Peace - Top Dog Dies Tutorial

Hello blogging friends!

I have a Top Dog Dies card to share with you from the Oct release of Winter dies. This is the Pocket Page Winter Die Set. Isn't it BEAUTIFUL!

Here is the card I created ...

I wanted to create a little snow scene for the deer so I layered a piece of vellum over the white cardstock with some die cuts underneath the vellum and some on top. 

Here is how you can achieve this look too...

Supplies You will Need:
Top Dog Dies Pocket Page Winter Die Set
Top Dog Dies Borders 2 Die Set
Pattern Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle (Winter Twig)
Stamp (Sentiment): Hero Arts (Merry Christmas Trees)
Cardstock
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon
vellum
white paint
Ranger Brown Distress Marker
StazOn ink

Step 1.  Die cut your trees, snowflakes, deer, bird, and mat from cardstock.

Then die cut the mat from vellum too and stamp a sentiment in the upper left. I like to use StazOn ink when stamping on vellum.

Step 2. Adhere the trees off to one side of the cardstock mat. Add the bird so he is sitting in the trees.

Step 3,  Adhere the vellum on top. When adhering your vellum, you want to make sure you have even coverage over the entire die cut. I love to use my Xyron adhesives (Sticker Machine or Creative Station) for my vellum.

Step 4. Splatter some white paint on top. Let this dry. Paint will not warp the vellum like something more water based; like mists or watercolors.

Step 5. Use a Distress marker to ink the antlers and edges of the deer and adhere deer on top of the vellum.

You can use your snow scene on a card like I did, or if you are a pocket scrapbooker, it would look awesome in a pocket too.

Here is one more pic of the completed card...

Thanks for stopping by
~Marcia

Tis The Season - Top Dog Dies

Hello blogging friends,

I am featuring a few more dies from the new Top Dog Dies Winter Holidays release. Be sure to check out all the fabulous new dies in the Top Dog Dies store. This was an awesome release with so many incredible dies! On my card today I am using the Top Dog Dies Snowflake Background and the Top Dog Dies Cardinal die set.

 I thought it would be beautiful to combine these tow die sets together. Here is my card...

 I actually used a variety of papers on this card, some Little Yellow Bicycle Winter Twig combined with the beautiful Teresa Collins Santa's List. I chose to use a single cardinal sitting on a holly berry branch.

You can also see I used a banner die from the Top Dog Dies Pocket Page Banner die set.

To add elegance to my card I added a little bling to the center of each snowflake.

Supplies:

Top Dog Dies Snowflake Background die

Top Dog Dies Cardinal die set

Top Dog Dies Pocket Page Banner die set

Pattern Papers: Little Yellow Bicycle Winter Twig, Teresa Collins Santa's List

Bling: Want 2 Scrap

Thanks for stopping by!
~Marcia

Welcome Baby - Top Dog Dies

Hello blogging friends. It's finally Spring!!!! One of my favorite things about Spring is all the babies! Marcia here today with a card I created for a friend who just had a baby. I thought this baby chick from the Feathered Friends die set would be perfect on a baby card. It's even cuter in the bottom half of an egg from the Decorated Eggs die set from Top Dog Dies.

The baby chick die has a little beak included. I added eyes with a black gel pen. Each little baby chick was placed on a quilted square.

I love the details in these dies.... check out those dotted edges on the egg and chick.

Supplies

Top Dog Dies Feathered Friends die set

Top Dog Dies Decorated Eggs die set

Thanks for stopping by,

~Marcia

Just Chicken In - Top Dog Dies

Hello Wednesday! That means I have another Top Dog Dies project to share with you. Today I made a card with the new Spring Feathered Friends die set.

Aren't those chicks adorable! I also used the new Grass die here. Here is a close-up of those chicks. Look at the stitched detail on them. Fabulous!

Some foam adhesive under the wings adds dimension.

Supplies:
Top Dog Dies Feathered Friends die set
Top Dog Dies Grass die set

Thanks for stopping by.
~Marcia

Top 10 of 2014!

