Dazzled Flower

I got crap last week for ignoring my blog, so I thought I'd try harder. I might not type much, but I do actually have things that I can share, so I will try to do at least that.

I've been actually working through my journaling book (the one I posted about last week or the week before). I am LOVING it. I bought a little journal and I already have a ton of notes about stuff to journal and write about.

We were decorating the tree on Saturday and I asked the kids about their favorite Christmas Traditions, so I will definitely be doing a page about that for this years Christmas pages.

I'm finding myself quite inspired. What I seem to be lacking is time to do something with the inspiration. I can't seem to get everything, can I??

Anyway, here is a card from my last Quick Cards class. I love how simple it is, but how the Dazzles make the flowers pop.



My next Quick Cards class will be Thursday, January 5, 2012 from 12:30 - 2:30 pm. Let me know if you are interested in attending.

Peace Card

I loved my calendar page so much, that I wanted to create a card based on it. I didn't, however, want to cut stuff out with the Cricut for it; I just wanted to use stamps.

I did the same basic layout, but I reversed my colours for the script background and used Aged Mahogany and then stamped a flower on top using Versafine Onyx Black. I added a couple silver Dazzles to the centre of the bigger flowers. Then I just used a small stamp in the bottom right corner.

Overall, I really like it. It's so simple. I really like how the Dazzles just finish it. They're flat, so easy to mail, but they have so much dimension.

CASE'd Flower

Kayla had a birthday party to go to yesterday and so she needed to make a card. She wanted to cut some flowers out with the Cricut and layer them onto her card. So, we grabbed the Accent Essentials cartridge and started cutting. When it was all done, I was very impressed with how it turned out.

Fast forward to today and I needed to make a card, so I case'd my daughter's flower card. I made a few changes, but for the most part, the design was hers. She thought it was very cool that I copied one of her cards.

I cut out three flowers; one at 4" one at 3.5" and one at 3". They were kind of plain, so I stamped the background stamp from Tim Holtz' "I See Paris" set (I use this background all the time). Then I inked the edges of each flower using my little dauber and it helped differentiate the layers. Then I used pop dots to adhere the different flowers and added a brad in the middle. I wanted to add a little bit more, so I used some of my little Dazzles to go around the center and I loved it. I added the leaves and I was done.

Razzle Dazzle Colleen

It was my friend Colleen's birthday a few weeks ago and I was a bad friend and hadn't made her card. After I unpacked all my new product the other day, I was totally motivated to use some of it.

Here is her card:


The butterflies are made out of modeling film which I had never heard of. I saw it as a new product, so I added it to my order and I LOVE it. It is really so cool! I have it in a clear and black. You cut it (I used the Tim Holtz Butterflies die) and then I stamped in Silver Staz On and heat set it a bit. Then you heat the film (it's actually quite thick) with a heat gun and manipulate and mold it until it cools. If it isn't what you want, heat it again and move it some more. When it cools, it holds its shape. I was very happy with how the butterflies turned out. The saying is from the new Tim Holtz set: Stuff to Say.


Another new product I ordered were Dazzles. They're kind of like the jewels that are so popular, but they're more of a flat sticker. Each sheet has 3 different sizes and I think 540 Dazzles. You peel of the negative and save it for some future use and then you can use the little metallic dots for embellishing. I used the mini ones to create a trail behind the butterflies. They look very cool in person.

Here is what the sheets look like with the negative peeled off (sorry the picture isn't very good; they're so shiny it's hard to get a good photo).


I ordered several colours: Silver, Gold, Blue, Purple, Red & Green. Here are what some of the other colours look like:
They're very economical too at $2.25/sheet. I only have a few sheets right now since I wasn't sure what they were and if people would be interested in them. If there is enough interest, I'll stock more of them.