Retirement Congrats!

Two of the sets I won from Sparkle N Sprinkle go together for a party theme. With these sets I made a card of congratulations for a special gal who will be retiring soon. This is a set of stamps that can work for many celebratory occasions.

Since the one stamp is quite large I pulled out my MISTI so that if needed I could stamp it several times to get a good impression. Good thing I did as that was exactly what I had to do. Once I had my big square stamp design done using Memento black ink I then colored it in with Copic markers. After all the coloring was done I added a little sponging with Memento dark blue around the outer portion of the design to create more shadow and dimension.

Using two of the sentiments from the second set of stamps I placed them onto the main design. I also added three stars and colored them in with yellow. To add a bit of shimmer I added some Wink of Stella to all the stars. Now I was ready to place this onto a Cheery Lynn Designs square die and used this as a frame. By putting this onto a square base card of white card stock my card was complete.

Supplies used:
Sparkle N Sprinkle Party 1-Balloons #821 and Party 2-Sentiments #822
Cheery Lynn Designs DL315 Deutschland Square Doily
Scor Pal
Crafters Companion Glue Pen
Memento Tuxedo Black and Paris Dusk dye inks

I ended up with a card 4 1/4 x 4 1/4. I might have to make a special envelope for it or more than likely I will put it in a larger envelope and mail it that way as it would be a cheaper rate.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this card I made. I know I really had fun creating it as well. Have a great evening now and thanks for visiting.

God bless,
Verna

Sparkle N Sprinkle

Yesterday I got the stamp sets I was so lucky to win from the new release that Sparkle N Sprinkle has out and so today I made a card using one of the sets. Most of you who follow my blog know I am pretty much a CAS card maker and this is pretty much the case with this one but I did bling it up some with some glitter all over the surface of the card.

I stamped the design with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored the image with Copic Markers. Once I had it all colored I die cut it out with a Die-Namics Blueprints set. I stamped the Thanks separately on white card stock and cut it out with one of the dies in that blueprint set. I cut another one out as a layer for the one with the sentiment on it and used some of the Copics to match the card stock. Normally I would have used card stock that matched the card base but I did not have a little snippet to work with so I instead tried to match the Copic ink.

Using a Versamark ink pad I swiped ink all over the front panel and those layers for the Thanks sentiment and added some Sparkle N Sprinkle embossing powder to give a glittery look. Once this was heat set I then assembled the card together. I finished it off then by adding a pearl heart to the sentiment and a pink and white polka dot bow.

Supplies used:
Sparkle N Sprinkle Emily Showers of Love #831 stamp set
Sparkle N Sprinkle Sparkle EP107
Versamark Ink Pad
Scor Tape
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Ribbon from my stash
Pearl Heart-Hero Arts
Die-Namics MFT-914 Blueprints 29

I am so thrilled to get the newest sets from the release and I hope to make a card from each of them and post them on my blog.

Over the weekend I did not do any card making but instead got my Christmas tree down and some of the other decorations put away. That always takes some doing and alas, no grandsons to help with the project like when we put the tree up. But Grandpa and I managed to do the job!

Well, I hope your week is off to a great start. Thanks for stopping in and as always I love to see your comments. I read all of them too!

God bless,
Verna

Using the Foiled Negative

As I stated earlier I am in need of lots of birthday cards in the next three or four months so I thought it best to get started on a few of them ahead of time. This one I made using the foiled negative from the card design I did yesterday. I wanted this to be a more masculine theme and I chose the gold foiled sentiment to go with some Gina K. Designs Eggplant card stock.

For my background on the front panel I used a Cuttlebug folder from the Winter Collection which is a plaid design  After I had embossed the design I went with a Encore gold pigment ink pad and lightly tapped on some ink. Then I took some Gina K. Designs detail gold embossing powder and sprinkled that on. After heat setting this background I then added it to a Gina K. Designs Ivory card stock base.

All that remained to do then was to add the foiled negative piece which I had adhered to a sticky paper and then die cut around it with a Cheery Lynn Designs scalloped die. This negative piece was left after I used a Gina K. Foiling Sheet sentiment previously and covered it with iCraft Deco Foil.  I just could not stand to toss this away as it looks so gorgeous now on this card.

Supplies:
Cheery Lynn Designs Die: XM-5 Scalloped Circle
Gina K. Designs-card stock and foiling sheet
iCraft Deco Foil
Sticky Paper-Sparkle N Sprinkle
Encore Gold Pigment Ink
Scor Pal
Crafters Companion Glue Pen
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Winter Collection

You can check the post previous to this one to see the way I originally used the sentiment design. I like the way it looks both ways.

