So I decided to post a non card Halloween greeting. I was looking for a Halloween craft to do with my granddaughter and saw these Halloween blocks at a craft show. They looked super easy so I thought what the heck a 6 year old can do this along with a little help from my Cricut for the letters.
The blocks are just scrap 2 x 4's that I had my husband cut into 5" pieces. We painted the sides with Black acrylic paint and then picked out some printed Halloween card stock and cut it to fit. Ours were cut 3.5 x 5 but all 2 x 4's are different and not true 2x4 so cut your papers according to your block size. We then went to my Cricut and using the Plantain School cartridge we cut out 3" letters to fit on the block. We liked the way the blocks with the O's on them looked sideways but you could place them upright. These sit on our fireplace mantles along with some wooden pumpkins and wooden candy corns for decoration. Whats also cool about these is that you can reverse them for Christmas.
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Same blocks .... different season! Pretty cool huh? My granddaughter loved making these and we just might make a few more for gifts. I was thinking of using 4 blocks instead and have 1 side read FALL and the other Noel.
Well that's my little non card greeting. Just wanted to share!
HAPPY CARDING!
Another day...another Christmas! This stamp is certainly getting a work out! Then again it could because I only brought 3 stamps with me to the cabin. LOL This one I really don't like much and I will be re-doing it in the future. I tried to make a scallop on the side using a salt shaker for the template and a razor knife to cut it. First it's way too large of a scallop and secondly cutting with a razor knife stinks! Or maybe I just stink at using a razor knife which is definitely possible.
To hide all my bloops when I cut the scallops I added little dashes to them. Not my best idea for sure and then I had made a slight score, in order to keep scallops even, that I thought I could press out but that failed too. Now looking at it I guess I should have also dashed the banner so it stands out more but........
This card is definitely a would of, should of, could of! LOL. I guess we can't get it right all of the time and I just thought I'd share my mistakes. We all make them right?
I think I'm going to go through my granddaughters decorative scissors and grab a few for the cabin so I have a few more options. She'll never miss them!
Back to the drawing board........lets see what I want to do next. Until then..........................
HAPPY CARDING!
Well I mentioned in my post "Simply Christmas" that I was going to try using that stamp on different color cardstock and with silver or gold ink. So down to my craft room I went, dug out paper, ink and emboss powders. I just so happened to have silver and gold powders and decided to put it over silver or gold ink. First let me say that just using the silver or gold on the darker cardstock alone looked great. I did the gold both on the black and the red cardstock and used elegant gold embossing powder and on the green paper I used the silver ink and embossing powder.
Ok this pic I used a flash
And this one had no flash
What is with and taking pictures. I swear I never get the result I want. As usual these card fronts look waaayyyy better in real life. Guess you'll just have to take my word for it. Go ahead an give these a try with a similar stamp for a really elegant looking card. I especially love the gold on the black. can't wait to put these cards together.
Well tanks for checking back. I just wanted to show the results using different ink and colored paper.
HAPPY CARDING!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhh.....I think I'm really getting into the Christmas season and Halloween isn't even here yet! Plus I still need to make 3 more Halloween Cards! I think I'll work on those this weekend. But for now it's another Christmas card and this one is sooooo darn simple!
I used a stamp by Our Daily Bread called Christmas Tree Collage. It's a cling stamp so very easy to position.
The card base is a basic 4.25" x 11" white cardstock 110# Recollection brand, scored at 5.5". I then matted with a piece of cherry red cardstock 4 1/8" x 5 3/8". Next was white card measuring 4" x 5 1/4" . Centering the stamp so that there is a white border I stamped using color box black ink and then covered it with clear embossing powder. The ornaments are colored in with a glitter gel pen. Organza ribbon with a clear rhinestone finishes it off. This card seriously only took like 8 minutes to make. Imagine how many of these you could whip up in an afternoon! As usual my inside is not stamped since I tend to like to write something personal to each person receiving my cards. Well I know if I need just a few extra cards I'll be making these. Maybe change up the mat color to blue or green and color ornaments to match or maybe stamp the image in red or green or gold and leave the ornaments clear with glossy accents. Ohhhhh....another idea would be to stamp silver or gold on Red, Green or Black cardstock. I bet that would look pretty elegant. Maybe I'll try that this afternoon.
Hope you have a wonderful day........................
HAPPY CARDING!
