On the Second Day of Christmas

I made this card as alternative to my paper pumpkin June 2019 a little smile kit. I cut my top layer with double stitched rectangle die by Kat Scrappiness then cut my Merry Christmas die by Elizabeth Craft Design and then played with the green fern & vellum sea weed from the kit until I was happy and press down on the die which I had made a sticker and then added Nuvo Crystal Drops gloss red berry as if they were berries

Halloween

For my last Halloween shoebox project this year another quick card using the stickers I found and no stamping just dies.

The stickers are by Recollections, for the die I cut it twice one in silver and one in brown then I pieced it together to make the mirror

Simple strip

I wanted to make cards for my personal use and also for the card drive to Taylored Expressions so using my Harper’s Boutique paper pack by The Paper Studio made my cards and then I stamped a bunch of stamps with the simple strips background stamp by Taylored Expressions with VersaFine Clair ink Nocturne and cut them with the matching die simple strips die

 

for this one the message is Global greetings Spanish stamp set 2482 by Papertrey Ink

Happy Birthday

Today is our youngest birthday and since Brittney's family have horses he has gotten into riding horses not often but more than he had done in many years so decided to use that as the theme of his card.

I did my background with oxide inks (peeled paint, vintage photo and broken china) and life changing blender brushes I also used my cloud template for the sky then I stamped my running free image by Embossing Arts with VersaFine Clair fallen leaves I was going to do a recess technique but decided to just used a frame so I cut 4 layers of my double dotted rectangle frames and glued them together and stamped my message from just a note set by Mama Elephant with same ink

Easter

This was a quick Easter card. I used a background paper I got at JoAnn I think that gives the illusion of shaving cream technique and then just added the Easter die cut, added a pearl on each flower center

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hope you are all safe celebrating St Patrick's Day! For my card today I did my version to Jennifer McGuire's surprise window card that was our Sunday Tip or Technique. Her card was a 3 panel card but I didn't want to mess with 3 panels so I only used my opening and the inside plus I added a message on the inside and since there was plenty of room for my message...I'm not one to write much most of the time it was big enough.

I first did the inside and then worked my way out. I had my main image done from many years ago somehow I colored them and then set aside and forgot I had them so finally got to used them so I mounted the ATC size card on my green panel then cut an oval piece of shamrock paper and mounted on top then mounted those to my card base then cut my top layer opening of a bigger oval. I did both with my pieced ellipse dies. The penguin is St Patrick's penguin stamp by MB stamped with tuxedo black and colored with Copic Markers. I had some leftover dies from the rectangle stitched framelits by SU so I stamped my message by Studio G with mowed lawn before I attached the labels I masked the card front and I sprayed some distress oxide peeled paint and after it dried I stamped some shamrocks from a very old set by SU called lucky me with mowed lawn then I attached the labels on on the outside and the other on the inside

Sunday Tip or Technique

Another card using the TT from one of my groups. I had to work on a mingle aka swap for the group I was going to do another fold but since we had this TT decided to kill two birds with one stone and make another card so I could send a card with it. For this card I used regular paper so using magnets was easy for the closure

I made it winter since we are in winter and used dies. The message is from color layering cool fox by HA with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink

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

Just because

This was a quick card, I bought box of pre-cut color cards and envelopes at Michaels then added a black layer of black and cut my white layers with double stitched rectangle die by Kat Scrappiness then stamped my images all from the same set with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink

Shoebox Thursday

For today's project I had a fun fold card. I had everything cut for my friends to do all they had to do was stamp the message and put together. My first card was this

and the only problem was that I used tiny magnets and since everything was cardstock it wasn't working to keep the flap closed so had to go to a plan B. I know for most people it didn't matter much as I saw many tutorials and they didn't have any form of closure on their cards. Lynn Dunn which was our Sunday Tip or Technique video used on her second card an oval as her closure and since I had already cut all my papers and picked all my materials I couldn't do that as it just didn't work so had to plan something else and this is what I did. Same supplies so you could see the difference on this one...I used a belly band made with stretch crisp cantaloupe ruffle trim by SU. The dies are Stampin’ cut & emboss stitched nested labels, the flowers were 3D stickers from Dollar Tree everyone had different flowers as the sheet had assortment of flowers, the message is part of the set lace leaf by Concord & 9th with industrial diamond crisp dye ink

