Category: Cards
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Date Night Card – Cheap! 'Cause No Patterned Paper
When you have kids (or needy pets) sometimes it is hard to get an evening out of the house as a couple. My dh and I have become accustomed to being home-bodies and are ok with it. Really. Like many couples, we try to schedule time together at home. For us, it is usually to…
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Just For You – Amethyst Monochromatic Card
CTMH Just For You Stamp Set’s Sentiment in Gypsy Ink Monochromatic cards are always fun to make because the color scheme has already been decided! I love mixing reinker colors with Create A Shade Pearl paint to make my own glitter mist. This fun technique was used to make some CTMH Amethyst mist to spritz…
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Simple Embossed Designs
Clean and Simple Card This card has three die cut elements that were cut from the same white cardstock from which the card base is made. It gets a big umph from the use of embossing powder and a little bling. Silhouette shapes cut from White Daisy cardstock After cutting out the shapes, I placed…
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Let It Snow! Shaker Card
Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge # 9 Today marks another Frosted Designs Tuesday Card Sketch Challenge! Thank you for stopping by to see my contribution as part of the design team. Please visit Frosted Designs to see the other designer’s cards and to play along for a chance to win a great prize! You have…
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Clear Peace Card – Happy New Year!
Stamp from CTMH Snow Flurries set Stamped with White Staz-On Ink This is my last post for 2011. Clear cards are always difficult for me to photograph. However, I wanted to share this card with you so please excuse any wonky angles and lighting. 🙂 CTMH Clear Card with Bracket Edge After stamping the front…
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Silhouette Cameo Snowflakes Card – No Patterned Paper!
Crystal Blue and White Cardstock The Silhouette Cameo cuts beautiful and intricate designs. I wanted to showcase the pretty cuts by making a clean and simple card. This card uses 2 colors of plain cardstock, one ink color, one stamp, and some ribbon and bling. Easy! CTMH Snow Flurries stamp used as a background stamp The…
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Frosted Designs Tuesday Card Sketch #8
Welcome to another Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge! This week Diana Gonzalez has a fun sketch to follow. You can see that I flipped the sketch 90 degrees to make the label area horizontal. I exchanged the birdcage for a Christmas tree. There are a lot of layers in Diana’s sketch and I kept with…
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Vintage Christmas Card
Just a quick card today. I made this tree awhile ago and have been waiting to use it on something with a vintage-y vibe. I love the overlay black damask transparency which looks like wallpaper to me. The tree was made with a paper edger punch. The post showing the original tree along with…
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Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge # 7
Silhouette Cameo Star of David Lace Pattern This great sketch from Diana Gonzalez seemed like a perfect one for me to try some new (to me) techniques using the Silhouette Cameo and software. I purchased the Star of David Lace Pattern through the Silhouette store and resized it to make three different background papers. I…
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Frosted Designs Card Sketch Challenge #6
Frosted Design’s Tuesday Card Sketch Challenge This gorgeous card sketch is from Jenny Evans for Frosted Designs. I love how versatile it is. It would look great as a horizontal card as well. All materials are from CTMH except the organdy flower, which is from Michaels. Card Sketch for November 22, 2011 by Jenny Evans…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 