A Faierie Sweet Valentine's Day Card and Matching Tag

Hello everyone!  It's Monday again, and I have another Altered Pages project for you.  I am still in card making mode, so today, I want to share another Valentine's Day card plus matching tag.  This month, we are proud to have Faerie Song Art Stamps as our sponsor.  Their stamps are deeply etched red rubber, and the selection of faeries is out of this world (no pun intended). 

Cut a 12x12 piece of blueish green card stock in half, then use your ScorPal scoring board to score in half for a 6x6 folded card.

Fussy cut around one of the Kaisercraft Botanical Odyssey Papers to fit the front of the card, ink edges with Leather Mixed Media Salazar Inkx using the Ranger Blending Tool and adhere it with Double Side Tape Mini.

Die cut scalloped heart shape from pink polka dot paper and a solid heart from the blue print paper with the Scallop Heart die.  Adhere the two hearts together with Double Side Tape Mini and use a Pigma Micron Pen to make a faux stitching line around the top heart.

Fussy cut a heart from the Heart of my Heart collage sheet and ink edges with Leather Mixed Media Salazar Inkx using the Ranger Blending Tool.  Adhere a piece of chipboard beneath it for added strength and Adhesive Dimensionals to raise it up off the card front.  This always gives nice dimension.

Stamp Elly from Faerie Song Art Stamps onto a piece of acrylic paper with black Stazon midi ink pad.  Color image with Gelatos and a water brush.  Do the same onto a piece of scrap white paper, leaving enough room around the image to cut out a tag shape.

Fussy cut image and edge with black Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen.    Adhere to card with Adhesive Dimensionals, as shown.

Make a double loop bow using the Sheer Ribbon and adhere to card front, as shown.  Stamp sentiment onto scrap of white card stock with Pink Neon Ink Pad and adhere to card front, as shown.

Stamp Elly from Faerie Song Art Stamps onto a piece of scrap white paper with black Stazon midi ink pad, leaving enough room around the image to cut out a tag shape. Color image as before.

For the tag, use the Nesting Frames 2 die to cut one large shape from the blueish green card stock and the next size down from the white sheet with the image stamped onto it.  I love this die because it is so versatile. It can be used a a pretty label, a rectangle if you cut both ends off, or a beautiful tag if you cut one end off, as I have shown.

Cut the bottom portion of both pieces off to form a straight bottom on the tag.  Adhere both together, punch a hole in the top center of the tag with a craft punch.  String Baker's Twine through the hole and attach to your gift.

Add a variety of Dew Drops for added magic.  

Altered Pages Supplies:

Scallop Heart die
Nesting Frames 2 die
Heart of my Heart collage sheet
Kaisercraft Botanical Odyssey Paper Pad
Acrylic Blocks
Waterbrushes
Gelatos
Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen
ScorPal scoring board
Mixed Media Salazar Inkx (Leather)
Ranger Blending Tool
Double Side Tape Mini
Adhesive Dimensionals
Pigma Micron Pen
black Stazon midi ink pad
Baker's Twine Multi Colors
Ribbon, Sheer
Electric Pink Neon Ink Pad
Dew Drops

Other supplies used:

Strathmore acrylic paper
Blueish green card stock
Scrap white paper

Did you know that Altered Pages has a huge selection of collage images that are perfect for Valentine's Day?  And each sheet contains so many different images that will help you create the perfect cards.

I hope you enjoyed my card and tag project today.  I also want to extend my appreciation to our sponsor this month, Faerie Song Art Stamps, for sending us these adorable faerie stamps to play with.  Be sure to stop by their website to see the magical selection of faeries available.  And please visit the Altered Pages blog regularly for daily inspiration from the fantabulous design team.  

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful and very creative week!

Barbara

Watch the Leaves Turn Clock Magnet

Hello everyone.  I hope your week is starting off well.  Our theme this month is all about Fall.

