Big Winter Moon

Here’s another fun winter sports image which is also another quick to color image, we can all use those!

The sky was created with the brayer technique on regular white cardstock. 

Spellbinder Nestabilities was used for cutting out the moon after the image was stamped and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  No dry embossing. 

Both trees are stamped using the same image.  On the left I used portions of the image and a stamp positioner to create a different looking tree.

The snow is created with Sticky Powder and glitter over two layers of torn cardstock.

The blue to the right in the snow is where I didn’t cover the panel with sticky powder; it’s sponged with blue ink to look like a frozen lake.

Stamps: QKR Stampede – 7105 Cross Country Skiing, 21601 Trees

Paper: Treasures – navy, The Paper Company – yellow, regular white cardstock

Ink: Memento – Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink – Tea Dye, Stampin Up – Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, VersaMark

Accessories: Making Memories – brad, QKR Stampede –Sticky Powder, Stampin Up – glitter, Aleene’s tacky glue for stars

Tools: brayer, Spellbinder – Nestabilities, Shapeabilities, EK Success tag punch, Scor-Pal, 1/8” circle punch for brad, heat tool/gun, Cuttlebug and Snowflakes die for stars 

Best Friends Embossed

Hello everyone!  I hope your Christmas holiday season has been a wonderful one! I know mine has been!

Today's card is one that I had a lot of fun making!

 I love this technique of embossing clear plastic.  I used a piece of laminating film that was a scrap from something I had laminated a while ago, but I could  just as well have used some recycled packaging. You know the kind, that plastic that is so hard to get into and is around just about everything these days, from crafting tools to ink cartridges.

First, I embossed it with my Cuttlebug and the Snowflakes Embossing folder then set it aside while I worked on my image.

The image is from QKR Stampede and is titled Best Friends (#23502) I stamped it onto white card stock and colored it with water color crayons.  I used Icicle Stickles to give the snowman some nice sparkle.  I love the Icicle Stickles, depending on the light and angle, they show up different colors.  Sometimes blue, sometimes purple or pink.

I layered the image onto a scrap of pink paper from my scrap stash, then attached the embossed laminating film to it with pink brads.

This was then adhered to a blue card base.  I love the look of the embossed snowflakes over the image!  What do you think?  Be sure to leave a comment and let me know.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. Be sure to stop by the QKR Stampede store and see what images you might like to try this technique with.  There are a lot of wonderful choices. And did you know there is the choice of using digital too?  Yep!  QKR Stampede has digital images as well as rubber stamps!  Go check them out!

I hope you will have a happy, healthy and crafty 2011!

Cross Country Skiing

Today I can show you the last time this year a card.
I decided me for the wonderful penguinimage Cross Country Skiing.

The background was embossed with the Big Shot.
I colored with watercolor pencils and then wiped with turpentine.
The penguin, I sent a saying "Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2011", which translates direct to english "Good slip in the new year 2011" or better translate "Happy new Year".

Now only remains for me to wish you all

Einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2011
and a
Happy New Year!

QKR In Review

Good morning, crafting friends! Did you survive Christmas? The holidays are a fun and busy time, especially in my house. So I hope you will forgive me for not having any NEW things to share with you. Instead, I thought I would post my top five favourite QKR creations from 2010.

Here they are, in no particular order, of course!

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As you can see from this post, there are so many different kinds of stamps at QKR Stampede. I love the variety of them - there is pretty much a stamp to suit my every whim! If you are new to this blog, I encourage you to check out the store and do a little shopping. You'll be glad you did!

Well, I am off to spend some time with my family. Happy Holidays to you! May the New Year bring you lots of new crafting time!

Christmas Couple

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I seriously doubt that there is much blog surfing going on today but if you stopped by for a quick peek I have a sweet little snowman couple card to share with you.

Stamps:

"Snowman Couple" by QKR Stampede

"Merry Christmas" by QKR Stampede

Paper:

Prism Cardstock

Cosmo Cricket Patterned paper

Ink:

Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers

Other:

Martha Stewart border punch

dress makers pins

Ofray sheer ribbon

If you celebrate, I hope your Christmas is Fabulous!

Kristine

Winter Tag

Here’s a fun tag that can be used on gifts or doorknobs for the Christmas season or for fun during the winter months. 

The tag measures 3 ½ x 5 1/2”.  From the corner make a mark 1” down on each side and ¾” across the top.  Cut from mark to mark to form a tag shape.   

For this project a heavy plastic bag from a scrapbooking chain store was used.  Cut the plastic to have two layers that opens like a book, ink up one side with Ranger Distress Ink – Broken China, sprits with water, lay the tag in the ink cover with the second piece of plastic and press down.

The navy snowflakes are sponged on the card; punches and die cuts were used to make a stencil.

The tree is a Sizzix die which was decorated with 3D paint and the flakes were added while the paint was wet. 

Flower soft was used for the hat.  This is popped up with double layers of thick carpet tape.  This works well when you want different levels.

Prismacolor pencils were used to color the image.  Flower soft for the hat.  It was cut out with scissors and craft knife.  It’s popped up with foam tape.

The white snowflakes are attached with glue or foam tape, the stars are attached to the flake with Diamond Glaze due to a plastic coating on the cardstock.

The twill tape is colored with a sponge and distress ink.

Stamps: QKR Stampede – 19303 Sledding Snowman

Paper: White, dark tan, hunter green, DCWV - glittered cardstock

Ink: Memento – Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink – broken chine, faded jeans, vintage photo

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, Scribbles - 3D paint, Martha Stewart snowflake glitter, Flower Soft – Polar White, foam tape, ¼” twill tape, Diamond Glaze

Tools: Martha Stewart snowflake punches, Cuttlebug snowflake die cut, cutting scissors, craft knife, sponge, paper perforator for tool distressing, ¼” circle punch

Dance

Hi there! I am sure you are all just as ready as me for the crazy weekend ahead. HA HA HA...I am sooo not ready! BUT...like everything else, I am sure it will fall together, and the kids will still have a magical Christmas. Today I wanted to share a NON-Christmas/winter card with you. For some reason I feel like I have been making holiday cards since July, and just haven't stopped, so I needed a change of pace. I picked this Ballet Shoe image from the QKR Stampede store for a couple reasons. #1...I have 3 little girls that love to dance, and #2 I just liked the "beauty" of this image. Isn't this image so pretty? I stamped it with pink ink, and colored with watercolor crayons. I added some Smootch Pearl to the ribbons, and then fussy cut it out. Now the entire time I was cutting I had 2 little girls hanging over my shoulder saying..."Don't break it mom!" "Don't cut it apart mom!"...lol. Well I managed to get it cut without any slips. I layered it onto some PP from Imaginisce, and onto a white CS base. The word "dance" is some letter stickers I had on hand, and I added some pink stickles to them. The heart border is one I got at a crop a couple weeks ago. Now the ribbon...so I was doing some blog hopping and stumbled upon this. I wish I could give credit to who I saw it, but I can't remember =( So...this is NOT my original idea, but I had to try it. I used a punch for the edge of the pink CS, and simply laced the ribbon around. It reminded me of ballet shoe laces. I thought it was so pretty, and will be doing this again for sure!

Well...I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and a great New Years! I look forward to sharing some more of these awesome QKR Stampede images with you in 2011! Be sure to stop back and see what the other DT ladies have for you between now and then!