Anniversary card

I just celebrated my 23rd wedding anniversary with my DH and created this card for him. It's kind of girlie, but he liked it anyway! LOL!!!

The doily punch from MS crafts was used on the solid red card stock. The label is from Quikutz and cuts a seperate border - and I just had to cut one in the same red card stock to match the lacey border.

I used a old retired SU! back ground stamp for the layer under the label. Palette pure poppy ink is used for the hearts and the back ground stamp.

The heart stamp is from Cards of Maria and I added a few hand drawn stitches and dots around it. This is kind of a fun little layout!

Hope your having a great week!

Bookworm

Here's the card I did for this weeks SCS sketch challenge.

Paper is from Paper Pizazz (HOTP) which I got very cheaply during their Mom's warehouse sale! American Craft brown card stock was used to layer everything. I colored the main image with Copic markers and added the antique copper brads in the lower left hand corner. I did use some vintage photo distress ink around the edges of the card. The image is from Cards of Maria's shop in Sweden.

We are starting to cool down a bit after our record breaking temperature of 103 on Wednesday in Seattle. 95% of the homes out here do not have air conditioning - so you can image our misery!

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Thanks a bunch!

Here's a card I put together using my new nestabilities dies I got for Christmas! I was ready to do something colorful - spring time - I'm so burned out on winter and snow right now!

The flowers were stamped on white card stock, colored with Copic Markers, then painstakingly cut out with scissors. I remember seeing a blog entry regarding how to make your own prima flowers with a punch and then going over the flower with a stylus to make it pop up. That is what I did with these.

Here is a close up of how the flowers look.

I did pop up a few of these using foam tape. I also added Kaiser Craft self adhesive pearls to the centers of the flowers. The flower stamp is from Cards of Maria - I think this came out very cheerful and would perk up anyone's day!

Supplies:

Stamps - Cards of Maria, sentiment from Great Impressions, Leaf by The Angel Company

Copic Ciao Markers

Green card stock - Bazzill

White card stock - Georgia Pacific

Green gingham ribbon

Kaiser Craft Pearls

Have a great day!

Gift card holder

Hi there! I wanted to share this gift card holder with everyone. This one is pretty simple to make and is showing up all over the place. Cut a piece of card stock to 4 x 11. Score at 3, 5 1/2 and 8. Fold so that it looks like a "W" and then take a circle punch and and the window word punch and make the opening big enough to fit a gift card. You can see this in the picture below.

The Holly stamp is from Cards by Maria. It was stamped separately, colored with copic ciao markers in emerald green (G05) and then cut out. I used my largest hold punch and punched out some berries out of red card stock. The sentiment is Holiday Script from Lizzie Anne Designs.

As you can see I covered the panels with Christmas paper (that was from last season) and embellished things up a bit. The holiday circle is from Stampin Up! called riveting, which is stamped in Evergreen ink (colorbox) and embossed with clear ep. I also used the same holly stamp with versamark to stamp some holly on the far right side of the holder.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Card Sketch #86

Hi everyone! Here is sketch #86 - measuring a normal A2 size. The panels are 1 1/2 inches x 5 1/2 inches.



I used some of my pearl paper stash for this one! The dove and the sentiment are stamped in versamark and then embossed with silver embossing powder. In real life this is very pretty and would make a wonderful wedding or anniversary card.



I used a versamark pen and a ruler to outline the outside for the embossing around the edges.

We had thunderstorms last night - which is so rare in Western Washington! The last few days it has been very hot - so it's no wonder we had flashes of light and loud noises! It woke my DH up, but I slept right through it! Well, I hope everyone had a great weekend!



Supplies:
Stamps - Dove by Cards of Maria, sentiment is from TAC
Designer paper - soft sage by Reminisce
Versamark ink & pen
Silver embossing powder
Cream card stock