Cuttlebug Challenge Blog Inspiration #90

Welcome Wednesday.... I love this day... as I get to see so many wonderful things... I do so hope you will enjoy all that I have to share with you today...

Today is the release of Cuttlebug Inspiration Challenge #90... and it is to CREATE AN EASEL CARD.... one of my very favorites... I love making these.. WE were suppose to use Minds Eye paper... and you will see what i have done below...

This first one is a very special card... I made it with Minds Eye paper... "Maggie May" and the back paper is from the group "Feeling Groovy"... I had asked a very good friend to see if she could find some for me at this shop near where she works.. and she brought me two sets of this paper... I loved them both... so I had to make two cards... of course... This paper was so wild... I love it... so I embossed the circular paper with the New Template called Perfect Perennial ... it is really lovely... and it cuts out this perfect little square so that you can fill it with something else... I love it... so I put that on top of a white background which as You can see I used a Martha punch to create... The paper flowers were made using a spellbinder daisy... and modified a little bit...
The bottom area, where you want to spot the top area... was popped... up as the stop... (Directions on how to make this style of card is on the post below this one... so you can make some too.. )
I created the bottom white banner using a Martha corner punch, but used it a little pit differently... or creatively as one would say... another purple rose there to with a few leaves and a bow...

I love the richness of these colors together... so what do you think...

Well I had to use the other set of papers too.. Victoria bought these for me... and wouldn't let me pay her for them... so now I have to give back... somehow.. .as she will not take the money from me..

Oh well.. I will figure something out... right!!!
Here is the second card..
This card is entirely different... a lot lighter and brighter too... I made the orange huge flower from the sunflower spellbinder... and cut 3 small and 3 large ones to put one on top of the other..

Then what to do... so I took the New Cuttlebug folder called Brocade Window and embossed a piece of white cardstock... and then cut it to the size I desired... wow... I love it.. .put a few leaves around the flower... and then a bow to sort of hide the cut... and a few light peace pearls on the corners..

Now for the stopper... I created a larger than normal lower panel than I usually do, but that is okay, as I love the paper... so I showed a lot of that... along with a label from the newest Cuttlebug Folder of labels... and added a few pieces of Spellbinder around it... and I was really happy with it..

Here is a close up of the top half of the card..

I love the way it turned out... it is light and pretty... perfect for whom I am sending it to..





Of course I am always doing more and more... well today I wanted to have a nice assortment of Easel cards to share with you.. because to me this is a very pretty card... I love them...
So I had to add one more card to the new ones...
I used some K and Company paper for the back ground of this one...

I love this hydrangea paper... and so I used it for this one.. added a little of Martha... and some Spellbinder, but the focal point is the center.. where I used the newest Cuttlebug folder called Elegant Ellipse... which I love this one.. I have so many ideas of how I am going to use this one... I love it greatly... I am sure you will too..

I used the center on the bottom half of this easel.. I just love the elegance of this embossing folder...






Here is another view of the card... I love all the pearls that I put to frame it out too..


Hope you enjoyed these three cards that were made for the Cuttlebug Challenge Inspiration #90.... And that you will join in on the fun and create one to enter into the challenge... thee are weekly prizes... so join on it...
You might win some more cuttlebug toys... we all need and love more toys... don't we???

See you there..







Now as I said, I love to make Easel cards... so I gathered up a few I have made over the past few months... and put them here for you to see... Not all have cuttlebug embossing on them... but a quite a few do... so sit back and enjoy some more cards..

This one is called Brick wall.. love the technique... and I was in a mood to create with Asian influenced stamps... so this is what I created... I used my twinkling H20's to paint it... I also went onto to create about 10 more using this same card as an example for an Asian Fat Book Page... check out Art Between the Pages for more info...






I can't honestly remember which challenge I created this for ... but I loved the flowers... spring was just about ready to bloom in the south... I can remember that.. some places were having severe snow storms... but the birds were singing here.. so I made this spring card to help it along.. .













This card I made for my Mom... she is partially blind... with macular degeneration.. so I wanted to make a textured card for her...

