Tags - Stars

Hi All.
It's tag series day.

These tags were made with white card stock
cut to size then stamped with
stars from a Dyan Reaveley stamp set.
(I can't find this set to link online, but
any set would do.)
I used VersaFine Crimsom Red Ink to stamp the stars
on the tag. I stamped and heat embossed the small
stars with silver embossing powder, then fussy cut them.

I used red metallic thread to make a little
nest of thread, glued it to the tag and topped it
with the silver star using foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit with me
and were inspired in some way.
Come again soon,
until then
bring a smile to someone's face

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Tags - A Gift For You!

Hi there!
Today I have another design of the tags I made for
my tag swap with my online friends.

I stamped the background with a background stamp
and Smokey Gray VersaFine ink.
I'm sorry I don't have the name of the stamp handy.
I stamped "Girl With Balloon" onto white
card stock and colored them with colored pencils, then
fussy cut them.

I adhered each one to a tag  and stamped
A gift for you!
This sentiment was from a set for
making tags  (I have no idea what
company it is from, sorry.)
onto the tag front and To and From onto
the back.
So there's tag #2 in the series,
I hope you like it and that my friends
do too.
Thanks for stopping in,
come again soon.
Until then
Happy Crafting!

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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!

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Father's Day Gears

Hello!

Today is the last post in my

Father's Day Car series.

For these cards I used the

Cogs & Gears stamp set from Inkadinkado.

I used my MISTI stamping tool and positioned the stamps on the tool.

Using the MISTI makes it so easy to stamp more than one card and have 

them all positioned  and stamped perfectly.

I stamped with VersaMark ink then brushed on Perfect Pearls Powder

To give the shine to the images.

I layered the panel with the images onto card stock then onto

white card bases. The card on the left I used shiny silver card stock

for the mat, you can see the shine of the silver in this picture.

I stamped Happy Father's Day from the

Happy Birthday Set from QKR Stampede.

Here is a picture that shows the shine from the Perfect Pearls.

Here are the other 2 cards I made with this design.

The sentiments are a variety of techniques,

plain stamping with VersaFine ink,

VersaMark and Perfect Pearls or

Heat embossing with silver powder.

I enjoyed making these cards and making each one a little bit

different from the others.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope you have enjoyed

my Father's Day Card series and have been inspired in some way.

Father's day is going to be here soon, I hope you've made a card or two.

Until next time,

have fun making something!

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Not Just Cards Challenge June

Hi all you friends from blogland!

Today I've got an announcement,

I have been accepted to a design team and I'm 

pretty excited.

It's the team for the

"Not Just Cards Challenge Blog"

Each month on the 11th of the month, a new challenge is

posted along with inspiration from our design team.

Every month there is a sponsor as well as a theme

and sometimes there are some cool prizes.  

Be sure to check out the NJC blog and participate in the challenge.

This month our sponsor is 

All Dressed Up 

I worked with

3 Little Summer Girls

One of the nice things about digital stamps is that you download them

to your computer and you can size them to the size you want to use. 

I decided that I wanted to do a scrapbook layout with my images, so I made them

 fairly large, each of the girls measures about 5.5" tall.

I printed the images onto white card stock,

colored them with my Fantasia colored pencils

and fussy cut them.

I started my pages with white card stock.

I used a Stormy Sky and Broken China Distress Inks

too create the sky and water.

For the sand, I tore some light brown marbled card stock so there

would be a straight "shoreline" yet still have a little bit of a rough edge.

I used a Perfect Medium ink pad and swiped it in different

areas of the water and sand, then brushed Perfect Pearls Powder 

onto the water and sand.  That is what gives it the shine.

For the sun I cut a mask, applied it before I inked the sky,

then after I had the sky done, I removed the mask and used 

scrap card stock to ink the rays with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink.

The little girls were adhered to the page with foam tape to give a little dimension

to the page.

The photo mats were made from some card stock that I had in my 

stash

The title was stamped with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and

a set of alpha stamps that I have in my stash.

I have no idea what company they are from.

