Work of Art - Tag Punch

Work of Art Rainbow

Work Of Art - Its a boy

Fun Fold Friday - Tag Card

Flower Patch for You

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

My Birthday Boy

 

First off a big happy birthday to my Little Big Sis - Martha! I love you and I miss you!!! Hugs and kisses!!!

 

 I have been having fun create my own card designs instead of CASEing other peoples (which don't get me wrong is great but it is satisfying making my own!)I am looking forward to sharing a number of my original designs!

 

 I made this card for my oldest son who turned 7 yesterday. Can you guess what he loves??

It was quick and easy and the "hardest" part was putting the circles on the Lego pieces. I cute card for a very cute boy!

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

Hubby Birthday!

Today is my hubby, Don's birthday! He is turning the big 3-5! Not only does he work hard to support the five of us, keep all the vehicles running and in working order, fix anything that breaks in the house, he is also my best friend and biggest supporter of my hobbies. I love this man with all my heart so I had to make a special card for him!

This card is my own design - I am so proud of it and LOVE how it looks!! As you know, Don is a man of many trades so I designed this card with his work clothes in mind - cargo pants, lol. I made two of them because I want to keep one on file to show for sales purposes (if you would like some cards made just email me and I will give you a quote!)

 It really came together quickly and it is such a masculine card! One of my cards that I am most proud of I have got to say!

 I bought the Scallop Tag Punch in my last order and wanted to use it for something. I can be honest and say I haven't tackled tags yet, but this was a good start. I sponged the edge of the paper to give it "worked" look and a few dots just helped to fill in the empty space.

 I only had the one piece big enough of the brown DSP which is from the Parklane pack. So I stamped on the DSP from Flashback with my Gorgeous Grunge stamp set - it made me think of paint splatter - and other "worked" look

I hope you enjoyed all the pics today and I know that my Sweetie will love this card - it will be a shocker as I usually show him ALL the cards I make but he won't see this one until today!

Happy Birthday Don! I love you and I know you will all love this card

DeeLitefully Yours,
Diana

Card Holder

I have been spending a lot of time making cards lately and have decided to try my hand at making 3D projects. They are just as fun as cards and I love how they can be practical too!! This card box is a perfect example of that, I got the instructions from Pootles.com a great demonstrator from England. It fits 6-8 cards with envelopes depending on the embellishments used on your cards. I am going to make some more so I have somewhere to store my cards!  

Here are the dimensions you will need and have fun with it!

• card stock 8 1/4 X 11
• score along the long edge at 5 1/4 and 7
• score along the short edge at 1 3/4 and 6 1/2
• fold it all up and add your DSP 3 1/2 X 12 scored at 1 7/8, 3 5/8, 8 3/8, and 10 1/4

* the DSP will not fit all away around the box but you won't see the back so that is okay!
Embellish as you like!

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

Happy Birthday Cutie

With todays card I just started playing with paper and this card took shape, I loved it so much that I had to make it in two versions so I thought why not a "boy" card and a "girl" card. I love, love, love how they turned out so lets get to it!

• Background colour cut at 5 3/8 X 4 1/8 and I scalloped the bottom edge
• Lullaby DSP was cut 5 X 4, I stamped a few balloons on the DSP with the same colour as my background

• I used an other piece of Lullaby DSP 4 1/4 X 2
• A 2 1/2" circle was punched out in then the image was stamped using the Little Buddy Birthday and then punched out with the 1 3/4" circle punch
• Ta da you are done! A great card for a little friend!

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

A Wedding Thank You

Today is a BIG day! I will be getting my Holiday catalogue pre-order today! The Holiday Catalogue is AMAZING and I can't wait to start creating and sharing some of the great new products coming out! But lets get on with the card!

My little sister - Catherine - is getting married and I will be making the Save the Dates, wedding invites and thank you cards - don't worry I will be posting about this adventure while it is under way. Cath and I are still hashing out details with the invites but she has chosen this style for her thank you cards, so I have started to make them up for her. Don't they look so elegant? The colours she has chosen are similar to Elegant Eggplant and Bermuda Bay so half of everything will be in those two colours. This card was actually quite quick to put together. I ran the Elegant Eggplant through the Big Shot with the swirls envelop (which isn't stampin up I am afraid but we all have items in our craft rooms from different places right?) cut them into the flags then added the white and black strip a quick stamp and it was done.

Quick tip: I used my hexagon punch to make the flags! This way I would insure that they were all even and looked the same - I will be sure to post pictures of how you do that in the next few days - once I have the hubby home to hold the camera while I am doing it lol!

Dee-Litefully Yours,
Diana

If you would like me to mail you out a catalogue send me an email and I will be sure to get it out to you! Ordering starts on Aug 28 so don't wait!!

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

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