Here comes the Sun…do do do do

“Sunny Days” card

I love this honeycomb shape so I thought I have a little fun and make this simple yet colorful card. I punch out using several Bella Blvd papers and added a few fun Bella Blvd embellishments.

Supplies: 
Sunshine & Happiness: Happy Clouds, Sunny Side Up, Petal Flower; Baby Girl: Sweet Dreams: High Five Alphabets: Yellow; We’re Expecting: Baby’s Firsts Miniatures Stickers; Button Market: Stars: Ciao Chip: Clouds

“Baby” card

Loving the Designer Tapes from Bella Blvd! I used a few strips of tape and then cut out a shape from it to create this look. I love how it turned out and it’s super easy to make or mix up with all of Bella Blvd’s Designer Tapes.

Supplies: 
Designer Tape: Teal Stripe; Baby Boy: Cute Cuts, Chipboard Icons; We’re Expecting: Baby Boy Bump; High Five Alphabets: Green

Thanks for visiting today!

Tons of color on a A2 size card

“Spring” card

Hooray…it’s Spring!  I just adore the colors we get during Spring and today’s card clearly says that!  It’s a beautiful so get inspired and use some Bella Blvd product to make your next awesome card.

Supplies: 
Baby Boy, Miniatures, On The Go; Sunshine & Happiness: Happy Clouds, Sunny Side Up, Alpha+Bits; Spring Flings and Easter Things: Icons Ciao Chip; Designer Tape: Pink Flowers; Button Market: Feminine Mix, Masculine Mix, Fruit Punch

“Sweet Girl” card

I love to layer on my cards so making this window card really shows off all the Bella Blvd product I used.  Can you name all the products I used?  Well if you can’t, my supply list will have everything I used.

Supplies: 
Sunshine & Happiness: Cute Cuts, Juicy Good Time; Baby Boy: Heaven Sent; Designer Tape: Pink Flowers, Pink Stripe; Baby Girl: Miniatures; High Five Alphabets: Green, Pink-Red

Have a great day!

How to Layer Flowers?

Today’s post is all about flowers.  It’s the perfect embellishment for Spring!  I love all the fun and bright colors of this season. Petaloo’s Flora Doodles have the right shape, size and colors.

I couldn’t decide what flower I like best so I used a few to create today’s card.  Don’t you just love these flowers?

I started layering my largest Flora Doodles flower and used the smaller Flora Doodles flowers to fill in the empty spaces on my card.  I also tucked in die cut leaves where needed.  This is a great way to build clusters and to add more texture to your card.

Want another technique to use on your card?  Using the Mulberry Paper Flowers I like to fold them over and layer them on another.  I like this look because it reminds me of a Cone Flower Daisy(my favorite).

The only difference between a real flower and my card is my flower has a cute frog on it.  You can get these adorable frogs from the Dazzlers Water Animalscollection.

Supplies I used:

Jeweled Florettes - Blue/Pink/White/Yell – Baby’s Coming

Embossed Mulb.Paper Daisies - Chartreuse

Hope you enjoyed today’s techniques and come back tomorrow to see more creative projects by our talented Design Team.

 

Embossing, Painting and Wood Paper

Need something new to do with your paints?  Have you tried to paint using Creative Imaginations Wood paper?

On this card I dry embossed my wood paper.  Next, I colored in my embossed wood with paint and blended the background and stamped my card.

Don’t you just love the look of wood paper when it’s been painted on.  It’s has a really rich look to it and of course you can glitter.  I sprayed some Radiant Rain sprays on this, but I don’t think you can see the glimmer in this photo.

Supplies I used:

Silks Paint: Guatemalan Green, Sky Blue and Fern

Real Wood 6×12 Thin Birch

Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

How to Dry Brush with Paints

Dry brushing is a painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry can still holds paint. The resulting brush strokes have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance that washes or blended paint commonly have.

On this card I blended a lot of color to get the right effect.  You can blend these paints by dry brushing the paints on to your project.  I used Creative Imagination’s Nature Stencil Kit

Supplies I used:

Silks:Ginger Peach, Coral Berry, Sky Blue, Guatemalan Green, Sunburst and Carmen

Nature Stencil Kit 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

How to Create a Background using Alphabets

It’s another Bella Blvd product spotlight using Bella Blvd’s High Five Alphabets!

Today, I am focusing on the new High Five Alphabet Stickers. These 12×12 sheets, full of letters and numbers, are available in 5 different color sets. The great thing about the High Five Alphas, is that you’re not just getting one size and font to work with. You’re getting FIVE different sets of alphas, in different fonts, sizes, and colors. It’s so easy to find just the perfect alpha stickers for whatever project you’re working on.

“You Are Sun Shine” card, by Alice Carman.

I love text on paper so using today’s challenge I made my own text with Bella Blvd’s High Five Alphabets as my background paper. To create this look, cut out a circle. Next, line up rows of random letters across the circle. Then cut away letters that hang off the circle. This is a great way to use up the left over letter stickers we don’t use.

