Playing with Circle Thinlits and Gold Velum

Hi everyone!  Here I am again with another post from a card I started last week and finished on Saturday.  I had the Circle Thinlits for a while and just got my gold velum, so I had to pull them out and play.  Here it is!  Did not like the light on it, but that is what you get when you have rain, rain, rain!

 

 

I added an extra layer to the side and also added some gold washi tape to the bottom!

 

 

This is a photo of it laid out more flat and the light shining on it better!

 

 

Items used are Stampin' Up! except the scripture.

Stamps: Embellished Events, Word Play, Label Love, Teeny Tiny Wishes

ODBD- Scripture

Card Stock: Whisper White, Gold Fancy Fold Designer Velum, Gold

Ink: Brown Sugar, Versamark

Gold Washi Tape

Artisan Punch

Circle Thinlits

Scallop 2 3/8 circle punch

2 1/2 Circle Punch

Modern Label Punch

Word Window Punch

Pirate Gold Embossing Powder (retired)

 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!



LNS Challenge 231 / Sketch 279 - Monday Lunchtime Sketch

Well it is Monday Morning and I am here to share my samples with for our Late Night Stampers challenge - Teacher Gift, and our Monday Lunchtime Sketch from Mary Jo.  Again Mary Jo has a wonderful sketch for us and please go over and see her sample along with the rest of the DT and please join in.  And, how did I combine the challenges?  I actually used her sketch to make a pack of cards for the Teacher Gift.  So here are the cards! 

 

I actually started off making this card which was a 4 layer card and when I was finished, I thought this is just too busy for me.  You will have to tell me what you think and I may make another to match the others for the gift.  Just let me know what you think in the comments and it will help me to make my decision.  Maybe I am becoming a more of a clean and simple stamper.

 

 

Now here are the rest of the cards starting with the one that will be in the front of the pack.

 

 

 

And with this one, it shows the envelope that I made to go along with each card!

 

 

And on the inside of each, I did a sentiment, but not the same.  This is just to give you an idea of what it looks like.

 

 

And of course here is the pack of cards for my Teacher's gift!

 

 

I may put a ribbon around it or something to give it a little more of the gift look, but it really does not need it.  What do you think about that.  Love these easy cards.

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Papillon Potpourri, Curvy Verses, Word Play

Card Stock: Gumball Green, Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Primrose Petals

Ink: Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals

Embossing Folders: Perfect Polka Dots, Flower Garden

Punches: Elegant Butterfly, Bitty Butterfly, Scallop Trim Border

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and hope your week is filled with many blessings.

 

 



Clean & Simple Card Set

I have made quite a few set of cards for our Gateway Landing Open house on Sunday and thought I would share another set with you today.  This is a set I made especially for men and I am quite happy with the way they turned out.  I actually saw this set on Pinterest and cased the layout of it because I knew it would be easy and quick - CAS - that is what I am talking about!  Narelle Jones, the person I cased, did color her images, but I did not have time, so I just left them stamped and sponged the background before stamping the image.  You can find Narelle's here!  One more thing, all of my sets contain 5 cards, so I had to add one extra and decided to add the motorcycle stamp.  So here they are!

 

 

And here they are separately!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Items Used:

Stamp Sets: Need For Speed, Motorcycle

Card Stock: Not Quite Navy, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Stazon Black, Not Quite Navy

Sponge for the Sponging Technique

 

Thanks for stopping by!



LNS Challenge 217/TSSC257 Monday Lunch Time Sketch

 

Good Monday Morning and welcome to Techno Stampers Monday Lunch Time Sketch along with our Stampin' Up! Late Night Stampers challenge.  Our LNS challenge this week is "Candy Bar Inspired."  So can you guess which candy or candy bar I chose.  My daughter guessed it right off the bat when I showed it to her.  I also used my digital studio to create the center part of the card with the bride and groom and the Mr. & Mrs.  So I guess you could say it is a hybrid.

