Tag Archive for ‘October 2009’
More Mygrafico Digital Designs
Mygrafico is owned and operated by partners, Burcu Arat Sup (a.k.a. MUJKA) and Judy Sanqunetti. Both women are illustrators.
Burcu creates designs mostly for stationery companies and the commercial market. You can check out Burcu’s beautiful work at her website, Mujka Chic.
Judy creates designs mainly for the kid’s market. Judy’s wonderful children’s design work can be found at Sanqunetti [...]
Holiday Blizzard Project-Small Ornament
By: Chris M Herrmann, Artistic Guide
Finished size: 1.50″ x 1.50″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Holiday Ornament (Another Stamp Company)
Ink:
Adirondack Alcohol Inks Collection (Ranger)
Bottle
Cranberry
Distress Embossing Ink (Ranger)
Claudine Helmuth’s White Studio Paint (Ranger)
Other:
HeatIt Craft tool
Superfine Gold Embossing Powder (Ranger)
2 pieces of 1.50″ x 1.50″ Memory Glass
1 Memory Glass Frame, any color
Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue (Ranger)
Tiny Touch Applicator’s (Suze Weinberg)
Small paint [...]
Pear Card for the Adventurer
By: Chris M Herrmann, Artistic Guide
Finished size card: 4.25″ x 5.50″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Large Pear, Small Pear, Background Stamps (Another Stamp Company)
Paper:
1 green card measuring 4.25″ x 5.50″
1 piece white card stock, ATC size (2.5″x 3.5″)
1 piece white card stock 2″ x .75″
2 pieces dark green card stock cut just slightly larger than the 2 white pieces (to [...]
Tractor Card for the Discoverer
Deere John
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
Finished size: 6″ x 6″
Without seeds and soil there would be no harvest to celebrate – but what about the tools that we use to prepare the soil and transport the harvest? This card celebrates these things. On this card, I used preprinted designer paper with tractors all over, great [...]
Harvest Time for the Adventurer
Harvest Time
By Penny Yoder, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Large Apple Image (The Angel Company)
Words (mine and my computer: Lucida Handwriting Italic; size 14)
Paper:
5.5″ x 8.5″ green cardstock (JoAnn Stores)
3.5″ x 5.25″ black cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
3.25″ x 3.25″ red cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
3.25″ x 3.25″ black cardstock for the scallop circle
2.5″ x 2.5″ white cardstock [...]
Happy Birthday Tag Bookmark for the Discoverer
By: Chris M Herrmann, Artistic Guide
Finished tag size: 5.25″ x 2.5″
I enjoy making birthday cards for my friends. Not many friends want to toss a hand made card, but let’s face it, how many cards can they save? I think I have come up with a solution. I create a tag bookmark and use that [...]
Pumpkin Cookies for the Inventor
Pumpkin Cookies
By: Penny Yoder, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamp:
Pumpkin Bear (The Angel Company)
Paper:
All Cardstock (Joanns)
5.5″ x 8.5″ apple green, fold in half to make an A2 card
3.875″ x 4.5″ yellow
4″ x 7.5″ brown, fold in half so you can put the recipe inside
3.25″ x 4″ white, to stamp the image
Inks:
Memento Ink Pad – Tuxedo [...]
Bounty of Blessings for the Discoverer
Bounty of Blessings
By Penny Yoder, Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 4.25″ x 5.50″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Box of Apples (Stampin’ Up!)
Words (mine and the computer. Font: Lucida Handwriting Italic; Size 18)
Paper:
5.5″ x 8.5″ (for the card) and 1″ x 3″ (for the words) yellow cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
4″ x 5.25″ – apple green cardstock (Die Cuts With a View)
3.75″ x 5″ – [...]
Wonderful Harvest Card for the Discoverer
By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Hope you have…Thanksgiving (MSE!)
Paper:
Gold Harvest Paper (Stampin’ Up!)
Cream Card Stock (Unknown)
Mulberry Paper (Paper Odyssey)
Ink:
Brilliance – Graphite Black (Tsukineko)
Other:
Collage Graphic (Memories in the Making)
Glue Stick (Scotch)
Paint Pen – Gold (Krylon)
Ribbon – Burgandy, 6″ (Offray)
Scissors (EK Success)
Paper Trimmer (Purple Cow)
Computer
Printer
Directions:
Cut a 4.25″ x 11″ piece of cardstock [...]
Easy Collage Card for the Adventurer
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
Finished Size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
This card was inspired by the grapes that grow in the beautiful Hawkes Bay region where I live. There are vineyards absolutely everywhere – even on the former site of our local 1/4 mile drag strip (much to my husband’s dismay). But so many people get such [...]
Thanksgiving Place Card
Thanksgiving Place Card
By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 3″ x 4″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Hope you have…Thanksgiving (MSE!)
Paper:
Cream Card Stock (Unknown)
Wax Paper (Reynolds)
Mulberry Paper (Paper Odyssey)
Ink:
Brilliance – Graphite Black (Tsukineko)
Alcohol Inks: (Ranger)
Butterscotch
Raisin
Cranberry
Gold Mixative
Other:
Single Glass Slide Mailer (Unknown)
Collage Graphic (Memories in the Making)
Alcohol Blending Solution (Ranger)
Tissue Paper (Unknown)
Glue Stick (Scotch)
Mod Podge (Plaid)
Paint Pen – Gold (Krylon)
Scissors [...]
Good Wine card for the Adventurer
Good Wine
By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide
Finished size: 6″ x 6″
With this card, I made my own mini designer paper – choosing my inks and colour intensity to achieve exactly the results that I was looking for (bear in mind that this is a third draft of this card and I knew what I didn’t want from [...]
September 2009 Sketch Card
September’s sketch is long and lean with layers of rectangles and an oval for added interest. What can you envision with this sketch? It’s a dandy!
Here are our Artistic Guides’ variations of this month’s sketch. We hope their designs will help provide some inspiration to create your own interpretation for the September card.
By: Bea Rosenleaf
Stamps: The [...]






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