Birthday Roses

Since the theme at the Double D's Challenge is Rose Garden I decided to make this birthday card using lots of roses on it. I used a die and a couple of stamp sets to make it.

I die cut the Bed of Roses cover plate from Essentials by Ellen and then sponged on some deeper pink inks to give more dimension to the design. This was placed onto a darker pink panel. I also took the sentiment from Gina K. Designs More Massive Messages and stamped that onto white card stock with black ink. I cut the white strip to the size I wanted and then layered it to a black piece of card stock and then onto the card. I stamped the roses from the Gina K. Designs A Happy Hello set, cut them out and popped that up over the top of the sentiment strip. The last thing I added was some green rhinestones. And that is my card design all completed.

Well, I hope your day is going well and I so appreciate your visits.

God bless,

Verna

Another Father's Day Card

I think this is the last Father's Day card I will need for this year. And, to make it I pulled out an old wood mounted stamp from Tin Can Mail. I am not even sure that the company is in existence anymore. But it is quite a large stamp and being it was wood I could not get it to work in my Misti.  So I think perhaps this will be the last time I use it. I even stood up and put as much weight as I could on it and it still was not a very good printing. But since it was the third try I simply used it the way it was.

I stamped the image onto light blue card stock and then fussy cut it out and placed it onto some darker shade of blue. I also stamped the sentiment from Gina K. Designs onto the light blue and then layered that to the same darker blue. All of this was placed onto a brown card base. I added some sequins and a layered panel inside for a message and that completed my card.

This will be for another son-in-law. He is a great Dad to my grandsons. He may not be their biological father but he is still their Dad.

Well, I had another afternoon of stamping. It was fun too. Thanks for stopping in.

God bless,
Verna

Eclipse Card

I confess I am not very well experienced with this technique but I decided to take the plunge and try it on this card. I chose not to use a word die but instead eclipsed the butterfly. The eclipse technique is what we are to use at the Mod Squad Challenge this time.

I took white card stock and then placed a medium circle stencil on the panel and then over that I took a cloud stencil and then added some clouds so that they remained within that circle area. Once I had my blue color applied for my sky I then stamped the butterflies and the sentiment onto the card. These butterflies are a two step process. I was not happy with the bodies and antennas of the butterflies being in yellow so I took an ultra fine black Bic marker and colored those areas in.  I also added the sentiment with black ink.

I then took the die that came with the stamp set and cut out the largest butterfly. I also cut out three more using white card stock. Once I had this done I took a rectangle stitched die and cut the panel and then layered it onto some brown card stock. This was all placed onto a yellow card stock base.

Now the fun part....layering all the butterfly cutouts together using some glue. Once I had all the layers glued together I then added them to the open area on the panel so that the butterfly protruded from it. I think you can see how it does that.

I also took some white card stock which was also die cut with the stitched rectangle die and layered to  brown and added that inside the card. I did not add a sentiment inside as I might just want to write a little message instead.

Supplies:
Gina K. Designs Stamp N Foil Butterfly Kisses stamp set and dies
Gina K. Designs inks
Gina K. Designs Connect Glue
Picket Fence Studios Medium Sized Circle Stencil
Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blending Brushes
Stampenback Masking Stencil (clouds)
Maker's Movement Stitched Rectangle Stacker Die
Rhinestones (unknown)

Well, thanks for visiting and this was a fun way to spend the afternoon. Have a great evening.

God bless,
Verna

Thank You

I decided to make a last minute entry into Laurie's Fabulous Favorites-Framed Sentiments.  I hardly have any Thank You cards on hand and so I made one of those for the challenge. I used sponges and the Life Changing Blending Brushes to make a colorful background on my light green card base. And over that I added a sentiment panel which used a die set for the pierced look and then was cut out by  hand.

Next I proceeded to add some die cut flowers in the lower left corner. The sentiment was stamped in black.

Supplies Used:
Papertrey Ink Mix and Mat Heart Die (the sentiment panel which used the pierced design )
Impression Obsession Stitched Flower Bouquet Die
Picket Fence Studios-Thank You
Picket Fence Studios-Life Changing Blending  Brushes
Gina K. Designs Connect Glue and Tape Runner
Gina K. Designs Inks
Gina K. Designs Card Stock

Very warm here today and we made it to the 90's. And, then a few T-storms as well. It appears we have a typical summer day.

Thanks for visiting and I always love to read your comments. Some of you have "No Reply" when you comment so there is no way for me to thank you. So pretend this card is yours as my way of saying thanks. Have a great day!

God bless,
Verna

Father's Day

The Dies R Us Challenge #122-Kids threw me for a loop until I thought about how kids play a big part in making Father's Day a big success so I went along that theme and created a card for my son-in-law who due to a TBI from an injury has some difficulties with walking and other functions. Much of the time he uses a walker but at times he will also use a wheel chair. And he is a father to a girl and a boy so with the silhouette stamp set I decided to make a scene card for him.

The first thing I did was take my blending brushes and a stencil to make a sky and grassy lawn area. That was the main background and I was then ready to stamp the silhouette images from the stamp set. But I felt it needed more so I took another stencil  and added a tree. My sentiment was stamped in black on white card stock and then die cut and layered to a layer of black card stock. I added a few gems and then placed that in the sky portion of the card. This is approximately a 5 x 7 card.

Die used:
Memory Box Cross Stitched Frame Borders

Stencils used:
Masking Stencil by Stampenback
Tree Stencil by The Greetery

Stamps:
Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Birthday Fun
Gina K. Designs sentiment from Country Roads 2 stamp set

Gems:
Hero Arts

Inks:
Gina K. Designs and Versafine

Other Supplies:
Life Changing Blending Brushes from Picket Fence Studio
My Sweet Petunia-Misti

Well, this is how I spent my Sunday afternoon. I hope your Sunday was a good one and that the new week will be a fantastic one as well. I love your visits too!

God bless,
Verna

Succulent Garden

Shortly before Mother's Day I got an order from The Greetery and among the goodies was this set of succulent dies. So yesterday I finally pulled them out and proceeded to make a few of the succulents up to put on my garden card. I must say I am very happy with them. When I used to have a flower bed I had a few in my garden and we called them Hens and Chicks and this is what this garden scene reminds me of. I hope you will enjoy my little simple garden too.

I used the Life Changing Blending Brushes and some of Gina K. Designs inks to make the background  and also to add color to my succulent dies. I hope I assembled them correctly. But they looked quite good to my way of thinking. The last thing I did was to stamp the sentiment which is from The Greetery as well and is from the Comforting Commands stamp set.

I am entering this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge #388-#389.

I hope your weekend is going great. I love all the comments you leave too.

God bless,
Verna

More Coffee

More goodies arrived in the mail this week and I have been playing with them and in the process created this coffee themed card. Therefore I will be entering this into the Mod Squad Challenge-Tea or Coffee.

The cup die is from Picket Fence Studios as is the stencil called Down To The Last Drop. I used Gina K. Designs inks to add color to the stencil and then also some distressing on the cup. The stenciled design was shifted just a shade to create a shadow. The Life Changing Blending Brushes from Picket Fence Studios was used for those processes. The sentiment and the coffee beans are from the Gina K. Designs Perfect Blend stamp set. And the stitched rectangle die used to cut the panel on the outside and inside is from Maker's Movement (formerly Cheery Lynn Designs).

Thanks for checking in and for all the wonderful comments.

God bless,
Verna