Birthday Card

To create this card I used the Sizzix eclips & the Sizzix Cards & Envelope, Easter and Dress Ups cartridges. The card base I used First Edition Paper Animal antics 12 x 12 paper pad. I used the card page 76 (handbook) Cards & Envelope cartridge US square 4.75" x 4.75". I cut another square @ 4.75 x 4.75 cut this on the diagonal and adhered this to a strip of red card then adhered to the base of the card. Using the Sizzix eclips Dress Ups cartridge I cut the Fireman @ 3.75. This cut can be found on page 33 in the handbook. The cut for the number 2 on the fireman's helmet is from the Girl Outfits: Hockey Girl page 74 handbook Pieces feature. I stamped the face using a Sizzix Dress Up faces stamp and Memento Rich Cocoa. I adhered the fireman to the card using pop dots. I used the Sizzix eclips Easter cartridge to create the scallop. This cut can be found on page 19 in the handbook. The scallop was cut @ 2. I used Adobe Photoshop to create the Happy Birthday sentiment. This was printed on my printer and then cut out using scissors. I distressed the edges and inked around the edge with VersaColor 55 Umber. For the star in the centre of this embellishment I used a small Carl craft star punch. The Happy Birthday sentiment was adhered flat onto the scallop cut out. I used pop dots to adhere the scallop onto the card. The envelope cut can be found on page 80 Sizzix Cards and Envelope handbook. US square 10.75 edit height Assembled Size 5" x 5".

First Project using the stamp I made with the Teresa Collins Stampmaker.

To make this card I used the following items

Craft Concepts embossing folder-Budding vine

Sizzix eclips & the Sizzix eclips Cards & Envelope cartridge

Cricut Imagine & Cricut Calligraphy Collection cartridge

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels twelve cut & emboss

Copic markers & Copic airbrush

Perfect Pearls-101

Stickles-Icicle

Core'dinations (Whitewash) Color Core Card stock

Bazzill card

String small white beads & flower lace

Using the Sizzix eclips I cut the card base page 76 (handbook) @ 4.75 x 4.75 using Bazzill card. From the Core'dinations card I cut a square using the same measurement to layer ontop of the base card. The embossed square measures 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. The square with the beads attached measures 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. This square was adhered to the card using pop dots. The beads were adhered to the card using Pritt Gel glue. The stamped image was cut out and embossed using the Spellbinders Nestabilities label twelve. This was adhered flat to a square 3 x 3 inches of the Core'dinations (whitewash) card. I used a Creative memories corner punch to give each corner a decorative edge and used Perfect Pearls 101 in each of the corners. This square was adhered to the 3 1/2 inch square with the bead using pop dots. The flower lace was adhered to the card using the Pritt glue. The flourish was printed and cut @ .8 on the Cricut Imagine RGB code 239 239 239 (Bazzill Diamond) three times then glued together for a faux chipboard effect. The flourish was coated using stickles Icicle. To finish off the card I cut five threads of the beads 2 longer, 2 short equal lengths and one short length and glued them to look like a bow then adhered the flower on top using the Pritt glue. The flower was handmade using an eight petal flower cut out.

Scrapbook layout 'In the Park'

How I created the frog for this layout

Using the Sizzix Sizzle dies Nature set I cut out the frog 3 times

using brown for the base, red for the frogs tongue

and Echo Park 'A walk in the PARK' tree tops for the top layer.

I cut the top part of the red frogs head and adhered it under the

top layer making sure to overlap the tongue onto the front of the

top layer. I inked around the edge of the frog using

Versa Color 55 Umber. I put pop dots under the top part of the

frogs face to give it a 3D effect. I glued the body flat onto the

base cutout. For the frogs legs I curled the paper under. To do that

I just used my fingers to manipulate the paper the way I wanted it.

The last thing I did was to glue on the frogs eyes.