Birthday card for Alejandro

Hi everyone.  My son-in-law's birthday was just a few days ago and today I'm sharing the card I made for him.  I used the Sip Sip Ole (Spellbinder's) die set.  I pretty much CASED one of the cards on the site ... just changing it up slightly.  It was so fun to create this card. :)

I started by lightly sponging part of my background in distress inks in soft greens (Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn).  I die-cut the Margarita glass from vellum lined with acetate to give a frosted look, with the acetate giving it strength.  I sponged more colour for the inside of the glass  and added the "salt rim" with acetate covered in large glitter.  The rest of the pieces were die-cut from mixed media paper and watercoloured (or sponged) with more distress inks.  

The drink was layered on top of my background.  I typed the sentiments on my computer (Century Gothic and Autography fonts), printed and cut out to finish the card.  It reads ...

                                        Card Front:                                               Inside Card:

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

NBUS Challenge #89 - first time using this die-set

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Stamps:  sentiment printed from my computer

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Vellum, Acetate
Ink:   Distress Inks:  Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs, Candied Apple (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Sip Sip Ole die set (Spellbinders), watercolour brushes, sponges, chunky glitter

Challenges:

NBUS Challenge #89

Critter Craze Challenge #113

Hi everyone.  Today I'm sharing a card I made with a new-to-me die of a darling bear.  I call him Tired Bear, as he is sprawled out and definitely looks like he is in need of a nap. :)  Sorry for the poor quality photo ... my camera is on its' way out. :(

I made this card for the Critter Crazy Challenge #113 - Anything with Critters Goes.  My friend, Faith, in on the Design Team.  I'm happy to finally had a chance to make a card to join in. :)  

I die-cut the bear from Soft Suede cardstock and used a fine-tip black marker to go over the scored design of the die.  I used a SU! black marker to go along the outside edge as well.  It (sort of) looks like it's a stamp, but it's all a die.  Today I saw a video where Jo Simons inked a background die and then pressed a piece of cardstock over top.  What a great idea.  I will try that next time. :)

I sponged around the outside of the die with Gathered Twigs distress ink and then added some red chalk for the cheeks, and a few details with a white acrylic pen.  I created the background with a piece of red plaid paper with real red strip at the bottom for the bear to rest on.  The sentiment is computer generated.  To finish, the main panel was popped up with foam onto a white card base for a little dimension.

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

Critter Crazy Challenge #113 - Anything with Critters Goes.

NBUS Challenge #89 - first time using this bear die

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #187 - Clean and Simple

 

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Stamps:  n/a

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Soft Suede cardstock (SU!); Red plaid patterned paper, Real Red cardstock (SU!)
Ink:   Gathered Twigs distress ink (Tim Holtz); Basic Black Stampin' Marker (SU!)
Accessories:   Tired Bear die (Temu Canada), fine-tip black marker, red chalk, white acrylic paint pen (Posca)

Challenges:

Critter Crazy Challenge #113 - Anything with Critters Goes.

NBUS Challenge #89

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #187 - Clean and Simple

Christmas cards ...

Hi everyone.   Just a reminder of the CAS Christmas August Challenge - Sleigh.  The challenge is open until Aug. 31.

Smooshed a piece of mixed media paper and once dry, stamped my image in black pigment ink and heat embossed in clear.  Watercoloured using distress inks.

Two strips of torn white paper are added to the bottom for snowhills and a simple sentiment is stamped in black ink.  Splattered diluted white paint for falling snow.

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Sending this card to the follow challenges:

CAS Christmas August Challenge - Sleigh

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #69

SCS Christmas Challenge - August - CCC26AUG

Edited to add - entering below:

Christmas Kickstart #113 - A Friend is for Life and not just Christmas

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This is a reminder for the CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Stenciling over Patterned Paper.  The challenge is open until Aug. 31.

I used this beautiful background paper from Honey Bee, stenciling overtop with the Farmhouse Tree Stencil (Honey Bee).  I started with layers of distress Inks (Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness) and let it dry thoroughly before stenciling overtop with Versamark and sprinkling with White embossing powder.  I heat set and also stamped and heat set the sentiment (Christmas Sentiments - Penny Black) as well.  To finish, I trimmed the panel down to size, allowing more white space on my card front.

