Monday Muse

This is my week to post a piece of design team inspiration at Create My Keepsake. Here is the challenge if you'd like to play! Create a touchable card with fabric, embroidery floss and ribbon!
I just love the dimension and softness that these items give to a card. I used some Creative Cafe felt for my "fabric" and cut it into a tag shape. Added a photo corner sticker and stitched over it with the floss. Striped paper, felt, and stickers are all Creative Cafe, and the photo corner and yellow paper are some of the new Sassafras Lass. Can't wait to see your creations! ~Danielle~

Yay! It's Friday!

What do you have planned this weekend? My niece's birthday party is Sunday and we want to start renovating our kitchen floor soon, so maybe it will be this weekend..not sure yet. I am not looking forward to the big MESS but I am looking forward to getting the new floor! My hubby is a do-it-yourselfer and is pretty talented in that area...but it seems to take sooo much longer than if a professional came in. ha

So before we get started with our busy weekend, I wanted to pop in and share a little project I made for the Pink Paislee blog yesterday (you can read the full directions and supplies used there). I had fun with lots of Pink Paislee goodies here! I found a cake box pattern on-line and enlarged it and then traced it onto the back of my patterned paper, then assembled it. These would be so cute if you made a bunch of them for party favors and arranged them in a circle like a cake! The top of the box says, "you are DINO-mite!" The card is an invitation for the Dino party!

Dino-mite Box - up close

Card - up close

And below is a little sneaky peeky to a crop challenge that I will be hosting at Create My Keepsake on National Scrapbooking Day, May 3rd! I am doing a card challenge, so all you card lovers come on over to CMK and hang out with us! (Of course there will be lots of other challenges too!) I will have a nice give-away for my challenge for one lucky participant. Supplies I used here include some yummy new Sasafrass Lass paper and stickers, and of course some gorgeous Pink Paislee stamps and floral paper from the Spring Fling line! I hope you will join in on the fun!

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it! ~Danielle~

Hybrid card tutorial..

Since I haven't done any scrapping lately, I wanted to share a tutorial I made for Prima Hybrid a few weeks ago on how to create a shaped card with Photoshop. These are so much fun to make! I have Photoshop CS2, but I believe Photoshop Elements is very similar. If you have any questions, let me know! Click on photos to see them larger.

Supplies you will need:

*White cardstock or matte finished photo paper: one 8 ½” x 11” piece and one 6 x 12” piece,
*Digital kit and digital saying (I used Carrie Stephen’s Santiago Sunrise kit and Warm Fuzzies kit from Prima Hybrid.),
*3 white Prima flowers (I used Prima #140441.),
*Glitter and glue (I used Glue Dots to adhere the flowers and small butterfly.),
*Twine from craft store.

1. Open a new file that is 8.5 x 11”. Click on the “blob” looking shape in the tool bar. At the top you will see “shape”. Select the butterfly shape. Draw with your mouse the butterfly shape 6” x 5” (or smaller if you wish to have a smaller card).

2. Open the patterned paper that you will use on your butterfly. I used Carrie Stephen’s Santiago Sunrise Double Diamond background at Prima Hybrid. Resize it to 6” x 6” by clicking on “Image”, “Image Size”, then put in 6 inches x 6 inches for the measurements.

Click the move tool (arrow and little cross), then drag your paper over the top of your butterfly. Click Control-Alt-G and the paper will take the shape of the butterfly.

3. Repeat this process to create another smaller butterfly. I used Carrie’s Santiago kit again with the Sunrise Cherry paper. I also opened the long rub on from the kit and dragged it over to my butterfly for the body. If you click Control-T, you can resize it to fit the body.

4. Open a sentiment to put on the front of your card. I used Carrie Stephen’s Warm Fuzzies kit from Prima Hybrid that says “Perfectly Sweet”. Using the move tool again, drag it over to your butterfly, and click Control-T to resize to fit.

5. Select the Type tool in the tool in the tool bar (T). Add the word “How” right above sentiment and click the check mark at the top of the screen to accept it.

6. Print page out onto white cardstock. Cut out butterflies. Fold a white piece of 6” x 12” cardstock in half for the card base. Attach the large butterfly to front of card with the left top wing ON the fold. Cut around butterfly but do NOT CUT on fold.

7. Attach glitter to small butterfly. Wrap twine around left top wing and tie in bow. Attach small butterfly over top and 2 Prima flowers. Adhere another flower to bottom right hand wing near saying. You are done! This card would be cute for a baby card or a nice thank you. Finished size is 6” x 5”.