Archive for May, 2011
Memorial Day Celebration By Debbie Fisher
This month’s DT challenge was to show how we celebrate Memorial Day. To be honest, we don’t really do very much. I do reflect and give thanks for those who gave their lives serving our country and for those still serving.
One thing we do now is take the wreaths that were at my grandparents funeral and put them on their graves. Two of my brothers and their families as well as my family meet at the cemetery.
Yesterday we BBQ’d and I made cupcakes. For my project I decided to make another cupcake holder by Cutting Cafe, only this time the two cupcake holder. I used Tombow’s Mono Adhesive Power Bond to put the box together. I am loving how it turned out.
I cut the stars with my Cricut. I cut 3 of cardstock and one of patterned paper for each star. Then I adhered them together using Mono Adhesive Permanent. By cutting 3 or more and layering them, you get the effect of chipboard. I added a button to the center of the stars using Tombow’s Power Tabs.
To make the medallion cupcake toppers, I cut a piece of patterned paper 1.5″ x 12″ and scored every 1/2″ and then accordian folded the strip. I adhered the ends together with the Power Bond adhesive.
I then cut 3 circles (2 cardstock and 1 patterned paper) for each topper and adhered together with Mono Adhesive Permanent and then adhered a cut star to the center. I used Mono Multi Liquid Glue to add the circle to the accordian piece. I had to hold it down til it dried and wish I would have had more Power Tabs as they would have held instantly. I also added a circle piece to the back.
With Mono Adhesive Permanent I adhered a popsicle stick to the back and inserted into my cupcakes.
I hope you enjoyed this project. Let me know if you make any of these cupcake boxes. I would love to see yours.
Be sure to stop by again tomorrow and Thursday to see what the other DT members created for their Memorial Day Celebration.
P.S. If you would like to see the pictures of the wreaths we put on my grandparents’ grave, just click on my signature below and it will take you to my blog.
I have always had a fascination with moving cards, creating them whenever I can. Whether it slides, jiggles, swings, teeters or spins the reaction from the recipient is the best part of it all!!
Instructions: Cut green card stock 6”x 8 ½” and score at 4 ¼” to form the card. Emboss the whole card with the CB floral screen embossing folder. Using the large oval nestability I cut a hole in the center of the card approx. ¾” from the bottom in the card front. I cut a large oval from the purple card stock and before removing it from the die I traced around the die with a pencil and hand cut the thin frame. Cut a piece of purple card stock 2 1/8” x 4 1/8”. Lay it on the card where it is to be placed and from the inside draw the part oval and hand cut this piece out.
I stamped and embossed the images with black EP and painted them with Tombow Dual Brush Pens, paintbrush and water and cut them out. I cut a length of bakers twine approx. 7” long. Starting at the tire I adhered the twine to the rope on the image with a very fine line of the liquid glue making sure I have enough twine to wrap around the tire and back behind the dragon and enough to wrap around the branch at the top also. Glue the twine all the way up the rope on the image. Wrap the top of the twine around the branch judging the dragon in the center of the oval and tie around the branch. I used the Tombow small Foam Tabs for the back of the branch and when I had the right positioning of the dragon I adhered the branch to the clouds. Fold the twine around the tire and adhere it to the back of the dragon with tape.
The dragon will now swing from the branch!!
I used 2 pieces of plain white card stock cut at 4” x 6” and 3 x 4 ½” I cut out a large scallop oval nestability for my cloud template. With a sponge dauber and faded jeans distress ink I lightly sponged around the scallops moving the template to different angles to form the clouds. I went back in with the template just slightly off the blue and sponge some dusty concord distress ink to create a shadow.
I trimmed the smaller finished cloud piece down to 2” x 4” and adhered it to the preciously cut purple piece of cardstock with Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue. I trimmed it to the oval of the purple piece. Using Tombow Foam Tabs I adhered it to the top of the card leaving even spacing on top and sides aboe the oval.
With the 4’ x 6” finished cloud piece I moved it around the oval from the inside of the card to get the best look, marked the edges and trimmed it to fit inside the front of the card. I adhered it with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue. I adhered the thin purple oval frame to the oval cut out on the front of the card with a very thin line of Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue from the fine tip.
