Multiple Super Mario characters

My children each got a 5 pack of Super Mario Brothers plushies for Christmas.  On the back of the cardboard were these great circles with the characters in them.  I am certainly not one to throw away any good items that could be recycled into something useable.  So I made some cards, naturally!

Koopa Troopa Koopa

Yoshi.  Visit here and here for more Yoshi cards I made.

Luigi - Let's a go!

Mario

and Toad.

Card Sizes: A2.

Cardstock: YoYo Yellow, Real Red.

Ink: Real Red.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Other: embossing folder from Cuttlebug, circle die from spellbinders, word window, label punch and corner rounder punch.

Happy New Year! - Heidi

Snoopy sticker card

I take my kids to the doctor and they get stickers for being good.  Only thing is that Mom gets the stickers so she can make cards from them!  I am a recycler at heart, what can I say?

Card Size: A2.

Cardstock: Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Wild Wasabi & White.

Paper: Sticker from Kidslovestickers.com.

Other: Lacey squares from Spellbinders, label punch from SU, Wild Wasabi ribbon and corner rounder punch.

Ink: sentiment printed on computer.

Have a great night - Heidi

One Stamp - Two Ways

I found this Inkadinkado stamp at Goodwill for $1.00.  I tried it out two different ways.  Which way do you like best? - Heidi

The below card is meant to look like an ornament hanging on a tree.  I used a sheet of pine branches from an old Christmas stack by DCWV.

For the card below I used SU paper called Festival of Prints from the 2012 Holiday mini catalog.

Card Size: 5 X 7.

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla & Crumb Cake.

Ink: Black, Lucky Limeade, Cherry Cobbler.

Dies: Spellbinders Floral Ovals.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Christmas Hexagons

I love hexagons.  These are Spellbinder dies, but I want punches!  Hello EK Success!  

Enough said! - Heidi.

Card Size: A2.

Cardstock: Confetti White, Always Artichoke & Cherry Cobbler .

Ink: Always Artichoke.

Paper: Recollections Botanical Noel.

Stamps: Grateful Greetings from Stampin' Up.

Dies: Hexagons from Spellbinders.

Happy Halloween on New Years?

I found these items at my local Goodwill.  The owl be seeing you punch was $6.99 and the spider stickers were $0.99.  I thought the punch was a bit pricey, but my husband encouraged me to get it.  What could I do, but oblige him?

Card Size: A2

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight and Chocolate Chip textured.

Ink: Jet Black Staz-On,  Vegas Gold all-purpose ink from Tsukineko, black acrylic paint for the branch.

Stamp: Essential Sentiments from A*muse Studios.

Other: Maya Road chipboard (Birds & Branches?), 2 1/2" circle punch, Owl Be Seeing You punch from Fiskars.

I am loving the color combination on this card to bring out the jeweled accent on this K & Company sticker!

Card Size: 5 X 7.

Cardstock: Concord Crush & Cajun Craze.

Paper: The insert behind the stickers in the pack!

Stamp: Essential Sentiments from A*muse Studios.

Other: Art Deco corner punch from EK Success & sticker from K & Company.

Have a happy & creative New Year - Heidi

Ode to Starbucks

My Clinical instructor loves Starbuck coffee as he has a cup everyday.  We needed a thank you for him so I used the cup sleeve to make a card.  I think he liked it.  The stamp set is Teeny Tiny Wishes.

My friend at Clinical brought us all cake pops in a cute little Starbucks bag.  I had to make it into two cards!  I like them both, but they needed something more.  Google eyes were the solution!  The stamp sets are Petite Pairs and Perfect Punches.

Hope you have a great Christmas! - Heidi

A man card from body wash!?

I talked about "idea wandering" in a previous post.  That is what I call it when I go to stores and just wander looking for color combinations or card ideas.  This time my idea was right in my shower!  My husband uses this body wash.  What could be more manly than Old Spice?!  So I borrowed the color scheme and layout right off the bottle.

 I have been formulating this card in the back of my brain for some time now.  I have had finals to finish up my semester and have been otherwise busy.  I finally had the time to make my vision a reality (the card is a 5 X 7).  The colors are Pacific Point and Riding Hood Red.  The octagon is a Spellbinders die.  The background is Sanded and the ship is from the Open Sea from Stampin' Up.  As my brain is constantly churning I may go back and do another card with white embossed words to totally mimic the Old Spice bottle.  I'd say I need a hobby, but it's too late now!  Have a fabulous day - Heidi.

A Christmas CASE from Target

I do a lot of "idea wandering" it would seem.  That is where I wander around stores looking for color ideas or card ideas.  I was at Target and I saw the card below.  Loved it, so I reproduced it in my own Heidi way!

I used Night of Navy and white.  The dies are from Papertrey Ink.  The stamp is from A*Muse.

Have a great Thanksgiving - Heidi.

From a tissue box!

I was at the Dollar Tree with my friend Karen a couple of weeks ago and I saw these tissue boxes!  They had Lightning McQueen and Disney Princesses on them!  I begged her to buy them for me because I left my purse at her house.  Below are three cards I made from the longer Cars tissue box that I didn't take a picture of.  Sorry!

Two of the smaller tissue boxes.  I am looking to see if they have a longer Princesses box at Dollar Tree, but I have been unable to find one.

The above card is a 4 X  6 and below are two letter envelope size cards.

Have a wonderfully creative day - Heidi

From Halloween coasters

While wandering through Jo-Ann's the other day I came across this pack of six Halloween coasters.  I am not one to complain especially when the price is 50 cents!  So I made six cards from them.  Not awesome, but they'll do.

Thanks for looking - Heidi

Stampin space changes

I have been bored.  I can't imagine why because I have a LOT to do.  Perhaps I am just restless.  I have been visiting my local Goodwill stores and found some new ways to store stuff.  Take a look.

The above are two standing DVD case holders that I just hung on the wall.  They were on the floor, but I'd have to stand on my head to see the stamp sets at the bottom.  Not any more.  The lowest rack is a metal DVD holder that I attached to the wall also.  It holds my word stamp sets.

This wood DVD rack is perfect for getting my old wood-mounted stamps out of the closet!  I am running out of wall otherwise I would've hung this higher up.  I also have my Cricut cartridge stored there.  Higher up is a double CD rack that holds my EK Success border punches.  Below that is a DVD rack that holds my bigger EK Success border punches.  Below is a closer up view of the punch storage.

All of these racks were purchased at Goodwill and I didn't pay more than $5.00 for any single one of them.  I am feeling pretty nifty for my great buys and great ideas.  Have a great day - Heidi

CASEing Papercrafts magazine

 I loved this card on the cover of Papercrafts magazine and I had the stamp and die set from Papertrey so I copied the card.

The difference is that I put a black circle behind my bell to make it stand out better.  I also didn't do the holly on the bell to make it a more mailable card.  I think the circle behind the bell makes a world of difference to the card.

A hunter green version using white embossing powder and a snowflake version using Spellbinder snowflakes.  Hope you like them! - Heidi

Another Ciao Bella card

Yet another card from the DCWV Ciao Bella stack.  The birds and banner are fussy cut and popped up.  The words are from Cuttlebug. - Heidi

Flip Off Art

Maybe this is one of those you have to work in healthcare to understand type of things...  The hospital where I have clinicals saves the Flip-Off tops from injectable medications.  Someone makes them into flowers and the staff wears them on their badges.  A neat idea that I ran with, of course!

Above is a picture of various flip off tops.  The colors are not the greatest, but you work with what you have.

I punched a pumpkin face out and then punched a circle over it and glued it to the flip top.  I hot-glue gunned a brad to the back and added it to my badge.

For Thanksgiving I made a turkey!  The flip off top is under there! No matter how I took this picture it came out fuzzy, sorry.

As a thank you and holiday card I will have my classmates sign this card and leave it at our clinical site on the last day.  Again I used the flip off tops from injectable medication vials.  Way to recycle! - Heidi

New Yoshi and more

Here is a sampling of what I have been up to.

The above bird is from the DCWV stack called Ciao Bella.  I fussy cut around the bird and some of the flowers to give it interest.  See here for other cards made with paper from this stack.  The sentiment is from Perfect Punches (Stampin' Up).

While wandering at JoAnn's in the clearance aisle I found these K & Company stickers for $0.50.  How could I resist?!  The sentiment is from Tiny Tags by Stampin' Up.

Someone emailed me asking me for directions to assemble Yoshi.  I didn't realize that it was over a year ago that I had put that card up!  I see that others have duplicated my card and posted directions.  Well I have gotten off my butt and posted the directions both below and here.

Directions for Yoshi (posted 10-12-2012):

You will need the following punches:
1 1/2 " circle
photo corners (retired, but you could use a square and another square for his arms)
word window
large oval MEDIUM (this is what I am going to call it)
extra-large oval LARGE
scallop oval
1-3/8 " X 5/8" oval (retired 2 catalogs ago) SMALL
corner rounder

Also needed:
thin line black marker
white gel pen
sponges
Wild Wasabi (WW) & Tangerine Tango (TT) card stock & ink
white cardstock
adhesive (I used Tombow glue)

1. Using the word window punch black card stock.

2. Cut black strip in half.

3. Using the small oval punch out two white ovals.

4. Punch two WW ovals with the MEDIUM oval punch.

5. If a shape is WW or TT sponge it before gluing it - EVERY TIME!

6. Overlap the WW ovals and glue.

7. Glue the white ovals on & then the black word window strips.

8. Draw in your eyes with white gel pen.

9. Punch another MEDIUM WW oval and adhere across the eyes.

10. Punch a LARGE oval from white and adhere just below the top of the WW oval.

11. Punch a 1 1/2" circle from WW and adhere over white LARGE oval.

12. Draw in nostrils.

13. Punch another LARGE oval from white and 2 from WW.

14. Glue the white oval over the two WW ovals to make the body.

15. Leave a little space at the bottom of the white belly oval to tuck the legs under later.

16. Punch two and sponge WW with the photo corners largest V of the punch.

17. Corner round off the "elbows".

18. Punch a scalloped oval from WW.

19. Count off 4 scallops and line the edge of the V up to one scallop and cut into the scallop for a longer thumb.  Refer to original picture here.