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's project I have a fairly simple card. I stamped lacy image from flip the lace stamp set by Taylored Expressions with watermelon wonder ink and picked one of the messages. I bought the set for one specific message plus the lacy border but all messages are nice personally since I'm married and the card I sent are sent by Bret and I it's always our and us the one message that says my probably will not be use or I will cut the my off as I have done on many stamps anyway after the stamping did the die cutting with the stitched rectangle die by The Stamps of Life glued the dotted lace trim watermelon wonder by SU and mounted to my layer and base and then using some white baker's twine left over from a past paper pumpkin tied a bow added 3 pearls and done with just a little bling

57th Anniversary

Today is my parents wedding anniversary big milestone and in my case lucky to still have both of my parents alive. This is the card I made for them and happy they got on time!! was a little hard as my sequins were a little big and didn't want to "shake" in the channels but oh well this was the idea I had for their card and with no other bits for the shaker had to go with it. Actually had to make this card twice as the bag of sequins had two sizes of sequins and at first when I separated the sequins I just did by color but it didn't work at all so had to redo the card and just use the small size and that work better but still not perfect wished I had beads in different blues but didn't and maybe if I should have ran the static bag all over the acetate and the foam like I mostly do which I forgot it would have work oh well lesson learn. The sequins were from JoAnns except for the tiny ones on both ends that were from SU I think. The 57 is from whimsy die set by Spellbinders, the diagonal chevron is a die by Spellbinders...on the bottom part I did inlay all the chevron pieces. For the 57 and happy anniversary I went over my Spectrum Noir sparkle crystal clear glitter brush and then glossy accents which you can only see in person

Joyful Blessings

One last Valentine's I sent this year. When I did the snow festival designer printed tags most of them were Christmas except for this one, it had hearts so for me it was more for Valentine's of any other thing so decided to use it for Valentine's. I cut my red layer with stitched rectangle die by Stamps of Life and sprayed it with distress stain candied apple when dried mounted all my layers and stamped the message out of a Christmas set by Recollections with real red

Shoebox Thursday by Kathy

For today's project Kathy had us doing the a card like I did last year...tricorn fold for Bret so pretty easy to make. She had everything cut/die cut even stamped and decorated, mostly score so we just had to put together

Clear Valentine's

After watching the video from Jennifer McGuire with her clear shaker card that was my thing to do so I made one for my parents and surprisingly it already got to them!! the one I sent for Kings it just arrived so took like 2 months and this one maybe 3 weeks go figure, anyway glad they got it on time this time around. It was hard to take photos I don't know who makes the die. I cut it 3 times put acetate on all 3 pieces, on inside decided to add paper so I could add message and personal message to my parents but I added shaker bits on the front and back

the images are from the set amor de San Valentin by SU with heart beat crisp dye ink

Shoebox Tuesday

For today's project a simple love card that can be use for Valentine's, anniversary or any occasions. Die cut the stitched layer from The Stamps of Life then embossed the border with adorning accents textured impressions embossing folder by SU mounted all my layers. I die cut the love from seed love collage steel craft die by Poppy Stamps but only used the letters, then cut 3 heart which was a freebie by Taylored Expressions. The heart cuts two hearts the outline and then a center, I glued the outline and mounted on the layer and then added some glitter and then glossy accent to fill the hole. Very simple

Love shaker

For today's project another shaker card. For this card I used love shaker die by PPP the sequins again from JoAnn and I picked the colors I wanted the message is from caring critters stamp set by Sugar Pea Design with velvet crisp dye ink

Valentine's Day

Quick and fun shaker cards for Valentine's Day. I used sequins from JoAnn that I separated the colors I wanted for my shaker the message in Spanish is amor de San Valentin by SU and the one in English Valentine's by Recollections both with ruby red crisp dye ink

Happy Valentine's Day

This was a quick no stamping card for a swap I used an embossing folder from Recollection as well as heart rhinestones, the words are a die

Valentine's

This was a quick card using sweetheart textured impressions embossing folder by SU and the stitched heart die by Gina Marie Design