Sympathy Cards

I started with this week's Mojo Monday sketch and SCS color challenge colors as my starting point for these cards. As my DH needed some sympathy cards for his office to send out, I thought I would make some and a couple for myself. These are a few of the variations I made. The larger picture above is the one I made for to submit for the Mojo Monday sketch.

The one with the gray is for the SCS color challenge (CC251 - SU Dusty Durango, Basic Gray Barely Banana). Click on the challenge name to see other cards made with the color combination. The image and sentiment panels were sponged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Black Soot.

After doing the Gray embossed panel, which was okay, I switched to the Soft Suede for the embossed panel, which I like better.

On those cards the image panel and the sentiment panel are sponged with the Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap.

All the images were stamped with Timber Brown StazOn and colored with Copic Ciao markers. The butterflies were trimmed closely and adhered with foam squares. I used a marker to make the dots on the image and sentiment panels.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Barely Banana, Basic Grey, Soft Suede, and Dusty Durango

Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms August Stamp of the Month

Ink: Timber Brown StazOn, Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Black Soot (on gray card) and Frayed Burlap (on Soft suede cards)

Tools: Cuttlebug, CB Textile embossing folder, Nestabilities Dies, Markers

Embellishments: Ribbon, Crystal Stickles, foam squares

With Gratitude Topiary

This card features a set I got from the Little Paper Shop. I like the long format of the image and it fit nicely with the long rectangle Nestabilities that I have and have not used a lot. I stamped the image with Brilliance Graphite black and then embossed it with clear embossing powder so I can keep the definition of the leaves when I colored them using Copic Ciao markers. The DP is from a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey Origins. It was nice to work with the bright colors. I kept this simple because I made 9 of them to share some with my husband for him to send out for his business. I just scallop punched the top and bottom edges of the DP on this one. Christmas is over but I hope to keep making cards throughout the year so I'm not so bogged down with them. I have some birthday cards to make also so hopefully I can get to those over the long New Year Holiday weekend.

Happy New Year

Cindy

CB Flourish Frame Christmas Card

Last minute Christmas cards. I have the whole year to make Christmas cards and I'm still scrambling to make more at the last minute. This one is one I made with the CB Flourish Frame Embossing Folder. I have loved cards made by my blogger sister and DIVA sister Dru made with the folder. Her blog is Garden of Dreams and her Warmest Wishes card is an example of her beautiful work using the folder. I was thrilled that my friend Sue had the folder and loaned it to me. This is the first card I came up using it. I plan on making a couple more before I bring the folder back to her. The sentiment is from Digments and I sized it and printed it out, trimmed it to fit and distressed it a little with Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Frayed Burlap. I stamped the pine bough stamp from my SU Holiday Hedgehog set and put it on a SU Brushed Gold rectangle. I added the gold bead stickers and ribbon. Very quick and easy. I really like the SU Handsome Hunter card stock. It looks so rich embossed with the gold accents.

Dachshund Card and Tile Gift

My neighbors have an adorable little Dacshund named Lucy. When I got this Lil Gal set from Cornish Heritage Farms, I just had to make them a card and tile with it. The tile is made with the alcohol inks on a glazed ceramic tile I got from Lowes. I stamped the dog, butterfly and "smile" (from SU Wonderful Words set) with Jet Black StazOn. I then filled in the butterfly with some pink Stickles. I added the rhinestone stickers and ribbon. The card is made with SU Purely Pomegranate paper, SU Whisper White, Sentiment from a Sentiment and Holly Stamp from Christmas Wishes set from Little Paper Shop. I Embossed the white with the CB snowflakes embossing folder and cut out the dog panel and pomegranate panel with the CB and Nestabilities dies. Added diamond Stickles to the snow flakes and burgundy Stickles to the holly berries. Of course, I had to add the rhinestone stickers to the sentiment panel. I love those things. I'm into bling this season. Can you tell?
Merry Christmas to all my friends. Hope you all have a warm and wonderful holiday with your family.

Axelent Christmas

I'm am amending my original post because I gave the original a makeover. I made a new horizontal panel. I discovered my small CB embossing folder so decided to use that instead. I also added Diamond Stickles. For the CB panel, I embossed white chard stock and used VersaMagic Agean Blue directly on the cardstock to give it color and added Stickles. The picture above is the new version and the smaller one to the left is the original version. See original of post below for info and let me know what you think of the change.

