This AI (Art Impressions) clear stamp set Doggy Kisses by Bonnie Krebs always makes me laugh. Love the dogs especially the doxie but today’s card I’m using the pooch in the cone and sent it to my old boss who just had hip replacement surgery. Inside sentiment was “on the bright side….you don’t need a cone”! Maybe my sense of humor but love this one.
I used an unknown stencil that I purchased before stencils became popular and lightly sponged some GKD ink on a portion of the card.
Two little grand-“friends” birthdays coming up in September. The first one will be three and is loving Disney Princesses. I used a few Inkadinkadoo (EK Success) Disney stamps and the GKD wreath builder for this card. The images were large for the wreath builder so I could only stamp each one four times. I’m including the inside photo also since it’s really sweet.
My next little grand-“friend” is turning two and loves Elmo. I found free clip art on line, printed and fussy cut Elmo, popped him up on a Happy Birthday embossing folder layer, die cut a two and used GKD’s Sweet Tweets stamp set for the birthday cupcake which I stamped on the embossed layer then stamped, colored and fussy cut to be popped up over the stamped image.
Happy Birthday to Jessie and Marlowe! Thanks for looking.
The cardstock and patterned paper are from The Stamps of Life. This is the first time I have used their patterned paper and cardstock together. Love how the colors match.
The front stamped greeting is from the Stampin’Up, March Paper Pumpkin, set called Poppin’ Birthday. The inside greeting is also SU called Bring on the Cake. This is for a 25th birthday as you can see with the numbers being colored.
I used Gina K Designs Red Hot ink for the greeting. It matched the paper perfectly. The Tombow marker #856 matches the ink and paper quite well, so it was used to color the numbers.
I made the fold out piece to either write something or place a gift card there. I can add a vellum envelope to hold the gift card, if needed.
Dies used are the Sizzix Framelits Flip-its with a circle. I thought circle was part of the name, but it doesn’t appear to be. I used SU Stitched Shapes Framelits for the white circles. The white paper is Whisper White from SU. This is also a first for me. I had a couple of pieces, so pulled one out to use with this card. It is a smooth white and bright. I really like it.
This is for my daughter who is not into pinks and frills. Hopefully this will be acceptable to her.
I sat down today and just stamped. It is fun to do this sometimes. I did use the colors for this week’s color challenge at Split Coast Stampers: Pear Pizzazz, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral.
Magnolia Blooms
The set is from SU called Magnolia Blooms. It is not in the printed catalog, but in a catalog for new stampers or stampers new to SU. I like the price of the set, so it made my list. I am pretty sure I have used this layout before, probably saw in a video. I had a pack of the Pear Pizzazz paper that was new, from my mother. It worked well for the card base. I added the black layer to help, since I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I needed something to add for the greeting and larger flower, so I looked in a file of paper from my sister and it had Calypso Coral. I added a strip on a black layer. It needed help, so it was embossed with the stand-by, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. I even decorated the inside of the card and an envelope to match.
I have this bad habit of using a stamp set and then setting it to the side instead of putting it away when I’m finished with it. So every once in awhile when I cannot find anything on my work space, I clean up and file everything in it’s proper place. And I’m starting a new collection of stamp sets that I’ve used and have not yet filed so I’m again using GKD’s Stamp n Foil Thankful Leaves stamp set as well as Thankful For You set for today’s card.
Mindy Eggen did a YouTube video “Adding Gold to Your Fall Card” and I thought I’d give it a try. I sponged fall colors onto my cardstock using a My Hero Arts stencil and then added some Glitter Glitz Gel to the stencil. It’s a little difficult to see the sponged colors on the cardstock and next time I may use brighter colors. Some of the leaves were die cut and stamped and cut some from patterned papers and embossed the leaf veins in gold embossing powder added a EK border punch and my bouquet of leaves popping it up on coral reef cardstock.
It’s been a lazy day for me today — yesterday too! I must get motivated but I’ll blame it on the dog days of summer!! Thanks for looking and have a great day.
My card today was meant for the single layer ModSquad Challenge but I didn’t make the deadline on it…LOL….so I pondered on the original and decided it need something more. I added a Martha Stewart punched border piece, then I added the twine ribbon, some gem stones and just now decided it needed more so I sprayed the card with Glitter Dust. I do believe it’s finished. Any more will be the sentiment inside and an envelope!
This card uses GKD’s Thankful Leaves Stamp n Foil stamp set and dies, coral reef ink and some sandy beach cardstock for the border on white cardstock base.
My original idea was to die cut the leaves and then stamp on the inside using the layering leaves stamp from this stamp set. I did get tiny bits of coral reef ink on the die cut front layer but hopefully they aren’t too noticeable.
The stamp set used is called Obsessed with Floral by Unity Stamp Company. I believe it came to my home in June, 2018. The die is Scripty Hello from Lawn Fawn, which has been in my home for around a year, but was released in 2014 or 2015.
The paper is Gina K Designs: Layering Weight White, Moonlit Fog, and Slate.
With cutting into one inch strips, this has pieces for two cards. The next one has Hugs on it.
My area schools are starting back in session on August 26th so I have a few cards to share that I’ll be sending to some of my little “buddies”.
First up are the ones for our grandchildren Chase and Brooke. It is hard to believe that they will be in 2nd and 3rd grade. Oh my how time flies! These little ones are enjoying their vacation with mom and dad in Hawaii!
The second batch is from 3 little grand”friends” who will be entering kindergarten and two in first grade. They are a long time girlfriend’s grandchildren and they love receiving mail so I added them to my card list.
I don’t have too many Back to School stamps but found some on the Falling For You stamp set from GKD and a set from TPC Studios and just picked up the Love Nicole apple stamp and die set from AC Moore with a 60% coupon. The rest was patterned papers that I cut apart for images and used as the background.
The members of my husband’s Masonic Lodge sent me a
beautiful arrangement of flowers recently to celebrate the end of my chemo
treatments. This card is a small way of saying thank you. I placed the board
from Melanie Muenchinger’s new Perfect Pallet set at the 3” mark on my MISTI
and stamped in Warm Cocoa ink. Then I moved the card up at 1” intervals on the
MISTI to create the sign board. The sentiment is from Massive Messages, stamped
in Chocolate Truffle. The ferns in the corners are from Vertical Greetings 2 by
Theresa Momber, stamped in Fresh Asparagus. This is for the Layer Me Not
challenge at the Mod Squad to create a single layer card. http://modsquadchallenge.com/layer-me-not/