Here are a few of my tools:
Here are all the supplies I used for this project:
N65-N75-N25 ….Tire
942-947-977….Branch
076-098….Leaves and dragon body
942-933-946….Body and face
623-636 Purple
Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue, Tombow Foam Tabs, Ranger distress ink- faded jeans and dusty concord, black embossing powder, versa fine black onyx ink, Nestabilities ovals, CB embossing folder floral screen, white Inkssential white gel pen, The Twinery bakers twine, flat backed pearls, Bazzill card stock
High Hopes stamps
Tire Swing Dragon R-151
Never Tire E-255
I feel sure you will enjoy makeing and giving this unique card, I sure loved making it.
Happy crafting,
Karen
Parchment craft….also known as Pergamano is the art of embellishing parchment paper through the techniques such as embossing, perforating, stippling, cutting and coloring.
To start I took a piece of parchment paper and placed it onto a pattern. I used painters tape to tape it to the pattern. With a mapping pen and Tinta ink I traced the pattern onto the parchment paper. I used sections of two different patterns and some of my own patterns for this card. Once the pattern is complete I placed the paper with the good side face up onto a piercing grid. With the arrow tool I pieced the holes in the center of the card. I removed the paper from the grid and with the good side face down I placed it onto an embossing pad and with my embossing tools I embossed sections of the pattern. When you emboss the parchment paper it is actually stretching the parchment and it turns the paper white. You can now see the sections that have been embossed. . To cut the sections out of the parchment paper around the outside edges of the card I perforated all the sections I wanted to remove with a 2 split tool and removed the excess parchment paper. This is a very delicate process as now that the parchment is embossed it becomes very fragile.
I traced the butterfly twice on plain parchment and once on blue parchment. The front butterfly is the only layer of the 3 that has the detail and is embossed and cut out.
The card itself is made with blue parchment paper. I traced the outside of the card with the Tinta ink and then perforated the edge with the 2 split tool to remove the excess parchment paper.
To put the card together I used Tombow Power tabs. I cut 2 tabs into quarters and placed one quarter of a tab behind the embossed section of each design and centered it onto the blue parchment card. I adhered all 3 layers of the butterfly using Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue along the body sections. The butterfly is adhered to the card with Tombow Power Tabs. The flat back pearls are glued with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue and the bow is attached to the card with the Power Tabs.
Before I was introduced to Tombow adhesive products I had to adhere my parchment cards with silicone from a tube. It took a while for the silicone to set up and using regular glue would crinkle the parchment. I was totally amazed when I used the liquid glue and the Power Tabs on my project. Now my cards go together so quickly and with no gooey mess…. I love it!!!
Here are afew of my tools…
Karen
The easel card is one of my favorite folds. It is so versatile. I have used it to create cards, photo album cards and gift box easel card combos.
For this project I have designed a Note Card and Tag Set. The box measures 4 ¾” x 4 ¾” I have changed the dimensions from a box by Holly McMillen @ SCS. First I made the box. I wanted it to be strong so I made the box from cream card stock and then covered it with the DP. The easel card base is 4 ½” x 8”. On the long side score @ 2” and 4”. The card back is 4 ½” x 4 ½” .I adhered the card back to the card base onto the 2” fold with the Tombow Permanent adhesive stamp runner. All the DP is adhered with Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue using the brush end.
The tag holder measures 3 3/8” x 2 7/8”. I used my white gel pen to add the dots. I adhered it to the card back with Tombow MONO Adhesive Power Bond Tape Runner. I cut 2 slits into the finished oval pen holder (which is also the stopper to hold the easel up) adding a decorated ½” strip of cardstock through the holes and folding the ends onto the backside of the oval. I put the pen into the strip and pulled the ends through the slits so that it was a perfect fit for the pen. I then adhered it with Tombow MONO Adhesive Power Bond Tape Runner and putting a Tombow Foam Tab over those ends for added security. The scallop oval pen holder, butterfly and flower are adhered with Tombow Foam Tabs. I also used the Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue to adhere the easel card to the box and also the flat backed pearls. I colored and cut out all the images and adhered them all to the finished oval and round frames.
Note Cards:
The note cards measure 4 ¼” x 4 ¼”. I used a CB folder to emboss each card and the first layer of the Nestabilities frames. The layers and flowers are adhered with Tombow Foam Tabs. The bows are adhered with Tombow Power Tabs. I cut the tab into 3 strips.
Tags:
The tags measure 4 ¾” x 2 ½”. I used Tombow MONO Adhesive Power Bond Tape Runner to adhere the ribbon to the tag front center and then adhered the finished ovals over the ribbon onto the front of the tag with Tombow Foam Tabs.
