I was last minute getting at least a few Christmas cards done this year, so I went very clean and simple with most of them.
Card 1 - This is actually a spinner card that was challenging and fun to see in action. I used stamps from Hello Bluebird, dies from Hero Arts and Lawn Fawn.
Card 2 - Holiday Seal from The Stamping Village with snowflakes by Lawn Fawn
Card 3 - Holiday Seal from the Stamping Village with Snowflake Wire by Memory Box.
Here is a clean and simple Birthday card using My Favorite Things "Happy Birthday Circle Frame" and Your Next Stamp "Happy Dance"
The circle was cut from some holographic card stock. For the happy gecko, I used Brusho colors to create a colorful piece that I then stamped him and heat embossed in white.
My dad celebrated his 70th birthday this year. So I made him this card using stamps from Colorado Craft Company and Hero Arts.
My grandpa turns 90 this year! And I wanted to make a special card, but it had to be masculine. It took a bit of thinking and going through my stash, but I decided to try a Jennifer McGuire technique and do a shadow box card.
The Whaley Great stamp set from Tonic made the perfect scene along with help from Altenew's Bold Numerals.
I made the card 6-1/4" x 5 so that everything fit nicely including the rounded corner die that I used to cut the window.
The back ground was creating by layering Distress Oxides in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch for the ocean and Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap along with some Sand embossing powder for the sea floor.
For this Mother's Day card I created a background using Altenew's Flower Vine set and colored it with Copics. Here are the colors I used: V01, V04, YG23, YG67, RV04, RV09, Y08, Y38, B21, B24.
I used a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Mom's Meadow which I heat embossed using Hero Arts gold glitter. I fussy cut this out and them glued it to a piece of vellum which I also cut out a bit larger.
I wanted to do something different for my grandma for her Mother's Day card this year and I had this great sentiment from Technique Tuesday's Grandma Blessings set. I decided that MFT's All the Cupcakes was the perfect set to compliment the sentiment. I stamped each of the cupcakes and colored them in rainbows keeping the frosting white. Here are the colors I used:
Brown: Y28, E57, E59
Violet: V01, V04, V06
Blue: B21, B24, B26
Red: R32, R35, R29
Green: YG03, YG17, YG67
White: C0, C2
Yellow: Y02, Y08, YR24
Orange: Y38, YR04, YR09
Fuschia: YR14, YR09, YR29
Once done, I covered each with Wink of Stella for some shine and attached them to my 6x6 square card with foam tape. Then I added a shadow to each and called the card done.
I stamped the images using Taylored Expressions Oreo ink on Bristol paper and then colored them with my Zig Clean Color Markers. Once they were dry, I used some Stickles and Nuvo Drops to add some interest. The sentiment is from the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero May 2020 kit.
Some recent life events have caused my mojo to take a back burner. I barely scraped this Valentine's Day card together for my husband.
I always seem to only make 1 Christmas card each year. Here was 2020's card that went out:
For this card, I created a background using watercolor markers then die cut it with MFT "Starry Circle". I die cut it a second time from some silver glitter paper and paper pieced the stars. The puppy is from MFT "Happy Pawlidays" which I colored with Copics. And the sentiment is from "Happy Holidays" by Altenew.
Copics E31, E35, E37, YG23, YG17, Y17, Y15, W8, W6, C0, C1, R29, R35
These are never easy to make cards, but I know the recipient will appreciate the sentiment.
