Crafty As L

Our DT theme this week celebrates the new Tomorrow’s Memories release and for my CAS make, I’m taking advantage of the beautiful Tomorrow's Memories  paper pad and a few of the other new goodies.   Have you had a chance to check them out yet? To begin, I stamped and clear heat-embossed the butterfly clock from Counting Moments  on a piece of orange paper.   I love how Mark's done all the hard work creating an interesting background for you – perfect for a quick make! After trimming the panel to 4¾” square, I used the number column stamp to add some interest around the edges, again heat-embossing with clear powder. The sentiment is from Present Times  and, after a liberal dusting with an anti-static tool, I stamped with Versamark and heat set with white embossing powder.   To add a bit of interest to the card blank, I tore a strip of Destination Anywhere PET tape  in half and adhered one of the strips to the front edge.   I’d made the front...

Since Mikey Mouse put in appearance here , I’ve been having a great time with the Spellbinders Say Cheese Classic Mouse sets.   I made this card for another friend who is sadly starting treatment for cancer.   I rearranged the arms, attempting to make it look like Mr Mouse is flexing his bicep!   The background was decorated with Arden’s Maker’s Marks. There is also a lady Mouse in the set so I’ve been combining the two to make wedding and anniversary cards.   The anniversary card was just a straight die-cutting exercise – the most challenging bit was getting all the letters onto the card front!   For the wedding cards, I made her skirt from real silk by using double sided adhesive sheet to adhere the fabric to thin card.    It needed a few passes through the Big Shot but worked fine.   The adhesive sheet also helped prevent the fabric fraying at the cut edges.   To get the mice to hold hands, I had to chop and change the arms a bit. ...

It’s new release time over at Visible Image!   Tomorrow’s Memories is the amazing new release designed by Mark Alexander and it’s not just stamps and stencils this time.   Oh no!   There’s a gorgeous paper pad, tags and some cool continuous PET tape too.   The full collection can be found here . Today’s make is a Z-fold card and is one of the samples you might have seen during Mark’s Live on You Tube.  I started by stamping and silver heat-embossing the butterfly in Counting Moments  three times on one of the pink/purple paper pad sheets .   They were fussy cut and I neatened the cut edges with a silver Sharpie pen. After silver heat-embossing the butterfly clock on Arden’s Pitch Black card, this was fussy-cut and one of the butterflies from above was glued on. Next, I cut the card blank, 12” x 4”, from a 12” x 12” sheet of Arden Pitch Black linen effect card, scored it along the long side at 3” and 6” and folded it into a Z-shape.   ...