Washi Birthday & Thanks

One of my sisters likes sage color so for her birthday I wanted to make something her color, not sure if this is that color but guess it worked either way. When I was at Daiso Japan they had this washi tape, they call it deco tape, that was about the size of the card front and this is the card I made for her

I used a die I have cutting it few times for dimension

because the tape was not too big decided to finish the tape with whatever cards I could make and the other cards were thank you cards as I can always use those

For this one since it didn't cover the full layer I used the shadow of the die

Thank you

I had to make a birthday card and my stamping friend likes red so this is what I made using an idea by Stamp by Susie. I also needed thank you cards so made extra cards for my stash with the same design. Seems like I'm always needing thank you cards and hate making them at the last minute. Except for the message obviously, on both cards I used the same things which is paper doily, assorted fresh fruit shapeabilities die by Spellbinders which I colored with blending tool and ruby red and moss inks and mounted on foam; the message was also mounted on foam and was stamped on a decorative label punch by SU with ruby red ink, the birthday was just a gift wood stamp that doesn't have a name and the thank you is a stamp by Stampa Rosa

Winter deer

Another quick and easy male birthday card. I die cut this scene die 3 times well, the first time was a ful die cut in navy blue then I die cut in pieces brown and green. The message is one of those stamps that doesn't have a company on the wood, it as stamped with hybrid licorice black. The card is just in between the notecard and A2 size

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox project, I made a fall project. I made my card birthday but I gave them their choice of message. This time we didn't use a stamp positioner to stamp the two-step stamps following a card Gina K did once. For someone with OCD like me was hard not grabbing the stamp positioner but after the whole card was done it was easier to let go and didn't have as much problem, I did try to stamp as closed as possible but a bit of center. I used simple stamped leaves set by Taylored Expressions for my leaves, love this set is 3 step stamping but we only used 2 the bottom and the top stamps and we used carved pumpkin with spiced marmalade (stamped off), vintage photo straight and also stamped off and peeled paint with mowed lawn. For the message it was ground espresso and the message I used was from Papertrey Ink also for background we used gorgeous grunge set by SU with old paper ink

Smart fox

A dear friend's birthday was a couple days ago so of course had to make a manly card which wasn't really had with all the stamps I have especially with the new sets by Hero Arts. I had other plan for this card but because I was using my MISTI to stamp the layer and my stamp positioner my paper ended up weird so had to die cut front layer smaller than I had plan so changed my idea but worked out ok just became more of a clean and simple card.

The set is color layering cool fox and I used potter's clay, Morocco & rich cocoa inks and for the glasses espresso truffle. The message is from SU's elegancia esencial set with tuxedo black and my grass was done with Copic Markers. The layers were cut with double stitched rectangles by Kat Scrappiness

Since I was doing his card and I went through the steps of layering the fox decided to make some extra cards that I needed in English so the message on these were from wetlands set by SU

Pining for Plaid

I rejoined Paper Pumpkin kits by SU for a while, this month October 2017, not sure for how long but surprisingly this month I got my box on Tuesday night I opened it on Wednesday evening and right away I started working on it. I don't usually see the instructions until I can't think of what to do with the supplies but this time the moment I saw the plaid paper it instantly said to me masculine outdoor cards! Well the first card was of course Christmas since it was an ornament and that was the simplest card I did. I didn't care for the foam the kit it came with as its too thick and it will cost extra to mail. For the most part I don't mind but I try not too. I made 5 cards like this the tree and deer are satin cutouts by May Arts that I got at Impress very long time ago, the message is a stamp by Impress and I used cherry cobbler, not the one that came in the kits as that was a duplicate :0) I cut my base cards in half so I got double of whatever they came

This is the other design I made that night and also made another 5 cards. I added black cardstock to my top layer and banner, the rhinestones weren't in the kit either and the eagle is from the the set wildlife designer cutting dies by Little B, the message was stamped in tuxedo black and is by Savvy Stamps

and yesterday, I finished the other 5 cards I was able to do so far. Another shadow/shaker card (sorry for the blurriness but acetate not easy to photograph). I used ornamental pine SU's set with mossy meadow ink, for the inside I use a background paper of forest and the bear from the wildlife designer cutting die by Little B with a pearl as eye, the message is from SU's hostess set felices fechas. I just used regular foam instead of the foam that came in the kit

