60th Anniversary Dome Card

I have the privilege of being a guest designer over at Creative Creases Challenge today, and I'm sharing a very special card. I created this pearlescent white and gold dome card for my in-laws' 60th wedding anniversary. My husband's siblings and spouses are throwing them a big party to celebrate, and I'm looking forward to seeing all the extended family members who will be there to celebrate the occasion with us.

To create this dome card, I pulled out my Tonic Studios' Garden Trellis Dome Card die set and die cut some gorgeous pearlescent white card stock and gold card stock for the base and layers. This set comes with a base card die that creates the dome part by using a tab that is adhered to one side of the card, but there are another 16 dies in the set that make the inlays and sentiments. I alternated layers of white and gold and lined up the front pieces to die cut the scalloped center of the dome part of the card so that the inside of the card shows through. This card doesn't open up since the tab on the side that creates the dome shape is glued to the other side of the card. I think it would be fun to use a magnet or velcro for that tab when I use this set in the future, but for now, I went ahead and glued the tab down and then covered the tab with a second die cut of the back of the card base that I die cut and trimmed to fit over the tab. 

I added lots of pearls to embellish the card and then die cut butterflies (one is a Memory Box die, and the other three are from Stampin' Up's retired Butterfly Brilliance dies) out of the same pearlescent white and gold card stocks as I used for the card. I added gold Nuvo drops to the white butterflies and pearls to the gold butterflies for decoration. 

For the back of the card, I used a "happy" die, its matching shadow die, and the number and alpha dies for "60th" all from Top Dog Dies (they aren't in business anymore). I don't have an "anniversary" die, so I heat embossed the sentiment using Versamark ink and gold embossing powder. 

My in-laws are such a blessing! We hope they feel loved and treasured at their upcoming celebration. My husband and I are so grateful to have close relationships with both sets of our parents and to have their example of lifelong Christian marriage. May the Lord grant us many more years to celebrate special occasions with our wonderful parents!

For any other crafters who love to make fun fold projects, please check out Creative Creases and join the fun by linking up your fun folds here: https://wp.me/p4bS0N-aV0.

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 Challenges I'm entering: 

Butterfly Challenge (butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com): ATG with butterflies (ends 10/3/23)

Triple B (dd-tripleb.blogspot.com): ATG with birds, blooms, and/or buttterflies (3/3; ends 9/30/23)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 10/11/23)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (4/5; ends 10/4/23)

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/?m=1: Thing 1: Anyway you punch it (use punches or dies); I was drinking Decaf Toasted Marshmallow tea and with Toasted Marshmallow Nut Pods creamer while crafting😀. One of my all-time favorite teas! (4/4; ends 10/1/23)

Shaker Thank You Card

This shaker thank you card is for my oldest daughter who took time out of her busy schedule to go out to lunch with me and a mutual friend on my birthday and gave me a sweet card and gift. 

To make the card, I used Deco Foil Transfer gel through a slimline stencil and then ran it through my die cutting machine with a Heidi Swapp pink glitter sheet. The transfer gel worked beautifully to capture the pink glitter in the flower pattern. 

I recently bought some slimline shaker pouches on clearance over at Tonic Studios, and this was my first time trying them out. It's definitely the easiest shaker I've ever made! I just sealed up three sides of the pouch around the back of the panel, added my two sizes of pink beads and my gold glitter chunks, and then sealed the last side of the pouch. Then I adhered the whole panel to the card front. 

I die cut the word "wonderful" from gold card stock using the die from Hero Arts' Wonderful stamp and cut set. The "you are" stamp is also from that set. The "thank you" is from Hero Arts' Bookworm Messages stamp set. 

Creations in Pink: ATG in mainly pink (ends 10/14/23)

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: September 2023 Challenge | Hero Arts: I'll be there for you (ends at the end of the month)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (3/5; ends 10/4/23)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 3/10 for the challenge)

You're Sweet Thank You Card

A friend of mine treated my oldest daughter and me to a yummy lunch on my birthday, and I wanted to make a fun fold card to thank her. For this fun fold card design, I followed the instructions from Iced Images video here: (1) 5x7 Pop Out Floating Panel Card - YouTube. She calls it a 5X7 Pop Out Floating Panel Card. The center panel of hers is a bit different. I had to change it to accommodate the House Mouse stamp I wanted to use. 

I created a cut file in my Silhouette Design Studio software for the card base and panels based on Iced Images' measurements, and then I chose my papers. Since the stamp I was using featured ice cream, I went with some cute pattern papers with a frozen treat theme. The pattern paper I used on the inside of the card features ice cream cones and the one I used on the back has popsicles. I'm keeping some of that popsicle pattern paper to make an "anything is popsicle" card at some point! I just love puns!

After stamping the House Mouse stamp, I colored it with colored pencils and then fussy cut it. I chose a "thank you" stamp from my stash and an old CTMH stamp with a "you're sweet" sentiment that seemed like the perfect sentiment for this sweet treat-themed card. This is a 5X7 card, but I can see trying it as an A2 card at some point now that I've created the cut file for it. 