So, I want to share a fun little project to either sit on your desk, turn it into a magnet, or place it anywhere you feel like thinking of Fall!  I love this saying because it reminds us to "... take time to sit and watch the leaves turn".

I used a clock die to cut some thick chipboard, as well as a piece of print paper to cover the board.  Then I used a circle die to cut out the  collage image for the center of the clock.

Use a glue stick to adhere the paper to the chipboard and edge with the Leather Inkx and the blending tool.  You can see the difference where I have added the brown shading on the right of the chipboard.

Edge the collage image with the gold ink pad.

Adhere to center of clock and add shading with a thin line from the Wink of Stella pen.  Again, I have shown a portion of where I used the pen to shade along the lower edge, versus the top edge, where there is no shading yet.  It really makes the clock face pop.

As you can see in the photo below, the chipboard clock hands are obscuring the beautiful "saying", so what to do, what to do?  Aha, I know!  I cut the clock hands from a scrap piece of acetate sheet.

I edged them with a black permanent marker, just enough to be seen.  Then I used a tiny brad to attach them to the clock.

I chose a scroll corner that fit the top of the chipboard, and first inked it up with the Delicata Ink Pad Gold and let dry.

Next, add a good, thick coat of the Aleene's Tacky Glue.

Pour the Champagne glass glitter over the scroll corner and let dry.  Remove excess glitter. Use the Aleene's Tacky Glue to adhere the scroll corner to the top of the clock.

And here is a closeup of the clear clock hands.  You can still see that beautiful phrase.  Love it!

Now, one last thing, add some numbers to the front and a piece of the Magnet Sheet to the back.  See photo of finished project above.

Altered Pages supplies used:
Kaisercraft Botanical Odyssey paper pad; Falling for Fall collage sheet; Champagne glass glitter;
Mixed Media Salazar Inkx (Leather); glue stick; Aleene's Tacky Glue; Ranger Blending Tool; Delicata Ink Pad Gold; Wink of Stella pen; Magnet Sheets 4 x12 inch; Scroll corners

Other supplies used:
thick chipboard
clock die (Sizzix)
2-3/4" circle cutter die
Acrylic sheet
Mini brad
Black permanent marker
Number stickers

Well, that's it for this project.  Pretty easy peasy, wouldn't you say? So for more inspiration, stop by the Altered Pages website to check out all of the fab Fall products to use in your next project.

In the meantime, thanks for stopping by today, and have a wonderful, creative week!

Barbara

A Lunar Steampunk Card

Hello all!  Today's post is a sneak peek at my project over on the Altered Pages blog today with our partner this month, IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko.   I hope you will take a minute to visit and see more how-tos and photos.

Altered Pages is also doing a GIVEAWAY for the month of June to celebrate our Partnership with IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko.  
You can win by leaving comments!   We will draw a winning name July 1.

Receive: 15 x 18 inch heavy weight AlteredPages canvas tote with 4 StazOn midi Inks, Shimmer Mist, Alice in Wonderland Stamp Set, 5 assorted Tags, 5 large glassine envelopes and Washi Tape ~ WOW!

Supplies used:

Kaisercraft Check In 6-1/2"x 6-1/2" paper pad
Cream card stock (cut 7"x10" to make 5"x7" folded card)
Moon Tags
Dyeable Seam Binding
IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko:  Goosebumps Clear Texture Spray; Memento Luxe Peanut Brittle, Rhubarb Stalk, StazOn midi Orange Zest, Blue Hawaii, Spiced Chai; GlazOn; Ink Blushers; Vertigo translucent film: Breeze, Prism
Circle die
Compass embossing folder
Metal sticker sheet (4" x 5-1/4")
Miscellaneous metal embellishments

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to follow along the rest of this month as both design teams share creations on the Altered Pages blog, as well as on the IMAGINE Crafts blog.  And don't forget to pop on over to leave lots of comments on the Altered Pages blog to enter our GIVEAWAY.

Good luck, and have wonderful, inky week!!

Barbara