Category: cardmaking

Hello Sunshine

While I was crafting my card as a guest designer for Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83, I created another summer-themed card. 

LFWatermelon

Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83 is all about using heat or dry embossing on your project.  I heat embossed the watermelons and the ant. The watermelons are colored with Copic markers. I kept the background simple with bright-colored, solid cardstock.

Have you played along yet? There’s a prize of a $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! Head on over to the Lawnscaping Challenge to enter! You have until  Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 to submit your entries!

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Penny Black Father’s Day

I couldn’t resist crafting a tie card for Father’s Day using  the Penny Black Amazing [#30-243] stamp set and coordinating Dapper [#51-049] die cut.

FathersDayTie

I die cut the tie (with collar) first and then stamped it with the coordinating tie stamp using VersaFine Onyx Black ink. I machine stitched the gray cardstock panel. The patterned paper card panel is from my stash.

 

Penny Black Right Direction

Today, I’m sharing a friendship card that could be sent for a variety of occasions. It’s crafted using a recently released Penny Black stamp set and a die cut.

PBRightDirection

To begin, I inked the sign post from the …Lost Without You  [#30-248] stamp set and stamped it  into the woodgrain stamp from the Inspiring [#40-113] set, which I had inked with a darker ink color. I then stamped it onto kraft cardstock. I fussy cut the stamped sign post and added distress ink to the edges. The sentiment is also from the …Lost Without You  set. To finish off the card, and to tie in the colors from the patterned paper, I cut a bird with one of  the Tweet Things [ #51-050] dies.

Poppystamps: A Perfect Summer’s Day

For me, summer begins in June, no matter what the weather. The ingredients for a perfect summer’s day? Blue sky, a few puffy clouds, and a bike ride!  My card celebrates summer with a combination of Poppystamps dies and a stamp.

Poppystamps: A Perfect Summer's Day

 

I stamped the Poppystamps Basket Bicycle in pink and cut it out with its companion die. I cut the Wildflower Patch die several times, in green and in colors for the flowers, putting some in the bicycle’s basket and others along the picket fence. The bicycle and clouds are attached to the card with dimensional adhesive.

No matter what the season, I hope it’s sunny where you are!

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Guest Designing at Lawnscaping Challenges

I’m delighted to be guest designing over at Lawnscaping Challenges today!

Lawnscaping Challenge Number 83 is all about using heat or dry embossing on your project. The prize for this challenge is a $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!

Here’s my card featuring heat embossing.

StrawberriesHelloJM

I stamped and heat embossed the Mason jar from Summertime Charm on white cardstock and on vellum. I stamped and heat embossed the lid out of gray cardstock. I used the Summertime Charm Lawn Cuts to cut out the pieces. I also stamped and heat embossed the strawberries, colored them with Copics, and then cut them with the Lawn Cuts.

I glued the vellum overlay onto the white cardstock, using the embossed line as a guide for where to put the glue. I had attached the strawberries to the white cardstock before adding the vellum, so they wouldn’t spill out! I topped off the jar with its lid and some twine. I die cut Scripty Hello from patterned paper and adhered it to my card base panel. Once I had attached the jar to the sentiment panel, I scattered a few more strawberries at the jar’s base.

Be sure to head on over to Lawnscaping Challenge to see what the Design Team has done for this challenge! Hope you’ll play along!

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