Single Layer Thank You for Being a Friend

Since the last card I posted had several layers, I decided to make a single layer card. This is a card that is one of several that I will make for a friend of mine who is so very giving and thoughtful.  When anyone needs anything, she is always the first to volunteer,  She is a good friend not only to me,but to so many others also, With the exception of this card which will my personal thank you to her,the cards will be able to go through the mail and will not require any extra postage. I plan to make 12 cards with different sentiments including birthday and sympathy,  I will use the same layout for the cards so after I get all the flowers cut,sponged and put together and all the other elements cut the cards will come together easily.  So many challenges deal with saying thanks this week so I will enter this card in the following challenges. 

Frantic Stamper Ivy

Cheery Lynn Leaves

Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

IO wheat

Gina K Designs Sentiment

Simon Says Wednesday Here

Mod Squad Thank You Here

Dies R Us Fall Colors Here

Scrapy Land Anything Goes Here

Here is one of the cards from the set. Since the flower is flat, she will be able to mail this without extra postage.  I used prills in the center of the flower.

Frantic Stamper Ivy

Cheery Lynn Leaves

Spellbinders Sunflower

Memory Box Tall Choloe

Gina K Designs Sentiment

I am also participating in Jennifer Mcquire's  Share the Handmade Kindness.  You can find the details here  

http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2015/11/sharehandmadekindesschallenge.html

I'll post pictures of the other cards as I get them done.   I got the idea for layout from Pinterest.  I found the designer(not always easy) and got her permission to case.  Sherry Hester Here.

Thankful for Peggy

This is a card for a special friend who is part of my ladies group. She recently sold her house and is moving to Southern California to be closer to her family.  We are happy for Peggy because she is finally getting her wish, but sad for all of us because we will miss her sunny disposition and beautiful smile. I decided I would try to compete with my good friend Donna Pheland, queen of layers, and see how many I could put on one small card.  With the floral spray I count seven. you can't tell from the picture but the paper behind the brick background is shimmer paper and the edges of the doily and chloe branch are embossed with gold.

I used the following dies

Diversions Brick cover plate

Cheery Lynn French Doily

Spellbinders Lotus Blossom

Spellbinders Royal Circle

Spellbinders Spellbinders Lacy circles

Cheery Lynn Horizon Fishtail Banners

Frantic Stamper Ivy

Cheery Lynn Leaves

Memory Box Tall Choloe 

Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

I will enter the following Challenges

Cheery Lynn Give Thanks Here

Mod Squad Bold and Beautiful Here

Scrapyland  Embossing Here      I embossed the edges of the doily, the sentiment and  edges of the tall Choloe

Simon Says Wednesday  Anything Goes  Here

Simon Says Monday  Throw Back   Punch or Die Cut  Here

Sympathy

My sister-n-law on my husband’s side recently lost her father.  Since I was making the card, I decided that I should make one that reflected her taste.  She is a big fan of black and silver or gold so that is where I began.  The card came together much like I thought it would except originally I planned to have a butterfly where the flower is.  After playing around with it for a while, I decided that I liked the flower better. I have enjoyed the designs of  Olga Direktorenko. I particularly like how she uses vellum in her designs so I have been tryng that a lot lately. I started out with some designer black and white paper and covered with a piece of vellum. I glued two black Mod Flower by Poppy Stamps die cuts to a black frame and placed that on top of the vellum. I had some silver gray paper that I wanted to use but it was too thin to make a frame from so I glued the paper to some black craft foam which gave it strength and dimension.  I also cut some black frames.  The sentiment is from Heartfelt by Theresa Momber available at Gina K Designs.  I embossed it with silver embossing powder and cut it out with one of Sue Wilson’s Vienna dies that I backed with a piece of vellum and layered on black card.  For the decorations on the side used Frantic Stamper Spring  Ivy and  Memory Box Tall Chloe dies. I made the flower awhile ago so it was sitting in my flower box.  Added a few pearls so the card is ready to mail. 

