LARGE DIE CUT SUNFLOWER

When looking through Pinterest for ideas, I found a wonderful card made by Debbie Mageed.  She had made a 6" square card using this die set.  I rarely make square cards so I made it "my own" by changing to a standard A2 card.  I used the same papers but made some alterations. I would have never thought to use the pretty blue print from the SU Hydrangea Hill with the sunflower but I really love the color combination.

Tomorrow will be September 1st!  School has started and I'm afraid we will soon be seeing the signs of Autumn.........and you know what come next after Autumn!!!   Thank you for stopping by today!

 

SUNFLOWER DESIGNER PAPER - 2 CARDS

 

When you find a great designer paper, you don't need much else to make a CAS card.  This sunflower design came from a 6 x 6 paper pad.  Thankfully there were several sheets of it.  I can't remember excactly, but I think the two strips of the paper I used above were 2" x 4".  I stamped the sentiment between them with SU Cajun Craze ink.

For the second card I cut a piece 4" x 4" and then cut it diagonally. One piece was placed at the top and the other at the bottom leaving the white space between.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I lined both envelopes with the matching sunflower paper.

Come back tomorrow for another Sunflower card............but one that is really beautiful.

TRI-FOLD CARD WITH VELLUM

This is the final card we made at our second get together.  I had some trifold cards that I had purchased in Des Moines and thought that my friends might like to see what pretty cards can be made using colored vellum behind the pre-cut "window." We added the vellum inside to the middle of the three sections.  The white flowers are from a Cuttlebug die.  I die cut the little blue flower twice and layered them.  Leaves were also die cut.  "Wishing You" was heat embossed with gold powder.

All together I had made up 11 kits for us to work on.  There is a total of 15 cards from those 11 kits.  One card has not been posted in this series because it was one that I had shown previously.

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ONE MORE HAND-PENNED CARD

For this card we matted the designer paper first before adding it to the card base.  The front of my card is a little different because I had only cut two Rocco Rose pieces to mount the die cut piece which was attached to the white rectangle.  I had a scrap of the Rocco Rose handy so I just "flagged" the end of it and put it under the die cut section.

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HAND-PENNED DESIGNER PAPER

Today's card turned into an unplanned "fancy fold" of my own "design".   The card base is SU Seaside Spray.  I added a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of the Hand-Penned dsp.  A white piece of card stock was cut with one of my dies and then sponged lightly around the edges with the Seaside Spray ink.  the die cut is from the Hand-Penned bundle.  The rest of the story is below.............

It was my intention to just place a white 4" x 5 1/4" piece of white card stock on the inside.  I usually keep a supply of pieces that size ready available to grab so I pulled one out. After I adhered it, I discovered that it was actually 2 pieces and they were attached at the top.  So I made the most of it.  I stamped the design on the front of it with the cute little butterfly and then stamped my sentiment on the inside of the unplanned fun fold.  

It turned out to be a great save and my friends really liked the card because I had the kits made up to do the same thing.

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CRUSHING ON CARD STOCK - Day 4

Although I haven't made cards from the Day 2 and Day 3 classes, today was using stencils and I haven't pulled mine out in a very long time.  This was great incentive to do just that.  

The stencil I used for this project is "Dancing Sprigs" from "A Colorful Life Designs".  I started with  a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of light celery piece of card stock.  After I taped the stencil of the top, I used a blending brush to swirl Garden Green ink over the entire piece.   There was an area near the edge that had smudged when the stencil moved slightly so I trimmed it down to 3 3/4" x 5".  The stenciled piece was added to a 4" x 5 1/4" Garden Green mat.  The entire piece was added to the card base with foam squares.

When I stenciled the piece I had no idea what I was going to use it for but once the pieces were put together, I thought it had a rather calming feeling so I decided to add the sentiment, matted and added with foam dimensions.

This is another stenciled design I made this morning. When I did the inking through the stencil, I didn't realize that the paper I had under the green card stock was on a damp area on my table so the ink did bleed a little.  The bottom area was the worst, so I used another technique that I hadn't used in a long time.  I tore the piece diagonally.  I will add it to a celery card base but still have no idea what is going to go into the "blank" area.  ANY SUGGESTIONS?

I started with a ivory piece of card stock and stenciled the Taylored Expressions design with Crumb Cake ink.  Then I decided it would be fun to heat emboss it so I lined up the stencil again and added Versa Mark ink over the entire design and heat embossed with clear powder. Not sure how I will use the piece as yet.

 This is such a pretty stencil from Memory Box.  Since it is such a large design it fills the entire 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of card stock.  I will have to mat it and then use a larger card for the base.  I love the design, but it's my least favorite piece that I did today.

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STAMPIN' UP! - Mosaic Mood designer paper

There was no stamping needed for this card.  We used a strip of the paper with the mosaic leaves.  I fussy cut some of the flowers and butterflies from another sheet.  This card went together very quickly!

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