Tonight I'll keep the babble short because I have a lot to do in the kitchen! I wanted to share a simple Independence Day card made with the PaperTrey Ink Let Freedom Ring stamp set, along with some Cosmo Cricket Early Bird papers (Farmer's Market), along with PaperTrey Vintage cream and Prism Nautical Dark Blue cardstock. Die cuts are with Spellbinders Classic Circle and Labels Four dies. A bit of stitching and sanding, and that's it!
Have a wonderful weekend!
I have a patriotic card ready for tomorrow night, but I wanted to slip this card in tonight because there is a stamp giveaway going on at the JustRite blog with the last drawing ending on Friday night. What are you waiting for? Go sign up!
I love clear cards, but I forget to make them very often! Tonight I'm sharing a clear card using PaperTrey Ink's Vintage Picnic set and 2008 Bitty Box papers.
I stamped the picnic basket in Tuxedo Black Memento ink on PTI's Kraft cardstock and colored it with Copic T1, R22 and YG91 markers, then enhanced the stripes with Blossom and Mint Spica glitter pens. I cut the colored basket out and set it aside.
Next I stamped the basket and tulips on Vintage Cream cardstock and colored the tulips and greenery with the Copic markers shown below (All PaperTrey Ink Copic colors). I die cut the tulip basket with a Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestability and lightly sponged the cardstock edges with distress ink. Using a Spellbinders Labels Four die, I cut and embossed a mat from PTI's Berry Sorbet cardstock. Button is a Berry Sorbet Vintage button, and ribbon is Spring Moss Satin.
For the card base, I chose PTI's clear cardstock and cut it 4-1/4" x 11". (Next time I would probably cut it 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" instead because I think I would prefer it standing that way.) The cardstock and papers inside the card are Berry Sorbet cardstock, and Spring Moss and Berry Sorbet 2008 Bitty Boxes papers. ent, from Vintage Picnic Sentiments, is stamped in Versamark and heat-embossed using the Filigree white embossing powder. I attached the cardstock inside to the clear base with a mini glue dot in each corner.
Thank you for visiting; have a lovely day.
Tonight I have a couple of ideas to share with you, but only one card. I had shared a ribbon-laced Spellbinders Tulip Borderability the other night, paired with a sweet Just Rite baby shoes stamp. I'm using ribbon lacing again, but with an Eyelets Borderability instead; and I'm using the same 2-1/4" x 3-1/16" oval stamper, but with a new borders and centers set, Thinking of You, available around July 7.
I kept this card monochromatic and soothing, using Cosmo Cricket's Everafter papers (Something True), paired with PaperTrey Ink's Vintage Cream and Ocean Tides cardstock and satin ribbon. ***I didn't have an oval die that fit my large oval perfectly, but I liked it best with my Small Petite Ovals set (which are a longer oval than the Classic Ovals). I cut the inside oval with scissors because I wanted to trim it closely and stack it with foam tape.
***Edited to add: BIG OOPS--the Small Classic oval die DOES fit perfectly, as pictured on the left. I still don't mind the Petite Oval that I used, but if you have the Classic Oval set (small in particular), they fit “JustRite.” Can we chalk it up to working at 2am? ;-D
The ribbon is attached with a glue dot since the laced ribbon goes under the focal image. Tiny self-adhesive pearls add just a bit of dressiness without overwhelming the soft image and papers. The JustRite Thinking of You set is a very useful tool for sympathy cards, serious illness, or even encouragement.
Have a great last-day-of-June, and thanks for visiting!
P.S. If you had commented on this post and it isn't showing, I'm sorry about that. I had a post crash when I was trying to fix some weird formatting and accidentally deleted about 15 comments. Must be time for me to get off of the computer today!
This past week my nine-year-old, along with six other local home-schoolers, had his first experience with standardized achievement tests. I wanted to make a thank you card for the teacher who gave up three mornings to proctor his test.