Challenges

Memory Box Black and White Here

Word Art Wednesday  Here

Scrapyland      Embossing Here

Simon Says Wednesday  Anything Goes  Here

Simon Says Monday  Throw Back   Punch or Die Cut  Here

Thank You Guest Speaker

This is a card I made for a woman's group for a guest speaker.  I used a Spellbinder's cover plate that I embossed and sponged and placed a piece of vellum behind.  I embossed  a panel from Die-namcs  Blue Prints 11 with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and put a Cheery Lynn sentiment on it.  The rose is a bitty blossom by Spellbinders.  I wanted a larger rose so I glued two of the strips together. I added a few IO wheat die cuts a Die-namics leafy swirl and some Spellbinder leaves.  I will enter this in the following challenges:

Cheery Lynn    Anything Goes  Here

Scrapyland      Embossing Here

Simon Says Wednesday  Anything Goes  Here

Simon Says   Work it Wednesdays  Thank You Here

Simon Says Monday  Throw Back   Punch or Die Cut  Here

Snow One Like You

I created this card with two challenges in mind.  Paper Trey Ink has a different type of challenge during their release week. They call it Create Along With US.   They ask you  to create a project using inspiration from one of the designers,  They released a new coverplate this month and there were so many good ideas that I got from how the designers used it, but Betsy Veldman  added a stamped image behind the frame, and I loved that idea. Since there were some holiday cards included in the release,many of the designers added some sparkle to their cards with glitter so I used that idea too by cutting the coverplate from glitter paper. See the challenge and the entries HERE

Since my stamping buddy and mentor Donna Pheland is hosting the Mod Squad Challenge this week I also wanted to participate in that challenge which  is Winter with a die cut. Nothing says winter more than snow and a snow man. I created the look of snow by using some Versamark ink and white embossing powder. There are two prizes offered up this week to one random winner so go look at the challenge and join us in the fun and maybe you will win one of the prizes. You will find that challenge HERE

 The snowman and sentiment are from Gina K designs and the cover plate is PTI.







Here is Betsy's beautiful card using the new coverplate. 

Fall

My good friend Barbara Campbell is the hostess at the Mod Squad Challenge this week and she asked for a fall project in colors or images.  I have been following the Poppy Stamps blog and become a big fan of  Olga Direktorenko.You can find her blog Here .  She makes many of her cards using layers of frames with some sort of die cut sandwiched between the frames, dp and a layer of vellum.  I decided to try her technique.  I used Spellbinders A2 matting basics dies to cut the frames from gold and white card.   The fishnet die is a MFT dienamics die. and the pierced top die is from Spellbinders Celebration line.  I stamped the vellum with some leaves from Gina K designs Fall Foilage and embossed in gold.  I also found  a scrap of water colored paper in my scrap basket so I stamped the leaves on it and embossed in gold and fussy cut them.  The wheat is an IO die.  I don't remember the company of the flower die, but I used yellow card and sponged with cantalope ink. I used prills for the center of the flowers.  The sentiment is from Gina K Designs Sweetest Memories embossed in gold and cut out with a Spellbinders Labels 8 die. 

I will enter the following Challenges

Mod Squad Challenge Get Your FALL on  HERE

Simon Says Monday Autumn is in the Air Here

Scrapy Land Anything Goes Here

Pop UP

I love pop up cards and this set by Stampendous is so much fun to color.  I embossed the flowers in white and tried my band at water coloring.  The sentiment is on the bottom panel I added a Cheery Lynn butterfly to add some interest near the sentiment. I will enter this in the Mod Squad Challenge and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes HERE and the Mod Squad Challenge Blog Anything with WingsHERE

Cupcake Box

This is my first project since I returned home from visiting my family in Illinois and Pennsylvania.  I had a great time visiting, but it is always goo to get back home.  I did this project for the  Die Shaped Boxes challenge at Papertrey Ink .  You can find the challenge and the video Here.  I used the enclosed  cupcake die for the box . It was a really easy project.  I used PTI  papers and decorated the top with prills a Spellbinders bitty blossoms and leaves.   I was out of tissue paper but I will get some.  I plan to fill the box with almond brittle. 

Pink Roses

I am the hostess at the Mod Squad Challenge Blog this week, and there is a $25 gift certificate prize for one lucky random winner. It is a simple challenge(make a flower stamp or die cut the focal image) so why not stop by the blog and play along. Here

Here are the supplies I used. 

Kitchen Sink Stamps 3 Step Heart and Roses  (This set is a real value with  three different sizes of roses, two sizes of leaves and several sentiments).