I also loved the Pussy Willow paper by K&Co... so I used that... along with the Bird punch by Martha... The birds are sitting along the top of the card... she could feel them that way...

The flowers are flowers from Pretties by Bonnie and of course painted with my Twinkling H20's... I also painted the lower section birds with them too.. .I used some spellbinders to create some of the paper laces...

The area that I wanted my mom to feel were the flowers in the scene... they are forsythia... and she use to have huge bushes of it in the house I grew up in... so I wanted her to feel them.. so I used stickles to over lay the color... she also felt the blue birds on the ground feeding... so it was a hit... she still has this card in a prime area for all to see.. .I love this one too..

Oh I guess there is no Number One card... as this one I love too.. .I will start with the background.. .I created it with Twinling H20's... adn the drew some flowers with a thin line black pen... then I added the Lotus by Spellbinders... and a few flowers from
Pretties by Bonnie and a little tag with a special message... on the lower half of the card... I used some scrabell board letters to create the message of flower gardens... the time to plant is NOW... I added the little fence to keep the deer out of my flower garden...

LOL.. It didnt really work... they have eaten most of them.. .oh well..






From time to time, friends send me images that I HAVE to use... this was one.. I love her.. .and have no little girls in my life.. but sent her to a big girl in my life... so feminine and soft and alive.. I added some punched flowers that I made, along with a butterfly from a Marvvy punch.. Oh Martha had just come out with the Heart punch... so I had to put that into this card... of course... lvoe it on the Lattice border...

She is sitting in front of the eyelet pendant... which is another favorite... I love a lot of my toys... as you can see... to me they will make or break a card...





Here's another image ...This card is called I am no quitter.. as the words say... I't stop eating chocolate, but I am no quitter... LOVE IT... so I love chocolate too.. only the good stuff... organic Green and Black is my favorite... the dark kind... yummmmm ... get it away from me...

I used some K and Co paper on this card too..










Again, another K & co paper card... with a butterfly little girl... so precious... I added a background of cuttelbug to this one..and used the dotted swiss on the heart... love that folder... . and also used the large sunflower by Spellbinder to create the purple flower...



This is a fun card with all the purple.. I love purples and don't use it as much as I would like to..









Another card using the spring time Pussy Willow paper by K and Co... I also used an embellishment by them... adn then created the rest of the card with a bird theme... the little row of birds along the top of the card... and I didn't have one the size I wanted so I created this little bird... which is also available at Pretties by Bonnie

I usually love light colors but wanted to bring out the branches of this special paper... so I used a brown chiffon ribbon.. .love it..

I also used dotted swiss behind the bird...






I had so many birthdays in May and June... and one day I had a friend over ... Brenda, to play... and was making birthday cards... I created this card.. in front of her... and it was for her... SHE Loved it.. of course she didn't know it was for her until I gave it to her.. LOL.. it didn't matter ... she loved the saying and gave it to me for the card...

Happy Birthday Brenda... again and again...










Violets... love them.. .a favorite flower.. of course the daisy is my very favorite... but I guess the violet is 2nd... love the color and the sweetness of the cuties...

This was a fun card to create with all the spellbinders... adn the violets.. which are Pretties by Bonnie

I love the looks of this card... The little area on the bottom just finished it off to my total liking..











I needed some samples for a technique class and created a few cards so that they could see the backgrounds being used...
So this is the card... of many... but a resist class card... I also added a flower using pages from an old book...

The stopper in this card is simply the raised bottom of one sheet of card stock... it really needs alittle bit more... but it does work... buttons, and all kinds of things will act as a stopper..

Have fun with making a few of these cards... and get them into the Inspiration #90... you are a winner anyway... but hey.. you might get some new toys in the process...

Thanks for taking a look at all my Easel cards... and have a wonderful day...

See you soon... Love, light and Peace...Bonnie

I looked for directions on line and really couldn't find any that were easy...
So if you follow these words ... maybe it will be easy... because this is an EASY card...

Make a square card... any size.. 4x4 , 5x5 or 6x6... what ever size you desire...
Now fold the front of the card in half... this fold should be parallel with the center fold...
Now cut another piece of paper the same size of the front of the card you desire... if you made a 4x4 card you original paper was 8x4... right... well now cut a piece of paper 4x4...