Hello blogging friends! I am sharing some of my favorite projects of 2014 in a fun hop with an awesome prize up for grabs that you can win just by commenting on the participating blogs. What prize you ask ...  why a $75 Gift Certificate to Paper Issues!!!!  The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. $75 can buy a lot of scrappy goodies that Santa didn't bring you!

Have we got an awesome hop for you, WOW! Take a look at this line-up.

Juliana Michaels   

Michele Kovack

Chantalle McDaniel

Christine Meyer

Mendi Yoshikawa

Kelly Holbrook

Laurel Seabrook

Katrina Hunt

Wendy Morris-Saponaro

Becki Adams

Suzanna Lee

Melissa Elsner

Monika Wright

Wendy Antenucci

Jen Matott

Marcia Dehn-Nix <----- you are here.

Ashley N Newell

Kathy Skou

Linda Auclair

Kelly Jean

Monique Liedtke

Rhonda Van Ginkel

Jennifer Haggerty

Cathy Harper

You should have arrived from the amazing Jen Matott's blog. If not, you may want to jump back to start at the beginning. I tried really hard to whittle my list down to 10, but settled on 14 instead, (14 for 2014) Here are my favorites in no particular order. Links to download free cut files are included on a few.

I created this layout for Creative Scrappers using sketch #271. The paper is Echo Park Splendid Sunshine and Simple Stories Fresh Air.

This layout I had published in the September issue of Papercrafts and Scrapbooking Magazine and was created with Echo Park's Fall Reflections. That chevron cut file was a freebie. You can download it from Creative Scrappers here.

Here is a card I created for Xyron using the Graphic 45 By The Sea collection. The wood veneer nautical wheel is from Creative Embellishments.

Here is a layout created with some Doodlebug Snips and Snails collection.

I created this layout for Imaginisce using a PageMaps sketch. It won me an awesome prize from My Creative Scrapbook. The papers are from the Perfect Vacation collection.

Another Imaginisce  project for Thanksgiving using the Bushel O' Fall papers.

This Imaginisce layout was to be published by Northridge Publishing, and now I fear I will never see it again. They never returned it to me along with 2 other layouts. The papers are from the Outdoor Adventure and Colors of Christmas collections. If you would like my snowflake circles cut file, it can be downloaded here. After I went through all the work of welding those circles and snowflakes together I figured others might as well benefit from it :)

I created this layout for Love My Tapes. It too is based off sketch #267 from Creative Scrappers and uses the Santa's List collection from Teresa Collins.

This Easter banner makes me happy with its colored burlap and whimsical Imaginisce Welcome Spring papers and die cuts.

Imaginisce has an awesome new collection called Family Fun that I used to create these cards...

I am in love with the trendy triangles, Pinkfresh Studio chevrons, and washi tape on this next layout I created for Clique Kits. Their October kit featured Basic Grey's Second City and was my favorite kit so far. Be sure to check out their store. They have a massive clearance sale going on right now. If you use coupon code Marcia10 you can get an additional 10% off the clearance prices!

I love this card I made for a Xyron and Spellbinders swap using some Little Yellow Bicycle from my stash.

This layout of my daughter and her Great Pyrenees was published in the Winter issue of Scrapbook and Cards Today using the Fancy Pants Timbergrove collection and Creative Scrappers sketch #259! So excited to say it was chosen as the editor's favorite!

I created this canning lid pumpkin for Love My Tapes, inspired by one I saw on Pinterest.

Let me know if you have a favorite.... Then hop on over to the very talented  Ashley N Newell's blog.

Thanks for stopping by
~Marcia

Happily Ever After - Xyron and Spellbinders

Hello blogging friends! I had a jam packed weekend. My daughter's bridal shower was on Sunday. We had such fun. It was a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme, so everyone came dressed in black dresses and pearls. It was great! So now that the shower is over, I am thinking wedding. Less than a month to go!! So of course I had to make a wedding card with the beautiful Spellbinders Mystical Embrace Card Creator dies and Xyron adhesive.

