My little brother loved this card, using the clipboard die, I put a couple of pieces of paper under the clip, stamping on both, so he could flip and see what was under.
It was time to do some coloring again, using an older stamp that was in one of the cardmaking magazines.
It is not hard to find things that have been neglected in my room of goodies, so I went looking for something for our friends birthday and found this classic stamp that looks like an old chalkboard, I haven't used it in like 7 years, that is just a shame.
In our stamp group the challenge was to make cards using themes from 12 Days of Christmas, I just so happened to have gotten some stamped images from Penny Black years ago from one of the girls that use to be in our group. I just have had them in the envelope not really sure what to do with them, but this challenge was the perfect way for me to get them out and use them. All colored with markers. I also forgot to write down the papers I used in the first two but they were from a cardmaking magazine.
I love the look of the wax seals but with all the bulk of them I have never bought them, well I saw these stamped ones and I was able to buy the kit that also had dies with them to cut the flowers and the faux string, so I bought it. I added some crystal glaze to the seal to make it look more like wax.
One of my fellow cardmakers sent me a few stickers to use on my cards and I am finally getting around to using some of them, I thought this one would be cute for a great nephew on my hubby's side of the family, I like the vintage look of the image but decided to go with more fun papers with it.
When I saw this challenge from the Penny Black Saturday challenge blog I thought it would be a great addition for the card I wanted to make for a friend of mine. I used a Paper piercing template for the design, I used the small scallop and the straight edges to make up a frame for these flowers. I stitched it using 2 strands of floss.
Playing with more ephemera and washi tape postage and used some scraps of paper from my scraps bin.
I don't know that there is a better combo than birds and flowers :) Using some ephemera pieces once again and since it was being hand delivered I was able to use more of my big gems and pearls with it :)
When I saw this die set I just loved the possibilities with it, and it comes with so many dies. I loved that it came with it's own bird too :)
I have 3 great nephews graduating this year. I don't have anything for just that is strictly for graduation so I went looking through my stuff to see what I could use and found a few things to put together.
Sharing a paper pack I saw the last time I went to the Stamp store over in Missouri, all the pretty yellows jumped out at me so pretty, I am just a sucker for these pretty paper packs with ephemera. The sentiment and the little butterfly tag are old things but all the rest is new.
I had to have the new die set from Tim Holtz with the mini clip board, when I saw his video of it, I had to order it. I can see a lot of fun things to do with it. I also used some other goodies from him.
Hubby and I have been very surprised in the amount of Blue Jays we have been seeing this spring, gave me inspiration for this card, even though he isn't a blue jay he is a blue bird :) I used some dimensional stickers from Hobby Lobby for the bird to rest upon and framed it all with a wooden die cut frame. Had to add some stenciled clouds to the background :)
