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A card-making blog featuring cards made with traditional stamps, digital stamps, metal dies and SVG cut files.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Garden Rose Sympathy Cards
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Spring Blossoms Embossing Folder Thank You Card
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You Are in My Prayers Fall Card
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Fall Brick Wall Card
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Love of Leaves Stenciled Card
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Psalm 91 Feather Card
For the layering die, I die cut the 4 layers using various snippets of cardstock I had in my scrap collection. I chose papers I thought matched the colors in the feather-themed pattern paper and the card base. I made a total of 15 cards, and each one is a little different based on the scraps I used. The first one I made used black for the top layer of the die set, but then I decided to use my gold mirror card stock for the top and bottom layers. I like the shine it adds to the cards. On my prototype card, I also used foam tape to give the feather more dimension, but for the others, I just adhered the feathers using liquid glue. They are already several layers thick, and this will make them easier to mail.
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Chestnut Tree Sympathy Cards
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Psalm 63:7 Bird Card
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August 2024 Inspiration Challenge (altenew.com):
Friday, August 30, 2024
Hope in the Lord Fun Fold for Creative Creases #90
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Birthday Fishes Card
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{Cupcake Inspirations}: Happy Birthday (1/4; ends at the end of the month)
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Colossians Verses Flourishing Garden Cards
For the first card, I chose scripture word art of Colossians 3:12 because the friend who taught on that passage did such a wonderful job explaining about the imagery of "bowels" in Greek and how that was like what we would call the "heart" in our culture. We all had a laugh about that terminology, so when I saw that Word Art Wednesday had done a beautiful word art of that verse, I knew I had to use it for Kelly's card! If you'd like the free word art, here's the link: Word Art Wednesday: Anything Goes - Weeks #653-654. The verse reads: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. I added a few gold sequins for a little shine.
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Stamping Sensations: Summer in the Garden (3/3; ends at the end of the month)
We Love Stamping: Focal sentiment or quote or ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month) Top 3 Pick for August
simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Add a sentiment (3/5; ends 8/21/24)
Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/10; ends 8/28/24)
A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): Diamonds, gold and/or pearls or ATG (I used gold sequins on the first card and gold emobssing on the thank you sentiment on the second card) (ends at the end of the month)
simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Sparkle and Shine (I used gold sequins on the first card and gold embossing powder on the sentiment of the second card) (4/5; ends 8/19/24)
Triple B (dd-tripleb.blogspot.com): ATG with birds, blooms and/or butterflies (ends at the end of the month)
fourseasons (thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com): Summer (ends at the end of the month)
Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (ends 8/23/24)
Allsorts challenge blog: Summer Days or ATG (3/3; ends 8/23/24)
Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (8/24/24)
Friday, August 16, 2024
Pop-Up Panel Card for Creative Creases #89
It's time for the start of a new challenge over at the Creative Creases Challenge blog! Hooray! Hope you can join in with a fun-fold project! Here's the link to share your projects with us: https://wp.me/p4bS0N-bUJ
The idea for my Guest Design card this time came from Iced Images in a video here: 🔴 5" x 7" Gatefold Pop-Up Panel Card | Livestream (youtube.com). I love to try new folds, and this pop-up panel card was a fun project! It's actually quite simple to make, and I plan to create a cut file in my Silhouette Design Studio software so I can make multiples for the group of homebound members of my church I send cards to regularly. I think they would enjoy the surprise inside, and this design can be used with any theme.
I chose a fall theme because I'm going to include this card in my next package to my daughter who is currently deployed on an aircraft carrier. It generally takes about a month for a package to make it to her, so it will be fall by the time she receives the package I plan to send next week. I've been busy making and freeze-drying meals for her so she can have some homecooked meals and healthy snacks while deployed, and I have sent out 5 packages already even though she's only been gone a month😂! I know the other moms out there understand! There's not a lot I can do for her while she's away, but I can pray for her, email her every morning with news of what's happening back home, and cook for her now that we have a freeze dryer.
After watching the video on how to make this card, I chose some fall-themed papers and coordinating cardstock and got busy with my paper trimmer. This card is quite easy really, it just looks hard because of all the layers/pop-ups, but it's really just about trimming the papers to the correct size and knowing where to put the glue! I followed along with the assembly part of the video for all the layers that just had pattern papers, and then I did some stamping for the side and front layers. I used a few different retired SU! sets: Gathered Wheat, Fond of Autumn, and Autumn Goodness. I also added a sparkly burgundy bow using some metallic thread and adhered 3 gold Open Leaf Trinkets (also from SU!) to finish the card. The double-sided paper I used for the card base has great designs on both sides, so I didn't add anything to the front gatefold sections or the back. The brown side that is on the inside of the card actually has the words: grateful, thankful, blessed printed in tiny script. I have added a close up of the text in my photos of the card. I'm going to include a notecard with my message for my daughter, but in the video I watched, Louise added a white card layer for the sentiment to the back of the card she made.
Here's a look at the card when fully open:
When the card is closed:
When the card is partially open:
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Double D Challenges (daranddiane.blogspot.com): Fall Harvest (ends 8/18/24)
simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: Add a sentiment (1/5; ends 8/21/24)
Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/10; ends 8/28/24)
Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 8/21/24)
Retro rubber challenge blog: Tic Tac Toe: last column vertically: Pattern paper, ribbon, and your choice. The stamps I used are: SU! Autumn Goodness (2020), SU! Fond of Autumn (2022) and a rubber stamp from SU!'s Gathered Wheat (2022)
A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): Diamonds, gold and/or pearls or ATG (I used gold leaf trinkets) (ends at the end of the month)
****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG (1/3; ends 8/19/24) C10
simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Sparkle and Shine (I used metallic ribbon and gold leaf trinkets) (2/5; ends 19/24)
Inspiration Station (inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com): Photo inspiration (My card has some pattern paper in the front that has apples on it like the apples in the photo) (1/8; ends at the end of the month)
613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG or twist of Easy Living (ends at the end of the month) Top Rocker August 11-17, 2024
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