No Bones About it - You're Great - swap cards - a CASE

The theme with my card group this month for the card swaps was "animals". Of all the animals I chose to use, was unpredictably the dinosaur.  Most people would have predicted a cat since I have a very old, loveable cat called Mischief (who by the way thinks he is a dog and follows me around everywhere)
I cased this card from Dawn Griffin  here

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The base card is Basic Black, with  2 front panels of Tip Top Taupe card stock (retired).  Between the 2 panels is clear Window Sheet.

The main body of the Dinosaur is stamped with Tip Top Taupe on the Whisper white card stock on the inside of the card- the skeleton on the Window Sheet.  This I  heat embossed with Black embossing powder.  Dawn, in her video, stamped with Stazon ink, but I could not get the ink to stamp well (despite reinking of the ink pad), so I opted for heat embossing.

Around the top I wrapped some Basic Black and white Baker's twine left over from a Paper Pumpkin project.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  No Bones About It

Inks:  Black Memento, Tip Top Taupe, Versa Mark

Papers:  Basic Black, Tip Top Taupe, Whisper White

Accessories:  Window Sheet, Dimensionals, Black Embossing powder, Black/white Baker's twine

On Stage Swap Cards -You Make a Difference

Yesterday I sat down and made 10 more swap cards for On-Stage Toronto, using the stamp set "Touches of Texture", which is one of the stamps being carried over into the new catalogue.

When you're mass producing cards to swap, the design needs to be simple but eye-catching, with only a few embellishments.
I chose to make card front rather than a full card.  The Whisper White (Art Piece) is thus 3 3/4 by 5", matted with a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Marina Mist card stock. The recipient can then adhere it to a card front of their choosing to make a full card.

The images were stamped with Black Memento or Basic Gray ink and either stamped or coloured with Marine Mist ink.
Clear Wink of Stella was added to the dragonfly and flowers, and a retired 1/4" Marina Mist ribbon added to the bottom
The sentiment is from "In This World" is die cut using the stitched oval framelits and added to the card front with dimensionals.

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Touches of Texture, In This World
Inks: Black Memento, Basic Gray, Marina Mist
Papers: Marina Mist, Whisper White
Accessories: 1/4" Marina Mist ribbon (R), Clear Wink of Stella glitter brush, dimensionals, stitched oval framelits.

Glittering Bootiful Occasions - swap cards

I belong to an Ontario Rubber Stamping group and every month this group does swaps - each month a different topic.  I make 3 identical cards, mail them to the hostess, and I get 3 different cards in return.  I just love getting those cards in the mail.

This month the topic was "glitter", and boy did I make a mess when I made the 3 cards.  There was glitter all over my desk, my chair, the printer, the floor, and all over me.  But the cards turned outokay

 For some reason the pictures turned out really dark, so I played around with the brightness/contrast feature.  At least you can see the colour of the glitter!
Here's how I applied the glitter.
First I coloured the shoe with markers (Basic Black, Old Olive and Tangerine Tango).  Then I applied glue (two way glue pen and a small tipped glue applicator - non SU) one colour at a time.  The Old Olive was done first, followed by the orange, and then black.  After the glitter was applied the shoe was cut out and attached to the moon.
The strips along the side are decorative edgelit framelits, and glitter was also applied to them.  One thing I forgot to do was colour those strips before applying the glitter.  You can tell.
The Daffodil Delight moon was die cut using the circle framelits and embossing it with the polka dot folder.  The edges were sponged with Hello Honey ink.

Stamp: Bootiful Occasion
Ink: Black Stazon, SU Markers (Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black), Hello Honey, Whisper White
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Whisper White, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight
Accessories:Circles Framelit, Decorative Edge Framelit, Polka dot embossing folder, Spider Web embossing folder, retired SU glitter