 

Here is a side view of the card!

 

 

So please join us this week for our sketch at TSSC and the candy bar inspired at our LNS blog.  You will be glad you did.  Hope to see you there.

 

By the way, my card is for two of my favorite candies.  #1 M&M's and the other is "Mr. Goodbar." So does it remind you of either one of those. Hope so!

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Word Play, Wedding Wheels (MDS)

Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight

Designer Series Paper: Beyond the Garden

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Mr & Mrs. done with text in MDS

Labels Collection Framelits

 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a wonderful Monday and week!

 

Artisan Embellishments Kit

I love this Artisan Embellishments Kit our of the SU Occasions Catalog. I have made a couple of projects out of it, but when I saw this sketch from Unscripted Sketches and the Challenge from Sunny Challenges and Creations (love), I decided to use it for this card and to make it a wedding card as I don't send that many valentines.

I did a lot of sponging on it to give it a little more color as I was using white and very vanilla paper.  Here is a side view of the card!

And I love the inside of the card!  I stamped the "happy I do day" to give it more of the wedding feel!

I found this free digital online of 1 Corinthians 13 and added it in My Digital Studio and printed it out.  Then tour around the edges to also give it dimension. Here is a close up of the scripture.



Items used are Stampin' Up! except the Scripture:

Stamp Set: Word Play (inside)

Artisan Embellishments Kit

Card Stock: Very Vanilla

Ink: Regal Rose for stamping and sponging

Scripture from online (uncertain at this time where I got it, If you recognize it, please let me know)

Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!

Late Night Stampers Challenge - Snowmen

Since it is January and the time of year for snow, except where I am, our challenge this week with Late Night Stampers is to use snowmen on your project and I chose this cute little snowman to use for today's challenge.  I also combined this with the sketch challenge over at Sketch Frenzy Friday!  It was just perfect for this snowman.

And here is another view of the card!

And then of course the envelope and the inside of the card!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Snow Much Fun, Word Play (inside)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Baja Breeze

Designer Series Paper: Snow Festival

Ink: Baja Breeze, Early Espresso

Sponging and water coloring - Technique

Scallop edge punch

Hope you enjoyed my sample for today and don't forget to go by and see all the other samples that our design team have posted and remember we have a new blog where you can join us!  Late Night Stampers Challenge Blog!

New Stuff Sneak Peak

 

Good Morning and boy did it feel good to get back into the craft room last night and make this card.  It was a lot of fun and felt so good.  I have really just been so busy, but finally had the chance to do a little stamping.  I used my new stuff along with some of my old stuff.  The new stuff included the new Stamp Set Secret Garden and guess what?  I did not cut the flower out, I used the framelits that go along with it.  Oh so easy!  The paper is some of the new stuff also and it is called Tea for Two and it is just beautiful.  Love to get new stuff and then use it.  These items will be available on January 2nd for order.  I did emboss the flower and the sentiment.  Love embossing!  And, this was inspired by this weeks sketch over at Paper Craft Crew Challenge blog where they also had a color challenge, but I did not do that part.  I wanted to used my new paper too much!!!!

 

Here is a side view of the card!

 

 

And the inside of the card!

 

 

And I even did the envelope to go along with the card!

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Word Play, Blessings from Heaven (inside), Secret Garden

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral

Designer Series Paper: Tea for Two

Ink: Calypso Coral (inside) Versamark for embossing

Embossing Powder: Tangerine Tango (really matched the calypso coral)

 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a wonderful and blessed day!

Staircase Decoration Card

How cool is this card!  Another Pinterest case and even found the instructions by going to the post from Pinterest.  Gotta love it!  You can find the video here and the card that I found on Pinterest to case.  Frenchie has quite a few videos and does a wonderful job.  So another one for this weeks challenge at SULateNightStampers and also I will be posting this one on the Stampin' Fun and Friends as that is where I decided on the colors.

Here is a side view of the card!

And the inside!

Love this Christmas Tree from the Christmas Lodge set!

All items used are Stampin Up!

Stamp Sets: Word Play, Christmas Lodge (inside)

Card Stock: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Red Glitter Paper, Dazzling Details glitter adhesive

Ink: Real Red, Old Olive

Stocking Punch (retired)

Decorative Label Punch

1 3/4" Circle Punch

Thanks for looking today and hope your Friday is filled with joy!

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Good Thursday morning all! I have been busy this week and have not had time to post this card I made on Sunday.  I actually wanted to make another card to post with it since I left out a key element of the challenge over at Sunny Challenges and Creations.  They always have a second part and I know this, but my mind is on getting my Christmas cards done and the rest just went out the other side of my brain.  Things have been doing that a lot lately.  The second part was sympathy.  Well I did use the sketch, so I will post it over there anyway and if I do get a chance I will try to make another card.  We can always use sympathy cards.



Here is a side view of the card!

And the inside!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Word Play, Christmas Lodge

Card Stock: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Snow Festival

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Apothecary Accents Framelits

Rhinestones

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border

Northern Flurry Folder

Cherry Cobbler quilted ribbon

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a blessed day!

SU LateNightStampers Challenge / Thanksgiving

Our challenge this week is Thanksgiving at SU LateNightStampers and so I decided to make a change from card to tag.  I had been wanting to make one for a while and this was my chance.  I plan on giving this to a friend with a gift bag who has just helped me out so much.  So I really hope she likes it.  I actually used the backing that comes with the designer paper to keep it packaged neatly for the backside of the tag, so I did some recycling there.  I save all of those just for times like this.

Here is a closer view of the clock!

And the leaves!

And the sentiment!  I was hoping it would show some of the shimmer, but could not get a great shot of it.

Items Used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Word Play, Wonderfall, Clockworks

Card Stock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Designer Series Paper: Fan Fair

Ink: More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Always Artichoke

Large Labels Collection Framelit

Autumn Accents Bigz Die

5/8" Victoria Crochet Trip

Pewter Brad

Anywhere glue stick

Silver Foil Smooch Spritz

Thanks for stopping by and hope your day is blessed!

Clean and Simple

 

Clean and Simple has not always been one of my strong suits, but lately I have really enjoyed doing the clean and simple cards.  It must just be my foot healing and me not wanting to sit with it down for the time it takes to do a more involved card.  Whatever it is, I am thinking it is going to be one of my favorite cards to make from now on.  This one was inspired by  this weeks sketch over at Clean & Simple Stamping.  I had been wanting to use this wonderful paper, Comfort Cafe, and when I saw this sketch, I just knew it was time.  Also the new in-color for this year, Summer Starfruit, is so hard to use, but when you put it with the paper here, it just blends right in.

 

Here is a close up of the bird so you can see how it is popped up!

 

 

And the inside!  Love this paper!

 

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Language of Friendship, Word Play

Card Stock: Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit

Designer Series Paper: Comfort Cafe

Midnight Muse Ink

Two Step Bird Punch

 

Thanks for stopping by and hope the rest of your Sunday is blessed!

SU LateNightStamper Challenge/Tear that Paper

This weeks challenge over at SU LateNightStampers is to use the tearing your paper technique.  I love this technique but quite often forget to use it until something like this comes up.  So I went kind of easy and simple with this card.  The hard part was the coloring which I used the ink pad and a blender pen for that which is another technique all on its own.  And then used even another technique of sponging which I love also.  So here is what I came up with.

 

 

Here is a side view of the card!

 

 

And of course I can not forget the to work on the inside also!

 

 

So now it is your turn so get that paper out and start tearing.  It is really easier than what you think.

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Bells & Boughs, Word Play, Many Merry Messages

Card Stock: Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke

Ribbon: Cherry Cobbler 1/2" Seam Binding

Blender Pen

Sponge

Markers for berries on the inside

 

Thanks for looking and hope you have a wonderful rest of the day!