Good Morning! Ready for another Christmas card? This one was one I also had to try to be creative with since I made it at the cabin too. I usually don't bring my big shot up with me and although I have a Texture Boutique that I don't use at home, I have not yet decided to take it to the cabin to keep there but it sure would come in hand when I want some texture to my cards. This time I took a piece of Kraft card stock, wrinkled it up, and
then ironed it flat again. I wasn't totally thrilled with the look so then I decided to rub a versa pad over the top and sprinkle clear embossing powder over it.
The left side had the powder all over it and the right was when I started to heat set it. I pretty much liked that result.
Although the paper above looks all wavy, it's really pretty flat. The camera doesn't do it any real justice because in real view it looks more leathery. So now to design the card. I used a Northwoods stamp of a pine tree with cardinals in it. If you are familiar with Northwoods Stamps, alot of their winter stamps have cardinals in them and I really love how the red really pops!
Of course after all that work of embossing the kraft paper.....nearly none showed up in the card. Guess I could have just inked the edges of the kraft paper. I used old olive for a mat and found a piece of blue card stock ( not sure where I got it from) as the base of the card. I had a small piece of green ribbon that just so happened to match the old olive paper. The inside of the card is still blank. There are little dots of Diamond Stickles around and on the tree. I think in the future doing this wrinkle and emboss will only be used for tiny accents though. Right now with the way I used it, this has turned out to be quite a heavy card. I'm sure that if the kraft paper was just textured with an embossing folder the card would be much lighter. I think the powder added too much weight. But you make do with what you have. Maybe this won't be a mailed card but a hand delivered one instead. Well that's it for today. Check back tomorrow for another super simple Christmas card! Til then............................
HAPPY CARDING!
I'm back!! What a totally relaxing 10 days. I can't wait until we go back in a few weeks. We need to close of the cabin for the season so we will be going back mid-October. Did I ever mention where our cabin is? Well it's right smack in the middle of Door County Wisc and we are right on the lake! Beautiful sunrises and sunsets along with awesome breezes. Though sometimes I swear they are hurricane speeds! LOL!
I of course went to my favorite stamp store "Door County Rubber Stamp and Scrapbooking" (check out their Facebook page). I picked up a few of the new Northwoods stamps and this cutie was one of my favorites.
We have the Elf on the Shelf so when I saw the cloths line of elf cloths I just had to have it! The "Welcome Winter" and "Christmas is on the way" are just misc. stamps I had laying around. Not having all my tools readily available seems to keep giving me challenges to create cards with next to nothing. Both cards have 1 layer and that's the sentiment. I used Recollections 110 lb white card stock. First I stamped the image, then using my scoreboard I scored a top and bottom border of 2 lines 1/8" apart and then went over those lines with a glitter gel pen in red. The cloths were colored with the glitter gel pens as well for instant sparkle. I then proceeded to score lines on both cards making each different by switching the direction. Can the left have lines 1/2" apart while diagonal is 1/4" apart. I thought they made really cute simple cards and I'm definitely going to bring these for our group to make.
Well I made a few more cards while I was up there and I'll be posting those later after they are unpacked and I get some pictures. All were done with my limited supplies so as you can see you don't need alot to start card making but I guarantee once you start.......your supply stash WILL GROW!!! I really need to work on a system of carting more tools up with me on my extended stays at the cabin. Or..............maybe I just need more tools that I can leave up there???? Hmmmmmmm.....wonder what Hubby would think! LOL
Until next time.......
HAPPY CARDING!
Busy weekend ahead! It's my grandsons 3rd birthday party. My daughter -in-law and son always have the birthday parties here since we have quite a bit of room so this weekend has been chosen. But before I get too involved in the cleaning up for the guest I thought I'd slip in 1 more Halloween card. This time a tri-shutter card.
The Bats were separated from the bat border punch from ek success. The bats over the moon stamp was one of those in the dollar bins at Michael's. Did you know the dollar bins are now $1.50? Crazy!!! Anyway it was stamped with black ink and clear embossed on white card stock. It was then cut into a 2.5" circle with a circle cutter. Moon was colored with a yellow glitter gel pen to add just a touch of sparkle. Though you can't tell from photo but the bats are also glittered. Papers were from a Halloween paper pack called Ghouls and Goodies by Doodlebug Designs. They had some cute papers in there.
Well I still have a couple of ideas up my sleeve for some more Halloween cards so stay tuned and I'll share a few more. Until then.....................
HAPPY CARDING!
