Lovely Teal & Silver

 

Hello!

Today I made a card to enter the Color Hues: #122 - Teal and Silver challenge. So here is my card. I like it.  You?  It is nice to have another one finished for my Christmas list.

To make the card I used retired Stampin' Up! Taken With Teal cardstock to make an A2 size left folding card. I have only a couple of sheets left, but found some more on-line. Expensive, but that's okay as I love the color. Acturally, any hue of blue is my favorite!

In my huge stash of specialty card stock I found a pack of shiny silver from Erin Lee Creative. Using my Stamp & Cut machine,  I cut out both flower and the greeting. Gluing them was the hard part because as usual, I didn't think to use an adhesive sheet. Sigh. My finger in the glue worked out. :-)

The elegant die is retired from Poppy Stamps called Stained Glass Poinsettia. The word die Joy is an older goodie from Queen & Co. 

Inside is a nice piece of white cardstock with a couple of snowflakes cut from the leftover silver paper. I will write a note before mailing. 

I almost always write a note in my Christmas cards. Do you? A great deal of my friends live out of state.

A cloudy but quite warm for November day here...in the 40's. I am looking forward to some snow, but it probably will be a while yet.

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Hello Friends

 Hello,

This card was made for the October Card Chain Challenge and it is wending its way to Illinois. I hope Ellie likes it.

It was difficult getting a good picture that shows both the embossed flower and stem and the greeting. This shows it fairly well taken with my old Kodak camera. 

The flower and sentiment are both from SU retired set called Inked & Tiled. My cardbase is Not Quite Navy. Using my MISTI, I stamped the flower image with VersaMark and sprinkled on two WOW glitter embossing powders. Metaline Kiwi Krush and Carousel are the colors. 

To cover a boo-boo, I used an old oval punch to cut an opening that turned out to be perfect for my Hello Friend greeting from the above set too. I stamped through the opening onto white cardstock on the inside. Had to use a stamping block for that, something I hadn't used in ages. Do you all use your blocks anymore?

I mimicked the color of the flower with three sticky dots from my bling drawer and was done. I just wrote a note before mailing on the paper inside.

Here are the options for October. I like doing friendship cards.

Theme Options: Wee Folk (Fairies, Elves, Gnomes etc.) / Trees / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Glitter / Splatts

After a lovely autumn day here and it is time to get to bed. Night night and happy stamping!

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A Birthday Princess

 

Hello Again!

I am sharing the card I made for my great-granddaugher's 4th birthday which is soon. She decided she wanted a princess party and a fancy dress and crown to wear. She got both and looked darling.

Hope she likes the card. I do. Do you?

I have had this stamp for years but don't think I ever have used it. So am addding the card to NBUS #79. The stamp is by Hampton Art, but am not sure how old it is. I love my collection of wooden stamps!

The embossed backhround I found in my "to use" stash, so I  covered the A2 whole card front. After coloring the image with my SU Blends, I framed and cropped it with Spellbinders Fluted Classics Rectangles die. That seems to be retired. 

Colors used: Light Pink Pirouette, Boho Blue, and Daffodil Delight along with an old silver Jelly Roll pen. I just stamped Happy Birthday inside.

My great-granddaughter hurried past the card to open her present. Her mother liked my card, though.

It was a lovely, lively, and noisy birthday party yesterday. Fun, but I was glad to get home to the quiet. 😊

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For Halloween

 Boo!

Here is the card I made for my adult grandson who lives nearby. Too old to go trick or treating, I have candy and a beer for him when he comes over! teehee

Wood stamp shown is an oldie from Hero Arts. I think called EEK.  Stamped it on white with VersaFine Onyx Black and added die cuts from my Halloween stash on top. Gray and orange card stock from Stampin' Up! are my frames. A really quick card make.

Submitting card to October Edition/Woodblack Wednesday at the last minute. 

Supposed to cool down this week, but the colorful leaves are still hanging from the trees. So pretty outside.

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I Love Purple

Hello Again,

 After about 20+ pictures taken and cropped, here is my entry to The Flower Challenge #107. * Whew!

I really love any shade/hue of purple but do not have a lot of ink pads. Found a little one by Memories Direct in my stash and used it with a stencil. This stencil is from Uniko called Pure Florals Gerbera. It is still available on their website.

Here is my card...is it Purple enough for this October flower challege? I like the card. You?

The card base is SU, not sure the name, but stamping on a scrap showed me the little ink pad named above would go nicely. It fit well on my A2 side folding card. 

Using the same ink, I then stamped my sentiment right next to the flower. Oops, crooked. So I stamped again on a snippet of white die cut using an oval punch. The sentiment is from the retired SU set called Love & Sympathy. I think purple is a good color for sympanthy cards.

Lastly, I added a little gem found in my drawer of bling. Can you believe I have a whole drawer of bling from many different companies? True story.

Inside is a 4 x 5-1/2 piece of white c.s. ready for a note. Am hopeful I will not need to send the card soon.

Because I used a snippet of paper for the sympathy greeting, I am adding the card to the Snippets Playground #516.  I haven't played there in a very long time. 

That is it from me for now. Take care of yourselves and happy crafting. It is a rainy Autumn day here, so was perfect for making a card.

*Edited to say I notice my card at Flower Challenge is sideways but I haven't found a way to fix that. Maye they will help me, I asked.

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World Card Making Day

 Hi~

With what supplies I had on hand, I tried some of the technique shown by Jay in the UK on his video that was part of the SU special card making day presentations.  Used Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight full size stamp pads.  I smooched the colors onto my glass mat and spritzed them well like he did before dropping a piece of white cardstock on top. That's my whole card front.

See?  

From black cardstock, I die cut the open tree scene from SU In older In The Grove die set but I lobbed off the top part. Like Jay, I put my sentiment in the middle of the trees. Because the dried smooshed part is lumpy, the words are hard to read. Says, "You've been on my mind" from the retired Memorable Blooms stamp set.

To finish, I stamped the moon from Hero Arts in my sunset sky.

Another card for my stash. Maybe it will go to my lovely granddaughter who is away at grad school in upper New York state.

Cloudy and rainy and warm day here in MN. Cool weather is coming this week, thank heavens. I'm ready for Fall now.

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