View of the back of the card: 

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Challenges I'm entering: 

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge (housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com): ATG with a House Mouse stamp (ends 9/30/23) Top 3 Pick 10/2/23

Anything Goes With A Fun Fold for Creative Creases #66 (secretstamper.com) (ends 9/28/23)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 3/10 for the challenge)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (2/5; ends 10/4/23)

Autumn Thank You Card

My birthday was this past Monday, and I was so blessed by the kindness of friends and family. I've been working on thank you cards, and this one is for my daughter in the Navy who lives in San Diego. She sent me two very thoughtful gifts, so I wanted to make her a special thank you card. 

I used MFT's Snow Swirls Cover-Up Die-namics die to die cut white card stock and then I blended MFT's Candied Yams ink over it. I thought the stitiched swirls looked like the wind blowing the leaves around. 

I adhered the background to my light orange A2 card base and then die cut 2 leaves from the retired SU! Love of Leaves bundle out of some orange ombre card stock. I stamped "thank you" from a Hero Arts stamp set and "U R GREAT" from a Lawn Fawn stamp and then adhered the larger leaf with liquid glue and the smaller leaf with foam tape. 

 

Challenges I'm entering: 

Sketch Challenge 665 Is Here — Play Along for Your Chance to Win $50 i – MFT Stamps: Ends 10/3/23

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 10/11/23)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (2/3; ends 10/2/23) C10

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of All That Glitters (ends at the end of the month)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): Thing 1: Any way you punch it (use dies or punches) I was drinking chamomile tea to help my throat. I've managed to catch a cold unfortunately (3/4; ends 10/1/23)

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Harvest Color(s) and why: I love orange for fall-themed cards because it's the quintessential fall color: autumn leaves, pumpkins, gourds...so much of nature is orange in the fall. (ends 10/4/23)

simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG (1/5; ends 10/4/23)

The Paper Shelter: CAS (1/2; ends 10/4/23)

Inspiration Station (inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com): Inspiration photo: The fall theme inspired my fall leaf card 

Wonderful Anniversary Card

My son and his wife just celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary, and I made them a special card using a few new crafty goodies I recently bought. I used Deco Foil Duo Transfer gel with a Papertrey Ink stencil for the background and then ran that through my eBosser with a Heidi Swapp pink glitter sheet. I used the same method to apply glitter to the die cut butterflies (they were die cut using SU!'s retired Butterfly Brilliance dies). Then I used a Tonic Studios stamp, die, and stencil set (Splendiforous Corsage) for the floral focal point. I added some glitter paste to the last layer of the stencil. Then I used my new Hero Arts' Wonderful stamp and cut set for the sentiment. I die cut several layers of the word "wonderful" and adhered the bottom 3 layers together and then offset the white layer slightly so it looks like there's a shadow behind it. I die cut the stamped part of the sentiment using a Tonic Studios die that was part of the Splendiforous Corsage bundle. 

For the inside of the card, I used some stamps from the Splendiforous Corsage set and die cut the "Enjoy" sentiment with the coordinating die. I added another glittery butterfly to the inside as a final touch. 

Some close ups:

A look inside the card:

 Challenges I'm entering:

Butterfly Challenge (butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com): ATG with butterflies (ends 10/3/23)

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: September 2023 Challenge | Hero Arts: I'll be there for you theme. I used HA's Wonderful stamp and cut set. (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends 10/2/23) C10

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 7/10 for the challenge)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of All That Glitters (ends at the end of the month)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting (doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com): Any way you punch it (use dies or punches) (2/4; ends 10/1/23)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 10/3/23)

Triple B (dd-tripleb.blogspot.com): ATG with birds, blooms, and/or butterflies (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

All Good Gifts are From Above Fun Fold Cards

The idea for these fun fold cards came from a generous SVG designer in the Silhouette Card Making and Paper Crafts FB group I'm part of. Thank you, Sabine Harris, for generously sharing the cut file to make these cute cards. If you have an electronic cutting machine and would like the file to make these cards, feel free to join the Silhouette Card Making and Paper Crafts FB group. Most designers who post free files create SVG files of their designs along with the ones in Silhouette Studio Design software. 

Now that the trees are starting to turn pretty colors and the temps are cooling down here in Michigan, I wanted to make fall-themed cards for the shut ins I send cards to, and I also wanted to make a fall-themed card to congratulate my sister-in-law on her new job, so I chose some double-sided orange card stock (solid orange on one side and light orange polka dots on a darker orange background on the other side) for the card bases. I cut out the card bases and layers using my Silhouette Cameo 4. 

To decorate the cards, I chose some retired Stampin' Up! bundles I recently purchased from my friend Debbie Mageed. Autumn Goodness had a sentiment ("All good things come from above") and stamp featuring a grouping of pumpkins, apples, and corn that I thought would be perfect for these cards. I also had some glittery fall leaf stickers I decided needed to be used after spending years in my stash 😁! I used colored pencils to color the stamp on my sister-in-law's card. If you'd like to look at Debbie's list of retired bundles, she is selling them for great prices (less than half price in most cases and with free shipping!): Bundles For Sale - Google Docs

Here's a look at all the cards together:

The sentiment die and stamps for the back of my sister-in-law's card come from Hero Arts' Congrats & Happy stamp and cut set. I die cut 5 layers of the sentiment and adhered them together for some dimension and then popped up the leaf die cut (from SU!'s retired Love of Leaves) with foam tape. I used copper and gold Nuvo emellishment mousses with my leaf stencil to create the background:

Art Impressions Blog: Fall into Fall #360 Week #2 (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com) (1/2; ends 9/29/23)

Anything Goes With A Fun Fold for Creative Creases #66 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold (unlimited entries; ends 9/29/23)

Creative Knockouts: 2 or more pattern papers (1/2; ends 10/6/23) C10

Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero: September 2023 Challenge | Hero Arts: I'll be there for you (I used HA's Wonderful stamp and cut set for the die cut and sentiment on the back of one of the cards in this set. I hope that counts, but please remove my entry if the HA's products need to be on the front of the card). (ends at the end of the month)

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends 10/2/23) C10

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 8/10 for the challenge)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with option of All That Glitters (ends at the end of the month)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (2/2; ends 10/3/23) Top 3 Pick 10/10/23

Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! (stencilfun.blogspot.com): ATG with stencils--I used embellishment mousse over a leaf stencil for the back of one of the cards (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Mystery Monday Stamping Adventure Card

This week's Mystery Monday Stamping with Sharon Armstrong had a bit of a mix-up that I'm going to call a happy mistake. In her weekly Sunday email, Sharon had inadvertantly sent out clues for next week's card instead of this week's card, and so there was some confusion in the group as she proceeded to give the clues for this week's card and they didn't match the sizes of the papers we had all cut out based on the clues we had received. This might not make sense to you if you haven't tried Mystery Monday Stamping, but Sharon emails clues each week on Sunday so participants can cut out various papers to be ready to assemble a card using clues Sharon shares during Mystery Monday Stamping on YouTube. The card below features the clues that were supposed to be for 9/18/23. I just copied down the first page of clues Sharon shared onscreen and then used her example card as a pattern to make mine. I've saved the papers I had cut out based on Sunday's email so that I can make another card with those later. The way I see it, we really got two card ideas instead of just one last night 😀. 

My camping-themed pattern paper is by Echo Park, and the "And so the adventure begins" stamp is from Tim Holtz. The tent is a free SVG from Creative Fabrika that I colored using my Ohuhu alcohol markers after doing a print and cut of it using my Silhouette Cameo 4. 

 Challenges I'm entering:

Inspired by Color? This Challenge Is for You! Play Along with Color Ch – MFT Stamps: (ends 9/27/23)

TIME OUT Challenges: My card features a camping theme like in the photo (5/5; ends 9/27/23) C5

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 6/10 for the challenge; ends 9/27/23)

Snippets Playground (pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com): ATG with snippets. I used leftover snippets of orange card stock for the strips in this card as well as leftover blue card stock for the embossed background. (ends 9/30/23)

Hope Your Birthday is in Tents Card

The theme over at Time Out Challenges is an inspiration photo with a great camping scene, so I found some cute camping-themed double-sided pattern paper and got busy creating some camping cards. My brother-in-law has a birthday coming up, and he does a lot of camping (even in the winter!), so I thought it would be fun to make him a card using the sketch and colors over at MFT Stamps Challenge along with the theme at Time Out. After I finished the card and proudly showed it to my husband, he told me his brother prefers to sleep in a hammock rather than a tent when he camps, but it's the thought that counts, right?! Somehow "Hope your birthday is hammock" just doesn't have the same ring to it😂.

Inside sentiment:

 
 Sketch Challenge 663 Is Here — Play Along for Your Chance to Win $50 i – MFT Stamps: Following this sketch: 

Inspired by Color? This Challenge Is for You! Play Along with Color Ch – MFT Stamps: (ends 9/27/23)

TIME OUT Challenges: My card features a camping theme like in the photo, including a tent (4/5; ends 9/27/23) C5

You're a Reel Catch

This card is for my sweet husband who loves to camp and just got back recently from a wilderness camping trip to the Boundary Waters up in Minnesota with our 2 sons and our soon-to-be son-in-law. I used some free files from Creative Fabrika for the fishing pole, fish, and tent and followed the sketch and color challenges over at MFT stamps. I chose a camping theme so I could play along with Time Out Challenges this time. I created the print and cut sentiments in my Silhouette Design Studio software and matted them on some orange card stock. 

 Sketch Challenge 663 Is Here — Play Along for Your Chance to Win $50 i – MFT Stamps: Following this sketch: 

Inspired by Color? This Challenge Is for You! Play Along with Color Ch – MFT Stamps: (ends 9/27/23)

TIME OUT Challenges: My card features a camping theme like in the photo (3/5; ends 9/27/23) C5

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (5/5 for the week; 5/10 for the challenge; ends 9/27/23)