Best day

Every year I try a special design for my sister and this year I decided to do a swivel card.  When you open the card it twist open to reveal this pop up piece.  I have done one of these before for my hubby but I had to do all the measurements and so when I saw that Spellbinders had this die and it was on sale at the time I thought oh wow that would be so much easier.  Welllll I imagine if I did enough of them, which I probably won't since it is so thick I had to take it to the post office to mail, I would get the hang of how to put it together, thankfully I was able to find a video of it being put together or I would have been totally loss.  Let's just say this girl is no engineer.  But it was nice not having to do all the measurements for it.

I started off the front with one of my Acetate art sheets I had bought at a stamp convention a few years back, I just loved how they put glitter behind them and you know I just had to do that myself, I applied the glitter to the back side and then ran the whole piece through my Xyron machine so the glue wouldn't show behind it.  I just felt it needed a little more so I added a die cut fence and a butterfly punch to it. I believe I added the sentiment stamp before the acetate.

 Here you can see the added glitter a little better.

The card open, this set had pretty dies with it to decorate the outside and inside. The end scroll work dies came with this set.

The flowers came from Memory box and I colored them by sponging with distress and oxide inks.  A little inking around the panels before gluing them down to the base.  As you can see there is plenty of room to still write in a sentiment.

Spellbinders - Elegant Swivel & Sashay card dies
Stamp on it - Vintage Hues Acetate w/ Art glitter crystals
Simon Says - Tiny words birthday stamp
Memory Box - Bella Boutique dies, colored w/ distress ink & Oxides, wrought iron fence die
Martha Stewart - Butterfly punch
Mark Richards - Gems

Both neighbors across the street shot off the big fireworks so we just stayed home and watched them, there were a few mishaps but no one was injured that we could tell.  Today has been quiet, just what I need :)

Have a great week ahead,
Connie

Happy 4th

I don't make 4th of July cards, so another birthday card it is :)

I decided I needed to go back to my oldie but goodies and give them some love, I hadn't used any in a long time and I was trying to do that every 3 cards I make but haven't been doing that.  I love the detail and embossing in these stickers, I have a couple left from this set, I had to draw on the details of the lady bug as they were on the sticker sheet but not part of the sticker :(  I wanted a pot for my flowers to go into so I used a die cut and tried to color it like a terracotta pot.

K&co. - Red Tulips stickers
Rubbernecker stamps - Wide Terracotta pot die w/ Distress ink Rusty hinge
Crate paper - Party day papers
Martha Stewart - Border punch
Fiskars - Essentials sayings stamp sentiment

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
I hope you all have safe and fun weekend as you celebrate!

Connie

Spotlight

The challenge in my stamp group this week is to stamp an image and then cut out the center and color that only and then mat it onto a piece of cardstock and then place it back in the center.  I went looking through my stamps for a big enough image, and I found this one that I thought would work for a couple in our church who are both going through health problems, not too feminine or masculine.

I stamped on watercolor paper using some new coffee archival ink.  All I had was black ink for watercolor images and I wanted a brown too. I used my Spectrum Aqua ink pens by rubbing the ink onto my surface and picking it up with a wet paintbrush.

Hot off the press - Postcards stamp set, watercolored w/Spectrum Aqua pens

A few mentioned our flooding problem, I went out yesterday and picked up enough debris that landed in our yard to fill two half filled lawn and leaf size bags, I only filled them half full because they were pretty heavy and didn't want to try and lift a whole bag into the garbage can.  It was mostly corn stalks and cobs from the field at the top of the hill.  That is one thing if we ever by a house again, we will not be living at the bottom of a hill.  Just one of those things you don't think of when buying a house.

Hope you all enjoy a good 4th weekend,
Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

in the woods

A few days before I went to make my brothers birthday card I turned over this image from my daily coloring calendar and thought this looks like it could be a picture looking out his back yard. Whenever we go to visit we look to see what wildlife is out there, he has all kinds of stuff that wander around.

I used colored pencils on this one, and made it into a square card this time.  I went a little heavy when pressing down the sentiment so it is a bit squashed, but that is the thing with these images you only get one chance to do it right.

Johanna Basford 2020 coloring calendar image, colored w/pencils
Fiskars - Essential sayings sentiment stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by and letting me know you have,

Connie

50th

A couple in our church celebrated their 50th Anniversary not to long ago and their daughter said because they couldn't give them the big party they wanted to she was hoping that people would send cards to her and then she would deliver them all to her parents on their day.

I don't know if I have used this set yet and I have had this one for quite sometime now too.  I have since started a box that I keep all my new goodies in to hopefully use them and not let them fall into my older goodies to be forgotten :(

The sentiment is a foil transfer, just by rubbing it on with gold foil and I went around the card with a gold ink pad.

Spellbinders - Victorian Tassels dies and Rose creations die
Crafter's Companion - Foil transfers w/ gold foil
Taylored Expressions - Whimsy #s w/ Tim Holtz gold cardstock
Paper Studio - Heart brad in flower center

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie