Two Cards

Just a quick post to show you two cards I made recently. I made the first card for my Dad's birthday.   The paper I used for this card is called Hip, Hip Hooray by American Crafts.  The pocket on the front was made using the My Favorite Things Vertical Gift Card Greetings die.  The stars were made using a star punch and My Favorite Things Stacking Stars dies.

The Mother's Day Card was created with Aqua Mist card stock by Papertrey Ink for the card base.  The white background design was cut using my Silhouette.  I also cut out the word Mom on my Silhouette about 5 times and glued them one on top of the other so the word would look more substantial (like a chipboard accent).  I placed pearls in the center of the flowers on the background.

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Thank You Card - MFT Sketch #175

Here's another card created from a My Favorite Things sketch.  I needed a Thank You card to send to my Aunt and thought this design would be perfect for the card I had in mind.  I made this card on my YouTube channel here.









Materials:

MFT Oval Stax 1
MFT Oval Stax 2
MFT Thank You Stamp
Pink Satin Ribbon
Paper Studio Bling
Sunny Days Patterned Paper By Prima

MFT Sketch Challenge

This week I thought I would join in on the MFT Get Sketchy challenge and create a card based on the sketch posted on the MFT blog.  I enjoy creating cards from card sketches.  It gives you a road map for putting together the card, but the freedom to select all the elements that make up the card (paper, stamps, embellishments, etc.).  Here is the card I created from the sketch.  You can see me putting together this card on my YouTube channel here.

Materials used to make this card include:

My Favorite Things Fishtail Flags STAX 

Fishtail Flags Layers STAX 

My Favorite Things Fancy Flourish die

110lb White card stock by Recollections

New Leaft card stock by Papertrey Ink

Sweet Blush card stock by Papertrey Ink

Spring patterned paper by American Crafts

VersaFine Onyx Black ink.

Thank You Sayings clear stamp set by Hero Arts

Matting Basics A  by Spellbinders 

 Matting Basics B by Spellbinders

Martha Stewart Crafts Butterfly Punch

Tonic Small Butterflies Punch

Recollections white paper flowers

UHU Glue Stick

Fabri-Tac.

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EK Success Punch & Stamp Review

I recently purchased two of the EK Success Punch & Stamp sets from Blitsy.com.  I have always liked the idea of stamping an image and having a coordinating punch that perfectly punches out that image. The EK Success Stamp & Punch sets each come with 7 stamps (rubber foam mounted stamps) and the coordinating punch.  You will see photos of the punch and the stamps at left.  I purchased the Retro Bottle Cap set and Just for You set.  I have to say that I am not a fan of the rubber foam mounted stamps.  Some of the stamps in the set stamp fairly well while others - especially the stamps with fine line type (you can see what I am talking about in the Gee Your Swell stamped image.  The Swell stamps fine, but you can hardly see the "Gee Your" part of the sentiment). For the Gee Your Swell sentiment stamp, I masked off the Gee Your Swell by punching a 1.25 inch circle from an Avery Label Sheet, inked up the stamp, removed the Avery Label mask and stamped.  I then stamped another sentiment from a photopolymer Avery Elle stamp set - much better!  You will see this in a photo at left as well.

I will use these sets, but probably not as often as I might have if all the images stamped well.  I think it would have been better if EK Success used clear photopolymer stamps in these sets instead of the rubber mounted on foam stamps.

Quick Post

I wanted to show you two cards I made earlier this month and have not had a chance to post.  One is a birthday card I made for my brother and the other is a sympathy card.  I made them several weeks back so I don't have a materials list for these two.  Sorry about that!

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Pet Sympathy

Last week I made a pet sympathy card for a family member who had to say goodbye to their four-legged friend.  I wanted to send a sympathy card to let her know I was so sorry to hear the news and I was thinking of her.  I have a Pet Sympathy stamp set by Papertrey Ink and a Pet Charms die set by My Favorite things that  I used to make this card.  I hope the card brought a little bit of comfort.  I know how hard it is to say goodbye to a beloved pet and member of the family.

Get Well Card

This week Get Well seemed to be a theme in terms of card creation.  Two family members are under the weather and I needed to make Get Well cards for them.  I used my Silhouette to cut out the words Get Well and used the Offset feature to create a layered look.  The papers chosen for the card are a little more muted to convey a more masculine feel (I can't remember the name of the patterned paper pad I used for this card.  That's what I get for procrastinating on posting to my blog!)  

After making the Get Well cards, I turned my attention to making another Valentine card.  This was a card I made on YouTube last Friday - here.

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