Win a Step2 Extreme Coaster from thelinkfairy.com!
This is such a cool toy. Scythe would love it. And I would love to win it! Good luck everyone.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cupcake Card
I made this card for the Pink Persimmon Cupcake Challenge.
The cupcake cup is folded cardstock, the top is inked tissue paper with beads glued on for sprinkles.
The sentiment panel has stamped words, cut/embossed corners, and a little embossed heart. (The embossing and edges of the cardstock were also inked with Whispers ink.)
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Happy 360, Fiskars!
Fiskars (you know--the orange-handled-scissors company) was founded in 1649. The company originally produced iron in Finland in a town named Fiskars!
Now the company makes all sorts of wonderful craft and garden supplies. To help celebrate the 360th anniversary/birthday, I sent Fiskars a card.
I knew I wanted to have orange in the card (since it's Fiskars's signature color) but I didn't want it to be orange-based. So I chose a black base for the card to help the orange really "pop."
I went with a horizontal layout and punched the front bottom corners with a combo rounder/slot punch. I also rounded the corners on the back page to match the front. I cut a thin band of orange paper, and threaded it through the slots.
For the main image, I chose an acrylic stamp from Fiskars. It is a cake from a wedding set, but I think it looks great as a birthday cake, too. I used white cardstock and tried several color combinations. Then I cut around my favorite with a circle cutter.
I double-matted the cake with orange and pale orange. I tried it both ways--small light, large dark and small dark, large light--and decided I liked it better with the dark orange on the outside.
I affixed the cake and added some cute numbers stickers for the candles. I drew the candle "stems" and "Happy Birthday!" with a gel pen. The flames were done with a Painters marker.
I also put two green snaps on the orange band to represent the "Fiskateers"--a group of Fiskars fans that I belong to.
For the inside, I cut a piece of orange paper (which nicely shows through the slots in the card front) and added a band of black paper with rounded ends. Silver gel pen again for the writing inside. (Which ended up crooked, but that adds to the charm! Right?? Ok, probably not, but that's how it is...)
To complete the front, I added a couple of streamers that I cut out with Paper Edgers, and away the card went to Wisconsin!
Now the company makes all sorts of wonderful craft and garden supplies. To help celebrate the 360th anniversary/birthday, I sent Fiskars a card.
I knew I wanted to have orange in the card (since it's Fiskars's signature color) but I didn't want it to be orange-based. So I chose a black base for the card to help the orange really "pop."
I went with a horizontal layout and punched the front bottom corners with a combo rounder/slot punch. I also rounded the corners on the back page to match the front. I cut a thin band of orange paper, and threaded it through the slots.
For the main image, I chose an acrylic stamp from Fiskars. It is a cake from a wedding set, but I think it looks great as a birthday cake, too. I used white cardstock and tried several color combinations. Then I cut around my favorite with a circle cutter.
I double-matted the cake with orange and pale orange. I tried it both ways--small light, large dark and small dark, large light--and decided I liked it better with the dark orange on the outside.
I affixed the cake and added some cute numbers stickers for the candles. I drew the candle "stems" and "Happy Birthday!" with a gel pen. The flames were done with a Painters marker.
I also put two green snaps on the orange band to represent the "Fiskateers"--a group of Fiskars fans that I belong to.
For the inside, I cut a piece of orange paper (which nicely shows through the slots in the card front) and added a band of black paper with rounded ends. Silver gel pen again for the writing inside. (Which ended up crooked, but that adds to the charm! Right?? Ok, probably not, but that's how it is...)
To complete the front, I added a couple of streamers that I cut out with Paper Edgers, and away the card went to Wisconsin!
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