Mothers Day 2011

I’m back in my stamping land. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to make a card is there? I have been having so much fun entering challenges, that I completely forgot about making Mother’s Day cards.

When we left here last, we were supposed to go to my Mother’s for Easter, and come right back, but due to unseen circumstances, it took us longer than we expected to return. For Mother’s Day, (actually Saturday instead of Sunday) my DH will pick his Mother up at the nursing home and bring her down to our Log Home for the day. I will be staying down here, playing with my toys and cleaning for the get together on Saturday.
This is going to be my Mother’s Day card for this year. I will enter it in the HM&F  #94 challenge, although I’m not really sure if it fits the challenge (This can be traveling, or going, or anything that gets you from one place to another.) Right now I wish somebody was carrying me around as I am very tired.

I chose the HMHH stamp Love Bunny for the main image, stamped on white cardstock with onyx black Versafine, and colored with Prismacolored pencils and Goo Gone. I used a SU black marker for the eyes on the adult bunny, and some black Inkssentials Enamel Accents for the eyes on the baby bunny. The tail on the baby bunny is a combination of Snow Writer and Polar White Flower Soft. The hearts were filled in with Xmas red Stickles. The main image was then cut and embossed with a Nesties circle die, and before removing the die, I sponged broken china Distress Ink around the image. The next layer (yellow) was just cut with a Nesties scalloped circle die, then I pierced each one of the scallops. The next layer is dp from a DCWV spring glitter stack, the corners punched with a ticket punch, then layered onto a piece of turquoise cardstock using a corner rounder punch, and layered onto a yellow base card. I attached yellow brads on the four punched corners. For the sentiment, I grabbed my trusty notebook with all my stamp examples in it to see what I wanted to use. I knew as soon as I spotted this Rubbernecker stamp called Some Bunny Text, it was perfect! I tried a new technique (to me) that I saw on Beate John's blog for wax paper resist. You just take a piece of wax paper, crumple it up and place it between two pieces of glossy cardstock, then iron. You can just use one piece of glossy cardstock, but by using two pieces of glossy cardstock you get two finished pieces to work with. You can not use photo paper for this technique, I tried it. After ironing the wax paper design, I sponged broken china Distress ink all over, then wiped with a paper towel, the ink does not stick to the wax, and comes right off. I stamped the sentiment with jet black Stazon, the glossy paper is slippery and very easy to smear, luckily I only smeared the “y’s” in Bunny a little, it was then cut and embossed with a Spellbinders fancy tag die, attached to the cardstock, and I slapped a flower brad on each side.

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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.

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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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