I broke out my coloring calendar images again for my next birthday card. Had to color the bird with Autumn colors for a Fall birthday card. I used the little leaf stamp in the sentiment stamp set to stamp around the image too.
I found another tag that you can write in your thoughts and thought it would be neat for my great nephew who is turning 14. Instead of writing this time I stamped different birthday sentiments.
I know we don't really associate roses with Fall but when you make them out of Fall colors well I guess it works :)
I have used this rose border I think once and it was high time I used it again and thought it paired nicely.
This was a new technique to me that our stamp group did over skype.
We added some inks to our glass mats and then spritz with water and used a pallet knife to move the inks around to kind of blend them and then we added tissue paper over the inks and let it absorb, then carefully take off and let dry. Once dry we crinkled the tissue paper to give it some lines and then added glue to our cardstock base and laid the crinkled tissue over the glue, you can even add more crinkles as you bunch it up after layering it on top. Let that dry.
Take your anti static pouch to run over the background, then take your embossing ink and lightly run over only the raised areas from your bunching up the tissue paper. Then add your embossing powder and heat, it gives such a neat look to your background. I liked it so much I made a few and will be using more in other cards :)
Cardstock base was 4 1/4 x 11 inches, scored at 2 1/2, 3 3/4, 6 3/4, 8 1/4. We took a piece of cardstock and embossed it and added our sentiment for the inside at the bottom.
This card does not stand up on it's own.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
Don't you just love how we as creative people can make our birds any color we would like :) I saw many of these type birds on Pinterest and thought they would be cute for my oldest sister who recently had a granddaughter.
You cut circles, I did two different sizes, don't quite fold in half leave a little room to be able to peek at the paper behind, double sided paper is the best for this. I added a heart punch to their bottom feathers and leaf punches for their wings. Black pen for the legs and eyes. For the beaks I just hand cut a triangle.
49 and Market has some very delicate laser cut elements in their collections and this one is one of them, I was hand delivering this one to my girlfriend so it worked out ok to pop it up with foam dots and not worry about the mail crushing it.
I hadn't used this embossing folder in quite some time and I thought I would make it into an Autumn tree, coloring it with markers and adding a stamped Autumn display with it too.
Feels like it has been awhile since I used one of my bird dies and since I hadn't used any for my hubby's nieces birthday card yet I thought it was about time :)
I cut my bird from pieces I had done on my gelli plate, the branches I added a little extra ink and the sentiment sticker was silver so I added a little blue pen to go with the flowers.
Last month I had gone to JoAnns store to see if they had anything new in stock and they were having a sale on card making things. I saw this set of ephemera and thought it was so pretty so I picked it up, Wellll obviously I thought it was a nice pack before because when I came home and went to put it away I already had the set. So the next on my list to make a card for was my friend here in town so I decided I needed to make something with the set and this is the card I came up with.
I have been on vacation since September 23rd and we were quite busy driving and exploring, when we would make it back to the hotel I was so exhausted I couldn't see straight, I was able I think 2 times to get on and try and catch up on everyone's blogs, I am almost caught up, I think only a couple days behind now :) If I get the time maybe I will share some pics of our time out in Montana and places between here and there :)
Sharing another card with 49 and market goodies.
I am pretty impressed with most of the stickers you can buy at Dollar Tree store, they are so pretty and for the price it can't be beat, yes I now have a full basket of their stickers, rub ons and such, I need to stay away so I don't buy more, LOL! Thought it was time to get some used. I smooshed some blue ink on my mat and made my background behind the flowers that way and then cut a border and did a little inking around the edges.
I love having a stamp positioner like the Misti, you can ink up part of the stamp and then stamp it on your paper and then ink up the rest and stamp again and you don't have to worry about it being lined up, it looks good all in one color but I like the option of using multiple inks, I stamped directly on the pattern paper.
I hadn't used these dies that cut into the corner of the paper in so long I thought it was high time :) When I am having a hard time thinking of an idea of what to make someone for their birthday card, instead of going for a sketch I have been going through my goodies and finding something I haven't used in awhile and the card usually comes together after that.
Using some more of that cool paper I bought for guy cards, my husband loves this paper so hoping my nephews and other guys in my life do too :) I chose this piece of paper because it has my nephews birthday number on it, when I showed it to my hubby he says yeah that's cool but you need to try and cover the 7, so I added a T and H stickers.
For a friend who loves purple :) For the lavender I used a piece I made on my gelli plate so that it wouldn't be all one color. The stems was from a background I did with Brusho shimmer powders.
The challenge in my cardmaking group is to use this sketch where you take 3 different papers all the same size, stack them on top of one another and make 3 cuts into them, then take one from each paper to make a card base.
In my stamp group the challenge is to use Houses on our cards. When I was looking through my books of watercolor images for a different card I came across this one of a Church, now our churches are God's house, am I not right, so I tore it out and have had it on my desk to remember to use it, I colored with Aqua markers. Adding a bit of snow to make it more Christmas and stamped in the bulletin board Joy and a heart.
I am trying to think if I have ever used these embossing folder before, I know when it was given to me I thought it would make a nice fancy frame for flowers but don't know if I had ever tried it before, I thought this bouquet fit perfectly inside. It isn't often I make a card and am totally happy with the results but this one is one of my favorites.
Last month a lady in our group had a birthday and this is the card I made for her, I hadn't gotten around to posting yet, but just had to post today because I found out this morning that she has passed away suddenly. She was so funny, caring and sweet, she will be very much missed in our group, we are all just in shock and can't imagine the shock it was to her family. We never know when it will be our time to leave.
I had made this card HERE earlier and had stamped and cut all the flowers out thinking I was going to use them all on the card but ended up leaving these off, they had been on my desk for a couple days when I had to make her card and decided to use them on hers.
My niece lost her dog of I believe she said 18 years. I tried to color the dog like hers.
My daughter has had a very busy spring and summer. She graduated from Yale University with her PhD in Theology and has gotten married.
She didn't attend her graduation in person but opted to have it sent to her in the mail. Since we were not able to attend her graduation I asked if she would take a picture of her and the diploma once she received it.
Here is the card I made for her. The colors for her area are blue and white, and I had just bought this ephemera pack with the image of this stack of books so I thought that was fitting.
One of the ladies in our cardmaking group has a daughter that went through some major surgery, and she asked if we would like to send her a card.
I went with a Graphic Fairy digital image. A lot of inking around the edges of the die cuts.
