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LPC's Greatest Hits: GD Amy Burckhard

I originally wrote and published this interview at Lily Pad Cards.

Amy Burckhard

Today’s Guest Designer is the very talented (and pretty darned cute) Amy Burckhard!

Hello, Amy! Let’s get to know you better….

Where are you from? 

I am a 28-year-old card maker from Devils Lake, North Dakota, who currently lives in Fargo.

Brrrr…. The only thing I know about Fargo is it’s cold and always pops into my mind when I see a woodchipper now – LOL!

Do you have any interests outside card making?

I love playing softball and volleyball, and I love, love, love dogs.  I don’t have one yet (ah, apartment living) but now that I’ve found a stable job, I hope I’ll get one soon.  My parents and brother each have one, so I try to get my puppy time in when I see them.

Do you remember how you got addicted to card making?

I’ve always been into making cards, even when I was little. I received a Cricut as a Christmas present, and I haven’t looked back. I’ve been following many blogs and I really want to get more involved with the card making community. When Lily Pad Cards came along I had to play. I hope to become more involved over the next year and my ultimate hope someday is to be part of a design team.

I definitely see that goal being achieved in your future.

How do you support your habit?

I graduated from college about 18 months ago, so I’ve been trying to find my big girl job. In the process I worked for a hotel and a temp agency.  The temp agency was probably the best choice I’ve ever made since the skills I learned helped me land my current job at Cargill. I just started recently, and I love what I do.

Do you have any partners in crime?

I’ve brought my card making home to my mother, and she was bit by the card making bug, too.  She is a wonderful sounding board for all my projects, and I call her all the time. When we can get together it’s all “paper this, glue that” – LOL! My family and friends are really supportive of my card making hobby and recently they have been keeping me busy with orders. My mother and I have also been selling our cards at a farmers market and have had good feedback from our customers. It’s really wonderful to have others appreciate what I’ve made, since I just want to make people smile with my cards.

Is there a significant other?

I have a wonderful boyfriend who supports my crafty craziness!

What’s your favorite ink?

I have a few. I love Memento, Ranger Distress Inks and VersaMark. I also have recently discovered Distress Stains, and I think I’m going to use them more often.

Sister-girl, we are SO on the same page here!

What’s your favorite tool? 

My computer, Make-the-Cut, and my cutting machine.  I couldn’t do what I do without them.

What’s your favorite stamp at the moment? 

I’ve been in love with Stampendous – Agapanthus Cluster and Ditto – Hello Friend (wonderful sentiments for cards).  I’ve also been trying to use my Alpha Blocks set from Papertrey Ink.

What paper line consistently calls your name?

Oh, my goodness! I have a few – anything by Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, Crate Paper and Echo Park.  Their papers are right up my alley with bold colors and patterns.

Here, here!

What’s your favorite technique?

Die cutting using my cutting machine and embossing using my Cuttlebug. (It’s crazy I didn’t emboss anything this time; I’m surprised at myself.)

What are your go-to colors?

I’ve noticed I lean towards colors that match my current favorite patterned paper.  So when I go to make a card I pick the patterned paper first and then try to find something in my stash that matches it.

We are a lot alike in our processes!

How would you describe your card making style?

While making cards lately I realized that I am into clean and simple cards. I’m not sure if my style will stay that way because mostly I play with my supplies until the card is the way I want it.

Thanks, Amy, for sharing! And now let’s look at some of Amy’s cards!

NOTE FROM AMY: Some of the card sizes are a little odd.  I found some wonderful envelopes from a company called Daler – Rowney at a local art store and I was making cards to fit them.

