Cards from My Prize

I was lucky enough to be the first Facebook winner in Ellen Hutson's 5th anniversary give away.  The prize was a Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral Stamp & Die Cut set.  What was so impressive to me was how fast I received it.  Of course I had to play with it right away. Forget about cleaning the house, doing the laundry and getting ready for Christmas, I had to play.  For this card I used Echo Park's Happy Days for my DP.  I stamped my image using Memento Cantaloupe and Bamboo Leaves and after cutting it out with the matching die I added some Potters Clay, Tangelo and Canteloupe to the petals with Memento markers and colored the center with Rich Cocoa.  I mounted the flower and the little dragonflies onto a piece of scrap black card stock after adding the scrap of yellow across it (the DP is two sided so I knew it would work-takes a lot of thinking out of the process when using these paper pads).  I stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black and cut it out and the card was done.

For this next card I used DP from Jilly Bean Soup's Dutch Mustard paper pad.  I used Cryogen White for my card base and then cut the DP slightly smaller.  That card stock has a subtle sparkle that I just love and hate to cover up completely.  The yellow is Memory Box Sunflower card stock.  This flower I stamped with Cantaloupe and then I swiped some Tangelo around the center and again Bamboo Leaves for the stem and leaves.    The sentiment was stamped with Rich Cocoa.  All of the DP was part of a previous order I received from Ellen Hutson , love her site.   Hope you like my cards and thanks for stopping by.

  

Happy Anniversary Mary & Mike

I may have posted this card before but I sent it to my cousin Mary and her husband Mike for their 38th anniversary (btw I'm way to young to have a cousin celebrating 38 years of wedded bliss).

I've always loved this card and saved it for someone special. It is kind of a different spin on an anniversary card with the colors and all but I did have fun making it.

I used a Sizzix folder (I think it's Hearts & Flowers) to emboss the white card stock then used my finger to rub on the colors, added the sentiment then mounted it to a black card base.

Another elegantly simple card.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Valentine's Day

I don't normally do Valentines' cards, but my cousin Mary sent me the cutest Valentine so I had to reciprocate.

I wanted to make one for her and also one for each of the people I send cards to each month for my church group.

I knew I wanted to use this red card stock from Gina K for the base and the heart and the white for a background.

I haven't done many embossed cards lately so I pulled out my Cuttlebug and Sizzix folders and got to work. Then I popped the heart up and I was done.

I think I ended up with a simple but elegant card.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by.

An Embossed Anniversary Card

This Anniversary card was made for the Church sale (it didn't sell but I still like it.)

I embossed with the Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing folder from the Floral Flourishes and Vines set.

I'm not quite sure why they call this a Vines folder, looks like hearts to me. So that is the way I interpret it. My fingers were the paint brush on this one, rubbing on metallic colors (reminds me of finger painting in kindergarten).

I used silver first over all of it, then went back and added red to the "hearts".

The sentiment was cut out with a Nestabilities Tag and gray rhinestone finished off.

How do you like it? Thanks for stopping by.

A Get Well Card

I was looking for something new for a card and decided to wander through some of my stash for ideas.

I found this sticker and decided it would work for a get well card. It is an old Magenta Sticker I've had for years. I pulled it out and put it on a scrap of card stock and colored with Copics.

I then double matted it and mounted on the card stock embossed with a Sizzix folder that I used for the first time.

So something old something new and if there was blue I'd have to make it a wedding card. LOL.

Anyway I like it, what do you think.

Thanks for stopping by.

Little Trees

I know I said no more trees but I can't help myself. The Fir Tree Nestabilities set has this little one and I had so much fun cutting them out from the scraps left over from the bigger trees. Well I just had to play with them. This is the card I came up with. The front row of trees is popped up with dimensionals for a little depth. The base was run through the Cuttlebug using the Sizzix snowflake embossing folder. The sentiment is Stampendous and cut out with a Nestabilities tag. I sponged a little Memento Cottage Ivy on it and added a couple of red rhinestones. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Embossed Christmas Tree

I got this idea from Sue Nelson. The tree is cut with Nestabilities, using the middle size. I embossed both the DP and the tree using the Sizzix snowflake folder. I added the gold rhinestone as a tree topper. This is such a simple card to make that it almost seems like cheating.
The green DP is PaperTrey and I used Cryogen White for the tree. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.