These last 2 cards use Simon Says Stamp Geometric Builder Square Dies - first is a sentiment from Altenew and the second one uses a pre printed Sentiment strip from Simon Says Stamp.
MOOD WHEN DONE: Enjoy surrounding myself with color and stamping. So, I'm good! Somewhat patiently waiting my turn for the vaccine. Better days are coming!
December 23rd! It's Festivus -- the day we all can whine away!
I celebrated by making this slimline card (likely the first and last slimline I make!). I cut out the letters using different alphabet dies and all Stamp Market cardstock, intending to use the letters themselves. Honestly, the thought of die cutting a bunch more to make the letters thick just wore me out, so I decided to use the leftovers! Perfect for Festivus!
I was part of a mini Instagram hop celebrating the holiday. You can find my post here and check out the links to the other cards.
I'm whining this year about the plastic wrap around slices of American cheese (Why? It is such an environmental waste, costs $$, and makes the fake cheese taste even fakier.). My other whine is the fact that it takes multiple clicks of the remote control to turn our TV on or off. You see, life is tough in 2020!
MOOD WHEN DONE: Annoyed! After all, it's Festivus! Happy to listen to your whines in the comments!
Reverse Confetti sponsors a "Stock Your Stash" challenge and the current one is, appropriately, a thank you card challenge.
Paired a new floral set, Botanical, with Best Sentiments. I pretty much avoid all coloring now, but this pretty vase and flowers needed a little color. So, I ink blended the vase and colored the small flowers with Copics. I like how it turned out! To emphasize the different fonts and sizes in the sentiment, I blended ink on the bottom border. Using Distress Oxide inks and a blender brush really helps smooth out the color.
CHALLENGE DETAILS
Used a fun set of dies called Geometric Builder Circles by Simon Says to make this colorful card. Sentiment is from a sentiment strip, also at Simon Says Stamp.
MOOD WHEN DONE: Good. This is the last card I'm making until all my Christmas cards are in the mail!
Thank you for your comments. I love reading them!
MOOD WHEN DONE: Good! As my mom used to say, "What more do you want?"
Here's a few more cards that I've made and posted on Instagram. Hope you like!
1. For my son's 30th birthday (Concord & 9th All the Number dies).
2. Clean Line Trees background stamp by CZ Design from Simon Says Stamp.
Note: I'm reposting this, updated, from 2014. Still rings true to me.
Card Making and SAT scores
Disclosure: The Foiled Fox sent this stamp set and die to me. I am not an affiliate and receive nothing else for working with it. I highly recommend shopping at The Foiled Fox -- I am a regular paying customer as well as an occasional guest designer! Fast shipping and the owner is a good person!
MOOD WHEN DONE: Great!
These mice, from Reverse Confetti's Yuletime Mice are pretty darn cute. Rather than try and make a scene, or color them the traditional way, I changed things up a bit.
1. Swipe come pink, red, and cranberry inks on white cardstock. Stamp images in black.
2. Die cut the images using a square die. If you don't wait, the black ink may smear. I used Versafine Onyx, and while it didn't smear, it transferred black ink onto my die cut plate. So -- either wait until totally dry or use typing paper as a shim to protect your plate.
3. Fiddle and arrange until happy and pop up with foam tape.
4. Add white Nuvo drops to brighten it up.
5. Adhere with foam tape to a cranberry card.
6. Emboss sentiment from Yuletide Mice on black cardstock and adhere.
MOOD WHEN DONE: Happy!
As soon as I saw the Oh Christmas Tree stamp and die bundle by Flora and Fauna, I placed an order. I think it was this cute bow that got me. Love this company's products!
For this card, I took a rectangle stencil and placed it over an A2 card and just rubbed an ink cube to create a "door" for the wreath to hang. Added the bow from the set and a sentiment from Santa's List from Ellen Hutson and a few gems.
I liked how it came out, so I made another.
Very similar, but changing the stencil and colors gives a softer look. Here I used the Salvaged Brick stencil from Honey Bee Stamps. This cute wonky Joy is part of the Oh Christmas Tree set. The other change I made was to trim the A2 card so that it was only 4 inches wide. I like the slightly narrower look.
