More Lily Pad Cards

Edited to add: The Lily Pad Cards just posted my interview on their blog, if you care to know more about my design process :).

Today's cards are for Lily Pad Cards' Challenge and yours truly is the sponsor (4 stamp sets are up for grabs!). I hope you will play along. I used Layers of Color's Happy Wishes and Regal Wings sets on my card. The papers are Webster's Pages. The yellowish panel is a little collage I put together using vintage images. I've been playing around with them in Photoshop and it's so much fun. Maybe one of these days, I'll share them here in full :). The border is my Spellbinders' Classic RicRac Edgeabilities.

Speaking of Edgeabilities, have you seen my birthday blog candy? I'm giving away the Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Edgeabilities.

Here are some friends' take on the sketch

Lynn

Linda

Keri

Finally, the Layers of Color team is having an Ornament Blog Hop tomorrow. From the LOC blog,

*All new creative designer project ideas for Christmas ornaments! *
*FREE unique Christmas ornament templates! *
*$20 gift certificate giveaways!*

You won’t want to miss this event that will add sparkle to your mojo this holiday season!

Spring Card Set and a Mini Tutorial

Thank you so much for your kind comments from the announcement I made yesterday about changes with my design work. Your support and encouragement mean so much to me. I will have some new exciting things coming up, so I hope you'll continue to stop by and visit me on my little blog :-).

As soon as I saw Moxie Fab's Card Set challenge, I knew I had to enter. I love making card sets and make them often. They make great gifts, don't you think? The colors on my card set were inspired by the Play Date Cafe's colors of pink, blue and silver - a challenge for me, but I'm glad to have these Graphic 45 Once Upon A Springtime papers to get me started. The sketch (mini cards) is by Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #41 (my cards are 4.25 x 4.5").

I used some of my favorite Layers of Color's sets: Nature Walk (flower, which was colored with Copic markers), Regal Wings (wings), Sent with Love (card sentiments), Happy Wishes (box sentiment). I die cut the focal image with Spellbinders Labels 10 and adhered it slightly curved.

And here is the box I packaged it in. This set will be a gift for a good friend.

I posted another card set in a box a few days ago and I received many inquiries about how I made that box. Here's a short tutorial on how I made the card box. The only difference is I used the Grand Nestabilities Labels 4 for that one and Labels 1 for today's box. A ScorBuddy will come in handy when mass producing these card sets.

My envelopes were 5" x 5", so I scored the box at 2-5/8" on both sides. You can adjust that, of course, depending on the size of your envelopes. Add about 1/4" to the width of your envelope.

You can also adjust the measurements below, depending on how thick your stack of cards and envelopes are. Keep in mind that when your cards are bulkier, you may need to make the score lines farther apart.

I hope you find that helpful. Have a great day!

Layers of Color Preview 1 and Winner!

I'm so excited to preview today one of the sets, Happy Wishes, I designed for Layers of Color. This, along with 2 more clear sets and 2 cling art stamps illustrated by Laura Campbell, will be released on January 17th.

This card uses Touch of Elegance, one of my all-time favorite LOC stamp set, as a background. The sentiment is from Happy Wishes set. I love the fonts - so vintage and elegant. This set has two big stamps and several smaller stamps to make your customized greetings. I will have more sneak peeks throughout the week and don't forget the BLOG HOP on Monday, Jan 17, for many chances to win the new release stamps.

And before I announce the winner of my blog candy, I just want to thank you again for your visits and becoming my follower. You are all a blessing to me and I'm thankful that I get to share what I love doing with you from my little craft table in Croatia. I hope you will always find inspiration here on my blog.

And now for the winner of my blog candy...Random.org picked #103...DARLA! Please contact me via tab above with your mailing address and I will send your goodies out to you asap.

Thank you all for entering my blog candy. I will have more coming up the next few weeks, including my new Layers of Color stamps and NEW SPELLBINDER DIES that I designed and will be released at CHA. Speaking of which, you can view one of them on Kazan's blog today. She did such a fantastic job with it. This is the other exciting news I alluded to yesterday and more previews are coming up. :-)