The great thing about the easel card is that the easel top folds down flat. This easel top card set also folds down flat onto the box. The pen stops it from being perfectly flat but it makes it easy to wrap or store. The butterfly’s and flower’s were colored with the following Tombow Dual Brush Pens, N25…Black, 665- 685 …Purple, 946- 985 …Yellow, 723- 743 …Pink, 076- 098 …Green, 873-885-905 Orange.
Happy crafting..
Karen
I painted the wooden frame with white acrylic paint. The first smaller frame is made with adhesive backed cork. I punched the pieces of cork with an EK Success border punch and cut 45 degree angles for the corners. I used Tombow MONO Multi Liquid Glue to adhere the cord to the frame. I laid out the cord to the design I wanted and added small strips of painters tape to hold the cord in place. I lifted small sections (about 2” at a time) of the cord placing glue underneath from the fine tip end. I added the tape pieces back as I went along to keep the cord in place after it was glued which I found out was unnecessary because the glue held the cord in place perfectly! I cut another smaller frame from thin cardboard, rounded the corners and covered it with blue fabric card stock using Tombow Permanent Adhesive Stamprunner. To adhere this frame to the wooden frame I used Tombow MONO Adhesive Power Bond Tape Runner. The buttons are attached with Tombow Power Tabs.
I cut 1 tab into quarters and only used 1 quarter for each button. Since I have been using the amazing Power Tabs for my embellishments I have retired my glue gun!! I colored the images with Tombow markers, paintbrush and water. The images are adhered to the frame with Tombow foam tabs. The flat backed pearls were adhered to the blue frame with Tombow MONO Aqua Liquid Glue.
Enjoy,
Karen
We’ve had a wonderful week with Penny Black and both Tombow’s and Penny Black’s Design Teams … and I want to take this opportunity to share all of their creativity with you one last time. Here we go….
Debbie’s, eye popping, “Just For You” card…
Elizabeth’s beautiful, “Just A Note” box…
Marie’s inspiring ” Floral Sketch Book”…..
Kathy Racoosin’s got-to-have, “Two’s Company” Card
Sarah’s ~ ever so clever~ “ Monochromatic Book Marks”
and last but not least…Jenyfur Pohl’s “Friends are Special Treasures” card. We couldn’t agree more.
I want to give a BIG “shout out” to Penny Black and both Design Team’s for a wonderful, creative and inspiring week of creativity. See you again soon.
Happy Crafting…….
from the time i got my box filled with penny black stamps and “eye-popping” cardstock i knew what i wanted to do….
so i grabbed my Tombow Dual Brush Pens and set out to see if i could get the image from my mind onto paper.
i am not a big stamper and the only stamp pads i own are black, or brown to use for inking paper edges. what i wanted was a tone-on-tone monochromatic look with the vintage looking stamps i had just be privileged to work with. using my DBP i inked up a stamp, and using a scrap corner of the paper, stamped a little of the image to see if the colors would come out the way i envisioned. it didn’t take long… it seems that Tombow has a marker that coordinates with each of the beautiful shades i received. what i got was a wonderful monochromatic, barely there, image.
i made a set of 3 bookmarks….
the first one used #837 on the red cardstock with the butterfly suite stamp. i used Tombow Powerbond, Tombow Glue Pen, and fine dust glitter, along with the cardstock and the ribbon.
the second one i used #703 on the pink cardstock and #837 on the red cardstock and the sparkle and letter background stamps. i used Tombow Foam Tabs and Powerbond with the addition of some ribbon. also, using #879 I went back over the details of the stamped flower and gave it some definition. using a blender pen i ever so slightly blended the lines to make them a tad softer.
the third bookmark i used #879 layered over the pink and red cardstock strips with the reverie stamp, along with Tombow Powerbond and Glue Pen, cardstock, circle punch and a button.
Thanks for stoppping by…Sarah
I was inspired by Penny Black’s ‘Sparkle’ stamp of a single flower. Perfect for a quick inking with the Tombow Dual Brush Pens and layering for a dimensional look with the Foam Tabs. I also used Penny Black’s new ‘Mix and Match’ papers to easily coordinate the look all together. The pencil is not only an interesting embellishment; it also is easily removed for a quick sketch as it is attached using the Fastener Tabs.
Materials: Penny Black ~Stamps: Sparkle, Letter background and ‘The Thought of You’ Fern Green papers from the ‘Mix and Match’ collection.
