Graciellie Design

This week our challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such is: Letter It , in other words use a letter or more on your creation! I went ahead and used some letter stickers on my mixed media freestyle collage card! This is the first card I make with my new stamp set by SNSS, Parisian Postcard. Main supplies Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Parisian Postcard Dies: Cheery Lynn Designs English Tea Party, Vintage Flourish Pattern    White Pearl Linen cardstock Stardream Rose Quartz metallic cardstock Heavyweight Vellum  1/2" Scor-Tape Empty Spritzer Bottle    Seam Binding - Chalk White  Baby Pearls - LeCreme  Gold detail To make my card, I stamped, colored and heat embossed images from the NEW stamp set Parisian Postcard from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps , that I happened to design (yay!). I stamped some images on the background, some I heat embossed in gold detail on heavyweight vellum and others I fussy cut and mounted using foam tape on a pretty label die cut with Our Da

I can't believe how fast this month has gone by! It's time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs and since it is the last week of the month our challenge is "Anything Goes" . I hope you can join us! My card for today is monochromatic, in neutral hues and vintage style! Main supplies Music Speaks stamp set Faith stamp set Vintage Flourish Pattern dies Beautiful Borders dies Winter Collection 2014 6 x 6 Paper Pad Other supplies Inks: Brilliance Ink in Pearlescent Beige and Graphite Black. Distress Paint in Antique Linen, Crafter's Ink in Snow (to emboss) Papers: Linen and Leather textured cardstock in white, embossed cardstock in beige, vellum Tools: Zap! heat tool, Grand Calibur die cutting machine, Westcott Titanium Bonded trimmer Embellishments: Martha Stewart Pastel Mini Pearls, Tim Holtz Crinkle Ribbon, 2" vintage lace Adhesives: Bazic foam adhesive, Ad-Tech Crafter's Tape, Uhu silicone glue As you can see I cut the Vintag

I'm glad to be able to share a DIY tutorial on a couple of pretty Valetine's treat bags I created! Ann Butler Designs' products were key during the process of making these projects I'm showing you today! Supplies Stamps: Colorbox Background Basics by Ann Butler - Basket 1 and Picnic 1 Inks: Colorbox Crafter's Inks by Ann Butler in Sunshine, Colorbox Crafter's Inks in Bark and Snow Tools: Colorbox Color Blender , Westcott Titanium Bonded Trimmer and Titatium Non-stick Scissors. WRM Gift Bag Punch Board Velcro Mini Fasteners - Round 3/8" Dots Adhesives: Ad-Tech Crafter's Tape, Bazic two sided tape and foam tape, Uhu silicone glue Enviromental Technologies Easy Cast Resin and Easy Mold Silicone Putty Embellishments: White tulle, SU linen thread, Lara's Crafts jute twine, gold vintage button, handmade resin flower, staple, mini tag Paper: Leather textured cardstock I absolutely love the final look of these pretty treat bags, but for

Today I have an unexpected design to share with you... I went CAS for this week's challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such: Winter Birds . I'm enjoying the cooler weather, but thankfully we only get rain. For all of you whose towns have been covered with snow, I hope you're staying warm and creative! So let me inspire you a bit with my clean and simple Winter card. I die cut a card base with Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A. I created a scene on the actual card front with Penny Black's Tweet Tweet stamp set. I used Memento ink for the lilac branches and heat embossed the bird on the branch with Gold detail embossing powder from Sparkle 'n Sprinkle. I also heat embossed a wonderful sentiment from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps called Breathe... What a encouraging sentiment! As you can see I sprayed the card with lilac and gold. The lilac drops and sprays were done with a DIY Distress Ink spray I made using Shaded Lilac Re-Inker and water mixed in a Empty Spri

Every third week of the month Our Daily Bread Designs will host an inspiration challenge. In this occasion our inspiration photo for the challenge is a gorgeous shabby chic image, with colors, patterns and textures that you will enjoy working with! Supplies Aster dies Fancy Foliage dies Beautiful Borders dies Doily dies Mini Tag dies Mini Tag Sentiments Flourished Star Pattern I created a shabby chic mixed media card with lot's of texture and elements that resemble those from the inspiration photo. To create the background: 1. Die cut a pierced matting layer using ODBD's Flourished Star Pattern. 2. Use a stencil to add embossing paste. I mixed a drop of Distress re-inker in Spun Sugar to a bit of Dreamweaver Pearlescent paste. 3. Cut pieces of drywall tape (from the hardware store) roughly and adhere to the card as desired. 4. Apply Distress Ink Spray in Peeled Paint to opposite corners of the layer. 5. Add a piece of patterned paper and a die cut border fro

