Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Today’s card incorporates 10 stamp sets to create this birthday subway art type of card. This makes a great masculine or teen card – doesn’t it? Change the colors and make it a girly card. I started by first stamping the biggest greeting in the center and stamped all the other greetings and images around it. Check your stamp collection and make your own subway …
Today’s card is for a friend who recently had surgery. I’ve been carrying around this card all week and haven’t mailed it yet. Is it just me or does this happen to you? You make a card with enough time to reach the person for the occasion and then it’s late because you forgot to mail it – ugh! I created this card using sketch …
Today I’m featuring two 3″ x 3″ cards using a hostess set from the Occasions catalog and one from the Annual Catalog – both retiring soon. The first stamp is Love You Sew. I made a spool shape card with the Envelope Punch Board following a tutorial I came across from Papercrafter45. The sentiments in this set are cute. I like everything about the card – the sentiment, …
Today’s birthday card is a tall card which fits perfectly in a business size envelope. It’s a little different from my usual card size and style–it’s always good to try out a different way to create a card. I used four different stamps – Bordering Blooms (flowers at the bottom of card), Gorgeous Grunge (background), Cottage Greetings (sentiment), Awesomely Artistic (Friend sentiment). The Honeycomb Embossing …
Here’s another card that was made last year and was in my “to be posted” folder. The card features three stamp sets that are on the retiring list – The Open Sea, For Your Country (Godspeed), and Chalk Lines (wavy lines). Here is another one with the Open Sea stamp I never posted. This stamp set makes great masculine cards as you can see from …
Today’s card features An Open Heart stamp which also finds itself on the retiring list. For the background, first I stamped and colored the leaves and then I embossed it with the Brick Wall embossing folder. Using the sponge dauber, I sponged the bricks to add depth. The bird was grounded with the image from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp. Retiring List Details Have you checked …
There are several cards that I made last year and haven’t posted yet. This is one of them – using Tap, Tap, Tap. I made this quick and simple card as a thank you for a gift given to me when I retired in August 2015 as an office administrator at my church. I worked there for 18 years, can’t believe how time flies so …
I mentioned today’s card in a post a couple of weeks ago but couldn’t reveal it until the recipient had received it since I didn’t want to spoil the surprise. Card Details I used the pots from Gift From the Garden and fuzzy cut them to place them on the window ledge (aka Hearth & Home thinlits) sponged embossed Bricks with Sahara Sand ink sentiment …
For today’s card, I’m playing with Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration card sketch 32 and PalsPaperArts Color Challenge 295. I like this color combo that forced me to use Cucumber Crush which I don’t use often. The flowers in the background were stamped with Crumb Cake. I stamped the banner with the banner image from the set For All Things then punched it with the banner punch. Thanks for stopping …
Today’s clean and simple card was done for the CAS(E) this Sketch 167 challenge. I like clean and simple cards but usually don’t make them. I always feel the card needs something more, yet when I see other clean and simple cards, I love the simplicity and clean lines. So who knows, there may be more of these coming. I used the Kinda Eclectic stamp to …
I’m playing along with Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 442. This week I decided to play with several challenges to try to stretch myself more with sketches and different color combos. I’m having fun doing it and will continue as time allows. For today’s card I used the Going Places Designer Series Paper as my focus. The Happy Birthday is from the You’re So Lovely set. Thanks for …
Today’s card features the Annual Catalog host stamp Best Thoughts. Hydrangeas is one of my favorite flowers and I just noticed some leaves on my plants the other day – can’t wait till they’re in full bloom. Meanwhile, I’ll create one on paper. I stamped the image with Basic Black ink and added color with my blender pen. I also applied some Clear Wink of Stella …
Hi There! Today’s card features a fun fold using the stamp set Apple of My Eye. If you missed this set in the catalog, it’s towards the end of the Occasions catalog on page 47. I love the vibrant colors on this card. I added Crystal Effects to the cherries and apple images to give it a shiny look. I cased this fun fold from Patty Bennett …
Today’s card features Garden in Bloom which is another favorite stamp set of mine. I needed an encouragement card and I thought this was the perfect sentiment . . . “Hope you’re feeling special because that’s just what you are”. I stamped off some of the flowers, embossed the flowers on the vellum paper with Gold Embossing Powder and tied 3 Burlap strands from the …
Here’s a card I made back in November but hadn’t posted yet. Today’s card features Summer Silhouettes. I like the frilly flowers which allows you to make some pretty cards. The good thing about stamping is that you can create your own color flowers even if they don’t exist in real life. That’s ok – that’s called being creative. Click here and here to see …
Here’s another What I Love card along with the image from Timeless Textures . Check out the one I posted earlier this month here. And here’s another one with the same layout but used the Watercolor Wash as a background along with Timeless Textures. Which one do you like best? Leave me a comment below. HERE ARE THREE THINGS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS OUT ON: Sale-A-Bration ends …
Today’s card features the stamp set Helping Me Grow from the Occasions Catalog. It has 2 big flower images, a couple of cute corner images and several sentiments along with the frame. Since I did not have the coordinating Rose Wonder Thinlits, I fuzzy cut around the frame and popped it with a Stampin’ Dimensional. I wanted to add an element of fun so I …
Spring is finally here although it doesn’t feel like it here and there’s a threat of some snow accumulation, nevertheless, it’s here and warm weather is just around the corner. I saw a Spring display at the mall the other day and that was the inspiration for this card. I couldn’t wait to make a card with a spring theme and chose to make flowers …
Today’s card features Flowering Fields, another one of my favorite sets from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. I love the flower colored with Tangerine Tango – not sure what the name of that flower is. If you know, please leave me a comment below. The flowers were stamped with Archival Basic Black ink then colored with Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, and So Saffron using my Blender pen. …
Today’s card features the Watercolor Wings Stamp set and the 6″x6″ Fluttering Embossing Folder. I like the way this card turned out–the colors (Bermuda Bay – one of my favorite colors), the embossed and die cut butterflies and the dots on the top which gives it a festive feel. After I embossed the butterflies, I sponged White Craft ink over it. The silver cord trim was …