Happy Sunday with a Couple of Cards

Hell Crafty Friends!!!

I am popping in with a couple of cards for some challenges. I am back to work and don't have a ton of time to craft any more. I liked summer hours better!

My first card I used Freshly Made Sketches #752 as my inspiration.

Below is the sketch that inspired this card:

I had fun using the Ornamental Branch die and the Block Print Winter Cardinal dies from Birch Press Design and a strip sentiment from Taylored Expressions.

My embossed background is from my stash. I have no idea who created it!!

I have to admit that I love making sympathy cards. I am not sure why.

My second card I used TWO challenges to inspire my card. The first is CAS on Friday. Challenge #342 is all about the SEA. I also used a sketch from Sunday Stamps.

I changed it up a little from the posted sketch. I didn't put the sentiment in the same place.

Instead of the oval, I used the anchor. The stamped images are from Pink and Main? I am not sure. They were in my extras!!

The embossed background was created with an embossing folder from Spellbinders.

Well, that is all from me today. I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora

Simon Says Stamp! Stamptember Strike Up the Fun Day 3

Hello Crafty Friends!

It is DAY THREE of Stamptember over at Simon Says Stamp! I am posting my last card I created using the Strike Up the Fun stamp set. This card is my favorite of all the cards I made with this stamp set.

I started off the card by stamping and coloring in a cupcake from the stamp set. I cut it out and set it aside as I wasn't sure what I wanted to  use for my background. I was playing around with the Simon Says Stamp! Nested Domed Arches Frames that I had used to cut colored cardstock that would coordinate with my cupcake. I started layering the different sized frames and the frame negatives on my desk for fun. I decided that I would use them to make a pattern on my white card base.

Once all the arches were adhered the way I wanted, I needed something plain to make my cupcake stand out. I die cut a square and glued it to the card front on a diagonal. 

I stamped the sentiment, use foam adhesive to make the cupcake POP, randomly adhered some yellow sequins from my stash around the cupcake and my card was done. I LOVE how it came out. 

That is all from me today. Please hop on over to Simon Says Stamp! to see what the stamp of the day is today and to see the Stamptember release of SSS products. I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora

Stamptember with Simon Says Stamp! Strike Up the Fun!!!

Happy Stamptember Day Two Crafty Friends!!

I am popping in today with two additional projects that I created using the new Simon Says Stamp! Strike Up the Fun stamp set. 

For my first card, I started off by stamping a teal piece of cardstock with some of the small images in the Strike Up the Fun stamp set. I distressed the edges of the cardstock and adhered it to an A2, top folding, white card base.

I then stamped three different cupcakes from the set, using a mask to cluster the images together, and colored my cakes in with Copic Markers. I cut them out and used foam adhesive to adhere the cupcakes onto my card front to give them some dimension. I put some festive "sprinkles" on the top of each using a combination of Stickles and Nuvo Drops.

I stamped a sentiment from the Strike Up the Fun stamp set and cut it into a rectangle. I dragged a black ink pad along the edges so the sentiment would pop off the card. My last step was to adhere some teal sprinkles randomly across the card.

My second card is a simple card. I decided to use only one cupcake on the card and use a repeated sentiment for a different look.

I used the Simon Says Stamp! Shimmering Starfall embossing folder on white cardstock and ink blended Morning Pawsitively Saturated Ink over the top for my blue panel.

I wanted the cupcake to be the star of the show so the background is a light pink A2, top folding card base.

Simon Says Stamp Moonflower sequins were randomly adhered to my card for the finishing touch.

To kick off Stamptember, I have a code for my crafty friends to use to get something free with purchase with your Simon Says Stamp order!! Who doesn't love something free?

That is all from me today. I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora

STAMPTEMBER with the Simon Says Stamp! Strike Up the Fun

Happy Stamptember Crafty Friends!!

I am so excited to be included in this years September celebration with Simon Says Stamp! I was generously given the Simon Says Stamp! stamp set Strike Up the Fun stamp set to use and today I am showcasing three cards I created using this set. 

For my first card, I started off by embossing a piece of white cardstock with the Simon Says Stamp! Shimmering Starfall embossing folder. I adhered my embossed panel to an A2, white card front.

I then die cut three arches using the  Simon Says Stamp! Nested Domed Arches Frames from three different colors of cardstock. I used the negative portion of the arches and adhered them over the white card front.

Next, I stamped, colored and cut images from the Strike Up the Fun stamp set and used foam tape to pop them up on the card front. I stamped a sentiment from the same set and glued Simon Says Stamp Moonflower sequins across the arches to complete my card.

My next two cards are very similar. I used a cupcake and some of the smaller stamps from the Strike Up the Fun set to create a simple background. I cut the panel into two pieces-one being larger than the other. I adhered the larger panel onto a top folding, A2, white card base. 

I adhered a smaller panel of white cardstock that had been embossed with Simon Says Stamp! Dotted Diamond embossing folder. I then glued a strip of silver cardstock to the front between the white and stamped paper.

I die cut my sentiment four times using the CZ Design for Simon Says Stamp! Let's Celebrate die. Three were die cut from white cardstock and one from metallic blue. I adhered all together and glued to the front of my card.

I stamped and cut out some candles from the Strike Up the Fun stamp set and used Stickles in blue and diamond to color in the image. I adhered it on my card front and randomly glued sequins around the sentiment.

My second card I created in a similar way but using small piece of stamped paper and the larger white, embossed cardstock as my background.

Instead of using a silver strip of paper, I adhered a scrap of pattern paper between the stamped and embossed paper.

I used the CZ Design sentiment die but colored in the last layer and covered it with a clear sparkle pen.

I stamped the cupcake and three sparklers and used Copic Markers to color the images in. I then cut the images out and adhered them to my card front. This was a super fun way to get more than one card using paper I stamped myself.

Below are both the cards side by side:

That is all from me today. Please hop on over to Simon Says Stamp! see all the new goodies!! Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora

Happy Saturday with a Card

Hey Crafty Friends!!

I am just popping in with a card that I created for a couple of challenges. I had to make a Good Luck for a gym instructor that is leaving to start on her own. 

 I started off my card by using the stencil from Kristina Werner by Concord & 9th-Petal Pop Stencil Pack. I used the colors for the Color Hues Challenge-orange and yellow-but I was too late to enter this into this card into that challenge.

I used a sentiment from SSS Clover Shaker Sentiments. The die cut flower, square and rick rack is from Concord and 9th's Petal Pop Dies.

I am entering this into the following challenges: Just Us Girls #838-Anything Goes with Stencils, Beautiful Blossoms #44-Anything Goes, The Tic Tac Toe Challenge #300-bottom row-die cut punch, pattern paper and bright colors, and Simon Says Stamp! Wednesday Challenge-Anything Goes.

 

Well that is all from me today. I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

Nora