Face Painting Adventures

Every year my department does face painting as a fundraiser at the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Hilo. I was this year's co-captain, so I was in charge of face painting. Luckily we were able to get some pretty artistic volunteers to help us this year! Thank you to Sara, Kami, Jodie, Teri, and Wendi for spending most of your night helping us raise money for Relay.

Kami's first special request...

A Jamba Juice employee asked for the JJ logo on her cheek... I think Sara did a great job!

Another custom design by Kami...

Look- it even breathes fire!

Finally, I couldn't not have a Hello Kitty design available, right? I decided to make my own "stamp" by cutting a foamie using my HK Sizzlits. It didn't cut all the way through since I used a thick foamie, so I ended up cutting by hand following the cut marks. Then I mounted it on another piece of foam and voila! This was very popular with the older girls.

We also got some unusual requests... a moustache, a unibrow, and a blue face! I guess we'll paint anything for a $1!

Speechless..

Hi Everyone...

Got a nice post from Carol of Extreme Cards and Papercrafting that she had a blog award for me, so I went to check out her blog and boy was I floored that she would give me a blog award for inspiring her when her blog shows her level of paper crafting is way beyond what I'll ever hope to be. Thanks Carol, you are too nice.

So now its my turn to pass this on to those that inspire me... I know I just sent out a blog award recently to a bunch of you out there... here's a few more that I visit regularly...

Joy- A place to be me

Michelle- Mushi's Creative Inspirations

Michele- My Simple Crafts

The Girls @ Island Scrapbooking- Island Scrapbooking

Jen- Pieces of Me

Enjoli- Stampin Under the Sun

Joy- Tamiko's

Kelli- Wink and a Smile

Jen- Brain Things

Here's a non-crafting blog that I like to visit too..

Crystal- Adventures in Bentomaking

Thanks again Carol and the rest of you out there who share all your great ideas!

Copy Cat

Yes, I'm a copy cat. I like to borrow ideas and make them my own.... I think we all do that, right? Anyway, I just love learning from all you other bloggers out there... I recently saw a tri-shutter card and looked up the directions... found them at the Craftiblog click here...

Anyway, here's my version... had to use TGF stamps that I never used yet. These are part of the Wild Sprouts line of TGF. The sentiment is part of my Friends Hero Arts set. The Butterfly and roses are from Big Island Packaging (sorry, no company was listed). I like how the girl's head covers most of the words on the sentiment except for "friend".

Here's what it looks like when its open.

I also saw this card on Eunice's blog. She has such great ideas! You need the cricut, george cartridge and design studio in order to cut the flower from the cut file. This is my sample card- not that nice, but useful to look at the technique. Much easier than it looks!

Supplies:

Cricut- George Cartridge, design studio software

Stickles

Vine die- Sizzix

Cardstock- Bazzil.

Pop Up Scrapbook Card

Hi All! Hope your week is starting out well. Worked on this card over the weekend. I had told Tracy about my idea and was dying to show it to her after I finished it last night. Since I wanted it to be a surprise, I didn't want to post it till I could show it to her in person. This is actually Teri's Pop Up Scrapbook that I scaled down to card size. Instead of using 12x12 paper, I used 8x8, so each square came out to a 4x4 size.

I didn't really intend to give this card to anyone, but since the girls at Island Scrapbooking have become my friends, I thought I'd give this to all of them...

Here's the first "page"... Caption says "Meeting new friends"

"Page" 2... "Who share"

"Page" 3.. "The same interests"

Finally- the last page... "as you!"

See, she's now with all of her new friends!

In case you are wondering, yes, I stamped the lanterns, stickled them, and then cut each one out. I then strung them using a lei needle. I poked holes in each page and knotted them so that the lanterns would stay in that section.

It actually didn't take as much time as I thought it would. Waiting for the stickles to dry took the longest.

Don't know if you can tell, but each doll actually pops out from the background. It reminds me of a little doll house. I guess that's why I decided to use the Japanese doll set by Hero Arts.

Supplies used:

Japanese girls- Hero Arts

Markers- Copics

Washi paper- Hanko designs

Cardstock- Bazzil

Sakura punch

Crystals- Hero Arts

Stickles

Gold cord

Ribbon

Dew Drops

Have a great week!

Magic Card Class

Just wanted to share some of the cards from today's Magic Card class. We all had the same paper kit but the girls in the class chose different stamps to work with. All of them came out so cute!

Here's the card when its closed.....

Abracadabra!

Here's Amy's card using the Greeting Farm Dhalia stamp..

Here's Belinda's card using the H&G Sing stamp...

Here's Susan's card using my favorite- Snuggle stamp.

And finally, here's my card featuring either Hope or Grace... not sure which is which!

These gals were so talented that eventually the students didn't even need me there!

Sorry to my first class- I forgot to bring my camera! I know I'm so junk. I'll try to remember next time so I can feature all of our cards.

Magic Card (adapted) Tutorial

As requested, here's the tutorial of my version of the Magic Card (adapted by me). It was adapted from the instructions posted on Split Coast Stampers. I had problems following their instructions, so I made some adjustments and it works better for me.. hope it helps you!

