Scalloped Border Punch Card

Hi Everyone!

Okay, okay I admit it. Over the past few days I have become addicted to challenges. I need to create a variety of cards and the challenges are inspiring me and giving me a jumping off point.

This week’s CAS-ual Friday challenge is to create a Clean and Simple project with scallops. This week’s Speedy Fox and Friends challenge is to create a card using a border punch. The card I created this morning fulfills the requirements of both of those challenges.

I selected one of my Martha Stewart scalloped border punches and punched strips of heart patterned paper and strips of white tag. I adhered the strips together to create my own scalloped patterned paper.



Martha Stewart border punch



strips I created from border punch

Then I took out my classic and scalloped heart Nestabilities. I used 3 sizes of the classic Nestabilities to cut hearts from the scalloped patterned paper. I used 3 sizes of the scalloped Nestabilities to cut scalloped hearts from some red tag.

I wanted to puff up my hearts a little so after I mounted the classic hearts onto the scalloped hearts I ran them through my “Tiny Bubbles” Cuttlebug embossing folder. Then I layered the hearts on top of each other.

I used one of Lawn Fawn’s Bannerific clear stamps to create a banner and a Hero Arts stamp to add text to the banner. I fussy cut the banner and then I used tiny red heart brads to attach the banner to the hearts. I mounted the hearts on a piece of heart patterned paper from SEI’s “With All My Heart” collection and then mounted that paper on a 4.25” x 5.5” blank card.

Here’s my card. If you study the hearts you will be able to see the scallops that were created from the Martha Stewart border punch!

Have a great night!

Carol

Card Positioning Systems Challenge 250

Hi Everyone!

I created today’s card for the CPS 250 challenge. For this challenge we were asked to create a card using this sketch.

First I cut a 4” x 5.25” piece of Martha Stewart’s yellow tag . Then I cut four 1.75” squares and rounded their corners with a Fiskars corner rounder punch. I adhered them to the yellow tag before I added some Heidi Grace chipboard letters from my stash. The 1.5” square in the center is embellished with a yellow silk flower. I added a brad in the center of the flower that coordinates perfectly with the chipboard letters.

I wrapped some baker’s twine around the top of the yellow tag and stamped text from a PaperTrey Ink stamp from their Everyday Button Bits clear stamp set at the bottom of the tag. I rounded the 4 corners of the tag before I adhered it to a 4.25” x 5.5’ card.

My card could be used for a Valentine's card or for any occasion.



Have a great night! 

Carol

Thinking of You Aunt Char

Hi Everyone!

Today I received the nicest note from my Aunt Char who is my godmother. She’s an amazing person. I am not sure how old she is, but I think she’s at least 85 years old. She lives in an assisted living residency and is still very independent. It was Aunt Char that I called for cooking advice over and over again when I was first married.

I decided to write back to her. I checked out the current challenges on the 365 Cards web site and decided I would make her a card based on the Day 316 challenge. This challenge is a Card Recipe and the ingredients are supposed to be

4.25” x 5.5” card

stripes

stickers (any amount)

stamped sentiment

one additional embellishment of your choosing

I have been working on valentines and I have red, pink and white papers strewn about my work area. I found 2 different sheets of striped paper in the stash and cut two 4” x 1.25” strips from each of them. I adhered them to a red 4.25” x 5.5” card. I added 3 heart stickers to one of the strips. I stamped a banner from Lawn Fawn’s “Bannerific” clear stamp set onto white tag and then stamped “thinking of you” from Lawn Fawn’s “Sophie’s Sentiments” onto the banner. I fussy cut the banner and adhered it to my card with a piece of foam tape. Before I added a red heart button to the card I threaded a piece of red and white baker’s twine through it and tied the twine into a bow. You’ll notice that the twine is also “striped”.

I followed the recipe exactly and here’s how my card turned out. I am pleased with it and think Aunt Char will like it too.

Have a great night!

Carol

One-Layer Wednesday Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Before I share today’s card I want to thank my online friend Shirley from cardartetc.blogspot.com for the incredibly hard work she did when she created a list of paper crafting challenges and posted them on her web site.  Not only did she create the list, she also keeps it updated.

Shirley creates the most amazing cards and shares them on her blog. She also writes the Impression Obsession blog. She’s a very busy person, but she still takes the time to comment on the blogs that she visits. Be sure to visit her blog and leave her a comment!

