June 2012 KitVille

ScrapVille's monthly Kit Club, called KitVille is a  monthly challenge where you make anything you want using the supplies in the kit + 2 additional items from ScrapVille (which is really easy to manage- stickers, adhesive, papers, ribbons, distress ink/stains, stickles, etc). The June kit challenge included 2 6x6 Core'dinations papers, mini clothes pins and baker's twine. Here is what I made from the kit:

View the YouTube video here!

Both of these fairytale stamps are from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps (which ScrapVille can order for you). Cinderella is paired with the glass shoe (used glossy accents) and paper flowers along with bling ribbon. I used the decorative flourish background stamp from DeNami Design. Alice is paired with a super white flower with stickles and a pearl center. I printed a "drink me" bottle (image found on web) and used the clothes pin. I used decorative tape on the bottom that is Alice themed (from Amazon).

No stamp? No problem!

I love making Thank You cards- it's nice to create and give a hand written note these days in the time of so many electronic communications.

Last week, my coworker hand made over 20 different flavors of ice cream (along with home made fudge and caramel sauce) so I wanted to make her a special card. I don't have an ice cream stamp, so I used this image found here from a blog by @LauraCarter (found using Bing images search).

Recently, one of my coworkers took photographs of all the people in my organization and did an amazing job editing our photos to hang on a wall. I wanted to make him a masculine camera card, but didn't have a camera stamp, so I used this image found here from a blog by @tammyleebradley (found using Bing images search).

This is a good example of how to create cute personal cards without having to buy one stamp that you would not use more than once or twice (cards of course not for resale/personal gain- copyright violations with images found on the internet that aren't yours).

Berry Nice Day!

I love love love Moonlight Whispers stamps sold at Kraftin Kimmie. I made this card using Stella Strawberry- she is just to cute! I made the double looped bow with the Bow Easy tool- just $6 to make beautiful fast bows!
 

Cake Walk

For my latest Design Team kit at Scrapville, I used October Afternoon's new Cake Walk line to make 5 cards. I love how the black card bases make these retro style patterns/colors really pop! For the "Happy" banner card, I used a craft knife to cut out the sides and bottoms of the pennants and popped them up with pop dots for a fun look. I used Crystal Effects to decorate the banner patterns and Happy letters.

See the YouTube video here!

Paris

I am super in love with the trendy Paris themes right now. Here I used Impress Rubber Stamps "Eiffel Tower" and "Merci" stamps, Cavallini Decorative paper tape "Paris" and "Paris" Caballini Rubber stamps. For the background I used Impression Obsession Cover-a-Card Script and Cover-a-Card Passport. The framed red ovals and black/gold circle stickers are from Jolee's French General line. I've never been to Paris, but I'm in love with it! Super fun to play with...

Under the Sea

My June design team kit from ScrapVille was to use the new Little Yellow Bicycle's "Splash" line to make cards. I love this company's designs!

See the YouTube video here!

This first card I made my own lifesaver ring, was really easy with a little glossy red paper from one of the LYB die cuts and some bakers twine. I made the orange fish out of extra ribbon.

This next card is a gatefold. I love that green ribbon under the seahorse- reminds me of seaweed!

Love using the LYB die cut as a card insert, looks like an under the sea window!

This card is much better in person (or see the YouTube video). These are transparent fish from the LYB line taped on a side step card. So flippin' adorable! Love this idea.

Of course my first thought when I saw the papers was how adorable my DeNami stamps would be with these... for this first card I used the C85 Sailboat Chickie stamp along with the PF39 Under the Sea stamp set and PF41 Sea Friends stamp set. I used C83 Wavy Dots as water and finished with the D132 You're A Treasure sentiment. I used the Citrone glitter on the chickie and Crystal Lacquer on the fish to give that sea-shine to them.

For this card I used DeNami's CL-D144 Fishing Chickie (Cling). I just love this stamp! I used the Citrone glitter on the chickies and Crystal Lacquer on the fish to give that slippery sea look.

KitVille!

I decided to join ScrapVille's first monthly Kit Club, called KitVille. The monthly challenge is to make anything you want using the supplies in the kit + 2 additional items from ScrapVille (which is really easy to manage- stickers, adhesive, papers, ribbons, distress ink/stains, stickles, etc).  This first kit challenge included 2 6x6 Core'dinations papers, twine and 3 white flowers. Here is what I made from the kit:

This was a super fun project and I adore this Basic Grey "What's Up" paper, which matched my kit paper and twines perfectly! I used distressed stains to color my flowers and added stickles and a pearl to each. I used Technique Tuesday clear stamps created by Ali Edwards (adore her stamps) for 2 of my cards and a neighborhood stamp from Stampin Up for the 3rd card.

You can see the YouTube video of all the KitVille May creations here.