Vintage Elephant Noel Card

I'm Card Captain of the enjoyMichaelStrongstamps Yahoo Group for this week, so for 5 days I'll be showing you several works using Michael Strong's stamps. I hope you'll find them inspiring.

My 3rd card for this week is a Vintage Elephant Noel Card.

It's a Vintage style Noel (Christmas) card in non-traditional colors, and I assume that the Elephant carrying the holiday's gifts isn't the traditional Santa's sleigh either (lol).

I used a Kraft card basis, and contrasting shades of brown with strong turquoise for a non-traditional, and therefore more special color combo.

The Noel sentiment was made of wood and colored on mat gold, enhanced by a dark brown framing paper and a turquoise bling.

The patterned background paper is in shabby chic style, complementing the other elements.

It was inked all around, to give it a distinct, eye-catching frame.

I used Michael Strong's Cloisonné Elephant stamp (large) from the Cloisonné Elephants set.

I stamped it on a contrasting turquoise CS using VersaFine Ink - Black Onyx, and cut it with scissors, then added a tiny bling to enhance the eye.

The Noel sentiment, as well as the Elephant, were glued 3D for extra dimension – you can see how it actually adds volume to the card.

Several blings were added for extra glam.

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

Michael Strong Coffee Blog Hop

Welcome to the Michael Strong Coffee Blog Hop.
Please note: this is an international blog hop. Due to different time zones, other blogs may not be "live" yet. If that happens, please hop on over to another blog and come visit that blog later in the day.
It is a circular blog hop, so wherever you start you will see them all.

Here's my contribution to the Coffee themed Blog Hop.

My youngest son likes drinking Ice Coffee after spending a hot day outdoors, so I made him a box for Ice coffee bars.

Ingredients:
White and light brown marbled CS for the Box
Recycled Kraft cereal package
Michael Strong's Hetty's Coffee Cup Set
Embossing ink
Bronze EP
Tim Holtz Coffee Stains stamp from the Mini Muse stamp set
StazOn ink - Timber Brown
Scor-Pal
TH scissors
Double sided foam tape

First I created the box out of white and light brown marbled CS, following Michael Strong's tutorial.
Then I used Michael Strong's Hetty's Coffee Cup Set - the coffee cup stamps (large and small).
I stamped the coffee cups on a piece of recycled Kraft cereal package and heat embossed them with bronze EP, then cut them with TH scissors and glued them 3D for extra dimension.
I stamped Tim Holtz Coffee Stains stamp inside and outside the box, using StazOn ink (Timber Brown).

I filled the box with Ice coffee bars, which are the perfect match for this box.
I hope my son will like this surprise when he comes home later today…
Well, he just saw it and he said it was COOL !!! He really loved it.

Want to see more? Hop over to Rosie's blog

In case you get lost, here's the list of all the participating blogs:
Michael Strong http://www.blog.strongstamps.com/
Hetty Sanders http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/
Dorly Weitzen http://modernadesignsart.blogspot.com/ ---> YOU ARE HERE
Rosie http://gramig05-playtime.blogspot.com/
Miranda http://miepeke.blogspot.com/
Herma http://hermaf.wordpress.com/
Trena http://trenabrannon.typepad.com/
Kathie McGuire http://www.kathiemcguire.blogspot.com/
Bev Allaire http://1922designs.blogspot.com/
Judy McKay http://www.insearchofmycreativeside.blogspot.com/

I hope you get lots of inspiration, and beware of too much caffeine!

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

Tim Holtz Collage Tags

I made these Tim Holtz Collage tags for a swap which took place at the commune "Follow Your Art" (in Israel).
I entered the swap twice, therefore I made 8 tags.

I started with a cream CS, randomly stamping it with several TH stamps in various ink colors to create a collage background paper.

I cut the CS into eight pieces, all equal in size and shape but looking very different from each other.
On each tag there's one TH stamp, stamped separately on cream or white CS and carefully cut with TH scissors.
I covered each shape of a man, car, clock and vintage man-on-bicycle (the last one was taken from a magazine) with Diamond Glaze to give it a shiny glazing.
I crumpled the shapes in various directions in order to get the creases which look like cracked glass.

I re-used Coca Cola bottle caps, flattened with a hammer (it was rather noisy but worth the effort) as embellishments.
I punched circles out of the same collage background paper I made, covered them with Diamond Glaze to give them a shiny glazing and adhered them to the bottle caps.

I glued them to the tags using a 3D foam tape for extra dimension.
I chopped the tags' corners with TH scissors, punched holes with the Crop-A-Dile and added colorful fibers from my stash.

I added thin kraft recycled chipboard at the back of each tag to make it sturdier.

On each tag's back side I added a stamped TH sentence, and then added my personal details for the swap.
And here are all my eight tags:

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Challenges
The first Creative CHALLENGE for The Creative Pointe (until February 14th) .
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

Christmas Card #11 - Reindeer And Bear

This card has a cream CS as its basis
Ingredients:
Leather textured brown CS
Kraft CS, which was punched using Martha Stewart's Garden Trellis deep edger punch
Basic Grey patterned paper - Jovial , its edges distressed with brown ink
Reindeer and Bear stamps (from my stash) stamped on Kraft CS, its edges distressed with brown ink, then glued on leather textured brown CS and glued 3D for extra dimension
Light blue and white checkered ribbon, inserted into large light blue and white buckle brads.
I hope you had a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year!

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Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly

Happy New Year Cards - Take One

The Jewish new year will start soon, and the common greeting is Shana Tova (literally meaning a good year).
I made 2 similar cards (to start with) and I'll probably make a few more different ones.
For the background I used Canson textured matting papers (do I love textures… I bet you noticed.)
The flourish is by TH and was made of a re-used box, put through the Cuttlebug.
The flowers were stamped and cut with nail scissors. Then they were decorated with Dew Drops in various colors, glued with Diamond Glaze, functioning both as glue and as a shiny coat.
The flowers, as well as the greeting, were glued 3D for extra dimension.
The border punch isn't one of Martha Stewart's regular ones. Can you guess how I made it?
I wish you all a wonderful year, filled with happiness and love. And lots of craft supplies, of course...

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed. Have a creative day! Dorly