Today’s card features a partial background using the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks and blending brushes. These masks are perfect for a quick and simple card.
Happy Birthday Flowing Flowers & On the Horizon
Have you seen the 2022 January – June catalog yet? There are some great products in there. Today’s card features the On the Horizon bundle. With minor adjustments, I cased (copy and share everything) this card from the catalog because I liked the simplicity of it. What is the difference between this card and the one on page 42 of the catalog? Read on below. …
Friends Are Like Seashells – Happy Birthday
Happy Wednesday! Today I’ll be sharing with you another card using the Friends Are Like Seashells set. Making a masculine or feminine card with this set is easy. All you need to do is change the colors and it gives it a whole different feel. Card Details For my masculine quick and easy card I used the following: Card base – thick white cardstock Seashell …
Friends Are Like Seashells, A Birthday Full of Dimension
Wow! The Friends Are Like Seashells suite is a such a great set! Since my husband loves to collect seashells, I knew this would be the perfect set to make his birthday card. The Friends Are Like Seashells is a photopolymer set with 23 stamps – 8 greetings and 15 images. It’s a two step stamp as well as a Distinktive stamp. You can read …
Game On, Swirly Frames – It’s All About the Color
Hello Crafters! Today I’m sharing with you two cards that feature the Game On & Swirly Frames stamps. Both cards are identical except for the colors – one has manly colors and the other girly colors. Remember in yesterday’s post how I used the circles from the Swirly stamps? Today we’ll look at the stitched lines from the same set. Notice the lines in between …
In Good Taste, Valentine
The In Good Taste Designer Series Paper is one of my favorite patterned papers and you can use it to make a quick Valentine’s Day Card for that special valentine in your life. After being sick for almost a month, I didn’t have much energy to make cards (hard to believe, but true). Valentine’s Day is on Sunday and I needed to make my husband’s …
The Right Triangle – Happy Birthday
How many triangles can you count on this card? Did you guess 10? Then you’re right! Each side has 5 triangles of various sizes – the 2 diagonal ones were stamped and the others were die cut. Today’s card features The Right Triangle and the Stitched Triangles dies – a new bundle in the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. When I started creating this card, I was …
Card Making For Beginners – Part 5 – Card Layers
Welcome back! In Part 3 of this series – we learned how to cut and score our cardstock and how to make 4 different card folds out of two 8-1/2″ x 11″ cardstock. We made 2 horizontal cards and 2 vertical cards. If you need a refresher, please see this post. Today, we are going to build on that card base. Some people have trouble …
Want to Play? Game On!
Hi There! For today’s post, we’re going to focus on Game On, one of the new stamp sets from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog. When you go through a new catalog, how do you go about deciding on what stamps to purchase? I usually try to get sets with images or sentiments that I don’t have in my collection. I definitely didn’t have anything with cards, …
Guy Greetings
Today’s card uses 2 retiring stamp sets – Guy Greetings and Number of Years. I made this card back in February for an uncle who was turning 85 years old. He loves tinkering with cars and if they’re old cars, even better. So as I was figuring out how to incorporate the number on his card I thought of Guy Greetings with the eclipse technique …
Nailed It and Build It
Here’s another Father’s Day card, which like I said in my last post you can make it into any occasion masculine card or save it in a file for next year. I debated whether to post this card since everything but the Wood Texture Designer Series Paper is retired and you can’t get it now, but I decided to since some of you already have …
Out In The Woods With Lovely As A Tree
Yes, another Father’s Day card…just think masculine card ideas. I was up very late Saturday night trying to make my Father’s Day cards but ran out of time to make all the ones I wanted to make for the special men in my life. I had to keep it simple, if I wanted to make any at all. The Lovely As A Tree set is great for …
Wood Rings – Father’s Day
I’m a little late with this Father’s Day card but thought I would share it anyway. To replicate, you can just switch the sentiment. The main image on this card is the new background stamp – Wood Rings. Quick and very simple and that’s exactly what I needed to make this weekend. Hope you had a nice day celebrating. Background Stamps Have you seen the …
Endless Birthday Wishes & Grunge
Today’s card is a quick and easy card. I combined 3 stamp sets to create the card – Endless Birthday Wishes (the cake and sentiment), Gorgeous Grunge (stripes & splatterings) and Touches of Texture (the small speckles). This makes a perfect masculine or teen card, doesn’t it? I colored the cake with a blender pen and to add dimension, I added 2 of the star metallic gold …
Weather Together & Festive Celebration
Today’s card using the Weather Together stamp and Festive Embossing folder was created by using the sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge. My Stampin’ Up! order was delivered on Friday so that meant time to play! The new Festive Embossing folder is a great one to have in your collection – it lives up to its name with its fun design. The Weather Together stamp …
From Land to Sea
Father’s Day is around the corner, so I thought I would feature some masculine cards starting with yesterday’s blog post. Although this is a birthday card, you can easily switch out the sentiment and make it a Father’s Day card. From Land to Sea is a great masculine stamp set. Did you know that the Stampin’ Up! catalog is a great place for inspiration? I …
Birthday Subway Art – Stampin’ Up!
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 …
You’re So Lovely Birthday
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 …
Skating By
Have you seen the Skating By stamp in the Annual Catalog? It’s a great set for those boys in your family. It has a skate board, ipod, trophy and other images that boys (and girls) like to do. It also has some great greetings. Now that I have a little grandson in our family, it’ll come in handy in the near future. Hmm, I bought this …
Sky is the Limit
Here’s a simple card with not too much stamping but a great card using the Sky is the Limit stamp set. This set is a FREE Sale-a-Bration stamp available for a limited time only and will be gone after February 15. It’s a nice set that has both images and greetings. It’s a perfect set for birthdays, graduation, for the men in your life, Valentine’s Day …