I love this vintage picture of the little girl with the flag. I found this picture and many more in an old reading book at the store Changing Thymes. I bought several of these old vintage reading books and am using the pictures to make cards. I am not sure if you can see in the picture, but I added glitter or Stickles to add some sparkle to these. I didn't want to change the vintage feel of these by making too many changes, I didn't even add a sentiment.
Here are a few cards I made for my "4th of July" display at the store. Instead of more stars and stripes (which I love), I was looking for something more generic to add. I found this paper from The Paper Loft at the Novi convention. The flowers are from Prima (Hobby Lobby) and the ribbon is from Hobby Lobby. Off to make some cards with my friends. Thanks for looking!
For those of you asking about the sentiments, they are from Stampin' Up (and are current). Thanks for asking!
I made it through my daughter's graduation and her party. Now one week of school left and then more time to create! Here are a few cards that are great for teachers (or volunteers). The stamp is from My Favorite Things and I found it at the Novi scrapbooking convention last month. I stamped the school girl on the plain cardstock and again on the printed cardstock. I cut out the clothes and glued them on. I stamped it again with white ink on black paper and cut out the chalkboard. I stamped sentiments on the chalkboard. The rest of the girl and picture was colored with copic markers. I found the school ribbon at Hobby Lobby.
Just a few more graduation cards. I have been busy getting ready for Allie's graduation and party, so haven't had as much time for creating. I figured we would need to have some extra cards on hand (just in case Allie needs to go to some open houses).
Here is a fun and easy technique I found when I was "surfing" through blogs (my favorite pastime!), unfortunately, I don't know exactly where I found this. The technique was titled "Embedded embossing". For the cards here, I punched out several different sizes of circles and attached them to the cardstock. Then, I ran the card front through the Big Shot using a small print design embossing folder. This would be a cute technique with any design - it makes a nice textured background. The duck was made with the Cricut cartridge "New Arrival".
These are some of the photo albums I made using flowers by Prima and some film embellishments from Tim Holtz. The stickers are black and white ransom letters by P. Real Life. The glitter sticker borders are by ki Memories. I used a little stamp sentiment (memories) from Printworks. These were actually quite easy to put together, but I love the outcome. Hope you like them!
With my youngest daughter nearing graduation this year, I decided I better stock up on some graduation cards for all her friends. She really loves vintage things, so I tried a few cards with a vintage flair. I started with an old dictionary (that was falling apart). As a matter of fact, it is so old that it even has yellowed edges. I used several Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels) to stain the pages. I also used some paper doilies and sprayed them with Glimmer Mist. I used a few Prima flowers and the other flowers I made out of crepe paper. The stamps I used included the large cling stamp by Hero Arts called "Time to Stamp". (Love that one, I think I will be able to use it for a lot of different projects!) The large graduation stamp is from TPC Studio called "Class Act". The smaller graduation hat and the tassel sentiment is from Stampin' Up. The graduation sentiment stamp is from Paper Inspirations. The glitter flourish stickers are from KI Memories.
I'm always on the look out for these kind of cards. They are so easy to create from. By using a few tools and supplies from your sta...
