Made another diamond dots card for my girl friend, she always has pretty flowers in a vase from her garden whenever we go over there, so had to give her one for her birthday :)
I feel terrible I bought this set of papers and ephemera a very long time ago and finally broke into it, They are so pretty together.
This is a card we made together in our teams meeting. We first did the technique that was taking a stencil and sprays to fill it in, then we embossed our pieces and did the scoring to make the fold on the left side like a box, it folds flat to mail, and we write the sentiment on the back.
I stamped the bird and used that for my focal. I added some inking around the edges after die cutting the frame before taking the die out of the cardstock. Adding a few pearls for embellishing.
For my next card I looked at all the goodies I got from my Spellbinders Advent Calendar to see if it one of them might work for our little great nephews birthday and I thought this little die cut bunny coming out of his hat and sentiment would work well!
When I saw this sheet of tags in my stamp store I just had to get it, enough to make quite a few cards, it also has flowers and butterflies on the sheet. I added some inking around the edges and some twine. On this one I paired it with some Daisy die cuts I layered up.
A cardmaking friend sent this stamped image to me many years ago, sorry I don't know the name of it but she wrote on the back no line coloring image. I have never been happy with any of my no line coloring I have done in the past and I thought I really need to give this a try, if it doesn't work out I will just throw it away. Well I ended up being very happy with the way it turned out, so off it went to my great niece who is turning 2.
The image only had the little girl on the towel so I added in the sand, coloring with markers and then adding small brown dots with a fine line sharpie. Added a sun die with a stamped sentiment and some die cut grass to finish it off.
I am loving this set of papers and die cuts, they make such wonderful masculine cards. I added a lighter piece of paper to the right to brighten the card up a bit, seemed a little to dark with all the wood. I added a strip of extra paper I had from the kit between the two papers and that still looked like something was missing so I added a sticker strip down the side between them. I had this extra piece of wood paper left too and thought it would give a little extra something to let the sentiment stand out a little more as well as the gems.
My great niece turned 18 and I didn't know what to do for her so I went looking through my advent calendar goodies to see if anyone of them would work and when I read this sentiment that came with the layered stamp set from Diamond press I thought it would be perfect for an 18th birthday.
This stamp set comes with 6 different layering stamps and I was very nervous that I wouldn't be able to layer them straight all together very well but it worked pretty good. Then when I was looking through papers to use with it I came upon this piece that had another great sentiment so I used that and felt it needed an extra something so to make it look a little more girly I went with some flowers.
It had been some time since I used my flower die cuts so I had to break out this pretty bouquet and cut it out with water color cardstock and using my Aqua pens to color it by adding the colors to my glass mat and picking them up with a wet brush to paint. Both papers used from same set and I added the crochet lace die between, more of my bigger pearls since it was another hand delivered card :)
Using another background we made in one of our teams meetings a couple months ago, where we tore a piece of paper and glued it to the center of our card and then took small stamps and stamped all around. These Tin Tiles are from Making memories and I can remember buying them at Archiver's scrapbook store so you know how old they are. Using more of the little stickers bought from Amazon that I shared in a couple post ago.
I used some floss and stitched around the tiles before adding the stickers. Finished it off with sentiment from one of Tim Holtz collections that I cut apart.
Neglected Stuff Challenge (tin tiles)
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Masculine card using Tim's products
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
One of my cardmaking friends is really into mixed media and so I thought I would try and do a card for her that has mixed media in it.
I started the base with an Alcohol inked background I had made awhile ago. Then I got out a stencil and added some solar paste to the top left corner of the die cut for my main image. Her daughter has a lavender farm so I thought that the die cut would be a neat touch to add and go with the alcohol inked background. Finished it off with a stamped sentiment and some sequins.
