more old cards - a set

Hello, again! Thank you so very much for your sweet comments on my last card... they truly mean so much to me. :) I'm back today with a few more cards that I forgot to post... this time, a colorful, springy group I made to send out to some long distance friends. :) Whether I need to make a lot of cards all at once or a gift set for just one person, I tend to make all the cards of the same design, and just change up the (ink/card stock) colors, based on the recipients' styles/preferences. Makes things go quickly and easily... and I'm all about the quick and easy! ;)


I LOVE this huge Hero Arts Engraved Daisy! It's gorgeous if you color it, gorgeous if you keep it monochromatic, it's just gorgeous! Here, I used it as a kind of sub-focal point, stamping in a light shade to compliment the card base color. The sentiment can then really pop, being placed on top of the flower and stamped in dramatic back ink. For these cards, each of the sentiments were a little bit different, depending on who was receiving each card, but they are all generally clean and graphic like the top one here... to keep with the clean and graphic look of the cards. A thin black mat ties it all together. :)

Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Can't believe it's less than a week now until Thanksgiving... that's just CRAZY! I am definitely thankful for many things, one of them being my stamping friends. :) You all warm my heart and make me smile, more than you could ever know. xoxo

SUPPLIES:
Hero Arts CG142 and CL342 stamps. Memories Black ink. SU! inks and card stock in Cool Caribbean, Regal Rose, and River Rock. Pop dots.

pub'ed card set

Hey, there! How's your summer going? Mine's keeping me pretty busy. :) Trying to get outside and enjoy this weather as much as possible before it ends! Either it's going to start snowing in a couple of months, or we're going to be living back in AZ in a couple of months... either way, the weather's NOT going to be conducive to getting out much! LOL So hopefully that explains part of why I've been so absent. Still not feeling all that well either, so nothing brand new to show yet. I have been playing around with my new Hero Arts CLiNGS stamps a little bit, so I hope to have something new to see soon using those. :)

Until then, here's just a simple card set that was done for SNR back in Nov./Dec. When making card sets, I like coordination and unity. :) Using the same colors and patterns, and just a select few stamps makes the set more cohesive. Here's the stationery box that the cards all go in. I got the template from my local stamp store, and they got it from Stamp Your Art Out (seen here in the 'The Envelopes Please' section). I LOVE this template! SO easy to use:



The ribbon is used as a belly band, and just slides down to reveal the opening flap. I Xyroned (so not a word, I know, LOL) a piece of red card stock and a piece of polka dot paper together, BEFORE tracing and cutting with the template. Lining the stationery box with patterned paper just gives it a more interesting, finished look:



You can see that I also used the same patterned paper on the cards. Again, to tie everything in together. :) I just used a simple layout and alternated the orientation to get different looks. I used only one flower stamp (that same flower from my favorite Hero Arts flower set of all time!) and colored it with Copics to match. Each one was adhered to each card with pop dots for dimension:



When making card sets, I like to include a variety of sentiments. You can see here I included one for friendship, one for birthday, one for thanks, and one just to say "hello". I gave this set to my mom... she loved it. :)

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great Tuesday and see you soon!

SUPPLIES: stamps are Hero Arts (flower, "hello", "thanks", and "friend" sentiments) and Inkadinkado (happy birthday sentiment), paper is Making Memories (OLD!), Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Hero Arts black gemstones (on stationery box only), and Offray ribbon

cricut cards

Hey! Happy Tuesday. :) Today my new Cricut Expression is being delivered - YAY! In honor of that, I thought I'd post something I made waaaay back during my hiatus. Super quick and simple here, as most of the work was done with my Cricut machine. (Still have that guy for sale - including a BRAND NEW Plantin Schoolbook cart with it - ready to DEAL!) The only stamping was the sentiment(s):



The leaf silhouette image was cut out of black card stock and the mat behind that was cut out of turquoise card stock - both shapes are from the Storybook cartridge... LOVE that cartridge! Amazingly beautiful images and shapes on that cart. :) The image looks a little blurry because of the dimension... the leaves aren't glued down in all areas, resulting in shadows when I took the pic, sorry. It came together so quickly, and I loved how it turned out so much, that I decided to make a bunch more to either have on hand, or give away as a coordinated set:



I used a bunch of different colored card stocks for the mats - colors that I don't usually use on my paper projects because they're just... not quite my style. LOL This is a great way to use up those colors that come in multi-packs that you're not particularly fond of, or it's a great way to help use up your scraps. The sentiments were stamped very quickly and easily with black ink. If you're interested in a certain sentiment, just ask! :)

Anyway, back to impatiently waiting for the delivery man. ;) Thanks for reading and have a lovely day!

SUPPLIES: cards stocks - various, stamps - Hero Arts and SU!, Cricut Storybook cart, pop dots