Sweet Pea Tu Tu Cute Plus A Giveaway!!

This darling image is by artist Lisa Victoria for Sweet Pea Stamps. It is Plate #61 "Dragon Ballerina"

and you can find it by clicking below:

Sweet Pea Stamps

I began by running a hot pink paper thru the Cuttlebug, using one of the animal prints.

After rounding the corner I layered that onto the green base card (by Paper Temptress).

Then I stamped the dragon image on white paper and cut a mask for it. I airbrushed the background

after cutting it into an oval shape.

Then I cut a shape by Spellbinders "Fancy Tags" and stamped the words and popped it.

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Marvelous Metal!

This card was pretty quick and easy to do.

I began with a piece of metallic cardstock that I smooshed some

alcohol reinkers over, blending as they ran.

After allowing to dry I ran it through the Cuttlebug, then trimmed and layered.

I ran some ribbon behind before affixing to the red base.

I stamped the heart (unknown) and used some mica

flakes/gold leafing, but the scanner refuses to pick up the

metallic sheen so you will have to imagine that.

I trimmed it and popped on top and tied a bow on the ribbon.

I think it could serve for much more than Valentines Day don't you?

Watercolor Meets Cuttlebug

This card began with smearing dye re-inkers

here and there, allowing to dry and then running thru the Cuttlebug and embossing.

After matting I stamped the verse by Penny Black

and the butterfly by 

Annette Watkins.

There you have it.  And to think at first I was going to toss that background.

Cuttlebug Baby Card

On the outside this card has no stamping, but the sentiment:

"Life is tough when your bottle's

empty and your diaper's full"

on the inside is by Darcie's.

I know you can't see it, but I know it's there.

I had to make a card for a baby shower for our neighbor who just had their first child.

I ran some Cryogen paper thru the Cuttlebug with the baby folder and then swiped some pink ink over it.

I added a metal diaper pin brad with some light pink sheer ribbon tied on and put that all on a pink base.

I am watching g-kids again this weekend so it had to be something pretty quick!

Grandson's Baptism Today

Today is my grandson's baptism and here is the card I made for him.

It is fairly simple since I have been watching another grandson this week and didn't have much free time to make anything more elaborate.

I ran a light blue panel through the Cuttlebug with the baby folder and cut a Spellbinder Fancy Tag for my sentiment (by Hampton Arts).

I got the verse a little crooked but figure my grandson won't notice....lol

Added some jewels by Momenta and figured it was finished.

Sometimes less is more and this was one of those times.

AAA Double Cuttled

This was a quick 'n easy card.  I ran a white panel thru the Cuttlebug and swiped ink over the raised parts.  Then I ran the same panel thru the 'Bug again with a different folder and swiped different colored ink over that for my background.  If you look closely you can see both designs and both colors.
I stamped the About Art Accents image on a white scrap and layered that with like colors for my focal image.
TaDa!  Finished in 5 minutes or less!!

Cuttlebug Background

This card uses a Cuttlebug background. I ran it thru the Swiss Dots folder and swiped lightly over the embossing with a purple inkpad to give it more depth and bring out the dots.
The image is by About Art Accents. I cut it out and layered it onto some mulberry paper that was torn to fit (more or less). The (hopefully hidden) oops in this card is the mulberry paper got stuck when I ran it thru my Xyron and sort of got whacked out of shape....

I had fun doing this simple, yet striking, card. Hope you like it.

Merry Christmas! (aka TJN - Holiday Blogstravaganza)

Here is a card I made using the Cuttlebug Highlights Technique from the Oct '08 issue of TJN

This is also an "economical card" in that I used a color cardstock for the base which does not open, rather the smaller overlaid white piece is the actual card itself. This enabled me to get 4 cards from one sheet of colored (more expensive) rather than only 2. This was necessary since this card is my Christmas card this year and I needed to make 50 of them.

I stamped the snowflake image several times in different blues, then ran the piece thru the Cuttlebug and ran another blue ink pad over the embossed images. This adds lots of dimension. A little ribbon, some punched flakes and it's done!

Stamps are by PSX and Endless Creations

Be sure to check out Pat's blog: The Technique Trail for more Blogstravaganza!

TJN Holiday Blogstravaganza

This card uses the TJN Technique "Frosted Glass" from Dec '02 and a brass stencil by Heritage Handcrafts. I cut the "glass" into a large circle to represent an ornament and tied some glitzy fibers from the top. Background is a shiny piece of silver mirror cardstock run thru my Cuttlebug. As simple as it gets!

Check out Check out Pat's blog: The Technique Trail for more Blogstravaganza!

TJN - Holiday Blogstravaganza

This card uses the TJN Technique "Cuttlebug Smoosh" from Oct '07. I used a light blue ink to give the background some definition, but not overpower it.

Stamp used by Great Impressions . I cut out the center of the large O and centered it over an embossed snowflake.

Check out Pat's blog: The Technique Trail for more Blogstravaganza and thanks for looking.

Cuttlebug Birthday

I needed a card for a first birthday and needed it now. So I turned to my Cuttlebug of course. I ran a paper thru with the number embossing folder & went over the letter one lightly with a marker to highlight it, punched the corners & layered it.
Then I added the sentiment (savvystamps) to a matching paper with a cute metal brad embellishment over the top. Done!

Now I am off to my grandson's first birthday party, card in hand!

Cuttle Card

I was trying to see if I could use a Cuttlebug embossing folder selectively here. Just simply placing the portion I wanted to emboss inside the folder and letting the other part out, it worked fine.
I embossed part of the front with the "Autumn Leaves" embossing folder and ran a dye ink pad lightly over the top to give a slight tint of color, then stamped 3 delightful pumpkin images by Firecracker Designs By Pamela adding some thin crinkly gold wire for vine tendrils.

Cuttlebug Card

I stamped this card and ran it through my Cuttlebug, then swiped ink across gently to add color to the tops of the embossed areas only. It really adds lots of depth IRL.
All images by Quietfire Design