Many Thanks

Here is another version of the same card.  The base of the card (which you can't see unless you open the card) is Whisper White. I added a piece of Twitterpated DSP to the bottom of the card. The top portion of the card is textured white card stock. I used the Edgelit die and the Textured Impressions Embossing Folder on the bottom edge. I added a piece of Island Indigo below that making the identical edge.  Then I stamped an image from the Bordering on Romance stamp set in Basic Gray ink.  I watercolored some Blushing Bride on the flowers and while they were still wet I added a bit of Riding Hood Red near the centers of the flowers. The leaves were colored with Lucky Limeade and the small flowers with Island Indigo. The centers of the flowers are Crushed Curry with a few dots of black made with a black marker. I don't know if you can see that in the picture.  The sentiment from Petite Pairs was stamped in Basic Gray (with an unfortunate little bloop off to the side).  I think that's it :-)

Supplies by Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Bordering on Romance, Petite Pairs

Paper: Whisper White (regular and textured), Island Indigo and Twitterpated DSP

Ink: Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, Lucky Limeade, Basic Gray

Tools:  Edgelits die, Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Happy Birthday Liz!

My daughter's birthday is 3 days after mine.  Here is the card that I made her. It's a case of this card on SCS.

Supplies by Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Fresh Vintage, Petite Pairs

Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Twitterpated DSP

Ink: Cherry Cobbler,  Pear Pizzaz

Tools:  Edgelits die, Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Happy Birthday Mike!

This card is for a friend at church. His daughter is having all his friends bombard him with birthday cards. This is an example of how many ways you can mess up a card.  I spent the longest time coming up with a layout, moving things around, changing colors, recutting and on and on.  I finally thought I had my design and so I glued on the letters for mike.  When I laid it down on my card I realized that I had glued the letters along the wrong side of the paper so now my whole design is up in smoke. OK, new plan.  Now I'm down to the sentiment and the stamp has the words one on top of the other instead of side by side. Out comes my stamp-a-majig and a Not Quite Navy marker. After making the flag I decided it wasn't quite right. I thought it needed a brad so I stamped it again and assembled everything. OK, I think it came together. Flash forward to taking a picture of the card to post here.  I'm fiddling with the color and fiddling and fiddling and the sentiment just looks all washed out.  So I look at the card and realized that when I stamped it the second time I grabbed a black marker sitting on my table instead of the NQN marker. Oh, well. Enough is enough.  Here is the card.

Supplies Stampin'Up (except for the brad):

Stamps: Apothecary Art, On Your Birthday, Kindness Matters

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Going Gray (ret), Basic Gray, White & Nautical Expedition DSP (ret)

Ink: Black (but imagine the sentiment in NQN)

Accessories: black brad

Tools: Labels Collection Framelits, Timeless Type Alphabet Junior Sizzlets, dimensionals

Happy Birthday to Me

This is the card that my daughter gave me.  Isn't it lovely! You can see more of her work here. She has a wonderful clean and simple style. Thanks Vickie!

FMS25

Finally some time to stamp.  Here's a card that I made for Freshly Made Sketches this week.


The base is Pool Party. The striped DSP is Everyday Enchantment - an SAB selection.  I used markers on a stamp from Fresh Vintage - another SAB set - and then ran it through my Cuttlebug using Textured Impressions Designer Frames embossing folder.  I added some Lucky Limeade behind and wrapped it with Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon.  The "For You" stamp is part of one of the Apothecary Art stamps which I punched out with a 1" circle punch and then popped up on dimensionals.

Stamps: Fresh Vintage, Apothecary Art

Paper: Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Everyday Enchantment DSP (SAB)

Ink: Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral

Accessories: Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon

Tools: Textured Impressions Designer Frames embossing folder,  circle punches, dimensionals

FMS19

I have 2 cards today for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge FMS19.

The first card is pretty simple because I'm making it for a gentleman at my church. So no fancy ribbons, etc. I stamped the image in Old Olive and layered it on Old Olive. The sentiment is also stamped in Old Olive and punched out with the Modern Label punch. I used an Old Olive marker to go around the edges and then sponged the edges with Crumb Cake. This is popped up on dimensionals.  I punched 7 circles out of Crushed Curry (ret) using a 3/4" circle punch and then taped them down in a line on the Kraft card stock. Then I covered the bottom edges with the Crushed Curry dotted ribbon to get the scallop effect. I placed the image on dimensionals over the top of this and added 3 Old Olive brads. Pretty easy!

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Kraft, White

Ink: Old Olive, Crumb Cake

Accessories: 3/4" circle punch, Crushed Curry ribbon (ret), Modern Label punch, Old Olive brads, dimensionals

The second card has a bit more detail in it.  I used a Certainly Celery base for this card because I had a scrap of retired DSP on my table and it matched better than the Old Olive. Not sure what that DSP is because it's been DSP on top of that. Then I wrapped some twill I also had lying on my table around that. The final little touch is some Baker's twine around the knot.   The image is stamped in Celery on white and layered on a piece of Daffodil Delight Print DSP.  The sentiment is in Celery and punched out with the Word Window punch and then layered on another piece of that DSP punched with the Modern Label punch which is popped up on a dimensional.  This is all on a piece of white which is embossed with the dots EF.  Finally I added 3 rhinestones which I colored with a yellow Sharpie. Don't know if you can see that very well in the pic.  Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Certainly Celery, Daffodil Delight, White, Daffodil Delight Print DSP, SU retired DSP,

Ink: Old Olive

Accessories: Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, rhinestones, twill, Baker's twine, dots EF, dimensionals, Sharpie to color rhinestones

Valentines

I have 2 Valentine cards today.  My daughter gave me some paper doilies for Christmas so when I saw this card on SCS I knew that I wanted to case it.

