Many Thanks

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I realized I needed some thank you cards and since winter has finally arrived, I went with a winter theme for my card. There's not as much snow on the ground here in NW Ohio as in the card, but it definitely feels this cold to me!

I started with a piece of navy CS and splattered some white gesso, diluted with water, for the snowy sky. The hills were created with some dies from Fawn Lawn and Memory box. The cute little penguin was stamped with Memento Black ink onto white CS, colored with Copics, fussy cut and attached with some foam squares. The greeting was stamped with Versafine Black ink and then everything was added to the white card base. The font on this greeting is so pretty and I like the size of it too.

Hope you are staying warm and finding some time to get inky!

blessings,

shelia

sending Hugs!

Hello! Today I have a card I created for my granddaughter who had her first gymnastic meet of 2020. She did an amazing job and I'm so very proud of her. She fell a year and a half ago at a meet, broke her elbow, had to have surgery and then weeks and weeks of therapy to get her elbow to work properly. She still isn't 100%, but she competed like she was, even tackled those bars again!

I used this week's sketch from MFT/ Here's the sketch:
And here's my card:

I used some MFT Die-namics to create this card as well as the greeting from Hero Arts.

The Die-namics are Blueprint Sketch 27 and Big HUGS.

I used bright colored CS. The Hugs was die cut from white CS twice, glued together with the blue die cut letters on top. I used the negative space to help me get it lined up nicely. I felt it needed a little something in the corner so I die cut a pink heart from the Blueprint Sketch set. I think my granddaughter will like this.

Thanks for stopping by.

blessings,
shelia

Love!

Happy Monday Everyone. Trust you had a good weekend. It has turned rather cold here in NW Ohio. So I was happy to spend my weekend indoors working on some Valentine cards. I have a couple to share with you today.

This first one I actually made a copy of weeks ago for a challenge at Splitcoast Stampers to use bright colors. I added strips of glittery washi tape to a piece of CS, die cut the word love from the CS and then used the negative part for this card. 

Everything was attached to a black card base. The greeting was stamped on the same black CS, heat embossed with white EP, die cut with a banner die and popped up with foam adhesive. Some of the glittery tape lost its glitter, so I die cut a couple of little hearts from some white glitter paper to cover up the missing glitter. 

My next card uses this month's small die of the month from Spellbinders. It's a little on the detailed side, but I really like the look it creates. 

 I started by cutting the LOVE frame from green CS, along with the letters and flowers from pink CS and hearts from bright pink CS. I also cut some of the stems from a lighter shade of green CS. I glued the letters, flowers, stems and hearts into place. I don't think you can see it clearly in the picture, but the letters are embossed with tiny slanted lines. I thought I had an EF with slanted lines, but couldn't find it. So I used my MS Scoring tool to score diagonal lines for the background panel. The greeting was stamped onto pink CS, die cut and popped up with foam adhesive. I added some Nuvo Crystal glaze to the hearts and flower centers. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you're staying warm!!

blessings,

shelia