First Cards

Happy Easter!!

I hope everyone is enjoying their Easter Sunday.

Today’s card is probably something that should have been thrown away, but I thought it would be funny to show it.  I ran across this card and some others, while packing stuff to move to my other house. This is one of the first cards I ever stamped.  It’s been so long ago, I do not remember the exact details, and I can’t imagine anyone would be interested in them anyway. The things I do remember are it was a pack of pre-folded white cards, and the stamps were bought at either Michaels or A.C. Moore. The black ink used to stamp the image, and green ink for the sentiment  probably came from Wal-Mart. It looks like colored pencils were used to color the image, and some gold glittered ep on the halo.

For the inside, the sentiment was stamped with green ink.

I hope you think I have improved in my card making. Thanks for stopping by, and I love getting comments.

Happy Stamping!

judy

Heartfelt Sympathy Inside

Since I am in non-stamping land, and have run out of pre-stamped cards, I thought I would post the inside of the sympathy card I posted yesterday. (Heartfelt Sympathy)

You always see what everyone puts on the front of a card, but the inside can be another work of art often times not shown. Usually (unless I forget) I take a picture of the front and inside of any card I send, at least that way I don’t send the same sentiments over and over to the same person. This particular card has not been sent yet, but I know eventually it will be.

For the inside of this card I embossed a white piece of card stock cut to size with a Nestie oval, then stamped a sentiment from the CDS set Words of Sympathy with onyx black Versafine. The next layer is black with the white card base.

I hope you have a Happy Easter! Thanks for stopping by,  and I love reading your comments.

Heartfelt Sympathy

I have another sympathy card to show today. I guess I’m on a sympathy kick because I knew I had to return to my non-stamping land. At least I had these last few cards done before I left my toys. I won’t be returning to them until after Easter.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder from the Heritage collection to emboss the top white layer. Then I stamped the sentiment and flowers from my SU set Close as a Memory. First I stamped the sentiment using onyx black Versamark, and created a mask. The flower stamp was inked up using SU markers, and stamped above the masked sentiment. The next layer is black cut to size with a paper cutter, with a white base card. For a finishing touch a black brad was placed on each corner.

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Shaped Sympathy

Today’s card is not for any contests. I decided to work on some sympathy cards. I guess you could say that is a challenge on it’s own.

I have been wanting to make a shaped card with my Nesties Labels eight die, so this was the day to try it out. I cut a piece of black cardstock, so that I could fold it in half and the die would fit on it, I placed the die just above the fold, and cut the two layers at once. The next layer of white was cut and embossed with the next size smaller die. Before removing the die, I stamped the SU background stamp French Script with onyx black Versafine, and ran a black metallic pen around the inside of the die. The next layer is just a piece of black cut with a Nestie oval. The top layer of white  was stamped with a stamp from the CDS set called Words of Sympathy. The black ribbon was wrapped around a bow easy for four loops on each side, then tied off with a black mini brad stuck through the center and through the two oval layers.

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Mudpies Jellybeans

Today’s card is for the sketch challenge PTT#12  at Party Time Tuesdays, using a House Mouse stamp so I can also enter it in the House Mouse & Friends Monday challenge #93.

I used a House Mouse stamp called Mudpies Jellybeans, stamped on white with onyx black Versafine, and colored with Prismacolored pencils & goo gone. The jellybeans also have Crystal Lacquer on them, and a corner rounder punch was used on the corners. The image is layered on a square cut piece of blue.

Instead of using ribbon or a strip of paper for the red on the sketch, I chose to use a MS birds on the wire border punch, and punched the birds the same solid blue. The blue polka dot dp is from a DCWV pastel matstack, the circle was cut and embossed with a Nesties circle die, I ran a white gel pen around the inside of the die before removing. The scalloped circle is the same solid blue as the other layers, cut with a a Nestie scalloped circle die, and the white gel pen marked around the inside before removing. The sliver layer on the left of the circle hardly shows, it is from a DCWV stack called Nana’s nursery baby boy, it and the white layer beneath it were just cut to size with a paper cutter. The background dp is from a DCWV fall stack, layered on white with four flower brads at each corner. The base card is the same solid blue as the others.
I think I am really beginning to like not adding sentiments to the front of the card, it gives it a virtually limitless use.
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