Carrie's Custom Cards

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges (jansdigistampschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Classic Design Challenge Blog:ATG

Country View Challenges: ATG

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com): ATG with patterned paper

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog:ATG

Creatalicious Challenges: ATG with option of embossing

Happy Little Stampers: HLS August Birthday Challenge: ATG with birthday theme

LeAnns World 101 (challengeleannsworld101.blogspot.com): ATG

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: ATG

Scribble Challenge (rabiscochallenge.blogspot.com): Confectionary treats

fourseasons (thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com): Summer

Challenge – Dare 2B Artzy Blog: Shaped or Fun Fold Card

Dragonfly Dreams (dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com): Food or drink

International Art & Soul (intaas.blogspot.com): Happiness (Ice cream definitely makes me happy!)

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Summer plus a sentiment

Moving Along With The Times: ATG

little red wagon (lilredwagon.blogspot.com): Circles Top Picks Winner 8/10/22

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: WK 31 - Anything Goes Card making, Crafting and Papercrafting challenge - Digi Choosday challenge: ATG

Through The Craft Room Door (ttcrd.blogspot.com): ATG

Unicorn Challenge Blog: Summer

2 Sisters on the blog: Text as the focus

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Crafty Friends Challenge Blog: Summer Colors

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge -1st to the 25th every month: Food and Drink

Ally's Angels (alessandrasangels.blogspot.com): ATG

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog: ATG

Mix It Up Challenge Blog: ATG with option of CAS

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: ATG

http://sognandoscrap.blogspot.com/2022/08/il-105-challenge-di-sognando-scrap-dal.html?m=1: ATG with a touch of blue

fourseasons (thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com): ATG Summer

Colorful Options: Tranquil Turquoise

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie... Picture inspiration:

Thursday, August 4, 2022

John 1:16 Floating Gap Card

I've really been enjoying the Iced Images videos featuring unique and fun card folds, and this week I decided to create a Silhouette Studio file for the Floating Gap Card featured here: Floating Gap Card - Bing video. The two "L" shaped sides are held together by a center focal point that I adhered using foam tape. Most of the card was created using my Silhouette Cameo, but I die cut the center pieces from Spellbinders dies I haven't used in an age. The word "Grace" is also a die cut from a Papertrey Ink die I purchased recently after winning a $25 gift card to Simon Says Stamp on the SSS Monday challenge blog. The die and coordinating stamp set can be found here: Papertrey Ink INSPIRED GRACE Clear Stamps 3219 at Simon Says STAMP! and Papertrey Ink INSPIRED GRACE Die PTD 1060 at Simon Says STAMP! I broke out my stencil collection to add a little background behind the sentiment. I need to do that more often as I like how it adds a bit of color and depth.

The verse I chose for this card (from the Papertry Ink stamp set linked above) is such a great reminder to be grateful for the "grace upon grace" I have received from God. Have you heard the definition of grace as "God's Riches At Christ's Expense"? It's such a beautiful way to think of grace. I hope each of you reading this post can think of many examples of God's grace in your own life and will join me in thanking Him for the riches of His grace. I pray the shut ins I send these cards to will be as encouraged by this verse as I am.

The Floating Gap Card can be made in multiple sizes (see the video for 4 different sizes Iced Images showcases). I chose the 4X7 size. It folds flat to fit in an A7 envelope.

Front view:

Folded:

A view of the side flaps:

Back view:

Challenges I'm entering:

Ellibelle's Corner (simplyellibelle.com):ATG

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with optional twist of friendship

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG

Through The Craft Room Door (ttcrd.blogspot.com): ATG

Unicorn Challenge Blog: Summer Time (I hope flowers count)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com):ATG with optional twist "by the book"

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges (jansdigistampschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Path of Positivity Challenge: ATG Positive or make something special to celebrate yourself Top Pick 9/13/22; Voted Most Inspirational 9/26/22

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com):ATG

International Art & Soul (intaas.blogspot.com): Happiness (For me, God's grace is the source of true happiness)

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com):ATG

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG

Art Impressions Blog (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com): Pretty in Pink

Craft Rocket Challenges: Flowers

DL.ART (dianamlarson.blogspot.com): ATG

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Stamp Act

Moving Along With The Times: ATG

2 Sisters on the blog: Text as the focal point

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com): ATG with patterned paper

