Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 7/31/24)
Carrie's Custom Cards
A card-making blog featuring cards made with traditional stamps, digital stamps, metal dies and SVG cut files.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Thinking of You Ombré Card
Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 7/31/24)
You Are Tree-Mendous Card
I wanted to create a special thank you card for the mother of one of my good friends who baked some frosted sugar cookies for me recently. I should have taken a picture of the red, white, and blue popsicle shaped cookies she made because they were so beautiful, but I forgot and ate all the cookies before it occurred to me!
For the card, I started by choosing some pink, orange, and yellow water color card stock that I had ink smooshed, sprayed, and/or watercolored. I know those aren't traditional colors for trees, but they are the challenge colors this month over on the Altenew blog, and I thought they would be very pretty and feminine for this card. I used Altenew's Chestnut Tree layering die set to die cut the tree. After I die cut all the layers, including some ink smooshed browns for the trunk, I assembled the tree and then embossed a panel using Altenew's Rolling Hills 3D embossing folder and trimmed it for an A2 card. I had an A2 card base in my stash that has just the right colors to match the tree, so I adhered the embossed panel to the card base and then added the tree with foam tape for dimension. For the "You aer tree-mendous" sentiment, I used my Silhouette Design Studio software to create a print and cut of the sentiment and then added it to the tree with Art Glitter glue.
Challenges I'm entering:
Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos Slimline Card
Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 7/31/24)
Friday, July 19, 2024
Tri-fold Birthday Card for Creative Creases #87
It's time for a new challenge over at the Creative Creases Challenge blog, and I thought I would make a fun fold card with a shaker panel to add a little extra fun to this birthday card! I hope you'll join the fun over at Creative Creases Challenge with a fun fold project of your own! Here's the link to the new challenge: Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #87 (secretstamper.com)
My youngest daughter just left on her first deployment last week, and her birthday is coming up next month, so I wanted to send out a card with plenty of time to get to her. I'm hoping to have her first care package mailed out this week. My oldest son was in the Marines, so I'm familiar with deployments, and something that always lifted my spirits was making up care packages. That helps me feel like I'm doing something tangible to help support and encourage my children.
The idea for this card started with Altenew's monthly color challenge combined with the daily challenges in the Altenew Fan Group FB page. The colors were from the monthly challenge and the use of splatter on some of the panels was from the FB group challenge to use splatter on a background. Then I also wanted to use some shaker pouches I had purchased a year ago. They are made to fit a slimline card, so I created the slimline shaker element for the inside of the card and then decided on a tri-fold card design for the rest of the card. I added some beads to the shaker pouch and then die cut Altenew's Craft-A-Flower: Cosmos and added that to the front of the panel. I die cut several layers of the sentiment die "hugs" from Altenew's Watercolor Roses set and adhered those together and then onto the shaker pouch. I adhered the shaker pouch to pink card stock and then adhered that to the inside of the yellow card base.
For the front panel of the card, I did some tone-on-tone stamping with Altenew's Crafted with Love stamp. Then I stamped and trimmed the "Sending you birthday wishes" sentiment strips using Altenew's Bewitching Rose set.
For the next panel, I did tone-on-tone stamping using Altenew's Billowing Peonies stamp and adhered that to the yellow card base.
The next panel was also splattered with the same watercolors I used for the shaker panel. Using foam tape, I added Altenew's Watercolor Roses set that I stenciled and die cut. I added a stamped sentiment from Altenew's Proud of You set that I had die cut with a Gina Marie Designs stitched banner die.
Then the panel with the shaker element is next, and finally the back of the card features Altenew's Bold Bouquet stamped as a background for the die cut "You" (also from Altenew) and the sentiments "are loved, are incredible, are cherished" from the Bold Bouquet stamp set. I adhered the orange panel to a layer of pink cardstock and then adhered that to the yellow card base.
Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 7/31/24)
Friday, July 5, 2024
Double-Fronted Easel Card for Creative Creases #86
Challenges I'm entering:
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Bellflower Alcohol Ink Card
Challenges I'm entering:
Easy Thank You Card for June 2024 Inspiration Challenge (altenew.com)
Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (2/2; ends 7/12/24)
Allsorts challenge blog: Way to Grow or ATG (2/3; ends 7/5/24)
Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 7/12/24)
Word Art Wednesday: ATG
simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG
little red wagon (lilredwagon.blogspot.com):Layer it Up! (ends 7/2/24)
Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (ends 7/2/24)
Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG (3/6; ends 7/12/24)
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Rhododendron Hugs Card
Challenges I'm entering:
Easy Thank You Card for June 2024 Inspiration Challenge (altenew.com): (ends at the end of the month)
Allsorts challenge blog: Way to Grow or ATG (1/3; ends 7/5/24)
Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 7/12/24)
Word Art Wednesday: ATG
simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG
little red wagon (lilredwagon.blogspot.com):Layer it Up! (ends 7/2/24)
Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (ends 7/2/24)
Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG (2/6; ends 7/12/24)