Okay... that gets glues (after you decorate it.) onto the short piece... it will create an easel effect... You need to create a design on the 'inside' of the card to hold that in place...

Look at my cards above and you will see that each one has a stopper of some kind...

It is that easy.. .
If you have any problems... leave a comment... and I will see if I can do something else.. as this is really a special card to make, send and also to receive... very impressive in all ways.. .

Have fun Creating...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Happy Monday....
And what a glorious day it is too...

Glenn and I had a wonderful Anniversary and thank you all for so many wonderful wishes... we totally enjoyed ourselves... and spent the time wisely...

Today we are waiting for our son to arrive... with his partner Casey... they are going to be in the area for a couple of weeks... which will be wonderful for us...

SO with that in mind... you will totally understand why there will be a little less activity on my blog...


BUT.... after I post this, I will be posting the cards for the Wednesday Cuttlebug Challenge Inspired #90.... and I have 15 cards to share with you... so come on back on Wednesday... as I know you will enjoy these... I can't tell you what kind of cards... but you will enjoy making this one.. Trust me...

So without further ado... have a fun time today and tomorrow... and I will see you early Wednesday Morning...

Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie

Casing Kittie

Today is Friday... and on Fridays at noon, Anne Ryan announces who the Queen for the Day is... or really the week... Kittie was the Queen for the day today... and her gallery was really a lot of fun to gaze through... which I did... in between rain storms etc... and really had a hard time finding which card I wanted to really do... so I limited it down to two... and did them...

This one on the left... I loved, because of the little 'frame' around the picture... Now Kittie had used a vintage stamp of two little girls.. I had to use a photo of me a few years ago.. ahem... a few I said... not how many... a FEW!!!!

Anyway... I made a 5x5 square and punched Martha around the edges... and then folded it... and it became a frame...
I used some dotted swiss (Cuttlebug... what else... ) behind it, as I had on a dotted swiss dress... my mother had made it, and it was also smocked in all white too... oh my goodness patience galore... anyway... I also tried that new kind of punching which you can see in the background... I also think that gives this card a little bit of a vintage look too...
Going into my gallery of flowers .... Pretties by Bonnie I picked out a flower... copied it into different sizes and then using some Shell pink and Old Paper distressing inks I 'colored' the flowers.. then I stacked them... added the pearl in the center... then I felt the card needed some other decorating... so I added pearls around the edge... Also a wide ribbon chiffon bow...

The white papers were altered with old paper and Photo vintage distressing inks... by Ranger...

This card is one that I have seen Kittie do quite a few times and have always loved it... so I felt I HAD to do this one..

A stamp, stamped twice... down the length of the paper... and the punched with martha again... I colored the flowers with colored pencils... but to make the white ones stand out.. I took a light tan pencil and colored in the background... just to make the white pop.. a bow... and a piece of green paper... and DONE!!!

Hope you like these today...
and that you will try something new and a little different too..

Glenn and I are celebrating our 42nd wedding anniversary tomorrow... so most likely I will not post... but you never know....

Thanks for stopping by... and drop me a line if you want to chat and can't leave a message on here...

My e-mail is bongem@earthlink.net... love to hear from you..

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie

Spinner on the table...

Okay… do you have all different kinds of reinkers from all different companies??? All different sizes, names etc… and when you go to create a card or ink something you don’t know exactly where to find it???

Well.. I am a very organized person… and if I can’t find something it drives me crazy… sooooooo……this is what I came up with…

I had seen on Becca’s Blog a really neat thing… but I knew it wasn’t for me… I dont’ have a peg board.. and it would end up being clutter for me in my studio.. BUT I loved the zip lock bag and the names on the front… but I changed around the top little pieces, as I don’t have a place around me to get these little doo lollies for the top… so I taped a piece of cardboard on the top… and used my Chinese hole punch to create a hole… and put them onto the rings… okay.. .I also got a little more compulsive… each ring is a different color of pads… LOL… why are you laughing… and then on each ring I also color coded it with a piece of ribbon, so that I could also find the rings easier…

