Vintage Style Masculine Graduation Card

Hello everyone,

This is going to be a very quick post, just to show you one of the cards I made today:

This is a card for a graduate of a school for 3D computer graphics for computer games and movies. I went with a camera and TH Lost and Found cardstock that has a movie themed vintage design.

I used a minimal amount of embellishment since I truly think that masculine cards should have that clean look.

I made an envelope for the card from TH Lost and Found 12 x 12 sheet and added a wax seal just to give it some extra vintage look. The seal is made with a pirate coin we got in San Diego "Pirate Store" while on vacation several years ago :) I used Vintage Photo distress ink on all pieces added to this card for some extra vintage feel...

I would love to enter this card into following challenges:

Frilly and Funkie "Boy oh Boy"

Paperminutes #429 Card for a Man

Emerald Creek Dares "Anything Goes"

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UPDATE:

04/21/2016 Top 3 at Emeral Dreek Dares

04/25/2016 Winner of the Frilly and Funkie Boy oh Boy Challenge!!! I finally cracked that cookie!!!!

Scrapy Land Challenge #39 Anything Goes

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It is time for a new challenge at Scrapy Land Blog with Anything Goes theme, as long as you use dies that Scrapy Land Store carries...
Here is what I made for the challenge:

I used the Spellbinders embossing folder Shady Allure for my background...

The flowers were made using Spellbinders Rose Creation and Spellbinders D-Lites Blooms Three.I learned from Becca how to make these flowers. The flower arrangement with leaves from Impression Obsession was placed on a Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Fourty Three die cut attached to the base with Spellbinders Moroccan Accents die cut.

Then when you flip it open you see the sentiment Sue Wilson Scripted Happy Birthday die cut.

The shabby bow was made with pink and white seam binding ribbon decorated with a jumbo pearl...

And I made a matching box for the card....

Now it is your turn to  join our challenge at Scrapy Land Blog for a chance of winning $15 gift certificate to Scrapy Land Store!
Stop by Scrapy Land Blog and see what my amazingly talented team mates have made for this challenge inspiration!

I would like to enter my card into following challenges:

Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge #138 Flowers with Ribbon or Trim Theme

Word Art Wednesday #224 and #225

Crop Stop Linky Party #14

DL Art April Linky Challenge Anything Goes

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Anything But Cute April Challenge - Earth Day

Hello everyone,

I am hosting my last challenge over at Anything But Cute challenge blog as a part of their Design Team and I chose the theme of Earth Day. We have a gorgeous mood board to give you inspiration and design team creations to accompany it.

Here is my creation:

and here is the wonderful Earth Day mood board:

Please create a mixed media project inspired by the mood board and beauty of our planet. Please tell us what inspired you. Entries for this challenge can be echo friendly, or even recycled/upcycled items; or depiction of the sea, mountain, river, forest, flowery meadow...let's celebrate our planet!

Here are some of the process pictures:

 This is what I used to create the flowers. The flowers were cut with Cricut Flower Shoppe and I actually ended up using hot glue instead of glossy accent since hot glue dries faster. The flower centers are just a hot glue covered with glitter.

Little house was treated with black paint and white crackle paint to give it the rustic look...

I used egg carton to simulate rock texture around the lake, which was made using a crinkled piece of blue cardstock and covered with glossy accent to get that shiny water-like look...

The starry sky background....

You can see the texture of the house and lake...

The shabby bow in multiple colors...

I would like to share a beautiful video from two talented musicians from Croatia - 2CELLOS that is showcasing the beauty of National Park Plitvica Lakes in Croatia...

....and couple pics of nature from my native country Bosnia & Herzegovina...

 River Neretva running through town Mostar

 Bosnian Pyramid :)

Mountain Jahorina

Well, I hope you get inspired and join my last challenge at Anything But Cute! Please check out what my team mates created for this challenge also!

