Sympathy Cards

Hi Everyone,

Hope all is well and enjoying your day.

My mother wanted my to create several different cards for some relatives that lost their mother (which was my mother's only remaining aunt from her father's side)

Completed front.

 Spellbinders

The Hydrangea is from the Walk In My Garden cricut cartridge. 

Sprits the lavender cardstock with two glimmer mists 

Mel's Diner & Puerto Rico

 The little "pearls" are the inside of flowers were done with
Viva Decor Perlen-Pen #201 (I thought it was "pearl pen" but that one is spell like that on the label)
Still working on more cards for her.
She wants them to be able to be mailed plus they're going out of the country...
So I can't make them bulky or too 3D

I've shown this Spellbinders technique that I learned for a couple of gals on YouTube

 Here is the completed front

This is the inside- left some room for her to write something if she wants.

 This is the Calla Lily
araceae stamp from PSX K-1696
I pop-dotted it just for a little dimension- not too much.

 Full front

Here is another card with the same stamp but here I tried
some "real stitching" I love it- still need practice on sewing straight.

I paper pieced the calla lilies to make them "pop" by contrast of color rather
than using pop dots.

Little too much flash but I finished the card at night and had the
worst lighting ever- so I used the flash.

I didn't want to do anything too fancy to the inside but inked a
little part of the same stamp I used on the front of the card and used it
here as well for to add a little interest.

This is my aunt with one of her horses (one of many farm animals).

Thanks for stopping by.
Hope you like them.

Hugs,

Katya Bess

Thank You Cards

Good evening everyone,

Just wanted to share a card I did a little while ago and haven't had a chance to post it. Hope you like it.

My brother Francisco wanted a thank you card for a counselor/mentor. I used Spellbinders Rose Creations to make the rose. I used a quote and poem by Leo F. Buscaglia.

Front of the card

you can see some of the dimension here from my Spellbinders Roses 

and foliage. The butterfly is from one of my Martha Stewart Cricut Cartridges. so is the lattice fence which I used two to weld together and then had to cut a few little pieces with an x-acto knife.

The front again slightly different lighting

That's a stamp I had which is what you can see through the lattice fence 

from the front.

Added more paper to the back to add more weight 

since the front of the card is so heavy from the roses I made. 

Thanks for visiting. Hope you enjoyed looking around. 

-Katya 

Happy World Card Making Day

Hello Everyone and Happy World Card Making Day!!!

All day I've been on The Greeting Farm Release Chatter Day which is at Splitcoasters now and I'm a newbie there too. I've been on bloghops, dealing with my kids and making cards --- wheew no housework. Oh yea, I take that back... I did wash clothes at 7:00AM-ish but that was it because I was determined to get some cards done today.

This one I'm entering on http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2011/10/christmas-card-challenge.html

Here you can see the items I used to color and cut my digi stampCheeky Kitty from The Greeting Farm

http://thegreetingfarm.com/new-products/chibi-farm-helper-digi.html

Here's a close up of the colored image - a little bid of bad lighting though.

 For the Christmas background specialty paper I used K&Company: Yuletide

I typed my own sentiment. All I want for Christmas is Santa's bad boy list

I also typed the "scroll" for Santa's Naughty list with bad boy character names 

from" Being Human, True Blood and Twilight lol Can't you tell I'm a Vampire

and Warewolf tv show fan?

Okay, for the fireplace and for the Poinsettia I used Cricut Cartridge Joys of the Season.

I really hope you gals and guys liked my card. It's a little more for the nice but sometimes naughty ;)

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully everyone is have a fun time!

*hugs* 

Katya Bess

Encouragement card for 1 of my brother's

Hi everyone,

Hope all is well with you. Yes, I have been M.I.A. but I have been working on some projects (squeezing some in mommy life and daughter's school time.) I haven't been too lazy on crafting I promise ;)

The card here is almost finished but just wanted to take a pix before I made any changes... which I didn't make much in the end.

He is the finished card. I didn't make too many changes as you can see.
I just added a small tag with his name (I cut that out by hand, didn't feel like
looking for a tag to cut and power my Cricut.) Added a charm that reads
"HAND made with LOVE"

The Rose dies are from Spellbinder's Donna Salazar's Rose Creations Die

The rose leaves are also from Spellbinder's and the die is from the Foliage set

My "brother's doll is from Cricut's Paper Doll dress Up cartridge (I trimmed off the cheeks/jaw 

because I don't like the big cheeks all of the time plus my bro has a skinny face. lol)

The iron fence is from Cricut Ornamental Iron cartridge. I love all of the intricate designs but 

what sucks it's cleaning up all the left overs on the mat... so if you have a second mat just 

have it ready so it won't slow you down if you're on a "crafting roll" :)

The face stamps are from Peachy Keen Stamps. 

