Late Valentine
Posted: February 16, 2008 Filed under: All Through the Year, Priceless, Time Well Spent Leave a comment
I should have posted this one on Valentine’s Day, it is a valentine A11 made . I was impressed with the way she combined the hearts from three different sets in the one pretty card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Priceless, All Through the Year, Time Well Spent, Fundamental Phrases, So Swirly jumbo wheel
Cardstock: Cameo Coral, Blush Blossom, Whisper White
Inks: Cameo Coral
Also: Corner rounder punch
Only in black and white
Posted: February 13, 2008 Filed under: Priceless 1 Comment
Black and white are generally not the colours I use to make cards but I really like the striking effect of these cards. On the card above I embossed the hearts with black e.p. but I did not emboss the swirls behind. The white swirl and sentiment are rub-ons. On the card below you can see a difference in the black of the circle images and the black of the flowers. The circled flowers are embossed where the flowers in the lower half are not. I used a mask of a flower to stamp them repeatedly without overlap showing. Again I used white rub-ons.
I am going to make more in black and white and would love to see other people’s designs. Leave me a link in the comment section if you have some black and white designs to share. Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamps: Priceless
Inks: Black, Versamark
Cardstock: Whisper White, Black
Also: Circle punches, square punches, black e.p., Cherished Memories rub-ons, black and white grosgrain ribbon, black velvet ribbon (behind the circles)
Red and white hearts
Posted: February 10, 2008 Filed under: Priceless 1 Comment
I have been playing with one colour designs lately, one colour plus white or cream that is. The swirls in the Priceless set make pretty borders or corner details. To create the dots on the left hand side I stamped the flower and then punched the centre with a ¼” punch. If I made this card again I think I would leave out the dots on the side and make the large design stretch across the whole card. To shape the corners on the mattes I punched with the ticket corner punch through both the vanilla and red rectangles creating spaces for the red brads.
Supplies:
Stamps: Priceless, Hugs and Wishes
Inks: Real Red
Cardstock: Real Red, Very Vanilla
Also: ¼” circle punch, square punches, Red brads
Thinking of you
Posted: February 9, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper, My Kid's cards, Time Well Spent Leave a comment
My daughter A11 made this one the night we worked together to fill my board. It is a simple design but once again the designer paper makes it very pretty.
Supplies:
Stamps: Time Well Spent, Warmest Regards
Inks: Almost Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Le Jardin Designer paper, Almost Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Also: Cream organdy ribbon
Pink petals again?
Posted: February 8, 2008 Filed under: Pick a Petal 1 Comment
I really thought this would be the last pink, pick a petal card, but no, I have another that I designed for my Open House tomorrow night. Perhaps that will be my last. I do have some blue and yellow petals stamped and cut out, but not made into cards yet. The petals of this one were inked with regal rose and rose red markers then matted in rose red cardstock.
Supplies:
Stamps: Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings
Inks: Regal Rose, Rose Red markers and stamp pads
Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose, Rose Red
Also: Stampin’ dimensionals
Sponged butterflies
Posted: February 5, 2008 Filed under: Garden Whimsy Leave a comment
Another card from our card making challenge the other night. I like the soft effect of resist embossing, I used clear embossing powder on Vanilla cardstock and then sponged with Bashful Blue, More Mustard and Mellow Moss. You can’t tell but the gingham ribbon is layered over taffeta ribbon.
Supplies:
Stamps: Garden Whimsy, Whimsy jumbo roller
Inks: Mellow Moss, Versamark, Bashful Blue, More Mustard
Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Bashful Blue, Le Jardin Designer paper, Very Vanilla
Also: Moss gingham ribbon, Blue taffeta ribbon, Clear e.p, corner rounder
Leaves
Posted: February 5, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper, Lovely as a Tree Leave a comment
As A11 and I were creating the other night she noticed that most of my cards featured flowers or butterflies. It is harder to create cards for males but I think this one could be a man’s birthday card. It is one of the cards inspired by someone else’s sketch. Debbie Olsen posted this sketch on her beautiful blog the other day. The card was very quick to make as I used a strip of designer paper for the vertical panel.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Wild Wasbi, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi, Porcelain Prints d.p.
Also: corner rounder punch, stampin dimensionals
Scalloped print
Posted: February 4, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper Leave a comment
On Friday evening I set myself the challenge of making twelve cards before I went to bed. My display board is quite depleted and I need to refill it for my Open House next Friday night. I knew I wouldn’t get twelve different cards done in one night so I asked my younger daughter if she would like to take the challenge with me. My older daughter was away over night so A11 and I sat side by side at the craft table and created.
The first few cards were our own designs and took quite a while. Then we opened up a few of my favourite card blogs and picked sketches to follow. With the layout already thought out we moved a lot faster. We completed seven between us and I have since done two more so I am up to nine. Unfortunately that will not be enough to fill the board but I’m well on the way.
Above is one of the cards inspired by someone else’s sketch. This sketch is from the Card Positioning Systems blog which is a great resource for sketches. I used the scallop which was already part of the designer paper and added a matte and some sponging. On the area below the scallops I stamped the canvas background and then stamped Thinking of You all over the canvas. The sentiment is one of the new Rub-ons Stampin Up is now selling.
Supplies:
Stamps: Canvas, Warmest Regards
Inks: River Rock, Not Quite Navy
Cardstock: River Rock, Not Quite Navy, Porcelain Prints Designer paper, River Rock
Also: Cherished Memories rub-ons
Le Jardin with hearts
Posted: February 3, 2008 Filed under: Designer Paper, Priceless Leave a comment 
I played with the paper for a long time before I settled on this layout. The paper in this pack reminds me of pretty cotton quilting fabrics and I wanted that kind of effect in the card. It could be a Valentine card but as I don’t send Valentines I thought I would leave it blank and then stamp a sentiment when I decided who I would give it to. I gave the paper a frayed looking edge by scraping my fingernail along the edge and then pushing it up a little. The torn edge of the card was inked directly with the stamp pad.
Supplies:
Stamps: Priceless
Inks: Versamark, So Saffron, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Whisper White, Le Jardin Designer paper, Always Artichoke, River Rock, So Saffron
Also: Glassy Glaze e.p., Stampin’ dimensionals, Apricot & Cream grosgrain ribbon
Cards by my girls
Posted: February 1, 2008 Filed under: Garden Whimsy, My Kid's cards Leave a comment
My older daughter has a simple classic style as you can see in the card above. The little butterfly is a single stamp I have had for years and have no idea where it comes from. She stamped the sentiment in the same colour as the cardstock along the bottom.
My younger daughter likes a bit of sparkle. Once again it was a bit hard to photograph but she embossed the butterfly from Garden Whimsy with iridescent ice and then sponged around it.
Heather Telford 