sending flowers

 Once again using some goodies from fellow cardmakers, this envelope and tag from Esther, I added some very old Prima flowers to them along with some die cut leaves and punches.

For the base of my card I used an embossing folder and I am still having troubles getting good impressions using my Tim Holtz 3 D folders, I am lightly misting the paper and putting them through my Gemini machine, I have tried all kinds of shims and such trying to get a good impression, was wondering if any of you have a Gemini and if you are having the same troubles.

• Envelope and tag given from cardmaking friend
• Prima flowers
• Tim Holtz - Funky Floral #3 dies and 3D Quilted embossing folder
• Spellbinders - Circle Delight die
• Me & My big ideas - Gems
• Martha Stewart - Leaf punch, I have added score lines to it

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

Connie

Twisted Easel

 In our last zoom meeting April showed us how to do a twisted easel card, and a technique with our stencils.

We inked our backgrounds with distress inks, then we sprayed the back of our stencil with water and immediately, turned the wet side to the inked background and let sit for awhile, blotting with a paper towel, when you remove the stencil you will see the bits were the water hit the ink has now been removed leaving the look of the stencil.   I am sure if you search for twisted easel card you will find all kinds of tutorials.

We were to have an image colored and ready to go and I had done a no line coloring of this image and did not like it, so the next day I colored a new one using black ink and liked it much better, although I wonder if the coloring is a little dark for the background.  I also punched a butterfly and added it to the top, I know you don't see it when it is open but I liked it for when my friend opens the envelope it will be there.

• Hero Arts - Filigree Patterns 2 stencil (inside of card)
• Simon Says - Freestyle flowers (outside of card)
• ODBD - Fragrance stamp set
• Martha Stewart - Butterfly punch
• Starform - Glitter purple/silver stickers
• Provocraft - scissors to cut out sentiment

I used the wrong weight cardstock on this and I think the paper was still a bit damp from using the stencil when I applied it to the base, I have it under books right now hoping it flattens out a bit.

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

Connie

Foil Christmas

 The Christmas challenge in our stamp group was to use foil on our cards. This first die I had bought with my winnings from Penny black last year, I used mega flake foil to adhere to the joy die and the picture inside was also purchased from Penny black. I stamped snowflakes on the background and added a few more with my gel pen since the stamping wasn't showing up well.

• Penny Black - Immense Joy die and Masterpieces Made simple, Home for Christmas image
• IndigoBlu - Mega Flakes, Morris Dance
• Stampabilities - Snowflake stamps 
• Hampton Art - snowflake cluster
• Gel pen stars

 I had also remembered that I had purchased these foil sheets a few years ago and then forgot and couldn't find the project I bought to use them for, so they finally are being used, the trees and deer foil all came from the same pack, I cut the smaller trees a few times to layer them up, and the deer were cut 3 times to give them a bit of dimension, I usually use my scrap cardstock for the background layers. In order to fit everything I went with a 5x6 inch card on this one.

• Frantic Stamper - Oregon Fir and Small Oregon Fir dies
• Rinea - Double sided foiled papers, Variety Woodlands
• Impression Obsession - small deer die
• ODBD - Christmas collection 2014 paper
• Hobby Lobby - Christmas sticker book for sentiment

I am sharing my cards today with :

Four Season Challenge winter challenge

Peace on Earth Challenge 

Double D Challenge Snow

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

Connie

A little note

 A friend was admitted to the hospital trying to figure out what is going on, just a little note to let her know I am thinking of her and praying they can figure out what is going on.

Do you remember those $ spot stamps at Michaels a few years back, I broke them out to use on this card. I fussy cut just the flower tops so that I could add a bit of foam tape underneath. The die set I used to frame it has an inner and outer piece, I could not find cardstock to match well so I ended up coloring the outer frame with a marker.

• Studio G - flower stamp, colored w/markers
• Lawn Fawn - Outside in Stitched scalloped rectangle stackables die
• Cloud 9 design - paper
• Spellbinders - Lacey circles die

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Specimen Birthday

 I was wanting to play with my specimen goodies again along with some ephemera so I made a card for my nephew using them.

• Tim Holtz - Field Notes Ephemera pack and Specimen dies
• ODBD - Vintage Ephemera collection paper
• Simon Says - Tiny words and Phrases sentiment stamp
• Inkessentials - Black enamel

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

Connie