Garden gatefold envelope and cards

 Hi All, I made this fancy floral envelope with a SVG die cut from Bird at Birds Cards, stop by and say hello her work is gorgeous and she designs and offers these SVG die cuts free of charge!  I cut the SVG on my Zing and then hand cut the green liner beneath.  The card is made with an image from Crafty Secrets digital stamp set Flower Garden Set.  I took a few pictures so you could see how the card fits into the envelope.  I also wanted to show you how I changed it up using a Word tool adding the shadow to the card that says Love.  I shaded the edges in gray but the shading on the leaves was all done by a setting in Word.  I think it's pretty cool, I added the words to the picture using Word too, the cool font came with the digital set.  I also embossed the cards with a Stampin Up plate, I wish I would have thought to emboss the inside of the green envelope liners, that would have really looked cool.  Well that's it for today, thanks for stopping by and as always thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Crafty Secrets Garden Challenge Linky Party

 I made this card for the Crafty Secrets Garden challenge at their linky party.  I used some older Crafty Secrets products to stay with the garden theme, the image is from Birds and Botanicals Journal notes.  The paper I was saving, you know what a paper hoarder I am!  It is from Crafty Secrets Radiant papers, it is a 2 sided paper, you can see the reverse side on the envelope sealer under the wax paper.  Now that Crafty Secrets offers the digital products I don't have to hoard it any more, lol!  Speaking of digital products, check out the gorgeous new sets they are introducing, I am in love with this Flower Garden set!  I used my Perfect Layers Square and Rulers to get the precise layers on my card, see my sidebar for a coupon or click on my link above.  

Well that's it for today, thanks for stopping by and thank you for the wonderful comments, I don't say it enough, but I really do appreciate them.  

Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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Cute Shoes

I made this card for the Crafty Secrets Encouragement challenge over at SplitcoastStampers.  We are to keep the theme of Breast Cancer Awareness in mind also.  I used the Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps (RAK from my friend Jan).  The shoe background was printed from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff It's a Girl Thing and the sweet crown is EK Success.  I also used some  Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Pink Taffy and Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye.   I hope you all have a great weekend and don't forget to schedule your mamogram, this is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  Thanks for looking. ~Diane
I am entering this into the following challenge: 
The Craft Garden - Pink ribbon (for Breast Cancer Awareness)

Crafty Secrets Recipe Card

2 Sketches 4 You Sketch
I made this card for 2 Crafty Secrets Challenges.  For the one I co host with Jan at Paper Craft Planet, I suggested we use Crafty Secrets Designer Paper or make our own from a Crafty Secrets stamp.  I did both, I used dp from the Crafty Secrets Classic pad and I also made the print on the left with the Crafty Secrets Cupcake Party stamp set.  The challenge at Splitcoast Stampers calls for a recipe card, this one is 4 x 6.  I have had this recipe in my recipe box for about 30 years, I add it to all my wedding cards.  Sadly I do not know the Author, I wish I could give them credit for the lovely recipe.  I used Stampin Up cs and Texture Plates Kit 4,  Distressed along with Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen.

For my lay out I used the sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You.  I would love for you to join in any of these challenges as they are all a lot of fun. Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

Lovely Lady

I hope you will join Jan and I over at the Paper Craft Planet Crafty Secrets challenge group.  This week Jan chose buttons for the inspiration.  Be sure to stop by Card Patterns too, they have a lovely sketch and an awesome prize this week too!  I used a Crafty Secrets image.  The card stock, ribbon, embossing (Texturz Plate Backgrounds #1 Eyelet) punch (Sale-a-brate scallop punch and corner punch) and stamp (Elements of Style)  are all from Stampin Up.  I made the flowers using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Turquoise Blue and I distressed it all with Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

This card was inspired by these challenges: 

  Paper Craft Planet  - Crafty Secrets - Using a button. 

Split Coast Stampers  - Crafty Secrets - Distressed.

Card Patterns - Sketch

Play Date Cafe  - Color inspiration.

More Crafty Secrets Fun

                                                                                                           

I made this card for the Crafty Secrets Challenge I am co hosting on Paper Craft Planet.  It is a 2 week challenge, it runs through to June 26th, I would love for you to come join the fun there with us.  All you need for this challenge is a Crafty Secrets item and lace.   I did have a little help in making this card.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday, the color palette from Play Date Cafe and the inspiration to fray my Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps, from Mona at Cupcake's Creations.  Mona has a fun tutorial on her blog showing how to print on fabric, check it out.  The beautiful background stamp I used on the Kraft cs is a digital called School Papers from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff and the 40% off sale runs through midnight tonight.  It's on sale for just $2.39, can you believe that?  It's a steal!   Even if you don't do digitals this is a must have, you just print it on to any colored cs in Word.  I stamped the aqua cs with Stampin Up Elements of Style, I made the flower with crepe paper and Spellbinders Blossom 2, I trimmed my lace down a bit to fit and the metal charms had 4 ends which I used wire cutters to cut down to 2 to give it the visual effect I needed for the sketch.  I enjoyed making this, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch

Play Date Cafe Raspberry, Aqua, Kraft and White

Paper Craft Planet Crafty Secrets (my challenge) Crafty Secrets and Lace

Split Coast Stampers Crafty Secrets  Old, New, Borrowed or RAK (thank you  Jan)
Just Us Girls - Digital

Love is a flower

Whew!  This card gave me so much trouble!  I spent the whole week working on it!  I made it for the Crafty Secrets Challenge at Paper Craft Planet which calls for the use of pink and aqua. Shouldn't be hard but it was.   I finally found some inspiration this morning with a cute card sketch from this weeks JUGS challenge.

I used the Crafty Secrets Love and Romance image, (RAK, thank you Jan)  Stampin Up Big Shot Texturz Plate Perfect Details  pattern 1and pattern 2, Cricut Pagoda flowers, Vintage Holiday Crafts for the printed forget me not  paper, Liquid Pearls white Opal, Stickles Gold, pearl strands, feathers and Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen.  If you love Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage products we would love to have you join us on PCP, we have a group there and we do bi weekly challenges.  Thanks for looking, ~Diane

So Glad We're Friends

The challenge over at Split Coast Stampers Crafty Secrets is to use Kraft paper.  The colored image is Crafty Secrets Friendship and Flowers, a gift from my friend Jan.  Yours Truly is an image from The Graphics Fairy and the 2 beautiful printed sheets are from Elegant and Shabby Scrapbook and card papers.  This is an awesome vintage set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff MyGraphico. They print 4 to an 8 1/2 x 11 page and the vintage aged edges were already there for me.  I love this set, I bought it before I joined the dt, I could see so many uses for it.   The Kraft paper is Stampin Up and the vintage texture is Stampin Up Texture Plates Kit 4 distressed.  The iron on flower is from JoAnns, the jelly postage stamp dollar store. That's it, thanks for looking.  ~Diane

Crafty Secrets Friendship and Flowers

I made this card for the Crafty Secrets Challenge I am co hosting at Paper Craft Planet.  The challenge is Flowers,  please stop by and see what the other Crafty Secrets lovers have made.  I found this fun challenge site on my  friend Mona's blog, it is called
2 Sketches 4 You  it is hosted by Kazan Clark and Laura Davis.  I used their fab sketch to make this card, I'm not sure if I can post their sketch here, so you will have to go check it out.  I would also like to enter this into the Let your Garden Grow challenge to make  DIY flowers at Quixotic Challenges.  I actually bought the lovely little pearl centers for my flowers at Quixotic Paperie, and I am in love with them.  And last but not least my friends at Order of the Opus Gluei are hosting a challenge to use ribbon in a different way.  This is a 5 x 7 card, I used Memory Botique cs, Crafty Secrets Friendship and Flowers image, velvet ribbons and rhinestone lace are from JoAnns.  I embossed the cs with Cuttlebug A2  Japanese Scales embossing folder, I cut the flowers with Cricut Pagoda, colored them in with Niji Pearlescent Watercolor Set and set Quixotic Flat Backed Pearls - 4mm - Cappucino - in the centers.  Thanks for looking, ~Diane

05/01/10 Heartwarming Vintage/Crafty Secrets bi-weekly challenge

I made this Shadowbox for the  Heartwarming Vintage/Crafty Secrets bi-weekly challenge Jan and I are hosting at Paper Craft Planet.  If you love Crafty Secrets Products, this is the group for you!  Jan has challenged us to use a photo in our project.  This is my favorite photo of my Mother and Father in law taken while they were dating in Italy. 

I used the Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps- Family, along with the Accucut Shadow Box Portrait Designed by Vicki Chrisman.  The lace paper is Karen Foster antique lace, lace, Victoria Lynn ribbon rose, flowers and ribbon from JoAnns, heart shaped button from my button box.  I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Screens Fanciful with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Coffee Shop, and Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen.  Thanks for looking, ~Diane

More Crafty Secret Fun

This is one of the Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps that my friend Jan shared with me.  I entered this into the Crafty Secrets Sketch challenge over at Split Coast Stampers.  I really had fun making this card, I had an opportunity to use a lot of my new products and use up some of my old stash.  I am really getting hooked on Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink's, this one is Scattered Straw they are really easy to work with.    I used Anna Griffins The Wedding Studio print it yourself programs. I found them on clearance, the lovely flourish was already printed on 2 sides, I saw lots of possibility's.  I also added some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Wheatfields.  It gave me the exact shade in the Crafty Secrets Cotton Scrap.  I found a local craft store that sells card stock by the pound and it is really nice and heavy, and I love that shade of red.  I embossed with Stampin Up Big Shot Texturz Plate Perfect Details another of my new favorites.  I also used Stampin Up Big Shot Texturz Plate Backgrounds #1.  I have had the ribbon forever, it is actually bright white but the Ranger ink took care of that. I love the button I used, it's vintage and the tiny plastic faux pearls are naturally yellowed.  Thanks for looking, ~Diane

Heartwarming Vintage Crafty Secrets challenge at PCP

Good Morning, I made this gift card holder for the Heartwarming Vintage Crafty Secrets challenge I am co-hostessing at Paper Craft Planet.  I am so excited that Jan invited me to co-hostess the bi-weekly challenges there and this is my first challenge!  This challenge is to create a gift card holder, since Mothers Day, Fathers Day and Graduations are almost here, I'm sure they won't go to waste!  It can be made out of card stock or metal, anything you like, just as long as you use Heartwarming Vintage/Crafty Secrets product.  I would love to see some of you join in the challenge there, here is the link. 

I used the Crafty Secrets French Labels Sticker to make my gift card holder.  The paper is  DCWV The Sweet Stack, Liquid Pearls White Opal and Blue Moon Madame Delphine's collection jewelery for the sweet little hand mirror.  I also used Ranger's Tim Holtz Distress Ink in broken china.  Thanks for looking, ~Diane