I Can Do All Things

Hi Friends!

I am having a great time this week organizing a few areas of the house (mainly the kitchen) and decided to take a moment to create a few cards using a set that I have owned for over 17 years and have not inked up in at least 15 years- Early Spring (from the 2003-2004 Stampin’ Up! IBC Catalog).

While I had this stamp set out, I stamped a few of each of the floral images and created a total of six cards.

I decided to pair this card with a current stamp set from Stamp Simply, Words of Encouragement and added a few retired Stampin’ Up! buttons, designer paper and lace from my stash.

 I used the Splitcoaststampers SC330 Sketch Challenge (from 2011) for the layout and also incorporated the Sunday Stamps #235 "Bright and Beautiful" Color Challenge into the design.

I am also playing along with the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog #139 “Buttons Galore” Challenge (as I mentioned above, the Early Spring stamp is 17 years old and the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog is all about using older stamps- right up my alley:-)). 

If you have not had a chance to visit the above challenge sites yet, I hope you will do so- wonderful inspiration from all!

This card was fairly easy to create- the image and sentiment were heat embossed with clear embossing powder, water-based markers were used for the watercolor, a bit of layering, lace and buttons and the card was done!

Stamp Sets: Early Spring (retired Stampin’ Up!),  Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Arteza™ Trimarkers™- Nectarine, Florescent Orange, Lime, Forest Green; Stampin’ Write Tangelo Twist Marker; Tim Holtz® Broken China Distress Oxide; Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen, Sharpie® Extra Fine Paint Pen

Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, misc. retired Stampin’ Up! designer paper

Accessories/Tools: AquaPainter™, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, 5/8” Black Satin Ribbon, White Crochet Lace, retired Stampin' Up! Pumpkin Buttons

Thanks again for stopping by! I am hoping to catch up on posting more cards soon- hugs and have a great weekend!

TCC138b Silent Night, Holy Night

Hi Friends!

Welcome to The Card Concept #138b {Christmas In July} Challenge!  I hope you will take a moment to check out the rest of the Design Team cards- so much inspiration!

I absolutely love our inspiration photo- the pretty blues and pinks along with the vintage feel and was inspired to create a Classy and Elegant/ Mixed Media card! 

I am also participating with the International Art & Soul #88 “Christmas Card based on a Carol or Song” Challenge (Silent Night- love this carol) and the Crafty Creations #411 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to visit The Card Concept or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- fabulous inspiration from all! 

To create this card:

Ink the Poinsettia Collage image (Divinity Designs LLC) using Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing powder has cooled, watercolor the image using distress inks along with water-based markers, lightly drying the layers with a heat tool.  Once satisfied with the coloring, trim the image and mount onto black cardstock (trim again close to the edge).

Cut a piece of white cardstock for the background (this card is 3 ¾” x 8”).  Using a palette knife, apply glitter gel with a stencil to the top half of the panel.

Allow the gel to air-dry (this only took a few minutes) before mounting onto a 4 ¼” x 8 ½” piece of black cardstock.

Add a piece of white crochet lace to the card front and adhere a strip of melon grosgrain ribbon over the top part of the lace.  Layer a piece of silver metallic ribbon over the grosgrain (wrap the ends of both behind the panel).

Adhere the entire panel onto a 4 ¼” x 8 ½” white card base.

Stamp the sentiment from Peace on Earth (retired Verve Stamps) with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut the sentiment with a stitched rectangle die, mount onto black cardstock and trim close to the edge.

Mount the poinsettia image and sentiment onto the card front with dimensional foam (or chipboard).

Using diluted Pearl Texture Luxe™, watercolor a layer of shimmer over all of the petals. 

Trying to capture some of the shimmer on the petals and texture paste :-)

Once dry, add a few white highlights with an extra fine white paint pen and add a rhinestone to the center of the star on the sentiment to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: Poinsettia Collage (Divinity Designs LLC), Peace on Earth (retired Verve Stamps)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Tim Holtz™ Distress- Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers; Stampin’ Write Markers- Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow; Gina K™ Glitz Glitter Gel, Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen, Faber-Castell® Texture Luxe™ Pearl 

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black

Tools/Accessories: Gemini, Jr™, My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle A2 STAX Set 1 Dies, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Palette Knife, Tin Tile Stenxil (CAS-ual Fridays); ⅜ Silver Metallic Ribbon (Darice), White Crochet Lace, Rhinestone

Thanks again for taking the time to visit!  I hope I have inspired you to create your own card based on our {Christmas In July} photo and link up to our gallery at The Card Concept- we would love to see what inspired you! The challenge is open until August 3^rd  at noon EDT.

CC800_CC761 Come Near To God

Hi Friends!

I have been busy this week creating a few cards for the #800 Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers (SCS). 

Normally, the SCS Color Challenge consists of one set of colors but this week to celebrate the milestone of 800 challenges (wow!) they have six different color combos (one for each hostess).

I did not think I would have time to participate with all the combos but decided to make that a challenge for myself :-)  I was able to complete them all and will be posting each card in a separate post.

In order to save time (posting is so time consuming for me, lol!), I will be summarizing the creative instructions.  If you have any questions about any of the techniques or steps taken , please let me know in the comments.

This card uses the C800_CC761  Night of Navy, Rich Razzleberry and Seaside Spray along with the dessert option of heat embossing.

I decided to watercolor the Everything's Rosy digi image (Power Poppy by Marcella)  and pair it with a heat embossed sentiment from Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply).

The image and sentiment were die cut and matted onto navy cardstock before using the Splitcoaststampers SC303 Sketch for the layout (another one of my personal challenges is to make a card with every one of the SCS Sketch layouts- this sketch was from 2011).  

I am also linking this card to the Allsorts #581/#582 "Flowers All Over" Challenge and the Word Art Wednesday #448-#449 "Anything Goes" Challenge.

Stamp Sets: Everything's Rosy (Power Poppy by Marcella), Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply)

Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, retired Rich Razzleberry Designer Paper (from Hostess Level I Paper Pack)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™, Printer Ink- black; Stampin' Write Markers and Watercolor Pencils- Night of Navy, Rich Razzleberry, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray; Tim Holtz™ Distress Oxide- Tumbled Glass, Clear Glitter Pen

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr™, retired Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder, AquaPainter™, Heat Tool, Embossing Powder Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, 1” Dark Navy Grosgrain Ribbon, White Crochet Lace, Pearls

Thanks again for visiting- I will be posting the remaining four cards shortly, I hope you can check back again soon!

CC800_CC752 Sound of the Sea

Hi Friends!

I have been busy this week creating a few cards for the #800 Color Challenge at Splitcoaststampers(SCS).  Normally, the SCS Color Challenge consists of one set of colors but this week to celebrate the milestone of 800 challenges (wow!) they have six different color combos (one for each hostess).

I did not think I would have time to participate with all the combos but decided to make that a challenge for myself :-)  I was able to complete them all and will be posting each card in a separate post.

In order to save time (posting is so time consuming for me, lol!), I will be summarizing the creative instructions.  If you have any questions about any of the techniques or steps taken , please let me know in the comments.

This card uses the C800_CC752  Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo along with the dessert option of an embossing folder.

 

This color combination reminded me of summer so I decided to pull out an Artistic Outpost stamp and paired it with a verse sentiment from Divinity Designs, LLC.  

The main image was stamped with a waterproof ink and watercolored using ink from the ink pads in the color challenge.

The image and sentiment were hand trimmed and matted onto cardstock before using the Splitcoaststampers SC412 Sketch for the layout (another one of my personal challenges is to make a card with every one of the SCS Sketch layouts- this sketch was from 2011).  

I am also linking this card to the Hand Stamped Sentiments #343 Photo Inspiration Challenge (I was inspired by the beach theme as well as the seashells and ocean).

Stamp Sets: Sound of the Sea (Artistic Outpost), Scripture Collection 9 (Divinity Designs, LLC)

Paper/Cardstock: Whisper White, Flirty Flamingo, Pacific Point

Ink/Mediums: Stampin’ Classic Pads- Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Pacific Point

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr™, retired Square Lattice Embossing Folder, AquaPainter™, Heat Tool, 1 ¼” Pacific Point Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Rhinestones

Thanks again for stopping by- I will be posting the remaining five cards shortly, I hope you can check back again soon!

Sending Peace Kitty

Hi Friends!

This card was designed a few items that I had in my stash – the sentiment had been printed off a while ago and I also had the little die cut black kitty and tree ready to go.

I was inspired by the Splitcoaststampers SC742 Sketch for the layout and will also be linking to the Power Poppy “”Rock That Mojo” Challenge (of course, the sketch was my initial “mojo”).

I also wanted to participate with the the Joy of Sets #019 Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge (bottom row across  Kraft-Jewel-Lace) along with the JustAdd Ink #513 “Just Add Two: Flowers-Trees-Texture” Challenge (Tree and Texture).

If you have not had chance to check out the above challenge sites yet, I hope you will do so- tremendous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Using Distress Oxide Inks- I used Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Picked Raspberry, tap the ink onto a silicone craft mat, spritz with water and press a piece of white cardstock into the ink.  Continue to layer ink until you are satisfied with the results, using a heat tool to dry the panel between each layer.

Cut the panel into four pieces, mount onto black cardstock and trim close to the edges.

Print out the digi sentiment from Roses & Chamomile (Power Poppy) onto white cardstock, press the cardstock into the distress oxide inks (as in the step above) and dry with a heat tool.  Die cut with a stitched circle die, mount onto another circle die cut from black cardstock.

