Having just spent a great time at the beach I am happy to be home and back into a routine. Best of all is to let you know about an awesome 24 Hour Sale on stamps in the Annual Catalog. As a Demonstrator we receive weekly updates each Tuesday. To see this news definitely brought a smile to my face. That is because I am probably my own best customer!! And who doesn’t love a Sale!
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A touch of 3D is a fun addition to a card. For today’s project I have added one of the Vintage Bottle Shaker Domes for a “bubbly” 3D look.
Bottled Happiness
The Bottled Happiness Bundle includes a wonderful stamp set with a variation for bottles along with floral and sweet sentiments. It also includes the Vintage Bottle Punch. Punch Bundles are a wonderful deal in my opinion as they are less expensive than Die Bundles. And to complete this Bundle, you can get the Vintage Bottle Shaker Domes to make a 3D look using the punch and stamps.
For this card I did not use a bottle stamp, but did use the punch and shaker dome. After layering the two DSP pieces on the Basic White, I used the punch and cut the bottle. The shaker domes have adhesive already applied to the front rim and the back. Simply remove the front adhesive cover and slide the dome into place. Mine is filled with the Effervescent Elements. These little bubbles are adorable!. After filling as you wish, just remove the back adhesive covering to close the dome. (For my card I added a scrap of Basic White a bit larger than the shaker dome to stick to the back.) That ensured the bubbles were contained while I added these layers to the card base.
Sun Prints
These two gorgeous DSP pieces are from the Sun Prints Designer Series Paper pack. By using both the Night of Navy and the Sahara Sand pieces it softens the look a bit. They compliment each other perfectly and still allow the bottle of bubbles to star. You may prefer to have the DSP showing through the bottle, but I was afraid that would be too much. However I did save the punched out bottle. It is applied to the inside of the card for a little extra touch.
Finishes
Between the beautiful DSP and the bottle it did not take much to complete this card. Besides, I did not want to cover the pretty Sun Prints DSP. So I went with a small tag which perfectly fit the nice sentiment. The tag is from the Hydrangea Dies. And the sentiment is from the Bottled Happiness stamp set. To finish the tag I added a bow using the Starry Sky Woven Metallic Ribbon.
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An easy technique and a Make My Monday Challenge are the basis of today’s card. And a Dragonfly Garden image completes the card.
Make My Monday Challenge
The new challenge on Make My Monday is to have “Friend” in the sentiment. That is a fairly easy one to accomplish. And you can submit cards to this challenge as well. Simply click on the icon below and you will be taken to the blog post. Check out what the other design team members created for their Friend card.
Background
This fun background was equally fun to make. It was made using the Blending Brushes. This is not something I do regularly but am enjoying more and more. But first I have to mention the outline of the blended area. As has happened a few times previously, I found the piece on my messy desk! It was the negative from having cut one of the Deckled Rectangles Dies. So I added some removable tape and placed it on top of the White layer.
The two colors I used are Balmy Blue and Highland Heather for the blending. Balmy Blue was added to about two thirds of the area. Then beginning at the opposite end I started the Highland Heather. There is not a lot of overlap, but there must be a little bit. The Deckle edge still shows fairly clearly and I love that!
Stamps
Another thing I like about this card is the simplicity. The stamped image from Dragonfly Garden is done with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. It gives the illusion of a shadow. The sentiment was stamped with Memento as well and left with no layers. That was a little hard to do since I love layers!
Finishing
To complete the card I went with a little darker card base. By using Gorgeous Grape it seems to draw out more of the Highland Heather color. And the final touch was adding a single Heart Pearl next to the sentiment. This was a fun and fairly quick card to make. Now I am looking at my stamps for other “shadow” images!
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Making Fun Fold cards is one of the techniques I love! Today’s fun fold stars the Cheerful Basket stamp set.
Stamps
There are a variety of stamp sets used on this card. It is definitely a mix and match card! And that is one of the things I love about stamping. With fall colors in mind, I wanted a Fall look. The first step is the basket. It is from the Cheerful Basket stamp set. The floral inside the basket is from the Hello Harvest stamp set. By using a little masking at the rim of the basket I was able to cover the open area. Plus an extra sunflower that is raised up gives detail and completes the covering.
More Stamps Punch
The sentiment is from the Very Best Occasions stamp set. Sentiment sets are wonderful and especially when they have a good variety! To help the sentiment pop on the basket, I used the smaller cut out of the Double Oval Punch. By adding a couple of the Rustic Metallic Dots the sentiment looks like a sign on the basket. And was a perfect fit.
Papers and Colors
Choosing the colors normally comes from the papers. But this one came more from the floral arrangement. The card base is Calypso Coral with a layer of Granny Apple Green. Luckily I found a matching DSP piece in the Design A Daydream Designer Series Paper pack. This huge pack is part of the Annual Catalog Host Rewards.
Fun Fold
This card was cased from Connie Stewart. She has a great video of how to make it, so I am not going to duplicate. It is pretty easy though and I love that. Here is a view of how it opens.
There are similar cards with the three strips that I have made previously. This one has additional folds and a tight closure.
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Making cards can be fun and challenging! Occasionally it takes a paper a little while to speak to me. This Rustic Harvest finally spoke out!
Papers
The star of this card is this piece from the Rustic Harvest Designer Series paper. This pack of papers is beautiful and has great colors, but this one was a bit more difficult. It was the yellow pumpkins and gourds that were stalling me in deciding which direction to go. Finally my little brain picked up on the gorgeous leaves. And the card was finished! Well, almost finished. By using the Merry Merlot, which is a color I rarely use, it brought the leaves out from that dark background. Of course the larger layer of Basic White helped with that.
Stamps
The Hello Harvest Bundle, Hello Harvest stamps and Rustic Pumpkin Dies, is a match for this DSP. But after finally getting the paper idea worked out, I did not want to cover it up! The banner sentiment is a stamp with a matching die. So using Mossy Meadow Ink and then die cutting the banner I was almost finished. There was quite a lot of debate about a background layer for the banner. But finally I decided it could stand alone. However, I did notice the small leaf stamp and matching die. So I used Merry Merlot Ink and added the little die cut leaf to the top edge of the card. With that leaf and a few of the Brushed Metallic Dots placed around, I declared it good to go.
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It is never too early to begin making Christmas cards. Today’s project uses the Mistletoe Magic Bundle for a soft and sweet card.
Stamps and Technique
The softness of the mistletoe is a wonderful, and different, look to this stamp set. The Mistletoe Magic Bundle is great with fun sentiments and great detail to the stamps and dies. This Real Red bow is from the Die set and has amazing details. It really pops and makes you look at the mistletoe as well.
A surprising find was to stamp the image using Shaded Spruce Ink on Evening Evergreen instead of Evening Evergreen Ink. It made the image stand out more. The White touches were done using an old and fairly dry Blender Pen with the White Craft Ink. Simply touch the tip of the Blender Pen to the ink pad and color. This technique allows you to play with it and get as much, or as little, of the white color as you want.
DSP and Sentiment
This beautiful Designer Series Paper is from the Boughs of Holly pack. These are mostly bright papers and this one really jumped out at me. The pop of the red berries made it a quick favorite. And those softer colors give me ideas for various colors of cards in the future!
The sentiment is short and sweet. But it is also a favorite as Christmas is a time of Cheer! It is from the Sweet Candy Cane stamp set. And the layer it is on is a die from the All That Dies from the He’s All That Bundle. Using an oval is a bit different and fits the shape of the wording perfectly. Plus finding a second use for a die is a winner in my book.
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