Spirelli - and More Card Parts

Cheryl has been doing some Spirelli lately, and I keep thinking I would like to do a little bit, also. I finally remembered! I used a large punch to make the scalloped circle and then I used variegated thread to do the Spirelli on it. The rose and leaves were from my card parts, as was the sentiment. The rose and the sentiment panel are mounted on foam squares.

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Vivid Greetings #5 and #6

OK. I decided I needed to use the last two little stamps of the Stampin' Up! Vivid Greetings set. I wasn't sure I would, but a tiny bit of inspiration came to me, so here they are. The little candle and the little heart are the ones from the set. Another set done! :)

I was thinking these stamps would make nice teeny tiny cards, but who makes teeny tiny cards??? But, that made me think of my teeny tiny envelope punch. Well, the punch is big, but the envelope is teeny tiny! The punch is from Marvy. So I punched out the envelope from yellow cardstock, folded it up and glued it together. I inked up the candle stamp with markers and stamped it on a small piece of cardstock which really IS a card, as it's folded in half. I cut a piece of white cardstock, matted it with the same yellow, mounted it on foam squares and added it to a card base. I glued the envelope to it, but the little "card" is simply inserted a little bit. I may decided to glue it in later. I also added Star Dust Stickles to the flame. 

This card was done the same way, except I forgot to mount the panel on foam squares. I added Star Dust Stickles to the heart. The little greeting stamps are from a set from Papertrey Ink. I love the sentiments and the fonts, but they are SO SO tiny that they have rarely been used by me. (I think they later came out with the same set, but bigger stamps.)

Edited to add: Bea - this set from Inkadinkado is called "Beauty Stems." Here is a link to Amazon so that you can see what it looks like. I think it's a beautiful set!

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August Calendar Page

Well, August has managed to arrive already! Here is my calendar page for this month.

The flower was made using a scalloped circle punch. After punching it, I cut towards the middle from each scallop using a scissors. I sponged a little bit of brownish ink around the edges. The center was also cut with a punch, and then embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. The leaves are lemons from a Technique Tuesday set:)

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Flutter By Wednesday - Remake!

This week's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is to use any color except orange and black. I had missed the "no black" part. Ooops. So, I made another card just like yesterday's, except that it fits the challenge.

The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts. I inked it up with gray ink and then colored the words "happy" and "birthday" with a pink marker. I matted with gray cardstock. The butterfly was punched with a Marvy punch. I really love yesterday's butterfly, but it's a Memory Box die that I had borrowed from someone, so I couldn't do one like that for today's card. I colored the antennae gray and added two gray gemstones to the body. Now I feel better:)

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Flutter By Wednesday - Three or More Layers

Time for a new Flutter By Wednesday challenge. This week's challenge is to use three or more layers - and a butterfly or fairy, of course! Check out the blog for the details, to link your card, and to check out the wonderful creations by the design team.

I'm hoping that matting counts as layers! My butterfly was done on my Cameo Silhouette. The daisy was done with a scalloped circle Marvy punch with slits towards the center. I punched a circle from the patterned paper for the flower center, and then added Star Dust Stickles to it. The flower center is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from a Papertrey set. The butterfly is on foam squares, too. We'd love to have you join us!

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February Calendar Page

Here is my February calendar page. The links to my calendar files are always available under the title of my blog. Both 2012 and 2013 are there. I'd love to hear from you, if you use them!


I embossed the butterfly with a small Cuttlebug folder. I matted with red cardstock punched with a Marvy punch. I added white dots to the scallops and red sponging to the edge of the embossed circle panel. The background is stamped with a heart from Inkadinkado.


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June Calendar Page

Not only is it June already, it's already June 2nd! LOL!  Time for my calendar page.  If you are interested in my file to print your own (blank) calendar pages, you can find the Excel and Open Office files by following this link.  I have my cutting instructions in a Word file on the same page, too.  The link to these files is always at the top of my blog, under the title.


For this month's page, I started by stamping a square shadow stamp from Hero Arts with Memories Soft Leaf ink.  I stamped the tree over it with a stamp from Studio G from the dollar section at Michael's.  I colored the tree with Stampin' Up!'s Close to Cocoa and Old Olive markers.  I trimmed the tree panel down and punched the mat from black with a Marvy square punch.  Before adding it to the calendar page, I stamped the leaves background (from Technique Tuesday) with Soft Leaf.


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Graduation

A simple graduation card for today.

I cut the graduation cap (from Lifestyle Crafts, formerly Quickutz) from black and white cardstock. I stamped the sentiment with a JustRite Stamper. I cut the plain white circle with a Nestability and the scalloped black circle with a Marvy punch. I mounted the hat and the black circle on foam squares. The background is embossed with a Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder and is matted with black on a white card base.  EDITED TO ADD:  I replaced the picture with a new one after I added the diploma.  I had forgotten that I wanted it on there!  The diploma is also a Lifestyle die.

