Scripture cards for the fall

I hope you're not tired of seeing fall cards from me!  I've been on a roll with them and added to my stash of Scripture cards.  I was running low on them again.  

All these leave dies are from Spellbinders but I think the one below is a very very old one.  I don't even own that die - it was an extra from a crafting session with a friend a couple of years ago.  I hope Covid is over soon so we can resume our craft play dates.

The last one I added silver mirror card stock and on all of these, some leaves were covered with Crystal Effect.  It's hard to see on the pics but it's a nice extra oomph in real life.  

 

More fall cards but with a deer now

This mini woodland scene is an old die - I don't even know the name of the manufacturer - but I found it was perfect for my fall mood.  Both deers are from a Memory Box set and the Bible verses are also older stamps by Divinity Designs.  I love being able to go back and use older supplies!

The Grateful word die and loose leaves are from this month's Spellbinders Small die monthly club kit.  

For the doe, I added some white dots and the bottom portion of her tail with a Uniball Signo white gel pen.

 

Happy Mother's Day

When you need some quick Mother's Day card and you literally have jars of colored flowers to pick from, card making got a lot easier.  Having a beautifully lettered Happy Mother's Day stamp completes the card in very little time.  I also hope seeing the different cards show how slightly rearranging whatever flower stamps or dies you have can make for a beautiful card.

For my first card, I framed the sentiment with the Flourished Oval frame and added some hydrangeas watercolored and gold embossed around the frame.  I used Kells Gold Modern Gilding Powder on the frame since the hydrangeas were also gold embossed.

On the next one, I trimmed the Wreath from Wreath and Elements die set by Quietfire Design for a subtle lacy background.

But any kind of frame type die works!  Below is one by Divinity Designs.

A Mother's Greatest Masterpiece

I am sharing a card that would be great for a mother-in-law or aunt, best friend's mom... it's just such a great quote.  "A Mother's Greatest Masterpiece is her children."  I knew I wanted the sentiment framed with a small bouquet of flowers to the side:

I sponged a circle frame from Divinity Designs with a combination of Raspberry Pink and Seedless Preserves Distress Ink.  The flowers and wood background are both from Tim Holtz  - extras from previous projects that were sponged and colored with Copics.  

The sentiment was stamped in black pigment ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder.  A gray card base kept the card soft and serene.  

A Mother's Greatest Masterpiece

Blue hydrangea notecards

I can see new light green growth on my hydrangeas and I watch the weather every day, hoping that there is no frost coming to kill all my buds.  There has been a few nights that have wiped out new growth on my persimmon but so far the hydrangeas are okay -being next to the house must help.  These nighttime low temps are frustrating for a novie gardener like me - too impatient to wait until May to do gardening.

A friend requested a set of notecards with blue hydrangeas - much easier than watching and waiting for real ones.  I drew these hydrangeas for Divinity Designs a while back (In my Heart stamp/die duo) and I don't know why, but I don't reach for them often enough.  I did more than make up for it as I colored more than 20 of them this time around.  I embossed them in a soft gold, colored them with Tombow markers and die cut them with the die included in the set.  

I came up with two designs - one more ornate with a couple of dies also by Divinity Designs and the other a simpler woodsy one.  Which one do you like more?  

Challenge I am playing in:

Simon Says Flower Power

A whole lot of flower cards

If you follow me on instagram (@yourstrulybydiana) you may remembered that I shared a row of Tim Holtz's Wildflower series cut and colored and sitting in the Oui yogurt jars of which I have way too many.  I've "picked" the flowers from my paper garden and have given them a place on cards.

This was the perfect time for me to play with different backgrounds.  I wanted them pretty subtle to highlight the flowers and Bible verses or lyrics.  I just made each card with one color of flowers.  For several of these, I used Tim Holtz's 3D woodgrain embossing folder and then sponged them to bring out the detailed grains.

I also used a leaf stencil for two of the cards.

This yellow one with a plain gray background - I found the background I had intended a couple of days later because my craft desk was such a mess.  I wanted to finish this set of wildflower cards so I just used a gray one and doodled an imperfect frame around it.

I love this tone-on-tone stenciling.  It was so soft and peaceful looking.

I made so many of these because I want to mail them (and other cards) out to encourage and brighten my followers and friends' day since we're all cooped inside the house.  So if you haven't, please follow me on Instagram or facebook to enter in my Happy Snail Mail event that will happen later today.  

What's Up with all these bunny cards?

Corona-crafting - I'm catching up on my Spellbinder small club kits.  I'm actually posting this March die set in March!  Lol!  

The first is a straight forward usage of the set - so cute!  

For the second card, I combined other spring items to the card.  The Easter eggs and grass are by Divinity Designs and the woven basket die is by Gina Marie Designs.  I couldn't decide if I wanted the bunnies inside the basket or outside so I did both.

The third card features the bunny cut out of light brown felt.  For the eyes, I glued a piece of black cardstock behind the felt instead of trying to color teeny tiny pieces of felt.

Hope you are finding the positives in these unknown and unsettling times of the COVID-19 virus.  

Spellbinders February small die set

I seem to be running a month late with posting my cards of the Spellbinders small club set.  I anxiously await for them to arrive in the mail and then life happens or I get stumped in my craft room.  Did find time to play some though!

Stamps by Our Daily Bread Design

Stamp by Verve and Butterflies Spray by Quietfire Design

Challenges I am playing in:

Simon Says Use Some Green

Happy Valentine's Day

May your day be sweet and may you feel loved today.

Supplies:

Gable Box die (Quietfire Design | Elizabeth Craft Designs)

Hearts Spray (Elizabeth Craft Designs)

His love endures forever stamp (Divinity Designs)

Don't forget the chocolates

I have found the one whom my soul loves

Another Valentine card made with a red and black color scheme.  I used Simon Says Stamp clipping hearts with some dies and stamps by Divinity Designs including the Happily Ever stamp set.

Going back to old stamps

Hope you are having a great start to a new year!  I started it with a new tangent to my ever-growing hobby collection.  I've started to do lettering on some finished wood pieces and I am loving it!  Check out my facebook page Yours Truly and my instagram account @yourstrulybydiana to see my newest pieces.  But I haven't let go of my love of papercrafting - and I'm even playing with some very old stamp sets.  This little chickadee was one of my first stamp purchases from Our Daily Bread Desigsn, now Divinity Designs.

But my tools have certainly grown since I bought this stamp set and now I can watercolor and then use my Misti to stamp the image again to get a nice crisp image.  I also used some Koi watercolor brushes combined with watercolor pencils.  I kept it pretty simple to highlight this cute image and wonderful verse.

Thanks so much for looking!

Silent Night, Holy Night

Do you automatically sing the song when you see the title or lyrics on a card?  I do.  Fortunately, I sing it in my head and not out loud if anyone is around.  I definitely fall in the "joyful noise" category.

To make this card, I started with blue card stock and sponged Distress Ink Black Soot around the edges.  I placed my lamp die cut from Rubbernecker on the card to pinpoint where I wanted my light to glow.  I used Distress Oxide Squeezed Lemonade and Orange Marmalade to make it glow.  I love that Distress Oxide shows up on dark card stock.  After a few hours, the yellow/orange actually turned rather white but I still loved the effect.  

I hand cut a snow bank to anchor the lamp die cut and added some details with a wreath from Christmas Door Greenery dies and Silent Night and Holy Night stamps from Delightful Decorations by Divinity Designs to finish the card.

Scripture and Coloring Summer Blossoms

Thanks to the Daily Marker 30 challenge, I've got quite a stash of colored backgrounds that are perfect for my Scripture card stash.  These cards are great just for sending out to friends to let them know I am thinking of them and I believe in the promise of Isaiah 55:11.  

Today I'm sharing several I made out of the same stamp by Honey Doo crafts called Summer Blossom.  Below each I will list the medium I used and where the Scripture stamp came from.  Where the flower goes over the stamped panel, I used an Xacto knife to cut around the flowers to pop them up in front.

Stamped in black ink, colored with Prismacolor color pencils with a Verve stamp.

Embossed in white, colored with Zig clean color real brush with a Verve stamp.

Embossed in white, colored with Zig clean color real brush with a Divinity Designs stamp.

Stamped in black ink, colored with Prismacolor color pencils with a Divinity Designs stamp.

Stamped in black ink, colored with Prismacolor color pencils, white accents Signo white pen with a Divinity Designs stamp.

Challenges I am playing in:

Simon Says Thinking of You

Word Art Wednesday