Creations in Pink:ATG mostly in pink

Dies R Us Challenge: Summer and use die cuts (I used dies from Spellbinders and Papertrey Ink)

Girlz Rebel Challenge: Color challenge

Mix It Up Challenge Blog:ATG

Welcome to Not 2 Shabby - My love for stamps and scrappy goodness! (not2shabbyshop.com): Mood board (I used the flowers as my inspiration)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: ATG

QKR Stampede:ATG

The Crafting Challenge: My favorite color: pink

fourseasons (thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com): summer mood board (I chose the flowers for inspiration)

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Psalm 95:3 Floating Triple Diamond Card

This week's card for the shut ins at my church features another design I saw on Iced Images. You can see the video here: Triple Floating Diamond Card - Bing video. It's called a Floating Triple Diamond Card, and I used the video and the measurements given there to design a cut file in Silhouette Studio. If anyone is interested in the files I've created in Silhouette Studio, you can check them out in the Silhouette Card Making and Papercrafts FB group where I've uploaded the files for free. There are lots of great free files available in that group thanks to the generosity of designers much more talented than I am!

The verse on these cards is from Psalm 95:3. I can't find a version with the exact wording used in the word art I purchased, so I'm thinking it's a paraphrase of the verse. In the NIV, it's written: For the LORD is the great God, and the great King above all gods. This verse really has a double meaning to me. Truly God is above all things and all authorities in the sense that He is sovereign over all creation, and no one can challenge His power and authority. But He also deserves to be worshiped and loved above all things in my life. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can strive to love and serve Him above all other things.

I also used this card design for a sympathy card this week when a friend's husband died unexpectedly. The floral paper was so pretty that I thought it would make a lovely sympathy card. If you change up the paper and add the appropriate sentiment, it could be used for any occasion really.

The finished card folds to fit in a 6X6 envelope. Warning: this cost me $1.23 to mail as it needs to be mailed at the non-machinable rate and is also over an ounce in weight.

Here are a few views of the card from different angles and open and closed:

Challenges I'm entering:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/: ATG

The Paper Fun: Aday Challenges: ATG

The Paper Shelter:ATG

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges (fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Ellibelle's Corner: Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday (simplyellibelle.com): ATG

Addicted to Stamps and More! (addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com): ATG

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG

Through The Craft Room Door (ttcrd.blogspot.com): ATG

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com):ATG

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges (jansdigistampschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesi: Ankypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG

The Corrosive Challenge Blog!! (corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com): ATG

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG

Taylormadecards4u: ATG

Creative Creases Challenge Archives - Secrets to Stamping (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge (trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com): Shaped Card (my card has 3 diamond shapes)

Krafty Chicks Challenge: All Occasions
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2 Sisters on the blog: ATG

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com):ATG with patterned paper

Creatalicious Challenges: ATG

Creations in Pink: ATG with mostly pink color palette

LeAnns World 101 (challengeleannsworld101.blogspot.com): ATG

Let's Craft and Create (letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

The Creative Crafters (creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com):ATG

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog: ATG with stamp or digi (I hope the scripture word art digi stamp counts)

Mix It Up Challenge Blog:ATG

Rabisco Challenge: ATG

Your Scrapbook Place: ATG

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Proverbs 16:24 Staggered Triple Box Card

I seem to have fallen down the Iced Images rabbit hole recently! Watching a tutorial on making a tiered gatefold card (see my previous blog post) led to watching a video of this staggered triple box card. After watching the staggered triple box card video, I then proceeded to watch another Iced Images video and will let you know how the triple floating diamond card comes out in an upcoming blog post. I'm sure I'll end up watching another dozen or so of her videos as she has some very fun card designs I'd like to try. I also really appreciate how the dimensions for the card pieces are listed at the bottom of her videos so I can easily make Silhouette Design Studio files to cut them out. I prefer to use my Silhouette Cameo rather than hand cut and score all the pieces as I am typically doing sets of cards rather than individual cards and it saves a lot of time to use a cut file for my machine. Here's a link to the video, but I warn you that you may also fall down the rabbit hole!

