Two more quick cards

OK, I was down to the deadline for mailing local cards the other night and made two each of the following:

The first card has a verse stamped inside, uses a snowflake diecut (cheerylynndesigns.com #DL169), a Tim Holtz snowflake topped with a smaller snowflake (cuttlebug die) and rhinestones, glitter embossed paper,  some cream braid and again my "go to" sketch. Well, the people receiving the card don't know that fact, unless they read my blog LOL!!! I keep a list each year of which card I send to each person, so they don't receive the same design two years in a row.

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On the second card I stamped the verse in Versamark and covered with fine silver EP (Close to my Heart clear acrylic set "Holiday Commentary #C1379), cut the strip at 1-1/2" wide and layered/popped up on a snowflake embossed background. The paper is by Stampin'Up "Shimmery White".

The intricate snowflake border is a die by Memory Box "Frosty Border" #98171 which I cut from the same silver cardstock as the card and highlighted with silver Stickles for some bling.

I might do more of these next year as they make up quickly as well!!

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Sharon
Dec.21/2012

Deck the Halls

I got a new poinsetta die by Memory Box a few weeks ago. I like how it layers and has the embossed "ribs" on both the flower leaves and green leaves giving the layers some dimension. I stamped red bazill paper with a music stamp before die-cutting. Sponged Aged Mahogany on the edges of the petals, and Tea Dye on the leaves.
The centre piece is also part of the die set which I cut out of shiny gold paper.

The verse is from a mini set of 3 clear cling stamps by Inkadinkadoo "Winter Expressions" #60-30282 and is stamped with SU Forest Foliage ink; embossed with clear EP; sponged with Festive Berries and Tea Dye DI. The tag is a die by Just Rite"Vintage labels".  Holly paper is from my scrap stash. I added red Stickles glitter to all the holly berries for bling, and a bit of ribbon.

I made three in no time and it's fairly flat for easy mailing. I realize that it's the same sketch as the Cottage Cutz card; however, this is my "go to" design for quick cards!

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Sharon
Dec.21/2012

ABC Challenge - "D" for Deck the Halls

Cottage Cutz Poinsetta Die

The Cottage Cutz poinsetta die is quite intricate. I cut several of them in both red and green cardstock. Next, I cut & pasted the green leafy parts on to the main red die, added another large flower popped up for dimension, and covered the scroll with gold Stickles.  I also sponged Aged Mahogany, Tea Dye, and Festive Berries distress ink on the poinsetta leaves, along with a bit of white chalk for highlights. Paper is Basic Grey Figgy Pudding scraps from my stash. Verse is a cling stamp by Stampendous and is embossed with clear EP.

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Sharon
Dec.20/2012.

Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Merry Christmas

Stamptacular Sunday: Christmas Time

Chocolate,Coffee & Cards Challenges: Recipe - 3 flowers, 2 papers,1 ribbon

Two Tags

A while ago, Linda from the Funkie Junkie posted her Christmas Tag 10 which was done with a brick embossing folder and sponged with several Tim Holtz distress inks. I made three of the backgrounds, but only managed to get one tag fully finished. Well, I'll have two backgrounds done for next year's tags, eh?


Here are my tags. The Santa one is going on my sister Kim's prezzie. I didn't have an icicle die so I freehand cut a border from self-adhesive clear acrylic and covered it with Star Dust stickles and fine glitter. The mini calendar is a free clipart from Crafty Secrets and this link will take you to the free 2013 calendar sheets.  Numerals are a Tim Holtz die. The Santa is covered in clear self-adhesive acrylic and cut it from an old christmas card.

The second tag is going on my sister Dana's present. It, too, is inspired from Linda's Week #10 tag with the free clipart of vintage dolls that she offered. I covered the ornament with Glitter Ritz Cool Highlite glitter and Stickles Star Dust around the edge. The ticket is a Tim Holtz stamp; Tim Holtz snowflake die, edge punch, and vintage lace are added.

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Sharon
Dec. 19/2012

LaBlanche Santa

My daughter recently  had her first baby on Nov. 19th, a boy, and I'm a first-time Nanny! Baby Connor is the best present we could have ever received!

