Saturday, October 11, 2014

Weekly card sketch #113 with Paper Craft Crew




http://www.papercraftcrew.com/pcccs-113-card-sketch/
  
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The Paper Craft Crew design team has come up with some fun card samples using this week's card sketch.  Check them out below and/or at this link:  http://www.papercraftcrew.com/pcccs-113-card-sketch/

Some great fall, halloween, and Christmas colors, and ideas for birthday cards too!










http://www.papercraftcrew.com/pcccs-113-card-sketch/

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Inexpensive bathroom redecoration in ombre gray tones



 Although one of our full bathrooms is a little smaller, we were able to fit some shelves above the toilet and there are also shelves under the sink - but it is an older bathroom....

 I got two of the pretty bathmats to put on the floor and also had the matching towel sets, and loved them....
 But this bathroom gets used a lot and the shower has glass doors and the overhead lighting is somewhat outdated, but probably won't be able to change these for quite a while due to the expense.

I did put some cute handmade pics up in it but recently am tired of our old looking bathroom....

When I saw this ombre shower curtain, I really liked the gray tones,but didn't know how I could use a fabric shower curtain with the glass shower windows.  And knew I would have to change the colors in the bathroom too.  Gray is the "in" color now, so I started planning what I could do to use this in this older bathroom....plus we were having company in a week!  When the ruffled curtain went on sale, I immediately bought one...

To use this curtain we just got a tension rod and put it above the glass doors and it looked great!

I had to buy some new accessories in the new colors as well - rugs and toilet cover:

New towels...the wicker wastebasket and small wicker basket I already used still matched, and I was glad that all the colors went well with the flooring....


And I found we had a cute gray bunny that I put behind the wicker wastebasket, and a gray and white kleenex box as well!!


I thought the bathroom felt like a new bathroom!  
Going to be using this new color gray for a while!

Do you find just changing out the colors in your bathrooms make it feel newer, fresher, and even cleaner too?!


P.S.  Got the ruffled curtain at www.touchofclass.com 
 (they have white and a few other colors too)

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Copictopia card sketch #4 and a pop-up gift card

 http://copictopia.com

I am having fun with the card sketch designs on Copictoia, using the digital stamps, and practicing with copic alcohol ink markers!
I fell in love with the little girl on Copictopia and used her to make my digital card for this week's CAS#4; of course, I had to use my favorite color, purple...


http://copictopia.com
Here is what she looks like on the website/blog:

Isn't she adorable?
http://copictopia.com

I also used one of the free digital dog stamps on Copictopia and made a gift card using "Rufus":




I tried to color Rufus so he would match the color of my furbaby, Inu:

Here are a few more pictures of my pop-up gift card, which is like an interlocking "puzzle" to open 
and close:




The last flap tucks down inside one of the other flaps.  I used black and white designer paper and a card box from Stampin' Up along with various copic markers.  I popped up Rufus and the "birthday" greeting inside with dimensional glue:





 


So here is the other side of the pop-up gift card; it's almost like making two cards!





The "Happy" was also popped up - I drew a few zentangle lines on the designs and put two gingham covered buttons at each end of the gingham ruched ribbon.

http://copictopia.com


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Three circle card for card design CAS3/Copictopia



 When I saw this card sketch design, I knew I had the perfect card to use for it!  This card sketch CAS#3 from Copictopia and I use the Natural Harmony digital stamp that you can get there as well:


 http://copictopia.com/downloads/natural-harmony/


 Because this is a digital stamp, I was able to resize it and punch out parts of it to highlight on my card - digital stamps are great for that and they are easily stored on your computer.  


 Here are the Copic alcohol ink markers I used, and I colored the rhinestones to match too!


 I choose these colors to match the designer paper, which is a retired Stampin' Up paper...




You can read lots more about Copics, digital stamps, card designs, etc. at http://copictopia.com/

or read the Copictopia blog at:  http://copictopia.com/blog/

or see even more of Cristena's designs on Pinterest:   http://www.pinterest.com/thecopictopia/