Supplies: Card stock: Bazzill, Coredinations (Cocoanut Creme); Echo Park (For the Record: Borders patterned paper, Stamp of Approval & Noteworthy);  SVG Cuts – Threaded Rosettes #4; buttons from my Grandma; Barbara’s Hand Font and Cricut Vinyl; pop-dots; embroidery floss; glossy accents; Zip Dry

Instructions:

1. Cut card base in white cardstock – 8.625” by 8.5” and cut brown cardstock – 8.625” by 4.25”.  Score white cardstock at 4.25” and adhere the brown to the front of the card.
2. Cut border out of For the Record – Borders paper and adhere .75” down from top of the card.
3. Cut #4 rosette with a width of 1.25” out of For the Record – Stamp of Approval.  Then Cut the same rosette with a width of 1.5” out of For the Record – Noteworthy.  I removed the score lines before I cut the rosette and then scored the rosettes on my scoreboard.  I then used the needle and thread to gather the rosette at the center and taped the ends together.  To get the rosette to hold its form I pushed it flat on my magnetic cutting mat and used strong magnets to hold it down, I then filled the center with glossy accents and waited for it to dry.
4. Use embroidery floss on the buttons and then glue buttons to rosettes using Zip Dry.
5. I used the Chevron and square SVG in the Basic Shapes of Make-the-Cut.  I welded them together to make the banner.  It measures – 1” by 6” for the coconut cream layer and .875”by 5.875” for the white layer.  I sized the font to fit the banner and welded the letters together and then cut it out of Cricut Vinyl to make it easier to adhere.
6. I glued the tan rosette onto the card with Zip Dry and then popped the banner up and placed the red rosette over the end of the banner using 3D foam.

Supplies: Card stock: Core’dinations (Blue Moss), Bazzil Basics (Turquiose); Ranger Distress Stain (Picket Fence); Cosmo Cricket (Wanted Mini Deck); We R Memory Keepers (Autumn Splendor 6×6 Paper Pad); Zip Dry; pop-dots; embroidery floss; handmade plane, cloud & banner SVGs

Instructions:

1. Cut White Cardstock – 8 ½ by 8 ½ score and fold at 4 1/4.
   1. SVGs:  I found my inspiration in the We R Memory Keepers paper to make a plane pulling a banner. (I don’t have any computer programs for drawing so I made it this way).
   2. I first drew a rough draft and outlined the main layers with a black permanent marker.  (Pictures Below)
   3. I then traced each layer and cut them out of plain white printer paper.
   4. (This next step I realized I could skip by just scanning with black paper behind the pieces)  I traced the pieces onto black paper and cut them out (the reason I drew them backwards is because I didn’t want to scan the silver permanent marker lines).
   5. I then scanned the black pieces into my computer and traced them using Make-the-Cut.  (I also did this for the clouds)
2. I made a rectangle 8” by 3.75”, joined the clouds to it and cut it out of Core’dinations – Blue Moss.
3. I made a banner 4” by 1” and created a shadow layer inside 3.875” by .875”.
4. I sized the plane to make sure it and the banner fit inside the cloud rectangle.
5. I cut the banner background and the body of the plane out of We R Memory Keepers Autumn Splendor.
6. I cut the wings, propeller and the bottom of the windshield out of Cosmo Cricket – Wanted.
7. I cut the windshield out of Bazzil Basics – Turquoise and the color was a bit bright so I used Distress Stain – Picket Fence to mute it down a bit.
8. I cut the inside of the banner and the window glare out of white cardstock.
9. I used a font Called BlackJack and welded the words together to make them easier to glue.  I cut them out of the Cosmo Cricket – Wanted paper and used my Xyron to adhere them to the white banner.
10. I glued everything together with Zip Dry.
11. I then popped off the cloud layer using the 3D foam, it makes the clouds look so great!
12. I used White Embroidery Floss to attach the banner to the plane and popped the whole thing off the card with 3D Foam.

