Thursday, February 25, 2016

Bird Song Card

Hello and Happy last Thursday of February!

I am here, Corina, to host the blog for the Thursday between the Challenges. This week I have noticed that the snow has started to melt and Spring is just around the corner!

I started off my card by stamping and embossing my image onto water colour paper. I used distress inks and a water pen to colour in my image. I spritzed the background with water for a vintage distressed look. I then used a Pierced Stacker #3 die to die cut the image.

I have added small flower centres from the Tiny Flower Kit set and a flat back pearl to each of the stamped flowers for dimension.

I cut two layers for the base using the Rectangle Stitch and Cut die set. I stamped the sentiment onto a light coloured pattern paper and heat embossed in black. I then die cut the sentiment and matte with the Oval Stitch and Cut set.

I have also added to the front of the card, three flowers and fussy cut branches -left over of the stamped image. I used a Clear Glitter Wink of Stella Pen for a finishing touch.

Dies used:

Sweet Christine - B434

Tea Rose Medium - B436

Tiny Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B376

Rectangle Stitch and Cut Tool - LG Silver Stitch Tool - LSC-16

Oval Stitch and Cut Tool - LG Silver Stitch Tool - LSC-7

Pierced Stacker #3 (Set of 6) - XL-21

I hope you will play along in our Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Designs store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina

Live, Laugh & Create!

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Coffee Frame

Hello,

Thank you for joining me for today's post. I have created a Winter Coffee Frame as a gift for a fellow coffee loving friend. I have left the mattes empty so she can add her favourite pictures.

I started out using a Kaisercraft Beyond the Page - Nine Frame Photo Display and painted it with Java Bean brown acrylic paint and sanded the edges. I added pattern paper to back each of the spaces. I cut pieces from the pattern paper to embellish each space, used a die from the Tim Holtz Holiday Greens collection and a variety of Southern Ridge embellishments.

Here are a few close ups of some of the Southern Ridge embellishment that I used:

The largest cup from the Paper Coffee Cup Combo. I painted with Antique Linen Distress Paint and used Vintage Photo ink and a Sakura Clear Stars pen to highlight. Added a sleeve created using decorative twine, pattern paper, cardstock and a miniature chipboard heart.

Both the Coffee Sign and Coffee House Sign are wooden and from the Coffee Grinder Set. To highlight, I used a Sakura Clear Star and a dark brown pencil crayon.

Southern Ridge Embellishments Used:

Pine Branches

Paper Coffee Cup Combo

Coffee Beans

Coffee Grinder Set

Miniature Hearts

Miniature Stars

Remember to play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Add a Flourish Card

Hello

Thank you for joining me today for a brand new challenge over on the Cheery Lynn Blog. This new challenge theme is "Add a Flourish". Remember you may enter twice in the two week time frame that the challenge will be running.

As you can see, I used an assortment of dies. I love Cheery Lynn Flower Dies and I have created six different ones for my card. I have also added a mix of foliage die cuts and added the Fanciful Flourish and the Tiny Fanciful Flourish.

The Polaroid Film is a favourite of mine. It was only released last month but I have already used it on numerous projects. Another last months New Release that I have used, is the 'Love' heart from the Sweetheart Candy set.

Dies used:

Sweet Christine - B434

Sweetheart Candy - B675

Tea Rose Medium - B436

Rose Leaf Strip - B241

Tiny Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B376

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM-5

Polaroid Film - B672

Build a Flower #2 - B187

Fanciful Flourish Left - B292

Tiny Fanciful Flourish Right & Left (Set of 2) - B387

Sweet Williams Strip - B307

Judy's Blooms - C184

Cherry Blossom - B129

Olive Branches - B147

Expandable Tiny Borders - B215

Lace Light Deco Border - B133

Rectangle Stitch and Cut Tool - LG Silver Stitch Tool - LSC-16

Chrysanthemum (Set of 4) - CABD-72

Embellishment #2 - B188

I hope you will play along in our Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Designs store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina

Live, Laugh & Create!

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Cupid Card

Hello!

Thank you for joining me today! I will be hosting the Cheery Lynn blog every second Thursday, by sharing a card that I have created with Cheery Lynn Dies. On opposite Thursdays, I will be sharing an inspiration card for the challenge there and on my blog.

