Showing posts with label How Many Candles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How Many Candles. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Happy Birthday Card with Ferro
I liked working with the Ferro so much for my dotted card that I had to try another pattern. This time I used the mini peacock feathers stencil from the Crafter's Workshop to make my Ferro background. Then I decided to try out some other techniques I've been admiring around the web. I cut out some vellum with my Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Die, then heat embossed in white some stamps from the Blissful Botanicals set on the back side of the vellum. I colored it in with my colored pencils and then stamped the sentiment from my Fiskars' How Many Candles set in Versafine Black Onyx ink then heat embossed that. I used my Xyron sticker maker on the vellum to attach it to my Ferro piece and then mounted all of it on a standard card base.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Happy Birthday Card - Inspired by A Busy Llittle Craftee Bee
Today's card I gave to my aunt for her recent birthday (I'm a little late in getting it posted). I took the inspiration for this card from one I saw posted on A Busy Little Craftee Bee that you can see here.
The picture isn't the greatest because it was dark when I took the picture and every attempt I made to compensate for that made the stamping practically disappear. I did not have the oh so cute flower used in the inspiration piece from A Busy Little Craftee Bee, so I used one in my stash from the Heidi Grace Designs' Paradise stamp set. I used Stampin' Up's So Saffron ink. In person, it looks quite nice combined with the Hemptique baker's twine and the sentiment from Fiskars' How Many Candles set stamped in Versafine Ink. I finished it up with rounding the bottom corner with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.
The picture isn't the greatest because it was dark when I took the picture and every attempt I made to compensate for that made the stamping practically disappear. I did not have the oh so cute flower used in the inspiration piece from A Busy Little Craftee Bee, so I used one in my stash from the Heidi Grace Designs' Paradise stamp set. I used Stampin' Up's So Saffron ink. In person, it looks quite nice combined with the Hemptique baker's twine and the sentiment from Fiskars' How Many Candles set stamped in Versafine Ink. I finished it up with rounding the bottom corner with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Go Fore It - Inspired by Snippets by Design
My brother-in-law's birthday was back in June, but his party was cancelled by an unplanned hospital visit. Thankfully he's fine, but we never did get around to celebrating his birthday. So when his wife, who is my best friend as well as sister-in-law, celebrated another birthday on October 1st, it seemed like perhaps it was long past due for giving him his gift and card. I knew he was getting golf clubs for his birthday, so I wanted to keep with the theme. My quest for a golf themed card began with a Google search (yes, a good Google search often is the solution to my inspiration needs) that took me to Snippets by Design where I found an adorable golf card.
I began by cutting a piece of white card stock down to 4 by 5.25. I then cut a mask from a piece of scratch paper in the shape of a hill using a French curve (because we all know I cannot draw a straight or a curved line). I used the top piece to mask off the "sky" and used Mowed Lawn Distress Ink to add the darker hill in the background. Then I masked off the hill and removed the sky mask. I colored in the sky with Broken China Distress Ink. I die cut a couple of clouds from some spare white card stock using the dies from Lawn Fawn's Sunny Skies set. For the rest, I decided to use the A Perfect Summer 6x6 pad from Echo Park. I cut one of the green papers down to 4 inches wide then cut in the curve using a French curve. Once I adhered it to the background, I finished trimming it to size. Then I drew an oval in my Silhouette software in my Cameo and cut it out of another piece of paper from that pad. I also hand cut the flag from another sheet from that paper pad. For the hole, I punched a hole from some scrap black paper using (believe it or not) my Cropodile big bite on the largest hole punch setting. For the golf ball, I used the smaller setting on some scrap white paper. I cut a long, thin strip from the black scrap paper and cut it down to a height that worked for the card. Then it was just a matter of taping it all together, cutting off any excess and then mounting it to the background.
For the sentiment, I used the Happy Birthday from a Fiskars set called How Many Candles stamped with Versafine Ink. For the inside, which I completely forgot to take a picture, I stamped the sentiment "Go fore it!" using Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABCs. I love that I can customize the sentiment with those stamps and I love how this card turned out. Too cute and just perfect for the occasion.
I began by cutting a piece of white card stock down to 4 by 5.25. I then cut a mask from a piece of scratch paper in the shape of a hill using a French curve (because we all know I cannot draw a straight or a curved line). I used the top piece to mask off the "sky" and used Mowed Lawn Distress Ink to add the darker hill in the background. Then I masked off the hill and removed the sky mask. I colored in the sky with Broken China Distress Ink. I die cut a couple of clouds from some spare white card stock using the dies from Lawn Fawn's Sunny Skies set. For the rest, I decided to use the A Perfect Summer 6x6 pad from Echo Park. I cut one of the green papers down to 4 inches wide then cut in the curve using a French curve. Once I adhered it to the background, I finished trimming it to size. Then I drew an oval in my Silhouette software in my Cameo and cut it out of another piece of paper from that pad. I also hand cut the flag from another sheet from that paper pad. For the hole, I punched a hole from some scrap black paper using (believe it or not) my Cropodile big bite on the largest hole punch setting. For the golf ball, I used the smaller setting on some scrap white paper. I cut a long, thin strip from the black scrap paper and cut it down to a height that worked for the card. Then it was just a matter of taping it all together, cutting off any excess and then mounting it to the background.
For the sentiment, I used the Happy Birthday from a Fiskars set called How Many Candles stamped with Versafine Ink. For the inside, which I completely forgot to take a picture, I stamped the sentiment "Go fore it!" using Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABCs. I love that I can customize the sentiment with those stamps and I love how this card turned out. Too cute and just perfect for the occasion.
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