Corrugated Cards

Hi everyone!

Do you have supplies that you've had a while and

just haven't gotten around to using?
I think we all do.
I have a 6x6 pad of corrugated card stock that

hadn't been touched and I decided to make a couple

cards using it.
Here is what I made.

For this card, I simply used some corrugated card

for the background and then punched out a star as 

an embellishment.
The other pieces were cut from one of the 
embossed backgrounds that I made a while ago.
I stamped a simple 'Shine' on the front of the card.

I thought shine was perfect with the bright yellow and

the star.

For this second card, I found this background 

in my stash.  This background was made using the

inks on a slick surface, then putting the paper on top of

the ink and "smooching" it.  When lifted it

gave me this interesting background.
I used the corrugated card for that strip down

the side and to put the sentiment onto.  I think 

the colors work perfectly together and the

corrugated card makes that inked piece really 

pop.

Thanks for stopping today,
I hope you have enjoyed my cards and gotten

inspired in some way.
Come again soon, until then,

use something from your stash that you haven't 

played with before.

 

pastel smooching

Hello!

I hope your day is going well.

The card I'm showing you today is one I made

to have on hand for when I need a birthday card.

I used this piece for the background from my stash.

I again used the smooching method to make this background.

I smooched Distress Inks onto a piece of acetate, added water 

then smooched it onto a piece of water color paper, 

to get a beautiful background.

I thought these flowers from 

The Floral Minis Stamp Set

from 

Stacy Stamps

were perfect to go with this background.

I stamped them with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

colored them with colored pencils and fussy cut them.

They are adhered to the card with different thicknesses 

of foam tape.  The Happy Birthday is from

Stamp On It

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Smooched background

Hello crafting friends!

This past Saturday I decided to work on making some 

birthday cards.  I always seem to fall short when I need them

unexpectedly.  I also wanted to use some of the pieces that I had

in my stash.  This is one of the cards I made. 

I had this background in my stash from a couple months ago

when I was making some "smooched" background pieces.

I taped a piece of watercolor paper to a board,

then I smooched Distress Inks onto a piece of acetate,

sprayed it with a bit of water then laid it onto the 

paper and let it sit for just 15-20 seconds.

When I picked up the acetate, this was what I was left with.

And I LOVE how it turned out.

All I needed to do was adhere it to a piece of brown card stock,

then to a white card base and add a sentiment.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from 

"Stamp On It"

stamped with brown Color Box Chalk Ink onto

white card stock, trimmed out and adhered with 

foam tape.

Simple card, but I think it turned out great.

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you'll 

come again soon.

Until then,

try something new!