Since there were 3 little girls in the image and I only used 2 on the 

layout, I made a card with the 3rd one.

I used some coordinating paper from my stash

and added the little girl with some foam tape.

I used a little Glossy Accents to give the center of the

flower a little shine.

Inside I stamped a sentiment from the

Lovely Greetings stamp set from

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

with Wilted Violet Distress Ink

onto white card stock, cut it down and

adhered it to a mat that matches the outside mat of the card.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll pop over to the

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog

and see the inspiration from the other 

design team member and give the challenge a try.

I really enjoyed working with this 

3 Little Summer Girls image,

check out  All Dressed Up too, they may have something

you need to have.

Until next time,

have fun creating.

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see what the products are.
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except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

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Somebunny Loves You

Easter is on it's way!

Hi all!

Do you make and send Easter cards?

I haven't really in the past, but this year I'm

trying to send out more cards and thought

Easter cards were in order.

Here are a few that I made that are similar.

This one is a shaker card and I think it turned out cute.

This is "Daydreaming Bunny" from 

QKR Stampede.

Another shaker card with the same bunny.

The grass under him is
"Field Grass Right"  from 

Biblical Impressions

For this card, I used Distress Inks to make the 

background inside that oval cut out.

I have stamped
Somebunny Loves You

 from QKR Stampede inside these cards.

And last, I made this card.

The sky and ground were sponged with 

Distress Inks

and I used the Field Grass stamp again to 

stamp the grass, also with Distress Inks.

The bunnies were all stamped

with VersaFine Onyx Black ink, 

colored with colored pencils and fussy cut.

The sentiments were also stamped with 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink.

I hope you enjoy my cards and will 

think about making some yourself.

Come again soon and see some

more of the Easter cards I have ready to 

send to some family and friends.

Until next time:

Get Creative!

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Our card

Merry Christmas!

Today I'm showing you the card that I decided

on for our Christmas card this year.

I decided on something simple and easy to

replicate.

I found this paper at Tuesday Morning

They have the best deals on card stock and papers.

This is double sided card stock, 25 sheets of 12"x12" 

for only $1.99.  How could I go wrong with that.

There was another that I picked up, but decided to 

use this one for my cards.

I used my MISTI to stamp all my sentiments

with VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

I cut them into banner shapes and

layered them onto white card stock 

to give them a little pop.

I made about 70 of these cards.

So all in all, with the cards for 

The Caring Hearts Card Drive and all,

I made almost 200 cards this year,

you can see why I wanted a simple design for

these.

I always have good intentions to start my cards

very early, but it never seems to happen as early

as I plan. 

Maybe next year, right?

I'm glad you stopped by today,

I hope you have enjoyed all the Christmas cards

I have posted over the last month or so.

I would like to wish you all a very 

Merry Christmas

and a happy and healthy

2017!

Until next time,

Peace to you all!

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Cards for Card Drive #2

Today I have more cards that I made for the

Caring Hearts Card Drive.

I loved using that snowflake embossing folder

so I made a few different styles using it.

Above the sentiment is stamped with 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

This is my favorite ink as it gives a nice crisp impression.

The red and white stripes are some Washi tape I had

in my stash.

Same technique used for this card, but the 

sentiment was heat embossed in silver.

And a red ribbon was added.

I used a few different sentiments for these cards.

Thanks for stopping in to see my cards,

hope you'll come again soon.

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Window panel card

Hello blog friends!

Today I'm showing you a card that I just love.

I recently learned the technique for putting this 

"window panel" on a card from 

Jennifer McGuire Ink

on this post

When I saw her video, I knew I had to give it a try.

I had this striped piece of card stock 

that I had created with 

Scenery: Stripes 

from Winnie & Walter

The inside image is 

Happy Birthday 

from Biblical Impressions.

I stamped it with VersaFine Black Onyx ink

and colored it with water color crayons.

I used my Misti stamping tool to get a perfect

placement and image.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll check out Jennifer's video

and give this style of card a try.

Until next time, Happy Crafting.