This is another great digital image and sentiment that I got from Whimsiedoodles I used paper from the Basic Grey Eskimo Kiss collection. I like the softness of the colors with the image and that they are nontraditional Christmas colors. The image is colored with Copic Markers and the blades are colored with a Gelly Roll Glitter pen. The image and sentiment are cut out with Nestabilities dies and little rhinestone stickers and a flower with a rhinestone in the center were added for embellishment. I have lots of Christmas items to make yet so I will try to get to them as I can. It is not like I didn't know Christmas was coming for the last 11 months. My New Year's resolution will be to make at least 2-3 Christmas cards a month. So I will have a nice stash by December. Well that, and to be more organized...oh yeah, and to lose weight. {{Sigh!}}

Figure Skater Gift Tag

Found a package of great die cut gift tags at a local wholesale warehouse club and just loved them. Naturally, when you are a crafter you just can't leave well enough alone. I added this Whimsiedoodle image and sentiment to the die cut skate tag. Sized her and printed her out and then colored her with Copic Ciao Markers. The Go Figure was cut out using a CB tag die. Sorry for the blurry picture but DH was helping wrap gifts (I know, he is a sweetheart) and already put the tag on the gift before I had a chance to "alter" it. So I had to alter it and take the picture while it was on the package. This is for my SIL the former figure skater and current figure skating choreographer. This is my first Whimsiedoodle digital design that I purchased. I was so happy to see they had a couple of different ice skating themed designs. I printed some more of the Ice Skater girl to make some note cards for SIL.

Gift Envelopes

I repurposed these large 9 x 6 (approximate size) envelopes into "gift envelopes." Our weekly Thursday night card group had our gift exchange dinner last night. I made these envelopes to hold my gifts to my friends, which were clear stamp sets I ordered from the Little Paper Shop. The images used on the envelope are from KLMdigitstamps.com. The sentiments are by Digiments. The patterned paper is Basic Grey and the cardstock is plain white and SU Purely Pomegranate. On the embossed envelopes, I ran the envelope through the Cuttlebug with the embossing folder placed on one side and then ran it through the other side. That left a gap in the middle, which is covered by the paper. These were a lot of fun and made a nice presentation. I also used a couple of different border punches that I got at Michael's. Naturally, stickles in a couple of colors was used to add a little sparkle.

KLM Digital Design Christmas Moose -- Gift Tag and Card

Well, I liked one of my D.I.V.A sistah's torn paper snow technique so much that I CASED it again and I used it again on a card this time as well as another gift tag. Thanks again for the inspiration Gina (Making and Musings). I made a couple of tags with the KLM Digital Designs Girl Elf and Boy Elf images on November 30 and wanted to try it for the KLM Digital Designs Christmas Moose image. I made the tag and card for my daughter. The moose was printed in a couple of different sizes and colored with Copic Ciao markers. The snow is made by tearing paper and layering it to look like snow. This is white dotted swiss paper that I found at Office Depot. It is actually report cover stock and was on clearance so I grabbed a couple of packs. This was before I got my Cuttlebug and dotted swiss embossing folder so I thought it was really cool at the time. I just came across it again and thought it would be great for the technique. I of course also added Diamond Stickles to the snow drifts as well as Frosted Lace Stickles for the snow that grounds the moose. The tag is a package of Avery tags that I got at Office Depot also. The card is made with SU Kraft and Garden Green cardstock. I also chose Digiments for the sentiments on both the tag and the card. I used Nestabilities dies to cut trim the sentiments. Nestabilities Labels Six is used on the card and Labels Seven for the tag. I also did some sponging with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap.

Silver and Gold On Angel's Wings

Made this card to go with the Angel tile I made as a gift for some friends of ours. I did the alcohol background technique called Polished stone on white glossy paper with Tim Holtz Adirondack metallic alcohol inks and then stamped the Angel from SU's On Angel's Wings set on it in Jet Black StazOn. The "Joy" is also from an SU Set. I used my new labels six Nestabilities dies to frame the image and Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder. I was out of gold after making 50 invitations and using gold gold cardstock two weeks ago and the embossed scrap was the only piece of gold I had left The CS is SU also Brushed Gold and Brushed Silver as well as Going Gray. I added gold bead stickers also. This look is is very different for me as I don't normally use Silver and gold so it was a little difficult.