Floral Doily Card

It's August, welcome to my favorite month! Though in Oregon we tend to get a little rain mid month in August, I still love this part of summer. Today I wanted to share with you this quick and simple card I made with an acrylic card base, a pretty die cut and a flower.

 

The acrylic base was already scalloped and it turns out that this floral doily punch works perfectly with it.  Simple, yet elegant.  A great card for any occasion or no occasion at all.

For more details on how to create this card, check out my post here, on the ScraPerfect blog.

Thanks for looking!

Tea Pot Box and Mini Album

 

Hello Everyone, a couple months ago my mom and I took my daughter's to a tea room for a fancy tea party.  The girls dressed up in their fancy dresses and all.  Naturally I took lots of pictures while we were there and I wanted to create something special to preserve those memories. 

 

 I created this Tea Pot box using two piece from a Clear Scraps Tea Pot shaped Chipboard album.  I covered all sides with patterned paper then created the box portion from a piece of chipboard. 

 

 

 Inside the box is a mini acrylic album shaped like a tea cup.  I embossed every other tea cup piece and added photos from our tea party.

 

 

I printed smaller photos so they are easy to add to a mini album.  I let the embossing be the main embellishment for the album and left it pretty simple as I didn't want to clutter the pictures. 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Bonjour Acrylic Card

Hello, today I wanted to share with you this fun acrylic card I made using Clear Scraps Scallop Send it Clear Card. 

 

 

The card kit comes with two scalloped pieces but for this card I only used one. The patterned paper is from Bo Bunny, I inked the edges of the paper and "inked" the acrylic with acrylic paint.  I then used my crop-a-dile to punch holes in the card base and scallop piece to create a unique closer using ribbon.  Add a little bling to the scallop edge and the center of the flower on the coffee cup and some thickers for a sentiment of choice.

 

Supplies used

 

Scallop Send it Clear Card - Clear Scraps

Patterned Paper - Bo Bunny

Foam Letters - Thickers by American Crafts

Rhinestones

Acrylic Paint

 

Clean acrylic with the Best Cleaner EVer

 

Good Morning, today I wanted to share with you a quick and easy way to clean up a piece of acrylic.  You can find all the details on the ScraPerfect blog, but I'll share my tips here too.

 

 

Here's the acrylic piece from Clear Scraps that I wanted to use.  I didn't like how it turned out the first attempt so I removed the paper and stickers and started over.  But first I had to clean the acrylic.

 

A little spritz of the Best Cleaner Ever from ScraPerfect and a little rub on both sides.  Let sit for several minutes and wipe clean with a soft cloth like the Perfect Cleaning Cloth.

 

Looks good as new and I was able to create something new with it.

 

For more details click here.

 

 

Thanks for looking!

Acrylic Strawberry Thank You Card

Have I mentioned I love playing with acrylic?  It adds a unique aspect to paper crafts, and you can do so much with it.  Here is a simple card with a splash of color using an acrylic card base from Close To My Heart. 

 

 

I trimmed the strawberry paper a bit smaller than the actual card base and used my We R Memory Keepers corner chomper to round the edges to match the acrylic base.  The banner pieces were made from scraps of paper and I just winged it on those.  The word thanks is made using paper from Jillibean Soup's Coconut Lime Soup 6 x 6 pad. The round punch tool from Epiphany Crafts.  The letters and flower are on the outside of the card.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Acrylic Anniversary Card

My husband and I recently celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary.  I usually wait until the last minute to make a card for him.  Such was the case this year. I'm really into acrylic right now and I've had these acrylic card bases from Close to my Heart for years.  So I've finally put them to use.

 

 

The card came with the scallop border, I ran the front of the card through my big shot with an embossing folder. 

 

I used my circle spellbinders dies to cut the ring and add a 7 sticker for the number of years we were celebrating. 

 

This card was so simple to make, and quick. 

 

Supply list

 

Acrylic card base - Close to my Heart

Embossing folder - Darice

Patterned paper - DCWV

Sticker - Echo Park

Ink - Petal - Close to my Heart

Dies - Spellbinders

 

 

Thanks for looking!

 

 

 

Project Life Layout

I've been hearing a lot about Becky Higgen's Project Life lately.  The little I new about it, I really didn't think it was for me.  I love the creative process of making a layout and picking out premade coordinating cards and sliding them into pockets takes most of the creativeness out of it.  But then I attended a demo at Craft Warehouse during one of their scrap club meetings and let me tell you, my outlook changed.  Jeanean Brown did an excellent demonstration of how basic Project Life can be and how you can incorporate the creative aspects of scrapbooking to make quick and easy layouts. 

 

Each month for club we are given a challenge to create a page using at least a piece of everything provided.  This month's challenge was to create a Project Life layout.  Everyone received one page protector, a Project Life pen and five cards (we got to choose our own).  Here's my very first Project Life layout.

 

 

 

I selected cards from two different kits and I added a variety of things to the different cards.  The top left, I added ribbon, brads and pins.  The pink flowers on the left middle section is a rub-on.  I added acrylic flowers to the "Love This" card and the butterflies are actually attached to the outside of the page protector.  I really enjoyed creating this spread and I love how quickly it all came together.  It helped that I had pictures that worked with the paper. 

 

Thanks for looking!