One of the girls in our cardmaking group lost her brother. The tag in this sticker pack already had a gold leaf on it, but looked a little empty so I added another flower sticker to it. The border is a sticker out of the pack too. Sentiment is a stamp. I used a piece of paper from my scrap bin.
Using more of the papers I shared in my last card. This time using a new to me embossing folder, I have had it for some time but just never gave it a try and I decided to use pattern paper with it to see how that would look. This embossing folder cut the inside of the flowers out, so I added orange strips to the back to make the cut out parts stand out against all that pattern. Then I took my small ink brush and added some inks to the raised areas of the embossing.
Well I did it, I bought the same paper pack twice. I hear about others doing it but it finally happened to me. The stamp store has a clearance section and I only go there a few times a year, so when I went this last time and they had these papers that I thought would look great for my Autumn cards and it was 40% off I just had to get it. When I was going through my papers for another card, guess what I found, yep the same paper pack that I had already bought off her clearance the time before must be because that one was 40% off too, at least I got them both on sale. So since I had two packs of the same papers I decided to see if I could use up one of the packs this Autumn since I will have a whole other pack to use. So you will be seeing a lot of it over the next month :) The time before I had picked up some laser cuts too so I have enough for both paper packs probably.
I had to use this reel again I think it is so neat. I cut the smallest images I could find to fit in each little slot of the picture reel that you could somewhat tell what it was. and used a film strip behind it. Used some of Tim's new paper pack for the background and the middle of the reel is a sticker from Amazon.
A lady that use to attend our church that is now in Assisted Living, has just celebrated her 90th birthday. I used an image from the Hunkydory book of images. Some washi tape to add the number onto so it isn't floating and a sticker sentiment onto the image, bottom right corner.
I know I said I would post guy cards every other one but there has been challenges that I am using things for ladies cards, I will get back to the guy cards :) I am really trying hard to use more Advent calendar goodies before I start opening my new one in December and I managed to use quite a bit on this one card. A lady in our church had back surgery.
I started with coloring this pretty stamp, cutting it out with a wavy die from the set and using an embossing folder and sentiment too. I added a die cut to go between the embossing and pattern paper.
I did this card with my group over Teams and I totally forgot to write down the measurements as we were making it this time. With all the folds it is a thick card but I was able to hand deliver it to a lady in our church so that was ok. I hope if you want to give it a try you can figure out a way to make it with your own measurements.
I was looking for something else when I came upon these Hunkydory papers and ephemera for card making, I can not remember where or when I got them they were not with anything like it, so not sure how they were stored this way. Glad I came upon them, they made a pretty card for my nephews wife.
I went to my scraps to make this card, I keep all things after cutting things out just incase I can use them and this frame is one of them. The background papers are many thin strips I had left over and the piece in the center is from a box. The images are one from the junk journal stickers I bought on Amazon. Finished off with some gems, this one was hand delivered to one of our guy friends so I could use the bigger gems.
I found this cardmaking magazine at Barnes and Nobles with many bird stamps inside and I just had to get it. I colored him like a woodpecker since that is the bird I enjoy watching eating from our suet. I had to have something for the suet to hang from so I die cut a branch, added a brad to look like it is nailed to the branch and added some flowers.
I have a lot of male birthdays in my family in the Fall. I will try to separate them so I don't have all men's post and do the gals in between :) The grid in the background was stamped, and the notebook page. The only thing that isn't the 49 and Market dies is the paper and sticker I used on the front piece.
I found this pack of cute die cuts at my stamp store and they just fell into my basket. I found a brad I thought would work with the tag, added the sentiment and popped up the little mouse. Remembered some washi tape faux postage stamps and thought it went well so added that too :)
Using more of the pretty laser cuts and some new paper from Tim Holtz :) I just love how they can make paper look like real lace.
The Christmas challenge in my group for this month is to use House or Village in our cards, I kind of stuck to it in the first few the last was something entirely different.
I inked a background, forgot to write the colors I used. Die cut the town, and then found a small star die set and used that and white gel pen for the stars.
I love these designs for guy cards, this one for my oldest brother. I used papers and diecuts from the same set, other than the orange came from Tim Holtz's new paper pack. I fussy cut the stone paper to look like a stone wall. Mounted the image onto some die cuts and used a die for the sentiment.
Sharing two more Crystal Art cards from the kits I got. More that I was able to hand deliver to friends.
Craft Buddy - Crystal Art card kits
Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Connie
I was the lucky receiver of some collage papers that Leslie had that she thought I might get more use out of and I used one on my card today. I started off with a background I had made using glossy cardstock that I have had in my container of backgrounds I have made, it was in all blues but I wasn't very fond of it until adding the collage paper on top it now looks pretty good :)
Sharing the card I made for my sister after her hubby passed. It felt so weird not to go to the funeral but my sister said she knows how long that drive is and we had just seen them the week before he passed and how much he appreciated us stopping by on our way back home from Michigan. Hubby was having a very intensive week at work so I would have gone by myself and that would have been rough.
She had gotten a new walk in shower put in that she has to make payments on so we sent her the money we would have had to use for gas to get back there and she was much appreciative of that, helps me feel a little better about not making it but still felt strange not to be there. So sad he passed before it was installed but she is having hard time getting in and out now so it will be nice for her.
For my purple loving friend :) She has mentioned before how she likes sentiments that aren't always the expected so when I saw this sentiment on one of the journaling cards I thought that would be a neat birthday sentiment, as we dream for what we think the next year will bring :)
I also added some ephemera to the top of the journaling card using some foam tape to lift it up, also a butterfly since she loves those too on the left side.
I have had to make so many get well cards here lately that when our group got together for our teams meeting this week, I didn't have anyone in mind for this card, just thought it would be good to have a card on hand. The technique we were to do is get a stamp with line drawing, and some bright or busy pattern paper for the base. Stamp the stamp onto the pattern paper, paint it with white ink and then paint the whole inside of the stamp with white paint. Well I couldn't find my white paint I wanted to use, but did find some distress paint in white so I tried using that and it just came out clear, don't know if it needed shaking or what, so I went to pink paint that I had, but when stamping the paper moved and when I went to stamp again it was all messed up. Instead of trying again and having to wait for the paint to dry, I just stamped it and colored it again. Of course I didn't have a full sheet of that paper left so I found two scraps and used them on the front.
I took a picture of it standing up, but with the fold you couldn't see very well how the embossed card stock shows a little bit, so I tried laying it down, the fold still didn't allow it to lay fully flat.
I don't know if you remember or not but awhile back I collage a sheet of pattern paper with strips of washi tape and then used my dies to cut out birds, butterflies and such. I brought one out again for my next card. These papers were from JoAnns and these tags were also in the paper pack. I like the gold touches it has to it.
I forgot to share the card I gave to my niece for her wedding. I got a thank you note in the mail from her and she said as soon as she opened the envelope she told her hubby I know this one is from my Aunt Connie before she even looked at the inside of the card. I was trying to figure out what to do for her card and when I was going through my Diamond Art stuff I saw this and thought it would work for their card.
