Especially for You – Golf Themed Birthday Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards by lisababitz

(inside: hope your day is as fun as getting a hole-in-one! happy birthday)

For those of you who are not all that fond of golf – Ugh, another golf card! For those of you who are neutral or who are into golf, here’s another golf themed birthday card I made for the Rolling Green Holiday Boutique. (Just a little over a month more and then I can start making “regular” cards again!!!)

This 5×7 card features a large stamp called “Fairway to Heaven” from Indigo Blue. I used my MISTI and stamped it multiple times to get a nice solid, dark image. The greeting stamp is from the “Especially for You Duo” stamp set (retired?) from Gina K Designs. These images were stamped with Gina K Charcoal Brown ink.

I used an EK 2 Point Tag Punch to create the end of my greeting tag and my Marvy Paper Crimper for the vertical band.

Inside sentiment stamps are from the “Ed and Ethyl” page at Copper Leaf Creations and the “Birthday Blessings” from Gina K Designs.

Gina K Honey Mustard and Sweet Corn card stock and Recollections Ivory card stock were used along with GCD Studios “Thru the Woods” designer paper from the “Joyful Peace” collection.

The edges of all 9 layers/panels were inked with Gina K Charcoal Brown ink. A piece of yarn behind the corner of the greeting tag finished it off.

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23Oct2015

Celebrate – Golf Themed Birthday Card

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Celebrate – Golf Themed Birthday Card

(inside: HOPE YOUR DAY IS PAR-FECT! Happy Birthday!)

This 5×7 card features a photo stamp called “Golfer” from Darkroom Door. I used my MISTI and stamped it multiple times to get a nice solid, dark image. The greeting stamp is from the “Vertical Greetings 2” stamp set from Gina K Designs. (I needed to mask the exclamation point from the stamp because it was too long for the space on my panel.) These images were stamped with Gina K Charcoal Brown ink. I used my Tim Holtz Paper Distresser to rough up the edges of the stamped panel to match the jagged border of the golf image.

Inside sentiment stamps are from the retired “And Many Mower” stamp set from Stampin’ Up (that I found on ebay) and the “You Know You’re Old When…” set (retired?) from Gina K Designs.

Gina K Charcoal Brown and Recollections Ivory card stock was used along with designer paper by Hampton Art called “Numbers” from the “Vintage Charm” collection. A piece of chocolate colored raffia finished it off.

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19Oct2015

Holiday Accent Lamp

Posted in Christmas, Paper Crafting Projects (other) by lisababitz

Holiday Accent Lamp

I thought I’d take a quick break from golf cards to make this Tiffany-inspired lamp project which I’ve been wanting to try for a while. It was made with my Silhouette electronic die cutting machine, an svg file from the “Boho Butterflies SVG Kit” by svg cuts, an electric candle, card stock and vellum. The original design had dragonflies on the lamp shade, but I wanted to make my lamps as holiday gifts and decorations, so I altered the cut file to include holly leaves instead. The basic holly leaf design (which I manipulated to fit on the lamp shade panel) came from the “Comet’s Candy Land SVG Kit” which is also by svg cuts.

(original lamp shade design)

It’s hard to believe this lamp is made out of paper! I used Recollections brown (chocolate) shimmer paper (which looks like bronze/metal), Recollections black card stock, and vellum. I used Copic Markers (G29, R59, and Y28) to color the vellum panels.

*POST ADDITION – I found it tedious and difficult to color 36 panels, front and back, for each lamp I wanted to make. The vellum kept shifting so the colors didn’t line up with the black lines perfectly, and this was messy/obvious when the lamp was assembled and lit. (I’m not sure why I didn’t have that much trouble with my first one!) I ended up creating two print and cut files so I could either color in my panels by hand with lines visible on the vellum, or I could just print and cut the already colored panels. Much easier!!

You can see the tutorial on how to assemble the lamp HERE.

There is a 9 inch electronic candle “built in” to the center of the lamp base which came with a 7w bulb. I replaced this bulb with an LED bulb so it didn’t get hot since it will be lit so close to the paper. (The original bulb seemed to work fine and didn’t really seem to get that hot, but I didn’t want to take any chances.)

I used the Darice 5×7 Basketweave embossing folder for the decorative panels on the base of the lamp.

The design details on this lamp are incredible! The lamp shade fits on the lamp without touching the bulb. And the decorative knob on the top is pretty cool!

Some sad news…

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I LOVE svg cuts; there is a huge variety of projects (2-d and 3-d), and they are all AWESOME!!! It’s the first place I look when I need an idea or element for a special occasion or project. I LOVE watching Mary do her project tutorials which takes a lot of the frustration out of creating these projects. (I tried to wing it a few times and ended up wishing I had just gone straight to Mary for some of the more complicated designs!) And, I don’t think I’d even have any idea at all about electronic die-cutting with svg’s if it weren’t for Leo’s tutorials on Sure Cuts A Lot and all the customer support/questions answered by him over the years. So… I was extremely saddened by the news that Leo and Mary are going their separate ways and will no longer both be working together at svg cuts. Leo has decided to start a new svg company called Dreaming Tree (3DSVG) while Mary will continue to run svg cuts. (Leo explains this in a letter on his new site, HERE). I’m sad for them that things didn’t work out, and I’m sad that the company as I’ve known it will not be the same. However, I am excited with the idea that there is a new company out there that will be providing svg files, am hoping this works out well for both of them, and am looking forward to visiting both often.

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18Oct2015

Santa in Golf Cart Holiday Card

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards by lisababitz

Santa in Golf Cart Holiday Card

This is the fourth design in the series of golf-related holiday cards I made for the Rolling Green Golf Club’s Holiday Boutique and Luncheon.

The greeting stamp is from the “Sentimental Holiday” stamp set (retired?) by Gina K Designs. The golf cart image is called “Golf Cart Girl” by DRS Designs. I masked the face on the original golf cart image and replaced it with a Santa face (designed by artist Kathy L. Post)

(original stamp designs)

I used my MISTI for placement and to make it easier to make more than one card. The images were stamped and colored with Memento tuxedo black ink, a Memento tuxedo black marker, and Copic Markers ( R59, G29, C2, C4, E50, E31, E04, and 100) on white card stock, mounted on Recollections black and then on a white card base.

The inside sentiment was computer generated and says, “and a happy new year.”

These cards were designed to be made and packaged as boxed sets.

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16Oct2015

Golf Balls in Martini Glass

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards by lisababitz

Golf Balls in Martini Glass

Here’s another golf-themed holiday card I made for the Rolling Green Golf Club’s Holiday Boutique and Luncheon. I made two versions of this holiday card with 2 different greetings. The Christmas greeting (on the card above) is by Stampin’ Up. (I believe that it is from a retired Hostess set called “Best Yet” but not sure because I purchased the single stamp on ebay.) The New Year greeting (shown below) is masked from a stamp from the “Sentimental Holiday” set (retired?) by Gina K Designs.

The martini image is from a set called “Fore Your Retirement” by Impression Obsession (IO). (I masked a portion of one of the greeting stamps from this set to get the “Best Wishes Fore” part of my greeting.)

(stamps in “Fore Your Retirement” set)

I used my MISTI for placement and to make it easier to make more than one card. The images were stamped and colored with Memento tuxedo black ink and Copic Markers (R59, G28, C1, and C3) on white card stock, mounted on Recollections black and then on a white card base.

The inside sentiment was computer generated and says either “and happiness in the new year” or “and a happy holiday.”

These cards were designed to be made and packaged as boxed sets.