Friday, December 17, 2021

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 MFT and YNS

 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.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Birthday Card with Colorado Craft Company

 My dad celebrated his 70th birthday this year.  So I made him this card using stamps from Colorado Craft Company and Hero Arts.


I stamped the cupcake from Colorado Craft Company Friend Cupcake (masking the strawberry) and heat embossed it in white embossing powder.  I colored it using my Polychromos colored pencils.  I stamped and heat embossed the numbers from Hero Arts Number Candles along with the flames and colored those also.  The sentiment from Colorado Craft Company Citrus Berry Cupcake was heat embossed and cut out using the matching die.

Thanks for looking!


Monday, June 7, 2021

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.



Sunday, May 9, 2021

Mother's Day Card with Altenew

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.



Thanks for visiting and Happy Mother's Day!