I am using some scraps and stickers from the Little Yellow Bicycle wedding collection. Yeah for scrapping my stash! That front piece is foil paper (so hard to photograph but so beautiful embossed!) These gorgeous Spellbinder dies make creating a beautiful card a piece of cake.

There are three dies in this set and I used all three on this card. You can see that it embosses as well as makes intricate cuts. 

My 9" Creative Station  made it easy to adhere the die cuts to my paper.

I also created a birthday card using some papers from Anna Griffin. I only used the larger two dies on this card so I would have room for stamping my sentiment.

Supplies:

Xyron Tape Runner

Xyron 9" Creative Station

Xyron Adhesive Dots

Spellbinders Mystical Embrace Card Creator

Pattern Papers: Anna Griffin and Little Yellow Bicycle

Stickers: Little Yellow Bicycle

Flowers: Prima and Petaloo

Ribbon, pins, pearls

I am linking up the Clique Kits October challenge. Have you heard about Clique Kits? It's a new kit subscription and a store that has awesome scrapbook and card making kits. You can preorder the Holiday Card kit ...

or the Clique into the Holidays kit now! 

and if you use Marcia10, you save 10% on store purchases! 

Here are the rules for the challenge....

• You may combine our challenge with other challenges
• You may enter our challenge up to 3 times
• Link up your projects by October 31st, 11:55 pm CST
• You are not required to use a Clique Kit to link up
• You are not required to use Fancy Pants Designs Product to link up but doing so does give you an extra entry
• Create any type of project
• Link directly to your challenge project entry post

I hope to see your creations linked up!

~Marcia

April and May Pubs! For Real!!

Hello blogging friends! Wahooo its Friday! I thought it would never come. My kids are going camping without me, so I am planning a relaxing weekend of cleaning and scrapping. Maybe I can talk hubby into going to a movie :)

I realized I had not yet shared my April pub so here it is ...

I first made this Christmas ornament when guest designing for Little Yellow Bicycle for their Once Upon a Christmas collection. Cricut Magazine published it for a Butterfly and Birds call. The body of this bird is an ornament shape turned sideways. I cut sixteen of them, scored them down the middle and adhered them together to make it 3-dimensional. The feather trim is my favorite part :)

This Imaginisce layout using the Childhood Memories collection appeared in the May Scrapbook Trends Magazine. I love these pics of my daughter. Boy, did she love to swing. Do you think?

This anniversary card I made for my hubby (our 30th anniversary!) appeared in the May Cards Magazine. I used the Quick Quotes Dusty Rose collection and Cheery Lynn dies. That gorgeous ribbon is from an Etsy shop call Prairie Bird Boutique and the bling is from Want2Scrap.

I kind-of stole this card back from my hubby after I gave it to him, Shhhh.

Hope you have a greate weekend!
~Marcia

Snow Fun - Sketchabilities Reveal.

Hello my blogging friends. If you are looking for the Top 10 of 2012 blog hop + my giveaway, scroll down or click the link.

It's time for another Sketchabilities reveal! Karan has another fabulous sketch up.

Early in December we got 14" of snow here in Minnesota and I couldn't resist taking some pics of my dog Satchel enjoying it. He was just so happy I went outside to play with him. Do you know how hard it is to photograph a black dog in the snow! Well I think I did ok. I love how I captured his energy and obvious pleasure. Here is my layout...

The journaling reads "Are you coming out too? Let's play!!". I am using Little Yellow Bicycle's Winter Twig for this layout. Negative space is something I have been playing with and on this layout I used a couple different snowflake punches. I am addicted to these punches, so fun! Here are some close-ups ...

I used gesso on the background to make it appear as if the snow was swirling across the page.

I applied liquid applique to my chipboard alphas. Once heated up, it puffs up and looks like snow! I really wanted to try a snow marker but could not find one in my local crafty stores.

I love the rosettes in the paper snowflake kit that is part of the Winter Twig collection. They are already pre-scored!

I am hosting a scrapping/football party today. My girlfriends are coming to scrap with me while our guys watch the Vikings versus the Packers football game. I am so excited!! GO VIKINGS!!!
~Marcia