I would like to enter my card into following challenges:

Craft Stamper Take it Make it April Challenge Spring Flowers

Creative Artiste Challenge #13 Anything Goes

Eclectic Ellapu challenge Spring Flowers / April Showers

Love to Create Anything Goes Mixed Media

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Vintage Easter Card

Hello everyone,

I would like to share with you an Easter card that I made for my next door neighbor:

For the first layer I used Pion Design paper from A Day in May collection (PD4404) and for the second layer I used Pion Design paper form Studio of Memories collection (PD1512)
Oh boy, was it hard to cut into those papers?!? They are just too pretty and precious!!!

I made the flowers from white cardstock and then painted them randomly with Antique Linen distress paint. The shabby bow was made using a chalk white seam binding ribbon.

The vintage Easter image was a free printable I found on Pinterest, but I altered the color finish and printed it in Sepia tones. Then I used Spellbinders Fleur de Elegance to die cut the image.

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:

Pion Design Challenge -March

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge: Easter

Double D challenge: Easter

DL ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #177 Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Week 222-223 Anything Goes

Emerald Creek Dares Easter Parade

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UPDATE:
04/04/2016 Top 5 at Crafty Cardmakers and More...

04/07/2016  Top 3 at Emerald Creek Dares

Purple Shabby Butterflies Card

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Just a quick post of a birthday card I made for a lady that loves anything with butterflies :)

For the base I used 7 dots Studio Soulmates collection 6" x 6" paper and I distressed the edges...

I cut out bunch of little butterflies in 4 different sizes and glued them to the base so that they look like they are just now landing onto this card...a couple of the butterflies landed onto the shabby purple bow. :)

The sentiment is computer generated and printed on vellum.

I made a matching box for the card too...

I would like to enter this card into following challenge:

Alphabet Challenge Blog B is for Beautiful Butterflies

Studio 75 Challenge #3 Spring with addition of purple

Crafty Gals Corner "Easter or Spring"

Eclectic Elapu Purple Challenge Flora and Fauna

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge Welcome Spring

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Birthday Card in Pink and Grey

Hello everyone,

Just a quick post of a Birthday Card I made:

I used quite a few dies to create the scene for the Happy Birthday die cut as my focal point.

Happy Birthday sentiment was cut out of grey and white cardstock and offset to create the shadow effect.

The flowers were hand made by me :)

I would like to enter this card into following challenges:
Scrappy Sketches Challenge #8

My Sheri Crafts challenge #117 Spring Fever (the flowers symbolize spring)
Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge #137 Welcome Spring

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes

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Scrapy Land Challenge #38 Think Green (St. Patrick's Day)

Hello everyone,

Brand new challenge at Scrapy Land Blog starts today and we'd like to see projects in green using dies that Scrapy Land sells.

Here is what I made:

I created a four leaf clover by using a Wild Rose Studio Ornate Heart die . I did have to trim the top part of the die to get that leaf look...

The shabby bow was decorated with Spellbinders Shapeabilities Victorian Medallion Two and a feather from Whiff of Joy Staying in Touch

The base of the card was decorated with Spellbinders Nestabilities Imperial Square

Please stop by Scrapy Land Blog and check out what my team mates created for this challenge inspiration.
I hope you enjoyed this post and will be joining our challenge for a chance to win $15 gift certificate from Scrapy Land!

I would like to enter my card into following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers and More "Go Green"

Crafty Catz Use Ribbon & Bling

ChouxChoux Paper Art Challenge #4 St. Patrick's Day

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes

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Anything But Cute Challenge #11 Crazy For Colors

Hello everyone,

It is time for a super fun and bright challenge at Anything But Cute hosted by Branka: Crazy For Colors!!!

Spring is coming – a time of the year that brings amazingly beautiful colors! To celebrate it, we would like you to create a mixed media project using vibrant colors. It can be a tag, a card, an art journal page or anything else. Just be sure it’s vibrant!

I went with super bright and neon colors:

This is what I used to create the card:

I painted a piece of heavy weight water color paper with neon yellow paint and added some texture paste through the geometric stencil by My Favorite Things, the stencil is Mona Pendleton Design :)

I used the hand made flowers to create the floral arrangement. and a few of bright pink rhinestones just because.

 I hope you stop by Anything But Cute and check out what my team mates created for this challenge inspiration and that you will join our fun and bright challenge.

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