Our Pastors husband loves the great outdoors so I thought creating a scene would be perfect for his card.
Retro Rubber Challenge has a Great Outdoor challenge, this stamp set is from 2016.
A couple of the ladies in our cardmaking group are going through some health troubles. I used some paper pads that have ephemera right in the pack you just need to cut them out, and I used some dies.
In my stamping group the Christmas challenge for this month was stripes, I went through all my things and I had two stamp sets with stripes so I made two cards of each.
I think they named it that because this cluster of flowers is in the shape of a Crescent moon. I thought they would look best with a wreath.
Hope you all are staying cool, we are back in the heat wave, so thankful for last week when we had cool mornings so I could get out and enjoy the outside.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
Our worship team leader has recently graduated and now has her pastoral license. We had a little reception for her after the church service. The background was very busy so I did a little inking around the edges of the die cut and also inked through the cross die before taking out the craft cardstock from the die.
My great niece and a girl from church our both starting their year in a new high school, and I know what a hard thing that was for our daughter when we moved here when she was in high school, so I sent them both a card of encouragement.
My nephew and his family have moved from Michigan to Alabama, had to send them a new home card. I thought the sentiment is perfect for a whole new place they are making their home.
I stencil the card base to look like a brick wall of a home and then added the pretty paper that gave me a feeling of a arched opening and ephemera to it (Fence, bird, cat, and rose).
This was a piece of ephemera from a pack, wasn't sure if I would use it but then a cardmaking friend was talking about how much she loves coffee and tea and I thought it would make a nice card for her birthday.
Retro Rubber Challenge this time is a tic tac toe challenge and I used the right side column going down. Pattern paper, ribbon and my choice which was embossed piece. I added ink to it by using my brayer and some ink, I find it is the best way not to get ink on the background of your embossed image and only on the raised portions. The cute stamps are from the 2020 Crafter's companion advent calendar.
I just love the colors and scenes in this paper set, I am not one that is big on fairy's necessarily but they are very pretty. I thought it would make a pretty card for my friend.
Simon Says Stamps Monday challenge is sparkle and shine. Now I have had this bold and colorful book plate I think you call it on my desk for quite some time, if I remember correctly it came in a kit a long time ago. Since I am mostly one that uses warm colors this did not reach out to me to get used all this time. I was thinking I could find a place for it in my junk journal but still hadn't used it but this challenge came up and my great nieces birthday and I though you know she might like a card with a lot of color and shine!
The sparkle is from stickles and the shine from nuvo glaze that I applied to the dots that came out of the double sided paper I used to cut the background to the cupcake.
This sweet wreath was part of an ephemera pack, I did not buy the matching papers I just picked up the ephemera because I liked what was inside. It was a little small so I found a die that I thought would work nice with it. It is hard to see but I added pink washi and a border of white butterflies washi tape and then added the faux postage stamp on top of them.
Trying to go through and use stamp sets I haven't used in awhile and I thought this one is a pretty collage stamp. The butterfly, sentiment and framed image are all from the same set. I tore and inked the paper to separate it from the bottom piece.
It is kind of funny what can give you inspiration for a card, I was going through some junk journal video's and this one mentioned that she used wallpaper in her journal and I said oh yeah I have some of that Tim Holtz vintage wall paper and flower images. My sisters anniversary was coming up and I thought it would be pretty to use those for her card and that is where this started. I needed something to break up the flower image and the wallpaper and I usually reach for a die cut but thought that would hide most of the paper so I went with vellum to put underneath it.
I have been seeing a lot of stamping on text paper on Pinterest lately, and so I had to give it a try. My hubby was getting rid of some books and I noticed the paper inside this one was nice and thick so I told him I wanted it, well I think the reason it is nice and thick is it has a bit of shine on the surface which made stamping on it not so good, I had to wait a whole day for it to dry and then when I went to color it in with my colored pencils it just bled a bit, so I am going to have to try this next time on a different book page. Hubby thought it still looked good so I sent it.
I needed a masculine Thank you card, and this is what I came up with.
I managed to get my cards done in July for Christmas I just didn't get pictures or get them posted.
In my stamp group the challenge was to use any type of water coloring. I chose to use my Distress inks to make smooshed background for the reds, shimmer powders for the greens and then cut things from those backgrounds. I also used a bit of sparkle pen to give some depth to the holly branch card a little later.
