Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you like today's card. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you like today's card. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B.
Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I created a Christmas card for today's post based on a sketch and other challenge prompts.
I love that Lawn Fawn came up with stitching patterns to be used with their Embroidery Hoop die. I stitched the Cozy Cocoa Pattern for this card. I changed the colors of some of the embroidery flosses since I don't have all of the suggested colors. I modified the pattern by adding a holly to the mug.
I worked on the card base after I was done stitching. I added the sketch that I followed for this card at the end of this post. I used a Simon Says Stamp Graceful Holly 3D embossing folder on an emerald green cardstock. I applied color to the berries and leaves using Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.
For the center reverse triangle, I cut a Lawn Fawn holly pattern paper. I outlined these triangle with a gold Pebbles Merry Christmas washi tape which I adhered to a white cardstock first before adhering it to the sides of the the reversed triangle.
I die cut a stitched scallop frame using the Altenew Scalloped Circles die on a red cardstock and adhered this over the stitched panel. I adhered this to the bottom portion of the triangle.
I hope you like today's card. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B.
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Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's project was created for a friend, Linda, whose dog, Ollie, crossed the rainbow bridge. She has a vial encasing a snip of her dog's hair. She requested me to create something special with it.
I got this project's idea from a similar project I created for her a few years ago (More Cricut Cut Elves). I used my Cricut to create this dog. Luckily, there is a Bichon Frise file cut image in Cricut Design Space.
The image cuts the outline of the dog. I used the CDS Contour feature to create a solid cut for the backing of the dog. I also used this feature to create separate cuts for the dog's eyes, nose, lip and tongue so I can cut these pieces on a different colored cardstock.
Most of the pieces were cut on white cardstock. Without separating the positive and negative cuts of the dog, I colored the dog with gray Copic markers to add dimension to the dog. I adhered this to the solid dog piece.
I pieced in the eyes, the nose, the lips and the tongue to the digital cut. These pieces, except for the tongue, were cut on black cardstock. The tongue was cut on pink cardstock.
I added a heart to my Cricut Canvas. I resized this so it fits the dog's chest and it will fit the width of the vial.
To make it personalized, I added Ollie's name and today's year to the heart with the use of a foil pen. Cricut has a foiling pen accessory but I don't have one. Instead, I used the We R Memory Keepers Foil Quill tool to write on the heart.
Here is a link to the CDS file I used for this project, https://design.cricut.com/landing/project-detail/6557d2a6e00233f83add70a3, in case, you are interested.
It brings me joy when I make someone happy with my creations, especially if it is custom made. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day.
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Maria Giselle B.
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Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's cards were created as part of my AECP 3 journey. The course I am showcasing in today's project is from the course Stunningly Styled Stencils. I chose the technique Jenny demonstrated in her class on Dry Embossing with Stencils.
Yes! You can emboss with stencils. The impression is not as obvious as one made with an embossing folder but if you look closer at the finished product, you will see the impression created by the stencil. You can feel the subtle impression created by the stencil when you run your fingers on the embossed impression. I did my best to capture impression on photo by the stencil. I hope you can appreciate it.