Daisy Card

Hello blog fans!
Recently I saw this video on Jennifer McGuire's
blog and had to give this technique a try.
Mine didn't turn out nearly as beautiful as hers did,
but it was my first try and think it turned out nice.

The idea is to stamp, color and cut up a piece and
add it to the front of a card.  There are several ways
she shows in her video that I linked to above
and they all are beautiful.
I just wanted to try the simplest one,
so I cut my stamped piece and added
the pieces to a card base with foam tape.
I used the Daisy Thanks stamp set from
Stampendous.
For the sentiment I used
Simon Says Stamp Tiny Words

I'm glad you stopped by today and I hope
you'll go check out Jennifer's video on this technique
and give it a try.
Until next time,
Happy Stamping!

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Distress Crayon Background and Flowers

Hi blog friends!

Today I have a birthday card that I made for a friend.

I knew I wanted to use these flowers from 

"Daisy Thanks" by Stampendous

I stamped them onto white card stock with 

VersaMark Onyx Black Ink,

colored them with my Fantasia Colored Pencils and

my Prismacolor colorless blender pencil

then fussy cut them.

I wanted something a little different for the background, so I went to 

my stash of backgrounds that I've made just for this purpose.

I found this one that I made with my 

Tim Holtz Distress Crayons.

I trimmed it down, adhered it to a coordinating piece of card stock

and adhered that to the front of a white card base.

Inside I stamped the sentiment using 

"Big Scripty Words" from Lawn Fawn

I love how this card turned out and hope my friend loves it too.

Thanks for stopping by today, come again soon.

Until then 

craft something fun!

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see what the products are.
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and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Tulle shaker card

Hello blog friends!

Today I have a card that was inspired by Jennifer McGuire.

Yes!  Her again, she is one of my biggest inspirations.

Here is her post that inspired me

I never thought about using tulle on a card before, especially

not to make a shaker card.  But it really does work very well.

I started by stamping the flowers from

"Daisy Thanks"  by Stampendous 

onto white card stock and colored them with my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

then fussy cut them.

Since I was using tulle in this way, I wanted to put the 

flowers on the inside of the card so the back of the ones on the front

wouldn't show.

I had to have a "mirrored" image of the flowers to do this.

I stamped the image onto a piece of acrylic with VersaFine ink.

I then carefully took the piece of acrylic and turned it over and 

laid it down onto the piece of white card stock, 

leaving a reversed image.

It didn't turn out as clear and crisp as the regular stamping did,

but it was good enough to work with.  I went over the outlines with 

black pen, once I had the image colored.

I fussy cut the parts I needed to cover the backs of the flowers,

I didn't do a perfect job, but I think for my first time trying this,

I did pretty well.

Here is the inside of the card.  

I found it very easy to make this type of shaker card using tulle.

Watch Jennifer McGuire's video and I'm sure you'll find it's pretty easy too.

Here is what I thought was the finished card, 

now looking at it, I thought it needed something more.

I added dash lines around the outer edge of the card with

a black pen and I think that makes a lot of difference.

Here is the final result.  I think it really needed that

bit of black around the edge.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by today,

I'm so glad you did.

Until next time,

try something new and outside the box!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.