Silhouette Scene Card

First, I must apologize for the terrible quality of this photo. With the black card base, I don't know what I was thinking trying to photograph it on a black background! Ahh well.

I am entering this card into the challenge at the Craft A Scene Blog, which is to create a scene with a silhouette. I used a matte coated card stock, and a torn paper mask to sponge the hills. The trees and birds are by Stampscapes, and I'm not sure who makes the word stamp. Spellbinders makes the border die cut, which is cut form a pretty pearlized purple paper.  Oh, before I did the stamping I brayered the background with several purple die based inks.

I also thought this would be a good time to repost a photo I took in October 2011, of my hubby and BIL kayaking on the Lake Of Bays in Miskoka Ontario at sunset.

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Flowers & Butterflies Sketch Card

There is a new sketch at the Clean And Simple Stamping Blog and I had a chance to play along this week.  I couldn't get inspired by the sketch as it was, but when I rotated it I immediately saw lots of possibilities!

 

I turned the sketch on it's side, opted to use 4 of the same image instead of 5 and substituted a 3D flower sticker instead of the 5th butterfly.  

 

I used both a Martha Stewart punch and a Stampin' Up Embosslet die for the butterflies, and added glitter glue to their centers to echo the glitter on the flower sticker.  The papers used, and the 3D sticker are by K&Co.

I wanted to decorate the inside a little too:

I intentionally left the sentiment off the outside, and will add the appropriate words/verse inside when I go to send the card. Meanwhile, it's into my stash with this one!

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Kraft Stars Birthday Card

It's Masculine Card Monday here on my blog, and this is the card I have to share today:

It's an A2 card, with a kraft card stock base. The printed paper is from a paper gift bag (thanks, Sue!) that I cut a panel from to recycle. I am not usually a fan of stars, but I love this primitive stars die from Sizzix. Totally love it.  I cut the stars from beige card stock and ran them through a paper crimper. The edges were inked then the two were attached together with foam tape to a beige panel.

That little button is also a die cut (SU), and I just inked the edges and popped it up with foam tape. It makes for a mail friendly card, where a real button would have been a problem.  A little twine, and a word stamp (?) and my card front was done.

For the inside, I used the off cuts as a stencil, and stippled brown ink into a beige panel then attached it inside the card. I have not added the birthday verse inside it yet, as I like to wait until I know exactly who the card is going to before I stamp or write the words inside.

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Baby Shower Card

Things went well yesterday, with Cooper and the puppy.

Whew!

There were a couple of spats, but there was actually some playing too which was great to see. A little on the aggressive side for Cooper, but we were all so happy to see him actually playing. He's only three, but he acts so much like an 'old man'. Puppy Tika is ADORABLE and we enjoyed watching she and Jasper play almost non stop. There really is nothing like a Golden Retriever puppy.  (Love)

Our daughter's friends are throwing her a baby shower today, and this is the card I made to go along with our gift.  I found these SWEET lamb stickers when visiting the US last month and knew they would be perfect for a baby card.  (And I've used some for Easter cards for next year too!)

I stamped the outline square (Stamps By Judith) with a rainbow green inkpad, then used torn paper masks to sponge in the hills. The dots (Stamps By Judith) were stamped in green and the sky was inked with light blue before I attached the felt lamb sticker.

I love my 'In The Meadow' hills (PTI) so I cut them out of Pear Pizzaz (SU), ran them through the Big Shot with the Swiss Dots (Cuttlebug) embossing folder, inked the edges and attached the tallest one to the front of the blue folded card (SU). The shorter one was attached with foam tape, and I also added some buttons tied with string.

The clouds (Impress) were cut out of white card stock, inked with brown and also attached to the blue card. Then the lamb 'scene' was popped up with foam tape.

 

I computer printed a cute baby shower verse on white card stock, & trimmed it to fit the inside of the blue card. This was such a fun card to make!

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Mini Cards, Set One

I have wanted to try my hands at making some mini cards (3x3") for some time now. I even bought some envelopes with my last SU order, and that was quite awhile ago!   Then, when I pulled out that glossy die cut bunny that I used to make our granddaughter's Easter card, I found these in the box. Glossy, scalloped edged, 3" folded cards WITH matching envelopes with a scalloped edges on the flap. SWEET!

 

I found some stickers that worked well with the coloured paper scraps I had on my stamping area, and made these three mini cards. I can see that they are going to be FUN to do and I plan on making more of these over the summer.

Then I decided to make a little box to put them in for gift-giving.  I used a 5" square of card stock, scored at 3/4" on all sides to make up the box base. A couple of snips and some Score Tape and I had the perfect size box for these three cards. That bird one is VERY dimensional and needed some extra room.

I used some crafting plastic transparancy to make the lid, cutting it at 5-1/8" square. Again, I scored it at 3/4" on all sides, snipped and attached with Score Tape.  I made a belly band out of another scrap of paper, and stamped/punched a label to finish it off.

Considering everything was already in my stash, I was very happy with this little gift idea.  Plus, it felt so good to USE things, especially the little cards. I've had them for at LEAST 10 years. 

Supplies:  Scalloped edges enclosure cards and envelopes - Stampendous.  'For You' Stamp - Hero Arts.  Label Stamp - SU.  Stickers, embellishments, patterned paper - all from my scrap bin and Odds & Sods pile.

Today we get to look after our daughter's puppy. That means we will have FOUR dogs at our cabin. FOUR. And our Mr. Cooper doesn't take too kindly to other dogs in 'his' house. So - lets all hope we can keep him from eating the puppy while she is in our care. Yikes! I'm going to have my work cut out for me for sure.

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Heart Puppy

Here is another card in my 'puppy parade'. I used the same puppy stamp I've been playing with, and this time I tried a little something different with it.  First, I stamped the heart on scrap paper, and again on the white card panel. I cut the inside of the heart away from the scrap paper one, creating a mortise mask.

The mask was placed over the heart then the puppy was stamped on top. When I removed the mask, the puppy was inside the heart.

All the stamps are from "Stamps By Judith", other than the words which are Stampin' Up.  I penned the little strings and bows with a black fine tip markers.  Colour was added with pencils, sponges and Copic Markers.

 

I actually got a card made for the Clean And Simple Stamping Blog's sketch last Friday, but didn't have time to photograph it or get it uploaded.  With any luck I will get some of my studio dug out tomorrow and that should help streamline things.

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Cat Sympathy Card

I needed to send my Sister-In-Law a sympathy card on the loss of their  family cat. I don't have many cat stamps, and the ones I do are funny or goofy; images that appealed to me because of their character and those ones do NOT loan themselves to a respectful card. So, this is what I came up with ...

I used a 4x6 Hero Arts card - that came printed with this pretty water colour wash. I stamped the cat face (All Night Media?) in charcoal ink on a white card stock scrap then cut it out with a Nestability label. The edges were sponged with blue ink and brown. The leaves (Sizzix) were cut out of white card and sponged with the same blue ink for consistency.

The words are by Stampin' Up.  On the envelope,  I used two stamps - a vine and dots ... both are 'Stamps By Judith' images.  I like how soft it looks, fitting for the card itself.

 

Sympathy cards are sure no fun to make. They will miss their family pet for a long time.

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