05-29-23

 Hello--

Having some play time in my crafty space after a lazy weekend.

I have to attack my bin of new stuff... Here is how it looked at the beginning of the pandemic 03/2020:

And now more than 3 years later:

It now takes up the top of a small cart.  Yikes...and I have made and mailed more than 1000 cards in that time.  You would think there would be no stamps left...lol.

So on to using the stamps that have yet to see ink, and in this set card bases and envelopes I got for a great deal. I am liking the smaller focal point. Stamps are from Newton's Nook...the kitten line.

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No Challenges just playtime

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One of the nice things about cleaning up my space was going through my bin of diecuts and stamps off that crafty friends have shared with me.  

For this card, I found the die cut, and the bokeh background that I had made and I thought they'd look nice together. A quick card with a diecut of the bokeh panel, an embossed sentiment and a triplet of gems to match.

 I bought a pack of 20 cards and envelopes from Stampin Up's clearance section. The card bases were printed with yellow dandelion looking blooms.  I added a flower colored in pale blues a few gems and cut the colored flower panel into an oval piece with the sentiment. I'm quite happy with this farily quick card too.

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Back On Your Feet

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Well I think I am over my snit at blogger and the elimination of Feedburner in July.  It will work itself out and we'll all adjust as we do every time blogger tosses in a wrench.

On to happier things.  I got a few new stamps in the mail this weekend and today I played.  After making one card, I went on to make a card with the other image stamps in the set.

Here they are individually:

I am a lover of puns, so this one makes me giggle. Even hubs laughed since the puns were better than most.  I also rediscovered some beloved Spellbinder dies for the layers which were fun to put together. Not my usual clean and simple, but maybe we can go with cleanly layered?

Here is the set, I think its going to be my go to for a while for feel better type cards.  No challenges for these cards...I just had fun playing.

Have a great week.

A friend that makes me smile

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Today I spent time (virtually) with Michele, who never fails to make me smile. We caught up, laughed and worked on projects together. We decided to both make cards using the Split 4 technique.  I first saw it on Marcia's blog, then I visited this You Tube video to get a bit more insight. 

I used the Forever Fern stamp set from Stampin Up...I love the set...and nothing stamps as crisply as rubber.  I wanted to make a few fall cards, as I won't make a lot of Halloween or Thanksgiving cards and this year I want to make sure to get more fall cards in the mail.

Here is the full sheet after stamping...(its the second one...I forgot to photograph the first...Michele and I were gabbing too much...lol)

And here are the cards that resulted from both stampings: I did add the speckles stamp after cutting them apart. The sentiment comes with the set and after stamping it crookedly on 4 cards I decided to fix it by using a die cut. I ran a black marker around the edge of the die cut to make it stand out a bit from the card panel.  I'm quite happy with these cards and I'm hoping some friends will be too once they are mailed.

My take aways from this technique:

I don't like landscape cards much, I prefer to make portrait oriented cards so I had to add some stamping after my first try to balance panel. Keep those score marks in mind.

If you want to die cut your panels for mounting on a card base, do not cut off the 1/2 inch to start.

Color choices will decide how the over stamping looks. Similar colors can stand more overstamping than different colors.

Give the technique a try and thanks for visiting.