Work of Art Rainbow

Work Of Art - Its a boy

Tricolour Flower

I went back to my old faithful stamp set, Regarding Dahlias and wanted to try a new technique that I learned. For this one, you use sponge daubers on the stamp itself to create different colours when you stamp down.

The trick is you stamp the whole image in the lightest colour first then using Stamp daubers you daub different colours on top before you stamp it to the page. Pretty cool eh?

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Fun Fold Friday - Lets use some DSP

I am back with an other Fun Fold Friday!I have been having trouble using my DSP as I just don't know what to do with it, so I have made it my goal over the next few months to use up a bunch of my DSP and with cards like this that won't be hard! I have lots of pictures today so lets get to it!

• DSP cut at 5 1/2 X 12
• score at 2, 4, 8 and 10
• fold in at the 4 and 8" marks and then fold back out at the 2 and 10" marks

• open up the card and measure down 2 3/4" from the top of the card along the outside edges
• cut from the top of the 4 and 8" marks to where you marked on the outside edge, save your scraps
• add your outer oval tab and sentiment (I used my new High Five stamp set for this one) and I embellished with candy dots (love those things!)

• glue your scraps to the inside of the card, see above, this gives the card more stability when it is standing up and adds some fun to the inside *because it is already scored it will fold easily too

• cut your inside background  3 1/2 X 5 and your Whisper White 3 1/4 X 4 3/4
• stamp your images and you are done!

Isn't it cute? And really not that hard at all! Have fun with it and enjoy your weekend!

 

Dee-Litefully Yours,

Diana

 

Sweet Treat Box

You all know that my sweet little sis is getting married and I have been busy getting organized for that. I made this box and she loved it so I am going to make a bunch (I believe 150 of them to be exact) for the candy bar they are having at the reception - how good is that going to be!

An other cute box which is going to be great for the little treats that it will hold!

• base cut 7 X 7 square
• score at 2 1/16 on all sides
• Lid, DSP 6X6
• score at 1 1/2 on all sides
• add your embellishments on the top (I used the Flower Patch stamp set at framelits, love it!)
• Ta Da a cute little box!

I am going to modify it to make smaller ones for the boys to take to school for Halloween treats - should be fun and for sure I will share that with you all too!

DeeLitefully Yours,
Diana

Artful Flower

Single layer cards are not ones that I make very often (and quite honestly in the crafting world you don't see them very often) but todays card gets two huge thumbs up from me! I LOVE it!!!

I have got to say that Work of Art is my favourite stamp set and I really encourage all of you to get it - it is so versatile! Todays card was made using only two stamps from that set. I colours I used for the flower were; Delightful Daffodil, So Saffron and Crumb Cake. I made sure to stamp off first to create a softer feel for the flower.

I then rotated the same stamp and used Wild Wasabi so make the leaves and circle of Cajun Craze for the centre. I love the depths that the colours made and how the flower seems to be popping off the page. It was so fast to make and I can't wait to whip up a few more in different colours. Have fun with shades and colours! Wouldn't this look great in reds? Hmmm, I am thinking Christmas card here ....

DeeLitefully Yours,
Diana

Blooming Birthday

LOVE LOVE LOVE this card!! Yellow is my favourite colour as it just makes me feel happy and brings a smile to my face! Todays card whipped up in now time and would just put a smile on anyone's face.

• cut two pieces of DSP (I used from Lullaby) 4 X 1 1/2 and one solid strip (Hello Honey) 4 X 1 3/4
• Blackberry Bliss 4 1/4 X 2 1/4
• Very Vanilla 4 X 2



• I used my new stamp set Flower Patch (pg 156 AC) with crumb Cake and Delightful Daffodil. I know the paper I used had Hello Honey but when I stamped with it I just found that the stamped colour was a bit to dark for this card so I chose a brighter yellow instead.
• Blackberry Bliss was used for the sentiment and used my Scallop oval punch and a few dimensionals to pop it up
• it is a bit hard to tell in the pictures but I also added rhinstones to the two centre flowers, a little extra happy for this card

Dee-Litefully Yours,

Diana

Polka Dot Birthday

Todays card I could make a million times over! Just love how it looks and how quick it all came together (well sort of!) Now the sort of comes in because it took me a bit to figure out the size to cut the DSP and I will admit I made quite a few mistakes before I got it all figured out but luckily for you that means you won't because I have done it all for you already!!

• Cut four pieces of DSP (two of each) at 2 1/2 X 2
• Crumb Cake sentiment base is 3 X 2 1/2
• Whisper White is 2 3/4 X 2 1/4
• I used the stamp set Delightful Dozen which is now retired but the Remembering Your Birthday set is very close (page 59 of Annual Catalogue)
• I then made a little ribbon tag using the crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon - what a soft flowing ribbon to use!

There you have it. Quick and easy and done. I am going to do up a batch of these in Christmas colours I will be sure to show you those as well

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Make a "new technique"

When I started off with this card I wasn't sure how I was going to like it. But I tried something new and I LOVE it!!!An other masculine card - woo hoo!! I love how the focus of the card is not right smack in the middle have it towards the top of the card just makes it a little bit different and give the whole card a different feel. The DSP is from Flashback - man am I loving this DSP pack!

The new technique that I used was sponging - and I will be honest you are going to see a lot more of it because it is easy and just gives a big punch to the card!

• take your sponge and dab it into the colour of your choice - here I used Smoky Slate
• holding the piece of paper in one hand brush the sponge down along the edge of the paper, it gives it this weathered look and adds dimension to the piece
• remember to use a different sponge for each colour so you don't get your ink pads mixed, or if you don't have enough sponges just use one sponge for each color family.

