100 Day Challenge - Day 2: Father’s Day Card

 Day 2 of my 100 Day Challenge finds me making a Father’s Day card. I popped up the red background and the top fish for some dimension.  The bear was stamped with Espresso Ink on brown cardstock. I used black embossing powder for the sentiment and the hat to make them pop. 

Materials used:

Ink: Espresso Exclusive Ink Pad, Black Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad, New England Ivy Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

Embossing: Black Embossing Powder, Versamark Ink Pad, Heat Tool

Stamps: Jack - Cardmaking, Relax

Cardstock: Candy Apple Cardstock, gray cardstock, Almond Cardstock, New England Ivy Cardstock, White Daisy Cardstock

Adhesive: Tombow Permanent Adhesive, 3D Foam Tape - I used some leftover pieces that I had.

Winged Masterpiece Card

 I find myself going back to our March Stamp of the Month: Winged Masterpiece after seeing all of the wonderful cards being created. Next year will mark the 50th wedding anniversary of a wonderful couple and I knew that I had some 

Gold Glitter Paper and some Princess Gold Embossing Powder and I could not wait to get started. I used the gold glitter paper as the bottom mat and then used the Spring Blossoms Embossing Folder to emboss a piece of white cardstock.  I used Versamark and the Princess Gold Embossing Powder to stamp the butterfly and the sentiment onto Vellum Paper. I glued the body and antenna of the butterfly down on top of the sentiment strip. (making sure to cut the strip a little bit longer to fold over the edges of the embossed mat to hide the glue - a lesson learned from past experiences.) Then hoping it was not going too overboard with the gold, added a few Gold Glitter Gems.

Materials Used:

Stamps: Winged Masterpiece

Paper: Vellum Paper, White Cardstock, White Cards & Envelopes, Gold Glitter Paper

Embossing: Princess Gold Embossing Powder, Versamark, heat tool

Embossing Folder: Spring Blossoms Embossing Folder

Adhesive: white glue, Tombow Permanent Adhesive

Embellishment: Gold Glitter Gems

Winged Masterpiece Take Two

This card was inspired by one that was created by Allisa Steinlicht. It also follows the parameters of The Three Room Studio Saturday Challenge (How lucky was that???). I used black cardstock as an outer mat, and white cardstock for the top mat. I ran a length of the Black Shimmer Trim across the middle of the card horizontally (I especially like how it already has adhesive on it). Then I got out my brand new Charcoal Shimmer Brush and created some shimmery splatters around the top of the card. The butterfly was created with black embossing powder and cut out afterwards. I glued down the body and the antennae to the top of the card and bent the wings back a bit for added dimension. I added a sentiment to the bottom right corner. I love the simplicity of this card!

Materials Used:

Stamps: Winged Masterpiece

Paper: White Daisy Cardstock, Black cardstock

Inks: Charcoal Shimmer Brush

Embossing: Versamark Ink Pad, Black Embossing Powder, heat tool

Adhesive: Tombow Permanent Adhesive, glue

Ribbon: Black Shimmer Trim

 

Winged Masterpiece

 I had a chance to experiment with a technique I saw demonstrated by Melissa Johnson using alcohol markers on vellum. I used gold embossing powder on the dragonfly stamp and  I was pleased with how it turned out. So now I had a dragonfly, but what to do with it. 

Then I saw the card challenge at Heart 2 Heart Challenges where the colour challenge this week is gold and I knew just what to do. I used Distressed Oxides to create the background and matted it on a second background of gold. All it needed then was a few embellishments and it was done. 

Materials Used:

Paper: Daisy White Cardstock, Gold Glitter Paper

Ink: Candied Apple Distress Oxide Ink, Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink, Fired Brick Distress Oxide

Adhesive: Tombow Permanent Adhesive,glue

Embossing Supplies: Princess Gold Embossing Powder, Versamark, heat tool

Embellishments: gems

Easter Card

 This weekend I worked on this card for the Freshly Made Challenge (FMC476) at https://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/ . 

Ingredients :

Inks: Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink, Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide Ink

Paper: Daisy White Cardstock, Eggplant Cardstock, Cards & Envelopes

Stamps: Bunny Trail

Embellishments: Pink Washi Tape, Silver Loose Sequins, Blue Belle Loose Sequins

Embossing: Versamark Ink Pad, White Embossing Powder

Thin Cuts: Heart Shaker Window

Adhesives: Tombow Permanent Adhesive, Heart Shaker Foam & Acetate

Thank You Card

This card is was made for the Double Trouble Challenge but I did not get to enter it in time. But I still love how the card turned out. 

Items used to make the card:

Layered Floral Background Thin Cut

3 different shades of pink cardstock

White Cards and Envelope Value Pack

Lace Border Thin Cut

White Super Fine Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Tombow Permanent Adhesive

Black and White Dots