Tomorrow is the deadline for getting a card up for the February card chain challenge at Lily Pad Cards. There are always several choices for the theme of the card we choose to make. I chose the Valentine's Day theme:
I have a large stash of these flowers that I made from the Tim Holtz tattered floral dies. Cut them out of copy paper, colored them with distress inks, accented all edges with Stickles and layered them with a pearl in the center. Rather than a true red or true pink, the flower has a coral color to it. I like the way it looks against the paper heart doily. The dimensional flower was in the Simon Says Stamp January card kit. I was very pleased with the assortment of items included in the kit and am looking forward to getting future kits from them. Well worth the subscription price - check it out! Sentiment is from Hero Arts XO clear set.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Another card using one of my new LaBlanche stamps, which I made for my daughter's birthday. She loves pink :)
For this card, I used Prismacolor pencils to color the entire image and background. A Spellbinders Nestablilities Labels four die for the shape and the pp is Basic Grey sweet threads. Some Stickles glitter here and there. I decided to round off the corners of the pp, but not the corners of the card itself. A happy birthday greeting is on the inside of this card.
I am entering this in the Simon Says challenge also.
Have a great day!
edited: oops, too late to enter the challenge - it closed at midnight! :*(
For the whole month of September, simon says is celebrating rubber stamping with their second annual "Stamptember" celebration. And, they are kicking off the whole thing with a fabulous blog hop. One amazing basket of goodies is up for grabs, along with three $25 vouchers to their store. Hurry on over, this blog hop ends on the 5th!
And, the theme for this week's challenge is "anything goes"! Well, I know a lot of gals who make some fantastic boxes, wall hangings, tins, etc. But, a card is my preference.
Since the colors are very autumn-like, I am also posting this on the Hero Arts Flikr group for the current challenge of autumn.
The image was colored with Prismacolor pencils and the background was done with Ranger distress inks. Ribbon and black gems added. The Hero Arts magical background was white embossed and then colored with distress inks also.
Have a great day!
Got some new stamps recently and have been trying out a few.
The posie stamp is from Stampendous and was colored with Prismacolor pencils. The label stamp is from Martha Stewart and the sentiment is from PTI. Background is overstamped with a stamp from Hero Arts.
The pp is from Pocket Full of Posies and the twine is from Hero Arts. Black gems from Simon Says.
Am still waiting on another order and have more new stamps that I haven't "played" with, too! Need more time to spend on cardmaking. . .
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Last week on Kristina Werner's Finally Friday video, she used various lengths and widths of patterned papers to create her card. Since I just got this fabulous 6 x 6 Basic Grey Hello Luscious paper pad, I wanted to do something similar with these gorgeous papers:
I also used the Hero Arts Life of the Party Dots which I clear embossed on the left side of the card. The sentiment is from the Hip Hip Hurray cling set which I also clear embossed and then cut with a nestie label die and mounted on a rectangle of one of the pp's. A strip of green grosgrain ribbon and some red gems were used for embellishments.
I really love the dots and these papers - may have to order another pad, soon!!! I am also entering this in the Simon Says Happy Birthday Challenge and the Hero Arts monthly challenge.
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