Dry Erasing Fun!

Well it's May already whaddaya know! we are nearly halfway through 2013.
To all you card makers out there, do you ever do more then just a card? Well if not it's time to step out of your comfort zone and let your mind soar with new idea's, once you have the hang of card making it is easy, and you are still using your same go to supplies as always.
This month on the Die Cut Diva's challenge blog, we are all about anything but a card,
When Arlene told the DT her plan, I was so excited! for me it was no challenge at all I just love doing paper crafts even if it isn't cards.

I had so many idea's it was hard to decide which to go with, then finally it came to me.
Now of course we all need calendars for our daily schedules and all, but I tend to get tired
of all the paper and booklets, I wanted one calender I could use over countless years, so I came up with the idea to make my own dry erase calender that was inter-changeable using die cuts and stamped images to dress it up each month.

 

The Trick: just use a laminator!

And I love the set of dry erase markers, it makes it easy to color code things with my notes that won't fit on the "date".

Now each month I can put up different images to decorate it, like I did with the little princess or I can add other dies to dress it up and make it fun.

 

 Here is where I put mine up

 

 

I bought this cute cowgirl plaque awhile back for my room and thought it the perfect place to set it,

 it has a very small ridge which was just the thing I needed to hold my calendar up.

If you don't use die cuts this calendar can still be made quite pretty and is a fun way to doodle.
Here everything is very simple, but still looks great,

 

There are countless ways you can have fun with it, whether you use pattern paper, dies, photographs, or even designs you created off your PC.

I hope this inspired you to make something new and fun, We the DCD team would love to have you stop by and join in our monthly challenges,  Hop On Over and Join Today!

Materials
Die cut letters
Various colors of cardstock
Laminator and laminating sheets
The Board dudes dry erase markers (set of 6)
Bugaboo Digi Image "pretty dress" (colored with copics)
 

Pattern Play Homework Day 5

Day 5 was all about paper manipulation, tons of fun! my sister  even wanted to play, and took over my space last night doing it.

the heart was made using several strips of different pattern papers, which I weaved together, using the technique, shown in the class video. Then I adhered them onto a plain piece of cardstock to hold the weaving, while I cut out the heart.

Materials
HA CL351 Friends
Studio Calico Here and There(paper)
My Minds Eye The Sweetest Thing (paper)

Well Thats alll I have for today, thanks again for stopping by!
Hannah

Pattern Play Homework Day 4

Day 4 of class was all about altering the patterned paper, and there are so many endless ways to do that! So for my card here I just toned it down a bit.

I love this paper with all the birds, but it was so bright and I didn't really want focus on the background only, so I took my picket fence distress stain over the whole piece and just lightened it.
I also added faux stitching, I'd love to do the real thing but I don't have a prominent space for my sewing machine.
I die cut 3 small flowers and added gems to their centers, and stamped the sentiment on a strip of white cardstock, cutting the end to make a ribbon like accent, and added stitching to that as well.

Material list
HA CL351 Friends
HA Diamond Gems
TH Tattered Florals Bigz Die
DCVW The Green Stack (paper)

Hannah

Pattern Play HomeWork Day 3

I'm Finally Catching up with my class but I have to post each card seprately, so I can link back to each individual card I post in the class, So here is what I did for day 3!

we were to find a way to make cards/projects with hard to use patterned papers, such as very bold and large designs, and because I'm a chicken I don't really keep those kind of papers in stock, but I did have some rather large patterns to work with so here it is. Nothing special really I just chose 2 papers a large floral and a zigzagggy brown, the floral was double sided so when I cut the strips I just flipped 2 pieces over and adhered them all to my brown card base, after that I selected a large pink ribbon, which I have been avoiding for too long, punched out a little butterfly and dipped it in sticky versa mark ink, to emboss it with gold powder, and I did about 4 times to get a really hard almost metal like embellishment, and I alot of times like to leave the sentiment out so the card can be used for whatever purpose, but since I need to make a bunch of friendship cards I will put the sentiment on the inside.

the only thing in my material list today is the paper basically which is from EK sucess I believe and the line is called Lifes Journey.

Before I go and leave you all to your lovely weekends, I just wanted to let you all know I changed some things on my blog. I made commenting only open to google users, and if I did it right I set it to where I have to allow the comment before it shows up on my blog.
This is all due to lots of spam I have been getting lately, though the comments they leave are often nice, I think it's just a cut and paste to look good, and then they leave a link, which I dodn't want to even try to look at.

