Sliding Barn Door

I don't know why I thought this card would be hard to put together.  In actual fact, it was quite easy!!

Now that I have put this interactive card together once I can see possibilities for branching out.  But here is the card I put together today.

For the background I used the "Hardwood" background stamp with Soft Suede ink on Pool Party card stock.  A barn door needs a barn board background.

The barn door was stamped with Crumb Cake ink onto Crumb Cake cardstock  The hardware was die cut with Basic Gray cardstock

The door slides on washers across the front of the card, moving between sentiments stamped with Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla cardstock.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Barn Door, Hardwood

Inks:  Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Sweet Sugarplum

Papers:  Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso

Accessories:  Sliding Door Framelits, washers (non SU), dimensionals, Foam tape, corner rounder punch

Circle of Spring Easter Card

It's wonderful that the framelits from the Christmas stamp set "Wondrous Wreath" can be used to die cut the Circle of Spring wreath!

This really cute floral wreath in the "Circle of Spring" stamp set was used to make an Easter card.

I stamped the Hardwood background stamp on Crumb Cake card stock with Soft Suede ink.  This was cut into 2 pieces, the edges sponged, and then formed into a cross.

Before adhering the card to the Whisper White art piece, an image of a sunburst from the stamp set "Wherever You Go" was stamped so that the rays would show just over the top of the cross.

At the base, I stamped some grass using a stamp from "Sheltering Tree".

The die cut wreath was placed over the top of the cross, and the Easter sentiment was added using a dimensional to the center of the wreath.

The Wreath:

After stamping with Black Memento, the various parts of the wreath were coloured with a Wink of Stella glimmer brush and the following ink colours:  Mint Macaron, Peek-a-poo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum.

Four (4) extra flowers were coloured, die cut, and three were added to the wreath, and the 4th were reserved for the inside of the card..  Pearls were placed in the center of each of these flowers; tiny pearls were also added to the center of the smaller flowers

I extended the main part of the cross over the bottom of  the art piece in order to maintain visual proportions of the wreath covered cross.  In other words it did not look right when it was shorter.

Before matting the art piece with Crumb Cake I wrapped a 1/4" ruffled Flirty Flamingo around the base and then added a bow.

The Art Piece was added to the Soft Suede card front which had a piece of  Flirty Flamingo DSP attached.

Supplied Used:

Stamps: Circle of Spring, Hardwood, Wherever You Go, Sheltering Tree

Inks: Soft Suede, Mint Macaron, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum, Peek-a-boo Peach, Crushed Currie, Old Olive

Papers: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo DSP

Accessories: 1/4" ruffled Flirty Flamingo ribbon, Wondrous Wreath framelits, Pearls, dimensionals, Wink of Stella glimmer brush.

Winter Wishes Wreath

Here's another card I made using the "Winter Wishes" stamp set.  I love seeing how versatile a stamp set can be.
This time I used the branch stamp to make a wreath hanging on a fence.  The fence was made using the background stamp: "Hardwood"

• The base card is Old Olive, layered with Whisper White and then Merry Moments DSP
• Use the background stamp "Hardwood" & Crumb Cake ink to make a woodgrain background.  Then with the SU cutter, cut this into pieces of wood at the seam lines.  Cut the tops with a 1" square punch and sponge all edges with Soft Suede ink.
• Cut the pieces of boards into the desired length and glue them to the DSP to create the fence.  Cut one of the boards to adhere to the bottom.
• To make the wreath, take a piece of Whisper White cardstock, and using a circle framelet as your template lightly draw a circle on the cardstock.
• Stamp the image of the Evergreen bough, using Old Olive ink, along the edge of the circle to form a wreath.
• Stamp the image of the Pine Cone (with Soft Suede ink) randonly on the wreath.  Fill in areas of the pine cones with Soft Suede ink and a blender pen.
• Using a blender pen and Real Red ink, fill in the tiny berries on the wreath.
• Apply glue and dazzling diamonds to the cones.
• Stamp the word "Peace" - from "Happy Scenes" in the middle of the wreath.
• Cut the wreath out.
• At the top, of the wreath, punch a small hole and insert some gold cording trim through it.  Fasten behind the Whisper White layer. Adhere the wreath to the top of the fence using dimensionals.

• Using the 1/4" Real Red Ribbon make a bow and adhere to the top of the wreath with  a glue dot.  Add a Winter Wonderland embellishment on the top of the bow.
• At the bottom of the fence, tear a piece of dazzling diamond glimmer paper, and apply a little bit of Soft Sky colour to the edges.  Glue with tombo to the card bottom.

I thought I would show you what I did with the inside of the card.

Supplies Used:

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Another Moon Lake Father's Day card

I just love this stamp set, and now that I'm actually making some cards with it, I can't seem to stop.  However, I need to as I have class to prepare for this week.

This card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, and cased some elements but put my own twist on things.

The base card is Soft Suede card stock, layered with Very Vanilla upon which the background stamp "Hardwood" was stamped with Soft Suede ink.