Gina K Designs Elegant Florals illustrated by Theresa Momber

Taylor Expressions Fancy Banner 2 stamp and die

Elizabeth Craft Dies Oval Flourish Frames

Elizabeth Craft Dies Accordion Oval

Gina K white, gold, and black  card stock

Memento rose bud, bamboo, and cottage ivy inks

Distress inks  tea die and aged mahogany

White Washed Flowers

My talented  friend, Barbara Campbell, has challenged us with a fun technique called white wash  this week at the Mod Squad Challenge Blog.   I loved the beautiful blue card she made so I decided to try pink.  This is prettier IRL. I could not get a good picture.   You can check out the challenge and find a link to the video showing how to do this technique. 

 http://modsquadchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/09/lets-see-your-white-wash.html

Yvonne's Birthday

This is a card I made for my bff.  She loves flowers and gardening and has a lovely back yard so my theme is  GARDEN.  She came for dinner last night (my fabulous husband cooked her favorite meal)so I gave her the card. . Since I found everything  I needed in my scrap box,it only took half an hour to put this together. Just kidding.  I spent an obscene amount of time on this card. Hence, I have not had much time for challenges.  Since we are best friends, she sees most of my cards as I am working on them so I had to make sure she would not pop in and catch me making this, and I had to make it extra special.  

.Box folded

I used one of the spellbinders 3D embossing folders for the outside of the box and sponged over it to make the embossing pop. I used a video tutorial for the dimensions.  I only used one layer, but it would be fun to do all three especially if you had pictures of a special event like a wedding shower and a wedding,  You can find the tutorial I used here. 

   

Top 

 

Spellbinder leaves and zinnia

Cheery Lynn butterfly

Taylored Expressions  tag and sentiment

Side one 

PTI Garden Guild Frame

IO Hydrangea flowers

Cheery Lynn birdbath and bird

IO Sentiment

Side 2

PTI Garden Guild Frame

Taylored Expressions  Arbor and garden gate

Taylored Expressions Arbor Accessories

IO Hydrangea flower

Side 3

PTI Garden Guild Frame

IO Hydrangia flowers

Spellbinders gazebo

Taylored Expressions Arbor Accessories

Gina K Designs Sentiment

 IO fence

Side 4

Gina K Designs  sentiment

PTI  Cover Plate

IO Hydrangia flowers

Martha /stewart butterfly punch

 Center of the box   Birthday cupcake 

 25 handmade roses

Cheery Lynn sentiment 

I used this tutorial for the birthday cupcake here

Thanks for stopping by to see Yvonne's card,


I will enter the following challenges

Cheery Lynn All about texture   here
Scrapy Land Anything Goes  here
Simon Says Monday Challenge Use a stamp with a die.  here

Christmas Tag

 This is a tag I made for the challenge at Scrapyland.  It actually came together easily because most of the parts were in my scrap box.  The doves were illustrated by Marcella Hawley for Flourishes.   I stamped and  colored them last year but did not use them.  The flower was made last year too,and I had some left over wheat from another project. I cut and embossed the tag sponged it and then added my layers.  I did need to cut the holly leaves and the pine bough.

The poinsettia is a spellbinders die.
The holly  is Cheery Lynn
The pine bough and wheat are IO

I will enter the tag at Scrapyland's Here
Simon Says Wednesday ChallengeHere

Fall Invitation

A group I belong to needed invitations to a luncheon we are hosting in October.  I decided to go with a fall design,but I wanted something simple that could be mailed easily. I made an envelope with my envelope punch board that is a little larger than A2 size so this slips in easily and meets mailing standards for one stamp.  I looked on Pinterest for some ideas and I found a design I loved by Sherry Hester Here.

I will enter this in the Cheery Lynn Anything Goes Challenge Here
ans Simon Says Wednesday Challenge anything Goes Here

The branch is Spellbinders from their ivy die

The leaves and acorns are Cherry Lynn

The wheat is IO

The sunflower is MFT

Tin Holtz embossing folder

Gina K designs Cranberry tart card base

Distress ink used for shading flower and leaves.  

