I made three of these for our church's card rack. We are always in need of sympathy cards. I brushed on three colors of distress ink, then spritzed with water. The image stamp is from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from Kaisercraft. I matted with black and positioned it in the corner.
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This matted piece of patterned paper has been in my stash for years. I truly am making a little progress towards using up my card parts! The sentiment is from my visit to Taylored Expressions last June. (Another part used. :) ) It is mounted on foam squares. I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the background.
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Merry Christmas to all of my Christian friends. I hope you all get to spend time with friends and family. Safe travels, also, to those of you who have places to go.
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These cards go to two friends who have December birthdays. Almost identical, but different enough for both of them to make the blog:)
I used an Echo Park snowflake stencil for the backgrounds on each of them. I die-cut the openings before stenciling. The sentiment stamps are from My Favorite Things. I added snowflakes that I die-cut from silver foil cardstock.
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I stamped this image while I was at our Group Gathering in June. I have forgotten who makes it. I embossed it with silver. I colored it with metallic markers. The sentiment is from an old Stampin' Up! set, also embossed with silver. I matted with shimmery silver and another layer of black.
I have all of my cards made through February. I will post them sporadically. I'm actually going to be taking a break from card-making and doing some embroidery. I have a project that will take me a little while. I think I'll enjoy the break, but we'll see about that! I also want to do a little more organizing in my stamping room. I do love organizing my things! Almost as much as using them.😀
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Here is my one Hanukkah card for the year. I a clip art image of a menorah and a nice font to print this card on my laser printer. Then I used silver foil and my laminator. I matted with blue cardstock and shimmery silver paper.
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Here is the card that Jim and I made for our grandson's, Owen, 9th birthday. His birthday party this year has a "steampunk" theme. Not entirely sure what that is, but here is his card:) I used a die for the main piece. I found a lab notebook with graph paper in it. We used that for the background, filling in the form with make-believe numbers. We added the graph. I think he will like it. The card is 5.5 x 7 inches.
EDITED TO ADD: I also added screw brads to the corners. I've had them for quite a while and finally found a use for them1
Here is the inside of the card. The patterned paper is from a stack from Recollection. We also made the envelope from this cardstock.
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We received this beautiful image on a thank you card, and I just had to re-use it. I often do this with thank you cards. I save all the other cards that we receive, but thank yous usually get tossed, unless I re-use them. The image is raised and has gold on it. I simply matted it and added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) embossed in gold.
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I used a brass stencil for this card. It was probably from Lasting Impressions. I also used Martha Stewart glitter. I bought a package years ago at Michael's with a 50% off coupon. I think the package has 24 tubs of glitter in so many beautiful colors. I added "sticky" to the white cardstock with my Diecut'N Bond. Then I added the stencil to it. I very carefully added the different colors through the stencil, being careful to contain each color to where I wanted it. When all the open areas were filled with glitter, I removed the stencil and added pearl glitter to the rest of the piece. I simply matted it and added the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink.
Edited to add: The Diecut 'N Bond is plenty sticky to hold the glitter, but it's not hard to get the stencil off, especially the brass stencil. I had a little trouble with my snowflake stencil, but was still able to get it off. The snowflake stencil was very detailed and had parts that were very delicate.
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I had so much fun playing with glitter:) I die-cut this lattice piece out of cardstock that had the Couture Creations Diecut'N Bond on it. Then I sprinkled it with microfine glitter. I cut the leaves out of patterned paper and the flowers out of glitter cardstock. I added Liquid Peals to the flower centers. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I sponged some ink around the edge and mounted it on foam squares. I had also brushed ink on the bottom panel.
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POSSIBLY this could be my last Christmas card for the year. I don't plan on making any more, but then - I didn't plan on making the last four of them! :)
This line of snowflakes was cut from my Die Cut and Bond-covered cardstock, so I wanted to use up my "test" piece. It works great for die cuts, for sure. I used the die-cut piece to draw a line on my turquoise cardstock, then masked off the bottom part and sponged ink on the top part. Then I added the snowflake border. I used a Papertrey Ink stamp for the sentiment. I used my MISTI and was able to bend the stamp to match the curve of the die-cut.
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More Christmas. I die-cut the ornaments for these cards out of gold foil cardstock. I used purple glitter paper for the matting of this one, and also for the bow. The die set also includes the line of dots for the hanger. I put a piece of silver shimmery paper under the small dots. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is embossed with gold. I matted with gold foil cardstock.
Same as the first, but a different die and I used red. I matted this panel with red to match the ornament.
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I used a corner of a Cuttlebug embossing folder for this month's page. Then I embossed the sentiment, from Papertrey Ink, with Versamark and embossed it with detail silver embossing powder. I matted it with shimmery silver paper. Wow, that year of calendar pages sure went quickly!! Happy December, everyone.
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