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Technique Tuesday | I Heart You

March 18, 2013 by Nancy Nally Leave a Comment

And we had one more project hiding, so here’s a bonus day of Technique Tuesday feature week for you! Designer Kathy Martin worked with the I Love You Seal stamp set from the Signed, Sealed, Delivered series of stamps.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered consists of 13 seal designs and two Seal Companion sets that they can be assembled with to turn them into ribbon badges. The seals are great on their own, as Kathy shows here, or assembled into the ribbons.

Kathy made her stamped image appear to be a coordinated embellishment of the paper collection she used by stamping the image right onto one of the patterned papers. And speaking of embellishments – did you notice the blue card with the frame in it? It’s part of a sheet of patterned paper from the Chilled Cucumber Soup collection that has 3×4 cards on one side of it.

Supplies | Stamps: Technique Tuesday (I Love You Seal). Patterned Papers: Jillibean Soup (Chilled Cucumber Soup). Button: Prima. Jute: May Arts. Pearls: My Mind’s Eye.

Designer: Kathy Martin

Kathy Martin resides in North Carolina with her husband Dan and her son Christopher. She’s been paper crafting since 2001, and is currently on design teams for Bella Blvd, Doodlebug Designs, Love My Tapes, and Pebbles. When she’s not playing with paper she enjoys reading, cooking, baking, antiquing, crochet and cat naps. Read more about Kathy on her blog, Card-Blanc.

Filed Under: Card Annex, Play Tagged With: Jillibean Soup, Kathy Martin, May Arts, My Minds Eye, Prima, Technique Tuesday, Technique Tuesday feature

My Mind’s Eye | Thanks

March 10, 2013 by Terri Davenport Leave a Comment

Terri Davenport is here today to bring us the final installment of our My Mind’s Eye feature week highlighting their new CHA Winter 2013 collections! Today, we are highlighting the Boy Crazy collection once again in this fun “thank you” card.

Balloons are trendy, and this one makes a great makeshift banner to carry our card’s sentiment on. The blue literally pops off the card and highlights the gracious message!

To balance the visual weight of the chipboard piece, Terri layered twill and baker’s twine at the bottom for an interesting piece of texture. It also covers the seam between the two patterned papers to keep it from looking awkward.

Supplies | Cardstock: Core’dinations. Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye “Boy Crazy” (Point the Way). Chipboard: My Mind’s Eye (Boy Crazy). Alphabet Stickers: Simple Stories. Twill: Stampin’ Up!. Baker’s Twine: unknown.

Designer: Terri Davenport

Terri Davenport has been paper crafting since 1995. She is currently a creative team member with Designer Digitals and Ta Da Creative Studios. Terri teaches digital scrapbooking classes locally at Owens Community College She has won several contests including Creating Keepsake’s Hall of Fame and Paper Crafts World Card Making Day contests. Terri lives in Toledo, OH with her husband, four sons and dog. Since even the dog is male, her blog is appropriately titled Outnumbered.

Filed Under: Card Annex, Play Tagged With: Coredinations, My Mind's Eye Feature, My Minds Eye, SImple Stories, Stampin' Up, Terri Davenport

Simple Hearts

March 9, 2013 by Deena Ziegler 1 Comment

What could be better than an afternoon creating with My Minds Eye! I’m seeing trends towards simplified designs and that fits my style perfectly. I excuted simplicity by cutting several die-cut hearts from patterend paper from the Collectable collection. I lined the hearts up tops to bottoms in two rows. Just for a little interest I added pop dots to one heart on the top row. I didn’t want to cover up the hearts so I chose some thin twine and a simple black button to make it all pop! Personally I’ve been challenging myself to make some cards that are suitable for giving to the guys in our lives. Below you’ll find a card for the guys… no hearts, no flowers.

As always it was a pleasure to work with the quality papers and products that My Minds Eye so predictably releases each and every year!

Supplies | Cardstock: Petersen Arne. Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye “Collectable” (Remarkable – Grin, Remarkable – Dates, Remarkable – Beam, Remarkable – Grace, Remarkable - Delightful). Stamps: Stampavie (Celebrate). Twine: Divine Twine. Buttons (unknown).

