I decided to go with some stamping that I haven't done in awhile for the next birthday card I needed, this was another hand delivered so I could add as much dimension. These are layered stamps.
When I saw this pocket pad of images at the stamp store over in Missouri I had to pick it up because it had great images I could use for either girl or guy cards. This one reminded me of something Tim would have, it had great distress look to it.
Two ladies in my cardmaking group lost family members, I had recently printed off these images from Graphics Fairy, so I thought they would work nicely for sympathy cards.
I just love these flowers and I had to make something for me to enjoy with them. I don't have a tree of my own but there are a few not to far that I drive past all the time in the spring so I can enjoy them that way. I decided to make something I could hang and as I was putting away all my summer decorations to get ready for fall I wondered if I had ever posted it, and when I found a piece of paper with all the info I realized I never did share it so here we are in Autumn enjoying some spring goodies :)
It hangs from a shelf my hubby made me, I don't recall where I found the hanger but it works great for those things I want to display, that doesn't have one of their own. I used my branch die to add the little buds too or they would just be floating in air.
I do not have one of these trees but the person that received this card does and I didn't realize I hadn't made her a card using my stamp yet, I have had this stamp for awhile now so it is always nice to get an oldie out and let it shine again :) Before I took the cardstock out of the die I did a little inking in the open spots of the frame.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
I don't know if that is the name for this card that is just what I named it for the blog post, we did this card together in our Teams meeting with my stamp group. I was a little late getting my supplies around and couldn't think of what stamp or dies to use so I just got out one of my Ephemera packs from Hobby Lobby and used that for all my images.
Now I got this wrong the first time around so had to do mine again real quick, so hopefully I have this straight and you can understand my instructions :) You take two 4 x 5.25 inch pieces of white cardstock, you cut a rectangle frame from the center of one of them and lay that aside. Put your frame you made and add it to the top of the other piece of cardstock, then add your ink (we used Oxide inks) to the frame and inside the opening. Then add the pieces to your embossing folder, run both pieces together through your machine (we added a little washi tape to keep them together) and then separate them after embossing and you now have a frame that is embossed (which I used later) and a piece that is white framing your colored area.
We added a Belly band, I didn't have a big enough piece of the colored cardstock that I used for the card back and front left to make mine so I used white cardstock and added some washi tape to it.
Our Christmas challenge in my stamp group was to have sparkle. I had already done a bit of that last month but I did come up with a little sparkle on some of these :) I finally got around to watching THIS VIDEO from Simon says stamps with Tim Holtz, using his Christmas goodies, I already had a few things in my stash so I thought I would check it out and see if I could make some cards, although they don't look anything like what he came up with I did use some hints and tips he had to come up with my own.
On this first card, this was a piece that I had sponged white paint around the edges of my pattern paper for another card but hadn't used it.
I am using another bird I cut from pieces of washi tape, if you missed my other card all the info is HERE about how I went about making them. I used an old goodie that I had with this die for the background, it reminds me of an old garden gate. An embossing folder was used for the very background. I inked the raised areas.
Another card I hand delivered so I was able to get as bulky as I wanted, so I made a bouquet for my friend. I tried making another frame for the sentiment and added it all on a die cut shelf.
My Oldest Brother turned 75, I was able to hand deliver this card when we went back to Michigan. He likes to play poker with a group of guys every week so I asked hubby if he could make some playing cards on the computer with a 7 & 5 and this is what he came up with for me. Then I took 3 little circle dies and cut them out, embossed them to give them the look of poker chips. He said it was neat, so I think he liked it :)
Another bird card today this one is a stamp. Another one of those sets that I thought would work nicely for my junk journals, but also would be nice to use for cards :) I tore the background paper to reveal some darker paper behind.
When Connie from Crafty Home Cottage mentioned she was turning 80, I just had to make her a special card. I had her address because years ago she sent me a box of stamps she wanted to get rid of and thought I could use them, isn't that sweet of her :)
My niece which is also my goddaughter is always texting me positive quotes and so I decided to send her an uplifting card to show my love for her.
One of the girls in my stamp group and I were exchanging ideas of things we have found on you tube to try and this washi technique is one of them that my friend found, I had to give it a go. I will share the video HERE. I used washi tape I had boughten instead of making my own so if you want to start where she is actually using the washi tape fast forward to the 18:41 mark. I used a piece of real busy pattern paper for my base. I will have to say that I used some shiny washi tape and when I went to die cut it didn't work so well, so just keep that in mind, some of mine ended up peeling right off, the pieces on this bird actually stayed.
Using more of those old Michaels stamps for another masculine card today :) Feels good to get use out of the old things we have bought in the past. I bought the other stamps with the owl for my Junk Journals. I combined my square die inside my rectangle to get the frame for the Owl.
I am once again using an image from the Graphics Fairy. I think I shared the link a long time ago so for those that are new to my blog since then I will share the link again HERE. If you sign up for their email every Friday they send you links to free images and give you an extra free one at the bottom of the email that is new to their free images. A lot of them are very old and vintage but I do love that :)
I went with using some ephemera pieces for a man at church who recently had heart by pass surgery.
Every week I have been printing off some images from Graphics Fairy.com so I will have them on hand when I want to use them, well my envelope I was putting them in is getting a big full so time to use some more :) This image had a blank spot on it so I stamped the sentiment there, it worked out perfectly.
In my stamp group our Christmas challenge for August was to use Stencils on our cards, I didn't realize how many I had until I started going through some older Advent calendars that I hadn't used.
These first two cards I used Glitter paste that was in the Diamond Press advent calendar last year.