I really love it… and all you have to do to use the pad… open the zip lock bag and ink away… so easy…

The pads are made from sheets Cut N Dry by Inkssentials… love it… if you can’t find it, let me know.. . I will tell you where you can find it.. the sheet is 8 X 10 and you can get about 24 little pads from one sheet…

It all depends on how many reinkers you have or have to have… LOL.. like all of them… (obsessive in all ways…) How are you suppose to use half a box of crayons… or even broken ones… now I ask you… Here on the side are the pictures of my spinner and all the bags attached to each clip…

All of these are available from Ranger… so if you are having trouble finding these, please let me know..

For those of you who know what my studio looks like, I will have this around my inking and stamping area… so that I can always have any color available and in easy reach… love it… so much fun creating on another level here…

Have a fun time… and Victoria and Mary… I have tons of bags, and we can get this done really quickly… LOL.. Fun and games.. a compulsive week-end..

After notes...

As you can see in this pictures.. I have the ribbons on the top... and the circles are just looped over the chips.. easy to remove it you have to for any reason..






















Each bag is easily opened and the pad slips right out...













Each bag is labeled... and no I don't have stock in a tape company.. but I used what I had on hand... it was all free... except the stand and the pads... and of course the ink... but I have over 70 colors at my finger tips... how fantastic is that..

I do hope that you have enjoyed this fun thing to create to solve a messy problem in your workspace...

Enjoy a fun time...
Thanks for taking a stop by my Blog...
Loved having you visit...
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

INCHIES

The Cuttlebug Challenge this week is INCHIES...so when given this challenge my mind said... something small.. I use to do a lot of trading of ATC's... in fact over 75 people each month... and we traded 3 cards to each gal... yikes.. I was making millions of ATC's every month... I then realized that I was not going to move onto inchies... and was going to move onto other things.. .so here is my inchie box... each little box is only 1 x 1 inch... and only 1/2 deep... and the whole little box is only 2 3/4 inches tall and that includes the flowers... which I also made from punched flowers... and stacked them one on top of the other... I used a very pretty cuttlebug folder that is one of the narrow strips to decorate the edges of the box... The small box on the left side is a box with a lid that is only 1 x 1 too.. and 1/2 deep... the flowers make it almost an inch tall.. LOL.. yeah I am crazy... but that is me..



When the box is open it looks like this... with the four little boxes to fill with all kinds of tiny little things... Actually I thought it would be a perfect box to put a few rings in, when you travel... you can put that into a secure place in your jewelry bag... The lid keeps it closed...



Okay.. so after I made this little box... I had to make a few cards... using inchies...





I started with a nice piece of paper where I had used one of the Asian weave Cuttlebug folders... and then built from there up... Cuttlebugs are always a good place to build from. It gives a nice foundation...

I used some inchie stamps from Inkadinkadoo that were all birds... adn then added some larger birds from Sparkle n sprinkle...
Some Spellbinder dies were used... and the card was fun..



A little on the shabby side for the next card...

I painted a piece of paper with my Twinkling H20's... and then ran it thru my Cuttlebug... Love that soft look it gives and yet when holding the card in your hand it much more dynamic than you see from this picture... I then took some simple flower stamps and created my inchies... and mounted on 1x1 inch squares... Wrapped up the entire kraft piece with gold thread... and then mounted onto black card...

I do like incorporating inchies into a project... and use them often... Love the look of them.. thanks for the Challenge and hope you will also take advantage of the challenge and post on the blog... at the Cuttlebug Challenge area... have fun and enjoy making your inchies...

Have a fun day...And thanks for stopping by for a visit... I am going to go ink my hands and start to play too.. Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

After the Wedding

Well after any wedding there is always the Honeymoon... right... well this week is also Our anniversary... 42 years as of June 26th... wow... and we still LOVE each other...

So here are some cards that were made during the week of wedding on the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog Wedding Affaire week... As you know I put up all kinds of cards to support that project... If you have not entered your wedding card... please go to Wednesday and look for the My Linky and send yours up... there are prizes galore for last week.. I hope you win some..

Here is a card that I made.. .and the center medallion is a casing of Amazing Paper Graces card a few weeks or month ago... time??? can't quite figure it out yet... anyway... I just loved this and created it a little bit differently... but similar...



This card I made for Tea Pot Tuesday... where we were in NYC... and that did bring up some feelings for me.. .that is sure.. at one time, I was a young woman... working in the garment district... designing fashions, fabrics... living the high life and enjoying every minute of it.. .but am sure glad that I live on the FARM now... yikes... the city pace is way too much for me.. but at the time ... love that too..












The Sea... We have a FAT BOOK coming up with the theme of Sea, Sand and Shells...So I have been creating all kinds of pages... trying to figure out which one to create... this one went into a card... so it is not this one.. you will have to check back in July some time in ART BETWEEN THE PAGES to see what I did.. Entirely different..

But a little bit the same...
Thanks Wanda Cullen for the directions on the knot.. .I loved it when you did it on that special card... and got the directions... and will use it on my fat book pages... thanks again..





Okay... now during that WEDDING AFFAIRE time, I had quite a few friends over to play... one day Brenda and I were fooling around with inks.. and we created some fun cards...

Here is the one that we did with the horse.. so much fun.. I did change it around a little bit from the ones we saw on line... but we had so much fun doing these .. I also turned this one into a Father's day card for my Sweetie... the fence is on the side, so that the horse can run free...Our Pinkie ( a Belgium) died a few years ago.. and Glenn still misses him greatly..

Another card we created ... done our way.. adn then cut and of course I had to add one of the newest folders... SEEING SPOTS by Cuttlebug... love that... the four corners are also cuttlebug die cuts... love this ... I also used Speelbinders for the focal point to be highlighted... Love the colors of this one..








On Splitcoast Stampers, one of the challenges that I did during this time, was to make a one piece... I dont think I had ever truly made a one piece card... it was not as easy as it looked to me.. I love layers.. DUH... and so this was a true challenge for me..









One of my favorite designs from this one line sight was this one... again we did change quite a few things... but very similar... Mine if the one on the left... and Brenda did her's in the other direction... I love both of them.. we really did have fun with making these...

Since that time, I have show two other groups of gals how to create these cards too.. everyone has fallen in love with making them... so I guess we will all have very inky fingers in my circle of friends... LOL.. that is fine.. it is better than a soriety pin... you don't have to remember to wear these... they are always with you.. I do hope that you have enjoyed these... I do have some more things to share with you... I am posting the Native American Book in the Art Between the Pages blog... So take a look to see all the gals work... some really nice pages..

Thanks for visiting my blog today... hope you enjoyed all the cards ... and please come back again.. even though it is acting up... I hope I can publish this... I dont' have any control right now with where anything is going on this blog... ugh...
Have a fun evening... Love, Light and Peace..Bonnie

Just a few more Cards to share

Here are a few more cards that can be changed over to bridal cards... Take a look at all the Bridal items on Cuttlebug challenge Blog.. As the bridal week is just ending up.. what a week of GREAT pieces of work... right down to the Finale CAKE... WOW.. .and butterflies created with the CAKE CRICUT.... What a cake... love it..

Okay... here are few more cards to share with you.. .this one is done with the new Swirl folder... and then the center cut with Spellbinders... love it.. layers going down and then up...

So much fun... Added some Grand lace... and a bow... wow..


This is a card for a sweetie... Lace top and bottom, and then I used the tiny heart folder for the background... love that as much as I love the dotted swiss... wow.. .(Heart is also a cuttlebug die cut and then embossed... )

The heart is colored in with watercolor pencils... and then a little time bit of water added.. just to brighten them up..

I created the flowers with some punches... and put pearls in the centers...









A good Friend of mine and Blog Follower.. SARAH!!! Made this poinsettia for me for Christmas... I just couldn't put it away... so I create this card to showcase it... Sarah created this poinsettia as an ornament... I have to add also that Sarah is 90 Years young... right Sarah??? She is a very very talented woman..

All Martha Stewart corner punches ... but the background is my fav... dotted swiss.. after all I had to add that... lots of seed pearls all the way around it too..