This is the back of the card

it's a Spellbinder's Shapeabilities Dies Ribbon Tag Trio 2 

I just cut the the part that you stick the ribbon in off. 

The wording was done on Open Office but I'm sure 

someone can do it with Microsoft Word.

Side view of the card just so you can see the dimension.

Thank you so much for stooping by. I know I posted it late on my blogspot.

Have a great night.

Katya Bess

Thank you & Breast Cancer Cards

Good afternoon,

I completed this card along with the 50th birthday card and a breast cancer card but hadn't had a chance to post all of them on the same day. I used the exact Rose stamp.

I was trying to mix two different reds... I won't next time...

 I pre-dated the card... shhhh don't tell.

And that's the back

For the breast cancer card I used the lacey squares instead. Also, I "messed up" on the cutting with the spellbinders die... but I wasn't going to throw it away- heccccck no! took me a while to color all three sets of roses lol I just cut around the entire flower and separated the bud and budding rose from the big one then popped dot the big rose. 

I bought these cute little heart charms that say "Hand Made with Love" but didn't have the baker's twine everyone is using these days... so I just used that skinny ribbon I got on sale from Michael's (a long time ago)

Here's where I popped dotted that rose

Well my friends, I hope you like my cards. 

Until later... (last minute working on my hubby's Father's Day card)

Have a good one.

Katya Bess

50th Birthday Card

Good morning everyone,

Been missing from my own blogspot but I have been creating :)

I've also been busy buying stamps from eBay - Some where good deals and I have to admit some not so much (at least not for my liking but I loved the stamps) I need to stop before I use up all of my spare change. 

This card is made with a Rubber Stampede: Rose A1670G 

The Sentiment is from Netty's Cards: 50th Birthday

http://nettyscards.blogspot.com/2011/04/patsy-beachtime-and-lots-of-freebies.html

Materials used

 Then

 I learned this from watching YouTube videos I saw about 3 of them... lol

 Here's what you get 

 Closed the blinds and turned on artificial lights so you can see the shimmer from my 

Sakura gelly roll Stardust Clear pen

Lights off and back to natural light...

Thanks for stopping by.

-

Peachy Keen Stamps :: Sketch Challenge 51 w/ a Twist

 Hello Everyone,

Hope everyone is having a great night. I just finished my card to enter at Peachy Keen Stamps :: Sketch Challenge 51 w/ a Twist.

Original PKS Stamp

Just a little doodling and coloring on my note pad and came up with a clown face. 

The more I use PKS face stamps the more my imagination flows.

Here is the girl's face or it could have been a boy with a different hair do.

made a little pair just for fun -the boy I will use for another project

 The little boy clown will go on my nephew's 3rd birthday card. Happy 3rd Birthday Johnathan)

Hopefully he's not scared of clowns

Here's the finished girl "Payasita"

I like how my bug came out

Aww 6x6 card itsn't big enough for it to show my bug entirely but it's okay this time.

Look who is peeking...

Another shot of the finished card

The card is for my friend Nancy -one of her nicknames is "Payazita" she spells it different but that's my girl :)

Whew I barely made it to posting on PKS site.

Hope you like it. Thank you very much for visiting.

Crafty hugs and wishes

Your crafty friend,

Katya Bess

My Pink Stamper's NSD Challenge # 9

Challenge #9--Use Glitz, Glam and Glitter in your project!


Good Evening Everyone!

Here is my idea of glitz, glam and glitter :) Since it's National Scrapbook Day this is what I came up with when I saw the title. LOL.

What kind of scrapbook or card maker that happens to be a glitter lover won't have Stikles?

The glitz & glam was with the black dress, I was going to go with a hot pink... I think I should stuck to the pink but maybe next time. Then I added a shimmery clear Studio G glitter glue

 (I wish they'd name their colors)

here you can see the difference of the black dress from the area I started to glitz up.

Standing card

Better view

For my dolls "long hair I just welded 2 together one being upside down... the girl is supposed to be me and my hair goes down to my boo-tay lol

I actually found this quote by accident but I love it, "Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins" 

by Paris Hilton . LOL So not related to scrapbooking - I think -- but that quote matched my card.

The Stikles bottles and Studio G bottles are actually baby bottles from New Arrival Cart. LOL.

Thanks for checking out my page I hope you had fun.

Crafty hugs and wishes,

Katya Bess