Halloween Cards

Hello crafters!

It's October, so time to get those Halloween cards ready.

I usually don't send Halloween cards, but

as I've said before, this year I'm trying to send more

cards.  So I decided to make and send some Halloween cards.

Not only to a couple kids, but to adults too.

Here is what I made.

I heat embossed this Sm. Witch 

by Eureka Stamps, sold through 

Stamp On It

For the moons, I punched a circle out of card stock

laid it over the black card stock,

smushed the VersaMark Ink pad over the circle hole,

then added gold embossing glitter and heat set it.

On some of the cards I stamped and heat embossed

"Flying by" on the outside,

inside I stamped "to say" with the same silver 

embossing powder and
"Happy Halloween"

in Onyx Black VersaFine Ink

For this card I added some 

Ghosts also from Eureka sold through 

Stamp On It.

I attached the witch with an Action Wobble

For this card I used the same Ghost stamp

and Halloween Border Stamp

I used Black Soot Distress Ink

for the night sky and added some water droplets

to give it a little texture.

I cut the curve on the bottom of the front of the card

with a Curved Edge Die

For this card I used

Autumn Friends Stamp

from QKR Stampede

sold through 

Stamp On It.

All coloring was done with my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

I'm pretty happy with how these cards all 

turned out and I hope the recipients like them too.

Thanks for stopping by today

I hope you'll come again soon.

My next post, I'll show you the envelopes
I made for these cards to be sent in.

Until then,

Have fun crafting!

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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.

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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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.

Fishing Father's Day

Hello crafty peeps!

Today I'm starting a series of Father's Day cards that I have

created to send to the fathers in my life.

I no longer have my own father, but there are plenty of 

others that I'd like to share my appreciation with.

For this card I stamped

Fishing Gear, Fishing Hat and 

Happy Father's Day from the 

Happy Birthday set

all from QKR Stampede, 

onto card stock and colored them with my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

I added a little VersaMark ink and Perfect Pearls

to the fish to give the scales a little shine.

The stamped panel was layered onto kraft card stock and

then adhered to a white card base.

I will add a personal note inside the card.  

Have you made any Father's Day cards yet?

I hope you'll come again soon to see some more

cards in this series.

See you then!

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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.

2 Cards Same Stamp

Hello crafty people!

Today I'm going to show you 2 very different cards

made with the same stamp, which happens to be

one of my favorites.

This poppy image is 

3101AA POPPIES

from

Stacy Stamps

This first one I stamped onto watercolor paper

with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

then colored it with my 

Lyra Watercolor Crayons and

Neocolor II Crayons

I stamped this poppy again with VersaFine Onyx Black,

but colored it with my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

I used a mask to cover the poppy and stamped 

with VersaMark Watermark Ink using

a polka dot background stamp.

I'm not sure which polka dot stamp I used,

but there are many available.

Both sentiments are from the 

Lovely Greetings Stamp Set from

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps.

I love how these 2 cards turned out,

of course, like I said, it IS one of my favorite

stamps.  So how could I go wrong?

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you're having a lovely day and

you'll take time to create something

beautiful.

Until next time,

Happy Crafting!

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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.

Card Drive Cards

 Hi all!

Today I thought I'd show you some more of the

Christmas cards I made for the

Caring Hearts Card Drive.

You can find all the information about this

wonderful drive on 

Vera Yates Blog

All the cards from this drive are sent to 

residents of nursing homes and senior care facilities.

I made several of the same cards.

Once the stamps are set up in my

MISTI stamping tool, it is simple 

to make several at one time.

I was inspired by Julia Altermann

to make this card.

Here is the card that inspired me.

I set up the stamps on my MISTI,

then removed the star stamp.

I stamped all the sentiments with 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

I then re-positioned the star stamp,

removed the other stamps and

stamped the stars with 

VersaMark Ink

and heat embossed them with 

WOW Gold Sparkle Powder

I glued a few small star sequins

around  for a little more sparkle and

tied "bakers twine"

that I made, around the panel and

tied a bow to finish it off.  

See how I made it on 

this post

I accidentally got some black ink smudges

on this panel, but went with my motto

"There are no mistakes in crafting,

only opportunities to be more creative"

and I cut the panel down, adhered it to the

card front and added a bow at the top.

It's a little different than the others, but just

as nice, don't ya think?

Thanks for stopping in.

I hope you've been inspired in some way

and I hope you'll join in the

Caring Hearts Card Drive

and help bring smiles to the faces

of some of our seniors.

Until next time,

have some fun crafting! 

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.