I love the poinsettia Sarah... thanks again..








I loved this card so much that I made 12 as cards to mail out at Christmas time... All the flowers are available at Pretties by Bonnie... I will have it posted this week... I promise..

Hope that you have enjoyed all these bridal or could be bridal cards... I will resume with some others that I have been working on this week, tomorrow.. .so check back in... you will be surprised at the difference in mood around here...

Thanks for stopping in, and all the comments and e-mails.. love it.. thanks a million..

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie

New Cuttlebug Folders Card

EDIT:  January 31, 2013 

I have had so very many requests for these cards... so I have made them available in kits... 
For more information... please contact me...   



Okay.. .I got some new Cuttlebug folders the other day like I told you.. and wow.. have I been having fun with them.. .I cut and emboss everything in white cardstock and then start to layer and recut more, and layer more.. take away... add more... use some spellbinders... add some flowers... add some swirls... take away... add some birds... like them... will keep... cut some more leaves... dont' like that paper... paint some paper, with Twinkling H20's.. they need to shine... This is how it goes... almost 12 hours of it..
And then I start to see what I liked... and what I am going to keep and what goes... this is the finished product... totally opened...

But when closed... it looks like this..
on the left... (or where ever it ends up.. I still can't figure out how these pictures are going to end up.. never the same on here.. but life goes on... )

Anyway.. this is made with Lace Door Folder... it is cut and embossed , but there is a center to it also.. which is still on the table being patient for it to be used on something else.. I then mounted that on a corner and border sheet with Martha's punches.. and then mounted that on scored paper... the heart was put onto the heart shaped hole that was cut thru all the layers... you can sort of see some of the purple ... but not much.. At the bottom of each one of the panels is the Grand Lace Border by Spellbinders... A bow and ribbon is on the top part of each one of the lace borders..

Okay.. .so now you start to open the card...


And this is what you see... on the left you will see He Loves Me folder... and the back side of the heart from the cover of the card... it is mounted onto another Heart border and corner sheet using a Martha punch set.. which is used thru out all the pages..



















On the right you will see the scored paper and a dragonfly... the dragonfly is two stickers... each one put onto acetate and then cut out and layered to look like they are ready for take off... Then mounted onto the panel..so that all the wings are free to fly away...







Here is a close up of the dragonfly and the heart which I cut to follow the die of of He loves me folder..

















When you look into the heart you will see the purple flowers now.. that is for sure...



and a few of the pearl centers... peeking out at you..







Then you open this page...

and this is the center of the card... In all it's glory...





This panel is created with Brocade Window folder ... and I used it on Parchment paper so that I could do a little -->pergamano... Which I did... and then I lined it with a very delicate lavendar paper... I also added a little bit of another folder called Elegant Elllipse... it is just the outside top part of it... down at the bottom of the opening you will see one of the labels... which is painted with twinkling H20's... as are the flowers... which are all from Pretties by Bonnie .

This gives a very elegant center focal point to this card...
I love this card... and I think it is my very favorite card that I have made at this point... tomorrow another ... and then the beat goes on as they say..

I had quite few inquiries today from gals about these folders... asking pricing etc... they are not the usual price of the Cuttlebug Embossing folders... because they are not like them at all.. this folders look different, perform different and also are FANTASTICALLY WILD... I love them.. you can really build and build with them.. all different kinds of things..

Here is a close up of the center... and also of the label area... the shine on the paint is so wonderful.. .that is why I love it so very much..
I used paints and also markers to create the color on the parchment paper... and also white and gold gel pens for detailing..

The little birds were added to give some more life and movement to the card... you need to have life with flowers or they look unreal...

The flowers all have a pearl in the center... and are glued onto the parchment... with a quick drying glue... I am having a lot of problems with zots and foam squares not sticking... my house is warm in the winter... above the average household... we heat with wood and the stove is under my studio... ugh!!!! and then in the summer I really can't have the AC running.. so it is hot then also.. so maybe that is the problem... but either way.. I am starting to use more and more glues.. and find that it works better... my cards are staying together!!!! YEAH!!!