Lavender and Lace

My good friend,Judy Woodland, is the hostess at the Mod Squad Challenge Blog this week.  She challenged us to use either lavender or lace or both.  I think my lacy die cut will count as lace and I used lavender as my color.  All the dies are Spellbinders and the stamp is 3 Step Heart and Roses by Kitchen Sink Stamps.  These stamps are amazing. Most of them have a multi-stamp feature that lets you get great detail in your images. Kitchen sink Stamps is sponsoring this challenge so one lucky random entry will win a $25 gift certificate to their store.  Find the details Here

Fall Flowers

I started with a sketch from the Die-namites Sketch and dare challenge, For this card I used a couple of embossing folders as stamps using distress inks and water. I did a little layering added the doily then arranged  the leaves and flowers on top. 

I will enter this card in the Cheery Lynn Doily Challenge Here

and the Die Namites  Sketch and Dare Challenge Here

Simon Says Citrus Here

 Products Used

 Die Namites Beautiful Flowers http://www.die-namites.com/Beautiful-Flowers_p_154.html

Die Namites Leafy Flourish http://www.die-namites.com/Leafy-Flourish_p_56.html

Cheery Lynn French pastry doily 

Cheery Lynn Dimensional leaves

MTF Sunflower

Interlocking Gatefold

My good friend, Barb is the hostess at Mod Squad Challenge Blog  She challenged us to make a gatefold card, and the  Cherry Lynn Challenge is Back to Nature(Birds, Butterflies etc) so I thought I would combine the two.  I made an inter locking card by cutting a frame using two Spellbinder dies in rose card.  Then I cut the smaller die out in ivory embossed the edges and sponged it while it was still in the die.  I stamped the sentiment and a few leaves on the die cut.  I cut the card base and layered it with some green card and ODB designer paper. After I assembled the card, I  popped on some flowers and leaves and a Cheery Lynn butterfly.


Card Closed

The Mod Squad Challenge Here

Cheery Lynn Here

Dies R Us Here

Simon Says Here

Simon Says Work it Wednesdays Here

Scrappy Land Here

Stephanie's Card

I started with a 4x5 1/2 piece of card.  I used a mask to create the sun then used the negative of that mask to cover the sun while I sponged the sky.  Post it notes helped me to create the horizon line where the sky and sea meet.  Next I used a stamp set from Flourishes(no longer in business) to stamp the palm trees, clouds and boat.  Colored them with colored pencils the sponged some sand on the bottom.  Next I cut a Lucy Label from Karen Burniston.  I used it as a template so I could cut my sponged and stamped panel so that it would fit over the pop up parts. After the top piece was in place I sponged the bottom panel to look like sand.  I used toothpicks on the IO umbrellas and secured them to the back of the label,  The table and chairs is a sticker from Jolee.  You can't see them in the picture but there are some IO sand castles behind the table. I finished the bottom with a Happy Birthday from Cheery Lynn and another stamp from flourishes and some IO flip flops. The front of the card was done awhile back for another challenge. I won't lie this card took about three hours to do, but I like how it came out.

I will enter the following Challenges   Dies R Us  Summer Fun Here

Cheery Lynn Summer Fun Here

Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes Here

Simon Says Work it Wednesdays  Die-cuts Here

Front of Card  (I did this knowing that I wanted a beach themed  pop up card for the inside.)

Victorian Gazebo

I started this card with a Heartfelt designer sheet that I embossed with Tim Holtz Bricks embossing folder and sponged it with some brown and black inks to bring out the brick pattern. I topped it with the PTI cover a card die cut.  The Gazebo is a Spellbinders die the fence is IO, the leaves Die Namites and the flowers are Cheery Lynn medium rose strip. I will enter this in the following challenges


Cheery Lynn Anything Goes Here
Simon Says Wednesday  Anything Goes Here
Scrapy Land Vintage/Steampunk Here
Simon Says Work It Wednesdays  Diecuts  Here

Mod Squad Challenge Anything Goes

I am so excited to be the hostess for this week's Mod Squad Challenge.  It is a prize week with One  Happy Cuts offering a $15 gift certificate for one lucky winner who will be selected randomly. Let's make it easy... Anything Goes with at least one die cut made by a company that Happy Cuts sells. That's easy since they carry all the major brands.  Be sure to list the company that makes the die or dies you use. Check out the Mod Squad Challenge Blog Here and become a follower then join me for this fun challenge.  Tell your friends because they might want to enter too.

