Using some more 49 and Market goodies for my card today, I just can't resist these :)
I just received my Advent Calendar for this coming Christmas from Spellbinders and I still have things from the Calendar last year so I thought I had better get to using them before I start opening my new calendar in December.
After embossing the folder I decided to add white gel pen marks between the embossing, I really love how that looks. The butterfly is a stencil that I fussy cut. and the sentiment is from the calendar also. I got this press plate after winning a gift certificate from Pretty pink Posh. Finished it off with some Diamond dots.
Our Christmas Challenge for August was to use Trees on our Christmas card. and or watercolor. I did the trees in most of the cards but only a little watercolor.
I know I am late posting last month cards but when I was at Michael's the other day and I saw this layered stencil, and our theme was trees I had to get it. I dotted some silver pen on the trees to give them a bit of snowy look, and you can't see it well but on the bottom I used glue pen on the base instead of ink and then added some glitter for a snowy base. Stamped and fussy but the little snowman.
Before we left for Michigan we found out that my brother in law was going on hospice, his lung cancer had come back and was now in his bones, he opted for no more treatments. I sent this card to him. I found these die cut images at Hobby lobby and thought they would be great for thinking of you cards, they don't put names on their die cuts, but they have some pictures on the back of the packaging to give you an idea of what is inside.
Sad news is that he passed away a week after we saw him. I am so glad we had the time to stop in and see him before we left Michigan. He was in good spirits and was laughing and joking with us, great way to remember him :)
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,
Connie
For all the guys in the family I have been using cars for their 16th birthday, this one is from advent calendar die set. In the first picture you can see my reflection in the car, but I used bronze metallic cardstock for it. Added the license plate and a border for the car to ride on :) and die cut the sentiment.
I have not used my old block stamps in quite sometime, I picked these up at a flea market sale that were in a big bind with no names.
The sentiment die cut (from Michaels store) didn't seem to stand out enough for me so I fussy cut a piece of glitter paper to go under it, I am sure my great niece will like the glitter part :)
Our cardmaking group got together for a teams meeting just before I went to Michigan and we made this card together. We started out using one of our balloon dies to make a stencil. My balloon dies are quite small, but it still worked. I think it was about a year ago I had bought some stencil sheets from Walmart. They are just plain clear sheets to make your own stencils so I was all set to make one and it did cut nicely with my die. Some of the other girls just used cardstock and that worked fine too.
Then we used our stencil on some pattern paper. We then took a 11x5.5 inch piece of white cardstock and scored at 1, 2 & 3 inch marks on each end of the 11 inch side to make the folds. Using strips of paper that were cut to 7/8 x 5.25 inches to put inside those fold parts. It is hard to see but we made a top fold card A2 size and glued that in the center and applied our piece we stenciled the balloons onto. I hand drew some strings and bows for the balloons.
Last Month on the HSN craft day, they had this center step die on sale. I use to cut them out on my silhouette machine but I don't have an area to keep it plugged in all the time so I just never use it anymore. So when I saw this sale I decided to order it. My oldest sisters birthday is coming up so she will be getting this card :)
After I sent this card out a lady from church was able to come home from Rehab and have the rest of her time at home with them coming to her home, she is much happier being back home.
Using more goodies from this card kit, I love how it all matches so well, and have some cute sentiments too that I cut with my scissor!
Right after I sent out this card to a gentleman at our church that has a lot that went wrong health wise all at once we found out they had to call in hospice. I am running low on this pack of papers so I ended up using a lot of my scraps for the background.
An older lady at church fell and had a stroke, her family had to put her in a nursing home just before her birthday. I was hoping this card gave her some peace. When I went to cut the stamp out with the die that came with it I got it a little off but thought it still looked ok. I fussy cut around the sentiment and matted it and fussy cut that also.
I saw this pretty pack of papers with these lovely florals over at Paperwihses.com I thought they would be such pretty focals for cards. The other side is pretty pattern paper but I can't cut up the pretty florals to use it so I used another paper pack to go with it. I cut a mat for the image with my pinking scissor. Also added some washi tape, a butterfly from a punched piece of smooshed ink paper, and finished it off with a combo of die cut and stamped sentiment.
I totally forgot to share a card I did with my group over Teams meeting. We did this fold and then we did a technique inside too.
I little while back I had made a sympathy card to have on hand if I needed it, well I did end up needing it, our friends brother passed away, so when I saw these challenges that I am including my card in today, I thought it might work for another card to have on hand when the time arises.
I had to play with some new goodies I saw when I went to my stamp store. The papers and Die cuts were just too cute, I thought my great niece might think it was cute too.
Our Pastor's husband loves to ride his bike for exercise, he even started a riding group that goes out together to ride bikes. So I thought what better thing to use for his 40th birthday card.
I remembered I had this stamp from a cardmaking magazine that comes in different pieces so you can layer things on the bike and stamp them in different color inks. I did not use the basket and flowers or the animals in the set. I stenciled the background with a cloud stencil and masked off the top bit so I could ink in the road. The balloon and sentiment stamp were also in the same set.
I was once again tempted by the ads for craft goodies on Amazon, I thought this set of stamps and dies with mushrooms and flowers were so pretty. The sentiment came in the set also.
I bet you can't figure out how old my great nephew is turning :) I went with a paper pack that had tag cut outs in it, then used some rub ons for the numbers and a sticker from the $ store for the sentiment.
I was hand delivering this card to our Pastors teenage daughter, and so I went with some puffy flowers made from felt that I have had for quite some time.
The piece that I used for my main image was cut from a piece of the paper I also used from the background, this pad of papers has all kinds of collage papers so that you can cut them apart for focals or use them as collage bases, that is what made me want to buy the paper :) Plus I love the look of them.
I added some washi tape down the side matted my focal piece and added some gems under it. The sentiment tag was too white so I inked it to give it a more vintage look.
I bought another stamp set from a cardmaking magazine at Barnes and Noble. I bought it for the birds in the set but ended up not using any of them on this card.
I liked having this piece of paper for the background but it didn't fit across the whole card and looked like too much white around the edges so I started looking through other papers, but didn't find one I liked then I thought about washi tape and found one that went with the coloring I did on the flowers.
I needed another birthday card for a friend that I can hand deliver her card too, so I went with another Diamond dots card.
Craft Buddy - Diamond dots card
I would like to share my card with Seize the Birthday challenge Square card
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
