16 years old already! J loves playing games and is very competitive whether on the computer, playing boardgames or cards. I refuse to play monopoly with him, but am happy to contest anything else. He will play anytime, anywhere with anyone who will keep still long enough. Games are his universe.
For his name, I covered card in wide adhesive packing tape then diecut letters which are lightly stacked. The silhouette is distressed by sanding and stacked. A selection of game pieces. sprinkled. The card base is top fold, and inside I made a stepper to hold a gift card as he loves getting interactive cards from me. So far I have managed to surprise him every time.
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A fishy story.
Background masked and colour blended/brushed with blue for the sea. The whale and little fishes stamped in grape ink.
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Clean and Simple. It was so tempting to add stuff, but I'm so glad I didn't; it only has a little smudge of blue & green colour behind the image. Tim Holtz stamp sentiment, unknown wheel, Distress inks, Stickles.
Texture and contrast, stencil & paste, tearing, and inky splatter, topped off with gems. Lovely fun.
Galentines, valentines, missing you - whatever your need it to be.
Mulberry paper torn in a rough heart shape, overlaid with diecut heart frame. The background is a pasted stencil with splatter. Gems echo the shape and a popped up punched sentiment.
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A valentine card for my husband, not mushy, simple & heartfelt.
I used pink & red DOxI's to blend areas where I wanted colour when I stamped. I stamped onto a post-it note and cut out for a mask, which covered the image so I could stencil some of the background, also DI. I coloured the eyes & lips with Copics and used Glossy Accents. For the heart I used Glossy Accents and sprinkled some frosty glitter on. This is one of my fave border dies, diecut from patt paper. White pen highlights.
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These gals are out to have Fun.
These cute Ewes are stamped and shaded with Copics, partial fussy cut with paperpieced balloons stamped on patt. paper. The 3D EF is We Are Memory Keepers, hugs stacked die is Simon Says Stamp. Designer paper cut in wedge. Also heart sequins for pretty. All from stash.
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No matter what the weather, if you feature a creature you can join us here: crittercrazy
So I knitted these teeny, tiny bootees in 3ply wool from a pattern for cardmaking by Sue Corbin that I've had for years. I used a Cuttlebug EF, yarn, ribbon, gems.
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A card to make someone smile I hope.
Stencilled background using DI's, cat stamped. Also stamped onto kraft card and fussy cut. The sentiment & paw is also stamped and cut out, edged with ink, set onto orange card. Stickles on eyes and white pen.
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The background card is sponged & colour blended with DOxI's, splattered with water, dried and diecut with a stamp frame (...), then subtly stamped with stars (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)and embossed with sparkly clear EP. Houses stamped and fussy cut from snippets of scrap patterned paper. Geese (TimHoltz) diecut and stacked from snippets of white card. Sentiment stamp is magazine freebie.
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Made for a NZ cardswap; theme is using the split-colour technique or spotlight technique. I chose the split colour. Check it out, lots of fun but really need a stamping tool of some kind. It gives a two-fer, because you have two pieces of card (white and coloured), stamp and clear emboss one, and stamp and colour the other, then slice them and swap them over to reassemble.
You really need a biggish stamp and probably best to keep it fairly simple. I screwed up my first attempt as it was too fussy and then I smudged it ... started over with this new stamp. SO new stamp, new technique.
This is a statement stamp and worked well. Colouring with Copics, gold heat embossed sentiment, gold pearls to embellish. I made a coordinating envelope.
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and the envelope:
A bit of ink blending with Distress Inks, spritzed with water and also silver Shimmer mist, layered onto brushed silver card. I stamped (I think it's Kaisercraft) the sentiment in two colours to match the background and layered with silver too. Diecut geese with a touch of Copics, and pearls to complete. I do love pearls.
This is a totally free card. A cardmaking friend sent me a couple of the gold diecut borders and some extra pieces of the gold card to play with. The strips are leftover patterned paper strips collected in my strippy bin over time. I diecut the sentiment from the extra bits and matted in black from the scrap bin. I think the monochrome green snippets make a great background for the bright gold borders.
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I made this for a NZ cardswap.
The background is made using DI's as watercolours, smooshing and blowing - it's the aurora! A diecut bear complete with cosy scarf, popped up. Shadows made with Copics. A bit of stamping and some bubbly embellys. And a peek inside...
