Spreading Joy Through Handmade Cards
Today’s card features the Timeless Texture stamp as the background and Rose Wonder for the sentiment. I love all the texture and grunge stamps Stampin’ Up! offers in their catalog – Gorgeous Grunge (you already know it’s a favorite), Timeless Texture, and Touches of Texture. I combined all the images from the Timeless Texture stamp and used different color inks to create the background. I …
Today’s card features the Swirly Bird stamp. It’s actually one of my new favorites from the catalog. Creating with this 24 photopolymer image is endless because it’s so versatile and so much fun. You can make flowers, kites, boats, swirls, lollipops, and more. I decided to make flowers out of my swirls and I sponged around the 2 bigger swirls to add depth. I used …
If you came back looking for my 2nd post earlier, I apologize for not posting. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to do so, but here it is now. Painter’s Palette is one of the stamp sets we were allowed to pre-order. I like the canvas and the font – so cool. You can even insert a picture of someone dear to you on …
Today’s card features a sneak preview of the Love You Lots hostess set from the new catalog. It has some adorable images and sentiments. I sponged all five of the 2016-2018 In Colors and made this into a faux layer card. Nice colors, right? And aren’t these hedgehogs cute? More sneak previews to come. Thanks for stopping by. . . hope you have a great …
Here’s a card I made for my niece who was celebrating her 4th birthday. I wanted a little girl with big balloons so I grabbed my retired All in the Family stamp set for the girl. The balloons are from Celebrate Today and Balloon Celebration. The 4 was die cut with the Large Numbers Framelits and Birthday Bouquet DSP. I added some of my favorite …
Starting tomorrow (May 23), retiring stamps will be available while supplies last and all retiring products no longer available after May 31. Today’s card features the Everything Eleanor stamp which is on the retiring list. This is one of the cards that we made at my Monogrammed Note Card Set & Holder Class last month. All 6 cards and holder coordinated to make it a …
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 …
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 features several stamps: Zoo Babies (retiring), Gorgeous Grunge, Number of Years and Balloon Celebration. Isn’t this an adorable card for a child? What’s not to like about cute elephants and balloons? This stamp set is great for baby showers whether is a card, scrapbook page or any other decor. For my daughter’s baby shower, I made cards for the invited guests to write …
Wow, I haven’t posted since May 1 – things were mega CRAZY last week! May is full of family birthdays all throughout the month, add Mother’s Day – which means making gifts and cards. Then add unexpected trips to hospitals for both moms and you have craziness! Hope you had a great Mother’s Day. I had a wonderful day celebrating with family – thanks to …
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 …
World of Dreams is the featured stamp in today’s card and is one that’s on the retiring list. Just as yesterday’s card, I made these 2 cards last year but hadn’t posted them. For the card above, I used the Window Framelits which retired last year and used the masking technique. I also used the Decorative Hearts stencil (on the current retiring list). This stamp …
I like combining several stamps and creating a scene and so that’s what I did for this card. I stamped the car, couple & sentiment from Beautiful Ride, the tree from Sheltering Tree and the stars from Balloon Celebration. Actually, when I stamped the stars with VersaMark to emboss with white embossing powder, I thought I had selected the closed stars but instead they were the open …
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 …