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Sunday, October 14, 2018
Merry & Bright
This card did not go well as planned. I was using the ornament die cut from a Sizzix Framelits stamp & die set. After die cutting the ornament on paper making a template, I inked inside the negative die cut with Blueprint Sketch & Chipped Sapphire distress inks. I made some stripes & star shapes on the ornaments with a silver gel pen. Then I stamped the Merry & Bright sentiment from the set with Versamark ink & heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. I framed the panel with a matching blue card stock. Then I glued that panel onto a silver card stock panel. That's where the problem came in. I put glue on the back of that silver card panel & when I placed it on the final blue card base every place where I had glue on the back show through, and it doesn't even look silver in the picture...more like gold!!Oh Well...not everything turns out like you planned!!
Jesus is the Reason
This card just like the previous one was made using the negative of a die cut as a stencil to ink inside. The star die I used to make my negative die cut was from the Our Daily Bread's Snowflake Stars die & stamp set. I inked the negative star space with Mustard Seed distress ink. Then I made tiny little dots all around the inside of the star with a gold jelly roll pen. Next I stamped the manger scene from a Hero Arts stamp set over the star with Versafine Black Onyx ink. The sentiment is from the same stamp set using that same black ink.
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Blessed Holiday Season
Christmas cards are probably the ones I make most next to birthday cards. This one, though it is very clean & simple was made for a challenge where you had to use the die from a stamp & die set, make a template basically by cutting the design out of paper, and use the negative space with ink. The tree die used from from & stamp & die set from Stampendous. I used Peeled Paint distress ink on the tree, and then added teeny red light strands on the tree with glitter gel pen. Everyone of those strands is red in real life, but I swear in the picture some of them look gold! The sentiment is from a Christmas stamp set by Hero Arts. I then added the whole panel to a red card base. I think it turned out pretty cool!
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Happy Birthday
You have to figure this crazy card will bring a smile to some child's face! This is the Funny Farm Crew stamp set from Your Next Stamp. I stamped all the critters on white card stock, colored them with Promarkers, and cut them all out by hand. The hill was made by cutting some green card stock with a curved stitched die, and after heat embossing the sentiments (from the same stamp set) onto it, I adhered it to a blue card base. After figuring out how I wanted to place them, I attached each one of them on the hill with foam tape.
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Why Fit In
I bought this fun sentiment from a booth at Stampaway, and I have no idea who the maker is...it was a single stamp in a clearance bin. The cute flamingos are from a Technique Tuesday set called Floyd & Frannie Flamingo. I colored them with Promarkers & cut them out with the coordinating die. I adhered the four pink ones onto some fun patterned paper, then popped the green one up with foam tape.
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Have a Turtle-y Awesome Day
This was a fun card using Technique Tuesday's Turtle Trio stamp set. I stamped the turtles on top of one another on a white tag, colored them with Prismacolor pencils, and layered that on brown tag. Then I adhered the entire tag to some patterned paper that matched the green on the turtles. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped using some brown ink.
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Everything Is Better With A Friend
Playing with alcohol inks is so much fun and you can create so many different looks with them. I watched a bunch of videos on various ways to use them and I made this card using one of my favorites. Using a Tim Holtz applicator with a felt pad, I squeezed several colors of pink alcohol ink across the felt pad, added some alcohol blending solution, then swiped the inks across some glossy paper. You can buy special paper for this, but I actually just used some leftover glossy photo paper I had. When it was dry I stamped various butterflies on it from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set with black Archival Ink. I embossed the sentiment with white powder on a black card strip, added the little heart sticker from my stash and adhered it to the card front with foam tape.
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Thanks So Much
I love using stencils and distress inks to make a colorful background and stamp a bold black sentiment on it. The card takes very little time to make & I can create a bunch of different colored backgrounds & turn them into cards. I donate most of my cards to charity so this helps me to build up a stack of fun cards to send to them. Stencils are relatively cheap & there are so many out there you can create many different looks. Unfortunately I can' tell you the name of maker of this stencil but I'm pretty sure I purchased it at a local Michaels craft store. Anyway...I blended over the stencil with Tim Holtz distress inks Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold & Abandoned Coral. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink using a Ranger Thank You Letter It set, and then the whole panel was adhered to a black card base.
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Wild About You
This card was super easy to make and I love how it turned out. I took a piece of white card stock and masked off the top & bottom, then blended Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade distress ink in the center of the masked off portion, then used Dried Marigold distress ink around it. The animals, tree, grass & sentiment all came from a Monthly Hero Art Kit. I stamped them over the distress ink with Versafine Onyx Black ink, adhered it to some black card stock, then glued the whole panel to an orange card based that matched.
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
Holy Toledo!! What a Mess!
So I've been trying to create cards like mad to enter in the Winnie & Walter World Card Making Day and one of the entries could be a selfie of your craft work desk. I'm a little embarrassed to post this picture, and there's a lot more stuff you can't see outside the photo, but I have a sneaky suspicion there are a lot of craft desks that look like this currently!!
