WEDDING CARD

Just realized this card could work for the Paper Players

Lakeside Anniversary PP350

Hi there,
Yup really, 7 months since a posting and now two in one day!

Here is a card I made for a young couple who will be getting married this coming weekend in Grand Rapids, MI.  Their wedding invitation was hand made by the bride-to-be, using paper doilies so I thought I would create a similar theme that she would appreciate. I die cut the scalloped circle and  heat embossed with silver EP as well as the sentiment, this was then popped up onto a paper doily (I was so wishing I had silver doilies, but...) added a strip of silver glitzy paper then adhered it to an embossed panel and that's it.

Here tis...

This is the back of the envelope that I embossed with a Mr and Mrs sentiment kinda difficult to get a good photo with the silver embossing.

That's it for now.

Supplies from PTI and Stampin' Up

FINALLY A POST!

Here it is almost 7 months since my last posting....I needed a birthday card for a special friend and this is what I came up with (after viewing the many different versions of this stamp/die set on Pinterest).

I'm not even sure if it's a "special" birthday for my friend, but in case I thought I'd make it special looking with all the gold paper.

Can you notice the shadow wording?  That happened as an accident!  I had stamped the sentiment once in gold ink and then again (moving it just a smidge) in black.  I love how it turned out, what do you think?

Here's a picture of the first version, which I actually preferred, but couldn't quite duplicate it, but I'm still happy with the outcome.

I though it was kinda cool.

That's it for now.

All supplies used were from Stampin' Up

THANK YOU CARD

Hi there,
Another quick and clean card

I love this clean and simple look.  The stitched rectangle dies were a gift from my talented and creative daughter, Nance Leedy of Canopy Crafts.
I found the image sitting in a basket on my desk and decided to use it, so I cut it down to size and matted it on a "similar" color to the words in the image, then adhered it to a slightly larger stitched rectangle and that's it.  I kept the inside plain as I wanted to write a personal note.

Thanks for looking and hopefully leaving a comment.

PS.
The image is a stamp and die from Papertrey Ink called Splits

Flamingo Thank you

Here's a cute little card I needed as a Thank you.  A fairly quick and easy card.

I die cut the flamingo from a piece of card stock where I wanted it to be then  die cut it again from a separate piece of white card stock.  I then placed the image back into the die space, using my trusty Misti I was able to line it up perfectly and stamp it (look how perfectly the eye and beak came out). 

The legs were a separate die and stamp and I just realized I had used a pink card stock when I stamp it.   The effect I wanted was the stamped bird, but still the cut shape visible on the front of the card.
I added the simple plants along with pools of water for the standing bird.  The sentiment is a very old retired one that I was able to curve as if the bird was saying it.  A little bit of pink embroidery floss to the bottom of the card before I adhered it to an A-5 card.

That's it for now.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Hugs
Nancy

THREE RECENT CARDS

Hi Di (since you're almost the only one who looks at my blog),

Anyhow here are three cards I made recently, this first one you should recognize with the clear window looking into the card, as the one I sent to John for his birthday.  Hope he got it in time.

It is a card I copied from someone on Pinterest can't remember her blog name though.  She had a nice tutorial explaining the dimensions of all pieces for the card, which made it pretty simple to follow along.
Here's a shot of the inside before I added the birthday verse...

This is the second one I made the same day...

 And another...

As you can see I made 2 of each design and later made several more of the Wetlands goose set.

That's it for right now, thanks for looking.

Hugs

Nancy

Sending Get Well Bouquet

I made this card using a new stamp/die set, that I truly didn't understand when I first received it.  I had to go back to the original site and re-read the directions on how the sample card was made.  Now that I understand it, I can't believe how easy and beautifully it stamps.

The overall bouquet is an outline stamp, then you can stamp the solid images in a variety of colors or watercolor if that's what you want to do.  The way the leaves and flowers line up using my Misti is perfect.  I have always struggled with stamping onto "line" images or unto die cut pieces, not getting them to line up well, but using the Misti all the guess work is taken away.

So here's the card I made...

Here's a peek at the inside, now off to get it in the mail.

Thanks for looking and leaving a comment.
Hugs,
Nancy

Stamps, ink and cardstock, Papertrey Ink

JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

With January approaching ever so fast, I'm resolving in 2017 to be a little more attentive to making and mailing handmade cards to friends and family (I think I said this last year too, so we'll see).

The month of January has several birthdays that I would like to acknowledge so here are two of my cards.
I first dry embossed a piece of cherry cobbler cs and rounded the corners.  Next I die cut a scallop tag and embossed it with a musical note.   Then stamped the musical treble clef onto vellum paper, I heat embossed the clef with black embossing powder to give it some attention and then fussy cut it.  The little heart at the bottom was stamped in red and smeared with clear "Wink of Stella" for some glitter.  The sentiment was added to a strip of cs and gently placed over the center of the clef to hide the foam tape.  A silver thread was added with a glue dot to the hole at the top of the tag.
I really like the way this turned out, what do you think?

The second card today is fairly simple and cased from Betsy Feldman of PTI.    I'm always amazed at the creativity of the designers, how do they think up all the details for the dies and stamps, I'm definitely impressed.

The die comes in two pieces one is a shadow (completely filled in) and the second is a detailed die.  Per instructions I ran the shadow die first in black cs, then ran it through a second time using the detailed die on top of it.  This allows you to offset the detail piece over the shadow piece.  I'm sure this sounds very confusing, but it really is quite simple once you understand the dynamics of how the die works.  It does all the work for you.
In order to get the multi-colored word, I water-colored another shadow die and used that behind the first two dies.
The top of the card was stamped with banners, stars and curly q's.  This is probably going to be sent to a male friend since there's not much embellishment on it.

I love the way the word "celebrate" turned out, so much so, that I made a few more to have on hand.

Here's a close up of the word (I added three layers to raise it up).

And that's all for today, thanks for letting me know what you think of the cards, I appreciate hearing from you.
Nancy