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F4A790 - all dressed up
For my card, I was inspired by the cute gnome. My aunt loves gnomes and I thought this girl gnome from Jaded Blossom would be perfect for a mother's day card for her. I cut the layers, added a floral base layer and finished with the mother's day sentiment popped up on dimensionals.
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For my card, I pulled out one of my favorite stitched die cuts from Spellbinders. I then used some cotton DMC floss that has been on the back of my craft chair for a few years. I am trying to use it up and this die cut is perfect for making some gorgeous cards with it. Once it was stitched, I added some green gems and the sentiment popped up on dimensionals.
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For my card, I pulled out some tissue paper that has been glued on card stock for a couple of years waiting for me to put on a card. I cut it down with die cuts and created the background. It is then layered on gold mirror card stock. I then added the sentiment and this wonderful elephant image that is one of my all-time favorites from Stampin Up.
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For my card, I pulled out this great image from DRS Designs. They have retired but I still love their images and use them often.
The image is colored up with copics and layered in distressed tan card stock. I sanded the top of the card stock a bit and added some additional copic coloring to each of the layers with the darkest on top.
The card is finished with a Tim Holtz sentiment.
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For my card, I used this great image from Unity. I have had it for years in my collection and never inked it up. I colored it with copics then layered it on a coordinating designer paper.
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| FS948 - This week's incredibly talented FS is Kristina aka andersen65. I found this INSPIRATION. I was inspired by the single rose and used this Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers Rose. The base is Memory Box die cuts then the rose was layered and added. The card was finished with the Altenew Sentiment popped up on dimensionals and some flowers and leaves punched from scraps that I keep in my stash. Thank you for stopping by to check out my card today. I appreciate the lovely comments. If you leave me a comment, I can stop by your blog for a visit. Always and Forever |
F4A789 - Twist (More than one challenge)
For my card, I pulled out some fun purple papers and my purple scrap drawer and created this layout. I added some purple rickrack from my stash.
Next, I stamped this image from Stampin Up and colored it with copics finishing it with the birthday sentiment under the image.
I then die cut the image and left it in the die cut to sponge some purple around the image.
The image is popped up on dimensionals and the card was finished with the die cut 21 from white glitter paper and a few purple pearls.
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Challenges:
Cardz 4 Galz - Stripes
Craft Rocket - Layer it Up
Crafty Catz - ATG
Creative Fingers - ATG
For my card, I found I had a bunch of scrap pieces of burlap in my brown designer paper. It was really adding a lot of bulk to the scrap drawer. I wondered if I could recreate this card with a scrappy background and YES, it turned out perfect.
I added several gems to really pop against the card front and popped the sentiment up on dimensionals. Now I have a way to use up more of my scrap burlap and create a really fun card front.
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Challenges:
As You Like It - Favorite (Cute or Floral) I love florals. I do make cute cards sometimes but I really love floral cards. So many possibilities for florals. Cute is hard to give to everyone but florals can be for everyone.
For my card, I used this gorgeous image from Unity coloring her up with copics adding her to a coordinating designer paper.
The card was finished with several flowers from my stash, Nuvo Drops and the birthday sentiment.
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Challenges:
Crafts Galore - ATG
For my card, I pulled out this gorgeous blue rose paper that I only have scraps left. I am using every piece of this paper because I really love it. I cut down the pieces and created a herringbone background on a blue card stock. It is then layered on a white cardstock, and I added the blue and white bakers' twine.
The card is finished with this great sentiment from Stampin Up and a few scattered gems.
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Challenges:
A Perfect Time to Craft - ATG
For my card, I used this gorgeous image from Concord & 9th. I colored it up with copics and added it to a designer paper finishing the card with a few gems.
