I began this card with the CAS Sketch and Mod Squad Challenge in mind. I chose to use SU 2018-2020 In-Colors as I have cardstock and patterned paper to match.
I used the stamp set Happy Birthday from The Stamping Village. This particular image was created by Avery Elle.
My card today is a Double Easel Fold card that I found on Pinterest and should fit the The Sisterhood of Crafters Happy Birthday or Fun Fold or Both challenge. For a fun fold card this came together quite easily for me. The stamped image is a SU Giggle Greetings, my background was created using Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders, and the following dies were used: Sizzix Tim Holtz Celebrate, GKD’s Large Single Stitch circle die, Spellbinders Classic Circle die, Mementa number dies, PoppyStamps Pinpoint Balloons dies.
Hubby’s birthday is next weekend and we will still be on Stay At Home orders in Pennsylvania but we will celebrate his 65th birthday and “welcome” to Medicare health insurance. Will takes great pride that he doesn’t cook so I’m thinking that the ‘cheese’ cake will hit home that point! So happy to be celebrating him and 65!!
Thanks for looking and tomorrow is Saturday!
This card was created during Day 13 of the Online Card Class Spring Card Camp.
I used the Hello die cut from the previous card where it was cut from the card front. In the class, the presenter had a shadow die for her statement. I do not have a shadow die for the Lawn Fawn die I used, so I cut my own with scissors. I added another greeting from the Paper Smooches Happy Hellos stamp set. I thought this paper would be a pretty birthday card. The patterned is from an Echo Park paper pack. This was fun to create and it looks like a happy card.
Another day of Online Card Class with a bit of sparkle being front and center for the lesson.
The sparkle was created with glitter gel by Faber Castelle. My jar was fairly dried, so I added a little bit of water to try to revive it. I was able to get enough sparkle on my palette knife to spread enough to get the sparkly effect. I ink blended the background with a few distress inks. I used the Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello die. The gems are from Hobby Lobby. I am using a lot of items from my stash. I ran out of my favorite foam adhesives, so out came the Hobby Lobby that is a bit thicker. This will definitely cost more to mail as it will not fit through the slot on my mailing guide. Several years ago the USPS gave my husband a plastic guide with a slot for your letter to fall through. If the letter or card can go through the slot with no help, a single stamp will work, otherwise, extra postage is needed. I use this tool every time I mail anything. I remember these pieces of foam a bit thick for the card to fly through unassisted.
I am entering this in the Paper Players Challenge due to the sparkle in the hello.
The following card is full of sparkle, clouds, a rainbow, and is using older product.
I used two older stamp sets in this card: Gina K Designs Happy Mail (2017) and SU High Tide (2017). The clouds were cut with a Lawn Fawn die, Cloudy Hillside Pop-up. The rainbow was made with Spellbinders Large Circle dies. I added sparkle to the rainbow with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen. This was created with the lesson from Online Card Class Spring Card Camp Day 11. This is one of my favorite lessons, as I had the supplies and could sit down and create. All of the paper used is Hobby Lobby heavy weight cardstock, except for the violet. I think the violet is The Stamps of Life cardstock.
Always enjoyable when a card comes together and fits to many challenges.
The challenge at Just Us Girls is to use Brown, Rust and Navy. I stamped the Gerbera Daisy background stamp from Simon Says in Obsidian ink. To color the center flower I used E18, YR27 and YR14. After blending the colors, I added an overlay of R85 & R83 to give it more of a rust color. The blue flowers were colored with B37, B34, and B21. Additional flowers were colored without the R85/R83 overlay. I colored the leaves with YG63 and YG03. To keep them more in the color scheme I went over the leaves with YR24. I also used YR24 in the open spaces to make the flowers pop, then decided the rust flower didn’t show up enough so went over it with E18. I trimmed the background down to 2¼”, then cut a piece of Blue Denim and used a stitched scallop border die, then placed this over a piece of Faded Brick, which was the closest I could get to Rust. The card base is Sandy Beach. The sentiment from Daisy Delight was stamped in Dark Chocolate.
A CAS Sparkle challenge from The Paper Players and a Bird challenge from ModSquad Challenge and all I could think of was Uh Oh! But actually I think I really like my card. I masked off a space and used Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders to create some color, then stamped and embossed my Inkadinkadoo bird image (Bird challenge) in bronze embossing powder (sparkle). I actually pulled up my border washi tape without incident. Added some strips cut from DCWV The Natural Stack paper pack (more sparkle) and then heat embossed the sentiment from GKD’s Whimsical Spring stamp set (final sparkle). I really wanted to add that extra layer of color behind my focal layer but held back. Yes, I do believe I like it.
It’s raining today outside my windows and I will be hopeful that a rainbow will appear however if that doesn’t happen today I created a rainbow umbrella and added some rainbow patterned paper to enter this card into the As You See It Challenge #223 – Somewhere Over the Rainbow. And in addition to that I’ll also be entering my card into Double “D” Challenges – Showers & Flowers. I have an umbrella so it must be raining, added some flowers from my stash as well as using the Tim Holtz lace layering stencil which is flower images and inked in SSS Sunshine hybrid ink. The patterned paper as well as my image and sentiment are all from the SSS April kit “Follow the Rainbow” stamp set. Thanks for two fun challenges. Thanks for looking and wishing everyone rainbows!
I did this for the Stay Crafty With Hero Challenge #5 Holiday Headstart. I used a set called The Greatest Gift, CL559. I couldn’t find it in the current Hero Arts catalog, but I did find it on an old stamp inventory I made from 2014. Using my MISTI, I stamped Fabulous Frame by Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs in Obsidian ink. The Nativity Scene was also inked in Obsidian. I liked the Christmas Blessings sentiment, but it didn’t fit in the oval. So I first inked Christmas in Red Velvet and masked Blessings. Then I masked Christmas and stamped Blessings. Since the Fabulous Frame was released in 2014 and The Greatest Gift is at least that old, I thought this would also work for the Retro Rubber #133 Anything Goes Challenge. I love being able get a jumpstart on my Christmas cards.