Anyway Thanks for Stopping in I will have a couple other posts today for all the cards I got done for class, which I will come back and link to once I get them all up.

Hannah
 

Pattern Play Homework

Ok so we are now on day 4 of class and I am way behind and stuck on day 2, so far day 2's instruction really stuck with me, and I'm having alot of fun with it but I need to move on and try the other techniques.
And I am in the process of making a bunch of cards for a ladies luncheon at our church as requested by the pastors wife Miss Marion, with a friendship theme so you are going to see alot of frienship cards from me (that is if I can get them actually posted ; ).

Day 2 of the class was all about stamping on patterned paper and making it look good, and stamping on something that already has a pattern can be pretty tricky, you have to find the right designs that go well together.

So here is my two cards:


                                                  Card 1

 

The first thing I did here was to choose my elements, my design was already picked out (inspired by Jennifer Mcguire) and I knew I was using the bird (since it was part of Jennifers design) the hardest part was and is picking papers, I finally chose a piece with pink dots, and I couldn't have my card looking exactly like hers so I had to choose a different stamp, it had to be something with lots of coverage but have enough room so you could see the contrast between the paper and the stamp.

 So after much thought I went with the horizantal stripes, which I stamped and embossed with clear powder to trap some of original color underneath, then I went over it with spun sugar distress ink.

The hardest part I found was picking another patterned piece to put with it, nothing seemed to go after I altered the paper till I found some green ribbon then I knew exactly which piece to use.

 

Materials

HA CG143 Horizontal lines

HA Cl351 Friends

Spun Sugar Distress Ink

Memory Box Meadow Bird Die

My Minds Eye The Sweetest Thing, Papers

 Green Ribbon
HA Diamond Gems

Card 2

This Card was very simple and quick, I chose a subtle hexagon pattern, to stamp and emboss, again embossing with clear powder to trap the original color.
Then I rubbed Squeezed Lemonade distress ink over the entire panel, pulled out some more green ribbon, and die cut some ovals with another pattern and plain white piece which I stamped my sentiment on, and adhered all the pieces together.

Materials
HA CL351 Friends
HA CG146 Flowing Flowers and Leaves
Spellbinder Nestabilities Ovals
My Minds Eye The Sweetest Thing, Paper
Studio Calico Here and There, Paper.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting! I'm off to catch up with my class now.
Hannah



A Random catch up post

Oh boy I have done it again! I have been so busy I haven't made the time to post anything.
I haven't had a whole lot of time for crafting either, and as much as I miss doing it so often I feel like I'm getting alot done. 
Work has been very busy, which I'm very thankful for, especially being a substitute teacher, you'd think I wouldn't work so much, but where I work everyone seems to just feel like taking a day off, of course I don't mind because that's more on my paycheck : ) which means more craft supplies (hehe).
And here at home we are enjoying the constant weather changes (NOT) here in St Louis you never know what you'll wake up too! some days it's 60 degrees and others it's snowing, I had the sniffles for 3 weeks, and am finally starting to feel better, but hey it's not all that bad that's just a minor complaint on my part.
We are all so Excited Spring is almost here, for me that means mowing lawns, which I find very relaxing as long as it isn't my yard, lol! and Archery one of my favorite outdoor pastimes.

Things are going well over at our DCD Challenge blog, and I'm really having fun being a part of it, though I need to get back on schedule with that. "Note to self: Continue keeping up with the DCD blog as well as own".  If you have never heard of the DCD Challenge blog (Die Cut Diva's) you have to check it out! If you own a die cutting machine this is for you, we have monthly themed challenges with sponsored prizes from your favorite crafting sources. 
This blog is open world wide and run by an Aussie, a New Zealander, a Californian, and a Missourian (me), Did I mention it was world wide!
Go Ahead and check it out Here. This months theme is anything green in honor of St Patricks day and spring.
 I have also uploaded my first (and more than likely last) YouTube video which you can view here.

And I'm so excited to get started on my Pattern Play Class at www.onlinecardclasses.com which started yesterday, they do cost but they really are worth every penny, because after the class is over you have lifetime access to all the pdf's, video's, and the forums.
I'm always late for signing up so I have to pay a bit more and not get the supplies they use in the class, but this time I did and I think it will make the class even more fun, just look at this nice little
haul! 

