Count your Blessings Sunflower card

I got this cute corner flip card and the sunflower from Cheryl over at CreativeKuts.com

I used my Cricut to cut both the card base and sunflower.  I added some wink of Stella to the center of sunflower to add some shine.  I used a stitched square die to cut the mat for the sunflower.  The sentiment I had in my stash, the word blessings is soft and flocked.  I cut a shadow layer for that sentiment oval with my SNC.  

On the inside I used Bundle of Stitched Shapes- large Rectangle - Simon Says Stamp dies for the background layer.  Then I used a stitched rectangle Die to cut an Orange mat and another to cut the white mat for sentiment stamping.  Thankful for you! - Thankful for you Stamp Set - Cardz TV.  Happy Thanksgiving - Happy Celebrations Stamp Set - Craftin' Desert Divas

 Thanks for stopping by, Hope to have you here again soon.  Have an awesome Day!

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Diamond Plate Happy Birthday Card

 Hello Crafters, today I made a masculine Birthday card.  I have so many birthdays coming up in December, I knew I better take a pause on Christmas cards and get some of them done and ready for the mail as 3 of them are the first week of December.... EEK! lol

I based this card on a SKETCH challenge over at Your Next Stamp Blog

Ok, so I tried to keep it simple and masculine.  I used the Cuttlebug Diamond Plate embossing folder to create my background,  I chose to Deboss  for this card.  I used foil paper from the dollar store that I adhered to black card stock.... this gives it more stability and the embossing/Debossing comes out real clean and bold.  I used Bundle of Stitched Shapes- large Rectangle - Simon Says Stamp dies for my debossed background layer.  I used my SNC for the shadow layer behind my debossed background layer and also for the shadow layer behind  the 2 Banners.  those are - Stitched Fishtail Flag Stax Banners - MFT.  I used a pretty shiny grey paper that almost looks like a galvanized bucket color for all of those shadow layers.

For the Happy Birthday Thinlits Die - Stampin' Up, I first attached foil Paper to black cardstock once again to get the foiled shiny layer.  Then I cut it again from just black card stock which I trimmed away the bottom word and adhered it to the top of the entire cut.  I then used a die cut from my stash (Nina Die - Creative Expressions) that I knew had these perfect sized circles to simulate the silver brads.

For the inside I cut another stitched background layer using Bundle of Stitched Shapes- large Rectangle - Simon Says Stamp dies form white cardstock.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment stamp from Birthday Cheer Stamp Set - Hot Off The Press

***UPDATE I decided to make a matching gift tag to go with it.....

I cut the black Tag from Mama Elephant, Framed Tags - Union Square. Then I attached the silver foil to black cardstock again and ran it through with a stitched square die and then ran that through with the Diamond Plate Cuttlebug embossing folder, but debossed.  I attached it to the tag with foam squares and then cut and attached his name using the Cricut.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see my project, I hope you will leave a comment.  Have a wonderful day.

I am entering into these Fun Challenges:

Your Next Stamp Challenge -  #172 SKETCH

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -   Make Your Own Background 

DL.ART Monthly Linky Challenge - November Anything Goes

Dashing By Reindeer Cards

 Hello Again, today I have 3 cards to share that I made based on one layout but used different colors and styles on each.  My wrist/hand is getting a little better each day.  I am so thankful to be crafting again so I don't want to be back to that again so I am trying to take things slow and easy but push myself a little further as time goes by.  The Sticker cards were fun but I thought I would test to see how I could do coloring stamped images.  Well it proved to be a little more difficult than I thought it would be but I love the way all 3 cards turned out.  I think I may have to go back to easier for a bit longer, but hey at least I am crafting again so I will take it!  The Stamp set I got the cute little Reindeer from is Reindeer Wishes I got from Amazon.

I CASED this card from https://www.dkirbystamps.com/2018/10/dani-deer.html?spref=pi

This one Is larger deer stamp, Stamped on white cardstock colored with CC alcohol markers, Nose is paper pieced on top.  Nose and white chest & tail have clear wink of Stella brushed over.  Background Postage layer is cut from White Polka dot tissue paper.

This one is the smaller deer stamp, Stamped on white cardstock colored with CC alcohol markers, Nose is paper pieced on top.  Nose and white chest & tail have clear wink of Stella brushed over.  Background Postage layer is cut from Plain Vellum that I ran through big shot with my Snow falling stencil to give the snow dots effect.

Another small deer stamp, this time stamped onto Kraft cardstock.  The white chest, white tail tip and inside of ears along with Nose are all paper pieced on top.  Nose and white chest and tail tip have clear wink of Stella brushed over.  Background Postage layer is cut from white card stock that I also ran through with the Pinpoint Snowflake Plate Craft Die - Memory Box

Pinpoint Snowflake Plate Craft Die - Memory Box

Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel Die - Reverse Confetti

Bundle of Stitched Shapes - Simon Says Stamp

Postage Stamp Dies - La-la Land Crafts

Stitched Fishtail Flag Stax Banner - MFT (I cut off ends, used for Sentiment Block)

Snowglobe Cutting Dies - Hot Off The Press (Snowflakes)

Whimsical - Christmas Small Stamp Set (inside Sentiment & Reindeer)

Front of Card Sentiment - written with Cricut pen

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope to have more Christmas cards to Share with you soon.

I will be entering into these fun challenges:

Cut it Up Challenge  - #239 C.a.s.e. Project with a link

Modsquad Challenge - Animal Themed Holiday

DL.ART Monthly Linky Challenge - November Anything Goes

Tea And Warm Socks

 Here is the very last card for my fun cards that I created from that one sticker sheet.  This makes Card number 11 woo-hoo I really got a jump on my Christmas Card list.

