Christmas

Happy Friday! Welcome. Sigh, another Christmas card. Oh gosh, I'm sorry, but I have to get these made! This card honestly looks much better IRL, so apologies for my photography skills. I inked the C/B Holly Ribbons EF with Memento Love Letter ink, then embossed a piece of white c/s. Cleaned off the EF with a baby wipe, and it comes clean quickly. Hardest part of this is to decide if you want the deboss or emboss look. Used the Memory Box Collette Ornament die for the red glitter part, then the Memory Box Drop Ornament for the silver holograph paper behind. Once the silver was diecut, used the C/B Holly Ribbons to emboss it. The Collette was a little fussy with the glitter paper, as it was fairly thick. Ran through the Big Shot several times, cut it well. I have another diecut ready where I reversed the papers on these 2 dies, and liked it better. The sentiment is from a clear set - think was Hero Arts - inked with the Love Letter, and heatset with Ranger Clear Detail EP to give some glisten. Cut out with an oval punch, sponged the edges with the Love Letter ink and a finger dauber.  For those of us who celebrate Thanksgiving,{another sigh}, that's not far away. Hard to believe this year has sped by so quickly. Have a wonderful day, and get ready for the weekend. Hugs, and thanks for the visit.

Fall

Good Morning. So nice to have you visit here today. Another fall card to share. This one is from a borrowed stamp, which I think is by  Great Impressions- an oldie I'm sure. Colored as usual with copics and spica pens. The shadowing around the wheat stack was done with a BV (Blue Violet) marker, which enhances it IRL. Diecut & matted with S/B Labels 3, which I was going to use 'on point', but cut the card base too small to place it so. The turquoise glitter mat was handcut after tracing outer edge of die to get the scant mat. I liked the turquoise color with the DI Stormy Sky used to distress the edges of the focal image. The cardbase was actually from a DCWV paper pack The Naturals. This was a fairly easy image to color, not much fuss to it. Hope you like it. I'm trying to get enough images matted on cards, scheduled to pos, so that I have a free day, wherein I can blog surf and catch up on everyone's blog. I promise I will be around to visit as soon as I can! See you later. Have a fantastic day.

 

Fall

Hello and Good Morning. I'm back again with a Fall card for a little break between the Christmas cards. I have a couple birthday cards I have to get ready too, so that will make a little diversion with all the Christmas stuff. This card was made with the Inkadinkadoo green colored (like the PB slapstick stamps) rubber stamp. It's a solid stamp, but I choose to cut the sentiment apart from the motif so I could diecut with S/binders Large Label Small, then mat with the S/B Large Label Large. (what a clever way for them to differentiate the die! LOL). When I first started to buy these dies, I didn't realize they came in large & small sizes for a reason. So I'd look at the die, say "Oh I've got that one", not realizing that one needed both sizes in order to be able to cut nice mats. I had a real steep learning curve! Also I had not left the dies with the 'cover' that came with them, so then I didn't know if I had the small or large size. Had to go hunting on the internet for dimensions of the different sizes, measure mine in order to see which one I had The sentiment was diecut with the S/B Mat A that was released this year...a handy die to have in your stash. I did use a different marker-type to color the sentiment letters, a sort of metallic green. The main image was done with copics and Spica pens.  Anyhoo... after diecutting this image, I used some more of H/Lobby's sale papers, which are probably Paper Studio, for a nice fall mat, which you can't really see here. Thus the extra leaves added for some trim, a bit of dimension. The leaves were diecut with Impression Obsession leaf diecut, then sponged with Distress Inks in colors that worked with the individual colors of each leaf. Oh yes, I did use the Out-of-the-Box technique to cut the image, so that I could get the complete grape cluster. There are several good Youtubes on this technique, and it's one I really like. Hope you will enjoy. Have a super middle of the week day! See you soon. 

Christmas

 

Good Morning. Hope that your night was restful & your day is off to a great start. Here's a cute little Penny Black Hedgie stamp I had from last year, still remaining un-inked. This is a PB slapstick stamp - Christmas is coming. Colored with copics, diecut with S/Binders Label 8. Cardbase is blue Reflections cardstock. Starry paper was open stock from A C Moore, no mfg name that I can find. Bottom part of the mat was white GP from Walmart. Both pieces embossed with the C/B Dots folder, then I used a SU lacy punch on the bottom. The added stars were from the Memory Box Frosty Border punch, which I intended to use on the side, but it was way too large. Saw the stars as debris on the desk, had an "Aha" moment, when I saw an MS glue pen handy. Dabbed on a bit of glue, Bob's your uncle. I like them. Decided to just add a piece of snowflake ribbon on the side, sentiment is embossed with Judikins Aegean Silver (my favorite Silver emboss by the way). I think I like this little card, as I adore these hedgie guys anyway. They're so cute!! Have a great day, and thanks for popping by.