Here is the baby card I made for our daughter-in-law's sister's baby, Noah. It's a little belated, as he was born at the end of January when my mom was in the hospital and I was a bit preoccupied. He was baptized yesterday along with our grandson, Wyatt.
The teddy bear stamp and the sentiment are from the same Inkadinkado set. I stamped the bear on kraft cardstock and cut him out. Then I stamped again on the blue/green paper and the red paper and cut out the outfit and patch. I mounted the bear on foam squares. I matted with the same red patterned paper.
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Our grandson, Wyatt, and his cousin, Noah, were baptized this morning. (Their moms are sisters.) These are the cards I made for them - yesterday.
I used the same stamps for both cards. They are from a Stampin' Up! set called Special Blessings. (It's the same set I used for Wyatt's brother, Owen, three years ago.) For Wyatt's card, above, I used Versamark and pewter embossing powder for all of the stamping. I cut out the dove and mounted him on foam squares. I cut the circles with Spellbinders dies and mounted them on foam squares, too. The matted part of the sentiment is also on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug folder. The matting is a thicker pewter cardstock.
This is the card I made for Noah. I stamped the dove with Soft Sky, embossed, cut out and mounted on foam squares. I stamped the sentiment with black and matted that layer with Soft Sky cardstock. Tomorrow I'll post the baby card I belatedly made for Noah.
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I was doing a LITTLE organizing in my stamping room (got a new cube from Michael's for storage) and came across some stamps from Tattered Angels that I had received from a Design Team I was on. I thought I should use some of the stamps and this was the first one I started with. It rather looks like a piece of screen. I stamped it with Memento London Fog ink and matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set. I hope to have some stamping time tonight and then again on Monday, when I don't have Wyatt.
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Yet another birthday card for a member of our stamping group! Happy Birthday, Andrea!
The embossed piece was in my "card parts" pile, so I decided to make use of it. They were done with a small Cuttlebug folder. I added orange flowers and used purple brads. I matted with purple, also. The sentiment is from a Gina K set. That's about all there is to it! Hope you have a great day, Andrea.
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Another birthday card for a friend from our stamping group. Hope you have a great one, Georgia!
I made this card a couple weeks ago for the SplitCoastStampers Technique Lover's Challenge. The challenge was to do a "no-line piercing" technique and then color it. (You can find the tutorial here. Basically, you stamp on the back of your cardstock, pierce around the lines of the stamped image, and then turn it over and color.) I used an Inkadinkado tulip stamp and watercolored with an aquapainter and Stampin' Up! inks. I matted with Mellow Moss cardstock and mounted on foam squares. I embossed the bottom piece with a Stampin' Up!/Sizzix folder. The sentiment is from TPC Studio.
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I had stamped this flower on white when I was making this card before I realized I wanted it on ivory. So, since it was laying on my table, I thought I might as well use it. Hence this card:)
The flower stamp is from Gina K. I used a green Memento marker for the leaves and stem and a Tim Holtz marker for the flower. I stamped the flower again on the patterned paper and cut it out and glued it over the stamped flower. I added a brad for the flower center. I used patterned paper for the background and matted it and the flower panel on solid green. The "birthday" piece was cut with a Memory Box die while I was at our Group Gathering. (Not much more than two months til we meet again!) The "happy" was stamped by inking up part of a Happy Birthday stamp from Hero Arts.
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I made this card for the Sketch Challenge on SplitCoastStampers. I am also linking it up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. This week's additional challenge is to use your favorite coloring medium. I obviously did not do that part of the challenge:)
Quite a simple card. No surprise! The embossing was done with Cuttlebug folders. I matted with Stampin' Up!'s Soft Sky cardstock. The main panel was mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set. That's it.
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This card is for Patti. I was on a design team with her for a little while and found out her birthday is the same day - exactly - as my husband's. Cool:) Happy Birthday, Patti!
I punched the bottom with a punch from Recollections, then added gems to the flower centers. I stamped the sentiment (from Gina K) and scored lines on each side with my Scor-Pal. I embossed the top part with a Sizzix folder. I mounted the entire panel on foam squares. The butterfly was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and I added gems for the body. Enjoy your day, Patti.
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I needed just a little "jump start" to get me making cards again. The new challenge for April in the Cuttlebug group I'm a member of is to use a button (or buttons) on your card. Perfect - just a tiny challenge. I've also been wanting to use some patterned paper on a card and make a coordinating envelope.
I stamped the flower on off-white cardstock. It's from a Gina K set. I colored directly on the stamp. For the stem and leaves I used a green Memento marker and on the flower I used a Tim Holtz black Distress marker. I stamped the flower again on the polka dotted paper and cut it out. My button is the flower center. I traced around the stem and leaves with the marker. I used my Martha Stewart scoring board to score lines around the outside. The matting piece is the reverse side of the dotted paper - from My Minds Eye. I used a Cuttlebug die for the "thanks."
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Here is my calendar page for April. I sure can't believe it's April already!
The sentiment and bunny are both from Inkadinkado. I stamped them in black and colored with Tim Holtz markers. I matted with Recollections paper. That's it! :) Links for my calendar page files can be found under my blog header, if you interested in them. I'd love to hear from you if you use them!
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I don't have a card to share today, so I thought I would share something else. I had a 50% off coupon burning a hole in my pocket earlier this week, plus a gift card for Michael's. So, I HAD to buy something! Since there isn't a whole lot there that I want these days, I bought an We R Memory Keepers Envelope Board. I thought I'd tell you what I thought about it.
It works very well and it's very cool to be able to make envelopes so easily. (I don't make many envelopes, but hopefully that will change now!) However, the dimensions they give for making an envelope for an A2 (standard card-making size) were not satisfactory to me. It was more square-ish - didn't fit nicely, in my opinion. I went on SplitCoastStampers and searched the forums thinking that it would have been discussed there. I found a forum with a couple links. Yippee! HERE is a link to a great site with an Excel file that you can download and use to make awesome envelopes any size you would like! Basically, the one I will use most is this: cut your paper to 8 x 8 inches and start by scoring at three and a half inches. Voila! The perfect size for an A2 card.
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I made a card for the SplitCoastStampers Sketch Challenge today and here it is. It is the last card I need to make for April - yippee:)
I stamped the image with Memento black ink and colored with Copics. It's from JustRite Stampers. I cut it out with an oval Nestability (and trimmed a little bit) and matted with Gumball Green cardstock that I cut with a scalloped oval Nestability. I added white gel pen to the scallops and Star Dust Stickles to the flowers. I mounted on foam squares. The center strip was embossed with a SU/Sizzix embossing folder. The sentiment is from Gina K.
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This is the card I made for my dad for his birthday. His birthday is not until April 17, but I keep making cards that I can't show yet so I wanted to share something! (The recipients of the other cards I've made read my blog.) I am almost done making cards for April - one more to go.
Anyway, not the most masculine card, but those are hard for me. I used a Gina K set for the images. I stamped them on cardstock with Tim Holtz Iced Spruce ink and punched them out with a Marvy punch. Then I took another piece of white cardstock and punched three circles evenly spaced. I used my Martha Stewart scoring tool to score a double line above and below the circles. I stamped the sentiment in the same color ink using a Papertrey Ink sentiment. I used the sentiment panel as a template for gluing the punched-out circles onto the card front, and then mounted it on foam squares for dimension.
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It's my cousin's Fortieth Anniversary soon, and this is the card I made for them.
The flower, flower center and leaves are from a Papertrey Ink set. The sentiment stamps are from a Verve set. I matted with PTI Berry Sorbet cardstock, to match the flower. That's it!
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Part Two of yesterday's post - although there was only part one when I posted it!
I kept looking at the cut-out of the birch trees and wondering what I should do with it. (It was cut out of white with my Cameo Silhouette.) I decided to use my Versafine Onyx Black ink pad to color it. That worked well - I just kept tapping it until it was all black. So, today's card is VERY similar to yesterday's. The sentiment is from Verve. I colored it with a Tim Holtz black distress marker and stamped it off. Then I spritzed it with water and stamped. I matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The red bird is left over from yesterday's card - cut with a Martha Stewart Birds on a Wire punch.
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A birthday card for my brother-in-law.
I cut the birch trees out with my Cameo SIlhouette, just to see how they would cut. It worked nicely. But, I cut it out of white cardstock, and didn't think I could really use it for anything, since the space between the trees was white, and not the trees themselves. So, I thought to myself, "You could use this as a stencil and use white ink on black cardstock." So, that's what I did:) The sentiment is stamped with the same white ink - it's from Papertrey Ink. I mounted it on foam squares. The little bird was cut with my Martha Stewart "Birds on a Wire" border punch.
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Here is the card I made for our granddaughter, Amelia. She is the only girl out of five grandchildren - a princess:) Her birthday isn't until next Friday, but it's all I have to share for now.
The main image is from a Penny Black set. I stamped her with Memento black ink and colored with Copic markers. I added a gem to the flower center and Star Dust Stickles to her wings. The sentiment is from a Papertrey set. I curved it on the block to follow the curve around the fairy's head. I embossed the "with love" with a Cuttlebug folder. I scored a line on both sides of the embossing, and also a double line around the outer edge. I matted with Stampin' Up! cardstock.
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This card is for a friend in my stamping group. Happy Birthday, Kris!
The tulips were stamped using a Papertrey Ink set. The sentiment is from the same set. I used Stampin' Up ink to stamp them. I punched the fence with a Martha Stewart Picket Fence punch. I scored a line with my Scor-Pal right under the fence. I matted the bottom of the fence piece with cardstock to match the flowers and mounted on Pop Dots. I matted the tulip panel with the same color.
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Another birthday card for a friend. It's been great to be back in my stamping room. It's still not often enough, but has been enjoyable.
This die cut was sitting on my table. I had cut it out of white. I used Copic markers to color it. Then it sat for a while longer. I finally used it on a card. I matted it with New Leaf cardstock (Papertrey.) I mounted the panel on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey, also.
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Here are the last two cards that I made on Saturday. The second one is for my nephew. I asked my husband what card he would like to give his sister, and he chose this one, so I made this top one with a purple balloon for her.
For both of them, I stamped the sentiment (from Impression Obsession) on a piece of white cardstock. I matted with black. I stamped the balloon (from the same set) and then paper-pieced them with paper from a Recollections pad.
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