Supplies: 
Sunshine & Happiness: Happy Clouds, Cute Cuts; Baby Boy: Heaven Scent, Borders; Ciao Chip: Clouds; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Black-White

“Hi” card, by Alice Carman.

Here’s another fun way to use your High Five Alphabets. Line up words of the same meaning and change-up the colors like you see here. Add a few strips and ribbon and you have something cute and fun.

Supplies: 
Sunshine & Happiness: Borders; Baby Boy: Cute Cuts; High Five Alphabet Stickers: Black-White, Green, Yellow

Thanks for visiting and have a super day!

Silks…It’s a Paint?

Do you love paints and inky fingers?  Today on Cards by Alice I am going to feature the NEW Silks Luminarte acrylic glaze paints by Dreaming In Color.  These little pots have the same beautiful mica color as our Luminarte H20′s but work with our paints to cover more surfaces!  I am also going to show you a few techniques on how to use them.  I really had fun using these paints and I know you will too.

I started out by dry embossing white cardstock, (used an embossing folder).  Next I painted the whole card using Sky Blue Silks acrylic glaze. Then I used Emperor’s Gold Silks acrylic glaze paint to highlight the raised image by painting over it.  It onlylooks like it was a lot of work! And i just love how it turned out!

Can you see how shimmery the Silks paints are?  Isn’t this cool?

I also used Ice Silks on the stamped butterflies so you can see how shimmery the Silks are.  The Ice color Silks is a clear coat that can be used on any color surface to add that extra shine.

supplies I used

Silks: Emperor Gold, Ice, Sky Blue and Ginger Peach

Alpha Basics CS Sticker 2.2×10 

Real Wood 6×12 Thin Birch

 had a great time putting this post together for you all and I hope you learned something and don’t forget to check your stores for this awesome paint.

Ideas for Washi Tape

Hope you’re all having  a great day today.  Wanted to share a couple of cards using Bella Blvd’s NEW Designer Tapes .

“Making Memories” card

I’ve been playing with my Bella Blvd Designer Tapes and I just got to say … I love them! The colors and design on these tapes are so versatile along with everything else Bella Blvd makes. You can stamp on these, glitter them and wrap a gift with them. Super duper fun and totally cute for a quick and simple card!

Supplies:
Sunshine Happiness: Alpha+Bits, Miniatures; Baby Boy: On The Go; Designer Tape: Yellow Chevron, Teal Stripe, Pink Flowers, Pickle Juice Dot

“I’m Thinking About You” card

Here’s another idea you can use for a quick card using Bella Blvd’s Designer Tapes. You can line the tapes up against one another to create a rainbow pattern and decorate it using Bella Blvd’s matching stickers. Again it’s quick and easy and very easy to use on all your crafting needs.

Supplies:
Sunshine Happiness: Cute Cuts, Miniatures; Designer Tape: Yellow Chevron, Teal Stripe, Pink Flowers, Pickle Juice Dot; Button Market: Text

I just love these!!!! I know you will too.  Lots of ideas waiting for you to discover so drop by your LSS and pick up some Bella Blvd goodies.

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous day!

Color on Burlap

May Arts and Creative Imaginations Blog hop week!

Welcome to another May Arts and Creative Imaginations blog week.  We are so excited to team up with May Arts again!  Our Design Team has been hard at work crafting some of the most beautiful designs using May Arts ribbons and Creative Imaginations products.

Have you ever tried to paint on ribbon?  You can using our NEW Silks paints and using May Arts burlap ribbon.

Here’s a detail photo of how you can paint and blend usingCreative imaginations Silks paints and May Arts burlap ribbon, sheer flower and faux suede leaves.

Here’s another ribbon from May Arts you can paint usingCreative Imaginations Silks paints.

May Arts sheer frayed white flowers click here

May Arts faux suede leaves click here

May Arts Burlap ribbon click here

Dreamin in Color “New” Silks in Sunburst, Olive Vine and Sky Blue

Creative Imaginations Raident Rain Shimmering Mist in Teal Zircon click here

The burlap comes in different colors so here’s an example of what you can also  make using the different shades.

Have a great day and don’t forget to leave a comment on May Arts and Creative Imaginations each day for your chance to win some amazing prizes!

Just in time for Spring, Flora Doodles!

I love how beautiful the weather is after a major rainstorm.  Everything is so bright!  The flowers are in bloom with color and it has inspired me to create.

Today I am using Petaloo’s Flora Doodles.

Flora Doodles come in lots of bright, fun colors.

Jeweled Florettes – Blue/Pink/White/Yell – Baby’s Coming

available in 12 more colors! view

Jeweled Florettes – Blue/Pink/White/Yell – Baby’s Coming

available in 12 more colors! view

Aren’t these the perfect size flowers to use on cards?  I just love the size & volume of flowers you get in one package.  (both styles are $3.99 retail)  These flowers come in lots of colors so don’t forget to add these to your craft supply list or ask your local store to carry them.

Have a great day!