A Trio of Christmas Cards

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.

Birthday Card with Tonic

 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.

Thank You Card with Lawn Fawn

To show my appreciation to my grandparents for letting me stay in their guest room while I was visiting California, I made them this CAS card using the "Winter Village" stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

I stamped the images then colored them with Copics and die cut them.  I blended on some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide to my card base and then adhere my images with liquid glue.  To finish it off, I added a bit of Stickles in Diamond to the trees and the roof lines for some sparkle.

Birthday Card with Altenew and Inkadinkado - 2018

My dad's birthday is in October so it seemed fitting to make him a fun Halloween inspired card.

Stamps used: "Halloween Trails" by Inkadinkado; "To The Moon" by Altenew; "Lovely as a Tree" by Stampin' Up; "Boo Stamp & Cut" by Hero Arts

First I stamped the moon layers then masked it and blended on Distress Oxides.  With the mask still in place, I splattered a bit of water and Picket Fence white paint on, but I think I went a little overboard.  My husband said my "stars" looked like snow.  Once the background was done, I die cut it with a Distress Edge Rectangle by Kat Scrappiness.  Then stamped and heat embossed the images and the sentiment.

Thank You Card with My Favorite Things - MFT Sketch Challenge

We had some friends come by and feed our critters while we were away.  It was the perfect opportunity to make them card with some new MFT goodies and enter the latest Sketch Challenge #441.

Here are the steps I used to create the card:

• Die cut a couple of squares using the In & Out Stitched Squares by My Favorite Things
• Use Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide and the Radiating Rays stencil by MFT on the larger square
• Use Use Tumbled Glass, Cracked Pistachio and Lucky Clover Distress Oxide on the smaller square to create the scene
• Stamp the images from "Purrfect Friends" by My Favorite Things using Hero Arts Intense Black on Gina K Artist Choice cardstock and die cut with matching dies
• Color using Copics.  Cats: W8, W6, W4, C5, C3, C1, R20, 0.  Butterflies: RV17, YR68.  Cloud C3, C0.  Grass G46
• Glue everthing on a white card base
• Add details to the cats using black and white gelly roll pens
• Stamp the sentiment from "Cool Cat" by My Favorite Things in black ink

Mother's Day Flowers with Pretty Pink Posh

Aloha Friends and thanks for visiting!

For this card, I wanted to try to recreate Rena K's Pop Up Flower Card that she demonstrated in this video. It turned out really well, and I was quite happy!

Here is the front of the card:

And the inside:

Here are the steps I used to create the card:

• Took some 4" x 4" printer paper and covered each with Distress Oxides in abandoned coral, wilted violet, shaded lilac, worn lipstick, fossilized amber and tattered rose using a Life Changing Blending Brush
• Using the steps that Rena K shows in the video, I adhered the bouquet to the inside of a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" card base of MFT Cement Gray cardstock
• Cut a heart with Hero Arts Nesting Hearts Infinity die and stamp a sentiment from Whimsy Stamps "Mother Love" in Versafine ink
• Stamp the hummingbirds by Pretty Pink Posh "Hummingbird Thanks" on Catherine Pooler Smooth White cardstock with Gina K Jet Black Amalgam Ink and colored with Copics.  Here are the colors I used:
• Wings - BV000, BV02, BV04
• Body - BG11, BG15, BG07
• Head - B000, B02, B05
•  Added details to the hummingbirds using a white gel pen and Nuvo drops for eyes then fussy cut them
• Then I cleaned up the edges using an EK Tool black pen and adhered them to the card using Lawn Fawn glue

I know my mom will love it!

MFT - Up In The Air - Sketch Challenge #432

Aloha friends!

This week I am participating in the MFT Weekly Sketch Challenge.  This is sketch #432:

And here is what I created:

I just love this stamp set by My Favorite Things!

Here are the steps that went into the making:

• blended Distress Oxides in fossilized amber, worn lipstick and broken china on Strathmore Bristol Smooth using a Picket Fence life changing blending brush and the MFT Cloud stencil
• stamped images from MFT Up In the Air on X-Press It cardstock with Gina K Jet Black Amalgam ink
• colored the balloon with Copics YG03, YG25, YG17, W0, W2; the basket with E31, E35, E57; the puppy E34, E35, E37, E57, R20, W8; the birds B000, B32, Y000, Y13, YR16

Thanks for looking!