With Valentines is only a few days away, I wanted to use the Cupid die from January's release. I decided to paper-piece him by cutting 2 from white cardstock. I placed one aside as the base. On the other, I used a gold felt pen and coloured is the areas I wanted to cut out and glue to the base. I like the crisp defined look when it is paper-pieced.

I created the background using distress ink, a stencil and water. I saturated the background with distress ink, placed a stencil on top and sprayed with water. Used my heat gun to speed up the drying time. Where the water sprayed on to the distress inked background it lightened and revealed the stencil pattern. Love doing this!

I used one die from the Square Classic set to cut from the center of my inked background (this will get covered up!). I adhered the square to the center of the pattern paper Quadrafoil Square Doily.

As you know, I love layering my cards. This gives so much depth and dimension to my cards. Using these dies makes the work so easy. On top of the background, I placed the Fleur De Lis Square Doily and then the Quadrafoil Square Doily.

I used the gold felt pen on the Polynesian Sails Mini Doily and cut it into two. I tucked the largest piece in the top and the other underneath. Added Cupid and a few gold glittered die cut hearts that comes with the Cupid die.

Dies Used:

Cupid - B698

Quadrafoil Square Doily - DL314

Fleur De Lis Square Doily - DL318

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM-5

Square Classic - SM Silver Stacker Layers - M-1

Polynesian Sails Mini - DL237

I hope you will play along in the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge. You could win a $20 shopping spree at the online Cheery Lynn Designs store.

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina

Live, Laugh & Create!

Monday, February 8, 2016

Altered Book

Hello!

Thank you for joining me for today's blog post! This months challenge theme over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog is "Anything Love"! That is such a wide theme, as it could include a person, place or thing you love!

I decided to create an Altered book with a vintage feel, where I could keep pictures of loved ones, inspiration and memorabilia. I knew I wanted to stencil with texture paste. Use some chipboard embellishments with spray mists and Inka Gold products. But the rest was left up to the creative journey!

As you can see in the picture above, the red book on the bottom is an old book which I purchased at my local reuse center for .10 cents. The middle book is also a book I purchase at the reuse center but applied a coat of white gesso to the cover, spine and back cover. The top is my completed altered book!

I covered my entire book with White Gesso and let dry completely. I then painted on a very thin coat of antique white crackle texture to the surface and allowed that to completely dry. I placed my favourite script stencil on top of the front cover and applied a thin layer of texture paste. Once again, I allowed it to completely dry.

I choose a few different spray colours in browns, blues and copper. By opening the book in the middle and placing it upside down on my craft mat it allowed me to be able to sprayed the cover, spine and back cover at the same time. This time, I used my heat gun to speed up the drying time!

Once complete and dry, I added my detailed chipboard embellishments to the cover and adhered them with Glossy Accents. I added a photo to the wonderful Mini Scroll Frame - the picture was part of a collage 12x12 patter paper I purchase some time ago.

I then painted all the chipboard embellishments with Black Gesso. I choose a few colours of Inka Gold in copper, brown, blues, and grey. I used my finger to apply each colour to the top - keeping it light for a blended look. I then added a thin layer of clear Pico Embellisher to the top of the Mini Scroll Frame for some shine.

Southern Ridge Chipboard Embellishments used:

Vintage Clock

Five Point Stars

Mini Scroll Frame

mini wood love hearts

Swirl Corners #2

Damask Flowers

I enjoyed sharing my Altered Book with you and hope you liked it. Please leave me a comment below and share your thoughts!

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Tickled Pink Card

Hello!

Thank you for joining me here on my blog! Tinkled Pink is the new challenge theme over on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog. And as you can see, I created an overly (for me!) pink card. I also wanted to share a change that was made to the challenges - you now get two weeks instead of one to create and share a card.

To create this card, I used a lot of layers and with that a lot of different Cheery Lynn dies. I love when I get to use cutouts from my "reject container". That is the name of my container that I keep all the die cuts that I have cutout to use on something and did not end up using them of the project. After awhile you accumulate an assortment, you pick some out, put them together and voila, your card is created!