2nd Card for Dynamic Duo's #24

I mentioned loving the colours this week at the Dynamic Duo's challenge blog when I posted my first card and I wanted to make another one using them.

 I used the lacy stamp image from Stampin' Up's 'Mixed Bunch', and punched it out with the coordinating punch, then layered on some punched snowflakes (EK Success). The snowflake embossing folder is by Stampin' Up.

Here is a peek at the inside:

The same lacy (snowflake) image was stamped of on a scrap of paper, then stamped again without reinking onto the top third of the white panel. This gives a lighter impression, so I could stamp the verse on top in black.

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Sweet Bird Card

I have another Quick and Easy card to share today - but I love it. Remember back in July when I was working on the EIGHTY cards I gave my Mom for her 80th birthday? This was one of them.

K&Co makes the patterned paper and 3-d sticker ... it was from a Tim Coffee line, and one of the few paper stacks that I loved enough to buy two of them.  :-)  Just look at the texture on the paper!

No greeting on the front of this card, so she can use it for several different occasions when the time arrives.

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Clean & Simple Thanksgiving Card

I have a quick and easy card to share today - it was one of the cards I made last year and put into my Thanksgiving card stash so I wanted to use it this year. I really like that polka dot paper!

 I die cut the pumpkin from the same patterned paper, and outlined it with a fine point marker.

Some matting, some foam tape - and I was finished. Sometimes Clean & Simple is the way to go.

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Hybrid Thanksgiving Card

Our Grandson wasn't even going to be 3 months old at Thanksgiving, but since I made his sister a Thanksgiving card I wanted to make one for him too.

I printed a panel using Hallmark Card Studio onto light white card stock, trimmed and matted it with a textured orange card stock. That was popped up onto a royal blue folded card and I added Glossy Accents to the bears nose for a little somethin' somethin'. I also added some shading with coloured pencils so the image wasn't quite so 'flat' looking.

The words inside were done the same way - printed then matted and mounted onto the A2 card base.

Easy Peasy this year, I'm afraid!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Dynamic Duos #24

Woo Hoo - I LOVE the colours for this weeks colour challenge at Dynamic Duos.  While I don't have Pool Party OR Soft Suede (yet), I DO have Baja Breeze (retired) and kraft. 

I have several of these kraft deer in my Christmas embellishment stash from last year. They were too pretty to toss into recycling when I knew I wasn't going to use them, so -- into the stash to come out again another time.  I heat embossed snowflakes in white onto this deer, and tied some aqua eyelash yarn around her neck.

The background was stamped with a Stampin' Up snowflake stamp and Baja Breeze ink, and the edges of the snowbanks were lightly sponged with the same ink. Three the snowflakes have a dot of glimmer from a Sakura gel pen.

Another Christmas card for the 2012 stash!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Deer die - Sizzix, Tim Holtz
Snowflake Stamp - Lasting Impressions
Eyelash Twine - Martha Stewart
Snowbank die - Papertrey Ink
Baja Breeze card stock and ink (retired),  & background snowflake - Stampin' Up
White A2 card base - card stock from Office Depot
Kraft card stock - Recollections at Michaels.
White Embossing Powder
Foam Tape  :-)
Sakura Gel Pen

Gingerbread Man Christmas Cards

Last last year, I asked our local scrapbook store (The Scrap Yard) to order me the Tim Holtz Gingerbread Man die. I had so many ideas for it that I didn't get to do last Christmas. Hopefully I can use it more for this holiday season!

One of my ideas, was to cut it out of patterned paper, instead of a gingerbread coloured solid card stock - and not add the icing and other traditional gingerbread man details. I think he turned out so cute!

I actually made three cards, using the latest sketch at the Freshly Made Sketch blog:

I had to eliminate the top layer of the sketch in order to use the gingerbread man die, just because of the size. The cards are 6.5 x 5" as it is, and I didn't want to go all the way up to a 5x7" card. I didn't put the ribbon on the cards either - it just seemed to take away from the popped up gingerbread man.

The patterned paper has glitter embedded in the pattern, which is hard to capture in a photo.  I cut a strip of the new tulle (Stampin' Up), cut the strip in half horizontally so I had two less bulky 'ribbons', then tied them around two of the patterned gingerbread men. I really like the tulle - it is far less bulky than ribbon for mailing!

The words were stamped on scrap white card stock, punched out and I outlined the punched label with a Sakura gel pen for some sparkle.  The card below is nearly identical except for the patterned paper strip at the bottom of the sketch. Rather than cut into a brand new 12 x 12" sheet, I used a scrap I had from the same paper stack.

This third card doesn't qualify as "Fresh & Clean", as the edges of everything are inked with brown so it is more 'grungy'. I really wanted to use this brown snowflake printed paper for a gingerbread man though, so went with it.

There is so much sparkle in these papers!  I used a narrow ribbon for this card, adhering the ends with sticky dots.

I think I'd like to take this idea a step further, still using a patterned paper for the die cut, then layering a pleated rosette on his belly.   :-)

I haven't been updating my blog too much this week - I've been trying to finish a couple of loom knit projects & I'm just not getting in the studio as much. The darn chores and errands are taking up the rest of my time. 

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Cards for Merry Monday #36

I took a few minutes this morning to play along with the latest Merry Monday sketch at Lesley's "Always Playing With Paper" blog.

 

I have the BEST dental hygenist - and every time I have to go for my check-up I bring her a set of cards. I am going to bring her a set of Christmas cards this next visit, and I know she sends cards overseas so I kept them light & mail friendly.  I made two of the same design - one for Anne's package and one for us to send to friends in Switzerland.

Everything came from a K&Co Christmas paper stack ... the printed panels are from a 12x12" sheet in that stack. I trimmed them off the the printed sheets, and attached them to a polka dot panel, which was then attached right to the front of the card.

The snowflakes were punched from another coordinating scrap in the paper stack and I added a little glitter glue to the centers.

Some of the words on the printed panel are foiled, so that makes them a little more special. 

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