Sketch Challenge 246 at OWH

Created for sketch challenge #246 at

Operation Write Home.

What a fun,  simple sketch.

I'm going to make a couple of kids cards with it, too !

Image is from a Hero Arts stamp set (bought through Joann.com) and

water colored with Stampin' Up! ink pads/aquapainter.

Silver Signo gel pen used on the "chrome".

Crystal Effects detail on the headlights and windshield.

Gear dies are from Joy Crafts (bought through Joann.com).

Darice brand Diamond Plate embossing folder (bought through Joann.com).

Thanks for looking =)

Golden Anniversary Card

A special card I made for one of my aunt and uncles :)

It did require lots of extra postage,

especially since I mailed it in a bubble wrap envelope

with extra padding around it so it wouldn't get

squished (hopefully!) while going through the mail system.

I printed out a special customized piece for the inside of the card

as well as a photo I took of the two of them during our extended

family Christmas party.

SUPPLIES

Spiral flower and numeral dies, Texturz plate,

card stocks and organdy ribbon were all from Stampin' Up!

Swirl die, Sizzix

Scallop and rectangle dies, Nestabilities

Gold acrylic craft paint

Thanks for looking =)

Die Cut Poinsettia Christmas Portrait Card

Photo Christmas card/display piece I made this past Christmas.

The die cut poinsettia was made from a discontinued die

available through cricut.com

I've never seen them before and I think if I had known how thin they are,

I probably would not have bought them. I am not sure how long they will last....

I was quite surprised that they cut through this card stock.

Granted, this is some thinner than the Stampin' Up! card stock I normally use.

Also as a note, it may just be the operator of the quilling tool,

but I could NOT get my flower to look like the completed flower

that came in the kit. I had to do some creative "unquilling" and gluing

to make it work properly. My flower petals kept stacking

up on directly top of each other, looking goofy. Maybe with more practice ?

Doesn't show up too well in this lighting/photo,

but I inked the edges of all the pieces before assembly.

This shows the back of my flower that I had to unroll and

glue together oddly to make the flower look right.

Rolled tightly like the sample flower in the kit,

the petals to my flower were stacked on top of each other

making what looked like just a three petal flower.

Ribbon, metal pieces, Riding Hood Red card stock,

Vary Vanilla card stock, Early Espresso textured card stock,

Texturz plates, scalloped circle die and numbers stamp set

all came from Stampin' Up! (most all are now retired).

This is the die set I bought on clearance through cricut.com

They are chipboard thin dies, I had no idea !

Thanks for looking =)

OWH ODBD Challenge January

 

I created this card for the current Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge at

Operation Write Home: Make an Any Hero card.

It is also a sort of

"Thank You"

nod to Our Daily Bread Designs for sponsoring this challenge !

When there are 25 entries to the challenge, ODBD

will sponsor one box of cards from

Operation Write Home to be mailed to our heroes.

If there are 50 entries, two boxes will be sponsored.

As if that isn't enough, this wonderful company also

gives away a $15 gift certificate to a randomly chosen winner.

I was lucky enough to be one of two winners for the November challenge

to make a card with hearts on it (see my card here).

I wasn't sure what stamp set to choose...........

There is a really fun monster truck set I had my eye on

and sentiments are always useful, but this is the one

I ended up choosing in the end as I always loved 

sledding on my old Flexible Flyer as a kid !

G605 - Let It Snow

I attempted to make it have more of a  "patriotic", 

or any time during the winter feel,

 rather than a Christmas feel since the holiday is now past.

The image was stamped in black ink then water colored in

using ink from my ink pads and an aquapainter.

I layered it on Brilliant Blue card stock.

I used white acrylic craft paint for the snow details.

Leaving the card stock white wasn't white, snowy enough for my liking.

I do have some snow texture medium, but it was too chunky for this image.

The snowflake embossing folder used on the smaller front panel

 was from Stampin' Up! as are the sentiment

and Word Window (trimmed) paper punch. 

The red and white "Baker's twine" wrapped around the snowflake embossed panel

came from the Dollar Spot at Target last year.

Thanks for looking =)

Circle Punch Christmas Tree Swing Card

The swing card base is a die from Stampin' Up!

The bases to these cards were made last year

as a fun way to give my kids money.

See this post here for the fun idea I came up with.

They didn't keep them, so

this year I added a new stamped circle to the back of the swing part

and the fun circle punch tree to the front.

Below are some photos that show how I made the tree.

The crinkling, separating of the layers is not necessary.

I did it to give the card stock more texture

and to make it thinner, easier to fold.

Fold the circle in half to give yourself a center mark.

Fold the sides in at the center mark.

The top point/fold starts at the mark then you

bring the rounded side in the meet along the center line.

I added a dab of glue at the tops of each section

so the lower "branches" would still be loose,

easy to fiddle with to make them "fluffy".

I didn't take a "how to" photo of painting the branches,

but it is easy. I used white acrylic craft paint and

a small paint brush to dab white onto the tips. Once dry,

I fluffed out the "branches" a bit.

You could take the tree a step farther by decorating it with

teeny, tiny punched pieces of colored paper or

dabs of glitter glue and paint.

Thanks for looking =)

Nature's Christmas Card

 

Using a really old stamp set from Stampin' Up!

(I think it is called Nature's Christmas)

and copying an idea from an old catalog,

I made this card and matching envelope to send

to a family member last Christmas.

 

It was a nice flat card requiring no extra postage.

 

I stamped the images with Basic Black ink onto

Naturals card stock then water colored them in with

ink from ink pads using an Aquapainter.

 

Real Red and Handsome Hunter card stock layers.

 

 

Thanks for looking =)

Embossed Christmas Card

I made two of these cards to mail out last Christmas,

idea inspired by a Stampin' Up! catalog.

All supplies used were from Stampin' Up!.

though they are now retired.

The raised areas of the embossed card front

were lightly painted with PearlEx paint.

Thanks for looking =)

Christmas Card I Received

What a beautiful Christmas card I received this past holiday !
I love it !
I'm sure all the supplies used on it were from Stampin' Up!

Birthday Card I Received

What a sweet card I received for my birthday last month.

Such a cute image, happy colors

and great details - I love it !

Christmas Cards - storebought!

 

Now that we have a new desktop computer up and running

(we were without for three weeks in December),

I can finally get back to posting to the blog.

There are several things I made last month I want to share

as well as some cards I received and a couple of photos I took.

 

 

This first card I am sharing was actually from a set of premade cards I bought for half price

after Christmas last year. I picked up 4 packages of them for $4 a package (6 cards per pkg).

They looked like something I could have handmade myself:

real buttons, bakers twine, die cut pieces, pop dots on a kraft card stock base.

 

I did cut and stamp cream pieces of paper for the inside since they were blank.

I used a Stampin' Around holly print wheel and a sentiment stamp with

Handsome Hunter and Real Red inks.

I also stamped the envelope with the same wheel and green ink.

 

I didn't mind that they were bulky cards since I was giving them out in person,

no postage required.

 

Some of the cards I did need to mail so I removed the buttons and pop dots,

trying to make them more mail friendly so as not to require extra postage.

In place of the buttons, I used red glitter glue.

 

These premade cards have a nice design, one I hope to remember and put to use

in the future.

 

 

Thanks for looking =)