Celebrating you

 This one was for our male friend, I went with a collage feel of Autumn goodness :)

• Dienamites - Maple leaf border die cut from inked background
• 49 and Market - In the Leaves 12 x 12 paper and laser cut elements
• Simon Says - Tiny words Birthday sentiment stamp
• Pebbles - Candy dots
• Nuvo Crystal glaze on the berries
• My faux aged tape

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Washi Butterfly

 I saw this VIDEO a couple months ago and I thought that was such pretty washi tape, now they have many more in stock at Paperwishes.com if you want to check them out.  I didn't do the butterfly exactly how she did it, but I still liked the effect.

Since there was so much pattern in the washi tape I decided to keep the background pretty plain, I used a stencil to ink just around the outside of the card with a deeper orange ink.

• Hot off the Press - Butterflies and Hearts die
• Penny Black - Background Basics Stencil
• Dried Marigold Distress ink
• Ieebee - Fluttering Blooms washi tape
• Recollections - Basic Paper
• Crafter's Square - Birthday sentiment stamp
• Added dots with fine tip brown sharpie pen
• Hearts cut from left over washi pieces

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Faux Wood Technique

 We had another teams meeting with my stamp group and this time April taught us I believe she called it Carved wood Technique.

 You will want 3 brown inks from light to dark, sorry I forgot to write down the colors we used. We took a 4 x 5.25 inch paper and wiped the whole piece of paper with the lightest ink, you don't want to fill the whole paper just swipe down all the way across. Then we scored the top half of the card every 1/2 inch for four score lines. 

Then take an embossing folder that you would like for the bottom half of your card and  line it up with your last score line, you want this to be the debossed side of your folder. When done embossing you will swipe on your other 2 darker inks on top, once again just lightly wiping so not to fill the entire card just to leave streaks. We also added at the very end some Broken China distress inks very lightly. You will cut a 3/4 inch piece off this card for the two sections you see on the card.

For the base of the card we cut a 5.5 x 7.5 inch card and scored at 3 1/4 and 6 1/2 inches. Fold at the score lines and glue on your pieces to your card front.  Later when I was finishing the card I just added the leaf myself to keep it shut, but you don't have to have anything there.

• Taylored Expressions - Burlap embossing folder, w/distress inks
• Art Impressions - Lake House Window stamp, colored w/Aqua markers
• PPD - Stitched Square die
• Tim Holtz - Funky Foliage die

You glue the smallest scored piece directly to the card base and add the 3/4 inch strip to that, the take your main focal and glue it to that piece, it will bend back so you can secure the larger scored section.

 I hope with the instructions of how I remembered it and the pictures you will be able to figure it out if you want to give it a go :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

Quick cards

 Here are a couple cards that came together quickly when I wanted to get something out the same day.

Our Music director at church had knee surgery.  I am glad to report that was a few weeks ago and she is doing very well.

• Hunkydory - Garden Visitors Pocket Pad image
• Colorbok - Homespun Papers
• My Favorite Things - Cross stitch Rectangle
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words encouragement sentiment stamp
• Pearls

This image was from my daily calendar, I had to send something to my daughter and made up this quick card to go with it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, we have a very cloudy day today and tomorrow we are told we will get some more rain.

Connie

Masculine

 As many of you know that have followed me for awhile knows that the fall time is when I need the most Masculine cards, and since I have started to make them for the guys in our Life group at church I have a few more to make in the year now.

• Artistic Outpost - the Outpost stamp set (Leaf, clock and text piece)
• Hot off the press - Sarabook Ivory papers (paper and tag)
• Recollections - Brads
• Spectrum Noir - Clear sparkle pen ( on watch and leaf)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie