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School has started and I had a minute

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Stamping | Leave a comment

So I created this!

craftingwithamanda.comMy upline for Close to My Heart put a color challenge up for her team with prizes involved, so I started creating right away. We need to create three projects.  I haven’t been crafting much in my studio, but my table has been gathering bits and baubles, tools and “stuff” for a while so I pushed everything aside and got to work.   Here is the photo for the challenge.

Sept Color Challenge inspiration

I didn’t have the right lighting for my card to show the purple, but in person it matches the colors on my screen better.  I hope to get the two other projects done and I’ll take some photos in natural light.

I used Smokey Plum, Indian Corn Blue, Crystal Blue inks  D1627 Your Own Kind of Wonderful stamp set and an upcoming stamp of the month It’s the Little Things.

I don’t know if you can see it well, but I swipe the stamp over the edge of the ink pad.  This removes some of the ink and gives a multi-tone effect with just one color, then I daub and swipe on other colors to add more life into the butterflies.

Happy Crafting!

 

Lovin’ the embossing folders

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Technique | 2 Comments

Well,  I should be working on the next scrapbooking workshop, but after I finished Timberline, I decided to play with the newly arrived Embossing folders.    I have to say, I am loving them!

I don’t know about you, but I have a few (hundred) old paper packs laying around that have been opened and most of the papers used, but still too much left to allow me to discard them.  So, I grabbed one,  and decided I was going to use as much of the paper that was in it that I could.

embeddedembossings1I grabbed a couple punches, (I didn’t want to get my cricut out as my craft table is still half covered with other projects, and I know that would never happen at your house!)  my ebosser and the new embossing folders.  I also snagged my card stock scraps bag and went to town.   I started by simply punching some flowers and vines and layered them on the card bases.  I was just playing, so I dry fit several cards then glued down my designs and ran them through the ebosser.  After they were embossed, I added the sentiment and some of my dry embossed flowers.  ( how to dry emboss )

Would love to see your project if this inspires you!

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Hopefully you can see more of the details  🙂   Also, I used up EVERY last piece of paper from my Dotty for You paper.   How cool is that?!

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Happy Crafting!

IvyLane Club Night Cards

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, Stamping | 3 Comments

For the few of you that didn’t get to club night, but received the project I’ve finally managed to take photos AND get them to my computer.  So, here they are.

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I used IvyLane Paper, one sheet of the pink glitter paper, Art Philosophy to cut the butterfly.
The three cards were designed using the Frosted Card Workshop.

With the extra sets of pre-cut cards, I put some together using different stamps.  I’m going to post them here for extra ideas for you.

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I’ve been working on the Timberline Scrapbooking workshop and also have some embedded embossing cards to share.  Hopefully I’ll carve some time to show them to you!

Happy Crafting.

One More Day!

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Scrapbook, Stamping | Leave a comment

Yes, only one more day until everyone can order from the new Spring/Summer 2014 idea book!    Yeah, so excited.  FINALLY got to play with some of the new papers last night (Ivy Lane) and fell in love with them.  When I first got the new idea book, I liked some of the papers right away, and moaned about how others were going to push me out of my comfort zone and challenge me.  Now that I’ve actually gotten to sit down with the paper samples, I’m finding I love a couple, like a few I didn’t care for, and the one I was dreading is actually very nice!

14-ss-idea-book-coverIn just a few short hours this idea book goes live!  yeah

14-ss-idea-book-hostess-collection-01 Hostess Bundle #1 – Lollydoddle  (you can order this as a half off item when you host a $3=250+ party.)

14-ss-idea-book-hostess-collection-02Hostess Bundle #2 – Ariana (And some new jewelry!)

14-ss-idea-book-hostess-collection-03Hostess Bundle #3 – Timberline  (My favorite)

And now drum roll. . . .  The new Avonlea Picture My Life teaser!

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Also, you can now order idea books from my site (and add some new goodies in your basket to split shipping!)

I will be posting the photos of our club night project using some of the Ivy Lane paper soon.  Love them.  Funny thing is most of the gals did them just like I did and didn’t modify them.  That rarely happens!

Happy Crafting!

Wrapping up Library Auction Pages

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Scrapbook, Stamping | Leave a comment

Well,  I think this will be the last post of library auction pages.  When I started this project I thought it would be a great fun, which it was, but I also was looking forward to some easy blog posts showing off my work.  That last part didn’t work out so well.   If you want to see all the pages in one spot, go to http://www.craftingwithamanda.com/rudyard-2/

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The classic school themed pages aren’t there, but all the black & Orange pages are there.

Here is a layout that was created from the negative space when I cut the shape for “Shining Moments.”  The opening is the perfect size for a wallet photo.  This is a great page for a quick glance back over all the years.

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I will be working on finishing the Scholastic paper layouts and the new workshops on the go.  I will also try and take photos and post the club night project.  (In case you can’t come and play with us!)

Happy Crafting.

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