Believe - a Christmas card with washi tape accents

Today's card is a bit non-traditional.  I added the washi tape strips to my white cardstock base before I embossed it.  I added the center strip of birdcages - actually I don't know why... do you ever have those moments when you just put something on and go with it?

The reindeer and sentiment are attached with mounting tape (I love 3M mounting tape).

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I added a pipe cleaner (cut to length) and just curled it around the reindeer's neck.

Here is a fairly good look at the card base with the washi tape and all embossed.

I have one final card for tomorrow so stop by again!
Lis

A Toy Soldier Christmas Card

Hi everyone! I hope that you have all had a great weekend shopping and taking advantage of bargains! I've been having fun making Christmas Cards!

Today's card also has washi tape accents.

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I just love the little red gem in the soldier's hat.  The toy soldier is made with serendipity paper and cut using a Tim Holtz Die from Sizzix.

I hope you enjoyed this weekend's washi tape accent Christmas Cards.  I hope to have more again.  I look forward to sharing more Christmas Card inspiration with you! Come back again!
Lis

It's a Washi Tape Christmas!

Hi everyone!
I wanted to devote some more time to washi tape and since we are now entering the Christmas season, I thought a few  Christmas cards with washi tape accents would be nice.

I call today's card "Irish Christmas". I didn't intend to make an Irish Christmas card. It just sort of ended up that way.

I started out with a plain white cardstock card base.  I added three strips of washi tape to the right side. THEN I embossed the top of my card.  I think the embossing makes the washi tape look like more a part of the card than tape on top of the card.

I added the embossed sentiment with mounting tape.

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I really love this embossing folder with the little snowflakes.

Here you can get a good look at the washi tape and how well it embossed.

I hope you enjoyed this first card. I will have others this weekend!

Lis

NOEL - a Precision Die Card

Hi everyone!   I always look forward to this time of year. I love making Christmas Cards.
Today's card is a precision die card.  I used a rectangle die, punched holes along the side and threaded red organza ribbon through them.  I tied both ends in a bow at the bottom with a brass bell. (On the inside of my card is a chipboard Christmas tree sticker.  You can see to the right a "TO" gold sticker.

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(Gold sticker from Dazzles)

Come back again for more Christmas cards!

Lis

Thanksgiving!

Wishing you a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving Day ~

Lis

Flowers and Gears - oh my!

Today's card is easy and quick to make - All I did was add some embellishments to some patterned paper!  how easy was that?

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Catch you later!

Lis

Washi Tape Webisode from Paper Wishes

Hi everyone!

I know that many of you like to use washi tape and have been looking at my washi tape techniques and cards.

Paper Wishes has a new webisode with some really neat design ideas for washi tape.

Click HERE to see it.

Lis

The Grand Hotel - a collage card

Today's card is a collage card.  I had some pieces left over from different papers and put them together for this card ( we hate to throw away papers, don't we!)

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I found this ribbon fringe in a discount bin.  The crystals are plastic but they are so pretty!

 Some bling on the left and some black diamond washi tape.

Take care and see you again!
Lis

Pink Flowers Card

Hi everyone!  I thought today that I would share a colorful card with flowers.

Today's card uses a border punch (see right side of card -the ivory cardstock) and colorful patterned papers including some gold writing.

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I used three layers of flowers attached with a brad.  The bakers twine matches the yellow flower at the bottom.

You can also get a good look at the border.  It's really pretty (Martha Stewart of course).  The ivory on ivory makes it more subtle.

Hope you enjoyed today's card!
Lis

Love You! Three Pears Stamp

I learned this simple technique from Rubbernecker.com.

I used the following supplies:

• Distress Ink Pads in Mustard Seed, Shabby Shutters and Tea Dye
• Distress Ink Pens in Shabby Shutters, Forest Moss, Antique Linen
• Versa Mark Pad and gold embossing powder
• Ivory cardstock for card (scrap for mask)
• Staz-On black for stamp
• Yellow polka Dot organza ribbon

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This is a picture of the three pears stamped onto my ivory card base before the ribbon.  You can see a smudge on the lower right which I was able to take out with a damp towel (lucky!).