Happy Monday! I have the privilege to share a card I made just for fun today, and I say privilege because I don't always have the time to make an extra card. I have been experimenting with different materials to create organic looking embellishments. My last card featured a DIY rosette embellishment made of a very common every day material. I will have a tutorial on that this week, so stay tuned and join me on Friday for all the details on that project made for Ann Butler Designs! Then tomorrow you'll see a mixed media card I created for this week's challenge at ODBD, featuring a product found at the hardware store that I used to add texture to the card. There will be another complete tutorial on that project also! But today, I bring you a card featuring one of my deepest paper crafting obsessions... Handmade flowers! I experimented with crepe paper ! Yes, that's right, the one used for party decorations. I had this idea of using crepe paper to try a new look for my i

This week our challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such is: Pink and Polka Dots. The photo inspiration for the challenge is both fun and vintage, with those lovely porcelain dolls, but I decided to go vintage all the way with my card for today. I love using digital patterned papers, and I only print them on White Pearl Linen . The vintage floral paper you see me using is one I recently designed and that's available for free download on the Freebies section (on top). I sponged the polka dot paper mixing Ann Butler Crafter's Inks, Sunshine and Color Box Crafter's Ink, Bark. I used a pierced matting die from Our Daily Bread Designs Flourished Star Pattern set to cut the patterned papers. I cut the patterned layers in halves and adhered one on top of the other to create a base for all the embellishments. I created a rose using Spellbinders Rose Creations and sprayed it with a mix of water and Ann Butler's Crafter's Ink in Berry, using a Spritzer Bottle. I decided

It's time to announce some winners! Eight to be exact! Thank you for taking time to visit, for subscribing and for your kind comments! Both my blog anniversary and the Season's Givings blog hop were exciting and wonderful thanks to you! The winners were chosen thanks to the magic of Randomizer.org! Congratulations to the lucky gals! $50 Gift Certificate  in Stampin' Up products from Stamps and Scrapbooks store Comment #115 Luv 2 Create - January 5, 2015 at 3:02 AM Enjoyed visiting your blog so much that I subscribed. Thanks for sharing your craft, and Happy New Year! Marcie $24.95 Mini Books Class!  Full Videos and PDFs of 12 Mini Book Projects by Stamp Academy! Comment #1 6 Bonnie Anderson - January 1, 2015 at 2:32 PM Happy New Year and Happy Blogaversary, Gracie!! Wishing you and your family a blissful year! Thank you for giving us a chance to win all these goodies! Already a subscriber and a follower.   $15 Gift Ce

It's time for a color challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs . We have a lovely color scheme to inspire you this week! I love the tones of lilacs combined with the peachy pink and vanilla included on the color board, in fact those are some of my favorite colors. Supplies Glory stamp set The Gate stamp set Vintage Flourish Pattern dies Doily dies Fancy Foliage dies Flourished Star Pattern die I used different metallic cardstocks for my card's layers. I die cut a background lilac layer with Flourished Star Pattern. This set has a beautiful pierced matting layer die, that I use all the time. To add contrast I die cut a beautiful Vintage Flourish Pattern from pink metallic cardstock and adhered it on top of the lilac layer. The beautiful Morning Glories were stamped on white cardstock, and I actually was trying to do partial die cutting until this happy accident ocurred! I love how the stamped flowers frame the Doily label. I colored the image with Spec

It wasn't an easy task choosing my favorite cards of 2014, and, as you will see, I couldn't limit myself to a dozen projects. Last year was the beginning of what I hope will be a long, blessed and joyful creative journey. With no further ado, here are some of my favorite cards of 2014: Cottage Charm CAS Birthday Wishes Vintage Album Box Vintage Tag Card Watercolor Spring Blossoms Birthday Bouquet Wisterias Faithfulness Faux Album Card Lilac Elegance Floral Tea Box Nostalgic Bird Cage   Fairy Beauty   Vintage Fairy Album   Reindeer Elegance   Pears and Flowers Step Card Autumn Butterfly Kitties Fall Picnic Shabby Chic Canvas Thankful Blooms  Splendorous Stars Doily Christmas Card   Embellished Canvas  Floral Postcard Tag Steampunked Christmas Tag Pheew! What a year! A very exciting and blessed year, for sure! I hope y