Manly Monday You are my Star card

The card is by Feature Art in Australia. The chevron stencil is by Creative Expression and ink is Distress Oxide. I made the corners by taking a square and  cutting it in half corner to corner.

Simon Says Stamp Monday stars and /or stripes challenge

I made this card for Craft Roulette #

Parameters:

Project: Slimline 

Color: insects (Googled insects)

Element: April (for Paul’s birthday in April)

Random: in the corner (corner dies)

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Roses Slimline cards

On this first card, I inked the stencil with pigment inks by Colorbox onto vellum with white stripes. Then I heat set it with clear embossing powder by Hero Arts. From there, I just cut it down, added mats behind it, added some rhinestones and then added a sentiment onto a red die cut.

This second card has the same background just on Sizzix gold opulent paper. 

You can see the heat embossing on this picture. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-add pink

Manly Monday Slimline Pumpkin card

The patterned paper scraps were found in my stash. The pumpkin stamps and sentiment are by Stampibilities. I colored them in with Copic markers. The enamel dots are by Hero Arts-maybe.Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Christmas Cricut Slimline card

Slimline cards are a challenge for me. I feel like there’s so much wasted space yet if you fill it up, it’s just too much. 

The background patterned paper is by Bo Bunny.  The poinsettia is a Cricut die cut (Image set called Christmas Noel).

 

I dry embossed one of the layers of the poinsettia with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before adding Stickles to the petals.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts; I heat embossed it in gold and then colored in the frame with a mixture of paint and chalk. The ric rack is from my mother-in-law‘s stash.

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday My Cousin turns 40th this month

Let’s take note that this is a slim-line card. Some things I don’t do very often.

My cousin’s birthday is today and this is the card I made for her. I started out with a silver cardstock by Creative Memories. Sadly, they no longer sell this paper. Next is the pink gingham patterned paper is an oldie by Paper Pizzazz. 

So let’s talk about these flowers. So, Stampin Up, I’m working with 3 different stamp sets. 1 stamp set has a matching die to cut it out. For the remaining 2, you stamp the image and then punch it out by using a matching punch. I’ve always had a problem getting them lined up correctly.

The pink flower with the silver flecks is by Prima. The rest of the flowers are Gemini dies.

Warning: this next description is weird and messed up. Everything in this description is not in the same sitting. I mean like years apart. But it was a happy accident that worked out beautifully. 

I die cut a piece of pink paper by Sizzix. 

Then I got new dies by Creative Expression. 

I cut a new shape out of the old shape and then left it inside of the die for a while. Time goes by until 

I finally wanted to use my new die, so I used a blending tool with distressed ink before removing the die from the paper. 

Time goes by again. 

I wanted to make a special card for my cousin 

I placed a gray paper behind it and then found these number stickers and they worked perfectly for this card. I love the way it turned out. I hope she got it on time. Thanks for looking.

 That probably made no sense to anyone but it was worth a try. After writing up this post for an hour and 15 minutes I’m calling it quits. Thanks for looking.