Red, White & Blue

  

Happy 4th of July weekend crafty friends!  

I have two birthday cards with a red, white & blue color scheme.  Both cards are patriotic based on their color combo and I made them with American's birthday in mind, but these would make great birthday cards for someone who's birthday is in July or someone in the military. 

This first card, features the Color Layering Happy Birthday stamp set by Hero Arts, which was the perfect fit for the circle opening left over by the Painted Dots Turnabout stamp by Concord & 9th.

The second card, features a circle Happy Birthday die by Memory Box/Poppy Stamps and the Lovely Blossoms Turnabout stamp by Concord & 9th.  On this card, I die cut three of the circle happy birthday dies and stacked them.  The top circle, I die cut from black glitter paper.  I also die cut the circle from the stamped floral panel.  Being careful to save all the tiny die cut sections of the stamped panel, I inlayed the stacked black die cut element.  I have to admit, that this was the most time consuming (and a little frustrating) part of the whole thing.  I almost always back my paper with double sided tape before die cutting to make adhering the die cut easy.  Unfortunately, in this case the glitter paper was think and texture and the die was intricate, leaving me with a struggle to get a clean cut.  But having worked with both of these products before, I knew what to expect and worked thought it.  

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care.

AAA Card Challenge #200 - Celebrate

Hello crafty friends,

I stepped outside my comfort zone and created this card for the 200th AAA Card Challenge.  

I love how the card turned out, but all that white space is just makes me crazy, LOL.   

Here's how I made the card...  I masked off a 1.5" section across the width of my card front and using the Heffy Doodle "Lots of Happy" stencil and Distress Oxide, I inked "happy" onto the section with Twisted Citron.  Next I stamped and colored my IO "Party Popper Horn" using alcohol markers.  I fuzzy cut the horn and placed it over the stencil section on double sided tape for a little dimension. 

I love how beautifully the happy stencil and the horn paired up.  Happy Birthday to all October babies!

 

Thanks for stopping by, until next time, take care.

Craft Roulette #72 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #72 (my 10th in a row):

For my "window" component, I used a banner die by Momenta, which I adhered to an inked blended card on thin strips of foam.  I used Distress inks in shades of blue, green, purple and red on the background following the arch of the banners. I used the same inks on the gift boxes and stacked them in the bottom right corner. I also brushed them with clear shimmer.

In an attempt to clean the dust my YouTube channel has been gathering,  I created a process video for this card. 

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care. 

Craft Roulette #71 Card

Hello craft friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #71 (my 9th in a row):

Having my stamps organized by theme made it super easy to take the "food & drink" bin to my desk and look the "tasty treat" I wanted to feature on my card.   I pushed aside all the Hot Chocolate related stamps (there are lots of them), because I wanted something summery.  When I reached the spirits stamps, I pull and played with a few until I settled on this one, which is part of a sheet of drink glass stamps from Rubbernecker stamps that I got many many many years ago at a stamp show. I couldn't find the whole sheet on their site, but here's a link to the Margarita Glass I used.

I used Distress inks in shades of yellow, green and orange, plus a coating of Wink of Stella for shimmer on the orange slices and Stickles on the "salty rim" of the Margarita glass. .

I started by going though my stash of stamped and colored images, because I knew I had this glass stamped and colored from a card I didn't finish last summer.  Sure enough I found the image and the circle frame element, so I decided to use it.  Using squeezed lemonade and a little mustard seed I inked the inside of the circle and stenciled the outside with a snow stencil for my "polka dots".   I stamped and inked (carved pumpkin) the orange slices and created the Happy Birthday banner with a stamp from Heffy Doddle.  I attached the stitched die cut card front panel to a 4"x8" slim white card base.

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care.