Wavy Thank You

 Good morning! I have been a little absent over the last few months but I'm back on a roll with posting.

My post today is showcasing a simple thank you card that is quick and easy to design making it a great card for batch making.

I used products from CutCardstock for the design also using some items from my stash.

It started its life as an A2 Classic Crest Cardbase, Covered with Stardream Metallic Lagoon Cardstock and a layer of Neenah Solar White Cardstock. 

The top layer was die cut with a Crafter's Companion Edgeable die giving me the floral wave and the negative Thank You cut in to it.

The base was then matted with Lagoon, followed by the Neenah Solar White with cut 2/8th in smaller than the last. Finally my Topper was adhered in place.

Using Diamond Press Flower Dies I diecut and layered a flower and added this to the card

Finally some color-coordinated gems were glued in place for added sparkle.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope my card has peaked your interest and given you inspiration!

CAS Boutique Cards

Good Morning! I'm having a lazy day today, the heat is just too much to get busy!

My post today is all about Clean and Simple Boutique Cards - the third course in my Altenew Educator Certification Program. I have made 3 cards that are all CAS:

My first card was from lesson one simple styling, I've covered this by doing a single rose in the center of my card and a very simple sentiment:

I used Altenew's Painted Rose stamp set, stamping the layers of the rose with Rose Quartz, Puffy Heart and Purple Wine inks from the Rose Petal Mini Cube Set. I stamped the leaves with Frayed Leaf and then loosely drew the outline of them with a Faber Castell Pitt pen. Lastly I used a sentiment from Altenew Heartfelt Sentiments and stamped it with jet black ink.

 For my next card I used lesson 2 - Stamped backgrounds:

For this card I used one of the stamps from Wild Fern Stamp Set and stamped it multiple times on my card in  Just Green Ink. I then mixed some watercolor marker ink with water and, using a paint brush, made splatters cover the card front.

The sentiment, again from the Wild fern Stamp Set, was stamped in versamark ink and I heat embossed this with white embossing powder onto a strip of black card. This was then adhered on to my card.

My last card was my favorite technique and one I wasn't aware of. I added foiling:

This is a great technique if you don't have alternate ways of foiling. I do have a foil press but can't use that with my stamps! 

I used Altenew's Dahlia Blossoms, picked one of the layers of both the smaller and large flower and stamped this in Buttercream Ink. Then came the magic. I used my antistatic bag across my card and stamped the outline of the flowers with Stayzon ink. I heat embossed this with clear embossing powder. I had to repeat this step 3 times to get a thick enough outline for the foil to stick to. Following the embossing I laid Minc foil over the images and sent it through a laminator which had been heating up for a while. Once my card had cooled I removed the foil sheet and was left with a gorgeous rose pink foiled outline on my dahlias.

I went on to stamp the leaves from the Dahlia stamp set and some more from Altenew's beautiful Day stamp set. 

As I loved the foiling so much I had to do more! I chose a sentiment die from my stash. I die cut this in both black and white. I covered the white version in Stayzon ink and dipped it into my embossing ink. Again I repeated this 2 more times then covered it with foil and ran it through my laminator and it worked! I adhered this to the black diecut, slightly offsetting it so I had a black shadow to my foiled sentiment. This was then glued to my card.

This was my favorite lesson from the whole Clean and Simple Boutique Card course and I will be using frequently!!

Thanks for checking out my post - I hope it gave you some inspiration and if you like what you see please leave me some love in the comment section

Thank You medical Staff

Good afternoon! It's been a busy day but I've got 5 minutes to get to my computer and blog!

today's make is using the cute Brentwood Owl from Jessica Lynn Original, he's all dressed up for his rounds in the hospital:

What I Did:
Brentwood and his matching sentiment were resized and printed onto stamping card. I then cut him out using my Scan n Cut and colored him with alcohol markers.
I then matted an 8x8in card base with blue card stock. I then printed and cut the heart, arranged this onto my card.
Brentwood was the adhered using foam squares to give dimension. I matted the sentiment with red and blue cardstock and using foam squares assed this to the card.

What I Used:
Digital stamp and sentiment: Jessica Lynn Original - Brentwood Owl Dr. Thank You
Stamping Card: X-press It
Alcohol Markers: Copic
Card Base: Craft UK Card Blanks
Blue and Red Cardstock: Core'Dinations Premium
Medical Heart: Iconspng
Foam Squares: from my stash
Blue: Zipdry

Jessica Lynn Originals have both digital and clear stamps, They have a fantastic range including a whole range of Brentwood - He sure has fun!

Thank You Blocks!

Good Morning and welcome March! We have had sunshine over the weekend with some almost spring like weather - lets hope it continues!

Challenge 9 starts over at Jan's Digital Stamps Challenge today and my inspiration is using one of her new collections, Block Sentiments. This is a great set with a number of sentiments all available in pre-colored bright or pastel and line art. My card is using the pastel pre-colored thank you:

What I Did:

I resized and printed 2 copies of the image, fussy cut one of them and cut alternate letters from the other one. I then cut a panel from the front of an 8x8in card base. I discarded this just keeping the top part (still attached to the card) and 2in from the bottom, making sure my Thank You image would fit between these. I matted both of these with blue card and coordinating design paper. I then applied glue to the top and bottom of my image, First adhering it to the bottom section of the card front and then adding it to the remaining top section of the card.
I realized at this point that the image wasn't sturdy enough to hold up so I added some of the cut away cardstock to the back of the Thank You to strengthen it. I added the letters I had cut individually on top of the ones on the image with foam pads to add further dimension.
To finish the card I added the same blue card to the inside so it gave contrast where it showed through either side of the image.

What I Used:
Jan Mahew Image: Block Sentiments Thank You
White printing card: Core'Dinations
White Card Base: Craft UK
Blue cardstock: Core'Dinations
Design Paper: Trim Crafts

The challenge runs for 2 weeks starting today, It is always Anything goes so if you make any crafts come and join us!

Thanks for stopping by.

Basket of Thanks

Good afternoon from a very wet Michigan. The weather is all over the place, over the past 2 weeks we have had freezing temps down at 14f, snow, rain, wind and sunshine. No one knows how to dress!

A couple of weeks ago Kev and I watched Susan Tierney Cockburn make some stunning dies with her new release and I was hooked. I bought the collection and couldn't wait to play.

The dies are being marketed by Tonic Studios they have arrived and are so easy to use. The card I am showing today is using the gathering basket and lacecap hydrangea dies:

The flowers are all on plates and you cut a bunch of them together thank goodness! I started with a lilac piece of card stock. I die cut the basket from Kraft card then embossed it to get the detail. I used a copper gilding wax to highlight the detail and give it some dimension. I then shaped this by curling it slightly, applied glue just to the edges and held in place on my card until it held.

The flowers have a base, I shaped this using a ball tool and adhered 2 of them on top of each other on my card to give strength for my flowers. As I die cut the flowers I colored them through the dies before releasing them. I then shaped them with a ball tool and starting with the tiny ones glued each individual flower in place. Yes it takes patience but is kind of peaceful and cathartic. Once I'd built the flowers I moved on to the leaves. These were cut from white card and colored using copic markers. I then added veins to the leaves using a small stylus and oil pastels. I glued these under the flowers. I added tiny drops of  nuvo drops into the middle of each flower. I did have a few extra flowers so these were just scattered on the card. 

I matted my 5x7 in  card base with a dark purple and cut a thank you sentiment from the same card. I adhered my topper to the base and the sentiment on to the finished design. 

These dies sold out extremely quickly but I believe they will be back in stock tomorrow. Also If you want inspiration Susan has a Facebook group that you can join Susan's Garden Club.

Thank you for stopping by and as always if you like what you see please leave a comment 

A Very Daisy Thank You

Good morning! from a warm sunny Michigan - yes at last the weather is turning and we are enjoying spring.

Today's card is using a technique that has been around for a while now but this is my first attempt at it. Stamping my background using SumMore Fun's Oops a Daisy stamp set  I made an eclipse card:

I stamped one of the daisies multiple times in different orientations then colored them with alcohol markers. I then stamped the tiny swirl which is a stamp from the Curly Cute stamp set.

I then took my alpha dies and cut the words THANK YOU across the images.

I matted a white card base with yellow card and added the negative part of my stamped background.

Using pop dots I replaced the letters letting the yellow card show through.

I then replaced the center of the O and A lining it up with the images. A simple card to make but I love the effect.

Don't forget about our challenge where you can win win a gift certificate to SumMore Fun? Oh and the prize doubles if you use stamps from  the store! 

Want some discount too? use the code SHARON10 at check out and I will save you 10%

 Check out the mood board to use this time round:

Pop on over to the SumMore Fun Blog for details, our few rules and to link your project.

Thank you for stopping by, If you are looking for more inspiration check out my teamies cards on the Blog, FaceBook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Thanks to You

Good afternoon, The sunny weather continues but the heat has gone so it's just nice to get out and enjoy the fall.

Today's post is the start of a collection of thank you cards I was asked to make and will be showcasing here over the next few days. I decided to do a couple of these gender generic as I didn't have direction of who they were for. Today's card is one of those:

I used the cd from Joanna Sheen's Tom Mielko project book for the images and back ground design paper. Printing them onto Neenah cardstock. 

I matted my white card base with a royal blue cardstock along with the image. I use some of the design paper to print a sentiment on and again matted this with the blue card.

I assembled the card lining up my image to the left of the base so I could slip the sentiment along side of it.

A few enamel dots were all the embellishment that was needed.

I gorgeous sunset, some waves and just you on the beach how peaceful!

Thanks for stopping by and if you like what you see please let me know in the comments section.