Anniversary card

Hello and welcome, thanks for stopping by! It has been a while since my last post, my apologies, but summer got really busy. Anyway I am back with another card idea for you folks...hopefully you'll like it.

Today happens to be our wedding anniversary...my husband and I are celebrating 8 wonderful years of marriage! Time flies when you're having fun! Anyway of course I had to make a card for him, and as I've mentioned before, I am not really good with masculine-themed cards. So I drew inspiration from a beautiful picture on our work e-mail program. Here it is...

 I thought the colors were just so brilliant! And being as it is nature, it is kinda neutral. So here is my card version of it...

This card was easy to make. I just sponged all my colors to replicate the picture. I used Rich Razzleberry, Blackberry Bliss, Night of Navy, So Saffron and Grapefruit Grove ink pads. Then I just drew the horizon and 'mountains' with my black marker before stamping my tree from my fave set Rooted in Nature. The tree kinda blended in with the black mountains in the horizon, so I decided to put some random highlights using my white pen. 

The sentiment is from the stamp set Beautiful Bouquet, white-heat embossed on a die-cut piece of black cardstock using a die from the Petals and More thinlits set. This was then just adhered using some dimensionals for a bit of interest. I wanted so much to add more embellishments, but my husband literally hates any bling on cards, so I had to restrain myself. I thought simpler is better (for this project anyways :) I couldn't resist adding a bit of Wink of Stella though!

I just layered this on a Basic Black cardstock and then adhered the whole piece onto a Very Vanilla card base. And that is my project for today! Once again thank you for dropping by and I hope to see you next time! 

Simple Garden Impression card

     Part of my Display Stamper supply kit was the Garden Impressions 6x6 DSP (p.130), and when I first looked at it my immediate thought was that it was not my cup of tea. It wasn't because of anything against the product, it was just not my style. I thought that I would barely use it, maybe make one project out of it at least, and I'll be done with it. Well guess what? Just the opposite happened!

     I started playing with it and making projects with it, and before I knew it I had almost used up all my paper! Now if you knew me, you'd find this hard to believe because I am a HUGE paper hoarder! As of today, this stack is literally all that's left...crazy right!?

     Anyway for my display sample I decided to make use of this DSP and make a quick and easy card with it. This card would make such a great class project because it's so simple and uses minimal supplies!

     To make this I used Dapper Denim as my card base, and one of the floral DSP designs as my layering piece. I stamped my sentiment from the Beautiful Bouquet set on a piece of Pool Party stitched circle die-cut piece and layered this on top of a Dapper Denim circle die-cut. For additional interest, I die-cut the big flower from the Springtime Impressions Thinlits (p.129) on a piece of Champagne Foil, trimmed one of the big flowers and adhered it onto my sentiment piece. 

     To finish it off, I wrapped a silver ribbon around my DSP and adhered my sentiment piece on top using dimensionals. For embellishment I just added a few rhinestone jewels, and my card is complete!

     Super simple and easy to make, I can already see a class forming! Hope you enjoyed today's display board card and thanks for stopping by. See ya next time!

     

GDP132

     OnStage is almost upon us...it's crunch time!!! Swaps are all done and Display samples are all finally finished. Now time for some GDP fun!

     This week at Global Design Project the challenge is CASE the Designer, and what a beautiful card Stesha Bloodhart has created for us to CASE! 

     Just lovely, right?!? Now from her card, I decided to copy her flower and leaves theme and her stamp/die-cut placement. I made the leaves as my primary focus though, and the flowers kinda in the background. My leaves are from the Vintage Leaves stamp set, and I stamped it on a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock with Versamark ink. I then heat embossed it with my copper embossing powder and then cut my pieces out. 

     My flowers are die-cut pieces using my Flourish Thinlits dies on gold foil sheet. And finally my sentiment is from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set, which I copper heat-embossed on a strip of Whisper white cardstock. 

     Putting my card together, I used Crumb Cake (A2 size) as my card base and Whisper White for my layering piece. I arranged my gold die-cut pieces around my leaves before finally adhering my leaves using dimensionals. I used dimensionals on my sentiment piece as well. Lastly to embellish my simple card, I just glued down a few scattered gold glitter flakes all over my card. 

     I hope you enjoyed my simple card for today, thanks so much for stopping by! Now who's going to OnStage in Red Deer?! Hope to see you guys there! Cheers!

Amazing You

     This year's Sale-a-bration items are truly awesome, and creating new projects with them is just too much fun! For today's card I decided to play with my Amazing You stamp set. This card is inspired by Global Design Project's theme challenge this week which is Sale-a-bration of course! Every week they have a new challenge and it's just fun to follow along and get inspired to create new projects!

   

     So here is my finished card. I used Pink Pirouette for my card base and Basic Black for my layering piece. My flowers are gold heat embossed and I used a mask so that I can have multiple images side by side. I also used my Stamp-a-ma-jig so that I can stamp my images exactly where I want them to be...no guess-work needed. My sentiment is from the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set which I gold heat embossed on a piece of Basic Black die-cut circle piece using the Layering Circles framelits dies. I also die-cut a piece of scalloped circle on Pink Pirouette cardstock and layered my sentiment piece on top of it. Finally to add a bit of color, I die-cut leaves and flowers using the Bouquet Bunch framelits dies and Lemon Lime Twist, Old Olive and Pink Pirouette cardstock. 

     I hope you enjoyed my simple card for today crafters, I sure had lots of fun creating this one! Thank you for stopping by and hope to see you next time. I wish you all a lovely day!