A new challenge from Flutter By Wednesday starts today. And it's everyone's favorite - Open! Just be sure to include your butterfly or fairy. We are sponsored this week by Beccy's Place.
She generously supplied images to members of the FBW team. The image I chose is called Blossom Sprig.
So pretty! She is also donating a prize to one random winner - three free digis of your choice. Be sure to check out her blog, too. There is lots of inspiration and also lots of free images on the blog under "Freebies." So what are you waiting for? Simply create your card with a fairy or butterfly, post it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it up the Flutter By Wednesday blog!
I colored my image with Copics and kept everything very simple. I matted with black, stamped the sentiment (from a Papertrey Ink set) and added a couple little black butterflies with beige pearl bodies. They were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.
Edited to add: I'm entering this card into the Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge for this week. The challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card. I think this qualifies:)
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A simple birthday card for a guy.
I cut the leaf with my silhouette and used the negative image to sponge the green ink onto the cardstock. Then, leaving the mask in place, I used a retired Stampin' Up! stamp (Antique Cracking) to add the dark green. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Sorry to be so brief, but as I'm typing this, I am so ready for bed!
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A birthday card for a friend in my stamping group - Happy Birthday, Georgia!
The doily stamp is from Stampin' Up! and I stamped it in Perfect Plum. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I stamped it with Elegant Eggplant. I matted with Perfect Plum. Simple, but pretty, I think:)
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Just a simple Thinking of You card to share with you today. The image is from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Feathered Friends. I colored it with Copic markers. I matted with black and punched the edge with a Martha Stewart punch and mounted on foam squares. The bottom layer is embossed with a Stampin' Up! folder and also matted with black. That's it!
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This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is to use flowers. Not a big stretch for me! We are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps, and they are generously offering a prize of five digital images to the winner, chosen at random. So, be sure to use flowers and your butterfly or fairy and link your creation up to the blog. Check out the wonderful creations by the design team, too.
For my card, I started by stamping the petals of the daisy with Versamark on white cardstock. I embossed it with white embossing powder. Next, I sponged the blue and the green onto the cardstock. I drew the stem with a marker, stamped the leaves and the black on the petals, and added the button. I matted the panel with black. The butterflies were in my "card parts" box. I know that I did them at one of our Group Gatherings, but I don't remember how I made them. The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink.
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I think I remember just last week commenting that it was March already, and here it is - APRIL!! LOL!
Here is my April calendar page. The cloud stamp and the kite stamp are both from Repeat Impressions. I paper-pieced the kite with paper from Recollections and colored the tail pieces with a marker. The sentiment is two stamps from Studio G sets. As always, if you are interested in printing out your own calendars for stamping, my Excel files are available through a link near the top of my page - under the title. I'd love to hear from you if you choose to try them!
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Happy Easter to all of my Christian friends! I hope you get to spend at least some of of the day with friends and family! (Clipart is from the Microsoft website.)
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I have quite a few stamp sets that I have never used, so I thought I'd try to get good use out of this set in case I don't get it out for a while:)
The flowers are from the same set as yesterday (and earlier in the week, too!) Secret Garden from Stampin' Up! I inked the stamp up once with Raspberry Ripple ink and stamped three times without re-inking. I cut them with the matching die. The stems are stamped with Gumball Green and another stamp from the same set. I used an aquapainter to fill watercolor inside the lines a little bit. The bottom border is Gumball Green cardstock punched with an EK Success punch. The sentiment is from a retired SU! set called Sincere Salutations. The two darker flowers are mounted on foam squares and I have layered white on white.
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Another birthday card using my new Stampin' Up! Secret Garden stamps and dies sets.
This card is actually ivory, even if it looks white to you. I stamped the flower on watercolor paper and used an Aquapainter and Raspberry Ripple ink.it I cut it with the matching die and mounted it on foam squares. I embossed the panel with an SU! Square Lattice embossing folder. I have long admired that folder, and now I finally own it! I matted it with black. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.
Linda at Paper Seedlings has honored me with a Liebster award. Thank you so very much, Linda! (While I am thrilled to receive the award from you, I rarely pass them on. Sorry - it's nothing personal. I just don't!)
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Happy Wednesday to you all! A new Wednesday means it's time for a new challenge from Danni at Flutter By Wednesdays. This week's challenge is a color challenge, and the colors to use are blue, yellow and green. You are allowed to use other colors, also, but please make these your dominant colors. Have fun, and be sure to link up your creations - including a butterfly or a fairy, of course! - to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Check out the awesome creations by the design team while you're there.
My card uses an image I stamped a long time ago. I came across it after it our move. It's a stamp from Door County Rubber Stamps. (Check out the "About Us" page. My husband took the picture when we were there a few years ago!) The stamp I used is called Tracey's Bouquet. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and used Goo Gone for blending. I added tiny black gems for the black-eyed susan flowers. I matted with black. The entire card front is covered with sparkly cardstock from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted with black and mounted on foam squares.
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I haven't had any new Stampin' Up! items for three and a half years, but I placed an order last week and it arrived today. That was kind of fun:)
The flowers and leaves were stamped and die cut using the "Secret Garden" set. I inked the flowers with Summer Starfruit. The leaves were inked with a Gumball Green marker and then "thumped" with a different color green Tombow marker. I sewed buttons for the flower centers and the lower left flower is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations - also SU! (retired.)
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This is the card I made for our granddaughter for her third birthday, which is later this week. (Three already!)
