a dot from the scraps and using it to cover the flaw.  It worked like a charm, though I then had to spend the next 20 minutes punching and adhering enough dots to the rest of the card to make it look like that was the original plan.  :)

From Flamingo Scraps: Fancy Pants patterned paper

Other: Fiskars and Marvy punches, Stampin' Up and Fiskars stamps, ColorBox ink, Prismacolor pens, unknown ribbon

For my final card, I used the rest of the Fancy Pants paper from the previous card and scraplifted my original design nearly exactly.  I like the yellow card better, but this one is fine.  The floral pattern is much more prominent in real life.

From Flamingo Scraps: Fancy Pants patterned paper

Other: Marvy punch, Making Memories rub-on, Jewelry Essentials charm, unknown ribbon

I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this design again and again!

Marks Paper Company

I love the Courtship collection from Marks Paper Company.  The colors of the paper are just beautiful and the texture of the paper is fabulous, almost like fabric.  I have done a few layout with it that I am happy with, but had a bit of the paper left and just couldn't figure out a way to use.  Until I started thinking "home decor".  The colors are perfect for my home, soft and pretty, neutral enough not to clash with anything, but enough color that they aren't "white".

 Bits of the papers, some beautiful Prima bloom that I added stickles to, a butterfly vine I chopped, inked and stickled and some velvet trim.  Before glittering the chipboard title, I misted with brown to make sure no naked chipboard would be showing.  So much quicker than paint.

I mounted the top layers (through the red) onto a piece of chipboard  and adhered.  Then I glued the brown piece of cardstock to the back, face up and went around with my scallop scissors.  Thanks to Lisa Pace for showing me the trick to getting the perfect edge around your chipboard project.  Just follow the line of your chipboard.  No more cutting and then gluing for me.  And it really added quite a bit of depth to the project.

Here you can see that I munged the leaves to help them tie into the overall color scheme with some walnut ink.  I also added more platinum stickles to the petals.

One last project.....

The light here isn't very good, but you can see how beautiful the papers blend together on the KaiserKraft memo board.

Hope I was able to inspire you today.

Hugs.

Nancy

On the 10th Day of Christmas.....

I crafted with my kids!

Don't ask me why, but it seemed like a good idea at the time!  lol

Really, we had a good time until they became distracted by the movie, Enchanted.  Oh well.

We did manage to make a few things before they ran off.  Do you recognize the paper on the smaller snowflakes?  That is some beautiful Marks paper.

And once they ran off I had a chance to make this.....

I saw the idea on the Prima blog a while back.  But being that I didn't have the lolipop flowers, or the centers, I decided to improvise.  I used Prima Flirty Little Secrets glitter cardstock in Shimmer (on sale at Flamingo Scraps), my sizzix, some embossing powder and some Prima Say it in Crystals (also available in the store)  A bit of zip dry glue and this is what I had.

Now I need to go get the scrap room tidied up.  You know the girls are gonna want to do more tomorrow.  LOL