TCC201 Give Thanks to the Lord

 

Hi Friends!

Welcome to our new #201 {Fall Leaves} Challenge at the The Card Concept!

Look at all those gorgeous fall leaves!  In the Mid-Atlantic, fall is so colorful!  I absolutely love the magnificent display of God’s handiwork :-)

At The Card Concept, we are looking forward to seeing what inspires your card.  Will it be the overall theme, the colors, leaves, textures or something else?

I was inspired by the leaves as well as the colors and textures for my Clean and Layered Mixed Media card.

Many of you who follow my blog know that one of my goals is to ink up some of my retired stamp sets along with using retired ribbons, etc.  I am so thankful that this card allowed me to do so!  

If you have not already visited us at The Card Concept, I hope you will find the time to do so.  Absolutely gorgeous inspiration from the rest of my DT sisters!  We hope that you will have the time to create a card and join us!

This was a fun card to create:

On a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” piece of white cardstock, use a blending brush to apply distress inks to create the background color (I used Fossilized Amber, Candied Apple and Picked Raspberry for this first step).

Lightly heat set the ink to dry the panel and de-static the panel with an embossing powder tool.

Ink the leaves from the retired Stampin’ Up! French Foliage stamp set with Versamark ink.  Stamp repeatedly onto the panel (masking some of the images as needed).

Apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing powder has cooled, apply additional distress ink to make the images “pop” (I used Ground Espresso, Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves, and Candied Apple),

Use a water-based marker to create more shadows under the leaves and once satisfied, ink the script and postage mark stamps from French Foliage with Versafine Onxy Black and stamp repeatedly in the background. 

Carefully wipe off the black ink from the embossed leaves, and since I was dissatisfied with the black in the background (it was too dark to see), apply white embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Trim the panel to approx. 3 ¾” x 5” and mount onto a piece of orange cardstock, trim and mount onto a piece of blackberry cardstock.

Wrap a piece of pumpkin chevron ribbon over the panel (wrapping the ends behind the panel).

Add a piece of stitched blackberry satin ribbon (again, wrapping the ends behind the panel).

Mount the entire panel onto a white card base.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the verse sentiment from the Scripture Medley 3 (retired Verve Stamps) with Versafine Black Onyx ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, die cut the sentiment with a stitched  die, mount onto a piece of orange cardstock, trim and mount onto a piece of blackberry cardstock.

Adhere the sentiment to the card front with dimensional foam to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: French Foliage (retired Stampin’ Up!), Scripture Medley 3 (retired Verve Stamps)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark; Distress Inks- Candied Apple, Fozzilized Anber, Ripe Persimmon, Ground Espresso, Seedless Preserves; Stampin’ Write Blackberry Bliss Marker

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Bliss

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., MFT Stitched Rectangle STAX A2 Set 1, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear and White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Pumpkin Pie Chevron Ribbon, 3/8” Blackberry Bliss Stitched Satin Ribbon

I enjoy playing along with online challenges and will be joining the Cardz 4 Galz #211 "Thank You, Thankful or Thanksgiving" Challenge.  

Thanks again for taking the time to visit! I hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our #201 {Fall Leaves} Challenge at The Card Concept! The deadline to play along is Monday, December 11th at noon EDT.  

Loved Beyond Measure

 

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing a quick floral card that was designed using the Get Well Tulip Bundle along with the Farmhouse Simple Sentiments stamp set, the Craft Consortium Grunge Dark 6x6 Paper Pad and a few other supplies all from Stamp Simply.

Mother’s Day is on the horizon and I thought the sentiment would be perfect for a wonderful mother (or mother figure) in your life.

As many of you who follow my blog know, I enjoy playing along with online challenges and am linking this card to the Cardz 4 Galz #169 “Spring Flowers for Mother’s Day or Spring Flowers” Challenge and the Simon Says Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not already had a chance to do so, I hope you visit the Stamp Simply blog to see all of the inspiration from the rest of the SS Design Team as well as the above challenge sites- beautiful galleries from all!

To create this card:

Trim a piece of the white cardstock to 4” x 5 ¼”, emboss with the Darice Vine Pattern embossing folder. 

Add a strip of the 1.5” white Raschel lace onto the dry embossed panel, mount the panel onto a white card base.

 Ink the tulip image from the Get Well Tulip stamp set with Versafine Black Onyx ink, stamp the image onto a piece of red and again onto a piece of green patterned Grunge Dark paper. 

Fussy cut the image – the petals from the red pattern and the leaves/stem from the green and adhere to the tulip die cut from white cardstock to create the paper pieced design.

Ink the sentiment from Farmhouse Simple Sentiments with Versafine Black Onyx ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut the sentiment with the Fishtail Sentiment Banner Dies and die cut another banner from white cardstock.  Adhere the sentiment onto the blank die cut (this helps create a thicker die cut).

Adhere the sentiment first onto the card front and then add the die cut  using dimensional foam.

Use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the petals and finish off the card with a few black rhinestones.

