Christmas Joy

Great tip for adding to a card with what you have available, use an old book or a page from a magazine. For me I had this old book that was left from a previous home owner that had been used as a door stop and was torn up. Most would have thrown it out, I grabbed it for my craft stash.  Stamping images over the text and then coloring them and adding some distress inks on the edge brought this card to life.

Copics used: C0, C3, R32, R37, RV29, G05, G14, Y02 and Y08

Christmas Joy

Heartfelt Thanks

Many of us that are on the Splitcoast Website are volunteers. For the Dare to Get Dirty challenges so many wonderful ladies volunteered to hostess the wonderful challenges. They spend countless hours commenting and encouraging us crafters and it is really appreciated. On the final challenge I created this card as a thank you to those wonderful hostesses. In my craft stash during the challenges I ended up with these leftover flowers on my desk that did not work on other cards. Another wonderful way to save time on a card, see what is already stamped and sitting on your desk.

Heartfelt Thanks

Daisy

The spotlight technique is a wonderful technique. You can take a very large image and if you are short on time you can color just a portion of that image and draw out the color on the image and leave the rest uncolored. For this image I still kept it fairly uncolored adding only highlights to the image and that pop or red with the lady bug. Another fast way to color something is to sponge on the color. Our sponges carry just enough color that I could just pickup the red and sponge on the red to the lady bug.

Copics used: C2, C4, Y11, Y13 and Y17

Daisy

Fancy Christmas

Through my card crafting years I have had friends give me old discarded cards. That can be another great way to add to our stashes and save money. I used the Z-Fold on this card, trimmed the sides down on an angle and added a wonderful lace border. A designer paper was used on the inside and on the label. The closure stripped paper is from the discarded card paper and adds a fun closure and extra color to the card. Since it is full of sparkle I added some sparkly red snowflakes and some additional scrap white snowflakes to finish off the card.

Fancy Christmas

Forever and Always

When you need a really quick card rely on your stash to help you along. These flowers have been in my stash for many years and this card came together in moments. To give the card lots of pop and bling, I finished if off with some great large gems.

Forever and Always

You're Fintastic

The salted BG (background) technique can be such a fun technique and using the blues and pinks I felt I was in the Finding Nemo movie when they were in the Jelly Fish field. So I grabbed this fun Jelly Fish from Heartfelt Creations and colored it up and added stickles to have it shine like that super cute scene in the movie.

Copics used: , V12 and R20

You're Fintastic

Trains

Another older set from Stampin Up is the All Aboard set. These trains are so cute and so fun to still use on masculine cards. A great way to add some fun elements to them...add a few gears from your scrap pile.

Copics used: E31, C3, C5 and Y13

Trains