I learned about the One-Layer Wednesday challenge from Shirley’s blog. This week’s challenge is to use red and pink...and ONLY red and pink...on a white card base. Although I often read about challenges I rarely stop to try them, but I decided to give this one a try.

I pulled out my Color Box Cranberry and Razzberry pigment ink pads and some of my favorite stamps. The button jar, spools of thread and quilt patches stamps are from Great Impressions. The text stamp is from Stampabilities. I used some of my pink and red markers to color the stamped images.

Here’s my card. It was easy and fun to create and works for so many people in my life.

Have a great day!

Carol

All You Need Is Love...

Good Morning Everyone!

Welcome to the Denami Designs Valentine Blog Hop.  Here are the details for the hop.

When: The blog hop starts on January 8 at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until January 9, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).
Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

If you started at the beginning of the hop you have arrived here from Barbara Murphy's awesome blog at

http://kinsalecreations.blogspot.com/ . 

If you get lost along the way you can always start at the beginning of the blog at www.denami.blogspot.com

You are now at Carol Hartery's blog.  At Christmas time I gave my friends and family little treats that I embellished by stamping.  I decided to use that same technique to create some valentine treats.

Here's a package of Tic Tacs created for a valentine gift.

I used Denami Design's Decorative Love stamp, E124,  to embellish my paper.  I used a heart paper punch to punch a hole in the paper so that you could see the tic tacs and so that a red heart would show.  I also decorated around the top of the paper with some ribbon from my stash. 

Here's a candy bar decorated with Denami Design's Decorative Love stamp, E124 and Denami Design's Heart Flower Trio Circle stamp, J131. 

I fussy cut the Heart flower trio circle image before I adhered it to the paper I used to wrap around the candy bar. 

The post it holder I created is embellished with images from Denami Design's Decorative Love stamp, E124, Denami Design's Wavy Stem Trio stamp, F187, and Denami Design's Mini Heart stamp, A94.

I used thin poster Velcro to close the post it holder. 

Denami Design's Chickie with a Heart Balloon stamp, D112, is the perfect size for embellishing Hershey's miniature candy bars.

You could give some a baggie of decorated miniature candy bars or an assortment of the treats I have shown you.

Before you move along to Dana Seymour's fabulous blog at http://kismetartlife.blogspot.com please leave a comment on my blog.  If you love Denami Design's stamps you may want to become a follower of my blog because I often use them on my cards and other creations. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you enjoy the blog hop and hope you'll visit my blog again soon. 

Have a great day!
Carol

 

Buttons Thank You Card

Good Morning Everyone!

This week is certainly flying by.  Today I have a thank you card to share with you.  Marie gave me the dcwv 12" x 12" Crafty Stack for Christmas.  The prints on the papers in this stack are the perfect size for cardmaking.  Some of my favorites are ones with buttons, stitches, sewing machines, and scissors.  They will make the perfect background for the sewing theme cards I like to create. 

I love buttons.  You can read one of my buttons "stories" by clicking here.  I was beside myself when I found a buttons jar wooden rubber stamp from Great Impressions at Ink About It in Westford, MA not long ago.  I knew it would look great with the buttons papers in the Crafty Stack. 

I stamped the button jar onto a 1.75" square of white tag.  Then I layered the white tag onto a 2" square of blue tag and layered the blue tag onto a 2.25" square of yellow tag.  I wanted the image of the button jar to stand out and now it does.

"Thanks a Bunch" was stamped with a Judi Lynn wooden stamp.  It's one of my favorite thank you stamps.

Expect to see more sewing theme cards soon.

Have a great day!

Carol

Love Is in the Air

Hi Everyone!

I love the card that I am going to share with you today.  I started out by cutting some white tag so that it measured 4" by 5.25".  I used my cloud dies from PaperTrey Ink to cut out some clouds.  I adhered the  clouds to the white tag with removable adhesive.  Then I used a sea sponge to paint the tag baby blue.  When the paint was dry I pulled the clouds off of the tag.

I have some Sizzix dies for baby clothes.  I found some valentine paper scraps and used the dies to cut some clothes.  Then I strung a clothesline onto the tag and "hung" the clothes on the line with foam tape.  I added some blue masking tape "clothespins".  I used a wooden Savvy stamp to stamp the message on the card.  Then I adhered the tag to a blank card. 

Like I said, "I love this card".  Hope you like it too. 

Have a great night!
Carol