Double Thanks - Technostamper #360

It's very mild today and the sun was shining fiercely out of a clear blue sky.  However, it's afternoon now, and the sky has become overcast, and there is talk of rain.

I am more hopeful that we will soon have more spring-like weather.  My son even set up the gazebo and brought out the outdoor furniture, and is now washing my car.

For the challenge with Technostamper which is now a biweekly challenge, I wanted to make a masculine Thank you card.  I just checked through my "stash" and not one of them is suitable to give to a guy.

I used one of the designs of the Adventure Bound DSP stack, and used the Hello You framelits to create the large sentiment that the challenge called for.

 

The basic card is Garden Green cardstock. layered with Crumb Cake, and then Adventure Bound DSP .
The "Thanks" is from the "Hello You Thinlits Dies", and I die cut it first using Early Espresso cardstock, and a second time using Garden Green.  I adhered the two together just offsetting the words, to make it look like there is a shadow.

 Because there are 2 thanks, I titled the card "Double Thanks".

The smaller sentiment is from "A Dozen Thoughts" stamped with Basic Black on Crumb Cake, and die cut using the Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits.The edges were sponged with Early Espresso and adhered to the card near the bottom with dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Thanks - Create with Connie & Mary #343

BRRR!!! It sure is cold here!  Minus 33 C over night and the high today is only going to be minus 25C.  Plus we're expecting more snow tomorrow!  Thank goodness my son shovels the driveway for me or I don't know what I would do.

Today I'm making a card for the Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge here

I've been wanting to use some of the SAB Irrisibly Yours DSP for some time now, and with this sketch I could do it.  I stamped a butterfly from the "Papillion Potpourri" stamp set randomly on a piece of this cardstock using Memento ink.  Then I blotted most of it off before applying the colour.  For some reason I felt like the colour blue today.  When I applied the Marina Mist, and wiped off the excess it looked like the butterflies were flying behind the leaves.

At the bottom I placed a piece of Whisper White cardstock at an angle, and attached the sentiment "Thanks" from the "Hello You" thinlet die.  This I die cut in black to pick up the colour of the butterflies in the background.

A piece of Whisper White satin ribbon separated the two papers.

Three Daffodil Delight flowers were punch using the Itty Bitty flower punch from the Itty Bitty Occasions pack.  They were attached to the card above the ribbon on the left side, and large rhinestones placed in the middle.

I punched 2 more flowers and placed them around the sentiment.  Another butterfly was also stamped, punched using the butterfly punch and added above the sentiment.  It was touched up with a bit of Marina Mist blue using a marker.

Here are the supplies I used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Thanks

I've been invited out to dinner tonight at a friend's house.  My mother always told me never to arrive empty handed, so I made a Thank You card using her favourite colours, and the new "Hello You" thinlet dies.  I am also planning on covering an Internet password and E-mail book I picked up.  My friend has this information all over the place and in about 5 books.  Hopefully this will make her life a litte more organized.

I started out by using photopaper and alcohol inks to create a background in mauves/purples and silver.
Using  the "Hello You" framelit I die cut the work "Thanks" from this background, and punched 6 flowers using the Petite Petals punch.
The word was run through the Xyron runner and attached to a piece of Whisper White cardstock matted with Wild Wasabi cardstock.

The basic card is Wild Wasabi, layered with Whisper White embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder.
On the top at the left hand side, 3 banners are attached,  The larger one is die cut using the Painted Blooms DSP, the second one (in the middle) is smaller and embossed with the Fancy Fan folder; the smallest is also die cut from the Painted Blooms DSP but the flip side of the first.

The sentiment panel is attached to the bottom of the card using dimensionals.

A small snip is made between the petals of each flower, and with the handle of a small paint brush, the ends are curled up.  A rhinestone is placed in the middle of each.  Hot glue is used to attache these to the card - 3 on the front, and 3 on the inside.

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

I also used the Banner framelits.

I liked the card so much I made one for myself.

Crazy About You - Technostamper #348

I am now officially in Valentine Day card making mode.  Today I have made 3 and for my 4th I decided to use the sketch challenge with TSSC here

 

I guess you could call this a clean and simple card - for me anyway.  It's nice that the card came together so fast.

The card base is Basic Black cut at 4 1/4 by 11 and folded from the top down.  This is layered with Whisper White cardstock.  On this 3/4 by 5"  pieces of DSP from the Stacked with Love DSP stack were attached at the left side. A 1 1/4" piece of Basic Black cardstock was notched at the right end and attached horizontally just below midway.  To this the sentiment was added.  Stamped in Real Red on Whisper White ,the "Crazy About" was from the stamp set "Crazy About You" and the "You" was  die cut in Real Red using the "Hello You" thinlet die.

Three little red hearts (punchies from the Heart border punch) were added as shown in the picture.

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog