Mosaic Monday - Valentine's Day

I have been working on my digital photography editing skills. (One of my goals for 2017)  I started out with an image I put together while I was working on a challenge on my Flickr group.  I have been gathering texture images and I was fortunate that my sister gave me a piece of cheese cloth last time I was there so I took a photo of it against black and white backgrounds.  The other layer that I added was an image of a frozen pond with horizontal textures.  This week I learned how to create an editing mask so that I can reveal my main elements through the 2 textures I had applied over them.  Wishing everyone a nice Valentine's Day.

I was out to visit my Mom and Dad on the weekend and I shared with her my Tea Cup Coaster project.  She donated several small pieces of fabric toward the cause.  I really enjoy making them. Now I have a good variety of fabric designs to ensure they are all unique.

This was breakfast this morning.  A cup of Raspberry Thriller tea in a small bone china teacup set.  Rye bread toast with peanut butter and Raspberry Jam.  I used one of the napkins I received from Margie at Tea in the Valley in her blog give away.  Pink was the color scheme and it fit right in.  I placed a Battenburg lace heart at the top of the placemat which has a saying about grand daughters. A pink stained glass angel set in a wooden base stands at the top of the place setting.

I am joining Maggie who hosts Mosaic Monday #27.

Card Club - March - Birthday Wish

I created the white greeting layer and then color printed.  I trimmed it to 3.75 x 5.00 inches.  I had placed my Stampin Up Little Letters thinlits as I wanted them on my magnetic platform.  I placed registration marks as to where the corners needed to be aligned.  I put wax paper between my card stock and the dies so they would fall out easily. With this prepared cutting went really well.  I then placed a small piece of copper metallic paper behind the cut out word.  This layer was then adhered to the card front.  I then placed 3 copper sequins to the card with mini Zots.  I provided some kits with silver foil paper and silver sequins for behind the word.

Christmas Card Challenge - Jan - Snowflake Masking Tissue Paper

Here's my card for January's Challenge.
Tissue Paper - I created a tissue paper background. I glued ripped blue tissue paper to white card stock in random pattern in a landscape orientation.  I left some wrinkles as I saw fit.
Masking - I cut a mask which left a large border. I placed it in the center of the blue card. Using a sponge with my Stampin Up Whisper White Craft Ink pad I brushed white ink away from the mask onto the blue card leaving the blue border.  I trimmed the background paper to smaller than the masked area and glued it down. Snowflake - I punched a Martha Stewart snowflake from pearl paper and layered it onto another punched from the same color as the card. I added a small circle of the same as the card to the center of the white snowflake. I mounted these onto the card front with 3D foam tape.  I designed a long banner greeting in the same color as the card.  I trimmed it by hand with scissors. This was mounted with 3D foam tape as well.

Card - Tulip Birthday

I made this card for a friend's birthday today.  I chose blue for the tulip then a deep yellow for the card. I added my textured background with the color printer. I cut the leaves with the Cricut and the Create a Critter cartridge. I cut the stem with the paper cutter from Cricut leftovers.  I coordinated the SU! Modern Label with the tulip and added a color printed greeting punched with the SU! Word Window. I mounted the oval frame cut with Spellbinder Nestabilities onto the card front with 3D foam tape. 

Card Club - Feb - Easter Tulip

With Easter early this year I was designing this card with no sign of spring.  I created the tulip with leaf die cuts.  See the next posting for How To.
I started with a purple card onto which I printed my textured background.  I added the tulip, the stem and the leaves.  The leaves were cut with the Cricut - Create a Critter cartridge at 2". The oval was cut with a SB Oval Nestabilities into a piece of white card stock trimmed to be smaller than the card front. I added a Stampin Up! Modern Label punchie in a coordinating color with a color printed greeting punched with the SU! Word Window punch.  This greeting was glued below the oval opening. The oval layer was then layered onto the card front with 3D foam tape on the 4 corners and 2 long sides.  As you can see from the pink card it makes an equally great birthday card.

Card Club - October - Cricut Flower

I create this card with the extra flowers I had from my incentive cards.  I color printed a dotted background on the card.  I cut the label with Spellbinder Label 9 nestabilities in navy card stock.  I cut the flowers with the Cricit.  The centre is a large circle punch.  I cut the stem with a Sizzix medium Leaf Stem die in a light green card stock.  I cut off one of the leaves from the stem.  I glued the flower to the top leaf on the stem arranging that it would come between 2 petals.  I glued the flower to the label die which I then glued to the card front.

Card Kits - Cmas - Glitter Tree

I started with the warm green glitter paper.  I selected a pea green card that coordinated well. I layered a quarter sheet of warm Ruby Red onto which I color printed some texture in a deep red color. I cut the 12x12 glitter sheet into 21 triangular trees (3"Wx4"T). Once cut I punched out several holes with a 1/4" paper punch and added a daisy confetti in red which looks like a poinsettia held in place with a gold brad in the center.  I printed the greeting on the same card stock and punched it out with the Word Window punch. I die cut stars from gold foil paper and mounted it with 3D foam tape.

Christmas Stack Class - Triangle Tree

Top Card:

I started with a River Rock card. I trimmed the decorative paper to 5.25x4.00 inches. The greeting was printed on a sheet of the same cardstock. Originally the speckling on the tree was stamped but to quickly speckle a lot of trees I created a pattern in Corel Draw to color print directly onto the 8.5x11 sheet before cutting it into triangles. The triangle tree is Always Artichoke cardstock cut to 3.75" tall and 2.75" wide. The greeting was printed onto River Rock cardstock as well. I decided to punch holes into the tree to copy the dots in the background paper. The Berrylicious Bazzil cardstock tree was cut slightly smaller than the green one. They were layered together then glued to the card. A small piece of brown cardstock forms the trunk of the tree. The star is a sequin which was attached with double sided tape.

Bottom Card:

This card is the same sketch in different colors. The card stock is ivory and the background paper is a plaid Designer Paper.

Green Speckle for Trees: