Using Cardstock for the Chalkboard Look

Yep, it's me again getting my crafty groove on. I couldn't be more excited to be taking time out to do the one thing that I love...MAKE STUFF! A few weeks ago this card was featured on the Core Blog:

Celebrate your next Birthday with a Core'dinations Black Magic card. With some simple sanding and heat embossing you can make it look just like chalkboard!

 
  Black Magic Birthday Card Supplies:

• Black Magic
• Glitter Silk
• Core Basics White A2 Cardbases
• Dust Buddy 
• Sand it Gadget
• Tim Holtz & Ranger Distress embossing powder
• Tim Holtz & Ranger clear ink pad
• Heat Gun and embossing tools
• May Arts Ribbon
• Xyron adhesive
• Stampin' Up! border punch
• Scor Pal
• Gina K Stamps

Step 1.   Begin by sanding the Black Magic cardstock first. It's important you sand BEFORE you stamp and wipe dust with Dust Buddy. Removing excess sand will help the clear ink pad stamp clearly to ensure a crisp image when you emboss.

 

 Step 2. Emboss with Tim Holtz & Ranger heat embossing powder. I like to use my scraps because sometimes it takes a few tries to get a good image.

 

Step 3. Add layers of Glitter Silk and more Black Magic along with embellishments.

 

It's a New Week

And man oh man is it GORGEOUS here! The sun has been out all weekend and just amazing. The kiddos and I went on a hayride on Friday and then they spent the rest of the weekend with my parents. I can't believe how much owen looooves the outdoors. He is just like my dad in that regard. Last time he was with them he came home with a turkey call (the ones for your mouth!) and last night he shared with me how to make a buck call or was it grunting? I have no idea but he watches the hunting channel in the morning while he gets dressed! So funny.

(one quick note..make sure you check out Core'dinations Facebook page we are doing a MONSTER give-a-way!)

AND I am editing to post my winner from the Kreaxions/Just Imagine blog hop....my winner is................... LORI! Make sure you email me your addy! Lori said...

Your project is cute, but those boys are the cutest...

Anywho....I wanted to share some more cards with you today. Oh and I will be announcing the randome winner of my punch SOON! ;) THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the comments. PLEASE check out some punches over at Kreaxions. You will LOVE LOVE them. They are so worth it, I mean you get FOUR different looks in ONE punch! You can't beat that.

Here are some more cards I did for the Unity Challenges over WCMD. I used Webster's Pages Hollywood Vogue line for these mini cards.

Core'dinations Core Impressions....

Some Waiting for Santa on this card....I used the Webster's Trim for the flower....

And last but not least some Post Cards from Paris ....this line never ever gets old...it gets more and more beautiful!

Bo Bunny and Masking

yeah, baby! it's the weekend...what a WEEK?!?!?!?! i taught my first class this week at a local community college and am totally stoked it is over...i got the first class jitters out of the way. i am so looking forward to next week and hoping and praying this is a new career path for me, i have always wanted this and worked so hard for it. I have been playing around with my instructor website all week, brain keeps yelling at me to get off the p.c. hey, at least i am not on here scouring the internet for all the new cha goodies, right? ;)

besides that...i got some time to scrap last night and made some cards. it felt good to snuggle in the whole with some vino and paper and chill {sigh}.

Here is a card i did for the BoBunny sketch this week. It is a BBQ Invitation. I just loved the Calypso line, BBQ'ing is a summer staple in our house and so is kissing the cook ;)

Of course...all these projects have Core'dinations on them! today is the last day for our contest so make sure you check it out!




For this layout, I cut out this cool swirl paper from BoBunny and it totally reminded me of water. so i traced it on a scrap piece of paper, cut that out and then used it as a mask...this way it would match the cut out. then i adhered the patterned "off" a bit so show off the masking.

These are photos of my crazy hubby, brain {that is my nickname for him for those of you that don't know that-his real name is brian--get it ;}, my dad and brother-in-law getting the paddle boat to work...turns out the rudder wasn't down so they kept going in circles. it amazes me that i even got the camera out between laughing and crying so hard.

SOOOOOO...i am a bloggin' fool these days. I just have a lot to say i guess. ha. things have been rough around here, lots of sickies, annoying medical bills that have piled up from owen's accident and henry's surgery this year, and just other schtuff.

so i made some cards this weekend for WCMD and lemme tell you, i like to make cards! WOOT WOOT! and i won a ridiculous prize package at CMK full of Crate paper goodies and some Magistical Memories goodies from SavvynSassy this weekend so yeah for me.

Hope all is well, don't forget to check out the Cards From the Heart Extravaganza over at Serendipity! it's for a good cause! our troops!!!











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