TCC211 Thankful Blessings

 

Hi Friends!

It’s time for our #211 {Thankful Blessings} Challenge at The Card Concept!

This time of year, we tend to reflect on our blessings and I am truly blessed! While it has been over two years since my husband passed away and I miss him every day, I am so thankful that we had almost 40 years together and that he is with the Lord!  I know one day we will be reunited for all eternity.  Thank you, Lord Jesus for our salvation through faith in You and the peace that surpasses all understanding.  

 

I was inspired by the Thankful Blessings theme as well as the leaves and autumn items in our inspiration ohot for my Clean and Layered/Mixed Media card.  

I decided to pull out the Give Thanks Bundle stamp/die set along with designer paper, twine and rhinestones (all from Stamp Simply).  

I think the leaf image and verse sentiments in this bundle are perfect for this time of year!  

 I am also participating with the Addicted to Stamps and More #481 Make Your Mark Challenge and the Simon Says Monday “Thankful/Thanksgiving” Challenge.

I hope you will take a moment to visit our challenge blog to see how the rest of the Design Team were inspired as well as check out the other challenge galleries to see their fabulous creations!

 

To create this card:

De-static a piece of the Craft Consortium Beach Hut 6x6 paper with an embossing powder tool, ink the verse sentiment from Give Thanks with Versafine Onyx Black ink, stamp onto the prepared paper, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, trim the panel to approx. 3 ¾” x x 5 ¼” , mount onto white cardstock (approx. 4” x 5 ⅜”).  

De-static another piece of white cardstock (as above to prep for embossing), ink the leaf image from Give Thanks with Versafine Onyx Black ink, stamp onto the prepared paper, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Repeat the process above for the second leaf.

Watercolor the leaves with distress oxide inks and water-based markers (colors listed below).

Die cut the leaves with the coordinating die from the Give Thanks Bundle (I also die cut two additional leaves from plain white cardstock to layer behind the embossed/colored images).

Add the orange twine, wrapping the ends behind the panel.

Add the leaves to the card front- the first one directly onto the card front panel and the second one with dimensional foam.

Adhere the card front panel to a white card base.

Finish off the card with the twine bow and bronze rhinestones.

 

Stamp Sets:  Give Thanks Bundle (Stamp Simply)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distress Inks- Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Ground Espresso, Brushed Corduroy; Stampin' Write Markers- Tangelo Twist 

Cardstock/Paper: White, Black; Craft Consortium Beach Hut 6x6 paper

Accessories/Tools: Gemini Jr™, Stamp Simply Dies- Give Thanks Bundle,  Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, May Art’s Baker’s Twine- 110 yd spool- Orange, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Rhinestones- Bronze

      Don’t forget to stop by and check out the current sale at Stamp Simply! 

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by! I hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our #211 {Thankful Blessings} Challenge at The Card Concept!  The deadline to play along is Monday, December 9^th  at noon EDT.  

Let Us Come Before Him

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing another quick card featuring the brand new Stamp Simply 6x6 paper pad- Coffee or Tea. 

As I mentioned before, I love the pastel colors with the coffee theme as well as the pretty gingham, lace doily and other patterns in this new paper pad!

I paired the beautiful Coffee or Tea paper with a sentiment from the Give Thanks stamp set along with circle die, banner dies, crochet lace and pearls (all from Stamp Simply)!

This card was another fairly easy card to create, and I was able to incorporate another SplitcoaststampersSketch (SC458) into the layout, woohoo! FYI- I have a personal goal to create one card for each of their over 1,000 sketch challenges, I am half way there :-). 

I also enjoy playing along with other online challenges and will be linking this card to the Double Trouble #175 "Any Way You Punch It" Challenge (I used two dies- a circle and a banner die versus punches) and the Word Art Wednesday #667-#668 "Anything Goes" Challenge.  

If you have not had a chance to check out the rest of my Sister Design Team cards on the Stamp Simply blog, or the other challenge sites yet, I hope you take the time to do so- fabulous inspiration from all! 

To create this card:

Trim a piece of the Coffee or Tea designer paper to approx. 4” x 5 ¼”, distress the edges with scissors or a distressing tool.

Mount the panel on a piece of deep purple cardstock, trim to approx. 4 ¼” x 5½”.   