I am entering this in the Mod Squad Blog Challenge in which the theme is Anything But Christmas, Crop Stop Blog Linky Party #23 Anything Goes, and also in the Scrapy Land Blog Challenge #57 which is Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping in and for all the awesome comments you leave me. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

God bless,
Verna

Another Birthday Card

Today after I got some of my housework done I played again with foiling and once again used the card stock and supplies I already had on my work area to create a more clean and simple card design. But with a white embossed panel and with some gold foiling it turned out have a elegant look to it regardless.

For inspiration I once again took my design from elements listed in the Double D's Inspirational mood board photo. They are celebrating their one year birthday or anniversary. And the sentiment I chose for the card had only one candle on it so I thought it was a perfect choice.

I used some of the pre-printed toner sheets with sentiments on them that Gina K. Designs sells. The sentiment was die cut with a scalloped die and I also used a Deco Foil Toner sheet on which I die cut the outer circle. Before I added the foil to my sentiment piece though I colored in a portion of it with a peachy colored Copic marker. I wanted some color added to match the main card of Gina K. Designs Peach Bellini card stock.

My white embossed panel was done using a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Floral Fantasy. I thought it matched the design on the One image in the inspirational photo. After I had layered this to the main card I then proceeded to add the foiled sentiment design.

The final addition to the card was to add a double bow ribbon which had threads of gold running through it.

Dies used:
Cheery Lynn Designs XM-5 Scalloped Circle and XL-4 Circle-Classic
Other Supplies;
Gina K. Designs-Card stock and pre-printed toner sentiment sheet
i-Craft Deco Foil Toner Sheets and i-Craft Deco Foil Sheets
Crafter's Companion Glue Pen
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder-Floral Fantasy
Ribbon-Unknown
Copic Marker-YR00 Powder Pink

This will be entered into the following challenges:
Double D's Blog Challenge-Birthday/Anniversary
Scrapy Land Blog Challenge #57-Anything Goes
Mod Squad Blog Challenge-Anything But  Christmas

Well, we are in a cold, cold spell. This morning it was 18 degrees below zero. And below zero highs too! Good time to stay inside where it is warm and I am so grateful that the power is back on. That would have been even more rough with temps like this. As it was, during that time we had fairly mild temperatures so that was a plus. You have a great evening now. And thanks for the visits and all the great comments.

God bless,
Verna

Peach Rose Birthday

Today I started supplementing my birthday card supply. Lots of birthdays will be coming up in March as well as an anniversary.

For inspiration I used the photo shown at the Double D's Challenge Blog as they are celebrating their first year anniversary during the month of January and are offering prizes too. I chose to use the colors of peach, green and white and did a rose flower design.

The stamps I used for the flowers and leaves is from the Gina K. Designs set called Better With You and the sentiment is from Gina K. Designs set called Made With Love. Gina K. Designs inks used were Peach Bellini and Fresh Asparagus. I also used Versafine Onyx Black ink for the sentiment.

The flowers and leaves were done with a masking method. But as I wanted a more subtle color I took and swiped some of the ink of each color in the lid and with a blender pen picked up the color and got more of a water color look. I then fussy cut this design. And, in the center of the blooms I did one rose blossom separately and popped it up over the others. 

I used Gina K. Designs Peach Bellini and Jelly Bean Green card stock for my card and die cut the peach panel for the bottom layer and then after the top layer of the same size was die cut I proceeded to take another die and cut a scalloped stitch edge. These were layered together and placed on the white card stock base. The roses were placed on this panel. After adding the sentiment I then finished the card with some white pearls and a double loop white organza polka dot ribbon bow which was made with my Craft-Dee BowZ bow maker..

Dies used are:

Die-namics MFT-839 Wonky Stitched Rectangles and Die-Namics MFT-986 Stitched Scalloped Basic Edges.

Other Supplies:

Crafters Companion Glue Pen

2-Way Glue Pen

Pearls-Eyelet Outlet

All Night Media Mini Pop Dots

Scor Pal

This will be entered in the following challenges:

Double D's Blog Challenge-One Year Anniversary Celebration

Mod Squad Blog Challenge-Anything But Christmas

Dies R Us Challenge #64-Anything Goes Using Dies

Well, I had planned so much that I was going to accomplish today but alas, this is the only card I completed today. But it was fun. Yesterday I had to bake and do laundry so that was as creative as I got. 

