"Topper" Baby Card

This is a simple "topper" card - the cardbase is totally folded across the top of the patterned paper and the circle is placed so it sticks up above the top. I had the circle on my table and found a die that would cut a piece to fit on the circle. Then I used a Nestability die to cut the scalloped matting. I added the white dots on the scallops and decorated the teddy bear with dots and plaid. I added stickers for his eyes and drew in the mouth and nose. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado, and I also added some enamel dots and embossed the white circle.

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Snowman Christmas

When I saw this card from Cheryl (Paper Panacea) I accepted the challenge to make one. LOL! This looks like a "topper" card, but the "topper" is actually still connected to the card base. It started out really well, but then I realized a couple things along the way. At any rate, I did get the card made with some modifications along the way. It turned out fine, and now I could make more, using this one as a template.

 

Here is the inside - I think you can see the score lines. (Two sets of them! Oops!)

The image and sentiment are both from Gina K. I added some "Winter Wonderland" embossing powder to a torn piece of a circle for the "snow."

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Simple Birthday - Times Four

I thought it was about time that I used some of my little Cuttlebug embossing folders. So, here are four cards using one of the sets that I have. For each one, I went over the raised images with a sparkle pen. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The image panels are all popped up with foam squares.

On this last one, I got a drop of something on it, so I covered that little drip with some sparkle and added other dots as well.

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Wreath Builder Christmas

While looking through my stamp sets, I noticed this little pine branch/bough in one of the Gina K sets. I thought it would work well for using with the wreather bulder template, also from Gina K. I stamped it with two colors in two different directions. Then I added the red circles using two stamps from the wreath builder stamp set. I matted and popped up the image panel. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and then matted.

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One Embossing Folder - Two Ways

I used the same embossing folder from Altenew for both of these cards. For this first one, I simply covered the flat side of the folder with ink using a brayer beofre embossing. I matted with black, and added a sentiment from Gina K, popped up on foam squares.

For this one, I used the debossed side. I used the coordinating stencils to add color to the image. Then, after adding the color, I used a black ink pad directly on the cardstock. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

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Celebrate You

Super simple card for today. These papers were out on my table after some recent card-making, and I thought they looked good together. The striped piece was slightly larger than the width of the card, so the thin strips I cut off worked very well along the flower-patterned piece. The sentiment was in my cards parts. It's from Taylored Expressions and is popped up on foam circles.

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Deckled Rectangles

When I cut out the deckled rectangles for the cards I posted recently, I, of course, was left with the actual rectangles! So, here are three of them on this card. I temporarily fastened them down and stamped the image on them. I decided that was much too plain, so I wanted to ink blend over the image. However, I had used Versafine ink, and it was smearing. So, I still used blending brushes, but I pretty much just "tapped" the color on. It turned out okay. Kind of looks a little bit like northern lights. I adhered the three pieces to a piece of white cardstock and then matted with black. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.

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An Updated Card

I already shared this card - without the butterflies colored in. I mentioned at the time that it would probably look better if they were colored, so that's what I did. I used Prismacolor pencils for the coloring. I had stamped it with Versafine black ink, so I knew it would smear if I used Copic markers.

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Hello

And one more card with this layout. This time I did the main piece in a color. The matted die-cut "hello" was in my card parts and had been out on my desk for me to use for a while. I popped it up on foam squares.

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More "Insert" Cards

Six more cards made with a die-cut opening backed with patterned paper. I had fun choosing the papers and the ink colors. These cards are thanks to Wanda.

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