Pink card!

Here's a little card I made for a friend of mine

(You have already seen it if you follow me on instagram or twitter).

I used the Gina K stamps set "A year of flowers"

A little bit of coloring with my copic markers...

And ready!

That's it for now,  I hope you are all well and thriving! 

DIY Starbucks Tumbler!

Spring coming I decided I needed a springy Starbucks tumbler fot my coffee, so, a few copics later and a lot of ink stains on my hands, here is the result!

I started by stamping the paper insert. On second thought I should have used Stazon because the paper is quite glossy and the ink smudged s bit, but, what's done is done.

Then, I lightly colored the background with distress inks and then, my copics had a party!

Here's the finished tumbler.

That's it for now, I hope you are all well and thriving!

Project:: Shadow frame #2

A friend of mine got married in July and I decided to make her a special shadow box: I made a fake magazine cover with a photo from her marriage using Photoshop, printed it and then embellished the frame.

 

 All the flowers, leaves etc are from an Inkadinkado clear stamps set that I colored with my copics.

I highlighted a few details with stickles

 

I heat embossed with white embossing powder some metal butterflies I had and added a strip of Flower Soft at the bottom. 

For the background I stamped with the Hero Arts "Old Letter" stamp and distress ink.
The result is really fresh and pretty, just like a new bride!

Project: Wedding Mirror

Here's another mirror I made, this one is a present for my friend's wedding (lousy photo though...):

 And here's some close ups:

Just some pink paper strips, a doilly and a dash of Stickles,and voila! A bride's bouquet! (Ok, sort of...LOL)

See, there are more ways to admire a good book!LOL!

Project: Cherry Blossom Bracelet

The other day I wanted to make a bracelet with grungeboard but I didn't have anything to use as a clasp. But THIS was exactly what I wanted, so I ordered Tom Holtz's fasteners and here it is!

I started with a piece of plain grungeboard 1 and a quarter inch wide. Then I covered it with white acrylic paint and while it was still wet I smudged with my fingers a drop of distress ink in Broken China and then sprinkled some water and Perfect Pearl mix on it.
When it dried, I stamped on it using a cherry branch stamp from an asian themed Inkadinkado stamp set and colored it with my copics. Then I added a drop of glue on the centre of the flowers and covered them with Martha Stewart's microbeads, while for the larger flowers, I used pearls.
When they dried, I covered the lot with some Claudine Helmuth's Glossy medium, so as to secure everything in place.
Last step, I added the fastener, then I didn't like the hole that much so I also stamped and colored a large flower from the same stamps set and glued it on top of the hole. This way I can also wear my bracelet with the flower on top or underneath, depending on my fancy!

And here is one more photo, to give you a better idea:

It takes a while to make one, but it's sooo cute!

Tutorial: Quick and easy tulle flowers

I bet you've already seen these flowers in my projects,

so here's how you can make them too (quick and easy)!
First of all, you need some tulle, I've bought mine from Jumbo. I fold the piece of tulle a few times and then I use an stapler as shown:

Then I cut a circle like shown, I also color randomly the center with a marker:

 Then I fold it around the back end of a pencil and while I hold it in place with a pair of tweezers I use my heat gun so that the tulle starts to shrink. A little attention is required because if it gets too much heated, it will be ruined.

 Here's the result:

Last step, I embellish the center with a pearl, or microbeads, etc.

 Quick easy and pretty, as promised! Have fun ladies!

Card Making: Happy Name Day!

I wanted to make a card for my friend's Eleni name day and I wanted to use this sweet Tilda, and I had the idea to place her outdoors. So I started by making the tree, I just made a tree trunk drawing, I cut it and colored it with my copics. For the folliage I just inked a piece of cardstock with green distress inks and then embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing forlder.
After positioning the tree on the card, it seemed too bare to me so I made a picket fence out of beige cardstock with a ruler and a pencil, I also inked it with distress inks. Then I used some green cardstock and made the grass and on top I adhered the Tilda with foam squares.
Then I added more strips of grass in front of the Tilda, but that was not enough, so I also made a May wreath with green Flower Soft and Martha Stewart's  microbeads.
When I thought that it was done, I realized that I forgot to add a "happy name day", so I made two little rocks with cardstock and distress inks and wrote the wish on them (LOL!) and...ready!