The corners were rounded on the bottom of a rectangle of Soft Suede.  The top was punched with the spiral punch.  After the edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink, a piece of Baker's twine was wrapped around the top and the ends inserted into a Bronze button and tied in a knot on the top.  A glue dot under the button holds it in place.  This piece was placed at an angle on the hardwood background using dimensionals.

The image was stamped on a rectangular piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and all the corners rounded and the edges sponged.  The image was initially coloured using markers, and then highlighed with the actual markers after stamping.  This art piece was adhered to the lower Soft Suede rectangle parallel to the bottom of the card.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny wishes, punched with the Word Window punch, and matted with Soft Suede modern label punch.

Supplies Used:

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Hexagons and Triangle - The Friday Mashup #148

The Mashup Challenge this week is to use Hexagons and triangles on a project here
Here is my card:

The base card is Early Espresso, layered with Very Vanilla stamped with the Hardwood background stamp.  That is layered with Crumb Cake die cut using the Hexagon Hive Thinlet die.
The flowers are from the Petite Petals stamp set, stamped in different colours and punched out using the coordinating Petite Petals punch.  Two leaflets were die cut using the sizzlet leaflet die and the flowers were mounted on that - some directly on it and some using dimensionals.
The sentiment is from the You're Lovely (SAB) stamp set, punched with the small oval punch and layered with a triangular Petite Penants builder punch.

Stamps: Petite Petals, Hardwood, You're Lovely (SAB)
Inks: Early Espresso, Crisp Cantalope, Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Wonder Wisteria, Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals
Papers: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Old Olive
Accessories: Hexagon Hive thinlet, Petite Petals punch, Petite Pennant Builder punch, Small oval punch, Leaflet sizzix die, dimensionals

Hardwood Background Birthday - Friday Mashup #141

Happy New Year everyone.  We've had quite the New Year weather wise.  It really started before Christmas when we were hit by a huge ice storm which crippled the City of Toronto with most of the city being without power for over a week. This combined by frigid temperatures in the minus 40 degrees C (with the wind chill) made for a cool holiday season.  Since then we have had a few relatively mild days but mainly cold, cold temperatures - and snow almost everyday.  My poor son is having a hard time keeping the driveway clear.  We have to be happy just keeping the mouth of the driveway clear of snowplough mounds. Today the thermometer is minus 21 without the wind chill - not a day to be going outside.  Apparently exposed skin will freeze in under 5 minutes.

For this week's challenge with the Friday Mashup here I chose not to do a theme related to time as I did not have any stamps for that theme.  Instead I chose to make a masculine birthday card.

 

I used a combination of new Occasions catalogue items and items available in the Annual catalogue. 

The base card is Soft Suede layered with a piece of Whisper White which has been stamped with the Hardwood background stamp.  On this I applied a piece of Retro Fresh designer paper.

The image is stamped on Whisper White cardstock using Soft suede ink, with the sentiment stamped directly underneath it.  This panel is sponged with Soft Suede ink and then matted with a piece of Soft Suede card stock.  A banner of Tangerine Tango cardstock is attached at the bottom of the panel and this panel attached to the card using dimensionals.

Some Gold Baker's twine was wound around the card at its left side.

Stamps: Hardwood, Walk in the Wild, Petite Pairs, Another Great Year

Inks: Soft Suede

Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Retro Fresh Designer Paper, Tangerine Tango

Accessories: Gold Baker's twine

Lovely as a Tree birthday - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #147

All the preparations for Christmas are done so I thought I'd relax and make a card.  This proved a bit of a challenge as I'm having some construction work done in my workspace and everything is tarped up.
This card is designed based on the sketch challenge on Try Stampin' on Tuesday here 
Since all my Christmas/winter cards are done I chose not to use a snowflake as an embellishment. Also, I placed the sketch upright.

 

I started by using the new background stamp Hardwood (available Jan. 2) to create the background.  Soft Suede ink was used on Very Vanilla background.  Then I placed a strip of Season of Style designer paper along the left side and adhered a natural ribbon to hide the seam. This was adhered to a Soft Suede card stock base card.

The image was stamped with Old Olive ink on Very Vanilla card stock.  This was matted with Soft Suede card stock, and adhered to the card slightly overlapping the ribbon and designer paper.

The embellishment was a sprig of pine tree with a cone attached - also from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set.  This was punched with a 1/2" circle punch and attached to an Old Olive 3/4" scallop  circle using dimensionals.  This was attached to a 1" circle of Soft Suede and attached to the upper left of the card.

This turned out to be a neat masculine birthday card.

Stamps: Hardwood, Lovely as a Tree, Petite Pairs

Inks: Soft Suede, Old Olive

Papers: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Season of Style designer paper

Accessories: 7/16 Natural trim, 1/2" circle punch, 3/4" scallop circle punch, 1" circle punch, small oval punch, dimensionals