 

Supplies: Solid Cardstock:  Recollections – 151232 (cream cardstock), Cosmo Cricket Color Picks (Peacock: Earth); Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket (Social Club – Manhattan and Cocktail); Stamp:  Ditto/Studio G (Hello Friend); Versamark ink; Zing! embossing powder (white); ribbon:  Offray Designer Ribbons (Red Feather Edge) and old ribbon from my Grandma; Zip Dry; pop-dots

Instructions:

1. Cut cream cardstock – 12” by 4 3/8” and score it at 6”.
2. Cut Manhattan cardstock – 5 ¼” by 2 7/8”.
3. Cut Cocktail cardstock – 4 ½” by 1 ¼”.
4. Adhere Cocktail cardstock just under Manhattan cardstock and center on card front using Zip Dry.
5. Glue ribbon to card 1” from the left, creating pleats as you work from the top using Zip Dry.
6. I made the Point Banner in Make-the-Cut and sized to 3 ¾” by 1 ¾” cut out of Earthcardstock.
7. Add a shadow layer in Make-the-Cut with Shadow Width settings at 0.0625” and the Corner Join at Mitered.  Cut it out of cream cardstock.
8. I made my own embossing buddy using cornstarch and some leftover fabric and I rubbed this on the Earth cardstock before I stamped.
9. Use Versamark to ink your stamp and stamp on Earth cardstock, cover with White Zing and heat with heat gun.  Then adhere Earth to cream cardstock.
10. Then pop banner off card using 3D foam.
11. Cut red cardstock – 5 7/8” by 4 ¼”.  Using stylus and score board emboss three lines at 1/8”, 2/8” and 3/8” in from edge, on all sides crossing over at the corners.
12. Cut white cardstock – 4 7/8” by 3 ¼” and glue in the middle of the red.  Glue entire piece in the inside of the card.

Supplies: Card stock: We R Memory Keepers Out & About Cardstock Pad (charcoal grey);  Recollections (151232); Patterned Paper:  Crate Paper (Portrait: Bouquet in 6×6; Stamp:  Ditto/Studio G – Hello Friend; Memento ink (Tuxedo Black); SVG Cuts (Breezy Meadow Butterflies: #6 bottom); Zip Dry; pop-dots

Instructions:

1. Cut charcoal cardstock – 8 ¾” by 6”.  Score at 4 3/8”.
2. In Make-the-Cut size butterfly to a width of 2.875” (keep proportions locked) and a rectangle to a size of – 5.25” by 3.875”.  Place the butterfly .5” in from the top and left hand side of the rectangle and join together.  Cut out of cream cardstock then round bottom corners.
3. Cut a rectangle sized – 3.25” by 2.75” out of Bouquet paper and glue on card base withZip Dry under where the hole will be in the cream cardstock.
4. Round Corners on cream cardstock and stamp sentiment onto cardstock.  Then adhere to front of card using 3D foam.
5. Cut white cardstock – 4 ¼” by 5 7/8” and use stylus and score board to emboss a line 1/8” from the edge.  Glue to inside of card.

Supplies: Card stock; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey (Oxford: Debate Team, Dean’s List, Study Hall, Ivy League; Memento ink; Zip Dry; pop-dots

Instructions: 

1. Cut tan cardstock – 11” by 4 ¼”” and score at 5 ½”.
2. Cut Study Hall – 5 ½” by 1 5/8”.
3. Cut Ivy League – 5 1/2” by 2 5/8”.
4. Cut Dean’s List – Just cut off one line and make it 5 ½” long.
5. Glue down Study Hall and Ivy league and glue the strip from Dean’s List over where they join using Zip Dry.
6. Stamp U and R on the Dean’s List Strip.
7. Cut the upper left hand corner on Debate team and pop off of card using 3D foam.

If you want to see more of Amy’s amazing creations, check out her blog.

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

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A small success?

Lily Pad's Greatest Hits

Since Lily Pad has closed, we've had to put her in a sort of PDF format in order to keep her online and hacker-proof. As a result, we can no longer go in and change anything. This is a bit of a bummer because we wanted to update her with Google+1 features and add our bylines in the post footers so readers could evaluate our content. The only way around this pickle is for me to publish some of my Lily Pad posts here where they can be evaluated by readers.