Isn't this Cosmo Cricket Jack's World(Lessons and Animal Friends) paper fun? I love the chalkboard look combined with the sentiments and an apple from PaperTrey Ink's Teacher's Appleset! Inks are PTI's New Leaf, Pure Poppy, and Dark Chocolate. I used New Leaf Vintage Buttons, along with Rustic Cream Button Twine, also from PaperTrey Ink. Ribbon is Pure Poppy Grosgrain, and cardstock is Vintage Cream and Pure Poppy.
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The winner of my copy of Paper Crafts Card Creations 7 is number 103, Monique, whom I have e-mailed.
Today's Spellbinders Pendant Blog Frenzy is at Jennifer Davis's blog. Good luck!
I love happy accidents! I was cutting with the new Spellbinders Tulip Borderabilities die a couple of days ago and saw that the tulips would work to lace ribbon through. One thing led to another, and this is what happened. It is the same S4-211 Tulips Borderabilities that Mish Wooderson revealed here, die cut and embossed on a card base with 1-1/4" pink silk ribbon laced through the tulip blossoms. I also tried one of the Eyelet Borderabilities for a bit different look, but I'm not finished with that one yet.
With that sweet border, I thought I'd make another baby girl card; I used one of my favorite vintage baby stamps, the little shoes and bundle of joy sentiment from the JustRite Stampers Baby Stamp Ensemble. Aren't those shoes sweet? I colored them with the Copic markers shown below, and colored the buttons and hearts with a new Blossom Spica glitter pen. Patterned paper is Melissa Francis Robin paper.
Finally, if you already have the Harmony Classic Oval II stamper that fits this baby set, you'll be glad to hear that some new oval borders and centers for this stamper will be available in early July; the art work is beautiful on them, and I'm excited to play with them soon! In fact, the JustRite Blog has some sneak peeks of some of the new sets and giveaways going on right now--go sign up!! Mish made a delicious-sounding salsa and labeled it with one of the new Preserves Borders and Centers Set images on this post.
Well, that's it for me today. Have a great weekend!
P.S. If you are looking for the Paper Crafts Card Creations 7 giveaway post, it's just below, or linked here.
Also, the next few blogs in the Spellbinders Pendants Blog frenzy are:
June 27: Heidi Blankenship
June 28: Linda Duke
June 29: Jennifer Davis
The winner of my copy of Card Creations 7 is number 103, Monique. Monique, I have e-mailed you for your address. Thanks!
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I don’t know if you have noticed, but there has been a flurry of activity in blogdom this week and some fantastic goodies being given away in celebration of --[are you ready?]-- Card Creations Volume 7, which is now available! I recently looked through a copy and saw some ideas that I'm just itching to try, along with a lot of familiar names of blogging friends—some for the first time!
I love the Card Creations series because it is always chock-full of trendy, simple ideas. Paper Crafts was gracious enough to provide an extra copy for me to give away on this blog post. Not only that, but they are also giving away ten fabulous prize packages to people visiting and commenting on all fifteen of the blogs in the blog tour! (More about that below.)
This is an anniversary card that I had in this issue. I enjoyed making this card because it combines some of my favorite things—a whimsical Kim Hughes image, my beloved Copic markers and Cosmo Cricket papers, and my favorite Spellbinders Label die. I chose my marker colors from the paper colors, and I gave the male bird the bolder color for variety.
So, would you like a chance to win a Card Creations 7? Leave a comment on this post saying what you stamped or crafted last. The random number drawing for my blog’s copy of Card Creations 7 will close at 10pmCST on Sunday night, June 28—one comment per person, please.
Now, how about a chance to win one of the TEN prize packages that Paper Crafts is giving away (five on the Moxie Fab World Blog and five on the Paper Crafts Connection Blog)! In Addition to leaving a comment here, you will need to visit and comment on all fourteen of the blogs linked below:
After visiting all fifteen blogs in the blog tour, you will need to go back to Moxie Fab World and/or Paper Crafts Connection to tell your favorite project. Be sure to check out specific instructions on Moxie Fab World or Paper Crafts Connection. Best of luck in winning a prize!
