I'm Cracked!!

I've been playing with cracked glass again. Oh my! I just love how each piece turns out so differently depending on where the veins of each crack run. I'm not going to reinvent the wheel. There is an excellent tutorial on Split Coast Stampers that explains the process of how to create cracked glass. The hands on experience, however, gives you a much better understanding of this cool technique! I think I may just have a class coming up!


I've been on a Basic Black/Real Red kick lately. So I used that combination to show this quick and easy Cracked Glass card. Each of the flowers was stamped in Basic Black on Whisper White cardstock and punched with my 1-3/8" circle punch. The middle flower was highlighted in the middle of each blossom with a touch from my Real Red Marvelous Marker. Each piece was then embossed with three layers of Glassy Glaze and cracked to perfection!



While I was cracking things, I wanted to get in another project with one of my absolute favorite stamp sets, The Free and the Brave. I'm very sad to see it retire this year but I know that it is being replaced with an equally beautiful Patrioitic set that I'm so excited to get! For this fairly simple card, I colored the stamp using Chocolate Chip, Real Red, and Brilliant Blue Marvelous Markers. After I stamped on some Whisper White cardstock, I colored in the body of the eagle with Creamy Caramel and the beak with Almost Apricot. Then, it was off to emboss and crack. I really like the way he turned out. The card was finished off by stamping the stars on the base of the card with Versamark and adding the sentiment, colored with Chocolate Chip and Brilliant Blue Marvelous Markers.

Happy Birthday, Mom!!

My mom's birthday was this past weekend so you know I had to make her a special birthday card. I attended a class with my very talented upline, Linda Keal, to learn how to create Cracked Glass. We made three cards in that class. One of my favorites was used as the inspiration for this card.
The card is mounted on a Pretty In Pink cardstock base. The background is a piece of Designer Series Paper from the Tea Party set.

Now for the fun part...on Whisper White cardstock, I used the En Francis background stamp with Pretty In Pink Classic Ink. The flower design is from the stamp set Playful Petals, stamped in Basic Gray Classic Ink. The flower was colored using a combination of Classic Ink watercoloring and the Stampin' Write markers.

After the design is colored and completely dried, I used the Cracked Glass technique. A wonderful tutorial about this technique can be found on Split Coast Stampers.

The cracked glass piece was mounted on a piece of Pretty In Pink cardstock and wrapped with a 1/2" Pretty In Pink striped grosgrain ribbon. A flower designer brad added just the right finishing touch before assembling the whole card.

I love the way this turned out and my mother was thrilled with the extra "gift".