Glittered wishes

I made a mistake I read my list of cards wrong and ended up making my Great nephew a card a whole month early and so I needed a quick card to go out the next day for my Great niece instead.  I still had my Martha Stewart glitter kit out from the last time I used it so I opened it up to see what was left in the pack and I had these 3 stems.  I had used the other flowers on the wreath I had made earlier, so I went to my punches and found this heart and flower that looked like a good size and ran it through my Xyron so I could add the glitter to it.

I couldn't find a paper that didn't seem too busy for the background so instead a did a little watercolor wash of the background instead of using paper. She is turning 21 this year, hope she likes it.

Spellbinders -- A2 Matting basics A die
Distress inks for watercoloring -- Tumbled glass, cracked pistachio and fossilized amber
Martha Stewart -- Glittered Botanical card kit and Heart and flower punches
SRM -- Thinking of you sentiment stickers

Do stop in tomorrow I have another Post for the Dies R Us blog, I think you will like it :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, hope you have a blessed Sunday,

Connie

Pleated

I have seen these type cards quite a bit lately so I had to give it a try. They are sometimes called draped cards and there are all kinds of tutorials out there to try, just google it.  If you would like to try the one I did, you can find the tutorial HERE.

The big flower came from an old Daisy D's paper, there were many flowers on a page with some extra circles and you punched them out.  I have one flower left on that paper pack.  I did cut into the flower so I could shape the petals a bit and added an extra circle center to it with some foam tape to give it some lift.  The ribbon is paper I cut with die, link is below in the list of supplies.

K&co. --- Classic Designer paper
Daisy D's -- Attic Flowers
Cheery Lynn Designs - Alison's ribbons
Stampendous -- Orchid greetings sentiment stamp

It was fun to do and I really creased the folds and taped them down with my scor-tape that is heavy duty and the card was really flat for mailing.

Wishing you a creative and fun weekend ahead.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in today,

Connie

Dragonfly and Roses

Linda mentioned in one of her comments recently where do my ideas come from.  Well I if it comes from Pinterest or a blog I share the link with you, but mostly I am thinking of the person it is going to and I start looking through my supplies and when I come across a stamp, paper or die that I think would work for them it just goes from there.  That is how this card came about.  I found these acetate sheets that I had bought at the Scrapbook convention a few years ago and I hadn't used any from this set. They are images printed on Acetate and at the convention they showed putting glitter behind them and they were all so pretty.  You can see the set this one came from HERE.

Since there was roses in the image I decided to go with rose paper for my background, now how to frame it?  I decided to go fancy and that led me to this die, which I cut out of metallic paper to go along with the dragonfly, it needed something else so that is when the ribbon and tag came along.

Here is a close up of the shimmer with the glitter I added to the backside of the acetate.

Since the acetate is clear I needed some light behind before I added it to the green die cut frame so I ran the acetate image through my Xyron sticker machine to mount it onto some white cardstock.

Stamp on it -- Vintage Hues Dragon fly squares Acetate sheets
Damask Rose paper from Cardmaking and papercraft magazine
Elizabeth craft designs -- Diamond glitter
Spellbinders -- Classic square and marvelous squares dies
Our Daily Bread designs-- Mini tag sentiments stamp and die
Martha Stewart -- seam binding
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Wishing you a day filled with roses and dragonflies :)
Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving comments to let me know you did,

Connie

Gothic window

This window is one of those dies that my hubby bought to use with his art work and well now I am using it :)  I decided to go with metallic papers for the window and added some layered florals. I like the embossing that is already on these flowers.  The embossing folder has been inked with some gray ink before embossing.  The little flowers were scraps from left over die cutting that I saved to use for small flowers, I added stickles to the centers.

Poppystamps -- Grand Gothic Luminary and Lovely Trendils dies
Impression Obsession -- Layered Floral dies
DCWV -- Metallic stack papers
Sizzix -- Bricked embossing folder inked with London fog memento ink
Stickles -- Diamond

We have rain last night and this morning and it was just in time the garden was ready for a good drink. They said the humidity was going to be better this morning, can't say I can tell a difference but we are down to 77 this morning so that is better than the 80's.  Hope you all enjoyed a great weekend and that the week ahead is a great one!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Stamped Frame

I was able to get around to another challenge from my stamping group.  This time we were to make a frame using at least two different stamps. So I reached for my Rubber stamp tapestry test and after cutting out the shape with my die, leaving the paper in the die, I went around it stamping the frame.  When done stamping the frame, I stamped my inside image and colored with my markers.  I totally love the way this turned out, and will be doing more in the future :)

The paper already came with some embossing on it, you can see a bit of the shine from it on the right side of the card.

Rubber stamp tapestry -- Butterfly blooms stamps (for framing)
Pink Petticoat -- Pretty Potties stamp colored w/markers
Spellbinders -- Labels one and Decorative labels one dies
Hero Arts -- It's your day sentiment stamp
Stickles -- Vintage Photo (flower centers)
Wink of Stella -- Clear glitter pen on stamped flowers

We had a little break from the excessive heat after a bit of rain and clouds came through yesterday but it is already warming up this morning so we will be back to the HOT temps with heat index's as high as 116 that said, OH MY!  Looks like indoor cleaning today with a bit of afternoon crafting is in the plans :)

Hope you all are staying cool.  Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in today, so good to hear from you,

Connie