Ink the Dictionary background stamp with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto kraft cardstock, heat set the ink with a heat tool and die cut with a stitched rectangle die. 

Adhere the crochet lace and strip of white seam binding (wrapping the ends behind the panel). 

Add the four strips of the oxide background with dimensional foam (or chipboard) along with the mounted sentiment onto the panel.

Adhere the die cut tree and tiny kitty die and mount the seam binding bow with the wooden button in the center.

Finish off the card with a few pearls around the bottom edge of the sentiment.

Stamp Sets: Roses & Chamomile (digital-Power Poppy by Marcella), Dictionary (retired Stampin' Up!)

Ink/Mediums: Printer Ink- Black,  Versamark™ Onyx Black, Tim Holtz™ Distress Oxide Inks- Broken China, Picked Raspberry, Tumbled Glass

Cardstock/Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Kraft

Accessories: Gemini, Jr.™, Dies- My Digital Studio™, My Favorite Things™ Rectangle A2 Set 1 & 2, Sizzix™ Circles,  Impression Obsession Cats, retired Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Tree; Heat Tool, 1/2” White Seam Binding, White Crochet Lace, Wooden Button

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!

Trust in the Lord

Hi Friends!

This card was designed with a verse sentiment from Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply) along with a floral image from Anna Griffin (sorry, not sure of the name of this one, it was part of a kit from HSN years ago).

I love to participate with online challenges and am linking to the Festive Friday #063 “International Day of Friendship” and I incorporated the pink, green, flower, ribbon and embossing into the design.

I am also linking up to the A Place To Start “July- Flowers” Challenge along with the Time Out #165 “Days Gone By” Challenge.  This floral image seems vintage to me :-)

If you have not had chance to check out the above challenge sites yet, I hope you will do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Ink the sentiment from Words of Encouragement with Versafine™ Onyx Black ink, stamp onto vanilla cardstock, apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Die cut with a rectangle die, mount onto blackberry cardstock, trim close to the edge.

Watercolor the Anna Griffin image using water-based markers and use Vintage Tea Distress Ink to “age” the paper.

Trim the panel, mount onto blackberry cardstock.

Add the lace and satin ribbon, wrapping the ends behind the panel.  Mount the entire panel onto a white card base.

Use a clear glitter pen to add shimmer to the flower petals and an extra fine white paint pen to add highlights to the flower centers.

Finish off the card with a few pearls.

Stamp Sets: Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply); Anna Griffin™ Floral Image (not sure of the name- part of an HSN card/stamp kit)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine™ Onyx Black, Stampin’ Write Markers- Blushing Bride, Rich Razzleberry, Blackberry Bliss, Gable Green, Old Olive; Spectrum Noir™ Clear Glitter Pen, Sharpie® Extra Fine White Paint Pen

Cardstock/Paper:  Very Vanilla, Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: Gemini, Jr.™, Sizzix™ Rectangle Dies,  AquaPainter™, Embossing Buddy®, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, 5/8” Rich Razzleberry Satin Ribbon, 7/8” Sahara Sand Lace, Pearls

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

Cast Thy Burden

Hi Friends!

This evening I am sharing a card that was designed with the retired Stampin’ Up! sets, The Wilderness Awaits and Blessings from Heaven.  I have not used either one of these stamps in quite a while :-)

Unfortunately, I needed a few more sympathy cards for my stash and thought that this image looks so peaceful and would be appropriate for a sympathy card.

I incorporated the Splitcoaststampers SC148 Sketch Challenge for the layout and will also be participating  for the SUO Challenges #253 "Animals" Challenge, the Watercoolor Wednesday #279 "Helen's Challenge: All About Occasions" and the Word Art Wednesday #446-#447 "Anything Goes" Challenge.

If you have not had chance to check out the above challenge sites yet, I hope you will do so- fabulous inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Ink the fox image Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink, stamp onto white cardstock and heat set with a heat tool.

Using ink from ink pads and water-based markers (see colors below), watercolor the image.

Die cut with a stitched rectangle die, mount onto black cardstock, trim close to the edge.

Add a scrap piece of black cardstock on the back of a piece of green designer paper, adhere to a piece of white cardstock and mount the entire panel onto a piece of black cardstock.  Trim close to the edge and adhere to a white card base.

Stamp the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven using Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink onto the card front in the lower right hand corner. 

Add the fox image using dimensional foam to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets: The Wilderness Awaits, Blessings from Heaven (both retired Stampin’ Up!)

Ink/Mediums: Memento™ Tuxedo Black, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive Classic Ink; Stampin’ Write Markers- Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Mossy Meadow, Pretty in Pink, Gray Granite, Smoky Slate

Cardstock/Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black; retired Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Gemini, Jr.™, Stitched Rectangle Dies,  AquaPainter™, Heat Tool

Thanks again for taking the time to drop by- I will be sharing a few more cards this weekend and hope you can visit again soon!