Season of Thanks

 One thing I like about living in southern Indiana is the changing of the seasons. Although some days seem to have several seasons in one day😀. But when Time Out Challenges posted their challenge with cue word seasons, I immediately thought of fall. I love all the colors of the fall season. And large stands of sunflowers are one of my favorites.

The stenciled background if from a paper in SU's Botanical Prints product medley. I used orange and yellow randomly. The sunflower and leaves are SU"s Painted Harvest. The sentiment also SU is on a Sizzix label. I added gold and copper glittery washi tape at the bottom.  And dressed up the inside with a sunflower peeking over the edge. I added a few clear sequins enhancements, though they are hard to see. The just add a little sparkle without detracting from rest of the images.

The other inspiration was this beautiful photo at Hand Stamped Sentiments

Her is the cue card from TIME OUT

Happy Halloween

 Getting a head start on the Halloween cards for the grandkids.

The stripe paper is from the scrap box. The happy halloween from SU! A strip of orange glitter washi tape creates some sparkle. The Boo sentiment is by Craft Smart. I stamped it with Hampton Arts white pigment ink. This is the only white I have found that does a good job of white stamping.

I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches

Giving Thanks

 I have a regular client who likes to send Thanksgiving cards. Here is one I made for her. I found the inspiration from a YouTube video for Birds of a Feather stamp set by Stampin' Up!

I started with Kraft cardstock. Used Versamark to stamp  2 leaves and some dots from SU Gather Together set. Then 2 scraps of paper from the stash. These papers are from Ms. Sparkle Watercolor paper pad. The rest of the layers are from various SU sets.

Submitting to Shopping Our Stash challenge #427 "Pile It On"

Also submitting at Pixie's Crafty Workshop Snippet Playground. All the parts except card base were from scraps. Playing for the great prizes, some flowers and stencils plus word stickers.

Gone Fishin'

 I used up a lot of my stash of Get Well cards recently so have been working on replenishing that. Using the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches here is one:

I used a Sizzix EF to make wavy lines on the front of a SU Soft Sea Foam card base. Then Swirly Bird dies to make waves. The fish is a pre-colored digital from Louby-Loo. I did the banner sentiment on the computer and of course "fishtailed" the ends. Three blue sparkly sequins are also riding the waves. 

How is this especially a get well card you might ask. The answer is inside:

I took the cut outs from the wavy die and glued them inside to make more waves. Hope the recipient of this card does not suffer seasickness.

Here is the sketch:

You can see, I made wavy lines instead of straight ones.

I think I will do another of this design with "a very happy birthday" inside for my husband who likes to fish and snorkel in the tropics.

Truckin' Along

For the sketch at  Tuesday Morning Sketches I used the SU truck again. When you have a stamp set out, do you make more than one card with it? I have a very small craft space so I need to keep things in their place. I tend to make 2 or more cards with the same images or sentiments that I have out before I put it away.

I am continuing with the masculine cards for Jill's charity. No sentiments on front because they get a non-English message inside and so nor want anything English on the front.

I used 2 scraps of patterned paper from SU. I stamped the truck and dogs (can you see them riding in back?), colored it all with SU blends, fussy cut it and mounted it with foam tape.

I know the truck is a little more centered than the sketch, but at this speeddo you think it will get over there to the side eventually. Since I used scraps of patterned paper, also submitting at Shopping Our Stash

Her is TMS inspiration sketch.

GRRRR!  Still frustrated with this "new and improved"? blogger. Can anyone tell me why the text is all underlined after I insert picture from another blog? I have tried highlighting and clicking the underline icon. Doesn't go away.

Just Truckin'

I am doing some cards for a super busy "super girl" blogger Jill who collects cards to send to a charity, collects Red/White/Blue cards for a veterans group, and sews masks--2000 so far this year. The charity needs male theme cards. No sentiment on front because Jill inserts foreign language messages inside and they do not want English sentiments on the front.

Our road atlas was worn out and falling apart. I cut pages out and use portions for cards. I try to use parts that aren't readily recognizable. The truck is an old Stampin" Up! on and colored with SU blender pens.

Entering at Just Us Girls challenge key word Travel

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

Grinch Christmas

AAARGH! I hate when my computer updates and decides I need a "new and improved" Blogger page.

It took me awhile and searching help feature to finally figure out the changes. So here goes.

A friend asked me to make her some Grinch theme cards for Christmas.

The papers are not labeled. A friend gave me a bunch of papers when she cleaned out for a move. Gotta love friends who support your crafting habit!  I Googled "Grinch sayings" and found some printable ones. I copied and resized it, printed it, and trimmed it down to fit. For all the glitter of Christmas:  gold glitter strip behind sentiment and gold glitter punched star in upper right corner. For snow at Christmas: 3 punched snowflakes glued on and coated with clear glitter glue. The Grinch wore a Santa hat so that is also clip art, fussy cut and winked to make it shiny. A heart indicates the Grinch's heart grew 3 times that day. 

I used the sketch from http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com

Here are 2 more designs for Grinch Christmas cards.

Candy Stripes

I had a request to share more of the cards made from Stampin" Up! Memories and More Christmas Card pack. I made these a while back but hadn't posted them.

Then when The Card Concept Christmas in July picture inspiration photo came out, I saw they reflected the red and white gift wraps. I used my go to style of clean and layered.

 In the card pack were red/white candy stripe cards. I covered the image that was in the center with smaller cards from the pack and stamped 2 different images (both from SU!). The snowman was colored with SU Blender pens and decorated with glitter glue. I added a punched snowflake and a mini sentiment. The right one was just a stamp in the center and then red sequins.

Here are pictures of a few more cards made from this card pack. I think I have 6 of each design. So way ahead of schedule on making Christmas cards this year.

Christmas Tree

I'm getting an early start, for me, on Christmas cards.  I purchased Stampin" Up! Memories and More Christmas Card Packs on clearance. I think these are designed more for scrapbooking but they make great cards too. There are 50 double sided cards of various sizes plus some stickers in each set. I have made a lot of cards from them. Unfortunately the set is retired.

My clean and simple layered card for The Card Concept features one of the Christmas tree cards from the pack. I enhanced the image with a gold glitter star topper and colored the balls with glitter pens. I dotted a clear gel glitter pen all over the tree to look like clear sparkly lights then backed it with Real Red and Mossy Meadow. The sentiment is an old one from SU, stamped with VersaMark and embossed with silver.
Here is a close up showing the glitter, although it doesn't show well.

Entering the challenge at The Card Concept

Butterfly Twofer

I have tons of butterflies:  stamps, dies, paper. I sat and looked at all the selections and could not come up with inspiration for 2 cards to play in Darnell's Twofer Card Challenge

Today I was cleaning and organizing the scrap box and found a forgotten butterfly die hiding in the bottom. Label is lost and I don't know who makes it. Aha moment! I die cut several of them in white. And ended up with this

The onefer is bold and bright in SU's Melon Mambo over white cardstock. The sentiment on a matching strip of paper is an old one from SU, embossed in white. You have to look really close to see the clear sequins and the glitter glue added over the star shapes.

The twofer is very subdued on SU's Night of Navy card base and then blue vellum with the new SU Old World Paper EF. I love that texture. I glued the die cut onto the vellum and then turned it over and put a few dots of glue on the backside of the die to stick the vellum to the card base. The sentiment is also SU embossed in white, trimmed out and glued on.

This one is also for the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, with a little stretch of the imagination