This one was for our male friend, I went with a collage feel of Autumn goodness :)
I saw this VIDEO a couple months ago and I thought that was such pretty washi tape, now they have many more in stock at Paperwishes.com if you want to check them out. I didn't do the butterfly exactly how she did it, but I still liked the effect.
Since there was so much pattern in the washi tape I decided to keep the background pretty plain, I used a stencil to ink just around the outside of the card with a deeper orange ink.
We had another teams meeting with my stamp group and this time April taught us I believe she called it Carved wood Technique.
You will want 3 brown inks from light to dark, sorry I forgot to write down the colors we used. We took a 4 x 5.25 inch paper and wiped the whole piece of paper with the lightest ink, you don't want to fill the whole paper just swipe down all the way across. Then we scored the top half of the card every 1/2 inch for four score lines.
Then take an embossing folder that you would like for the bottom half of your card and line it up with your last score line, you want this to be the debossed side of your folder. When done embossing you will swipe on your other 2 darker inks on top, once again just lightly wiping so not to fill the entire card just to leave streaks. We also added at the very end some Broken China distress inks very lightly. You will cut a 3/4 inch piece off this card for the two sections you see on the card.
For the base of the card we cut a 5.5 x 7.5 inch card and scored at 3 1/4 and 6 1/2 inches. Fold at the score lines and glue on your pieces to your card front. Later when I was finishing the card I just added the leaf myself to keep it shut, but you don't have to have anything there.
Here are a couple cards that came together quickly when I wanted to get something out the same day.
Our Music director at church had knee surgery. I am glad to report that was a few weeks ago and she is doing very well.
As many of you know that have followed me for awhile knows that the fall time is when I need the most Masculine cards, and since I have started to make them for the guys in our Life group at church I have a few more to make in the year now.
I have had this die for quite some time and I even made it up shortly after purchasing it and then I put it away in the package for further use, and I am finally bringing it out to play. I colored some of it with markers and did a little inking on it. I added some rubons to the pattern paper, along with some of the new washi tape I saw on Amazon and just had to have it, just as you see that border that is how it comes, pretty cool huh!
Paper Rose studio does a beautiful job with their ephemera and papers in their card kits, so hard to pass up :)
I have more advent calendars to open this December so I am really trying to use the things from last years before then, so I was able to go that plus I used some from other years too for the next birthday card I needed.
I have two cards to share today, my nephew and his son have their birthdays just a few days from each other and I finished these cards on the same day, using the same paper pack, so I thought I would share them here together. My great nephews card I used all papers from the pack, just cut the numbers and background from different pieces of paper. You can probably tell my great nephew is turning 15.
I have not played with this set in a long time and it is perfect for a fall birthday, in past times I have stamped the leaves, fussy cut them and then popped them on the tree, this time I did all the stamping directly onto a piece of pattern paper.
My hubby surprised me one day back in August with these dies. Normally he walks during his lunch break but because it was so HOT back then he decided to check out the thrift store on base to see what they had, we haven't gone in there in a long time. Well he saw this die set and thought I could use it on my cards. Now at first I will have to say I wasn't too sure about it, like how I am going to use something dimensional on my cards, but the more I looked at it I thought maybe I could, this is the card I came up with and the actual 3D version will be at the end. I added a tree to go with the greenhouse, and a punched border of flowers inside but all the rest of the dies are from this set.
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.