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Repeat Impressions WHAT IF? Wednesday

 

Today is another WHAT IF? Wednesday challenge.  Wendy has given us a sketch to use and the Design Team members have used it as a basis for their creations. We ask you to do the same!  Here is the sketch for the current challenge:

Please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details and to see what the other Rock Stars have come up with.  Or follow these links:

Ayana ~ Darsie ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Robin

Then, create your own card using this sketch, upload it to your blog or an on-line gallery, and link it to the Repeat Impressions blog.  You have until Tuesday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m. EDT to enter for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate from RI.

For my card, I started by stamping the flowers with the Morning Glories stamp, found on this page.  I also stamped them on a piece of scratch paper and cut them out.  I used removable double-sided tape to stick it over the stamped and colored image.  Then over the mask, I stamped with the Live, Laugh, Love stamp (found on this page) and removed the mask.  I scored a couple lines along the sides and used a very thin mat of black.  The circles are Certainly Celery cardstock from Stampin' Up and are matted with black, also.  I used a punch for the circles.  I embossed the background with a Sizzix embossing folder and matted with black.  The ribbon is Certainly Celery.  Oh, I also added black brads, but omitted four of them:)

I hope you'll join us!  You still have time to enter last week's challenge, too.  It's to CASE Karen, and you can find the details of that challenge here.

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Three More Christmas Cards

    I’m pretty sure these will be the last three Christmas cards I will share with you this year;)

I saw the sentiment with the dotted circle on another blog and she had a link to the source.  However, since the “source” is a little questionable and the link was removed from that blog, I will not link to anywhere.  I will just say that the sentiment and its surrounding circles were printed from the computer.  I punched scalloped circles for the matting and used either a white gel pen or a glitter pen for the dots on the scallops.  The rest of the cards should be pretty much self-explanatory – Cuttlebug folders, Scor-Pal, patterned paper, corner rounder.

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SCS Featured Stamper Challenge - Anniversary

Today’s card is a SplitCoastStampers’ challenge to “case” the Featured Stamper. Today’s Featured Stamper is Roxie Glaza. You can find the details of the challenge here. Roxie's card that I cased is this one.

The daisies at the top are stamped with a set by Stampin’ Up! called Simply Said. The white daisies are punched with a Marvy Uchida punch. The embossed trios of dots are a Sizzix embossing folder. The row of daisies at the bottom are a Cuttlebug border embossing folder. The border at the very bottom is done with a Martha Stewart border punch. The lines are embossed with my Scor-Pal. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s set called Mixed Messages. The daisy centers are pearls colored with an SU! Yoyo Yellow marker. The sentiment and mat are cut with Oval Nestabilities and mounted on Pop Dots. I THINK that’s all the details!

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CAS Challenge - A Sketch

I made this card last week for Clean and Simple Challenge #13, but I guess I didn’t post it here. So, I’ll share it today! You can find the challenge here – it’s a sketch.

Not much to say about this card! The flower punch is by Marvy, the sentiment is by Inkadinkado. The scoring is done with my Scor-Pal. The pearls are from Michael’s. The ink is Printworks Ocean Blue. The cardstock is Papertrey Ink’s Stamper’s Select. That’s about it!

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Graduation Card #2

This is sort of a continuation of yesterday’s post, with my second graduation card.

This card is for my niece who is graduating from college. I’m really proud of her! Her college colors are red, black and white. I embossed the bottom of the card with a Cuttlebug Congratulations folder. The top was embossed with a Sizzix triple dot folder. I used my Scor-Pal to add two lines between the embossing, mounted it on red and then onto the card base. I again used my JustRite stamper for the sentiment. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink on a semi-glossy cardstock. The graduation cap is by Hero Arts and is also stamped with Versafine. I embossed them with clear embossing powder. I used a Coluzzle to cut the white circle so that I was able to have the tassel sticking out. The black scalloped circle was cut with a Marvy punch.

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Graduation Card #1

I had two graduations to make cards for this year – a light year :). Normally I would probably post them both on the same day, but since I’m a little short of cards to post, I will spread them out over two days!

This first one is for the son of a good friend, who is graduating from high school. As you can probably guess, his school colors are black and yellow. I used the Cuttlebug Congratulations embossing folder on yellow cardstock. I sponged black lightly pretty much over the whole thing to highlight the embossing. The sentiment was stamped with a JustRite Stamper with Versafine Onyx Black ink on white and sponged with yellow around the edge. The white and the black circles were punched with Marvy punches, and the yellow was cut with a Nestability. It is mounted on Pop Dots. The yellow is matted with black and mounted on a white card base.

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April Calendar Page

Oops – I forgot to change my calendar this morning and therefore forgot to put my April calendar page on my blog! Thanks for the reminder, Harriet! :) So, two posts for today.

The bunny rabbit is from Stampin’ Up!’s set Tags So Much. I colored it with Stampin’ Up! markers in the Soft Subtles family. The mat is pink shimmery paper, and I stamped on it with PaperTrey Ink’s Borders and Corners – Circles. The circles are cut with Marvy punches. The background is embossed with a Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. The Happy Easter stamp on the bottom is from Studio G.

If you haven't already done so, please check out the next post, which is also from today:)

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Easter Card

Here is the card I made for the 2RedBananas Spring Challenge from two weeks ago. The challenge was to make a Spring card. (Just to clarify - my card did NOT win on its own merit - it was a random drawing! :) ) Here is this week's challenge - to use gems. There is a prize this week, too - a bottle of metallic Dew Drops!

