HOME-FLORAL THANK YOU-CARDS

Hi Everyone! This is Holly and I would like to share a couple cards I made using NEW stamp sets from Quietfire Design, HOME, and FLORAL THANK YOU.

This thank you card is 1 1/4" squares, cut from a quarter sheet of glossy card stock, that was heat embossed with RANGER QUEEN'S GOLD embossing powder, then inked with RANGER DISTRESS INKS  The stamps were placed randomly and the inks were sponged on randomly.

Makes it all so easy!

The squares were adhered to a base that had been embossed with TIM HOLTZ EMBOSSING FOLDER- RAYS AND RETRO CIRCLES, followed by a stamped and trimmed Thank You, using 3D FOAM SQUARES. 

 

This card is the same idea, just uses different shapes and colours, the HOME-CONGRATULATIONS stamp set and SPELLBINDERS M-BOSSIBILITIES SO TRENDY for embossing the base mat.

Thank you for looking today and I hope you'll try this 'grid' type design.

 

Resist - Friends Are Those & A Smile

I had an epiphany before leaving the house for Stampede today... came home and created the 2nd card. Just goes to show "What a difference a day makes" saying is just so true... I say below, I didn't want to use dark colors so veered away from some of Holly's technique. One tracked mind... The epiphany was I could use light stamping ink for my text and then not have to use dark colors to cover it up. DUH!!! So the 2nd card is below.

1st card: "Resist - Friends are Those"
And it's me again, Yogi. Holly did two techniques this month. For the resist technique she stamped several times to create background text, dried, then stamped with a solid image stamp and clear embossed (that was the resist part), then used a direct to paper technique with a dark blue to make the text/resist areas stand out and to hide the rest of the text. I tried the technique several times and although it worked, I couldn't get my head around using dark colors, so they landed in my "will use one day pile". I really needed light colors for a change.

But I did use a resist technique of words, stamping the "Friends" word with Perfect Medium and then clear embossing them. Sponging with Distress "Mustard Seed" & "Picked Raspberry". Stamped the quote "Friends Are Those" with Versafine Black Onyx and clear embossed, die cut with Spellbinders circle set and sponged the edges with "Dried Marigold" & the raspberry. Layered it on to another circle die cut from textured cardstock, then onto card front.

I love the 2nd technique Holly used, creating texture on the copper piece. First you adhere some copper tape to white cardstock, run it through an embossing machine with an embossing folder several times - I used Spellbinder's m'bossibilities "Letters & Numbers" folder. Then flip it over and remove the embossing using a bone folder. What's left is TEXTURE. Now you could wipe on some rub ons to add depth in the crevices, but again,. I wanted something light... so left it alone. Die cut with Sizzix Tim's Movers a & Shapers die "Friends".

This card was very easy and quick to make, hope you give it a try.
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2nd card: "Resist - Digi Flower - A Smile"

I used my electronic cutter to cut a flower (free digi cut flower) without the hole, sizing it to fit my quote and using it as a mask. Stamped the "A Smile"  using Perfect Medium, clear embossed and adhered my mask over the stamping. Then stamped the same quote all over my card using Distress "Pumice Stone".

Created a stencil, with various sizes of the same cut flower, adding a border and "welding" everything together, adding various sized holes in the centers of each flower, then cutting it out with my electronic cutter. Placed over my card and sponged Distress "Mustard Seed" very heavily all over, then went in with "Shabby Shutters" & "Spiced Marmalade", then used the edge of my stencil to sponge "Chipped Sapphire around the edges.

Used the original flower cut out (stencil part) to sponge "Broken China" around the whole quote flower, then went in with some "Picked Raspberry".

Added the green ribbon and bow (Quietifre Design "Solid 2 tone Olive/Celery)

As a final touch added various sizes of a pink toned rhinestones.

This card makes me smile - BIG GRIN
And you should see what the flower background stencil looks like now - it's gorgeous and will be a background for something soon...
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Sometimes, said Pooh Card

Hello blog friends, Terre here with a fabulous card, I really like this one! I just love this stamp and you can find it right here at Quietfire Designs, "Sometimes, said Pooh" when ever I read this sentiment it just makes me smile!

I used Spellbinders Framed Labels One M-Bossabilities,  S4-328 Foliage and S4-161 Labels One die template to create my card front.

I airbrushed a hint of mauve, purple and gray to the card front then added some DecoArts Metallic Lustre in Bronze, Black and Champagne and blended it over the embossed areas, once the blended was complete I took my Tsukineko Memento Black ink pad and lightly ran it over the embossed areas to highlight it in black.

I stamped my sentiment then die cut it out using the Labels One die template and popped it up using some foam squares. I then adhered it to the front of my card using Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry. I hope you have enjoyed my blog post tonight, sorry it was so late! Crafty Smiles Terre