A Purple Christmas

Hi! It's Amber here with a blog post. Yes, I know the next Craft-Dee BowZ DT blog post should be next Tuesday but that is Christmas Eve! So here I am with my blog post now. Also this is my last blog post for Craft-Dee BowZ but don't worry, you will still be able to catch all my work over at my blog and you can be sure I'll still be using the Craft-Dee BowZ maker on all my creations!

The ribbon Donna sent us was a very pretty purple but my camera doesn't like it so that is why it looks like it does. I paired it with the same color cardstock that I stamped sliver snowflakes on. Used a Christmas tree bling again on silver cardstock. The background I embossed with an ornament folder and then distressed the cardstock to show the purple.



Hope you have enjoyed my posts while on the team. Can't wait to see next year's teams' projects. Thank you, Donna for allowing me to be a part of Craft-Dee BowZ maker's first Design Team. It has been an exciting adventure and like I said, I'll always be using the Craft-Dee BowZ maker.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Amber

Be Thankful

Hello. Tis a busy time of year but I managed to make a quick card for today. Fall theme of course.

Used a leaf die and cut out two colored leaves and popped them up on the cream. For the third I decided to use the negative piece and let the color cardstock show from behind. Stamped misc sentiment on side and added white gel dots on the scallop borders. Used the Craft-Dee BowZ to make a multi loop bow.

Close up of the bow.

Happy Stamping,
Amber

Trick or TREATS

 So Donna challenged us to make our Craft-Dee BowZ project a non card project but Halloween theme. Well we don't 'celebrate' Halloween at my house so I went way out in left field for my project.

I like to send in goodies with hubby for his co-workers so I decorated a "Treat" container for him to have on his desk that still looks "Halloweenie" but doesn't mention it at all.  Took some of the ribbon Donna sent us and made a triple loop bow by doubling up my ribbons.

 Instead of just laying the ends of the ribbon around the container, I decided to twist the two ribbons together. Using a spider web die, I cut out the spider web and attached it just by the corner. If you look closely you will see a small little spider (sticker) on the web. Printed out a pumpkin digi image from Paper Pretties that I colored and added in the corner.

Now what to fill the treat container with? How about Pumpkin Oreo Muddy Buddies? Oh my gosh! I didn't think I was gonna have any left to put in the mini baggies as this stuff is just that good! Tied each baggie up with some ribbon that I had (keeping with the black/orange color theme).

So there is my way out there "Halloween" project. Hope I have inspired you in some way to create your own treat container for your desk. (and who cares if you don't have co-workers... a desk is a desk! ;) )



Inky hugs,
Amber

Happy Fall, Y'All

Hello, Amber here with today's Craft-Dee BowZ blog post. Fall is one of my favorite Seasons besides Winter, Spring... oh shoot, I guess I like them all but I do love Fall. The colors that the outdoors brings is so over whelming and amazing that I wanted my card to go in that direction.

I used the Woodland Branch die that Donna supplied us with and went a little crazy for my die cut birdie. Used Fall design paper and colors for my card. The orange/green bows just pop right off the card.

Now I want to go find a big pile of leaves to jump in! Happy Fall, Everyone!

Inky hugs,
Amber

How Beautiful a day can be

Good Tuesday morning! Amber here with you newest Craft-Dee BowZ card. This month's theme was a sketch we were all given along with some goodies.

Using two different ribbons, I made two different bows, adding tails only to the red bow. Layered the red bow on top of the striped loop bow.

I stuck with a red/white/black theme for my card, scoring the white papers to give it an embossed look. Adding a sentiment and a decorative bottle cap to finish off my card.

Till next time! Get inky!
Amber

Sand between your toes

 Hello everyone! It is my turn to bring to you a project made using the Craft-Dee BowZ maker along with our theme for this month and some extra goodies from USArtQuest. Our theme this month was the colors blue and tan along with a beach theme. The goodies from USArtQuest included Mica Flakes, Prills, Dicrofibers and Perfect Paper Adhesive. Time to put on the thinking cap!


I decided to make a card as we have never been to the beach so no pictures for a scrapbook page. But I do have beach theme stamps! I pulled out a beach theme saying from Just For Fun Rubber Stamps. Using some burlap ribbon, I made my bow with the Craft-Dee BowZ maker as you can see the close up below.