Beba Layouts: March 2010

For the March layout I chose a vibrant K and Company backround paper and I used the green and dark pink colors throughout the layout. After adhering the photos on green cardstock and positioning them in place, I
adhered two photos on a tag like cardstock piece and secured it in place with a photo corner because I didn't want to adhere it in place since I did some journaling on the back.
Then I started embellishing the page using color images that I had already mounted on dark pink cardstock for some contrast. Then I cut the Happy Easter and the date with the Cuttlebug "Harmony" alphabet and  then made some flowers using pink tulle, they're very easy to make, I just used a round scallop punch to cut them and then added one layer on top of the other and before positioning them on the page I twisted the bottom a bit and then added a pearl in the centre. Last step was to add the butterfly that I had already stamped on acetate and colored with my copics and some glitter and...ready!

Project: Mother's Day Basket

Today is a day of celebration for the moms all around the world, but here in Greece today was a day tinted with rage and grief due to the recent events in downtown Athens. We all realize that, alas, human life worths nothing these days, more so when it happens so close to you and under such circumstances, and after the spectrum of emotions that you go through, the residue is fear, fear for the next day and the next and the next, fear for ourselves, for our loved ones, fear for the human race all around the world.
That being said, I return to my little "safe" world, where I made a basket with flowers for my dear mom.

 This is a basket that I've seen many times in various blogs and YouTube videos, so I decided to give it a try:
I started with a 8x8 paper (from the DCWAW Garden Party paper pack) and scored every side at 2 and a half inches. Then I cut four squares at 2 inches and a quarter and adhered them on the four square pieces. I only made four cuts on the whole thing, I added some red lines in the photo so as to give you an idea.
I also covered the lot with Ranger's Crackle Accents.

 Then I added the strip of paper for the handle and secured the sides together with a brad, I also added on each side a flower and some green swirls I made.

Then I put inside it many layers of white thin paper that I had already stamped with the Hero Arts's "Old Letter" stamp and red distress ink and then positioned in the center a small plastic pot and...ready!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there, hope the children of the world will always be safe and happy.

Card Making: Happy Birthday!

When I received this sweet "Tilda with 3 flowers" I knew I had to use it right away, it is so cute! So I made a happy birthday card for a friend, but since this is my first sitting Tilda, I had to think a little about where she would sit on!LOL!
So, being spring and all, I decided to put her on a tree branch! This is how:
First of all, I used green cardstock for the card base and stamped on it with Versamark and a folliage stamp. Then I heat embossed it with a clear but sparkly embossing powder and then colored the lot with distress inks in various shades of green. Then I wiped the lot with a lightly humid paper towel, so as to reveal the stamped leaves.
Next step was to make the branches, so I cut them freehand from a brown cardstock piece, did some sanding, inking, etc and adhered it on the card. The result was ok but a little flat, so I started punching some leaves using the Martha Stewart Oak Leaf punch, and adhered them in bunches using foam squares.
Then I thought that I should add some tiny flowers and decided to make them myself using a technique that I see everywhere and lately in Scrapbooking in Greece as well. The result was ok, but I decided to enhance it using some UTEE on the petals for a little gloss, I also added a blob of glue in the centre and added some Martha Stewart microbeads.
Then I added the little birds, I cut them from a Cosmo Cricket leftover paper, I think it is quite a cute detail!
Next step, I positioned the Tilda after coloring her with my copics, I chose pink for her outfit because I really wanted her to pop inside all this green!
At this point I thought the card was ready, but then decided to add the Happy Birthday banner, so I colored pink a piece of ribbon and wrote the Happy Birthday on it with a white pen, added some flowers and leaves and...ready! I went wild once more while making this, but it was so much fun!