Supplies:

One 4 1/4” by 5 1/2” cardstock– card base (you can also replace with an A2 card so it will open)

· One 8 1/2” x 10 1/2” for cover (if using patterned paper cut 8 1/2” side facing up; 10 1/2” side should be facing sideways)

· One 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” white cardstock– for colored image.

· One 4” x 5 1/4” piece of white cardstock (backing for non-colored picture). Note- I've found that I've had to trim this down a little so you may have to too.

· 1 sheet of Acetate (~ 4 1/2 “ x 6 1/2”- allow room for trimming).

· One 1/2” x 3” of cardstock– for top of image.

· Ribbon

· Paper flowers, flourishes, crystals, Stickles (all optional) Tools:

· Stamp– The Greeting Farm images are recommended because of their size. Try to use line stamps (not those that are filled in).

· Stamp– Greeting (optional)

· Paper cutter

· Score blade or bone folder

· Markers or color pencils

· Double stick tape

· Scissors

· Staz On black in pad

· Spellbinders Oval dies- you can try using different Spellbinders shapes.

· Hole punch (1/8”)

· Circle Punch

· Sizzix Big Shot

Instructions: 1. Score your 8 1/2” x 10 1/2” cardstock horizontally at 5 1/4”.

2. Reposition cardstock vertically and score it at 4 1/4”. You should now have 4 panels.

3. Change to a cutting blade and cut out upper left panel.

4. Cut off 1/4” off the long side of the right panels.

5. Cut on score line between the right side panels leaving 1/2” on each side. (hint: If you turn the paper horizontally, start cut at 1/2” and end at 3 1/2”. Hope you can see where I cut on the score line.

Put piece aside for now and work on stamped image.

6. Using 3 1/2” x 5 1/2” of white cardstock, stamp image ensuring at least 1/4” on each side and at least 1/2” from bottom. Try to center image as much as possible.

7. Color image as desired.

Note: You could stamp a sentiment here if you want to. I normally wait till the card is almost done so I can see if I have enough room for the words.

8. Lay acetate over image and try to center it– leaving space to trim acetate.. Note: if you are a good stamper, you could probably use a smaller piece of acetate, but I leave room so I can trim.

9. Stamp image using Staz On black ink. Don't laugh at my stamping... I didn't re-do it because I just wanted to make this tutorial! Normally, I would have re-done it. I put it on blue so you could see that it was stamped on the acetate.

10. Adjust acetate so that it lines up perfectly with colored image. Using double stick tape, adhere acetate to the top of the image so that it lines up perfectly.

Its hard to see but this photo shows the double stick tape at the very top of the cardstock.

I start lining it up from the bottom of the image and work your way up so that you don't accidently get the acetate stuck to the image in the wrong place. You should have excess acetate over the cardstock.

11. Trim excess acetate so that it is the same size as the cardstock.

12. Carefully trim off 1/4” from each side of image keeping 1/2” at the bottom. (hint: at 1/4”, trim up to 5” from top- stop at 5").

13. Now, trim off the strips you just cut. You should have a tab at the bottom of the image. Cut off the tab from the ACETATE ONLY. Keep the tab on the cardstock.

If you look closely, you can see that I just cut off the acetate tabs and not the cardstock. If you cut the cardstock tab, your slider will not stay in the card! This photo isn't that good I know... Sorry!

14. Take 1/2” x 3” cardstock and score at 1/4” (in half the long way).

15. Using double stick tape, adhere to the top of the image/acetate piece so that it covers both.

16. Get card cover piece and fold top right panel down, so that there are 2 panels (side by side).

start with this...

end up like this

17. Get the card cover piece and on the left panel, line up stamped image to the bottom of the card. Center image.

18. While holding the image in the center, get the largest oval Spellbinder’s die and center over the stamped image.

19. Carefully remove the image while holding the oval die in place. This is the only way I could figure out how to cut the hole where I wanted it!

20. Cut oval using Sizzix Big Shot Machine. Re- measure to see if you cut it correctly.

21. Adhere white 4” x 5 1/4” cardstock to the back piece (piece w/oval cut from it will go over this piece.

22. Punch a 1/2 circle for the tab at the top of the card cover.

23. Carefully insert the card from the bottom. This photo shows where the slider should go.

There are 2 pockets that you can slip it in– it should go in the back pocket.

26. Pull image up from the top of the card through hole on the top– card should not be able to pull completely out from the pocket.

27. Carefully pull out the acetate sheet only and insert it into the front pocket (where oval window was cut).

28. Test mechanism to see if when you pull out image from top if it appears colored.

29. Punch a hole at the top center and attach ribbon.

30. Fold excess cardstock of card cover over the card so that it closes it in the back. Tape card cover closed. You could score the excess piece at ~ 1/4" but sometimes the cardstock is too thick and it won't close well.

31. Adhere card cover to card base.

32. Your card is almost complete! Just embellish as desired.

I'd love to see what you do with this card! The possibilities are endless! Have fun!