(Thank you paycheck ; )

Well I guess I have caught you all up on my latest randomness at home at work and at play,
so I guess I'll see you when I see you because there is no telling when I might pop in again to share some more.

Enjoy your day! {)(-_-)(}
Hannah

Another Untraditional Valentine

Hiya

I just wanted to share another card I made for the DT on the DCD Blog, following our untraditional valentine theme.

 

You can see the material list on my post Here, and read the details about our challenge Here

Please excuse the messy sidebars we are under construction at the moment. We are revamping the DCD blog for a better look and it should all be ready soon.

 

Have a Great Weekend!

              Hannah

For Grandma

You may have read in my last post earlier this morning that my Grandma is going in today for a knee replacement surgery. My Family will be going up to visit her within the next few days depending on how she is doing and this is the card I made for her.

I made this card using Lawn Fawns cute get well set and a flower die from Hero Arts, and I colored the band aids with a copic marker.

Full Material List
Lawn Fawn On the Mend set
Hero Arts Floral (die and stamp set) 657776
Copic Marker E31 Brick Beige
Aged Mahogany, and Peeled Paint Distress inks
Light Brown Twine
Memories Black Dye Ink

TFL
Hannah

A Valentine

G'day Readers...... if your still there, lol

I either need to remove this blog or just post something random every day till I get used to the idea of keeping this blog up.

Have you heard of the Die Cut Diva's flickr group?
Well we have recently moved our monthly challenges over to our blog, and this is my month to put up a challenge  there. See our latest challenge HERE!
 This week I'll be posting cards I made using my favorite diecut of the month, to inspire you, and to give idea's for our challenge theme.

To avoid re posting everything, you can see the full material list  and details  over at the DCD challenge blog

I also wanted to ask you if you could pray for my Grandma, she is going in today for a knee replacement.  She had her other knee done a couple of years ago, and things didn't go quite well, but we are all hoping with new technology and better knowledge the surgery and healing process will go better for her.

Thanks for Stopping by!

Hannah



 

24 hours of Scrambling fun making cards

Hello readers

I'm getting really bad at keeping up my blog, but I keep trying!

Starting yesterday, we put together a weekend of 90 minute Scrambles for 24 hour's straight, over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group, Ava had mentioned it would be nice to 24 hours to play so everyone had a chance, So I thought why not! that would be a blast! Found 12 hostesses and set the date.

There was 12 challenges posted every 2 hours with 90 minutes to play and 30 minutes to break inbetween to comment.

The First Challenge posted by me was to create a card/project using the color green anywhere, whether it was a button, or the card base, the 2nd option was a Friendship card.

 

These were my example cards

Challenge 2

  Posted by Judy

 Hers was about making Christmas Thankyou's, We also chatted about PJ's and Hot Cocoa : )

 

 

Challenge 3

Posted By Rachelle

This challenge was about making get well cards for kids, by this time it was 11:30 am and I couldn't stay awake, so only managed 1 card

I Slept through the next 3 challenges Marcy, Cecilia, and Janet's,

and woke up in time to have 30 minutes of Linda's Challenge

 

Challenge 7

Posted By Linda

The challenge was to use the Focal Stamp in the background as well.

 

Challenge 8

Posted by Cat

 

we were challenged to make a shaped card with no white showing

 

Challenge 9

Posted by Lucille

 

Her challenge was to have an animal image but to color it something different then the normal.

By this time my pictures aren't as nice because I didn't take the time, and my cards aren't as nice and I'm only doing one card per challenge.

 

Challenge 10

Posted by Karen

 

She asked us to make a Red, Cream, and Gold Card

 

Didn't do so well here I had a much better idea, but not the time to go through with it.

 

 

Challenge 11

Posted By Barb

Barb Challenged us to make a card using 3 different patterned papers

 

These 2 were super easy and fun to make.

 

Challenge 12 The Finale

Posted By Janet (2)

Janet did a Great Job with the Finale, She had us use the word Time in a Phrase or to have clock images on the card, she had other options too but those were the main ones : )

I'm going to have to go back and do the ones I missed, for now I am going to rest and then come back later and update the details, on my Projects and comment on everyone elses cards.

Thanks Everyone for Helping me put this fun Challenge together, I had a blast! and my family is glad to have me back out of my "studio" ; ).

 

Thanks for Stopping by, and Happy Thanksgiving!

         Hannah