The base of the card is Kraft (now known as Crumb Cake). The two hearts were punched with the Full Heart punch - one from Blushing Bride and the other from Baja Breeze textured card stock. I sponged Blushing Bride around the edge of the one heart.  The small flower is punched from BB with the Itty Bitty Punch Pack and has a pearl in the center.  It was attached with a glue dot. A string of pearls was also attached on the Blushing Bride heart.  The sentiment was stamped in Baja Breeze on Shimmery White paper and a pearl was attached at the end then 2 little snips were made to flag the end. This was taped under the Baja heart. Baja Breeze seam binding was tied around the card and then the hearts were attached with dimensionals. That's pretty much it.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Kraft (Crumb Cake), Blushing Bride, Baja breeze textured, Shimmery White

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: paper doily, Baja Breeze seam binding, pearls

Tools: Full Heart punch, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, dimensionals, sponge

The second card is also a case. Here's the original.

It's a very clean and simple white on white card.  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped in Real Red. The large heart was punched with the Full Heart punch from Newsprint DSP (now retired) and then I inked around the edge with black. The small heart was punched with the Heart to Heart punch from Real Red. Attached to the small red heart are a rhinestone and a small bow tied with linen thread. I used the fork technique to tie the bow. If you haven't seen this technique it's pretty cool.  You can check it out here. I used the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp (I'm sorry to say is retired) to splotch the background and then attached the hearts with dimensionals.  Thanks for stopping by!

All supplies are Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Paper: White, Real Red, Newsprint DSP (ret)

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: rhinestone, linen twine

Tools: Full Heart punch, Heart to Heart punch, dimensionals

Victorian Get Well

One final card for tonight.  This card was case'd from cindybstampin at SCS.

The base of the card is Very Vanilla. Next comes Early Espresso then a layer of Everyday Enchantment DSP. Can't get enough of it!  I stamped Apothecary Art on Early Espresso. I think it looks better IRL than the pic but I did have a hard time getting it to stamp well.  I went over the leaves with a Lucky Limeade marker, the flowers with a white gel pen and the flower centers with an Early Espresso marker.  I die cut it with the Labels Collection Framelits but I wanted a narrower border so I used scissors to cut off the border. Behind that is a mat of Poppy Parade. I stamped the Apothecary Art again on Vanilla and then cut out just the center portion where I stamped the "get well wishes" in Poppy Parade and put a pearl on either side. This is popped up on dimensionals.  I tied some Poppy Parade ribbon around it & added a piece of Victoria lace for a final touch. 

All Supplies are by Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Apothecary Art, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Everyday Enchantment DSP

Ink: Poppy Parade, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso markers

Accessories: Poppy Parade ribbon, Victoria lace, pearls, Labels Collection Framelits, pearls, white gel pen, dimensionals

Bella's Bloom Get Well

More playing with new toys and an old set that I haven't used much.  I fiddled with this one a lot and it did not end up like I had intended but I do like the results.  I used the Labels Collection Framelits (Occasions Mini) on 4 different areas of this card. That includes the sentiment. Did you spot it?  I used Poppy Parade and Lucky Limeade markers on the flower.  The center brad is from the Everyday Enchantment ribbon and brad pack which will be available as an SAB item next week.  The flower from Bella's Bloom is layered on Early Espresso and popped up on dimensionals. The bottom DSP layer and largest Framelit layer, also on dimensionals, is Everyday Enchantment and is really beautiful paper. I love it! Thanks for stopping by!

All supplies are by Stampion'Up:

Stamps: Bella's Bloom, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Everyday Enchantment DSP

Ink: Poppy parade, Lucky Limeade

Accessories: Labels Collection Framelits, Brad from Everyday Enchantment ribbon & brad pack (SAB), neutrals brads, Early Espresso grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals

Sparkly Valentine

Time to get started on valentines cards.  This one is really simple.  I started out by punching a heart out of red glimmer paper. I then took a piece of white and embossed it with the new Adorning Accents embossing folder available in the Occasions mini catalog.  I started wrapping the Baker's twine around the bottom of the white layer beneath the heart but really thought it looked better right over the top of the heart and the embossing. The sentiment was stamped in Real Red below. The heart is popped up on dimensionals and this was layered on red. Like I said. Very simple but that's the way I like it.

Supplies all Stampin'Up:

Stamps: Holidays & Wishes

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Red Glimmer paper

Ink: Real Red

Accessories: Heart punch, Adorning Accents EF, Baker's twine, dimensionals

Edited: Chosen as an SCS CAS favorite!