Tombow ~Dual Brush Pens: 133 chartreuse, 098 avocado, 249 hunter green, 451 sky blue, 526 true blue, 665 purple, 636 imperial purple. Adhesives: Permanent Stamp Runner, MONO Multi Liquid Glue, Fastener Tabs and Foam Tabs
You will also need: 5 1/4” x 8 1/4” sketchbook, 90 lb. smooth finish watercolor paper, matching ribbon and trim, drawing pencil, clear flat marble and a mini black clip.
Ink the ‘Sparkle’ stamp with the brush tip, start with the light colors first, and then add the medium and dark tones. The leaves are colored with the green markers, the flower with the blues and the flower center with the purples. Mist the colored stamp with water at arm’s length away and stamp onto a watercolor paper panel. Do two stampings of the flower with this technique. Let dry.Color the letter background stamp with the Imperial Purple marker and stamp directly onto a light green paper panel without misting. Edge the panel with the Avocado marker. Color ‘The Thought of You’ stamp with Imperial Purple and Hunter Green markers and stamp directly onto a watercolor paper panel without misting. Edge the panel with the Avocado marker.
Prepare the cover by adhering the dark green paper around the spine, medium green panel to cover the front, and the light green stamped panel with the Permanent Adhesive. Use Multi glue to add ribbon and trim along the left hand side of the front cover.
Cut out one of the stamped flower images leaving a slight edge. Cut out leaves and petals from second stamped flower image. Try to keep the petals in order on your work surface so it’s easy to match them up.
Prepare the verse panel by adhering to a dark green panel with the Permanent Adhesive. Add brads in the corners and attach the completed panel to the cover using the large foam tabs. Using the Permanent Adhesive and the ‘stamp’ feature, attach the extra leaves under the raised verse panel and the flower image at the top of the raised panel. I used 5 of the 8 petals on the flower, choosing the ones that are in the front and most of the whole petal showing. Slightly curl the petals in your hands to give them a little dimension. Attach the petals by adding a small amount of Permanent Adhesive to the tip of the petal and place into the same position on the flower. Use a small Foam Tab under these petals to lift and give dimension. A pair of tweezers makes it easy to lift and place the tab.
The Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil is attached with two Fastener Tabs that have been trimmed. It holds the pencil on the front of the sketchbook so it’s always handy for quick sketch of a flower in the garden.
Dual Brush Pen, MONO Drawing Pencil, MONO Multi Liquid Glue, Stamp Runner Permenant Adhesive,Foam Tabs, Fastener Tabs
It is time for another Tombow Blog Hop. This month we are pairing up with Penny Black. I received some fun goodies from Penny Black to play with! Did you know they have paper? The DT rec’d some fun bright colors of paper as well as several fun stamps.
This month Tombow’s product feature is Dual Brush Pens as well as Fastener Tabs. My card is a simple one that anyone can put together, but has some fun features using Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens that I wanted to share with you.
For the main image, I colored Penny Black’s Reverie (just color the rubber with the brush tip pens) with Tombow’s Dual Brush pens. For the “stem” I used #977. Then I colored the “berries” with #452 (a light aqua) and then “pounced” with #443 (a darker aqua) and #296 (a blue green color) to give the berries a multi colored look. Then you need to “huff” (this is warm moist air that will help the color on the rubber stamp) and stamp onto your cardstock.
With color #026 (an antique gold) I colored Penny Black’s Letter Background stamp and stamped right over the Reverie image.
I colored the “Reverie” stamp again with #098 (olive) and stamped off onto scrap paper once and then onto the olive cardstock. I wanted the color to be subtle, but give the solid cardstock some pattern without taking away from the main image.
For the “plaid” on the aqua cardstock, I took my brayer and sat it on the table so that I could “spin” the rubber roller. Then I took 4 Tombow Dual Brush pens #452, 443, 026, 076, and while turning the rubber roller, I held the brush tip of the pen to the roller to add several stripes alternating the colors. Then I “huffed” on the roller and rolled it onto the cardstock. I repeated the process and rolled in the opposite direction to make a plaid pattern.
I finished the card off by adding a bow with some Jillibean ribbon, Jillebean “just for you” sticker, and Tombow Foam Tabs to pop up the stamped image.
Be sure to stop by Penny Black’s blog and back her on Tombow’s Blog this week to see what both DT’s created with this month’s pair up.
Stop by my blog tomorrow and I will show you another project using other Penny Black stamps I received and Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens and Fastener tabs.