The duck stamp is from a set by Sandylion. I stamped it on yellow background paper and cut it out. I stamped it again on the yellow and also on white. I cut the wing out of the yellow and mounted it on a Pop Dot. I punched the white image and the pink scalloped circle with a Marvy punch. The yellow circle is cut with a Nestability. I sponged a little black around the white circle and added black dots to the scallops. Then I adhered the yellow paper-pieced image to the white image. The background paper is from Sizzix, mounted on black. The yellow felt rick rack is from JoAnn’s. The Happy Easter sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

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Golden Birthday Card

Today’s card is for a very special neighbor. (I did daycare for him and his sister for many years.) He is turning eleven on the eleventh – hence, his “Golden Birthday.” He actually saves all the cards I give him – that is so awesome!

I started with the JustRite Stamper. I stamped with Versamark and embossed with Detail Gold embossing powder, then cut it out with a Marvy circle punch. I cut out the gold scalloped circle with a Marvy punch, also, and added white dots with a Signo gel pen. Hmmm … what next? I brayered with Versamark on a Diamonds in the Rough Cuttlebug embossing folder, used it to emboss white cardstock, then sprinkled it with the gold embossing powder. It was really hard not to get Versamark where it didn’t belong, so I had to brush off a lot of it from between the diamonds. But, I think it worked all right. (This technique is called “Negative Effect” on SplitCoastStampers and here is a link to a former Technique Lover’s Challenge with instructions.) I did nearly a full page, but it was just too much gold for a birthday card for an eleven-year-old! So, I thought and thought. Then I remembered some really awesome textured paper that I had gotten over a month ago. I’m not actually sure it’s paper – it feels more like VERY thin plastic. I thought red would look great with the gold. So, I cut the diamond piece in half, matted it with gold shimmery paper, then added the red texture to the card base. Of course, the round part needed some red then, too, so I cut a circle out with a Nestability – just the right amount of red, I think. The circle medallion is mounted on Pop Dots.

Sorry there are so many pictures. I wanted you to see the shiny gold, the true color of the red, and the portion stamped with the JustRite Stamper.

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Christmas Color Challenge

My card for today uses the Color Challenge on SplitCoastStampers. The colors are Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Pretty in Pink.

The stamps are all from the Archiver’s Hot Spot – exclusively for them by Imaginisce. I stamped the poinsettia stamp with Riding Hood Red and Pretty in Pink on white, then used my Dotted Swiss Cuttlebug folder on it. Then I sponged Kiwi Kiss along the edges, and over the dots, very subtly. I stamped the “Merry Christmas” with Riding Hood Red and colored it with Pretty in Pink. I masked it, and then used the poinsettia stamp again, this time in Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss. I went over the Pretty in Pink with a glitter pen. I punched it out with a Marvy Uchida punch, and also used a Marvy punch for the Riding Hood Red scalloped circle, which I added white dots to with a gel pen. The circles are mounted on Pop Dots. The ribbon is from Michael’s. The snowflakes are punched from Kiwi Kiss and have pearl centers.

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A Doubly Embossed Christmas Card

The card I’ve chosen for today is a simple Christmas card. I can tell you how I THINK I made it, because I did the main embossed part last year and found it in my “card parts” pile.

The image was embossed using a Lasting Impressions brass stencil. I’m pretty sure I must have left the stencil in place, and then covered the embossing with Versamark ink. I then used Stampendous Winter Wonderland embossing powder and heat embossed it. (I wish you could see the silver sparkle on it.) It’s cut out with a square scalloped Marvy punch, mounted on shimmery silver paper, and then onto red cardstock. I used the Scor-Pal on the red, also. The background is embossed with a Cuttlebug Snowflakes folder. The Merry Christmas is from the retired Stampin’ Up! set Greetings 4 You, and I used the Scor-Pal again on both sides of the greeting.

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Bright and Cheery Birthday

Today’s card just “happened.” That is how most of my cards come about. I start with something – a stamp, a piece of paper, a punched item – and build from there. (Yesterday’s card was the complete opposite – I “designed” that card in my head completely before doing any of it.) It's a bright and cheery card for a wonderfully bright and cheery day. It's 70 degrees in Minnesota at the end of October - what could be better!

The part I started with today was the punched border. That was done with a Martha Stewart punch. I tried it, didn’t really like it, and exchanged it for another one today. I don’t really like my new one, either, so that one’s going back, too! Anyway, I added a scored line above the punching and mounted it on yellow so the flowers would have yellow centers. The large flower is punched with a Marvy Scalloped Circle punch. Take a scissors and snip between each scallop and you have a daisy! The flower center (which is stamped with a stamp from Papertrey Ink’s Borders and Corners – Circles) and the background paper are both from Michael’s from years ago. The “happy birthday” stamp is a dollar stamp from Michael’s. There was a present on the stamp to the left of the sentiment, but I didn’t want that stamped on the card so I masked it off. Probably not even a “blog-worthy” card, but it’s what I’ve got for you. LOL!

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