20. Adhere arms behind body.

21. Punch 2 SMALL ovals from WW & tuck under the belly for legs.  Adhere or tape on.

22. Punch 2 SMALL ovals from TT & sponge.  Cut about 1/3 off to make boots.

23. Punch 2 word windows from TT.

24. Adhere a TT word window with removable adhesive to a piece of scratch paper.

25. Punch the strip again so it is about 3/4" long and rounded on both ends.

26. Assemble boots and adhere to legs.

27. DONE!

Have a fantastic evening - Heidi

Blooming with lots of Kindness

You see an awesome card and then you have to have the stamp set.  We have all been there.  This was the set that I had to have, Blooming with Kindness from Stampin' Up.  I went a little crazy with it!

Below is the flower embossed in black on Perfect Plum.  then I took a watercolor brush and painted with bleach & water.  The PP turned into a Blush Blossom color so that is the other color I used for this card.  The set is called Brighter Tomorrows.

The next card is embossed black on Baja Breeze.  The bleach made it turn Blush Blossom so that is what I used to finish the card.  I added a butterfly from the Papillon Potpourri set and words from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Cherry Cobbler turned Apricot Appeal and yes, I bleached all those dots to make the background.

Then I sponged my brains out with this stamp set and also used the stamp set So Sorry.  I clear or white embossed and then sponged over it.  The dies are from Spellbinders.  I hope you enjoy - Heidi

Did I invent this?

I was working with the Star Tree a la carte stamp from Stampin' Up.  I just didn't like the way it looked stamped or just clear embossed and sponged over.  

I am a big fan of having few embossing powders and using the technique that I saw on Michelle Zindorf's blog.  She inks her stamp with Versamark, then inks the stamp with a color ink, then stamps it and clear embosses it.  This basically gives an embossed look in whatever color ink you used.

So I thought why can't I make this tree the way I want it to be?!  I want yellow stars and a brown tree trunk (I thought red tinsel garland would be too much, but I may still revisit that thought!).  So I inked my stamp with Versamark and colored the trunk with a Chocolate Chip marker and most of the stars with a Yo Yo Yellow marker.  Then I stamped it on Very Vanilla and clear embossed it. I went over the tree with Gumball Green ink on a Q-tip so I could lay ink precisely where I wanted it!  I used Stickles to make the tree ornaments.

Who says you can't emboss in multiple colors?  I was searching for a name to call this technique.  What do you think?  Multiple color clear embossing?  Marker clear embossing?  If you have seen this anywhere before I'd love to know where.  If you can think of a better name for this technique I'd love to hear that too! - Heidi

An African Grey card

I have a Cricut, but I don't use it as much as the price suggests I should.  I bought the Pet Shop cartridge because I like animals.  Xavier asked me to make an African Grey like Sterling.  So I put on my thinking cap and here is what I came up with.

A2 card size, Pacific Point DSP, Basic Black, Yo Yo Yellow, Real Red, Close to Cocoa & Basic Grey cardstock, You're a Gem stamp set.

Below is what the Cricut cartridge suggests that the bird look like, but we know that I don't like to follow anyone's ideas to the letter.  So I changed the colors, used the same foot twice, but flipped it, drew lines on the branch and feet, shortened the tail and sponged a bit of white to make a Congo African Grey parrot.  I think it came out awesome and it took forever so I will never make another one ever again! - Heidi

I'll make anything into a card

In the next installment of "I've seen that before" I have these three cards to offer to you.  I am the great recycler, you know.

Okay so the card below is not recycled, but the idea is.  I saw it in a magazine and tried to recreate it.  I hate this card.  Enough said. 

While looking through my Family Fun magazine I spotted this happy Lorax face in a DISH Network ad so I made it into a card.

A10 card size, Pumpkin Pie & Tempting Turquoise cardstock, Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

My kids' friend was having a birthday and I needed a card.  This is from a scrap booking chipboard set that I had hung on Isandro's wall.  I "borrowed" the storm trooper from him to make this card.  Previously I borrowed Darth Vader from him.  Needless to say Isandro wants me to replace what I have borrowed.
I think it turned out great! - Heidi

A2 card size, chipboard clone trooper, Yo Yo Yellow & Basic Black cardstock, Happiest Birthday Wishes stamp set.