MOOD WHEN DONE: Loved making these cards, so I'm happy about that!
Man, what a rough year. No complaints, just yearning for better times for everyone. Grateful to be able to escape into stamping.
November's Reverse Confetti challenge theme is Holiday and Winter cards -- details below. So I turned to my favorite RC products from the November release: Plaid Lines Small and Plaid Lines Big Cover Plates.
1. Cut the Plaid Lines Small plate with a light green cardstock. Ditto with the Plaid Lines Big with dark green cardstock.
2. If your paper cutter will cut through 2 layers, adhere both plaids together, find the center top point and cut out a triangle. Otherwise, do what I did and cut the layers first and then adhere them together using liquid glue.
3. Make an A2 side fold card and adhere the "tree" with foam tape.
4. Stamp and trim a sentiment from Yuletide Mice (love that font!). Adhere with more foam tape.
5. Add light blue gems.
6. Sit back and agree not to tell non stampers how you made it!
CHALLENGE DETAILS
I'm sharing 2 cards today -- and they are my favorites for this release.
AWAY IN THE MANGER
There are 2 dies in Away in the Manger, but they pack a punch. Wanted to use a lot of these stars, so this is an A6 card (4 and 1/8 x 5 and 7/8).
Paired the star die with part (yes, I cut the stamp) of a sentiment from The Best Gift of All.
PLAID LINES SMALL
This cover plate is another fun, graphic plate and I've already seen beautiful cards using it as a background layer. I decided to use it as the focus of the card -- the colors and "ornaments" suggest a holiday card. I love this style, but it may not be for everyone.
Since this card is a little unusual, here are the steps to make it.
1. Trim a piece of white cardstock to A2 size.
2. Die cut circles out of the white copy paper to make room for the green and red circles.
3. Die cut green and red circles and place (don't permanently adhere) in the the white cardstock base.
4. Die cut panel with Plaid Lines Small. Remove all the die cut squares and rectangles and set aside.
5. Trim panel to 4" x 5 and 1/4".
6. Place die cut panel on your surface and adhere each rectangle and square with foam adhesive.
7. Adhere to A2 kraft card and add sentiments from Yuletide Mice and sequins.
8. Take your time and relax. It took about 45 minutes to make this once I figured out the design in my head. If you don't like piece work, this isn't for you! I find it relaxing.
I hope you are checking out the other designers; they are so talented!
MOOD WHEN DONE: I'm not done sharing for this release. I'll be back with more!
This uses a super cute set, Yuletide Mice, which is part of the new release from Reverse Confetti. Since I've walked away from coloring most images, I used a bright background to frame the image. I love how it turned out.
Next up is another cute set, Deerly. I haven't used those trees yet, but I have plans...
Die cut the mistletoe and popped them up.
MOOD WHEN DONE: I haven't blogged much lately and I am unable to figure out a new version of blogger, so I know the fonts and spacing of these posts are off. Thanks for sticking with me!!
The Best Gift of All
The Best Gift of All is a great set if you are looking for sentiments with a religious message (they can be hard to find). Plus, I love the font!
The Best Gift of All and Starstruck Cover Panel
Die cut the "star" portion of the Starstruck Cover Panel with 3 different colored cardstocks, pieced them together on copy paper, and then trimmed. Popped up with foam tape on white glitter paper.
Split the sentiment after stamping it -- the large block of white just overwhelmed the design. Separating the lines just gave a little breathing room. Or am I totally overthinking? (I'm always overthinking!)
For more inspiration, please check out the following terrific designers (there will be a $15 gift certificate to Reverse Confetti for one blog commenter and one for a Facebook commenter. Comments eligible for a prize will close at noon CST on November 7th. Winner will be announced at 5pm CST on the Reverse Confetti blog and on the FB page on November 7th):
MOOD WHEN DONE: If you could see my craft room you'd send in helpers!! With masks!! Looking forward to seeing it clean and organized. But, having a ton of fun making a complete mess with this release.
