Daisies Edgeabilities in Blue

And the last of my Edgeabilities cards, at least for quite a while. For this card, I just used the die to cut off the bottom of the front of the card. I colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added blue panels to the top of the front and to the bottom of the inside of the card. I embossed the front blue panel with an embossing folder from Cuttlebug. The sentiment was stamped on a strip of white cardstock and I added scored lines with my ScorPal. 

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Calla Lily in (Mostly) White

Well, here is the Calla Lily Edgeabilities card that I promised. I decided to try one without any coloring. I think it works okay, but the colored ones are probably a better choice. The sentiment is from Avery Elle and I embossed the yellow piece with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

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Daisy Edgeabilities Card #2

And here is my second Edgeabilities card. I have three like this. I still have two more cut out, ready to make into cards - one more in a different style with daisies and one with calla lilies. Hopefully they will be coming soon, but we do have plans for today so we'll see if I can get them done. I colored this one with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. As with yesterday's card, I embossed the backing piece with a Darice folder.

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Daisy Edgeabilities Birthday

I haven't used my Edgeabilities dies for years!!! I thought it was about time, so here is my first recent card. I have cut out a few more, so hopefully I will get a chance to finish them up and post them for you soon. I had made this intending for it to be a top-flap card, but I ended up turning it on its side. I did the cutting and embossing and then I colored slightly with Copics markers. I embossed the pink piece with a Darice folder. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. A while back, I bought some teeny circular magnets and I finally used a couple of them on this card to hold it closed. To cover the backside of the flap, I traced around the edge and carefully cut it out. However, upon searching for and looking at my previous Edgeabilities cards, I had a "Duh!" moment realizing that I could have used the die! That would have been so much easier. Oh well - this worked. The magnets are between layers of cardstock, just in case you were wondering.

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Daisy Edgeabilities Birthday

A friend asked me to demonstrate the Daisy Edgeabilities in a video (a long time ago!) and I finally got that done on Sunday.  So, I thought I'd make a card out of it.  Here it is, Annie:)

So, as I said, the daisies were all done with a Daisy Edgeability.  I cut a piece the size of the card front to put inside the cut-out portion.  I embossed it from the top and then from the bottom with a Swiss Dots folder and scored a double line on each side of the blank part.  I colored the embossed daisies with watercolor pencils and an aquapainter.  The sentiment is from Stampendous.

Edited to add:  I will add the link to the video I made for embossing.  It is NOT professional and was only made for a friend, but I decided to share:) You can find it here.

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SCS Ways to Use it Challenge - with Edgeabilities

Another SplitCoastStampers challenge card – the Ways to Use It challenge, this week to use a frame of some sort. It was inspired by Deb (who was asking me questions about Edgeabilities and just uploaded a beautiful project) and Harriet (whose immediate reaction to the “frame” challenge was to use Edgeabilities.) So, here’s mine.

I used Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select white cardstock to emboss my daisies. (I’ve had a few questions on embossing Edgeabilities. They are the only thing I emboss with my BIGkick that I have to add extra pieces of cardstock to, to make the embossing deep enough.) I colored them with chalk. I know Spellbinders suggests leaving the die in place while coloring, but I prefer to remove the die before carefully coloring. The sympathy stamp is from Paper Inspirations, and I stamped it with Baja Breeze on Soft Sky. The trim piece on the bottom is also Soft Sky, and I embossed it with a Cuttlebug border folder. The daisies towards the bottom of the card are on Pop Dots.

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Calla Lily Edgeabilities

I had a little stamping time a few days ago, but no blogging time. I will take that time today.

I found the Calla Lilies Edgeabilities on clearance for $4.00 and I could not pass it up! I used Papertrey Stamper’s Select white cardstock and the Calla Lilies for this card. The two lilies in the center are separate from the rest and I mounted them on Pop Dots. I did the coloring with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I embossed a small piece of white with a Dotted Swiss Cuttlebug folder to place behind the opening. “birthday wishes” is stamped with stamps from Papertrey’s Paper Tray sentiment set. I added a double layer of ribbon at the bottom.

An update on my dad – the surgery itself went really well. He is feeling good. He will get the results hopefully on Wednesday, and we’re praying they will come back “No cancer!” Thanks for your prayers.

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Daisy Edgeabilities Flap Card

I haven’t shown an Edgeabilities card on here for a while, so I think I’ll do that today. I haven’t done anything new since Tuesday, so I’m checking my “Archives!” LOL! Hopefully I can remember how I did this one.

This is a Flap-Fold card – the upper part opens up, and the lower part opens down. I used round magnets from Basic Grey to hold it shut. The magnet is between layers in both the top flap, and in the lower part of the card. Here is a link to a flap-fold card, but I just followed the general directions – my card is a different size.

I used Perfect Plum for the card base, and cut the edge of the flap with my Daisy Edgeabilities. I also cut the white piece using the Edgeabilities. I colored the daisies with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with Gamsol. I scored a couple lines with my Scor-Pal. I stamped the sentiment on white with Perfect Plum, cut it out with a Petite Oval Nestability and ran it and the Pale Plum through in a Dotted Swiss embossing folder. The sentiment is mounted on Perfect Plum cut with a scalloped Petite Oval Nestability.

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Daisy Edgeabilities Anniversary

Wow – my first “blog card!” Hopefully there will be many more.

This card uses Spellbinders Daisy Edgeabilities. I cut and embossed the Daisies on Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select White cardstock with my Sizzix BIGkick, then I trimmed it down to standard card size – 5 ½ by 4 ¼ inches. I used my Scor-Pal to add detail to the sides. I colored the daisy centers, stems and ribbon with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I used another piece of cardstock for the card, and used a Cuttlebug Dotted Swiss embossing folder on the front. I used Papertrey’s Mixed Messages for the sentiment. It is stamped with Tempting Turquoise and cut out and embossed with Petite Oval Nestabilities. The ribbon holes are cut with a Stampin’ Up! Double Rectangle punch. I wrapped the ribbon around the sides of the Daisy piece, then glued it on to the card front. The two “loose” daisies are attached with Pop Dots.

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