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Stenciling over Patterned Paper

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 3 - Embossing - I heat embossed the white snow on the tree

SCS Christmas Challenge - August - CCC26AUG

This card only took me about 10 minutes to make and I love how it turned out.  I have more of these papers, so made more of the same design, just swapping out the background paper and changing ink colours.  Great way to build my Christmas card stash! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Card #1: (Sleigh)

Stamps:  Santa and his Reindeer (Stamping Bella); Christmas Sentiments (Penny Black)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore)
Ink:   Black (Obsidian - Altenew); Distress Inks:  Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Candied Apple, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs, Black Soot (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   clear embossing powder, heat tool, watercolour paint brushes, white acrylic paint

Card #2: (Tree)

Stamps:  Christmas Sentiments (Penny Black)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Patterned Paper - Team Tie Dye (Honey Bee)
Ink:   Distress Inks:  Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness (Tim Holtz); Versamark
Accessories:   Farmhouse Tree Stencil (Honey Bee), sponges, White embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool

Challenges:

August CAS Christmas Challenge - Santa's Sleigh

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #69

CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Stenciling over Patterned Paper

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 3 - Embossing - I heat embossed the white snow on the tree

SCS Christmas Challenge - August - CCC26AUG

Stenciled Gladiolus

Hi everyone.  Made a quick and easy CAS card for a couple of challenges. :)

Started with one of my favourite stamp sets from Altenew - Nature's Magic.  Stamped and die-cut the gladiolus and used the matching stencil and some detail brushes to sponge colour.

Used a rectangle die (center of a frame I had cut for another project), stenciling over top with Wander and Find (Carta Bella) in Shabby Shutters distress ink.  I finished by stamping a small sentiment in black ink.

Popped up the panel, added the gladiolus on top (popping up the top few flowers), adding it onto my white card base.  Added a few small details with my white acrylic paint pen to finish.

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

AAA Birthday:  Game #88 - Flower - the happy birthday sentiment is on the inside

Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge #523 - Birthdays

Just Us Girls - Die Week - Anything Goes - used gladiolus die, rectangle frame die

Splitcoaststampers - CAS910 - BFF

We Love Stamping August Challenge - Summer Blooms

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  Nature's Magic (Altenew)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.)
Ink:  Black (Obsidian Pigment - Altenew); Distress Inks:  Shabby Shutters, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Altenew:  Nature's Magic matching die and stencils, details sponges, Wander and Find stencil (Carta Bella), white acrylic pen (Posca)

Challenges:

AAA Birthday:  Game #88 - Flower

Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge #523 - Birthdays

Just Us Girls - Die Week - Anything Goes

Splitcoaststampers - CAS910 - BFF

We Love Stamping August Challenge - Summer Blooms

August CAS Mix Up Challenge

Hi everyone.  This month's challenge at CAS Mix Up - Stenciling over Patterned Paper has Viv as our Host!  This is a great way to use your stencils in a new way ... and to use up some of your patterned paper that we all have in abundance. :)

I used an older piece of patterned paper (Sweather Weather - Stampin' Up!).  Stenciled using the Dreamweaver - Hibiscus Pair stencil, using distress inks.

I finished the card by tracing an outline through the stencil with a fine-tip black marker and adding a simple sentiment.

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 1 - Inks - used Distress inks to stencil the flowers

I hope you'll check out the CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Stenciling over Patterned Paper.  We'd love if you made a CAS card using this technique and then link up to the party at the bottom of the challenge post.  Hope to see you in the Gallery!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  Happy Messages (Stampendous - closed)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Sweater Weather Patterened Paper (SU!)
Ink:   Distress Inks:  Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry, Shabby Shutters (Tim Holtz); Black (Memento)
Accessories:   Hibiscus Pair stencil (Dreamweaver), detailed sponges, .2 Fine-line Black marker

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up August Challenge - Stenciling over Patterned Paper

Darnell's IDEAS Challenge - Week 1 - Inks

Faux Cyanotype Christmas

Hi everyone.  I made a Faux Cyanotype card using a Christmas image this time.  I just love this technique and you can use it for any occasion.  I followed this video by Understand Blue.

I placed a mask over my card front and lightly sponged the center rectangle in Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink.  I then stamped the Lavinia Christmas Night image several times overtop with the same ink to get lots of contrast.  I added a skinny silver metallic frame and stamped  the sentiment from a long retired stamp set to finish the card.

Sending this card to:

Rudolph Days May Challenge

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Stamps:  Christmas Night (Lavinia); Snowglobe Sayings (My Favorite Things)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.);  Silver Metallic cardstock (SU!)
Ink:   Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Mask, Thin Frames Rectangle die (Simon Says Stamp)

Challenges:

Rudolph Days May Challenge

New Home

Hi everyone.  My son's friends are moving into their first place.  It's an exciting time. :)  He asked me to make a custom card.