Technique:

1. Stamp your card front with your design.
2. Make a mask by stamping onto a piece of cardstock the same size as you card front. You want it this size to protect your card surface from ink. Read on before you cut!
3. Cut only the far right pear out of the mask with an xacto blade or scissors. Save your cut piece.
4. Place the mask on your card surface. Everything should be covered but the far right pear.
5. Using a blending tool and Shabby Shutters, blend the green along the right side of the pear, making sure to get a darker green along the edge.
6. Now take a blending tool with Mustard Seed and blend this color (starting at the right) all over your pear.
7. Take a blending tool and using the Tea Dye, blend it onto the bottom of your pear.
8. Take your cut piece of your mask and retape it onto the mask.
9. Now cut the center pear out. Save the cut piece.
10. Follow steps 4 through 7 for the center pear.
11. Do the same for the left pear.
12. Cool, huh?

 Cute little dollar stamp, embossed in gold - just the right touch! Also, the stamp had nice detail so it wasn't a struggle trying to figure out what to color.

Hope you try this out too!

Lis

Love - A Simple Card to Make and Give

I have some older embellishments that I am trying to use up.  Example: the brads you see below.  All of the small elements on my card are brads.  I really like the cute tag brads.  But what to do with them?

I decided to send my dad a card.

I was going to put letters on the tags but I thought it would be too much so I left them blank.

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I cut the "LOVE" cross stich pattern from  a scrapbook page. I outlined it in gold so that it wouldn't get lost on the background paper.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Hello Card with Fringe

Today's card is a simple card using some torn paper and a fringed ribbon.  I used:

• a pumpkin-coloered card base and a lighter mat
• distress ink to edge my torn paper(purple! I'm not sure THAT worked out! LOL)
• gold mirrorcard as the accent
• black letters so that it would show up

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I really like the fringe. It makes the ribbon much more interesting.

Hope you enjoyed my card today - Come again!
Lis

Coloring Embossed Patterned Paper

I was sitting looking at some paper I bought.  It had this very pretty resist embossed design on kraft.  Unfortunately it looked flat.  So, I took my distress markers and started coloring.

Below on the right was the card I started with.  On the left is the same card, colored.  Pretty cool, huh?
I colored over the lines (the embossed parts will resist the color) & I used a paper towel to BLOT up the excess ink.  This left the kraft paper colored. (Not a new technique I know, but nice to see again).

The kraft paper muted the colors I was using so I needed to use darker colors to get them to show up. I used my darkest colors (blues) on one of the center designs as my focal point.

So, pull out some of your embossed papers and try a little coloring.

Lis

Friend Card

Hi everyone!  I haven't used my film strip ribbon in a while so I pulled it out.  I looked through the letter stickers I have and found some that fit!  Here are the steps for this card:

1. Cut a smaller piece of cardstock using the three staggered 1.25 inch precision die (Frantic Stamper)
2. Color the edges and inside the square cuts with Peacock Feather Distress ink
3. Stamp a butterfly (also from Frantic Stampers own Line) in Peacock Feathers
4. Overlay the cut out portion onto patterned paper so that a corner pattern shows through
5. Attach overlay with mounting tape
6. Add film strip ribbon with "Friend" (or whatever word you want) on the right
7. Attach with Tiny Attacher (Tim Holtz)
8. Add flowers and gems

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I like the way the white rose shows through, paired with the blue silk flower and gem center.

Thanks for stopping by, Lis

Sea, a Precision Die Card

Hi everyone!  I bought some sea-themed paper and stickers from K & Company. I'm still making cards from it!  The one below I really like (yes, I know that particular shell doesn't produce pearls but I thought it would look pretty anyway).  I got the puffy letters in a sale bin at Big Lots.  You never know what you're going to find!

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I used one long rectangle die and cut an opening. I backed it with gold mirror card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis