Mother's Day Card

Happy Mother's Day!

I know Mother's Day isn't until Sunday,

 but I thought I'd be the first to say it.

I made this card using 2 stamps from QKR Stampede.

"Bouquet" (#16220)

and Happy Mother's Day from the

"Happy Birthday" set (#22803)

I stamped the Bouquet image onto white card stock and colored it with FlexMarkers and inked the edges.

The sentiment was stamped with the same color ink as I used to ink the edges and that I used to create the base paper.

To create the base I:

1. Ran a piece of waxed paper through the Cuttlebug in an embossing folder.

2.  Put a piece of white card stock on either side of the waxed paper and ironed over it. (Place a piece of scrap paper over it before ironing so you don't get wax on the iron.)  This transfers the wax to the card stock.

3. Inked the card stock with direct to paper technique. This means you put the ink right from the pad onto the paper.  You could use a blending tool if you wish.  The wax acts as a resist.

4. Use a paper towel to buff over the entire piece, this will remove any excess ink that is on the waxed areas.

5.  Use the newly created patterned card stock.

It's as easy as that!

Make a stop into the QKR Stampede shop and see what images you can find that will be great to use with paper you create with this technique!

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope you enjoy my card as much as I enjoyed making it.

Leave a comment if you wish and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Shower invitations

Hello all! 

I hope your weather is as beautiful as mine is here.

It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Western New York.

The perfect day to show you the invitations I'm making for my nieces shower.

I used the beautiful "Bouquet" (#16220) image from QKR Stampede.

If you have been around my blog for a while, you have seen this image before, guess that's because it's one of my favorites, it can be used for so many different kinds of project.

The image was stamped onto white card stock and colored with

watercolor crayons. 

I used a Nestabilities die and my Cuttlebug to cut the oval shape,

 then inked a bit around the edges of the oval.

I used a Fiskar's border punch to make the "belly band" and adhered the Bouquet image to it.  This band can just slide off the card. 

When you slide the band off, the card opens to a little 'box' where I will put all the information about the shower.

The card is made from one sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper.

If you are interested in how to make these cards, send me an e-mail and I will get the info out to you.

Aren't these just lovely? 

I love that each one will look a little different, since they are all hand colored. 

I will also be making them with different colored bands and possibly some with different papers for the 'card'

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Then head over to QKR Stampede and see what other wonderful images you can find for a beautiful, sunny summer day.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!



Flower card

Hello blog fans! 

Today I'm posting a card I made using the "Bouquet" (#16220) from QKR Stampede. A while back I had an order for invitations that got cancelled.  I had already stamped a lot of this image for those invitations and have some of them waiting to be used.  I thought since it looks like spring is finally here in Western New York, I would bring that spring onto a card with these flowers.

I used watercolor pencils to color the image.

I embossed around he edges using my Score It.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Be sure to stop back tomorrow (Friday, May 20th) for our monthly QKR Blog hop.  This month we will be featuring some of the fabulous flower images that QKR Stampede has to offer.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!



Triangle Trifold card

I follow quite a few blogs, but there are certain ones that I check daily and one of those is "Fresh & Fun" where Beate has some of the best ideas and tutorials on the web.  Recently, she posted a tutorial for this type of card and today I decided to try it out.  You may also know her from Splitcoast Stampers 

On Monday I posted about having an invitation order cancelled and that I have several colored images that are the same.  I used one of those colored images for this card.  This is Bouquet (#16220) from QKR Stampede.

This card measures 4" x 4" when it is closed, when opened it is 12" x 4"

Here is a view of the card part way open so you can see how it 'works' I love that it is different than the average card.

I left the inside with no sentiment, so it can be used for any occasion.

All the papers were from my stash, you know how bad I am with knowing what companies I get particular papers from.

If you are interested in learning how to make this type of card, hop on over to Beate's blog and watch her tutorial.  While you are there, check out her other posts!  She really is quite wonderful.

Also take a hop over to QKR Stampede and see all the wonderful stamps, both rubber and digi, that they have to offer.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Leave me a comment and let me know what you think of this card.  Personally, I really love it.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

 

Invitation cancellation

Hello all!  Glad to see you here on my blog!

A few weeks ago I received a commission to create some bridal shower invitations.  I got the sample all done and approved, got the go ahead and started stamping.  I don't know about others, but when I have 40 of the same thing to make, I do it in stages.  The first thing I did was stamp 40 of the Bouquet (#16220) image from QKR Stampede onto cream card stock with VersaFine Smokey Gray ink.

Once I had them stamped I was ready to color them with watercolor crayons.  I had a few of them done and was just about to start the rest, when I got a call to "hold the presses"  turns out that the wedding is off.

What to do with all those stamped images?!?!  I'm not sure if I will finish off the rest of them, but here is one that I did finish as a card.

I set up my Cricut Expressions with my SCAL2 program to cut the ovals on the light purple speckled card stock.  After running this piece through the Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots embossing folder, I used Milled Lavender Distress ink to ink the edges of the oval and the sides.

I adhered this piece over the stamped piece.  I used variegated purple embroidery floss to wrap around the top and tied a bow. Then adhered the entire piece to a Core'dinations Card Stock base.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Feel free to leave me a comment and let me know what you think of this card.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!