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Happy Birthday
Yes...it's another birthday card. This card, although it looks super easy was a little nerve wracking! I wanted to stamp these fun balloons from My Favorite Things Color Drops set straight on the card front, equally overlapping them and having them descend down equally. The only other craziness was that I used dye ink on them & had to stamp them repeatedly to get a nice solid color on them. The sentiment was stamped using the Birthday stamp set from Ranger Letter It. I especially love the scripty Birthday greeting. Although it made me a little crazy while making it...I loved how it turned out!
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Happy Birthday Mom!!
I was recently talking to my mother on the phone and she told me a funny story about how she took my oldest sister Karen out to lunch for her birthday and during their conversation was reminded that Karen was now 66 years old. Then she realized that meant she herself would be turning 88 years old in January! She got a laugh out of that because she said she hadn't really thought about it till that moment! So I had this really cute stamp from an Art Impressions set called Live, Laugh, Love and thought the laughing so hard sentiment was hilarious & would be just perfect for her birthday card. We can all definitely relate to that experience whether we were 88 or 38...just saying!! She loves the color purple and has many shirts that have purple on them.She also has lots of costume jewelry she loves to match up with her outfits, so I colored her sweater, earrings & shoes with a purple Promarker. I also used some gray Promarkers on her pants & hair, then stamped her birthday number 88 on her shirt with some purple ink that matched. She'll get a real kick out of the card and I can't wait to give it to her!
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Happy 7th Birthday!!
I made this very simple card for my grandson Kenny's birthday in November. I stamped the numbers in rainbow colors using a Hampton Art stamp set, and cut the number seven several times from blue card stock using a Sizzix number die cut set. After gluing all the sevens together I adhered it on the center of the card with foam tape. Using the same color blue I die cute several circles, glued them together and glued them around the seven. I placed the whole panel on the same blue card stock. Hope he likes it well enough, although I'm sure that won't be the best part of his birthday LOL!!
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
You're A Cool Cat
This little cool cat image is from a Simon Says stamp set called Encouraging Animals. The stamp set is just some fun outline animal images with a few coordinating sentiment stamps. I am not a colorist...I just use my markers simply to color in some fun stamp images as I did here with the my Promarkers. After coloring the cool cat, I mounted the base image on some fun coordinating printed DCWV cardstock & then mounted it all on a like colored solid card stock. I will enter this into the Winnie & Walter WCMD 2018 CAS Challenge.
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I Am So Thankful!
The weather forecast is just now changing here as I post this from 79 degrees today into cool fall weather tomorrow with a high of about 60. Not really thrilled with this forecast but I have to accept that it's turning fall here. Don't get me wrong...I love the fall turning of the leaves, but we don't usually get to really experience fall...we go from straight 80 degrees summer weather into 30 degrees winter weather! That being said I made a clean & simple card by ink blending fall colors from Ranger Distress Oxide ink on a white card base, then die cutting a leaf die onto another white card base where the colors would show through. I stamped the "I am so Thankful" from a Fiskars Occasions stamp set & mounted the whole panel on some matching card stock from my stash!
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Hello Friend!
This very simple card was made using a Hero Arts Butterfly & Flower Stamp & Cut set. I used the flower, leaves & Hello Friend sentiment to stamp on a white card base, colored the flower & leaves & stem with Promarkers. I glued that panel onto pink colored card stock that matched the flower, then glued the whole creation onto a black card stock base. I am entering this card into the Winnie & Walter WCMD Clean & Simple Challenge.
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Monday, October 8, 2018
Congrats!!
This is my final card for the Walter & Winnie WCMD Black & White Background challenge. I really don't hardly ever make black & white cards so this was truly something different for me and that's really the whole idea behind the challenge! So I stamped various images from the Inkadinkado Decorative Doilies stamp set with Hero Arts white pigment ink on black card stock. The images were looking kind of chalky & dull so I heat embossed white powder over them and glued the panel to a white card base. I also heat embossed the Congrats sentiment from a Ranger Letter it stamp set on a black card stock strip & glued it onto a white card strip, then adhered it over the entire card front. I think it was pretty cool looking, but the photo I took of it looks kind of washed out....it was overcast & I couldn't get a good picture!
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I Wuf You!
This is my second card I made for the Winnie & Walter WCMD Black & White Background challenge. These cute dog images are from a recently purchased stamp & cut set that I think I purchased at Michael's. Not even sure of the brand...looks like ARTC & I just thought the images were cute, especially the wiener dog! Anyway..I stamped them randomly over white card stock & then added the dog paws that were actually from a different stamp set. The two sentiments were from yet a 3rd & 4th stamp set! Just goes to show you can combine a lot of different company's stamps to come up with a card. I added the sentiments with some foam tape & mounted the whole panel on a red card base.
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You are Bee-utiful!
Yesterday was World Cardmaking Day and I created this card for the Winnie & Walter White & Black Background challenge. I used a stencil I had purchased from a Gina Marie Designs booth at Stampaway in August, taping it down on white card stock & using a sponge dauber to apply Tim Holtz Black Soot distress ink to the stripes while masking off the white space. It was definitely challenging to keep that black ink from sneaking onto the white card stock! The flower was made with some die cuts I believe are from My Favorite Things. I stamped the bee with black ink on the same yellow card stock, cut it out by hand, and attached both to the card with foam tape, then added it to a yellow card base. Both the bee and sentiment stamp are from Our Daily Bread Be Happy set. I LOVE how the background turned out! Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek!
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