Zukesgirl Creates

I added a pop of red to this card. I love how this card kit lets you add whatever color you want. The silver pops against both the red and the black. I used another pop out from the sheet for the sentiment and added a bit of ribbon to it using my Tim Holtz tiny attacher. I lined the banners this time with the glittery black peel offs. I took the photo before finishing the inside which I added some white cardstock with a trim of the silver polkadots.

Got this fun mini kit on a recent work trip to CO. A little side trip to this scrapbook store, Scrap 2 It. It's a great store and an awesome friendly owner. I made the following cards with this cute little kit that works beautifully with the Sidekick. I used some scrap paper. It's fun to mix and match the patterned paper. 

I participated in the color throw down challenge this week. It happened to be their big 5-0-0. Wow! That's a lot of challenges. I loved the colors and tried to make a card that highlighted them. The challenge can be found  here . I used Honey Bees Spring Blossoms stamps and dies for the flowers. Gina K for the sentiment stamp. The blossoms were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Clear ink and embossed with Nuvo glitter gold embossing powder.  The flowers were watercolored using Tim Holtz distress ink (Spun Sugar and Blueprint Sketch) and to match the sentiment color I used TH Distress Oxide Blueprint Sketch. I added a little Spun Sugar to the background as well, to add some interest.  I cut the frames from a set of stitched rectangle dies in my stash and popped it up on foam tape. I layered the blooms inside and added the one to the frame. 

I'm always putting fun colors in my hair so I played with hers! Using the stamp set in the Love from Lizi June 2018 kit, I stamped her and the hair (they are separate in the set). I used a craft knife to cut out the hair and made it into a shaker. The background is Distress Oxide Inks layered, spritz with water and dried between the layers. Then a light coating of Distress Glaze. Nuvo drops - I know - you're shocked - finish this off. Oh! except the sentiment which comes from Heffy Doodle 'Whatcha Saying' stamps and dies.

Tried to focus on the items in the kit. In addition to the kit I used - Crushed Grape Delusions Spray, Coffee Shop Glimmer Mist to "pretreat" my lavender card stock. I mounted the photos on the Turquoise mirror card stock. But before I did I "gutted" them as Sandie  Steakgoddess  always calls it. I used the middle of "gut" to mat the trimmed photo with the puppy. I tend to do this with my specialty card stocks to get the best use out of them. I added Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers and made a couple of my own by trimming a bit off the bottom one of the sticker sheets. Simple layout - except for the large numbers of Nuvo drops. Well, since I used no peel offs, I had go crazy somewhere!

I got these cute little piggies from Mama Elephant and had to give them a try. I created two cards. The backgrounds are paper from the May Love from Lizi card kit. The piggies are stamped and white embossed on Bristol Smooth cardstock and colored with Distress Ink smooshed onto my glass mat and picked up with a water brush. The banner is a Simon Says Stamp Die with the stamp from the Ton (LOVING that typewriter font), with Love from Lizi embossing powder. The second card is more of the same. ;) And I gave a little peak of this insides. (Photos are a little over saturated. Sorry :(

I need thank you cards! I wanna play with my May Love From Lizi kit. The toucan die is so fun! OK maybe things went a little crazy from there.  The first two were very similar. Basically just changed the birds coloring a bit. I stacked the Tim Holtz thank you die with two white cuts out behind the blue topper and used Neenah Solar white 120lb card stock as a base but the rest is all Love from Lizi. I put the bird together on white card stock and fussy cut a close white border. I like the look and added dimension. The paper comes from the May kit. The patterned paper is two sided - it is the same paper. And they are outlined with mirror gold peel offs. I got a little focused on making the birds. The next few it replaced the tail fillers with glossy ebony black Nuvo crystal drops. Using the last of the paper. and then - I played some more. I think the last one (shaker) ended up as my favorite.