Ok so I decided not to go with Autumn colors for this birthday card and went with the coloring example on the package and wow did it come out looking like bright spring, LOL! Hubby saw it and just said wow. I used water coloring.
I was thinking I was going to want to use the 49 and market goodies for ladies cards but I am finding I am loving them for masculine cards too. I love when these sets work for both guys and gals. This little guy was just too cute and I had to pair something else with him so I broke out a leaf I had cut from some smooshed ink papers I had made and a mushroom from the same set as the chipmunk. Inked around a torn piece of paper to base them all on. The stamp is a rub on and the corner is a punch.
For my great nephews birthday. I added a touch of Glossy accents to the balloons.
Friend and her hubby have celebrated their 50th Anniversary. I went with some wallpaper background papers and flower.
The challenge for Christmas in my card making group is to have Joy on your card.
This first one is a sticker. The joy is gold foil and I like how they added detail too it, I tried to mimic that in the corners.
I am saddened to say that a dear cardmaking friend has lost her son. Our kids ages were just a few months apart. You don't expect your kids to go before you do, especially at a young age, so it is hard to put your head around it all. Praying God give her strength in the days and months ahead.
My Favorite season!! I started off by making a background with my color burst to cut out the border die and the leaves, I ended up doing the butterflies with it too :) I hope all the people that have fall birthdays don't get sick of all the Autumn cards I made for their birthdays, I do try to change it up every now and then :)
I am sharing my card with Memory Box Challenge which is Fall. They also asked for you to use some element of water so I used Mixed media paper and Color bursts and water to mix it up and that is what I used to cut out my dies.
Connie
I didn't realize this was my nephews 40th birthday but I am hoping he enjoyed this card anyway.
I had just received this die set in the mail. I have started back in July making Junk Journals and so I thought this set would be good to use with them. When I sat down to make my nephews card I thought the folder might make a nice card base. It measures 4 1/2 inches x 3 1/4 inches. I used other dies from the set for the embellishments along with some 49 and market papers, rub ons and ephemera.
I am so saddened to do this post, it has taken me awhile to get around to it. A great woman in the cardmaking industry has passed away. Her dear husband has kept many of us up to date on her health as she worsened and then came the news that she is now with our Lord and Savior away from all pain she has endured over the past few years. Cheryl was always kind, uplifting and sweet as can be. She shared her love of God so well on her blog with all her visitors too. Even going through all her health problems over the years she would always tell me Connie the Lord is good, I lean on him everyday and he gets me through. An amazing example for me and all of us who knew her.
Just before she passed I had seen this technique I came across on Pinterest and never tried before and when trying to figure out what I should do for her husbands sympathy card, I thought this might be nice.
You can find the Faux wood burning technique video HERE .
When I saw this challenge to use a tag on your card over at Retro Rubber Challenge Blog I knew just the tag I wanted to use. I had recently been looking at my old papers and I have been hoarding these, I have used quite a bit but now it was time to break them out again.
The stamp is from 2002 and the paper is from 2005, so both good oldies :)
I first thought to use a vine for my trellis off to the side but felt it still needed something so I added a branch with some flowers to mimic what was in the stamp. I stamped directly onto the pattern tag and colored with markers.
Sometimes we just need that little reminder don't we. I just had to get this bird from Spellbinders, isn't it a cutie and so many ways to use her :) This time she is taking a rest on the wreath.
Over at Can you handle the pressure Blog the challenge is embossing with a twist of adding a Sentiment as your focal. This stamp and die set makes a great focal for a sentiment. Of course I also had to add a flower ;) I cut the sentiment and flower out of the same piece of background I had made using Oxide inks.
The embossing folder was given to me by April, I used Tim Holtz paper and sanded it a bit, I need to get a better sanding piece, mine doesn't seem to work as well.
I am also sharing with Simon Says Challenge anything goes.
When I saw the challenge over at Double D Challenge which is wheels, I knew just what I wanted to do, make my first fall card, and one of the first things I think of is pumpkins, so that is what I put in the back of this truck :) I stenciled the background with clouds and then sponged in the road and grass.
The pumpkins are from a punch hubby had, I cut them from orange paper and did a little sponging of orange around them and colored the stems. Cut the leaves from pattern paper and added them to the tree die cut, of course you have to have some falling to the ground.
I had a couple of get well cards to make, this first one is for my sister in law who was in the hospital for a week, and has a few weeks of recovery ahead of her. I used some new goodies I had bought. I brought out one of my old flower dies, did a little inking to color it. Added some nuvo drops to the background.
I am sharing more cards from my Splitcoast team post, this time our February challenge. You can read about it HERE .
This was my favorite. I used gold embossing splatter stamps for my background. The gold on the heart is part of the cardstock.
Over at Let's Squash it blog they have a challenge to use anything but a square for your card shape, since I had just recently posted a circle card and a shaped rectangle card I went with my hexagon die, which made it a smaller card then I am use to using, it is approximately 4 x 3 3/4. I have been thinking I need to get my bee die out and use it before the summer is over so I went with using my honeycomb embossing folder. Of course the bees need something to be buzzing around so I added some flowers I cut from pattern paper and a leafy vine die. Used a couple gems for the centers.
Ok I thought I was done with the snowmen cards but when I was putting all my supplies back I saw a couple more snowmen stickers and thought I could make a couple more quick cards, so I did, can't have too many right :)
The stickers in these sets are so cute, I just loved the racoon peeking out from behind the snowman I just had to use this one. I found this paper that almost looked like swirls of snow for the background. I added a couple strips of scraps I had to the top and bottom and that peace sentiment is actually a part of an ornament stamp set my sister in law gave me, I just punched out the peace part for a sentiment.
I decided to use some of the things I colored while I was healing from my foot surgery last year, and this leaf background was in my envelope of goodies. I went with adding birds to it that I had already stamped using my layered stamp set.
First up is the one my hubby liked the best of them all and the image came from a children's coloring book I think was at the Target $ spot last year. I colored with markers but forgot how much they bleed on this cheap paper so have to remember to use pencils next time.
I have a few of these flowers I made ahead, and wanted to use one of them for this next birthday card I needed. When looking for the right papers to go with them I found just a small piece of this flower paper left in the pack and thought it matched perfectly with my die cut flower, so I went through and found more scraps to go with it to make up the background.
End of last year I was asked by Splitcoast Stampers if I would be on the Dirty Dozen Group. For those of you that don't know this is a group that you can pay to join, it keeps the site up and running and only those people can see your cards and other Dirty Dozen members. You can go on Splitcoast Stampers anytime you just can't view what is in that gallery unless you join as a Fan club member.
My months to create for the theme of the month was January thru June. We are allowed to share a couple cards from each month after we are all done with our commitment on our personal blogs. We had to make at least 6 cards every month, here are a couple from January.
I have had this snowman set for quite a few years, bought it at a yard sale and finally playing with it, one of my groups challenge is snowmen, the other challenge in another group is using silver or gold. I went with embossing these snowmen in silver embossing powder and then doing a bit of embellishing with silver pens.
It was a tad hard to get the pencils into these very tiny areas after they were embossed, I should have stamped first in soft color, colored them and then embossed after. The snowline was drawn with silver pen as were all the snowflakes in the background and the sentiment was stamped with silver ink.
I am using more of the Gemini dies I bought off of HSN. I cut them out twice and layered and then colored with markers.
I found this Sketch that I thought would work great with this die and give a little interest to the background.