I put dimensionals on the sentiment and added a couple of pearls at the bottom, but the card just didn't feel done. So I punched out a star from Island Indigo and that was the final touch this card needed.

I hope you try out this technique because it is super fun and easy and just adds more to your simple cards.

Dee-Lited you joined me today
Diana

Splatter Thanks

This card design might look a bit familiar to you, and yes have seen it before. My Upliner Sherry gave me card like this one and I have changed it up to you use what I have. The reason I have reposted this design again was because I wanted to try out the technique of stamping right on the DSP to give it a bit more flare! Fun is what it was!

As I have said in the past I have trouble working with the DSP because 1) I find it hard to cut up the pretty paper and 2) some of them are so busy I don't know what to do with them. This paper today is from the Flashback DSP and I really loved the settle look of the paper. I took out my Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and stamped some splatters with Lost Lagoon (love this colour!) and Tangelo Twist a colour that I have never worked with before - out of my comfort zone but I think it turned out okay!A couple flags a piece of ribbon and this card was done - change up the sentiment and this would work very well for a masculine birthday card don't you think?

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Simply Hello

Crazy Wonderful

Pretty Pink

 I borrowed this card from my friend, Donna - Thank you! It is so cute and so easy too! A lot of times I don't think to leave the card base "open" for everyone to see. But some tone-on-tone stamping fills up the space very nicely! A little bit of DSP and some ribbon. Beautiful! I will also admit I have yet to make a "tag" with my Stampin stuff (bit of a heads up I will be hosting a Christmas Tag Class should be fun!) I love how she added the small tag to the front of the card - simple and sweet and adds dimension to the front.

Then, BAM, on the inside she adds an other cute tag! Wonderful! I often forget that the inside of my cards need Stampin too and this is a great way to add without always having to put a sentiment.

Great card and thank you again Donna for letting me post it!!

Dee-Lited you joined me
Diana

Perfect Life

Bermuda Bay and Delightful Daffodil - do I need to say more? This card is so sharp and really pops out at you!  Banner Framelits make the flags so easy to make!

• Cut three flags, large flag Bermuda bay, medium in DSP and smallest in Very Vanilla (I am using this colour more and more and it is really starting to grow on me)
• Stamp your sentiment, using Perfect Pennants and Bermuda Bay in
• Punch our some stars in Delightful Daffodil, put dimensionals on the back
• Add a bow the same colour as your stars
• A couple of candy dots and you are done!

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Soft and Subtle

Yes you have seen this card before but I made some minor changes and wanted to share them with you? Can you spot them???

Biggest change - colour: So Saffron and Pool Party
Small Change - ribbon I made a tail with the new cotton ribbon (man this is great stuff!)

I wanted to show you how a card can look so different just by changing a few small things. I have someone special to share this with today and I just know they are going to love it!

Dee-Litefully Yours
Diana

Circles All Around

You all by now know my motto "quick and easy!!" The easier the better as we all know with children down-time does not come easily! I had a lot of fun whipping up this card and it came together in 5 minutes!

• background colour is Crumb Cake cut at 5 3/8 X 4 1/8
• Whisper White 5 1/4 X 4
• Moonlight DSP punched with my 2 1/2" circle punch
• grabbed old faithful - Work of Art Stamp set with Lost Lagoon and Basic Grey
• finished it off with Lost Lagoon stitched ribbon (can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVE this ribbon!!)

So fast and so easy - why not see if you can whip up one today for someone??

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Choose Happiness 2

An other one from Sherry today - this card shows that you don't need a lot going on to have a beautiful card. She kept the focal point clustered together which gives punch and the Tangelo Twist and Lost Lagoon make a lovely colour combo
Sorry for the short post again today!

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

DSP Scraps

Like many of you I have scraps of paper that I save just because it might be big enough for me to use again - its using these scarps that I have trouble with!

This card came together quickly and helped to use up scraps that I had lying around. The DSP sitting on the diagonal just gives this card a little more punch.

As this month is Just Because July I didn't put a sentiment on it so now I can send it to anyone!

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

All Round Hi

Should be back from camping today - and hopefully we had a good time (I will let you all know tomorrow!) Todays card is one I am quite proud of. It came together in no time and just looks great - if I do say so myself!

If you are like me you have tons of DSP and other "pretty paper" in your stash that you just don't know what to do with. This card is a great way to showcase some of it.

• Cut your DSP and top colour (in this case Bermuda Bay) at 5 3/8 X 4 1/8
• use different size circle punches to make "holes" in your top colour.
• Punch 3/4" circles out of complimentary colours found in the DSP - here Real Red and Early Espresso
• Stamp  your sentiment on Very Vanilla (which is also my card base) and punch it out - I also layered it on Real Red just to make it pop again.

The trick to placing the top colour is to use your super handy green glue (Tom Bow), it doesn't bond instantly like the Snail Adhesive can which allows you some wiggle room for placement.

This card was fun to make and just by changing the punch shape you will change the look!

Have a Dee-Liteful Day
Diana

Basic Black

 

 Hard to believe that July is almost over! Whew! Where does the time go??
This card took no time and at all it looks so elegant doesn't it? I started with a Smoky Slate card base - something I haven't done before - I always have to remind myself that the base doesn't have to be white or vanilla. I added the two strips of Real Red on each side, Basic Black was used on the front.

I embossed the Dahalia in Silver on the front and it just pops off the page now! A ribbon in silver and a few rhinestones added just the right finishing touches. I decided not to add a sentiment to this one so it can now be used for any occasion.

I am so Dee-lighted that you joined me today!

Diana