Some Cards and Bookmarks

Hello and happy Saturday.  Hope your weekend is going well.

I've got 2 cards and a bunch of bookmarks to share today.  I finally got a chance to pull out some of my Altenew stamps and play along in their gigantic Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop.  I was inspired by the Fall Floral graphic at Curtain Call.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Clean and Simple.

Something a little different for me--I inked up an old impression plate and used it to dry emboss a card front.  I just love the detail in the Mehndi impression plate, and the ink makes it so easy to see. My sentiment--stamp and die--are from PTI Pretty Peonies which is 4 years old.

I am entering this card at Retro Rubber #47: Anything Goes and Addicted to Stamps and More #211: Anything Goes.

Last up is a bunch of bookmarks I made, using Avery Elle This Book.  I just had fun masking, stamping and coloring.  I will be entering the first bookmark at The Card Concept #57: Rainbow. Honestly, I have no idea how to categorize the style.

Here are the fronts of the batch cut from the PTI Bookmark Die

And, here are the backs

Here are a couple more, using different bookmark dies.

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5 Cards for Thursday

I am squeaking in at the last moment with a card for WPlus9's Throwback Thursday challenge.  I used WPlus9 inks and Pretty Little Peonies and Pretty Peonies along with a sentiment from one of the Strictly Sentiment sets for my card.  I followed the basic sketch of one of Maureen's inspiration cards.

My next card is inspired by the sketch at Sweet Sunday Sketch #272 and uses the Stamping With Neutrals technique shown in Make it Monday #214.  You can see that I rotated the sketch counter clockwise 90 degrees.  

It was my first time using Brushed Blooms and Background Basics Random Stripes and I don't know why I waited so long.  My focal point is on a panel cut with MFT Pinking Edge rectangle dies, and I only had them for a couple of hours before using them on two cards, so I feel pretty good about that purchase already.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday For the Love of Plants.

I used the Old Rose Prints stencil from Stamplorations on my next card.  I sprayed a ton of Heidi Swapp pink color shine through the stencil and then let it dry.  IRL, it is very shimmery.  I am liking the look of pink, gold and black lately, so I paired that panel with some gold striped washi tape and a PTI die cut frame stamped with a gold border.

I am entering this card at Stamplorations June challenge:  Stamps and Washi and Stamplorations Anything Goes.

I have been really enjoying playing in the Retro Rubber challenges, as it encourages me to pull out some of my older stamps that I still love.  The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is Favorite, so I pulled out one of my very favorite Hero Arts Stamps--Birthday Gift, and used it in one of my favorite ways--stamping it multiple times in different colors, cutting them apart and then stacking them back together.

I used the same WPlus9 inks that were still out on my desk from the first card.  I sponged Little Piggy ink on the edges of my pinked layer to match the 2nd layer of my Birthday Gift image.  

The challenge at Retro Rubber #16 is tie it on, and so I cut off the stamped bow from the very top layer of the stack and replaced it with a tiny twine bow.  The stamp I used for this challenge is one of the very first wood stamps I bought when I started stamping about 5 years ago.

Last up is a very quick card I made as soon as I saw the latest CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I took a pretty literal interpretation of the sketch, and used a butterfly from Hero Arts Antique Engravings, embossed in white and water colored with Distress Inks.   I masked off a square on my card front and stamped it with the PTI Crackle stamp using WPlus9 Fairy Dust ink.

I am entering this card at Addicted to CAS #65 Butterfly and the Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge, where I used the diagonal 'watercolor-birthday theme-heat embossing.

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Mostly Get Well Cards

I've been in and out of my craft room all weekend, and am now ready to post everything.  I focused on restocking my Get Well cards this weekend.  I still need to make some masculine cards, as I realized that all the ones I made this weekend are quite girly.

I'll start with my favorite of the bunch.  I am entering this tag at Tag You're It #13, where I was inspired by the washi tape, layered die cuts, double layer tag and the tiny bow on Heather Campbell's pretty inspiration tag.

I decided to turn my tag into a card, and it will be sent off tomorrow.  The Washi Tape is NBUS--you still have a few hours to play along at CASology, where the cue word this week is NBUS, and you have a few days to play along at Darnell's NBUS Challenge.

I used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #169 for my next card.  I finally broke into my NBUS Cuppa Love by Papertrey for the flowers inside the circle window.

I used the Cuppa Love stamps again, along with the matching die, for my next get well card.  I stamped a stripe across the base of the card using one of the graphic stamps in the set, and then adhered my stamped cup on top.

I used this week's ColourQ #275 for my colors and the home made foam sticker technique from this week's Make it Monday #175 for my little take care tag.

My last get well card uses a technique I saw somewhere, and I think it is called baby wipe stamping--or something like that.  I can't remember where I saw it, or even if I did it right, but I tried it and made a card.  Something about putting reinkers (I used drops of liquid water color paint) onto a baby wipe and then having the colors run together.  I used Delicata Gold for the flower centers because I thought the card needed a little something more.

Here is a picture of what it looked like in process.

Switching gears entirely, I have two cards for this week's Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Soft Scarf.  I thought I'd pull out some holiday Hero Arts stamps, since they are the sponsor.  I had two ideas, both of them incorporating the colors from the scarf as well as the idea of a frosty cold holiday.

I made a shaker card using sequins in the same colors as the scarf, and my stamping is Silver on black card stock.

On my next card, I stamped a snowy neighborhood, then masked the houses so I could blend a sunset background in the same colors as the scarf.  I colored some of the white bits of the houses with colored pencils, and went over the snow with Wink of Stella.

Well, that's it for me today.

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2 Quick Cards

I've got 2 quick cards for these three challenges:  Make it Monday #191:  Glittered Frames, ColourQ #270 and CAS(E) This Sketch #102. 


I used Beautiful Blooms II and made my glittered frame using Scor Tape and MS white glitter.  I like how you can kind of see through the glitter to the stamping below.  This is the second card I made because I was not wild about my first attempt.

This is my first attempt at combining all three of these challenges.  I liked my panel  just fine until I put the glittered frame on.  My daughter came into my office, took one look at it and said that the gold was too much.  I agreed with her.  I used some Champagne Crushed Glass Glitter--I had been hoarding my little jar of this stuff and decided it was time to use it.  I think it overwhelmed the card.  Oh well.  I pulled out WPlus9 Pretty Peonies and Pretty Little Peonies for this card, and had fun playing with those sets.

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