Hello! Posting agin, lol! This time I'm sharing a card for the Pinkfresh Studio March challenge to frame it up. I will also be posting this to the Color Throwdown gallery and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. Let's take a look at what I made.
Happy new year, everyone! Can't believe it is 2024! Where did 2023 go, lol?! I spent the end of 2023 doing a lot of cross stitching and not a lot of cardmaking. Kinda lost my mojo for card making, but I'm trying to get it back now as I have several projects that I need to complete in the coming days. To help me out I decided to use the Simon Say Stamp Instagram challenge of white on white and a couple of new to me products from Poppystamps and Memory Box. Take a look at what I made.
Hello! I'm up on the Birch Press Design blog today. Here is a little look at what I created:
I hope you will head over to the Birch Press Design blog to check out what I made. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day.
Yes... you read that one right, lol! I have two cards to share and one features a unicorn while the other a snowman. And they are both valentines! First up is the unicorn and this valentine is for my great niece Kaia who lives in California. I have had the idea for this card ever since I made this unicorn card a few months ago. The unicorn is made with various dies from the Spellbinders Season's Greetings Deer die set that I modified to turn the deer into a unicorn. The modifications are simple. Trim off the ears so they can be repositioned and then use the little santa hat die from the set to create the horn. Easy peasy! The color palette for this card comes from this week's Color Throwdown challenge. Since this card is going to a little girl I had to add some sparkle so I die cut the horn and the piece that creates the nose from yellow glitter paper. I die cut the flowers from the pink, lavendar and mint green cardstock and assembled them. All the main pieces of the unicorn were adhered together and then adhered to a heart die cut from white cardstock. I used my Stitched Dot Heart dies from A Jillian Vance Design for the hearts. I finished off the unicorn by adhering the eyelashes, the cheeks, flowers and the little pink nose. I die cut a larger heart from lavendar cardstock and adhered the unicorn heart to that one and placed it in the center of my card. The sentiment was hot foiled in siliver using my Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil system and a sentiment from the Spellbinders January Glimmer kit. I adhered that to the card and then added a few more hearts die cut from pink and mint cardstock. I added light yellow sequins to the hearts and silver half pearls to the centers of the flowers. I absolutely adore how this card turned out! I hope Kaia loves it!
The second card is for my great nephew Max. Since it is still winter I thought a snowman would be fun. The layout for my card is based on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketchs. I used two hearts from the AJVD Stitched Dot Heart die set to create my large heart from red cardstock. Additional frames were cut from white cardstock and adhered to the red heart frame. I adhered that to an aqua panel and added the interior heart also cut from red cardstock. The little snowman was created using the Spellbinder small die kit for November. Once I had him assembled I added him to the heart frame. The sentiment is from A Jillian Vance Design and was stamped on a banner die also from AJVD. I adhered that and thought I was done, but my little snowman looked a little too plain. So I added some hearts in aqua and red and liked things much better. I hope Max likes his card! Going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, too.
Hey there! Popping in with two cards. The first one is for this month's Pinkfresh Studio challenge to use florals. I recently got the Pinkfresh Studio/Altenew colloboration stamp and die set called Celebrate today from Scrapbook.com. At the time I purchased the set they were offering a special Pinkfresh Studio/Scrapbook.com thank you die set for free with purchase! So I also used that on my card. I stamped the beautiful floral image on smooth bristol cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Morning Mist ink and then watercolored it very simply with ZIG markers using colors from the challenge color palette. Once I was done I die cut the image with the matching die and then adhered it to a white cardstock base. The thank you was die cut from white glitter cardstock (although it is hard to tell in the photo) and from scrap white cardstock several more times. Everything was stacked and then I adhered the sentiment on the floral image. Very simple, but I love how it turned out!
As you can probably guess from my blog post title the second card is for a MFT challenge (or 3, lol!). I haven't often played along with the week long challenges that MFT host each summer. This year it is called Summer School. Alot of the challenges were up my alley and so I decided to make a card for two of them. Day 1: Visual Triangle and Day 5: White space. I will also be posting this to the MFT color challenge and was going to add it to the sketch challenge, but realized that my layout did not really follow the sketch challenge layout! Anyway, that is still three challenges! I used the super cute MFT Meant to Bee stamp and die set for my card. I colored the bee hive and little bees with ZIG markers and then added a little more depth with my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. The images were stamped with VersaFine CLAIR Acorn ink. I die cut everything with the matching dies. To create my branch I used the little tree from a no longer available MFT set called Sweet Forest Friends. I colored that with a brown ZIG and a brown Polychromos. I adhered the bee hive and the little bees. The sentiment was stamped in the bottom corner and I added Nuvo Glitter drops in clear to the bees wings. Lots of white (well... in this case cream!) space on this card, as well as the little bees created one visual triangle. Being that the bee hive is actually triangular in shape that makes a second one. Going to try to make one more card before the Summer School challenges close... fingers crossed I get my homework done in time, lol!