This does not mean I won't be posting new stuff regularly! It just means that, like TV, you will get fresh material and a daily re-run - LOL! I will post the re-run first so the new post will be the first thing you see as you scroll down the blog page. This way, if you see the re-run and don't want to read it, you won't have to go through it to get to the fresh material.

I have one favor to ask of you. If you enjoyed this post (either upon its original publication or here as a rerun), would you please scroll down to its footer (above the comment section) and click on the Google+1 icon (it's located right next to the Twitter icon)?

This will help me establish my Author Rank, and I need to do this for professional reasons.

So there you have it!

Lily Pad Card reruns will begin on Tuesday, March 5!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!

Deborah

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The Silver Lining (a Giveaway)

They say every cloud has a silver lining, so I look at the end of the Lily Pad as an opportunity to get reaquainted with my cardmaking community on a more personal level again and a chance to play more with my stamps and make some videos. (I had just gotten my snazzy little HD video camera two months before we launched LPC and it's been gathering dust ever since.)

I also see this silver lining as extending to y'all. To celebrate the resurrection of my blog, I'm offering a rather nice little parcel of stamping swag! 

The prize package. Stamps and other crafty items with a retail value of over $200.

The requirements. To be eligible to win these goodies, you must:

• Subscribe to this blog; 
• Post my badge on your blog (or online photo gallery if you don't have a blog); AND
• Add your name to the list below with a link to your blog post/photo gallery showing my blinkie.

The deadline. 11:59 p.m., EST, Sunday, July 15th.

The winner. A winner will be selected via random draw and revealed here on Monday, July 16. The winner will need to contact me via email by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, July 23rd to claim her prize. If I don't hear from the winner, I will select a new winner.

The fine print. This contest is global. However, if it will cost me more than $15 to mail the parcel to your country, I respectfully request that you split the cost of postage 50/50. I doubt it will come to that, but I think that sharing the cost of postage is a very small price to pay for getting all this great stuff! ;~D 

The blinkie. I just taught myself how to make a blinkie! Just this very minute. (Or NINETY minutes, I should say.) It won't win any awards, but I'm still proud as punch that I figured it out! Leave me a comment if you would like for me to do a tutorial on this. You can get the code for this baby over in the sidebar.

S I G N   U P!

Thanks for dropping by and have a blessed day!

Farewell to the Lily Pad

Today is the last official day of Lily Pad Cards (although we will have two or three more posts to announce prize winners). See the particulars.

It's a sad day, in many ways, but a peaceful one, too. We worked very hard on the Lily Pad - 316 posts, two massive blog hops with giveaways, over 50 challenges, 56 videos, and who knows what else in 14 months - yowza!

And that's just the stuff readers saw. What people didn't see was the amount of work it took to line up guest designers, edit interviews, find sponsors, coordinate product for the Dream Team, get the prizes out, answer emails... yowza again!

Yes, I loved what we created and accomplished, but I have missed being able to hang out at my favorite online communities, visit blogs, leave comments, and post here on my own blog. (I feel like I owe my blog a written apology and a steak dinner for neglecting it so badly this last year.) But there is only so much time in a day, so SOS took a back seat to the Lily Pad.

I've also missed being able to enter card challenges or just having the time and freedom to make whatever card I wanted without having to adhere to challenge and/or product restrictions. 

Of course, I will miss many things from the Lily Pad as well: my lovely partner, Vicky, our amazing Dream Team, and the many people who participated and emailed and gave us all a big kick! Thank you all so much for making it a fantastic year. I'm also very grateful to our generous sponsors and all the company owners and artists who let me interview them and the amazingly talented Guest Designers. 

If you're wondering what I'll be doing here, I'll be hosting a monthly card challenge sponsored by Simon Says Stamp, the Card Chain Challenge, (see tomorrow's post to sign up for June) and a combination of the Guest Designer interview with the Wednesday Wonder spotlight. 

I'm also having a fairly substantial giveaway. Go here to enter for a chance to win over $200 in stamps and other related swag!

Thanks for dropping by and have a blessed day!

Star Challenge at the Lily Pad!

Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring a month-long Star Challenge over at the Lily Pad, and the prize is a gift certificate worth $25!  

All you have to do to is make a card and feature a star - It can be in the form of a stamp, patterned paper, stickers, accents, gems, you name it!

Here's my card:

Yes, I know it's a bit of a sleeper. Although I'm the one who had the bright idea to do stars this month, I seem to have no star power.

Ba-dum-BUMP!

S U P P L I E S

Card: Memory Box; Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Doodlebug 6x6 (Snips & Snails); Stamps: Hero Arts (Galaxy of Stars - CL318); Ink: VersaMark; Gems: Darice; Ribbons: Michaels; Sticker: K & Co (Rowdy Boy)

Make sure you enter this challenge before it closes on Thursday, June 28, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EST. Who doesn't wanna win a $25 GC from the best supply store on the Web?! Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!

Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge for May

Hey, there! You have a chance to win a $25 gift certificate from Globecraft Memories if you enter Kathy's Lily Pad Palette Challenge for May! Globecraft Memories has been creating some very cool new products - my favorites are their Piccolos!

Globecraft sent us frames, Piccolos and enamel powder to play with, and here's Kathy's palette:

Here's my card:

S U P P L I E S:

Paper: Ivory cardstock, Cardstock Bubble Frame Kit (Gloebcraft Memories); Stamps: All Booked Up (Papertrey Ink), S5050 (Hero Arts); Inks: Pistachio, (Color Box), Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo, Embossing, (Ranger Industries) Sepia, (VersaFIne) Embossing plates (Papertrey Ink); Accents: flowers (Prima), pillow sticker (K & Co), ball chain (Ranger Industries), Piccolos (Globecraft Memories); OTHER: enamel powder (Globecraft Memories); Adhesives: Beamons 3-in-1 glue, Glosy Accents, Pop-dots

T O O L S:

Heat tool, Ranger ink applicator tool, post-it notes, Vagabond, Mcgill punch

I N S T R U C T I O N S:

1. Apply Pistachio ink directly to frames and heat set.
2. Adhere stand to kit's backplate.
3. Apply Vintage Photo to embossing plate with ink applicator tool and emboss large oval with large letters; repeat process on small oval with text plate.
4. Apply Worn Lipstick to ovals with ink applicator tool.
5. Ink larger oval's outer edge with Peeled Paint. 
6. Heat set both ovals.
7. Stamp sentiment with Sepia and punch out.
8. Edge outside of smaller oval with embossing ink and role edge in enamel powder; heat to emboss. Repeat on sentiment panel.
9. Place Piccolos on sticky portion of Post-it, (to keep them from blowing away) apply glue, enamel powder, and heat emboss.
10. Stamp vine background on ivory cardstock with embossing ink; apply enamel powder and heat emboss.
11. Cut embossed cardstock into an oval (I used the kit's bubble dome as a guide) and adhere to the front of the backplate.
12. Assemble flowers and adhere with pop-dots; adhere butterfly and Piccolo flowers.
13. Adhere bubble dome to front of backplate with Beason's glue; adhere large oval to backplate.
14. Adhere sentiment panel with pop-dots and Piccolos with Glossy Accents to front of small oval; adhere small oval to large oval with pop-dots.
15. Cut ball chain to size and adhere around edge of bubble dome with Beacon's glue (I used a toothpick for precision placement of the adhesive.)

TIP: You can remove excess or stray glue from the bubble dome by gently rubbing with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol.

Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!       

Check Out Tamara Laan!

This week's Guest Designer over at the Lily Pad is the very talented Tamara Laan! Tamara likes to make CAS and/or cute cards. She made three cards to share with our readers; but check out some of her past creations:

Tamara really knows how to rock the chevron!

Love this color palette!

Pretty darned cute, eh?

Check out Tamara's Guest Designer post and her blog, Tamara's Scrap Corner, for more great cards!

Thanks for stopping and have a blessed day!