For my focal point, I used the zinna die by Spellbinders.  I must tell you that it is a time consuming flower. Lots of cutting and gluing, but the results are beautiful. I created the panel underneath the zinna by inking an embossing folder and spritzing it with glimmer mist and ran it through the Big Shot. I used a sketch from the Die Namites Blog and I will enter it in their July Sketch and Dare Challenge.  The dare is to do some drawing or doodling. I am not much of a drawer or doodler so I confined that part of the challenge to the tag. See my itty bitty flower.

 

Card Base 5/3/4 by 4 1/2

Pink layer 5 1/2 by 4 1/4

Bricks cover plate die by Die Versions

Embossed layer 2 3/4 by 4 1/4

Spell binders lotus die

Die Namites Beautiful flowers die http://www.die-namites.com/Beautiful-Flowers_p_154.html

Spellbinder leaves

IO Hydrangia stem

Challenges Die Namites Here
Mod Squad Challenge Here

Christmas in July

I had these scraps of paper in my basket and a snowflake die that I just got from IO that I wanted to use so I made this card.  It did not come out exactly like I pictured but it is glittery.  I will enter it in the IO Challenge Any Holiday Here and the DRU Challenge Christmas in July Here . 

IO Products

C3503

Die 100 F

DIE024-X

The Wing's the Thing.

I have not had a chance for many challenges lately because other obligations, but I needed to make a gift set of cards for a raffle basket for a woman's group I belong to and I wanted to enter the Mod Squad Challenge  because one of my talented mentors, Judy Woodland, is the hostess this week. I needed something with wings so I came up with this design.  I used three different colors (2 cards of each color) and stamped the bird on the front of the envelope and embossed the back flap of the envelope.  Then I used the envelope punch board to make a box for the gift set.  I was also able to use scraps of designer paper from other projects(love that).
The feather is MFT, the bird is PTI, and the sentiment is from Gina K. I will enter this in the Mod Squad Challenge.Here

Water color feathers

I love the Make it Monday videos over at PTI because I always learn so much,  This week's challenge was to use a die cut to make a stencil and then water color.  The fun part is that you could use the positive or the negative part to be the stencil.  I have had the PTI Feather Finery stamp set for quite  awhile, but the dies were out of stock when I ordered the stamps. In fact, every time I placed an order from them they were out of stock.  The last time I ordered they were available so this is the first time I used the dies.  I used the negative as a mask while I water colored  with distress inks. I decided to add a bit more to the design by stamping the feather image over the water color.

You can check out the video and the other entries here. Here

Silver or Gold Challenge

The Cheery Lynn challenge this week was to use silver or gold.  For some reason, I could not come up with an idea so I got out my scrap box.  I found this butterfly from Cheery Lynn that was cut from some pp that had some silver foil in it.  I kept digging and found this silver glitter die cut that must have been from a project years ago because I did not remember having it. Then I found this light grey pp and it all worked together.  I stamped a sentiment from IO then mounted it on a black mat then onto some PTI soft stone card.  I took the picture but forgot to load it to the Cheery Lynn blog.  When I remembered, I had only minutes to spare. but I made it. Check out the Challenge Blog  Here .

White on White.

I love white on white cards when someone else makes them, but the Cherry Lynn Challenge thiw week was white on white so I gave it a try.

The coverplate is a Spellbinder's die and the large butterfly is Cheery Lynn's medium butterfly.

I will enter this in Cheery Lynns White on White Challenge Here
Simon Says Anything Goes Here

Mom's Birthday

My Mother turns 93 years young this month so I made this accordion  fold card by Karen Burniston for her.   This is my first time to make one of these so, as usual, I made a few mistakes along the way.  I wanted sturdiness so I used Gina K 120 pound card. It was a bit hard to fold and is a bit bulky so I will use a bit lighter card next time.

                                                               Card Opened

Card Front

I will enter the following challenges

 Cheery Lynn  In Stitches Real or Faux   Here

Scrapy Land Anything Goes  Here
Mod Squad Quick and Easy  (Just kidding) 

Oval Accordian card die available at Elizabeth Crafts

Happy Birthday from Cheery Lynn

Cover Plate from PTI

DP PTI 

Leaves   Cheery Lynn aand Spellbinders

Flowers Stampendous
Inside Sentiment PTI 

Home made rose