She likes dressing up and being a "princess" so I thought using this embossing folder which has a castle on it would be good for her. (It's a Cuttlebug folder.) I cut the letters using Lasting Impressions paper and my Cameo Silhouette. The flourish was cut with a Memory Box die. I matted with pink, and rounded all the bottom corners. Since it was "princess-y" I thought I'd add some gems.
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I made two cards yesterday - yippee! They were both made using some parts that I cut with my Cameo Silhouette. I'll eventually learn how to use it and have some fun with it. I must say, it was great to take the time to actually make some pieces specifically for cards, instead of just "testing it out." Both cards I made are pink and girly. I'll share the other one with you tomorrow.
For this one, I cut the doily and the butterfly with my Silhouette. I added Star Dust Stickles to the butterfly. I cut a circle of light pink and put on the doily. Both the doily and the butterfly are mounted on foam squares. The bottom white layer is embossed with a Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder and matted with the same light pink. (Pink Pirouette from Stampin' Up!)
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A simple birthday card for today - my favorite kind:) Happy Belated Birthday, Kris!
The flowers are from a retired Stampin' Up! set called Love Blooms. I used True Thyme and Orchid Opulence inks. The paper I stamped on is shimmery white, so I also embossed with clear embossing powder. I cut the scalloped layer using a punch and Orchid Opulence cardstock. The green layer (True Thyme) and the white were cut using Nestabilities. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations and is stamped with True Thyme. I mounted the circle layers on foam squares and used white and True Thyme layers on the card base.
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Another simple "guy card." These are so hard for me to make, even when I'm on a roll with stamping!
The sentiment is from a $5 set from Papertrey. I used navy ink. The papers are from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. The matting is all navy, and the vertical piece is scored with my Scor-Pal. It was in with my scraps, and worked quite nicely. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares.
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This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is another sketch by Kathy. Fun, huh? We'd love to have you join in, so just create your card based on this sketch, add your butterfly or fairy, upload it to your blog or on-line gallery, and link it up to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Be sure to check out the wonderful creations by the Design Team, too.
For my card, i started with the lily image from a Hero Arts set. I stamped it with Stampin' Up!'s Crushed Curry ink, cut it with a Nestability, and drew in the dashed lines before removing the die. The matting is Crushed Curry also, and black, cut with more Nestabilities. The patterned papers are all from a Recollections matstack. The lily panel is mounted on foam squares. The butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch and the sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set. I added three gray rhinestones to the vertical layer and also smaller ones to the butterflies.
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An anniversary card for friends.
The frame was cut with my Cameo Silhouette - one of the few things I've cut with it. Hopefully I'll spend more time with it some time soon! I cut an oval to put under it and stamped the flowers on it. (They are from a Stampin' Up! set called Best Blossoms.) Then I stamped the sentiment, from My Sentiments Exactly. After stamping, I sponged the entire panel with SU! Soft Sky ink. I added a row of black gems under the sentiment for a little more balance. I matted with a layer of Soft Sky cardstock and a layer of black. It feels good to be doing some stamping again. I'm entering this into the Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge, which is to use sponging. I suppose my sponging should be a bit more prominent, but I made the card first and then saw the challenge:)
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This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is an always-popular one - create your card using any winged creature! Please check out the blog for all the details, to link your card, and to check out the samples by the design team members.
I used a piece that's been sitting on my table for a couple weeks. The partial circle is the piece cut out for another card I've shared. And I stamped the sentiment as a practice for placement on that card. Since I hadn't tossed it out, I decided to use it:) The sentiment is from Gina K. I stamped the bird (from an Inkadinkado set) with Versamark on Riding Hood Red cardstock (from Stampin' Up!) and embossed it with detail gold embossing powder. I cut it out, mounted it on foam squares and attached it to the sentiment piece. Then I matted with more red cardstock. I used some shimmery gold paper for more matting and embossed with a Sizzix folder. I matted it with one more layer of red.
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I took a little time in my stamping room tonight. Gosh, did that feel good! Honestly, I'm worried that after so much time away from stamping, it might be hard to get started again and maybe I'll quit. I don't WANT to quit! So, I'm going to try to make more time and see if I can get some creative juices flowing again.
So, here is my simple - but kind of elegant:) - card. The flowers are from Hero Arts. I had stamped them a couple weeks ago, trimmed them way down and matted them with red. They've been sitting on my table since then. I added a black strip, popped the image up with foam squares, and added the sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I put everything on a white layer and added it to the card front. I love white on white layers. I remembered that Repeat Impressions' Designer's Choice challenge this time is black, white and red cards, so I'm entering it the challenge.
An update on my mom: Even though the radiologist recommended several weeks of radiation even if the PET scan came back negative, the surgeon said she should have her PET scan the beginning of April and if comes back negative, she doesn't need to do radiation. So, prayers for a negative PET scan would be greatly appreciated! How awesome that would be!
And a house update: We finally had both cars in the garage last night. Yippee! The garage isn't totally finished but at least everything is close enough to the edges that we can use it. The bikes are hung up and the tools are in the workroom. My stamping room is really quite finished. We still need to go through each room and clean and polish the woodwork and remove all the "excess" paint (they were pretty sloppy!). And we still need to hang the pictures. But, it's pretty much home:)
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The challenge this week from Flutter By Wednesday is open - just use a butterfly or fairy on your creation and link it up to the blog. We're sponsored this week by Pattie's Creations and the design team members were generously given some images to work with. I chose this delightful Thinking of You image.
I printed the image and colored it with Copic markers. I matted with Papertrey's Berry Sorbet cardstock. I used a cardbase from Repeat Impressions. (They are available here.) We'd love to have you join us with the challenge! Edited to add: There is a prize this week for entering the challenge. One lucky entrant will win three digital images from the sponsor!
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