Time to pull out the "Cottage Garden" Dicofibers and have some fun. "These fine, luminescent fiber threads are both light reflective and light refractive. When pressed between parchment paper with a medium-hot iron they produce a brilliant, flexible fiber sheet that can be used like paper or fabric." (taken from the USArtQuest site)

 I used two different colors, lilac and periwinkle, fusing them into fiber sheets. I then ran them through the cuttlebug using a flower die that cut three different sizes. Using the Perfect Paper Adhesive, I attached the Prills to the middle of each flower. Also used the PPA to attach my flowers.

Look closely to the picture above... do you see the gold edging? That is the Mica Flakes. I again used the PPA to attach the flakes to the outer edge of my oval.

Now that you have seen all the snippets of the card..... are you ready to see the finished product? Here you go!  Look how well the Mica Flakes and the Dicofiber/Prill flowers set off the card.

Hope you have enjoyed my take on the beach theme and on the USArtQuest products. Now if only I was posting this from the beach, my life would be complete!

~ Amber

Mr. & Mrs.

So the theme this month for the DT is wedding and the colors are cream or white. What? Colors? Omg! I totally forgot about the colors because when I saw the pretty ribbon we had to work with, my mind automatically went Vintage.

But in looking at my finished card, I played by the "challenge" as I do have cream on my card. Whew! I used brown ribbon to which I laid lace over top of it and then made my triple loop bow using the Craft-Dee BowZ maker. I love how the lace stayed right on top of it during the entire process.

To make my card even more vintage looking, I sponged distress ink on all the pattern paper layers. The middle is chipboard covered in paper and then distressed. I stamped "Mr. & Mrs." in two different shades of brown ink on the oval covered chipboard. To finish off my card, I attached some "wedding" rings to the side of the covered chipboard.

Hope you enjoyed my card!
Amber

A Dream....

Good morning. Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I have a card for you today. Stamped flower image first and then stamped wording over top of it in a different color. Hard to see from the picture but I colored in the flowers with some shimmering H2Os in purple. Added some rhinestone bling under the bow which of course uses the Craft-Dee BowZ maker.

Used a border punch for the side stripes. Oval was cutout with Spellbinders and is popped up with dimensions. I also sponged some ink on it before mounting it.

Inky Hugs,
Amber

Happy Spring

Happy Spring.... I think! I say "I think" as we just got 4 inches of snow yesterday at my house! Of course I am loving it as I'm a big snow person but I know plenty of people are ready for Spring. At least maybe my card will get you in the mood for Spring.

We were to make an unusual fold card. Now that can be a toughie but after looking around (aka Pinterest), I found one... Cascading card.  ( You can find a few directions on how to do this fold over at SplitCoastStampers)

I used two sided pattern paper for my card. To give the top more of a look, I cut it using a border punch. It's a Spring card, right? So what is Spring without some flowers? So I added a few flowers of various sizes and a sentiment that says "Happy Spring". Of course we can't forget that bow, so I added a double loop bow using the second to smallest setting on the Craft-Dee BowZ maker. I also added a few extra tails to the bow while making it.

Here is a top view of the card. I attached entire cascading card to a piece of white cardstock to give it a stronger base.

And here is a close up of the bow.

Hope you enjoyed a little bit of Spring today!


Inky Hugs,
Amber




ps. I just realized (in looking at older blog posts) that Barbara also made a Cascading card for this month! Now you have two different takes on it to get you started on your own.

One in a Million

I had fun creating this adorable card that can be used for St.Patrick's day or for any other occasion you need to bring a smile to someone's face. With shades of greens, sparkly ribbon and a 3-d four leaf clover, you can cheer up someone, I'm sure.

I used the Craft-Dee BowZ to make a double gold loop bow and a single sparkly green loop bow. Attached them to each other and the card using Helmar's 450 glue. Looking more and more at the sparkly green bow and what do I see? A dog bone! What do you think? Am I loosing it or does it look like a dog bone to you? 

Anyways I colored my image with copics, attached a complete cutout clover with a glue dot to give some dimension. Found shades of green pattern paper that I liked and created a cute little layout. Of course it wouldn't be complete without a bow or two made with the Craft-Dee BowZ!

Hope you enjoyed my card,

Amber