Take Three

A recent challenge at Stamp TV was to take only three colors besides white or black and make a card. I went with a Christmas design as I know I will not be making near enough as I plan to just instead put more effort into the upcoming visit of my son and grandsons from Japan. I will instead send a simple Christmas letter or wait until New Years. And, might even use purchased cards. Yes, I know I feel guilty about that thought but I just might have to  resort to that plan. At any rate here is the card I made today.

I used two of the older sets I had purchased in the past to make this card. I love those trees and that sentiment and they are from the Gina K. Designs duo set called Merry Tree. The background was made with another Gina K. Designs duo set called Snowflake.

My three colors used on this card are Ocean Mist for the snowflakes, Christmas Pine for the trees and Cranberry Tart for the sentiment and the added card stock layers. I also used Rouge Liquid Pearls which were a very close match to the Cranberry Tart for the centers of the stars on top of the tree.

A different perspective might show off the various layers I added to the card. All the trees are layered on but only the middle one is popped. The sentiment is added to the Cheery Lynn Designs banner. I used the smallest banner. I then outlined it with the Cranberry Tart card stock before I popped it up.

So I think with the trees and  the layered sentiment and card base layer I ended up with seven layers on my card. That is pretty good for me and as you can tell I still am with the CAS style of card design.

Well, we are off to a good start on another week. And, tomorrow is June 1 already. It is my hubby's birthday but we already celebrated it when the kids were home for the weekend. It was indeed a fun time!

I am entering this in the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog challenge in which we are to use layers. I only used the DL303 Pierced Banners set on this card.

Thanks for dropping in and checking out my latest project.

God bless,
Verna

Red-Faced Warbler

I decided to get out a never before used stamp set called Summer Warbler by Inspired by Stamping. It was one of the first sets I purchased and just now am using it. I brought it out many times and debated over it but had no idea what warblers looked like. Well it seems there are many variations and I chose to use the Red-Faced Warbler which is found mainly in New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico.

I also chose to use products that I had not used in years and years They are embossing fluid and colored pencils. The embossing fluid is a clear fluid and you rub it on with the dauber bottle that it comes in. It had been sitting in my cupboard for a long time. And, colored pencils had not been used very much by me lately either so both products got to see daylight from behind cupboard doors. After I had colored the image and stamped the sentiment I applied the embossing fluid and clear embossing powder. I then heat set it.

The last step I did on this single layer card was to add some blue rhinestones. They are a dark blue and a light blue.

I am entering this card in the Mod Squad Blog Challenge for this week in which we are to use products that have never  been used or not been used for a long time. I knew I had items that would certainly qualify for the challenge. How about you? I am sure there are things in your supply drawers or cupboards that need some loving too! If so, go for it!

Well, I hope all have had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I thought these colors chosen for the warbler were right on target for the red, white and blue holiday.

Have a good week and God bless,
Verna

Dahlia Sympathy

I got new stamps from Altenew in the mail and had to use one of the sets to create another sympathy card. I saw online the most beautiful red and white dahlia and I wanted to create that with this stamp set and I think I did succeed. I sure am happy with it at any rate.

The set has multi-step stamping images and I skipped the first step and just did the second step and the outline step to create my red and white dahlia. I masked that off and then added the leaves using all three steps for those. I fussy cut this design out and then set it aside until I had my other layers all assembled.

The polka dot pattern paper is from my stash and I don't know for sure where it came from. But I felt it was a perfect background. I then layered that onto black card stock and finally onto the main card of white card stock.

The final step was stamping the sentiment onto white card stock and then die cutting it with a Cheery Lynn Banner die. I then added a thin outline of black card stock to that before adding it to my card. The last step was to pop the dahlia over the top of this banner and the polka dot pattern paper.

I ended up with five layers on my card. I counted the dahlia design as my fifth layer. I debated about adding rhinestones but decided that with the polka dot pattern paper it was okay to just leave it more as a CAS look.

The stamps used are from the Altenew Dahlia Blossoms set and the Inspired by Stamping Big Sympathy set.

Dies used are:

Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders Style No. 99124

Cheery Lynn Designs Pierced Banners DL303

I am entering this in the Scrapy Land Blog Challenge.

I don't know if I will be doing any more posts this week. I am getting company this weekend so I need to clear the deck again. Also Thursday both hubby and I have medical appointments so that will take up one whole day for us. And possibly I might do some baking if time allows.

In the meantime until I post again, I hope you have a wonderful week. 

God bless,

Verna 

Several Layers Card

The last couple posts were with a single layer card design and so today I made a sympathy card which uses several layers......or at least for me this is what I consider several. I also added the inside verse to a layer too!

