Easter

Here are the last of the very few Easter cards I made this year.

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Play Day

Tuesday I had my play day as I call it with the crafty ladies.  We meet most Tuesdays at the home of one of the gals - she has a fabulous space that holds 8 comfortably.  I will usually prep before going with pre cut stamped panels for cards, sometimes I crochet, and soon I might work on some scrapbook pages -- I am about 18 months behind. I finally brought some of my favorite scrappy items back from California this last trip and am looking forward to catching up.

This week I played with a new stamp set from Altenew - Fresh Freesia. I love the smell of Freesia's and that they come in so many different colors. Endless card possibilities.  I know its still winter, but I need to color flowers!

I made one card for a challenge it is posting tomorrow, and made these as well. The last two are my favorites.

Cut marks - Avery Elle

Die - WPlus9

Die Wplus9

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Peonies

Hubs brought in the mail today, and there was a packet with new crafty items.  For once I immediately played with the stamps.  These Peonies from Avery Elle are drawn so nicely, and I loved coloring my stamped image.  When I was finished, looking at the card, I really get a 3D effect; hubs came by and said it looked like 4 layers, when I handed him the card, he was surprised. Yes the blossoms and leaves are just one layer...I have to credit that to using Sandy Allnock's Hex Chart.  I never would have put YG63 and  G43 together on the leaves without that chart.

I am entering this card to two challenges, Leslie's Crooked Stampers Sketch Challenge-6  and  Avery Elle's AEHeartU Challenge-Sparkle.  

      

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Supplies: Copic Markers, Hex Chart, DCWV glitter paper, Avery Elle's Peonies Stamp set, Embossing Powder, Memento Ink, Versamark ink, black cardstock scraps.

Another Seasons Greetings Trio

I was incredibly lucky to win a spot in the Online Card Classes Holiday Card Workshop 2014.  I also won a spot in Catherine Pooler's  A very Trendy Holiday 2.0.  I definitely hit the jackpot this month.

I started with OCC's day One- Easy to duplicate cards.  I thought the instructors had some great ideas. I have a trio of cards made assembly line style.

First I did the stenciling with embossing paste using Tim Holts' Festive stencil. I have a stack of Neenah Aspen white 120# cardstock cut and folded into card bases ready for use.   

While that dried I cut my die cuts, the photo frame by Lawn Fawn and the Season's Greetings by Avery Elle.  I layered the greeting twice in white, then ran my Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink pad over the stacked sentiment.  I then heat embossed it with clear powder. I also cut it out in red, for a shadow layer. It is very sturdy.  The photo frame needed a bit of color behind it, so a red framing panel was also cut.

For the background I used some patterned paper I had left from last year, American Crafts - Kringle and Co.  Once the embossing paste was dry, I relaid the stencil and inked the leaves, berries and pine cones with Distress Inks in Barn Door, Vintage Photo, and Pine Needles.

Everything was layered together and the card was assembled.  In all it took about an hour to make the three cards. 

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More of Graphic Stamps

Also known as Day 8 of Stretch Your Stamps 2.  My initial thought was that my card for day 7 more closely fit with the day 8 lesson, but I tried out something else anyway.  I liked the colors in Nichol Magouirk's card- shades of gray and yellow and used that as a jumping off place. 

It was going well until my die cut didn't cut well on the card front, I had a bit of a tear on the lower right one...but in the spirit of soldering on, I glued the two cut pieces together stamped some color on and popped it up over the torn area.  I quite like the way it turned out.

My inks were Hero Arts Inks in soft granite, charcoal,  and butterbar, as well as some white embossing powder. My sentiment is the Simon Says Stamp small hello die, and the sequins are Darice. The small center pearls are from Stampin Up, as is the crushed curry card base.

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Birthday Wishes

I made this card prior to taking Online Card Classes Watercolors for Card Makers.  I was just playing around with some striped backgrounds.  I have had these rounded diamond dies forever, and I finally used them to make this birthday card for Michele.  The sentiment was made using my Silhouette Portrait, and a font I had on my laptop. I welded the letters together and cut the words out several times to stack it. I then covered the letters with glossy accents. A scrap of the water colored paper is also on the inside panel.

Have a very happy birthday Ms Michele!

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