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| FS947 - In Memory of Polly - INSPIRATION I am forever thankful to have been friends with Polly. I think of her often and remember when she stamped off the image on this card and a few other dog images for my pet donation cards. For my card, I still do not own the image (it is on my wish list) I used this cute fun die cut from Brutus Monroe. I die cut it in the colors of the shop that I will be donating it and layered it up. The card is finished with a welcome sentiment and a few scattered hearts. Thank you for stopping by to check out my card today. I appreciate the lovely comments. If you leave me a comment, I can stop by your blog for a visit. Welcome Pup |
USEIT2025 - Image
For my card, I used this great image from Hunkydory that was in my tote of items to use up. I cut the layers, then added a birthday sentiment popped up on dimensionals finishing the card with a few scattered flowers from my stash with pink Nuvo Drops.
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Challenges:
Allsorts - Spring Flowers
For my card, I used this great die cut from Cherry Lynn Designs. I cut the layers and for the neck of the guitar I used birch bark. Once layered, I used a pin and added pin holes to string silver thread to add the strings. (This was very challenging but turned out amazing.)
I then layered it on a velum music paper, added a few music notes and popped the sentiment up on dimensionals.
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USEIT2025 - Bees
For my card, I used some gorgeous paper my MIL gave me for Christmas. It is foiled bee paper and really beautiful up close. It is layered on black then I added 3 die cut hexagons in black then gold and added 3 die cut bees from my tote of items I am trying to use up.
The card was finished with the sentiment and several candy dots.
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For my card, I used this gorgeous image from Spellbinders crafty advent calendar 2024. I colored it up with copics then die cut the panel and layering it on a soft designer paper.
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I was inspired by the gorgeous colors on the roses and had this image in my tote to use up from Hunkydory. I added a couple of coordinating paper layers and finished with the sentiment popped up on dimensionals, some flowers from my punched scraps and a few Nuvo drops to the flower centers.
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Challenges:
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Challenges:
Two things that make me happy are cats and donating cards.
For this card, I used this adorable Hunkydory image and layered it on a couple of great designer papers from my scrap drawer. I added some fancy fiber and added the sentiment on the image.
This will be another card for my donations.
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Challenges:
For my card, I pulled out this cute Hunkydory image and cut the layers. I then embossed the paw prints and layered everything adding dimensionals to the image and sentiment.
This will be another pet donation card.
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Challenges:
Digi Choosday - ATG
I used this great TUTORIAL to create the background on my card using blue and yellow.
The image is from The Flonz and I finished the card with a few scattered stars from my scraps.
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For my card, I used this great die cut from The Greetary. It is perfect for using up scraps and they have a fantastic sentiment set that you can get to coordinate with it. My son does calligraphy and this is perfect for a few cards that I can make him to use.
The sentiment is heat embossed in silver to pick up the silver layer and the silver I used in the die cut.
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Challenges:
Snippets Playground - Use Snippets (The calligraphy pen is all scraps)
FS945 - This week's incredible featured stamper is the fantastic talented and kind RIRed2 aka Rebekka. I found this adorable INSPIRATION.
For my card, I took inspiration from the cute little baby wearing that fabulous hat and used a grad image from Unity. I colored it up with copics then cut the layers. I layered it on a fun designer paper that had roses to pick up the flowers on the card.
The card was finished with the congratulation's sentiment.
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Challenges
When I found my inspiration, I just had to pull out this puppy paper. I layered it on some fun coordinating papers creating this fun layout and added the sentiment popped up on dimensionals
The card was finished with a few scattered gems.
This will be another of my pet donation cards.
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For my card, I used the faux twisted ribbon technique. This is a technique that I have wanted to try for a while. I used a double-sided paper and layered it on a coordinating pink layer. The card was finished with the birthday sentiment from Stampin Up popped up on dimensionals and a die cut ice cream cone and a few scattered pink pearls.
Here is a link to a video: Easy Christmas Card with Faux Twisted Ribbon
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Challenges:
Digi Choosday - ATG
For my card, I pulled out my scrap papers and found some fun coordinating papers that needed used up. I die cut the end of a tie die cut and layered them on cardstock that picked up the primary colors in the ties. The two in the center were popped up on dimensionals and a few gems were added to some of the ties.
The card was finished with the Stampin Up sentiment in the center.
