Shoebox Tuesday

While working in my craft room on cards for my friends and family I always decide if the card is one that will work for our project and sometimes with the supplies I have out I come up with different project and that was the case on this card. I was working on our grand-daughter's back to school card and had the Nuvo Crystal Drops and remember a card Justine Hovey did with a PPP set so this card came about from that. It's clean and almost simple but I liked it as it's colorful and even though it did take me a bit of time to do it was simple.

I stamped my rainbow image with amalgam ink whisper which is a  pretty light color but great for this as you don't want your ink to show, the I used my Nuvo Crystal Drops for the pink, orange, green and purple and one Liquid Pearls as I didn't have a blue or yellow in Nuvo Drops...yet also, as you can see I didn't have red but I had hot pink which was fine for me, pink or red same difference in the rainbow as this stamp didn't have enough lines for all the colors anyway LOL As you might know when you used this kind of enamel mediums if you let them dry over night they will maintain their full dimension, but if you want them to be in the flat side after 45min-an hour you can put something on top and they will have more of a flat look. I love the flat look most of the time as you have the look of dimension but not the bulkiness specially when I'm donating cards but for this card I did let the card dry over night as I want it to look like pearls then I added my message which is from rainbow2stamp set by The Stamps of Life with VersaFine Clair nocturne

Get well

This card was done using an idea from Crafting with Katherine. I used farmanimals2stamp set with amalgam ink colored with Copic markers and matching die, I also stamped the chick all over the background with summer sky ink; the band aids were stamped with bandage2stamp set with shaded lilac, dried marigold & sage shadow inks and cut with matching dies both sets and dies are by The Stamps of Life

Happy 90th

Today's is our adoptive uncle's birthday and this is the card I made for him. I used Tim Holtz steampunk alterations embossing folder for my inside layer, then for the front I used sprightly sprockets die by Spellbinders, the stamping is from number of years set by SU with ground espresso ink and the pocket watch brad that is keeping the card closed I got at Impress

Lighthouse

A dear friend sent me a few images of this lighthouse two of them were stamped and embossed in black on white cardstock and the other in a grayish paper, she knows how much I like lighthouses and this is what I came up with the images. Since the images were a gift don't know by whom they are from.

I used my blending tools to add oxide inks broken china and vintage photo but on the first two that were white also colored the lighthouse in candied apple on the other I left it uncolored. The message is from SU's high tide set with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink and the light of the lighthouse was done with a stamp from the same high tide set with mustard seed ink

Non existing flowers

In one of my Yahoo groups we had a mingle (aka swap) where we had to create a card with flowers that didn't exist the colors and since I had recently used the poppies background stamp from MFT for my shoebox project it was the perfect stamp to work on this card.

I stamped the background with intense black ink then I picked one of the 3 poppy blooms stamps and colored it with Copic markers and used the matching die to die cut it and mounted with foam and to finish the card just added a few drops of black enamel accents by Ranger. I don't think there are black flowers of any kind except when the floweriest makes them that color but I'm not an expert in flowers except when it comes to killing them 😁

Shoebox Thursday

For today's project it's inspired by a card I saw at Lorri's blog Confessions of a stamping addict. I don't care for top folded cards but decided that I liked the awning better when the card was displayed on a top folded than on a regular fold. She also made it a one layer card but of course as you know I don't like one layer cards 😊 so this was as closed to a layer card as I could get

All the stamping was done from the make a wish set by Pink Fresh Studio with desert sand, rich cocoa, dandelion, love letter & Bahama blue inks for my base of the cake I used two embossing folders the bricked wall is by Tim Holtz Alterations and the wood plank is by SU, the awning was done with an scallop edge die by SU. Originally I made the card and mounted all to the top fold base but don't know about you my layer is never the same size even if I cut it the same size to me was fine as it makes it at tidy up nice guess my OCD

but I wasn't going to worry about my friends about papers being the same size or anything for my friends so it was easier to have a tiny border so no having to match anything. I did end up moving my lower message a bit so it didn't show when the card was displaying 

Follow your heart

I made this card playing with my STAY-tion and my life changing blending brushes. I love my STAY-tion for working with stencils I don't have to add any type of adhesive and they don't move. The brushes so far are not something that are easy for my hand as everyone have made it seemed, the one thing I did get a lighter tone of ink but otherwise it was as hard on my hand as using my Tim Holtz blending tools so I guess depending on the look I want it would be what I would use since I have OCD and they are too expensive to have one per color that would also be another thing when using with my friends and it's too much work having to be cleaning the brush after each color unless I'm only using enough colors for the amount of brushes I have 😀

I used distress oxide wilted violet, I should had let it dry completely before continuing but I didn't think I added enough ink with this brush, anyway, I put my triangle stencil by PPP then applied white Glitz Glitter gel by Gina K Design & Them-O-Web and set aside to dry. When it was completely dry I added my message from Gina K Design's set heart with VersaFine Clair nocturne ink and die cut from the matching die 3 hearts, glued them together, added purple Wink of Stella glitter brush, then Spectrum Noir Sparkle crystal clear brush as the Wink of Stella wasn't leaving enough spark and finally glossy accent