Adhere the distressed designer paper panel onto a white card base.

Trim another piece of the Coffee or Tea paper (the striped panel) on the diagonal (per the sketch).

Mount the diagonal panel onto deep purple cardstock and adhere a piece of the crochet lace behind the panel before mounting onto the card front.

Mount the entire panel onto a white card base.

Die cut the strip of Coffee or Tea designer paper with the Farmhouse Sentiment Banners Dies, distressing the edges.

Die cut a larger banner from the same die set from deep purple cardstock, distressing the edges.

Layer the two banners together onto the card front.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the Give Thanks verse sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink , stamp onto the prepared cardstock, apply clear embossing powder, heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, die cut with a circle die (die cutting a second circle from the same die from deep purple cardstock to split in half, then layer behind the sentiment circle). 

Mount the layered sentiment circle to the card front with dimensional foam.

Finish off the card with a few soft blue pearls and a strip of the designer paper on the left-hand side of the inside panel (I like to do this to use up my scraps).

Stamp Sets:  Give Thanks (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx

Cardstock/Paper: White, Eggplant; Stamp Simply 6x6 Paper Pads- Coffee or Tea?

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Embossing Powder Tool, Heat Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Stamp Simply Dies- Fishtail Sentiment Banners Dies; Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles SM Dies,  May Arts 3/8” Crochet Lace- 15 yard spool- white, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Pearls- Bliss

Don’t forget to stop by and check out the sale at Stamp Simply!

Thanks again for visiting! I am praying for those of you in the path of Hurricane Helene- praying that you and your family stay safe! Hugs and God Bless!

Rejoice Always

 

Hi Friends!

Today I am sharing a card featuring the brand new (and first ever) Stamp Simply 6x6 paper pad- Coffee or Tea. 

 

I love the pastel colors with the coffee theme as well as the pretty gingham, lace doily and other patterns in this new paper pad!

I paired the beautiful Coffee or Tea paper with a sentiment from the Give Thanks stamp set along with an oval and leaf die, lace, ribbon and pearls all from Stamp Simply!

This card was very easy to create and I will be playing along with a few online challenges- the Double D Challenge “Fall Leaves” Inspiration Challenge  (I was inspired by the colors and leaves), the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge #256 Featured Designer Karen (far left side row down- Spring/Fall-Embossing- Layers as well as the middle row down Gems- Free- Die Cut) and the Word Art Wednesday #665-#666 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to check out the rest of my Sister Design Team cards on the Stamp Simply blog, or the other challenge sites yet, I hope you take the time to do so- fabulous inspiration from all!

 

To create this card:

Trim a piece of the Coffee or Tea designer paper to approx. 4” x 5 ¼”, distress the edges with scissors or a distressing tool.

Mount the panel on a piece of vanilla cardstock, trim to approx. 4 ⅛” x 5⅜”. 

Mount the entire panel onto a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” piece of dark purple cardstock.

Layer a piece of crochet lace onto the card front, wrap a piece of lilac seam binding over the top of the lace (wrapping the ends behind the panel).

Mount the entire panel onto a white card base.

Die cut the leaves from the Ink Drops- Sunset 6x6 paper pad, score the centers of the leaves, scrunch a bit by hand.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the Give Thanks verse sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink , stamp onto the prepared cardstock, apply clear embossing powder, heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, die cut with an oval die (die cutting a second oval from dark purple cardstock to layer behind the sentiment oval). 

Adhere the die cut leaves to the card front before adding the die cut oval sentiment with dimensional foam.

To finish off the card, add a few latte pearls to the upper left-hand corner and on the lower right of the oval sentiment.

Stamp Sets:  Give Thanks (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx

Cardstock/Paper: White, Black; Craft Consortium Ink Drops- Sunset 6x6 Paper Pad, Stamp Simply 6x6 Paper Pads- Coffee or Tea?

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Embossing Powder Tool, Heat Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Spellbinders Pierced Oval Dies, Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz-Fall Foliage, May Arts 3/8” Crochet Lace- 15 yard spool- white, Seam Binding Sampler- Rich Pastels- 40 yards, Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Pearls- Latte

Don’t forget to stop by and check out the new items and sale at Stamp Simply!

Thanks again for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful weekend/week! 

