Not all who wander are lost...

Items used:

• white card for card base
• patterned paper
• dark brown & medium brown card for matting
• lavender shimmer card
• Words and phrases Tim Holtz
• White pearls (Michaels)
• Misc handmade paper
• Butterfly - Hunkydory (Flight of the Butterflies)
• Burlap

I bought a small bundle of handmade paper pieces.  This is one of them behind the butterfly.

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Lis

A Thank You Card ...

 

Items used:

• Frantic Stamper Sentiment Die
• Rust Card Stock (Bazzill) for card base
• Dark brown card
• Patterned paper
• 3-D bumblebees (K & Co)
• Secretary Bird Die Cut (Bo Bunny)
• Corrugated card in mauve (DCWV)

The  card is 5 x 5.  I like to used the corrugated board as it adds interest.  DCWV has come out with a couple different paper pads of these.

I like this secretary bird. It reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

I added a few 3d adhesive stickers to fill out the card.

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Lis


 

Congrats! Card

Hi everyone,

I bought some of Tim Holtz silverware embellishments.  They are SO cute!  And I love the detail.  So, now I am trying to find card uses for them!  I know that I can make a Thanksgiving card but I wanted to do something else.  So, I thought - maybe a congratulations card...for opening a restaurant? Getting a culinary degree?

 

Items used:

• Idea Ology Silverware
• Brown card stock for card base
• Gold Glossy
• Spellbinders Die
• Frantic Stamper Sentiment Die
• Misc paper flowers
• Idea Ology Gumdrops
• Goil Foiled Roses cardstock (cant remember from where)

I adhered the silverware with glue dots.  Don't you love the detail?

 

I really like the frantic Stamper die with the letters' open spaces.

The flowers are from my stash and I added a gumdrop embellishment in the center. 

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Lis

A Thank You Card

Today's card is a matted Thank You card.  What is interesting about it is the color combination of orange and lavender.  I'm not sure that the picture does this card justice.  The card is a beautiful orangy-lavender with accents of green.

Items used:

• Shades of orange card stock by Bazzill (three shades in all- lightest shade was used for the card base)
• Lavender shimmer card stock
• Patterned paper from Bo Bunny
• Green Ribbon
• Word and thin line Dazzles in gold by Hot off the Press

Here is a good picture of the matting I did.

Each mat has a different width to add interest.  This was easy to accomplish with no measuring by using Perfect Layers (Click HERE).  This is not a sales pitch.  I really love these rulers.  I don't do any measuring and can mat perfectly every time.  If you do a lot of mats, you might want to look into them.

 

 

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Lis

Postcard Happy Birthday

Items used:

• red card stock for card base
• patterned floral paper from Hobby Lobby
• Jewels from Michaels
• Sentiment from Hunky Dory
• Red Ribbon
• Silver glossy
• Postcard is from a 12 x 12 scrapbook paper that was all postcards.  I think it was Graphic 45

This is another card that was partly made from my stash.  I was cleaning last night trying to get my pile of paper scraps down to  manageable size before they all tumbled to the floor. I found several partly made cards that I hadn't finished.  So, you;; be seeing some of these throughout the month of November.

I had cut the postcard from a piece of 12 x 12 card stock and outlined part of it with bling on a roll.  I tore the other art then layered it onto silver glossy and tore the silver to match the matting.

For my card base I decided on red.  This card was going to be for Valentines last year!  But I made it into a birthday card.  I used a deep purple, green and pink floral pattern to mat the thing ontomy red card base.

I attached a sentiment with mounting tape.

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Lis
 

Sendng Encouragement

Items used:

• Patterned paper (can't remember from who)
• Gold Glossy
• Any embossing folder - I used a floral one
• lacy ribbon
• sentiment tag (Anna Griffin)

This was another simple card to make.  I used a striped piece of the patterned paper on the left side of my card. Usually I would use a ribbon to cover the seam but decided to emboss a piece of gold glossy and then cut a 1/4 inch piece and used that instead.  Then just added a bow.

 

 

 

 

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Lis

Christmas Joy

Let the Holiday Card Making Season Begin!

 

 

 

And here is my first card of the season!

 

Items used:

• Sizzix dies
• Kaisercraft papers
• Silver linen card from Hot of the Press for the letters
• Gold Glossy
• Christmas Chalkboard Dazzles, border dazzles
• Vellum in light blue and white dot
• Gold Foiled acetate snowflake

Im not sure what to call the style of this card. I know there is a name for it. At any rate, I have this die.  Its a single die (thin) and the center is lined up with the center of the inside of my card.  I run it through my die cutter and it comes out like this.  Pretty cool, huh?

I used my die to cut pieces to fit the card also.  So, its easy to create this style.

 

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Lis

Simple Arch Card

 

I like shaped cads. I think I forget to use them now and again. this is a simple arch shaped card I made with a window. The front I a panel from Hunky Dory Crafts (gotta love them - Im so addicted!)

Items used:

• Gold Tiny Dazzles
• Lacy ribbon
• Front Panel (Hunky Dory -carried by Hot off the Press)
• Small postcard (also Hunky Dory)
• Foiled butterfly also by HD)
• Purple shimmer card stock for card base

The size of my card is about 5 1/8 by about 7 inches.

To make my center window, I lined up my inside insert on the inside of my card base, traced the rectangle and then cut it out.  The inside is also matted with gold and purple.

Here's the bow.

Have a great week
Lis
 

French Flourish Card

Hi everyone! 

 

I hope you all had a wonderful and scary Halloween!

 

Today's card is using the negative space from a die cut and some pattered paper.

I was die cutting some flourishes out of gold glossy and ha these leftovers. They looked so pretty I couldn't throw them away - so they went to my special stash.  I finally pulled one out and decided it was time to either use it or throw it away (I was cleaning...)

Items used:

• Frantic Stamper Precision Die - Eiffel Tower
• Couture Creations Flourish Die (I used the negative space from it)
• Gold Glossy
• purple fleur de lis patterned paper (misc - got it from Hobby Lobby)
• Viva Décor Pearl Pen in Pink

I like the pearl pens abut don't use hem often enough.  They are great for making different sized "pearls". 

 

 

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Lis