Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
I like cards that have an opening in the front to reveal an image stamped on the inside. For this card, I used the Moon Lake stamp (again!) and By the Seashore for the side panel. To make the opening on the front of the card, I used the Ovals Collection Framelits. I die cut a larger oval than the opening for the border around …
Love is Kindness is one of the stamps I fell in love when I saw the Occasions Catalog. The original stamp has a sentiment about love to the left of the image but I decided to remove it before I mounted it to the wood in order to use it for any occasion. For this card, I colored the tulips with Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and …
For this card, I used the Butterfly Basics stamp set and cut the cardstock with the image at an angle. I colored the flowers with the Calypso and Old Olive Blendabilities. I added Crystal Effects to the flowers for the waxed look and adhered some pearls. For the card below, I made some minor changes. I added glitter instead of the Crystal Effects and a …
The chalkboard paper and chalk ink is perfect for an easel type card. Instead of a stand alone easel, I chose to attach it to a standard size card base. I used the Square Framelits to cut the middle. Here’s the inside of the easel. I stamped flowers from the Painted Petals stamp set on the Pink Pirouette cardstock. Did you know you can get …
Moon Lake is a great stamp for masculine cards. For this birthday card, I cut the Island Indigo card base at 5-1/2″ x 8″, scored it at 2-3/4″ and embossed the front of it. I placed the 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ Whisper White cardstock inside right on top of card base and embossed half of it to leave room for the inside sentiment. I used …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, although I have projects to share, I haven’t had the time to post. I was busy preparing for my daughter’s baby shower that took place this past weekend. Her due date is in a couple of weeks! Here’s a card using products from the Occasions Catalog. I used the Painted Petals and the Butterfly Basics stamp sets and …
Here’s another gift card holder using the Wondrous Wreath Photopolymer stamp. I kept the colors the same as the one in yesterday’s post. I used the framelits that coordinate with the stamp to die cut “Joy” onto a Gold Foil Sheet. This is the inside – when you open it up, it slides up and reveals the gift card. It measures 6-1/2″ x 3-3/4″ and …
Here’s another Gift Card Holder, this time using the adorable White Christmas Stamp which I also made a matching tag (see here). I love snowmen, unfortunately, they go hand in hand with the cold weather which I don’t like so I’m just going to stick with my stuffed, glass and stamped snowmen. I can display them in the summer and they won’t melt and I …
Gift cards come in all sizes – so why not combine a card to place your gift card and at the same time have room to write a message inside. In this card, I used the Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp and used the Vellum Card Stock to hold the gift card. I liked the idea of a vellum gift card holder and cased the …
How are you doing with your Christmas cards? Need ideas? Today’s card is a quick and easy, yet elegant card using the Ornamental Pine Stamp Set and for some bling, I added Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Come back tomorrow for another Christmas project. Are you on my newsletter mailing list? Fill out the form on the right and every week for the next 6 weeks you’ll …
It’s not too early to start making Christmas cards. Just think . . . if you start now in a couple of weeks you can have all your cards ready to mail out. To get you started on ideas, here’s a card we made at my recent Christmas card class using the Wondrous Wreath stamp and Wonderful Wreath framelits. We used the square framelits to frame the wreath …
Here’s a card using the For All Things stamp set in the Holiday Catalog. As much as I tried to adjust the colors as I got this card ready for posting, I couldn’t get the larger banner and acorns the right shade of what the Blackberry Bliss ink really is – this card gives it a different shade of purple. This is a very …
It was a little cool yesterday so I thought I would share a card I made for my niece’s shower using the same fall colors I used for her wedding invites. For this card, I embossed 3/4 of the card with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder after I stamped it with the leaf from the Kinda Eclectic stamp set. I then sponged it with Cajun Craze …
Time does fly by – doesn’t it? This summer has been a bit of a whirlwind, visiting different areas of the country and going to a music conference . . . all good, but having fun just means you need to catch up on some work. Then you throw in a little bit of not feeling well for a week with strong headaches and before …
Here’s another sympathy card. Unfortunatley, I needed to make many of these this summer. I used the Lovely as A Tree stamp as the focal point. Once again, I used my good old companion, the Big Shot. I embossed the Very Vanilla card stock with the woodgrain embossing folder and used my Circles Collection Framelits to mount my tree. Perfect masculine card! Before I embossed …
Today’s birthday card uses the Dotty Angles stamp. Doesn’t it make a great celebration card? I also used it on the ice cream portion – looks like chocolate chips, doesn’t it? The cone was embossed with the new Tiny Triangles Embossing Folder. Any kid would love receiving this card – my niece absolutely LOVED her ice cream cone card! Don’t forget to take advantage …
I know it’s been several days since I’ve posted anything here – I got back from vacation last week and I’ve been trying to catch up on things. As soon as I got back home, I went to my studio to whip up 10 cards that I needed for this past week alone . . . 4 birthdays – for my mother-in-law, my 3 nieces; …
Today’s card incorporates the bubble wrap technique with a twist. I’ve done the bubble wrap technique before where you ink up the bubble wrap you get in your packages with any color you like and stamp onto the card stock–the result looks like this. Today’s next step, which I got the idea from Dawn Griffith, takes it to another level. It uses the emboss resist technique …
Today’s card is an interactive one using the Circle Card Thinlits and Timeless Talk stamp that I made back in May but hadn’t posted it yet. I wanted to make a card with a LP record for my dad who loves to play music. Some of you may be saying, what is that?! Okay let me explain . . . some time ago, way back in the …
Hi Friends! Another quick project – this time let’s do some packaging. Have you seen the bags and boxes in the catalog? They make for some great gift packaging. I used the Chevron bags to wrap up the cards I posted yesterday as a gift for a recent workshop hostess. I used two new stamps – Kinda Eclectic for the butterflies and the hostess stamp, Let …