Stamp Sets: Get Well Tulip Bundle, Farmhouse Simple Sentiments (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Wink of Stella Brush- Clear Glitter Marker

Cardstock/Paper:  White, Black; Craft Consortium Dark Grunge 6x6 Paper Pad

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Stamp Simply Clear Stamps- Get Well Tulip Bundle; Stamp Simply Steel Dies- Fishtail Sentiment Banners, Darice Embossing Folder- Vine Pattern, Raschel Lace 1.5” – 3 yards- White, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Rhinestones- Black, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- I hope all of you have a blessed week!

God Is Our Refuge

Hi Friends!

I hope all of you are having a wonderful week and are looking forward to the weekend.

I have been working on organizing my craft room over the summer and creating in-between with images and/or stamp sets that I have discovered and not used in a while. 

This card was designed with one of the images that I had previously colored and fussy-cut (and found in my stash).

I am linking this card to several online challenges- Cardz 4 Galz #103 Wings and Word Art Wednesday #400-#401 “Anything Goes”.

If you have not had a chance to stop by the above challenge sites, I encourage you to do so- fabulous inspiration from all!

Since I found this image in my craft room ready to go, this card was easy to create.

I used water-based markers to color the butterfly, fussy-cut, added clear glitter before applying ModPodge® to strengthen the butterfly image.  

I used Distress Oxide ink to stencil onto the white card base, spritzed a bit of water before heat embossing the sentiment with clear embossing powder.

I mounted the butterfly with dimensional foam and added a few sequins to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Swallowtail (digital image- retired Stampin’ Up!), Fear Not (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black,  Zig© FB Clean Color Markers- Lt Pink, Turquoise, Purple, Pink; Tim Holtz® Distress Oxide- Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire; Faber-Castelle™ Black Pitt Pen Marker, Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen

Cardstock/Designer Paper: Whisper White

Accessories: ModPodge®, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Sponge Dauber, ARTplorations™ Stained Glass Stencil, AquaPainter™, Sequins

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- hugs and I hope you have a great weekend!

Seaside Sketches- So Very Thankful

Hi Friends!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week!  This morning, I am sharing yet another card that I created recently using two of my retired stamp sets from Stampin’ Up! (Seaside Sketches and Stipple Shells) along with a sentiment from WPlus9 Design Studio, LLC).

I wanted to play along with several online challenges and am linking to:

Retro Rubber Challenge Blog #116 “Tic-Tac-Toe” Challenge (Diagonal- Designer Paper, Texture and Color Pens, Pencils, Ink) Seaside Sketches and Stipple Shells are both over ten years old

PINSpirational #244 Inspiration Challenge- I was inspired by the pinks, the pillows, the sand and seashore theme

Try Stampin’ On Tuesday #419 Sketch Challenge

Cardsz4Galz#102 Summer Fun Challenge (this is the first time I had a chance to play along with this challenge site)

WatercoolerWednesday #233 “Karen’s Feminine Anything Goes” Challenge

 If you have not had a chance to stop by the above challenge sites, I encourage you to do so- incredible inspiration from all!

To create this card:

1). De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the Seaside Sketches image using Versafine™ Onyx Black ink onto white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Once the embossing has cooled, watercolor using ink from water-based markers (see colors used below).

2). Die cut the image with a stitched square die and mount onto black cardstock, trim close to the edge.

3). Die cut a piece of bright raspberry pink designer paper with the same square stitched die, mount onto black cardstock and trim close to the edge.  Use a few scrap strips of the designer paper and mount onto the edges of a piece of black cardstock (to use for the card front). 

4). Emboss a piece of white cardstock with the retired Square Lattice embossing folder (SU!) , mount onto black cardstock and trim close to the edge.  Adhere the embossed/layered background to black card front. Mount the entire card front to the white card base.

5).  Mount the layered designer paper square on an angle onto the card front (per the TSOT Sketch).  Add a bit of looped silver cord and adhere the main focal image using dimensional foam (or scrap chipboard).

6). Using black India ink, stamp the shell images from Stipple Shells onto white cardstock, heat set the ink with a heat tool and watercolor the images using water-based markers.  Fussy-cut each of the shells, use a black marker to finish off the cut edges of the images and a sponge dauber with distress oxide ink to add a bit of color.  Mount the shells onto the focal image (using dimensional foam as needed).

7). De-static a piece of black cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the sentiment from Pretty Patches: Apple (WPlus9 Studio, LLC), apply white embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.  Once the embossing has cooled, trim close to the edge of the sentiment.  Mount the sentiment onto the card front and add a few seashells with dimensional foam.

7). Finish off the card using a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the shells and water along with a few rhinestones in the corner of the focal image and sentiment.

Stamp Sets: Seaside Sketches and Stipple Shells (retired Stampin’ Up!), Pretty Patches: Apple (retired Wplus9 Studio LLC)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Ken Oliver Black India Ink, Tim Holtz® Distress Oxide- Ground Espresso; Zig® Clean Color™ FB Markers-  Pale Pink, Yellow, Ochre, Bright Pink, Blue, Turquoise; Stampin’ Write Markers- Pacific Point, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand; Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen

Cardstock/Designer Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, retired Raspberry Lemonade DSP (all Stampin’ Up!)

Accessories: Big Shot™,  Square Lattice Embossing Folder (retired SU!), My Favorite Things™ (MFT) Dies Stitched Squares STAX, Embossing Buddy®, Clear and White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Sponge Dauber, AquaPainter™, Rhinestones, Silver Cord

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs and I hope you have a great weekend!