I hope your new year is off to a great start. I know mine is. I just found out that I won the entire release from Sparkle N Sprinkle for just leaving a comment. I am thrilled! I think I have lots to keep me busy for a long time to come now. And, the new release has so many wonderful stamp sets too. I know I am a happy camper at least.

Well, time to work on the evening meal. Thanks for dropping in and for all the wonderful comments. I read them all and love to hear from you.

God bless,

Verna

Foiled Cards

For Christmas I got a laminator as I had told hubby that was what I wanted. So when Gina K. Designs had a sale awhile back I took advantage and bought a lot of her foiling sheets she has printed already for making foiled backgrounds and sentiments. So today I tested my laminator and used one of her sheets to make a couple of cards. I don't know it this has been done before but after I had foiled the design onto the first card, I looked at the leftovers and decided there must be a way to use that as well on a card so that is what I did.

The card on the right was done the normal way by inserting the foiling sheets and the foil between a sheet of thin printer paper and running it through the laminator. Then I used a die to cut out a purple layer of card stock to add to the front panel of a white card base. I also used a die to cut the foiled design panel too. These were layered onto the card base and then I added the sentiment which was die cut from the same purple card stock. Since there was a thin strip of the foiled paper left I added a little inside the card.

The card on the left was made with the leftovers. I hope you can see that the pretty pattern that was left created a neat look too. So I took some sticky paper and added that layer to it. It seemed that it was sort of sticky where the design had been pulled off  so I added some clear embossing powder and heat set it. I then placed that onto a white card base too. I don't know if that was necessary but I did it as a precautionary measure. I also added a die cut sentiment on the front of that card too. It got a little crinkled when I added it to the sticky paper but I think I like that textured look.

The dies I used are:
CARA-26 God Bless-Cheery Lynn Designs
Cross Stitched Frame Borders-Memory Box

Other Supplies:
Foiling Sheets-Gina K. Designs
iCraft Deco Foil
Bonsaii Laminator
Glue Pen-Crafter's Companion
Sticky Paper-Sparkle N Sprinkle
2-Way Glue Pen
White and Purple Card Stock

I only did the one experimental sheet and I ran it through about four times and each time I turned the folded copy paper with the foiling sheet inside it a different direction and even upside down in hopes it would completely take to the design and it did. I am very pleased with the end results.

I am entering this in the Dies R Us Challenge-Anything Goes.

Well, another adventure in card making using foil. I thank you for stopping in and looking at what I did. Thanks for the lovely comments too!

God bless,
Verna

Toasty Warm

Happy first day of 2017! Now I will  have to adjust my mind to remembering the new year when I write out checks and need the date for other documents. I always struggle the first three months at least. LOL

For my card design I went with a toasty warm theme as our first week of January is to be more on the frigid side. In fact, we may only see below zero highs for a few days. I think we had our January thaw in December when we got all the freezing rain and thus lost electric power. So I hope that is the last episode of that, It was an adventure but it was sorely missed at times. We were so lucky we had a generator that held up and worked well.

The background of my card is a pattern paper in a sweater design from Gina K. Designs which was part of a freebie incentive at one time and I thought that represented a great way to get warm and cozy. I also chose a die set of the cocoa cup with the deer on it which I recently won in the coffee hop I participated in and that is from Gina Marie Designs. The sentiment I used is from a Gina K. Designs stamp set called Coffee which is illustrated by Claire Brennan. It expressed my thoughts perfectly and that was stamped with black Versafine ink onto white card stock and cut out using a Cheery Lynn Designs die set before layering it onto red and white layers too.

I think this card could be used for a winter greeting or also for a Valentine with all those pretty hearts on that background paper. That will be the next holiday to make cards for so I might have a head start on it with this card.

I took a white Galaxy Marker to add some froth from stirring the cocoa in the cup and also used some brown dye ink and sponged more on the deer's antlers. I am so pleased with the way this looks and just love the dies used on it.

Supplies:
Coffee Stamp Set (sentiment) and Sweater Pattern Paper-Gina K. Designs

Dies used:
Cocoa Cup Set-Gina Marie Designs
Scalloped Circle-XM-5-Cheery Lynn Designs

Other Supplies:
White Galaxy Pen
Score Pal
Mementos Brown Dye Ink
Black Versafine Dye Ink
2-Way Glue Pen
Glue Pen-Crafters Companion
Crossover Die Cutting Machine

This will be entered into the following challenges:
Mod Squad Blog Challenge-Warm and Toasty
Dies R Us Challenge-Anything Goes

Well, another year and I hope it is a great one for all of you. Thanks for visiting and as always I love all the comments you leave too!

God bless,
Verna