Masculine Card

Hello creative people!

Today I have a masculine card to show you.

I recently got these little gears from Temu

and thought it was time to use some of them.

I love how this card turned out.

I have this wonderful burlap "paper" in my stash and wanted 

to use some of it.  It has a paper lining on the back,

so I frayed the edges and cut the edges of the paper off.

I then glued it to the card base with 3 in 1 glue.

3 in 1 glue is one of my favorites and holds just 

about anything.
I then arranged the gears and used the 3 in 1 to adhere

them also.
The "thinking of you" sentiment was stamped onto a 

scrap of kraft card stock, trimmed down and inked around

the edges, then adhered to the front of the card.
I'm very happy with how it turned out and next time I

need a masculine card, I'll have one at the ready.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what I've been up to.

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will come back soon.

Until then.

use your stash!

 

Thinking of you

Hello all you craft lovers!

Today I have a card to show you that I made for a friend.

I wanted to let her know she is always in my thoughts and prayers.

I started with a piece of water color paper and an acrylic block.

Using a few water color crayons, I scribbled on the acrylic

block and spritzed it with a bit of water.

Then I laid the paper onto the block to soak up the color.

I have seen this technique done before and I've tried it

a number of times and I'm never very happy with the results,

but this time, I really did love it.

I stamped the Thinking of You sentiment onto the water 

color piece using my Misti tool.

I started out stamping it with yellow, hoping that it would show

up on the pink, but it didn't work and I ended up stamping over

it with a slate gray ink.

I adhered it to a bright yellow card base and added a white

piece of card stock inside.

On the inside the yellow worked much better.

I left room so I could write a message to my friend.

When I was at Ikea, I picked up this hook to send her.

She had gotten one when we had gone to Ikea a few weeks

ago when I was visiting and I know she wishes she had

picked up another, so I sent this along with the card.

I'm hoping it brings a smile to her face.

Now I'm wishing I would have picked up a couple for

my craft room.  Oh well, I'll just have to make another

trip to Ikea.  I just wish there was one close to me.

Another excuse to go visit I guess.

Thanks for stopping by today,

hope you'll stop by again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Fern Background

Hello!

Last week I posted a card using this same

"Fern Background" (#58401) from

Eureka! Stamps

Today I'm showing you another card using it.

This time I stamped onto a piece of patterned paper.

I thought the pattern worked well with the ferns.

It's so easy to change the look by using a patterned paper.

Inside I used

"Thinking of you" (#7706)

also from Eureka! Stamps

A lovely card that can be made very quickly and easily.

 

Thanks for stopping today, I hope you'll come again soon.

Leave a comment if you will, I'd love to hear what you think.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Feathers

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a card to show you using

"Feather on Side" (#6303) and

"Thinking of you" (#7706)

from Eureka! Stamps.

Feather on Side was stamped randomly

 onto white card stock and colored with water color crayons.

Honestly, I don't know if there are feathers in these colors,

but I sure had fun coloring them.

I used a rubber stamp, but this is also available as a digital stamp. 

The Thinking of you is a digital stamp, it is also available as a rubber stamp.

Personally, I like to work with the rubber stamps, but the digis are so convenient, since they can be re-sized to whatever size you need.

So, take your pick.  Eureka! Stamps has wonderful images available in both.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Thinking of You

Hello bloggy friends!

Today I'm showing you a simple card that I made using

"Baroque Background" (#57701)

Eureka! Stamps

and

"Thinking of You" which I have no idea who it is made by.

I made this card at a crop and must have borrowed

the stamp from one of the other gals.

The Baroque Background was stamped onto white cardstock and cut to fit the card base of white cardstock.

I stamped the Thinking of You onto white cardstock with Versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.

I then used the same ink pad with a direct to paper technique to color the cardstock and punched it out with a circle punch.

I tied a bit of embroidery floss onto the card and used foam tape to adhere the sentiment over it.

This simple card can be used for any number of occasions.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Thinking of You

Hello All!

Today I'm showing you a card I made recently to use as a sympathy card.

I find sympathy cards very hard to make and actually don't have a stamp that is specifically for that purpose.

I decided to use

"Baroque Background" (#57701) from Eureka! Stamps

and "thinking of you" from a CTMH set that my friend has.

 I like the clean and simple look of this card with that little different element of the ribbon being tied on the side.

I left the inside blank and wrote my own thoughts.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Leave a comment if you will and come back soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!