So between running back and forth to the City where they live, and she & baby came to stay for 9 days while hubby was working long hours overtime as journeyman electrician, I didn't get as many hand-made cards done as I usually do each year. However, I made a few christmas cards for special friends and will post them over the next few days.

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This card uses the LaBlanche Santa stamp I purchased last year. After colouring Santa and leaves with Copic markers, I masked him off, and sprayed the background with Smooch Gold spritz. Then distressed the edges with Tim Holtz distressor thingy, sponged with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo DI.  I applied white flocking to Santa's fur on his suit and boots, and Crystal Glaze to his glasses. It is layered on holly paper by Basic Grey, another layer (SU label die) from scraps, and green metallic music paper cut with Martha Stewart  edge die. Tag is a Spellbinders die, verse from 7 Gypsies "Christmas Greetings" set.

Flower is a ready-made embellie, but it is layered on a Cottage Cutz flourish (part of poinsetta die leftover from doing the poinsettas from another card) covered with Gold Stickles.

I'm entering this card into several challenges as noted below.

Sharon
Dec.19/2012

Fashionable Stamping Challenges #37  - Mask It

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Merry Christmas

Make My Monday - Bingo (Patterned Paper, Punches, Distressing)

Party Time Tuesday - Colour Challenge

Finally, some stamping....

Fall has whizzed by and I've been missing spending time in my craft room. I got a start on my christmas cards the other night and made several of this card.  I like that it isn't too "bulky" so it should be able to go in the mail for regular postage.  You know how it goes.... you look at your stash and the fingers itch to add pearls, chipboard or brad snowflakes, ribbons, etc. which all add up to a very heavy, thick card.  Those ones I hand deliver to special peeps!
How about you? Do you consider postage cost when making hand stamped cards?  Normally I don't, but I send out about 30 cards at Christmas. So the $$$ add up especially since in Canada most "vintage" type cards with lots of layers and embellies cost $1.29 each as "oversize" mail; then even more to the USA and Europe!!!  Anyhow, I would be interested to hear what you think about this topic.....

Now on to my card -




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close-up of sparkle

The silhouette image is from Inkadinkadoo cling set "Winter Wonderland" #60-60086. I stamped it with Dusty Concorde Distress Ink (which is more navy than purple, I think!), and embossed with clear EP.   The layers were cut with my Cricut using the Elegant Edges cartridge on the Swirl #2, Book setting at 3-1/2".  I sponged the edges with Broken China & Dusty Concorde DI, and used Stardust Stickles on all the flakes around the image and random stamped snowflakes. It is popped up with foam tape.

The die on the edge is a new metal one from Memory Box, called Frostyville Border  #98146. It is very intricate; I found I needed a metal shim plate in my Sizzix to fully cut out all the little details. I also applied Stardust Stickles on the diecut for icy sparkle, and I like that it pops a bit adding a pretty "frame" to the stamped image.  The swirl at the bottom of the image is not a stamped or added diecut flourish;  the Cricut cuts it as part of the pattern to show the navy layer underneath.

Paper is Bazzill Bling, SU Night of Navy, and a sheet of snowflake paper by Bo Bunny.

I'm entering this card into the challenge at Our Creative Corner,  Joan's Gardens, and Christmas Card Challenge.

Sharon
Nov.3/2012

Challenges:

Our Creative Corner:  Silhouette Challenge

Joan's Gardens:  Winter

Christmas Card Challenge #48:  Popped Up

Autumn

After a beautiful summer at the cottage, I had lots of little projects on the go in our house, so have spent very little time in my craft room. This weekend it's been raining non-stop and I finally finished painting in our renovated bathroom. Feels good to have that done!

This evening, I decided to make a couple of autumn cards. I was blog surfing the other night and saw a card by Trudy using banners. Scroll down to the last item in her post.  I thought this was a great way to use scraps so these are the cards I created. Thanks Trudy for the inspiration!

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For the smaller leaves, pinecone, and branches I used Tim Holtz' Alterations Die "Autumn Gatherings" on regular and textured cardstock, smooshing them with  various colours of Distress ink. The large green leaf along with the large orange leaf were purchased at Michaels store. I coloured the top of the pinecone with Copic marker and applied Crystal Glaze to the lower portion for dimension.