My base card is ivory card stock. I then added a card front design panel which was die cut with Wild Lilac card stock. Then I die cut a layer of Eggplant card stock and again another just a shade smaller of Lovely Lavender card stock. My flowers and leaves were stamped on ivory card stock with shades of purples and greens, I took the same cross stitched die and cut just a portion of the stamped panel and fussy cut around the flower.

Once all of these were layered together I then added my sentiment which was inked with Eggplant dye ink. On the lovely lavender card stock panel I added a cascade of lavender rhinestone gems on the right side.

The flowers and leaves are from Altenew's Beautiful Day stamp set and the sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping's Big Sympathy set.

Dies used are:
Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders Style No. 99124
Cheery Lynn Designs French Lattice Small Frame FRM132

I am entering this in the Scrapy Land Blog Challenge.

We sure have had a lot of friends pass away this past year. Maybe it is the age range we are in now that we are in need of more cards of this kind. So for this reason I like to have a few of this type of cards on hand.

Well, another week is begun and before we know it May will be a thing of the past for this year. Hard to believe how fast time is flying by. I guess we are having fun, right? LOL Well hopefully this week will be a fun filled one too!

God bless,
Verna

Another One Layer Card

Again I worked with just one layer and did a birthday card using stamps from the Concord & 9th Flourish Stamp Set and the Eat Cake and Celebrate Stamp set. I am enjoying using these images and I used my MISTI for a good portion of the design.  I am entering this in the Mod Squad Blog Challenge for this week.

The base of the card is ivory and using my MISTI I only stamped a portion of the Flourish design on my card. After I added the sentiment then I finished the card by adding a few rhinestones to match some of the colors in the card design.

A very simple card design but with enough color to make it seem cheerful and uplifting.

I have to quit making birthday cards now for awhile and concentrate on other types. I think we got all the graduation ones done for this year too. We had five invites so we were busy. We took in two open houses today.

Well, thanks for stopping by and have a great Sunday.

God bless,
Verna

One Layer Birthday

The challenge at the Mod Squad Blog Challenge for this week is to make a one layer birthday. I chose to use images from Inspired by Stamping for this card. And, I should have quit when I had less detail on it. My shaky arthritic hands and my part blind eye did not want to cooperate when I added more to it. I was trying to make it look more layered without actually adding layers.

I took an ivory card base and with black Versafine ink I stamped the cherry blossoms. I colored them in with my Zig markers. I also did a shadow technique around them. Next I die cut a mask with a Cheery Lynn Designs oval die and covered up the flowers before I started to sponge on Gina K. Designs Dusty Pink ink all around the outer edge. When the mask was removed I had an oval of ivory with my blossoms enclosed.

Now there is where I think I should have stopped but no, I had to go and take a black pen and try to make it look like another layered oval was behind it. I wanted it to look like it was scalloped but for some reason I was too shaky and after looking at it so long my eyes got blurry. But the deed was done and therefore this is the way it ended up.

My last step was to take the sentiment from another stamp set and add that to the bottom of the card with black ink.

I used the Inspired by Stamping Cherry Blossoms set and the Inspired by Stamping Wishing You sentiment set.

If I get time this week I will try to do another one layer card. Hopefully, that one will work out better.

Thanks for checking in and for taking the time to leave comments. I appreciate and read all of them.

God bless,
Verna

Patriotic Thank You

Well, ever since I got the Beautiful World Collection by Catherine Pooler I have been wanting to work with the GeoBuilders set in making a card. So when the Double D's Blog Challenge popped up in my inbox with a support our troops theme I decided to use that set and a sentiment from another stamp set in the collection called Sugar Pea Designs Enchanted Garden to join in on the fun. With Memorial Day coming up soon I can see this being a nice way to thank our military past and present and I think this would also work well for the Fourth of July too! Just add a different sentiment.

I stamped the builders design on the card and did it with a red followed by a blue line. I followed this pattern until about a third of the way up the white base card. As I built it up it created a gorgeous design pattern. I also added a strip of denim blue card stock and over that I added a red and white ribbon using the Cheery Lynn Designs Allison's Ribbon die. The sentiment was stamped first in the denim blue and then I over stamped it again with cheery red ink which are both from the Gina K. Designs line.

The finishing touch was to add three blue star rhinestones around the sentiment and also some red rhinestones at the top of the builders block design.

I can see a lot of different options for a quick and easy note card with the builders set. And, one can vary the colors for a unique look each time.

Well, between a lot of phone calls today I managed to get one card done at least. I hope your day is turning out to be a fantastic one too!

Take care and God bless,
Verna