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Challenges:
For my card, I used this great image from Penny Black. I colored it up with copics then layered on a coordinating cardstock.
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Challenges:
I was inspired by the colors of the dress and the accessories. I used burlap for the card base then added the die cut from Memory Box and finished with the sentiment popped up on dimensionals and a few scattered pearls.
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I have wanted to make one of these cards for a very long time. For my card, I created the box layer using this tutorial: Pop-Up Box Card Tutorial - Splitcoaststampers.
The caps on the card are stenciled using black distress ink. I then die cut several balloons, the congratulations and the bird using dies from Spellbinders, Honey Bee Stamps, Memory Box, Jaded Blossom and Karen Burniston.
The stars are punched from gold and all of the pieces are added using acetate. Tied to the balloons is some red and white bakers twine. I made sure when I fold the bird in first that it closes so that the black card front is the only thing that shows. Truely this is a really fun card to make. On the back I added a white card stock for the user to add a personal message.
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For my card, I used this great stencil from Honey Bee Stamps. I first embossed the card front with the embossing folder. Next, I pulled out several colors to create the scene with the great stencils in the kit.
The card was finished with the birthday sentiment popped up on dimensionals.
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Mountain Birthday
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For my card, I used this great Spellbinders die cut set and cut it out of the team colors for our destination station this week. I added a layer of blue and white plaid and a piece of designer paper that looks like notebook paper stamped with the sentiment on the paper.
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USEIT2025 - Tassel
I am working ahead on graduation cards. My son will graduate this year from college. Time has flown by for us.
For this card, I used a great fun gold and added a square to the top for the graduation cap. The congratulations is popped up on dimensionals and that tassel was in my tote of items to use up.
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I was really inspired by the large purple flowers. For my card, I used a great stencil from The Ton and pulled out some pink and purple inks to color the flowers. Once colored, I added them to the card base and finished with a few dew drops and the sentiment popped up on dimensionals.
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Challenges:
Stencil Fun - Pinks / Reds
| F4A784 - Sequins For my card, I did a quick herringbone technique using up a few different scrap papers from my stash. It is one of my go to designs to use a few different scraps and make a quilt feeling card for my MIL as she is a quilter and loves giving quilt style cards to her friends. Thank you for stopping by to check out my card today. I appreciate the lovely comments. If you leave me a comment, I can stop by your blog for a visit. Herringbone Birthday |
For my card, I used this cute Spellbinders die cut and created the bauble using Tiffany colors.
Once the ornament was created it was layered on some coordinating holiday papers and the card was finished with the sentiment and a few scattered gems.
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For my card, I cut the triangle layer then added some trimming to create the party hat using some scraps. Once the hat was created I layered on the balloon paper and added a few candy dots and the birthday sentiment popped up on dimensionals.
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For my card, I used a fun older Stampin Up set and stamped the image coloring up the image with copics.
I had a couple of designer paper scraps that worked great together and I added some matting. The card was finished with a few heart sequins.
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| FS942 - this week's very talented featured stamper is NicholeC. I found this INSPIRATION. Rather than doing ombre, I went bold with the colors. I kept the 3 balloons as were on the card but went with orange, pink and purple. I have some really gorgeous handmade paper in my collection that I picked up at a wonderful art store in Chicago and it was perfect for a starting point on my card. I added some additional layering using some coordinating papers then added the purple for layering. Once layered, I finished with the punched balloons and added some bakers twine with a couple of dimensionals to the top balloons. Thank you for stopping by to check out my card today. I appreciate the lovely comments. If you leave me a comment, I can stop by your blog for a visit. Birthday Balloons |
Oh, that pie looks so yummy. For my card, I pulled out this great pie die cut set from Papertrey Ink and cut out pumpkin pie pieces adding some whip cream and added a bit of sponging and white highlights to the pie and crust. The whip cream has a bit of stickles.
The layout was created and a satin ribbon was added on the boarder to add some additional textures, and the card was finished with a few sequins and the sentiment banner.
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Challenges