The stamped autumn border is by Great Impressions "H167", and the autumn verse is Hero Arts  "C3039". Tag is from the Just Rite set "Antique Tags One  JB-03775", sponged on the edge with Rusty Hinge distress ink.

The wide silk ribbon was sponged with Tea Dye and the smaller bow came in that colour gold. I added some tied buttons for a rustic feel.

Background damask pattern paper is the reverse side of Bo Bunny Double Dots.

I cut out quite a few banners and leaves from scraps, so I have enough to make a few more of these cards to send to family.

Sharon
Sept.30, 2012

Challenges:

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C156: Leaves

Frilly and Funkie: Fall into Fall

Birthday card for friend

Well, it's been quite a while since I made something in my craft room. April flew by with home renovations  and a two week vacation in Florida. My friend's birthday happened to be while I was away so I made this card and took it over to her on Sunday afternoon. Better late than never, eh? LOL.
I also made a little paper purse to put her gift of earrings inside. The pattern is from the Cricut "Forever Young" cartridge.

The challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenge is "Cities of the World".  I dressed up the canvas mannequin (Tim Holtz die) with netting, flower rose ribbon and rhinestones and distress ink to give the theme of couture fashion in Paris. Stamped with distress ink on the patterned paper are french writing, the eiffel tower, glamour verse, the lady putting on her lipstick, as well as the wish verse on the tag. We can wish for anything on our birthdays!!!

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Sharon
May 9, 2012

Challenges:

Fashionable Stamping Challenge "Cities of theWorld"

The Shabby Tea Room "Pretty as a Pitcher"  - colours and a rose. I used the shades of blue and brown in the book, and a blue rose.

Card for friend

I was going to post this card the other day, and found out that Blogger is changing it's Blog style April lst, so I clicked on the link to upgrade.  Instant Panic!  The new format was totally confusing and I thought I had lost all my daily notifications from blogs I like to follow. Plus I couldn't see where to make a new post. Yesterday afternoon, I sat down at the 'puter and did some looking through the new format. Well today, it's not quite as intimidating as I'm slowly learning to get around the site.

For anyone who has switched over, when you click on "Design" at the top right menu of your blog Homepage, you get a new page. Then if you click on the orange "My Blogs" on the top left hand side, you will be directed to your daily notifications that used to show up under the old Dashboard. It seems to take a minute to upload all the blogs. I still think the new format is too "busy" and more clicking with your mouse, but as with any changes, perhaps I'll get comfortable using it after a few weeks.

A new friend gave me a homemade gift last weekend, so I made this card to thank her. She likes butterflies.

I  used Tim Holtz "Papillon" word background stamp for the stitched background layer
 - Began with  sponging on Shabby Shutters and Broken China DI, spritzed with Perfect Pearls Mist Blue Patina, then sponged the torn edges with Tea Dye and Walnut Stain. Stitched two rows on my sewing machine and made them wonky on purpose.
- The punched index card, torn layer is stamped with butterflies from the same stamp set, shaded with Copic markers, Antique Linen and Tea Dye sponged on the edges. Edge punch by EKSuccess.
- The flower brad was a silver one, so I used Adirondack Gold sponge dabber to paint it, sponged with Walnut Stain DI to antique it further.
-Label is Tim's small alterations die
- Background layer of butterfly is a scrap piece of  BasicGrey paper cut with Memory Box "Moonlight Butterfly" die, then the top layer is cut with the coordinating Memory Box die "Kaleidoscope Butterfly" in brown brushed glitter Bazzill.
-Brown lace ribbon by Kaisercraft
-Sorry I can't say who makes the blue butterfly background paper and it is from my stash

I have a new Vintaj Big Kick machine and it cuts the Memory Box and CheeryLynn dies so easily. I guess my 8 year old Cuttlebug will be retired from now on!


I'm going to enter this card into the new challenge at Frilly and Funkie -vintage style.

Sharon
March30,2011

challenge:

Frilly and Funkie - Vintage style

Websters Pages is now shipping

Click on the link to see the video
http://vimeo.com/mynoveltree/websterspagesnowshipping

Sharon
March 16/2012