TCC200 Give Thanks

 

Hi Friends!

Welcome to our new #200 {Autumn Chill} Challenge at the The Card Concept!

Our inspiration photo for this month invokes feelings of the autumn chill in the air, doesn’t it?

We are looking forward to seeing what inspires your card! Will it be the overall theme, the actual elements (book, coffee leaves sweater, etc.), the colors, textures or something else?

I was inspired by the rich fall colors, textures and leaves for my Clean and Layered card.

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

This was a fun card to create:

Trim the purple background paper from the Craft Consortium Over The Rainbow paper pad to approx. 4 ¼” x 5 ½”, emboss with the Foliage 3D embossing folder and then die cut the corner with the TH Mixed Media #1 die.

Lightly sand the embossed panel to raise the detail.

Trim the panel to approx. 4” x 5 ¼” and adhere to a 4 ⅛” x 5 ¼” piece of white cardstock, then mount onto a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” black card front.

Adhere the panel to a white card base.

Die cut the leaves using the TH Fall Foliage Thinlit Dies from a piece of the orange/yellow designer paper from the Craft Consortium Sunset Ink Drops 6x6 paper pad. Crush the leaves by hand a bit to distress.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, stamp the verse sentiment from the Give Thanks stamp set 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 circle die, die cut another circle a bit larger from black cardstock and layer the sentiment onto the black circle.

Adhere the sentiment to the card front with dimensional foam.

Add the die cut leaves around and under the circle and finish off the card with a few black rhinestones.  

Stamp Sets: Give Thanks- (Stamp Simply)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Craft Consortium Over The Rainbow  6x6 Paper Pad, Craft Consortium Ink Drops- Sunset 6x6 Paper Pad

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Sizzix Thinlit Dies by Tim Holtz- Fall Foliage, Sizzix Thinlit Dies by Tim Holtz -Mixed Media #1, Spellbinders Nestabilities- Standard Circle Dies- SM, Sizzix 3D Texture Fades by Tim Holtz- Foliage, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Black Rhinestones

I enjoy playing along with online challenges and will be linking this card to the Craft Rocket #108 "Autumn and/or Halloween" Challenge. 

Thanks again for taking the time to visit! I hope you are inspired to create a card and join us for our #200 {Autumn Chill} Challenge at The Card Concept! The deadline to play along is November 6th at noon EST. 

Give Thanks Bookmark Set

 

Hi Friends!

This week at the Stamp Simply blog, the Stamp Simply Design Team have been sharing bookmarks.  Bookmarks make great gifts along with a book or you can also use them as tags.  

If you have not had a chance to check out my Sister DT cards yet, I hope you will do so- fabulous inspiration from all!

I love creating fall cards and decided to pull out the Give Thanks stamp set, pair it with the Craft Consortium Brick Textures 6x6 Paper Pad and the Tim Holtz Tag Collection dies to make a few fall bookmarks.  

To create this set of bookmarks:

Trim three pieces of black cardstock to 2 ¼” x 11”. 

Place the Tim Holtz medium tag die onto the cardstock and allow a bit of the bottom of the die to be outside of the cutting plates before running the die through the machine. 

Trim the edges of the tag/bookmark to match the die cut edges.

De-static the lower part of the designer paper with an embossing powder tool, ink the verse sentiment from Give Thanks with Versafine Onyx Black ink, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

De-static a piece of white cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the leaf image from the Give Thanks stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black ink, stamp onto the prepared cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Watercolor the image using water-based markers and die cut with the coordinating die.

Cut two additional leaves from white cardstock, layer behind the colored image.

Mount the leaves onto the bookmarks with dimensional foam,

Add a looped piece of the beige striped ribbon and tie with a piece of linen thread to finish off the bookmarks.

Stamp Sets: Give Thanks Bundle (Stamp Simply)

Inks/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx, Stampin’ Write Markers- Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, Tangelo Twist, Poppy Parade, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake

Cardstock/Paper: White, Black, Craft Consortium Brick Textures 6x6 Paper Pad

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Stamp Simply Steel Dies- Give Thanks Bundle, May Arts Coffee & Tea Ribbon Sampler- 10 yards, Linen Thread, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Don’t miss out on the current specials at Stamp Simply!

Thanks again for stopping by!  I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!