November 2nd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
Even though I personally did not have a reason at the time to create a couple of sympathy cards (the members of our extended family have been relatively healthy lately, knock wood!), I couldn’t resist trying out the new “Thoughts & Prayers” stamp set I ordered this summer…
I find the tree stamp is just stunning and have incorporated it into other projects as well.
Little details…
Materials & Techniques:
Cardstock: mostly Stampin’ Up in Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Blush Bride, velum, and white.
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Pink Passion.
Stamp Sets: Thoughts & Prayers, Art by Design (brackets).
Embellishments: Felt flowers, buttons, beads, glitter, top clear cover from SU’s “Build-a-Brad” Kit, jumbo brad in Whisper White, So Saffron ribbon from the Fairy Tales set (SU).
Methods: Inked edges, paper piercing, matted cards, flowers with buttons and beads as centers. For the center of the jumbo brad, I added some glue to the cardstock underneath, then sprinkled some glitter into the hole and then placed a clear brad cover on top (like a marble sticker).
As of right now, both cards are still available for sale, so please feel free to visit my Card Store to order them if you are interested (or just e-mail me or comment). 
October 10th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I guess I was warming up early for Fall… even towards the end of the summer, I was pulled towards creating cards with warm colour palettes of oranges, reds, browns, and yellows…
Front & Inside of a “Friends” card
Front & Inside of a Birthday Card for a toddler
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July 8th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
While celebrating my (milestone) birthday this year at my mom’s place, I was surprised to find the party grow to way more family members than I’d thought! I’d been told it would just be my own family plus my mother and brother, maybe my grandmother. But then as the party got going, more people started showing up!
It was really touching to have some of my aunts, cousins, and both of my grandmas there! And many of them gave very touching cards and thoughtful gifts (and gift cards, which I’ve really loved shopping with since we’re still really pinching pennies these days at home!). So I started to design a set of Thank you cards to give out to show I appreciated that my family took the time to come celebrate my birthday…
The colours for these two designs were easy to put together because of the patterned cardstock used. It’s from a really cute little pack of glitter paper (purchased at Indigo with one of the gift cards – how appropriate!) so I pulled out some of the pinks, oranges, and browns and went from there. Here are all the specifics:
Materials: I used a dark pink dotted Bazzil texture cardstock as well as a lighter pink one in the classic Bazzil texture. I used Close to Cocoa (paper) and Chocolate Chip (ink) for the browns. I’m fairly sure the base cardstock is Apricot Appeal, a colour I don’t think I’d used before.
Stamp sets: The “Thanks” is from the “Kind Thanks” SU set, the flower and circular design on the card on the right are from “a Beautiful Thing”.
Ink colours: Inks were Pink Passion, Pixie Pink, and Whisper White.
Punches: Scallop circle, new Scallop Edge punch, ribbon slot punch, 1 & 3/8″ Circle and 1″ Circle.
Techniques and Embellishments: adhesive heart crystal, paper piercing, ribbons, rhinestone brad, two-step stamping.
I do have more Thank-You cards to share that I made this spring, but as of this summer I think I’ll be taking a short break from card-making to catch up on some scrapbooking, so stay tuned for pictures of layouts.
