Paper Pumpkin

These cards were alternatives to my May 2019 Hugs from Shelli kit. I used the envelopes from kit as a layer, stamped with peach perfect crisp dye ink the background with the kit's set and the messages with bold botanicals paper pumpkin set Aug. 2016 with crumb cake ink

Paper Pumpkin

These were alternative to my Aug. 2019 The gift of fall kit and add on kit. I used the envelope from gift of fall add-on and a printed die-cut vellum from kit then stamped my message from the set thoughtful greetings set by PPP with pretty peacock spot ink and cut the circles with nesting cutting circles dies by QuicKutz Lifestyle Crafts and punch punch by EK and added some epoxy dots by Recollections colored with Copic marker

Happy Birthday

Today is one of my adoptive aunt's birthday and I was having fun with these set by The Stamps of Life so made her a card with her favorite color using one of the collections by Altenew crisp dye ink the small glasses were done with Sunglasses2stamp inks rouge and crimson, message VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne, the big glasses was done with frames4sunglasses set with velvet ink and lens4sunglasses set with blush ink and added some Spectrum Noir sparkle Crystal clear glitter brush and to finish added some Jot pop-up stickers from Dollar Tree

With Love & Sympathy

Back in May I posted this card I made as sympathy. I found some more images but these were black so pretty much made the same design but in black & white.

I used my Harper’s Boutique paper pack by The Paper Studio the images were from the Dutch iris medley set by Heartfelt Creations with tuxedo black ink fuzzy cut, the oval were cut from Spellbinders dies floral ovals and small ovals, the message is from itty bitty greetings set by SU with VersaFine Clair ink nocturne

Paper Pumpkin

These were alternative to my March 2019 Poppin’ birthday kit. I used the inside of the printed envelopes from kit and the pennants on the white side where I stamped from the kit's set and daffodil delight ink and then used the die-cut numbers from kit to personalized the birthday card

One sheet wonder

Can you tell I have lots of papers?! I have not bought papers in a long time because I have way too many do like them, don't like big patterns used to get the packs and that was a big mistake as even though it was a good deal turned out at the end it had way too many unusable sheets at least to me. Some had become a bit more used with the OSW as that is the main focus of the card to show off the papers but sometimes hard to use them if not what you really like LOL

These cards were made because I wanted something that would work for anyone specially men, most of them went to Gray Matters Foundation, Send a Smile 4 Kids and Bring a Smile to Seniors unless otherwise posted messages were computer generated and I was playing with all the black inks I had to see which one stamped better/darker and which one smell and which one stain stamps so didn't pay attention on which message was stamped on which I was more focus on the result to make a note to see if it would be used again or not and for what

Custom stamp

Uplifting thoughts set 10671 by Concord & 9^th 

Halftone thanks set by Altenew

Massive messages set by Gina K Designs

Thanks to you set by Pink & Main

Thanks to you set by Pink & Main

Shower of blessings

When I was looking through my paper to something for my sister I saw this paper that right now is popular due to rainbows and somehow it was never good for cards but when I looked at it it was perfect for slim cards so from a 12 x 12 got 4 different cards added message on one had to add a little more but that was it.

All messages were stamped on a cloud cut out of the marshmallow clouds steel metal craft die by MB with sending & wishing set by SSS and Rainy days set by PPP with dew drop teal zeal ink

On this first one also added left over scraps of the stand alone die cuts color block rainbow die by Pinkfresh Studio.

Cards were donated to Gray Matters Foundation

Thinking of you

A friend's hubby had back surgery on Monday so made him a card using Altenew's buffalo plaid builder stencil with 5 different greens of distress inks with Picket Fence Studios life changing blender brush mowed lawn, peeled paint, crushed olive, twisted citron & forest moss on my Make Art STAY-tion by Wendy Vecchi. The tree was stamped our of always grateful seasons & nature set by CTMH punched with 2-1/2" circle by EK and layer with circle small set double stitch design by Gina K, the messages were done with heartfelt thoughts sentiments set also by CTMH all 3 things with VersaFine Clair fallen leaves

Northern lights

Finally my monthly hero creativity in a box kit from last month (June 2020) which was a celebration of the wonders of the northern skies –aurora borealis arrived a few days ago and of course I had to play with it right away since I had been waiting for it for a long time. I have never been lucky to see the aurora borealis in real life so had to work from what I saw on the blog hop assuming the people knew what they were doing LOL of course my card is on the easy side as I don't do embossing and I just wanted to play see how I could do the card with a lot of work as the people on the blog hop made it look like. Besides the stamps and dies kit came with a glow in the dark lacquer that no one used so don't know how that works I believe is like glossy accents so will play with it on another time. 

For used the ink cubes directly on the stamp with my crisp dye ink on the water area with turquoise, on the light hills I used sea glass and the rest I used dusk then stamped then using Picket Fence Studios life changing blender brush added some peach perfect but it didn't seem to show so I added some cotton candy and again it didn't didn't seem to show so finally tried hydrangea and that worked better and somehow after I did that the other two colors kind of came through a bit. I die cut 3 times the mountains and then when I was going to pick a message I was asking Bret what this one message meant...originally I read you are my beacon of light and he explain so I thought sure that could work so stamped it with VersaFine Clair nocturne, punched it out on story label punch by SU cut off the ends added some black cardstock and then realized it said a beacon not my beacon so told Bret correction and he said yeah meaning would still work that way so I added unto the card and as soon as I set the card on his tablet so he could see it when he came it from the garage, he came in to say you know like on a light house and boats. I laugh and said well I made you a card but used the wrong die he said he still like the card. So now you know why there is this message on this card 😁

It's a boy

Our friend had a grandson last month and on this times that is not easy, she has been able to spend some time with the baby. Good thing being close to family. I used baby’s first framelits by SU mounted on foam. The message on bottom is from cuddles & kisses set also by SU and the other is It’s a boy stamp by Fun Stamps & Stampendous both stamped with tumbled glass ink, ribbon is scallop dots marina mist also by SU

Pensando en Ustedes

Last cards for Daniel West at Del and Artie. These were done with this month's template or technique (TT) in one of my online groups. Since I have lots of papers and have been looking ways to use it other than envelopes this was fun. I used patterned stack in color 2011-2013 DSP the calypso coral and some orange paper in my stash. I used some printed messages I have in my box.

