Four of my dearest friends live on the east coast and so I do send a lot of cards and notes that way.
My card today is linked to Just Us Girls #618 Word Challenge and to Tuesday Morning Sketches #643 (sketch below)
Card stock from my stash and patterned paper is Echo Park. Sentiment die from Gina K Designs Master Layout 9, and embossed sentiment from Simon Says Stamp. I used a stitched cover plate for the pale pink back.
Really had to think about this challenge at Just Add Ink. Not sure about it, but it is abstract! The colors were inspired by the quartz geode that sits on my desk.
I used the Fractured Background stamp from Simon Says Stamp and heat embossed it in black and used three colors of alcohol markers to color in a repetitive design. I cut the panel down quite a bit and adhered it with foam tape. The sentiment is from an Altenew mini set.
Happy Monday!
Time for a new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge today. I hope you will be able to try it out and join us.
My card uses a Close To My Heart set, Happy Birds (retired like me) colored with alcohol markers. The birds and flowers are all from the same set. I masked the flowers and fussy cut the birds. The background friendship stamp from My Favorite Things was heat embossed on patterned paper. The stitched squares were cut with a MFT die set, the panels with Gina K Master Layout 7, and the sentiment is from Simon Says. Foam popped the squares and embellished with Nuvo drops. All these things pulled out and my desk is a BIG mess, but I really love how this mini slim-line turned out.
One of my favorite things to do, other than craft, is to cook! I love to eat and to feed friends and family. Not being able to gather has been one of the worst aspects of the pandemic. I have some new stamps from Gina K Designs and Brutus Monroe that center around food. So I created this card and am linking to Creative Creases #25 and to Try It On Tuesdays "use a quote" challenges.
It is a corner flip fun fold. I guess that's an old trick, but new to me. It involves some partial cutting, but was easier to do than I thought it would be. I followed a You Tube tutorial.
The patterned paper is from Sunflower Market found in my local craft store. Stamped images from GDK Kitchen Tags set, and Brutus Monroe Sugar & Spice kit for the cake and sentiment.
Tough to make a Valentine for a teenage grandson, but this fun stamp from Brutus Monroe, Stacked Burger, was just right! I stamped it and colored with pencils and Gamsol before fussy cutting it out and foam mounting it on the card base. I added a strip of brown and some gingham from MFT. The sentiment is computer generated. The tiny heart stamp is from my stash.
Inspired by sketch #521 at Freshly Made Sketches (see below)
This time I used the front cover of a Food& Wine magazine that had images of roses. I stamped images, heat embossed with gold and fussy cut them. For a background, I sprayed some Brutus Monroe gold shimmer spray through a garden weave stencil and trimmed it down, edged with strips of gold mirror card and stamped the sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set, Beautiful Butterflies. This was the method suggested in the challenge at CAS Mix Up.
Today I am inspired by the CAS Mix Up February Challenge. This is SO cool!! And I love using my metallic watercolors. Check the site as they include links to three cloisonne tutorials.
Use Your Stuff Challenge #440 - Embossing and
Make the Cards Challenge #47- create a Valentine
I will try another card with a magazine image as also suggested. I don't get subscriptions so will need to ask a friend.