I started with a fun die I bought quite a while ago (Rickety House - Memory Box).  I bought because I saw these wonderful cards made by my friend Leslie.  Linking shows that I saw Leslie's cards in Oct. 2022!  Yikes ...I didn't realize I had been sitting on this die for so long. 

Anyways, it was released as a Halloween die, but it made an adorable house (customized in the new owner's colours) for a "Congratulations on your new home" card.  I add sponging on all die pieces, and also the background.  And I stamped with some leafy branches behind the house.  It's all contained behind a sweet rectangle die-cut aperture with double stitched borders.  The sentiment is from an very old stamp set (A Little Sentimental - Clearly Besotted - retired). 

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 2 - Dies - I used die-cuts for the house and the frame.

NBUS Challenge #86 - First time using this die. :)

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Excited to announce the re-start of the CAS Christmas Challenge!!

First challenge starts on June 1st.  Hope you'll join us!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted); leaf stamp (Kittie Kits - Master #1)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Night of Navy, Sahara Sand (both SU!)

Ink:   Distress Inks:  Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers (Tim Holtz)

Accessories:   Rectangle Stitched small frame (AliExpress); Rickety House die (Memory Box), sponges

Challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 2 - Dies

NBUS Challenge #86

Graceful Lily

Hi everyone.  I'm on a roll. :)  Having fun in my studio making lots of cards lately.  Hopefully this means my mojo is back in full swing and I'm hoping it stays for a long time. :)

This card is inspired by Splitcoast Stamper's "Inspiration Challenge - IC1064" and "CAS Challenge - CAS895".  The Inspiration challenge is to be inspired by one of Scully & Scully's products (see lily pillow below).  The CAS challenge is to CASE Yourself.  I changed the colour of the lilies, shape of the focal panel, and the background stencil.  The rest is the basically the same, CASEing this card from five years ago.

                                                                                                                       2021

 

The image (Graceful Lily - Penny Black)was stamped in black, clear heat embossed, and then watercoloured with distress inks.  I masked the image and sponged over a stencil for the background.  The panel was die-cut with Whirl Frames (Penny Black) and the inside piece gave me the reverse scallop edging.  The panel was popped up over the card base.  A simple sentiment (Super Day) was stamped in more black ink.

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 1- Inks - I used inks to stencil the background and watercolour the lilies - 2nd entry 

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Stamps:  Graceful Lily (Penny Black); Super Day (Penny Black)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.)
Ink:  Obsidian Black (Altenew); Distress Inks:  Saltwater Taffy, Abandoned Coral, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness, Shabby Shutters; Ground Espresso Distress Marker (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Clear embossing powder (Ranger), heat tool, watercolour brushes, Wander & Find stencil (Carta Bella), sponge

Challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 1- Inks

Evergreen Christmas

Hi everyone.  I was hoping to have this card done before the end of April, but life got in the way.  I'm playing along with SCS April Christmas Challenge - E is for Evergreen.  Thankfully there is no time limit on SCS challenges. :)

I'm hoping that the "Evergreen" element doesn't actually have to be green. :)  I created a mixed media background with watercoloured tissue paper, sponged colour, dry embossing, and brayering.  I love this combination that I used on a card last year.  I made good use of my time by creating three similar card fronts.  I split two of the card fronts to make four equal panels, and used the third card front to create strips for the inside of my cards. :)  

For the four focal panels, I added mostly the same elements ... evergreen dies cut from matte gold foil card stock and gold embossed white sentiment strips.  These all tie in with the gold metallic paint I brayered to highlight the dry embossed design (Pepperberry Embossing Folder - Simon Says Stamp), overtop of a watercoloured tissue paper mounted background.

Sending this card to the following challenges:

SCS April Christmas Challenge - Evergreen (CCC26APR)

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 1 - Inks - I used inks to W/C tissue paper, and sponge over top

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #68 - AG Christmas

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The other three cards ...

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Stamps:  Snowglobe Sayings (MFT - closed)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Matte Gold cardstock (SU!)
Ink:   Distress Inks:  Candied Apple, Lumberjack Plaid, Mowed Lawn (Tim Holtz); Versamark
Accessories:   Tissue paper, water mister, Pepperberry Embossing Folder (Simon Says Stamp), Brayer,

Gold Metallic Paint (Lumiere), Holly Branches dies (Penny Black), Inspired die (Reindeer) - Penny Black,  Holly & Berries die (Birch Press Designs); Mistletoe die (unknown)

Challenges:

SCS April Christmas Challenge - Evergreen (CCC26APR)

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 1 - Inks

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #68