I went super-glitzy with a gold embossed wreath and rhinestone ornaments on a watercolor background I made with lots of shimmer sprays and ink. My mat is glittery gold.
I am here with a special card to help the lovely Mia at Craftartista celebrate her 3rd Blogaversary. Congratulations, Mia, you are awesome!!!
You can join in the fun, too, by making a creation using one of Mia's wonderful mandala digis that she has on her Freebies Page.
I used Mandala #15 with a previously made vivid orange watercolor marker refill background. Love this super-bright citrusy card....and I even got adventurous and added white accents with a gel pen! I adore how that made this card come alive. It is my new favorite way to embellish my coloring....esp for geometrics! Get your shades on and take a look:
Yes, I am still around.....just haven't been blogging much. But I *have* been playing with purple patterned paper lately. (Say that 5 times fast!!!) For spring, I love yellow paired with purple. It reminds me of crocuses....some of my favorite flowers.
I didn't want to cover up the pretty background with this STAMPlorations scripture, so I stamped and heat embossed it on vellum.
A long time ago, a friend gave me eight or so decorative envelopes that are somewhat larger than the usual A2 size. I kept thinking I should make some cards with the appropriate dimensions to use these envelopes.
Since I was in a purple mood, I cut papers the right size and made cards that coordinate with them. I used ivory embossing powder on this one. Which do you like better?
Supplies used include: STAMPlorations - Bless the Lord - Typografia in Faith Versamark Ink Embossing powder from stash - ivory and yellow sparkle DCWV scraps Vellum Prima flowers Petaloo flowers Ribbon, Brads, and Adhesive Pearls from stash
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Hope you are staying well. We are getting a lot of rain here, so my garden is awfully wet. How is weather where you are?
Here's a sweet card I made for my dear MIL for Mother's Day. She doesn't look at my blog, so I am okay posting it a few days early! :)
Somewhere along the line...maybe thrift store...maybe from some inherited craft supplies...who knows???.... I came to own a very pretty package of floral coasters. I LOVE them!! They are perfect for pairing with a doily and sentiment for a quick but charming card. There are four different floral styles and I let hubby choose which one to put a Happy Mother's Day greeting inside for his mom's special day. He chose this pretty purple one.
I love purple and use it a lot on my cards. I often pair it with green or yellow, but this time I tried gray to coordinate with this pretty coaster. I love how it gives a very serene look to a color that often is quite dramatic.
Supplies used include: Unity "Thankful for You" stamp from grab bag - still trying to track down which set it came from. Versafine ink in Smokey Gray Salvaged white cardstock from a mailing advertisement Lawn Fawn - Large Stitched Rectangles die set Floral Coaster from stash White Doily from my stash Background panel from K&Co. Core'dinations/Darice cardstock for card base
Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope all you ladies out there know how vital and important you are...whether you are technicaly a Mother or not. All women play a crucial role as examples and mentors to the young ladies of today. Thank you for shaping the world of tomorrow.
I am here with a pretty card with a special feature that is fun and easy to do...but adds a little something extra to your card. It's an Aperture style that I learned over at Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge back when she was on the Letter A in her challenge themes. (She's currently on the Letter X...so this has been awhile!)
In case you didn't know, Mrs. A's fortnightly challenges feature, along with selected colors and themes, an optional fancy fold element.....with tutorials to help us accomplish them. I rarely attempt them, but I loved this aperture style card back when she introduced that challenge. You can see the card I made at that time HERE. I have been wanting ever since to make another. So here's the one I made this time.
Here it is propped open a bit......
I love how this style is ideal for using stickers that have sentiments printed on them. The pretty sticker and words still show when you open the card. Here's my card fully open....
I left the butterfly image uncolored for a vintage sepia tone photo look. LOVE!!! Used lots of scraps for this card, including the gold shimmer cardstock mats, the striped piece, and the bits of gold foil doily which I folded around the corners.
What's the most unusual request you've ever had for a card? I got an order the other day for a funny one.....a chicken-themed sympathy card. A friend at church recently lost a bunch of her chickens to night-time raids by skunks. 🐔🐔🐔😞😠😢 Many of us up here in our tiny community have chickens and so we all can relate to the anguish of a predator attack. Another friend asked me to make a card expressing condolences for losing so many of her flock. This sounded like fun!
I don't have one of those cute skunk stamp sets with a "That stinks" sentiment. So I used a skunk from an adorable NBUS set my crafty pal Karen Ladd gave me (THANKS, Karen!!) and made a simple but fun card with a computer-generated sentiment. I colored the images with my Prismacolors.
Inside I used some chicken ephemera pieces from the Bella Blvd Barn Yard collection. I think their big eyes look a little bit worried, don't you?
I hope this card brings a smile to the face of our friend who lost so many chickens. (By the way, they have killed 4 skunks....so far!) Hope you enjoyed the card, too. Thank you so much for stopping by today!!
Are you able to enjoy some spring weather where you live? I have hummingbirds draining my nectar feeders and summer birds gorging on the seed feeders. So fun and interesting to watch them! Do you have any birdfeeders up?