Hola, Pensado en ti

More card for Daniel West over at Del and Artie. For this cards I used SU's DSP everyday enchanted with Recollection cardstock. The birds on a wire edge punch is by Martha Stewart Crafts, cut my white scrap cardstock with rectangle stitched framelits by SU then stamped my message from happy to be friends Spanish sentiments set by CTMH with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne the next layer I just used my ruler as the next layer with dies is not an even 1/8" added liquid pearls dimensional pearlescent white opal to embellish

for these cards the difference was the hola but also came from the same happy to be friends Spanish sentiments set by CTMH and the buen día came from Spanish sentiments by Little Darlings Rubber Stamps, I fuzzy cut the banner as this set doesn't have dies, and the liquid pearls dimensional pearlescent was silver pearl

Hola

I was playing around with this new stamp by Pinkfresh Studio nested diamond. The stamp is 6x6 but doesn't really stamp a full 6x6, the rubber is 6x6 anyway I was just playing around to see how it stamped and how it would look if I cut so made a slim card since they're so popular right now using my embossed edge nesting slim dies by Kat Scrappiness. Wasn't very impress with this dies the embossed edge doesn't show that much but so far I have not found a stitched die set so this was the best alternative if I didn't want a plain layer. I used sunray crisp dye ink for the nested diamond stamp. For my messages I stamped them with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink on a story label punch by SU and they're from Spanish messages set by Stampendous and finished it by adding some liquid pearls dimensional pearlescent paint buttercup. Donated this card to Daniel West over in Del and Artie.

Paper pumpkin

This card was an alternative to my lovely day February 2020 kit. I used one of the card kit's bases cut in half then part of the printed envelope as a layer where I stamped my message from the kit's set with rich razzleberry spot ink. I used on of the printed die-cut images but the whole thing the negative part on foam and the positive part inlaid then sprayed with Sheer shimmer craft spray sparkle and a couple white perfect accents

Happy Birthday

Remember I had die cut a bunch of rainbow's when I got my order from Pinkfresh Studio and made the cat card? well I also made this card for my favorite brother-in-law Steve. For this card, I used the standalone die cuts color block rainbow again used foam for dimension, then die cut a different grass for this one this is pasture grass steel craft die by Memory Box; for the clouds the first layer is on foam the top layer I die cut it 4 times to give some dimension but even and not as high as the foam and they're from cloud borders honey cuts by Honey Bee Stamps the message is two sets the top is from let’s flamingle set by Pinkfresh Studio and the happy birthday is from teeny tiny wishes set by SU both with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne  

Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July. This year is a different kind of celebration for those that care about their loved ones and everyone around them. We are not to gather anywhere for a big celebration, staying home or away from other people other than your household is the safer way to celebrate so we can keep celebrating in the years to come. With the increase of cases of COVID-19 doesn't seem much to celebrate this days. Hopefully people would understand that protest of any kind and gathering spread the virus as there is not much social distancing and everyone should wear some sort of face covering at all times when in public to help us stay as healthy as possible so we can go back to a "normal" and be able to have our celebrations and be with our families and friends.

This is the card I made this year only because my order by Honey Bee Stamps arrived on time!! I used a paper I had in my stash for the background. The flag is united we stand honey cuts I cut the "stars" 3 times to give dimension from the white part of the flag, the red was mounted on foam.

The celebrate freedom is part of the stars & stripes stamp & die combo set by Taylored Expressions stamped with Danube blue dew drop

for the inside I decided to cut the US map from the same combo set and stamp with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink the message from land of the free set by Altenew

Paper pumpkin

Another alternative to my Lovely day February 2020 kit. For this one I cut again my card base in half. Cut a circle with the stitched circle die from The Stamps of Life then used the negative piece from printed die-cut image from kit and stamped the cake from the kit's set with pretty peacock spot ink used some Copic marker to ground the cake so it wasn't flying on the circle; grabbed one of the die-cut label from kit and stamped the message from the kit's set again with the pretty peacock spot ink and then stamped two dots with dual dots stamp by Endless Creations also with pretty peacock spot ink and when it was complete dry I added some Nuvo Jewel Drops limoncello this Nuvo Drops are translucent so they take the color that is below making the drops the perfect matching color

Paper pumpkin

This was an alternative to my February 2020 Lovely Day kit. I use one of the kit's card bases and stamped the big flower from the kit's set and rococo rose spot ink added one die-cut label of the kit stamped with same ink and same set the word birthday and added the foil foam word sticker from kit then added some Nuvo Crystal Drops copper penny to finish it

Cat

I had to make a card with a cat and when I was thinking what to do I had just gotten my new order from Pinkfresh Studio so of course had to play with one of the dies. The stand alone die cut color block rainbow I cut in 6 colors which of course gave me options to make multiple cards. I mounted the rainbow with foam as well as the prairie grass steel craft die by Memory Box and the cat punch by SU and for my message I used a combination of two sets one is handmade goodness set by Gina K Design and the other part of a message from the set blessings stamp & cut by HA both were stamped with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne.