Happy Easter

Hello Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. We had some unseasonably warm weather this weekend and it was lovely!! Hoping it sticks around, but I have my doubts!

Today I have a fun little Easter card that I created with my grandkids in mind. The Easter Ears Leonard image was stamped onto white CS with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics and fussy cut. I set him aside while I created the background scene for him. I stamped the silhouette leaf branch several times with different Distress Oxides inks, trying to match them to the colors of Leonard's Easter egg. The sky was sponged in using a MFT small cloud stencil. The grassy area was die cut with a FL die, sponged with green DO ink and then I stamped the easy grass background image with green ink. Once the grassy area was attached to the card base, I added Leonard with an action Wobbler. Happy Easter was stamped onto white CS, die cut with a banner die and added to the card with foam adhesive for some dimension.

I haven't added anything to the inside yet. I'll do that when it gets closer to Easter. Thanks for stopping by today. 

Be sure to check out DRS Designs' on line store for the new amazing catalog and the soon to be discontinued images. You can find those here.

blessings,

shelia

Caught a bug?

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend. I don't know about your area, but here it's flu and cold season. I know so many people who are sick. I was a couple of weeks ago and it feels so good to be back to normal!  So with all the friends who are ill, I decided to create a get well card. Here's what I came up with.

I started with the leaf stencil from Altenew to create a quick and easy background for my little lady bugs. I stamped the lady bugs from the 4 in 1 Garden Bugs onto white CS with Memento Black ink, added some red with my Copics and fussy cut them. I didn't want to mess with trying to cut out the little antennae so I cut them off, but stamped the entire lady bug image onto the card front where I wanted them to be and then glued the die cut ones in place with their cute little antennae showing. The Caught a Bug greeting was stamped with VersaFine black ink. I added some Nyvo Crystal Glaze to the lady bugs for some shine. They look so pretty in real life.

On the inside I stamped the Get Well Soon greeting and added one more little lady bug. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you are staying healthy and finding some time to get inky! If you haven't seen DRS Designs new catalog, you can check it out here. It is pretty amazing!

blessings,

shelia

Celebrate!

Happy Monday Everyone. Trust you had a wonderful weekend and found some time to get inky! It's cold and snowy here so staying indoors and stamping was just perfect. I enjoyed creating this St. Patrick's Day card. I saw a card in an ad, but cannot remember what the ad was for, but that's where I got the idea for this card.

I started with the green card base, die cut the half circle with a SB die and then added the SB die cut celebrate in white. On a piece of white CS I stamped the shamrocks with SU Old Olive ink as well as the Happy St. Patrick's Day greeting and glued the panel inside. The small shamrocks were stamped with the same Old Olive ink in the front four corners. 

The word celebrate tended to disappear even with the shamrocks stamped on the inside, so I die cut the word again in the same green CS as the card base and glued it behind the white, off setting it a bit.

Here's a look at the inside.

DRS Designs has a new full color catalog featuring over 1000 images with over 600 full color card samples. Wow!!  You can see details here. To make room for some new images DRS Designs will soon be retiring 92 images. You can see those images here. There are some really cute images that will be retiring, so you might want to check them out. I know there are quite a few that I'm gonna miss!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you are staying warm and dry!!

blessings,

shelia

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

Poinsettias

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a wonderful weekend! A few weeks ago I saw a video by Jennifer McGuire where she uses background dies to do partial die cutting on her cards. She explained the process so clearly and her cards looked amazing (as always) so I thought I'd give the technique a try.

I used an older SB lattice die and arranged it in my SB Platinum machine so only the lower right corner was die cut. I really like the look and it is rather simple to do.  Here's my card.

I stamped and colored the Poinsettia twice, then fussy cut and layered them together. This poinsettia is one of my favorite Christmas images from DRS Designs. The Merry Christmas is part of the Christmas Scene Greeting and was stamped with black ink. A strip of gold glitter CS was added along the edge of the die cut part. I then added a piece of green CS to match the leaves to the inside to show through the lattice. 

This was a fairly quick and easy card to create and I really like the way it turned out.  DRS Designs is having a special sale through December 3. You can purchase this gorgeous Poinsettia image for 20% off and there's free shipping on orders over $50. You can check out the details here.

Hope you are enjoying creating Christmas cards for your friends and family. These are my most favorite cards to make!

Thanks for stopping by. 

blessings,

shelia