I have 4 pieces of plaid paper (2 base cards) all the circles that were in the openings of the shaker cards, some banners and all the sequins that I didn't use in the "shaker cards" and of course I should try and use the set. It was Christmas. If the rest of the kits are like this then it won't be a waste of money LOL

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox I decided to make a card inspired in a card Stephanie from the crafty thinker did. Her card was a double slider with the new in color by SU and I decided to make it a simple card in purple since it's my favorite color :0)

I used floral phrases SU set for the background with wilted violet ink; my circles were done with 2.5" circle punch by EK Success and stitched circles by Stamps of Life; the message is from the set balloon adventures also by SU and also same ink and it was pop-up with foam

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's shoebox project I had a birthday card inspired by a card by Connie S. When I was picking my papers I found some papers that were already cut so decided to use those. All I had to do was find ink that would match the paper and would be perfect. Connie used white and black cardstock and colored ink which would be easy but I don't like to stamp on my base layer yes I know not a big deal but a lot of time we screw up and just easier to toss a short layer than the whole base or we end up cutting the piece anyway so might as well start with a short layer and glue to base :0) my OCD clicking in LOL anyway I picked two colors because I just had a few sheets of each so decided I can get rid off them all and they could pick which everone they wanted to do, one would be more of a girl/female birthday card the other could be anyone but of course more male/boy

My border between my base and first layer is 1/16" all around, I used balloon celebration SU set for my background...Connie used the same set...balloon adventures for everything I decided to add another set first, to use the older set since I hadn't use it in a while and also I wanted to use the dotty stamp for shadow so might as well use more that just one stamp :0) after stamping the background I glued to my base card. My black piece has about 1/4" border all around to the previous layer and my top white layer is about 1/16" smaller all around. I stamped my message with tuxedo black and colored in the "another year" with Spectrum Noir marker, all stamping except message on this card was done with twisted citron ink

for this card all stamping except message was done with rose bud and colored in "another year" with Copic Marker

Shoebox Thursday by Kathy

For today's shoebox project Kathy had a clean and simple birthday card. We used SU products mostly. The stamps were from the summer silhouettes set with coastal cabana, lost lagoon & pear pizzazz ink, the message is by Comotion with pear pizzazz ink, pearls from her stash. The top squares were cut from a die that I do not know by whom but was not SU since it wasn't gray :0) they were mounted on foam

Iris folding House Mouse birthday

These were fun to make using an Accucut die for the shape of the cake then stamped two House Mouse image, the birthday messages were different on each card beside the colors on each card :0)

On this card the message is by Printworks

And on this one the message is by Impress

Teapot

This was a fun card to make. I used book 2 of Iris Folding, the birthday message is by Printworks, the corner stamp is PSX

Balloon

This is the second card I gave my girlfriend. I had borrowed the Celebrate Today Stamp Set & Balloon Framelit dies by SU to work on graduation cards and since I had the set on my desk decided to use it for this card.

It was a pretty clean and simple card. Went to my scrap drawer and grab different pieces of blue then I die cut the balloons. I stamped the shadow and happy birthday on them and then did my card base which had a partial section of acetate. I also added a little texture on the front as it was like too much white :0) the stamp I used was by CTMH

Because I adhered the balloons partially on the acetate and of course my OCD would not be happy if I saw the adhesive on the back I added the same color balloons on the inside except didn't stamp the happy birthday. Decided to stamp the strings on the inside panel and since they looked like they were just flying out of place after the card was open...if you notice on top it looks just perfect. I stamped a line like if the message was on a balloon and the 3 strings were hanging from it.

Shoebox Thursday

Today was our first meeting on Thursday and Darlene had this clean & simple birthday card. We used misc. punches & dies. The stamps are Endless Creations

Stampin' Up Cards cards & more cards

Yesterday I attended a SU workshop. It was a little bit of everything, this kind of workshop we can make as many cards as we want and we can even make more of one. There were 11 projects to pick and I did make one of each

For this one I used my Copic Markers

For this one I added the little thingies on the die instead of just adding the leftover word

For this one I also used my Copic Markers. I added a layer after the fishes instead of sponging, also I added a rhinestone to the i in Hi