🔴 Staggered Triple Box Card (Livestream) - YouTube

Proverbs 16:24 is a good reminder to me to be more intentional in sharing kind words with those God puts in my path. Words of kindness and encouragement can make such a difference to someone experiencing a difficult situation or having a rough day. These cards will go to my little group of shut ins whom I send a card to each week, but I also plan to send some to friends who have come alongside me and spoken kind, uplifting words when I needed some encouragement myself. I'm blessed with many wonderful Christian friends and want to be sure they know how much I appreciate them. Is there someone you could share a kind word with today?

Front view:

View from the top:

Side view:

Another version:

Various papers give the card a different look:

Here's what it looks like when closed. It fits into an A7 envelope.

Challenges I’m entering:

Shopping Your Stash:

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/07/sos475-wtheck-embellishments.html?m=1: Embellishments (I have no idea where I picked up the painted wooden bees, but they’ve been in my embellishment stash for years! I’m so glad to have found a use for them!) Top Three Pick 8/24/22

Word Art Wednesday:

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/07/anything-goes-weeks-553-554.html?m=1: ATG

Paper Funday:

http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/?m=1: ATG

Sisterhood of Crafters

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2022/07/butterflies-dragonflies-bees.html?m=1: Butterflies, Dragonflies, and Bees

Paper Shelter:

https://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2022/07/summer-break-challenge.html?m=1: ATG

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies Challenges:

http://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/?m=1: ATG

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends:

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2022/07/186-paper-shelter.html?m=1:ATG

Pink Gem Challenge:

https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/wk-15-card-making-craft-challenge.html?m=1: ATG

Creative Crafters Challenge:

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/challenge-54.html?m=1: ATG

Bastel-Traum:

https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/?m=1: ATG

Creative Fingers:

https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/challenge-235.html?m=1: ATG

A Perfect Time to Craft:

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html?m=1: ATG

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Psalm 23:1 Tiered Gatefold Card

Today I have a fun card called a tiered gatefold card. I recently saw a version of this card in a card challenge I entered, so I followed the link and watched a video showing how to make the card. I jotted down the measurements used and created a cut file for the card in my Silhouette Design Studio software. Although I'd like to fine tune it a little (my score marks are off just a bit in some places), I'm happy with the end product. Here's the video I watched (from Iced Images) to give me the instructions/measurements I needed (I didn't add all the layers from the video, but this follows the general idea):

Tiered Gatefold Card - YouTube

Psalm 23 is such a comforting psalm, and the first verse is one I love to recite when I'm worried or afraid. The Lord is my shepherd, and since He is the perfect shepherd who knows my needs even better than I do, I can trust that I will lack nothing I truly need. I hope that's an encouragement to anyone reading this post. Here are the cards I sent to the shut ins at my church this week using this fold:

Here's a view of the cards from the side and back:

Here's a look at the card when partially closed:

Challenges I'm entering:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG

The Corrosive Challenge Blog!! (corrosivechallengesbyjanet.blogspot.com): ATG

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG

Taylormadecards4u: ATG with optional theme of holidays

Crafty Catz (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com): ATG with optional twist of Christmas in July

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #36 (secretstamper.com): ATG with a fun fold

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: ATG with a sentiment

Craft Rocket Challenges Summertime (I hope my flower pattern paper counts as summery)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with optional twist of a day at the beach

Three Muses: HAPPINESS IS ..... (thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.com): Happiness is...(for me, I felt this card worked well for this theme because there is such contentment/happiness in knowing the Lord is my shepherd and will meet my needs no matter what I'm going through)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG

Through The Craft Room Door (ttcrd.blogspot.com): ATG

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG

Crafting Happiness Challenges: ATG

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges (jansdigistampschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

****Pammie's Inky Pinkies**** **********Challenges********** (pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/: Fabulous Florals: Weekly winner of $25 gift certificate

Use Your Stuff: Mood board had many different themes, but I chose the floral theme

2 Sisters on the blog: ATG

handicraft dream (bastel-traum.blogspot.com): ATG (ends August 15)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog (cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge (craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com): ATG with patterned paper

Creatalicious Challenges: ATG with paper + option of Christmas in July

LeAnns World 101 (challengeleannsworld101.blogspot.com): ATG

Let's Craft and Create (letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com): ATG with option of fun in the sun