This is another close up.. and the final picture..

So go to your local store and see if they have these in stock... buy them all.. as one gal wrote today on SCS... as I put a card up using some of the other folders... and she had seen them and didn't buy them... her comment was "<--- ...="" 4="" a="" all..="" all="" also="" am="" and="" are="" at="" back="" be="" beautiful="" by="" couple="" create="" day..="" day.="" day="" dont="" enjoy="" even="" few...="" find="" folders="" for="" friends="" fun="" get="" great...="" greatly...="" had="" hands...="" hanger="" have="" having="" her="" hope="" href="http://www.cuttlebugchallenge.blogspot.com/" i="" in="" into="" is="" kicks="" locally...and="" lol..="" love...="" love="" make="" messy="" might="" more="" of="" on="" other="" out="" over="" play..="" putting="" results...="" see="" seen="" self="" she="" shopping...="" so="" some="" someone="" something="" stacy...hope="" still="" store="" sure..="" than="" thanks="" that="" the="" them.="" them="" they="" those="" to="" too..="" town="" trouble="" unhappy...="" us="" we="" well="" will="" wonderful="" wonderfully="" you="" yourself...="" yourself="">Cuttlebug Challenge Blog for a chance to win some wonderful prizes and also to see some FANTASTIC Wedding accessories... They are really all delightful and could and can be used for any type of festive get together... All are really creative and lovely... check it out NOW...

Love, Light and Peace.. Bonnie

Confection cards

EDIT :  January 31, 2013 

I have had so very many requests for these types of cards that I do have kits available...  

Contact me for more information 


Today I have a couple of new things to share with you... NEW CUTTLEBUG Folders... and they are entirely different that the ones we are use to... in all ways... First off they CUT and EMBOSS at the same time... So much fun... After this week, I will do a little bit something different and show you how it works up close...

This week though is the Wedding Affaire at Cuttlebug Challenge Blog... so if you want to see more .... go to the site... click on wedding affaire above.. it will take you there..

Okay... now... this card has an over lay of templates... and so it is really hard to get an idea of what I used... but I just had to do this card... it was screaming to be put up... and to be made in this manner... I really wanted to do these first couple of cards very simple so you could see the folders... This also has some Spellbinders lace on each end... Anyway.. wanted to share this one with you...
Okay..
This is one folder called He Loves Me... and when you emboss it, it cuts the heart out... wow..

I popped the heart just for some depth so you could see the heart a little bit better... Of course I had to add a butterfly and some flowers... come on.. it wouldn't be a card with out something on it..

I will be playing with this one a little bit more... and you will see it change over the next few weeks... keep in touch... LOL







This card I really had fun with...
There are two new folders used on this one... the dark purple and the parchment center are one folder... Elegant Ellipse
The white is another... Brocade Window... both are essential to own... yikes... so much fun for this style of card...

The white I left along, except to tie a lavender ribbon around and add some flowers to it... just to show that area off...

The center area... I used copic white opaque paint on the back of the parchment paper... and the purple also has a very delightful design all around it... but due to the darkness of the paper you really can't see it.. not even close up...

As you will see below...




But I did want you to see it... as the detail in these two folders are really elegant and quite dynamic in all ways...

















Here are some other cards that you might have seen on here prior, but I am trying to stay with the Wedding affaire this week on the
Cuttlebug Challenge Blog so I hope you enjoy these again... As you can see.. the background on this is a much used folder... and then some spellbinders to accent the sentiment... some flowers and DONE!!!












I had just gotten this tulip template and had to use it... I still love it, and enjoy it for spring or for floral occassions... like a wedding, or bridal shower or tea...
















Another card that I loved making was this Easel card... layers of dotted Swiss and a few simple daisies.. the scalloped oval is pin pricking... and very detailed... but if you want something to look elegant and swish... go for it... the Ultimate in giving a card or invitation...

WEll... I do hope that you have enjoyed these today.. and I will have some more tomorrow...

Reds, and also maybe a surprise... IF I get it done...

Have a super nice day...
Enjoy doing something CREATIVE...
Love, Light and Peace.... Bonnie