Die Cut Flowers

I did another simple card design for the Die-Namites Challenge for March. I am limited on their company dies but am surely giving some of the few I own a workout as I love them. The March challenge is to use the sketch and also  a cut out on the card. So I found this to be an easy challenge.

First of all I used a Cheery Lynn Designs circle die to cut my circle in the upper part of the panel. Then I embossed that panel with the Die-sire Embossalicious Florabunda embossing folder. This panel was popped up over the base card of white card stock.

My Die-Namites "Love Arrangement" die cut was done with black card stock. I then placed that over the circle portion of the panel.

The sentiment I chose was a more generic one that I thought would work for many types of occasions. This is a Gina K. Designs sentiment and is from the Stippled Nature set. This sentiment was embossed and heat set with white detail embossing powder onto black card stock and then popped up on the card base. My card was now complete. Inside I can later add an appropriate sentiment for the occasion needed.

Thanks so much for checking out my design and for the comments that you leave. I always appreciate each and every one of them.

God bless,
Verna

Lace Egg Easter

Not a lot of crafting getting done this week with being laid up but with a little each day I finally finished a card design just in time to enter it into the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog challenge for this week. The theme is Easter.

For my egg I used Cherry Lynn Designs DL208 Lace Egg Two. I cut it out in two different colors and in fact found scraps that were perfect. Then I applied Versamark clear ink to the lace eggs and added Sparkle Embossing Powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle. It is a clear embossing powder with just a hint of glitter in it. Once I had this done I glued these eggs to a background card stock and fussy cut around them. In the center of each egg is a cross like pattern and I added some markers to those open areas so that my cross would be more predominate. I like this egg die because that brings on the Christian reason for this special day.

The grass is cut from multiple colors of green card stock and I used a set of grass dies called My Favorite Things Grassy Edges which is made by Die-Namics.

I then sponged on some light blue color in the upper open area to look like sky. And, over that I stamped the sentiment in black ink. This is an older stamp I own and love. It is or was made by Sonlight Impressions. I am not sure if the company is in business anymore at all, but I really liked this big bold sentiment so I used it on my card.

Thanks for looking and I hope your weekend is a great one.

God bless,
Verna

For the Guys!

I am in need of a few masculine type birthday cards soon so today I worked with a stencil from Stampinback called Flagstones which I thought resembled the hide of a giraffe. Along with that background I also used the giraffe images and sentiment from the Stampinback Sheet 138B.

Both the stencil and the stamps I used are available at I Brake For Stamps. I used Gina K. Designs Ivory and Black card stock and also used Gina K. Designs Warm Cocoa and Black inks on this card. After layering the main panel onto black I then added the ribbon before I adhered it to the Ivory card base.

Well, not a lot of time to stamp this week but at least I got couple done towards my supply of birthday cards.

Hope you are having a good week and here we are having spring like weather. Hurray!

God bless,
Verna

Inked Embossing Folder Background

The theme at the Mod Squad Blog Challenge this week was to make a background for a card by any method as long as it was not a pre-printed one. I chose to use an embossing folder to which I added inks and then spritzed with water before I placed my card stock on it. The folder I used was Seeing Spots by Cuttlebug.

The color of ink used on my background was Gina K. Designs Wild Lilac and I added it to Gina K. Designs White card stock. Also used for the "Love Arrangement" die by Die-namites was Gina K. Designs Edible Eggplant card stock. It was backed up on a sheet of Gina K,'s Wild Lilac card stock. I used Edible Eggplant to frame the panel from leftovers by making just a corner design. My sentiment is from Gina K. Designs Birthday Blessing set and was inked up with Edible Eggplant. After combining all the layers onto the base of white card stock I then finished it off by adding a ribbon bow at the bottom.

I am cleaning up my work space this week and since I ran across all of these things I had done previously but not used I decided they could work together for a nice card design if I were creative enough to get the leftovers to stretch. I am happy with it and not only am I getting some cleaning done I am also getting some creative fun in.

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for the lovely comments.

God bless,
Verna

Frugal Splats!

A few years ago I was always buying special ink cleaners which had a dauber top. They worked great too! But then I went to a scrubber instead to clean my inks off the stamps and so I did not use the dauber type anymore. But I saved a few of the bottles because they had good daubers on them. I am glad I did too!

I was wanting a yellow ink to make a card but my bingo daubers were all different colors then that. So I took this old ink dauber bottle, cleaned it out and added water and food coloring to create my new dauber with a yellow color. Here is a card I made with it.

I suggest if you use this method that you use a heavy card stock or water color paper. And, again I added the sentiments from the Gina K. Designs Stamp It Big set illustrated by Carolyn King. Although two sentiments are used in the stamping I stamped them close to make it appear as one big sentiment. Like I said before, I do love that set of sentiment stamps.

Well, I am glad I could share a few of my recliner thoughts and creative ideas I had this past week. I may have to take a recliner hiatus more often. LOL

Thanks for stopping by too!
God bless,
Verna

Bingo Dauber Splat!

A few days ago I had so much fun making splats with various forms of inks and methods. So while I was recuperating I remembered I had bingo daubers and thought perhaps if I slapped them on the card stock really hard they might make a splat! Well, guess what? It worked. I was really pleased with the splats I created.

However, not all daubers are the same. I had two of the same name brand but for the life of me I could not get them to splat. I own four of them so only my red and green worked. I even turned the others upside down overnight thinking the dauber needed to be juicier with the ink but still it did not work. I purchased them years ago at a dollar store in our local town. I have not seen any since! But never fear I will make use of all of them for a quick and easy background.

I used sentiments from the Gina K. Designs Stamp It Big set by Carolyn King. This is actually two sentiments and in that set you can combine them to make various different sayings. I like that!

Well, here in South Dakota it is a blustery day with snow earlier and now the winds. Oh, winter! You are growing weary for me! LOL

Well, thanks for looking and I hope your day is going great!

God bless,
Verna

St. David's Day

This post is a day late but on March 1 was the celebration of St. David's Day. I had no inkling of this before until my friend Dolores told me all about it in an email.  The Welsh celebrate this day much the same as the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Whereas the Irish use the Shamrock, the Welsh use the Daffodil or a Leek image. My friend sort of challenged me to make a card for this occasion so I chose to use a leek image on my card.

Well, guess what? I did not have an image of a leek so I had to rely on my limited artistic talents and draw one. I decided I wanted my leek to be sort of a comical version. So please keep in mind that I am no artist in any sense of the word but even so I was not too unhappy with my happy little fellow!

The sentiments used on this card are from the Gina K. Designs Stamp It Big set which is illustrated by Carolyn King. Also the pattern paper is from the Gina K. Designs Birthday Hoot pattern paper pack.

I added a ribbon and some black pearls before layering onto a complimentary green card stock. The card base was white card stock.

Here is a little more history on the use of the leek for St. David's Day. Apparently the leek was chosen as their symbol to celebrate the winning of a battle against the Saxons which took place in a field of leeks.

Anyway, to all those who are of Welsh decent I hope you had a wonderful St. David's Day.

God bless,
Verna