Designer: Deena Ziegler

Deena Ziegler has been a crafter for as long as she can remember. Her Mom, Grandma, and Aunts were always crafting up some project and they were happy to teach her everything they knew. Baking, sewing, needlework, you name it, they did it! As a young mom Deena became a professional crafter, and now she works at Sizzix as a Craft Designer, teaches card making classes, teaches online at My Creative Classroom, and owns and operates a small card kit business – and she blogs all about it. Deena enjoys finding ways to be creative in daily life by repurposing, giving handmade and creating with her daughters.

Filed Under: Card Annex, Play Tagged With: Deena Ziegler, Divine Twine, My Mind's Eye Feature, My Minds Eye, Stampavie

My Mind’s Eye | Life is Good with You Around

March 9, 2013 by Nancy Nally Leave a Comment

The next installment in our My Mind’s Eye feature week comes from Card Annex designer Sharon Callis! Today, Sharon is highlighting part of the new Collectable collection that was introduced at CHA Winter 2013.

The lovely paper flowers were handmade by Sharon from paper scraps! It’s a great way to make custom embellishments that are just perfect for your card.

Layering dark patterned paper behind the die-cut cutouts created a jeweled effect in the die cut! Sharon also emphasized the ede of her sentiment panel by inking the edges with a soft rose ink – Tim Holtz’a Tattered Rose Distress Ink. The sentiment panel is a 3×4 card cut from a patterned paper, but Sharon customized it by punching the corners.

Supplies | Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye “Collectable” (Charm, Pleasant, Journal, Tale). Adhesive: Xyron (Mega Runner, Glue Stick, Creative Station). Die: Spellbinders (A2 Floral Ribbon Threader Nestabilities). Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz Distress (Tattered Rose).

Designer: Sharon Callis

Sharon Callis lives in Ireland and has been a crafter for over twenty years. In 2011, Sharon was named ‘Cardmaker of the Year’ by Cardmaking and Papercraft/ Quick Cards made Easy’ Magazines in the UK. Sharon’s work has been featured in publications such as Creative Cardmaking, Papercraft Essential, Create and Craft TV, Cardmaking and Papercraft as well as on various craft companies Facebook pages and blogs. She currently designs for Xyron, gel-a-tins and Little Yellow Bicycle. In addition to her passion for papercrafts, Sharon also likes to do a wide variety of crafts: knit, sew, cross stitch, machine embroider, plastic canvas, costume design, woodcraft, dollshouse miniatures, sketching, home decor, model making and baking. To learn more about her,visit her blog.

Filed Under: Card Annex, Play Tagged With: Distress, My Mind's Eye Feature, My Minds Eye, Ranger, Sharon Callis, Spellbinders, Tim Holtz, Xyron

Happy Birthday With Love

March 8, 2013 by Evgenia Petzer Leave a Comment

It’s Evgenia, back with more of Card Annex’s feature week of My Mind’s Eye! This card is from My Mind’s Eye’s new “Collectable” collection.

When I work with bright papers I prefer to focus on using not more then 3 main colors. It is always much easier to work with one collection, where the designers do all the hard work for you and the papers match perfectly.

Don’t forget about playing with your sewing machine, with using colorful threads you can add more fun to your project!

By using dies like this butterfly, you can make your card more dimensional and appealing. Felt is a great way to add texture to a die.

Supplies | Patterned Papers: My Mind’s Eye “Collectable” (Unforgettable:New, Unforgettable:Fresh, Unforgettable:Remember). Tags: Chic Tags (Love Note Artist, Love Note Phrases). Washi Tape: Freckled Fawn. Brads: My Mind’s Eye (Sunny Day). Dies: Papertrey Ink. Felt: Papertrey Ink. Pearls: Wild Orchid Crafts.

Designer: Evgenia Petzer

Evgenia Petzer is from Russia. She describes South Africa, where she moved about 2 years ago, as “the most beautiful country that I have ever seen” where she can enjoy the sun almost every day. Evgenia has a 4 year old son, that is her inspiration. She started as a scrapbooker, but now mainly creates cards in her signature detailed, romantic style. Currently, Evgenia designs for Melissa Frances, Tattered Angels, Bo Bunny Designs, OUAS blog and a SOE kit club, and also works part time as a child & family photographer. To learn more about her, check out her personal blog.