Eclectic Corners #2

Second card of four using Stampin' Up!'s set called "Eclectic Corners." I used the stamp to stamp in two of the corners, then pierced holes connecting them. The sentiment is from a Papertrey set. I matted with the matching red cardstock and mounted on Dimensionals.

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Happy Birthday, Georgia!

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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CAS63 - and a Bonus Card

I made this card for SplitCoastStampers Clean and Simple Challenge #63, which was a sketch.  It's also for SCS Technique Lovers Challenge #269, which was to use piercing.


The stamps I used are both from Repeat Impressions.  I stamped the daisy multiple times on a strip of white cardstock.  I used three of them for this card, and then I decided the others ones were evenly spaced well enough to use for another card.  I cut the three for this card with a Circle Nestability.  I colored them with with Stampin' Up! markers and sponged the edges.  I pierced the line of holes, then sanded down the back with a sanding block so that it would lay flat on the Almost Amethyst matting.

Like I said, I had these flowers left over from the previous card.  I used a dotted circle stamp from Papertrey Ink to stamp around each of the daisies.  I matted it with Barely Banana cardstock (SU!) which I embossed with a Cuttlebug border folder.  I also added Stickles on the flower centers of the stamped flowers and the embossed flowers.  The sentiment is from Verve.  (The inside of the card says "a Very Happy Anniversary.)  I also added another layer of Barely Banana matting.


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Another Daisy Card

I don't normally post (or even make!) such similar cards, but this is all I have to share with you today:)  Between being out of town, having plans in town, and making some special-order cards (Hi, Gloria!) there just hasn't been time to stamp anything new.  So, this is what you get today - the card I made for my niece, which is very much like the anniversary card I posted a couple days ago.  I did, however, get a large packet of stamps from Wendy at Repeat Impressions on Friday afternoon, and I'm very eager to start using them!  Maybe today - we'll see!


So, here is the scoop on the card.  The flowers and leaves were stamped on Kraft cardstock with Papertrey Ink's set called Floral Frenzy using ink from PTI - New Leaf and Fresh Snow and Color Box Canary yellow.  The sentiment is also from PTI - Birthday Basics.  The edges have been rubbed with New Leaf ink, the corners are pierced, and that layer is mounted on Pop Dots.  The bottom layer is embossed with my Swiss Dots folder.


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2RedBananas Banana Split Sunday

Today’s card is for this week’s 2RedBanana’s Banana Split Sunday challenge. The challenge is to stamp your background.

All three of the stamps I used for this card are from the “Wrapped In His Love” set from 2RedBananas.  The card base is Kraft from Papertrey Ink.  I stamped the background flowers with white ink.  I stamped the branch with flowers on a separate piece of Kraft.  I inked up the stamp with white, then used a Close to Cocoa marker to color the branches.  I pierced the border.  I matted the image panel on Pop Dots, then on textured white and Close to Cocoa.  We’d love to have you join our challenge!

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SCS - Limited Supplies Challenge

This card is for SplitCoastStampers Limited Supplies Challenge #224 - to use blues, greens and grays, and piercing, brads and ribbons.

The main image is by Penny Black and is colored with watercolor pencils and an aqua pen. I added Stickles for the flower centers. I used a Nestability to cut and emboss it, and left it in place to color around the outside, leaving a frame. I matted it with Going Gray. The background is Night of Navy. I added ribbon, scored on both sides of it, and pierced around the top half of the card. The sentiment is embossed with white and the stamp is by Inkadinkado.

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Birthday Wishes Times Two

I’m kind of on a paper-piercing kick, so here are a couple more cards with piercing. I’ll just upload them in one blog post, since they use the same stamps.

For both cards, I used the flower stamp from Stampin’ Up!’s Tag Time. I used SU! markers to color them, then stamped. The Birthday Wishes sentiment is from another SU! set called Sincere Salutations – one of my very favorite SU! sets. I liked the way it fit into the flowers, and that’s why I decided to do a second card using them. The butterfly is stamped on SU!’s vellum cardstock with Versamark, embossed with white detail embossing powder, and carefully cut out. The wings are bent up, and the butterfly is adhered with a strip cut from Pop Dots “scraps.” (I always use the parts around the Pop Dots, too. Do you? Just curious!) I saw someone pierce the corners this way and I liked it. The bottom layer is embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.
On the second card - which I did first :) - I also added some color to the flowers with chalk. Not much more to it – just Scor-Pal, piercing and matting.

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