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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Autumn Greetings
This card took a while to create but I like the way it turned out in the end! Using the September 2017 Hero Arts kit I stamped & masked off the pumpkins using some Hero Arts & Altenew inks for the layers. The sentiment is also from the same kit. I cut the completed panel out with a stitched rectangle die,tied some twine around it, and then mounted it on some brown card stock then an orange card base from my stash.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Celebrate Everyday
I was making the last of my Fall/Thanksgiving cards today to send to the SendASmile4Kids organization. This is my favorite of the ones I completed. The card base & plaid background paper are from my stash, and the trees were made using an older Hero Arts stamp set I had. The sentiment also comes from a Hero Arts sentiment set. I used a combination of Hero Arts & Altenew inks to stamp the leaf layers and Versafine Onyx Black ink for my sentiment. I love how it turned out!!
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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!!
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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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Saturday, September 22, 2018
So Sweet
I purchased this Concord & 9th "Orange You Sweet" stamp set a short time ago when they were having a sale. I liked the look of it when it was first released but talked myself out of buying it at that time. This is the first time I used it and felt like it turned out to be a hot mess!!! This is a fruit layering stamp set and I stamped the first solid image layer in an orange color, and proceeded to stamp the second segment layer with black ink as well as the outline stamp. Then I started worrying about it, because if you look at a real sliced orange, the inner membrane is white, as well as part of the peel!! I decide to not worry and repeated the rest of the stamped orange background. Next I stamped the large SWEET sentiment image in the center of the background and realized it was super crooked! At this point I took a stitched rectangle die & cut the entire base out after "leveling" the sweet word! Heat embossed the"orange you sweet" sentiment with white powder on a black strip & adhered above. The last disaster came when I mounted that panel unevenly on black card stock, and adhered that whole panel again unevenly on an orange card base. Although the T in sweet looks faded out in the bad photo, it is a very solid black in real life. Oh well...I still think it's cute! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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Being Weird
I'm a big fan of Tim Holtz products and I have his Crazy Cats, Crazy Dogs, and Crazy Birds stamps sets. I made this card with his Crazy Birds set, colored this guy with my colored pencils & gamsol, cut him out with the coordinating die and glued on some googly eyes to make him even weirder looking! I love the sentiment, and although at this very moment I cannot find the rest of the set so that I can tell you who made it, I think it goes perfect with him! I popped him up with foam inside a white frame onto black card stock. Sorry that the picture looks a little fuzzy, I took several pictures of it & it looked fine at the time Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
May Your Holidays Be Bright
This Christmas card was made using the Reindeer Games stamp set my Mama Elephant. I colored them with my Promarkers & cut them out using the coordinating dies. The polka dot background paper is from the BoBunny Silver & Gold Collection pack, and the red four window pane die is from JustRite. The sentiment is from the same Reindeer Games stamp set. I glued the entire panel to a green card base. Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Miracle of Christmas
This is my next card I made for Stamptember...another Christmas card! I should be in great shape by the time Christmas gets here! This cute little shepherd as well as the sentiment is from a stamp set by Sugar Pea Designs called Lost Without You. I colored him with Promarkers & framed him with some green card stock from my stash, and then a red card base. Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
Merry & Bright
I made this card to play along with the Simon Says Stamptember contest. They feature all different stamp companies during the month of September, and the idea is to make a card using the particular company they are featuring that day. It's a good way to get you inspired to create cards and of course it would be a blast to win one of the prizes. What's funny is I had no intention of making a Christmas card. My intention was to make a fall colored card using greens & oranges with the Lawn Fawn Argyle Backdrops stamps. Well the orange ink turned out to look a lot more like red, so I made a Christmas card! I cut the ornament shape out of the argyle background using a die that I think came from Spellbinders, but I'm not swearing to it. The Merry & Bright sentiment was heat embossed with gold powder & the bow was cut out with some DCWV foil cardstock. Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!
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Sunday, September 2, 2018
Thank You
It's almost a year to the day since I posted anything here. I have made many cards during that time, but had decided that between full time work, posting here, following other card makers, doing blog hops, rearranging my craft room & purging countless items... I wasn't really getting many cards done, which is what I really wanted to do!! Anyway...I decided to start posting again from time to time. So this little guy is from the MFT stamp set Happy Hello, as well as the sentiment. I colored him with Promarkers & cut him out using two stitched circles. I cut out three hearts, colored them, added glossy accents, and adhered them to the card with foam tape. Sorry he's a little crooked in the picture! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
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