Shopping Ellie and Birthday Owen

Good morning dear crafters, it’s Jasmina, I’m back with another card using this beautiful image Shopping Ellie.

Isn’t she adorable! She was in the shop – there is a hanger, doll for clothes on paper. She bought a lot – and there is she – our shopping Ellie with bags.

I’m really quite pleased with how pretty this one turned out. You can see more pictures on my blog.

Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities, C.C. Design

Paper: Pion design Alma’s Sewing room, Purple room

Stamp: Shopping Ellie

I’ve used a few goodies: Love hangers, Vintage brad, Melissa Frances pearls, Shabby seam binding, Hortensia flower, Rayher blossoms;

Colours I used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, R11

Hair: YR00, E11, E15, E17

Outfit: V000, B0000, RV13

I have one more card to share. It’s Birthday Owen. I think this stamp is popular because he is so sweet and suitable for birthday cards. I made his trousers with a little dots different colours and made interesting effect. Hope you like it too.

Dies: X-cut big ovals

Paper: Doodlebug design – Hello spring

Stamp: Birthday Owen

I used: Pearl stars, lace stars

Colours I used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, R11

Hair: E11, E53, E55

Hat: B000, B00, Y11

Trousers: Y11, B000, G40

Shirt: Y11

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Country Boy Owen

Howdy!

It's Loriann from Craftymama_3.blogspot.com

Today I'm going to share with you Country Boy Owen from The Paper Nest.He is the cutest thing! There is a lot of detail in this image so I took it slow on coloring him, but I think he turn out great!

I just happened to find the John Deer 
looking ribbon and I knew it would be perfect

for Country Boy Owen, then I just picked paper to match and Howdy as a sentiment, and he was done. An up close of him 

The little frog is so cute!

The grass was hand done using copics.

 (I didn't write down the colors I used...sorry !)

Here's a pic of the inside... its a bit blurry sorry but the card is already gone, so here it is.

I just added the colors to make it match... simple, but cute.

Here he is one more time....Country Boy Owen !

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Making Envelopes......=)

Hey it's Nikki here for The Paper Nest Dolls. As part of our term we were asked to complete a tutorial. This made me a little nervous because I have never done ANYTHING like this before, so please be gentle. As most of you are aware, I am a member of YouTube but have absolutely NO CLUE how to do videos so my tutorial is going to be a blog tutorial.
          I chose to do a tutorial on how to make envelopes, something I do a lot for my cards because 1: it is really hard to find envelopes that fit my big cards that I like and 2: I can coordinate them with the cards I make, either with paper or embellishments.

Supplies Needed

8.5X11 or 12X12 piece of card stock

Ruler

Pencil

Scissors (sharp and small)

Scor Pad (I use Martha Stewart here)

Bone

Double-sided tape (I use Scor tape, because it is strong) or you can purchase envelope glue.

Picture 1a

Step 1: You start out by measuring the paper. I do like to use a medium weight card stock, it just holds up better with the folding, ect. This particular example I am making a card that is 5X5" square. For this a 8.5X8.5" piece of card stock is a good size as it gives a little bit of room for embellishments. See 1a.

Typical Measurements

5x5" - 8.5X8.5" card stock

5.5X5.5" - 8.75X8.75" card stock

6X6" - 9X9" card stock

Martha Stewart Envelope Attachment

Picture 1a - 1

Picture 2a.

Step 2: Although I am not a huge fan of the Martha Stewart Scor board, I DO LIKE the fact it has an envelope attachment that can help with the scoring of the card. I would scor all four corners at the 3.25" mark. Please see 1a -1. You WILL have overlapping and that IS what you want. Next see 2a.

Picture 3a.

Step 3: Cut all the overlapping corners as shown in picture 3a.

Picture 4a

Step 4: Use the bone to get a nice tight fold on all four corners. See 4a.

Picture 5a

Step 5: Tape the edges of the card with the double sided tape. You want to be as close to the edge as you can WITHOUT going over so you don't tape the inside of the card shut. See 5a.

Voila! You have your envelope! You can make the decision as to how you would like to decorate the envelope, I am a minimalist type of girl so I do not do too much decorating. If you choose to use a paper that coordinates with the card you are doing, just keep in mind to go with a lighter colour so you can address it and it can be seen (if you are mailing). Or you can make a label with a shaped spellbinder if you would like, just make sure it is STRONGLY attached to the envelope..... hope you enjoyed this tutorial.... xo

Rainy Day Friends......AGAIN!

Rainy Day Friends....AGAIN! Yes, i know.....I just showed you this stamp a few days ago ( colored by June Nelson ) .  I wanted to show it to you again today, but with a whole different look to it. This card was done by Ilene Tell ( PND freelance designer ) ....i just LOVEE  it!!This is one of my favorite stamps  ....

ENJOY! =)

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Fairy Under Mushroom

Hello everyone, it's Erika here again.
Today I want to show you a new card I have made using an image I really like. It is the Fairy Under Mushroom image. I just love all of those little fairy images :)

I colored this image with copic markers, but unfortunately I didn't really get the coloring as good as I wanted to. I don't know what happened the day I did the card, things just kept ending badly for me. I redid the coloring about 3 times and this was the best one I got. Not that I have ever been very good at coloring images, but this time I think I might have lost any talent I previously had. But it's ok anyway, I guess all of us have bad days every now and then right?

This card is pretty simple and I just used white cardstock, a piece of patterned paper, a spellbinders die, some washi tape and stickles. I did some paper piecing by printing the mushroom and fairy wings twice and glues them down on the image to get some more dimension to the card. And of course I had to add stickles to the wings.

Here's a closeup of the card

That was all for me today and I hope you like the card. And be sure to stop by at the shop to get your hand on some of the great images available.

/Erika

cute as a button

Hello Everyone ....

Today I am showing you another beautiful card done by the very talented Ilene Tell. 

How sweet is this ???