For this card I used just a few Dies:

Bundle of Stitched Shapes - Simon Says Stamp dies  ... That I also ran thru with the

Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel Die - Reverse Confetti

Stitched Wavy Square Stack I cut two sizes to make the frame

Special Merry Christmas Word Die - Memory Box

 And the inside sentiment stamps came from two different sets:

"All You need is Tea & Warm Socks" came from - Christmas Winter Sentiments Stamp

"A very Merry Christmas to You" came from - Holly Berries Christmas Stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope to be back soon with more cards

I am entering into these fun challenges:

Cardz Tv Anything Goes Challenge #154

DL.ART November 2021  Linky Challenge

DRU Challenge #181

Christmas Cards From a foam backed sticker Sheet 2

 More fun cards I made with that one sticker sheet... this is card #6 thru #10

On all 5 of them I used these Dies:

Bundle of Stitched Shapes - Simon Says Stamp dies

Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel Die - Reverse Confetti

Nested Stitched Scallop Rectangle Set - Cottage Cutz 

Pierced  Memory box Frame 

On three of them I used the Special Merry Christmas Word Die - Memory Box

For the Christmas Tree Card I used the For You Frame Stamp which I heat embossed in Green and cut out, that one is from Reindeer Wishes stamp set.  Finally from The Santa card I used a stamp from Santa Suit Stamp Set - Stampin Up and I cut that out with a pretty die from 

Spellbinders - Opulent Ovals

For the Inside of the mittens card I used Chilly Cheer - Christmas Small Stamp Set

And for the other 4 cards I stamped the inside the same using my stamping tool

Stamps are from Holly Berries Christmas Stamp set

As always thanks for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed these fun cards and I will be back soon with more fun.

I am entering into these fun challenges:

Cardz Tv Anything goes Challenge

DL.ART November 2021 Linky Challenge

DiesRUs Challenge - #181

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Trees

Christmas Cards From a foam backed sticker Sheet 1

 So I have been super busy getting my craft room cleaned organized and a little rearranging so I can get back to what I love.... Making Stuff and especially cards.

So during my Craft room overhaul I have found so much stuff for Christmas cards that I have hoarded away.  You know what else I found?  Loads and loads of saved Christmas paper scraps, card layers I used dies to pre cut with other scraps, card bases.... just lots and lots of stuff crammed away just taking up space.  Well I have decided to get busy using some of it and getting my Christmas cards going in full force.

Today I have the first half of Eleven cards I made from one sheet of foam backed Stickers.  I don't usually create with stickers but sometimes I see really cute ones and think that would make a cute card.  So I end up buying them and never use them, so this is the year that changes!!!  I hope you enjoy them because I sure had fun making them.

Cards 1 and 2 I used  card Sketch #2 From Mary's Card Sketches at Cardztv.blogspot.com

For both of these first two cards I used up scraps for the background design, which were placed on a solid Stitched rectangle mat that I cut with Bundle of Stitched Shapes - Simon Says Stamp dies and for the smaller mat I used a Scallop Stitched Oval die and used my scan n cut to make a shadow layer in the purple card stock to back it.  The stamps are from Tiny Tags Christmas Stamp Set - My Craft Spot which I heat embossed in purple. 

For the inside on both, I stamped a sweet sentiment in Memento Tuxedo black from Inkadinkado Cool Christmas Stamp Set and the cute little presents I stamped in purple are from Elegant - Christmas Small Stamp Set.

Card 3 and 4 are based on the same sketch layout and all stamps are from the same sets...

and finally card number five is just a little bit different.  For this card I used Mary's Sketch #10.  and I changed up one of the inside card stamps in the bottom corner and that one is from Be Merry - Christmas Small Stamp Set

Thanks so much for stopping by I hope you enjoyed the first set of cards, I will be back soon with more.

I will be entering into these fun challenges:

Cardz Tv Anything goes Challenge

Modsquad Challenge - Animal Themed

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Trees

Fun times Crafting again

 Dang it has been a long long time since I have crafted.... even longer since I have posted here to my blog.  But I have to tell you I have been a crafting whirlwind over the past week trying to get caught up on Christmas cards before it too late,

I was inspired by Mary at Cardztv.blogspot.com for these cute cards.  She did hers as winter birthday but mine are Christmas cards.  Here is the link to her awesome video tutorial ... MINI SLIMLINE WINTER BIRTHDAY CARD & FREE DIGI! - YouTube  Thank You Mary, I just love your Cards!

The Penguin with the red scarf is a freebie print and cut file from her, the other is from Cricut.  The card base is from Cricut Wild Card Cartridge just as Mary used in her video.  I also used the  Darice Snowflake Embossing Folder for the white snow mound on my cards.  I used Stitched Hillside Borders - Lawn Fawn  to cut the snow mounds  and I used 2 snowflake dies on each card cut from glitter paper.  the bigger one is from a set of 4 snowflake dies I got from Aliexpress and the small is from a set of mittens dies and the snowflake is cut from them.

I embossed the Warm wishes stamp with blue, that is from Chilly Cheer and the magical moments stamp is from Christmas quotes.  Thanks for stopping by today.  I will be posting more Christmas cards soon.

I am entering into these fun challenges:

Cardz Tv Anything goes Challenge

DL.ART November 2021 Linky Challenge

Die Cut Divas - November Slimline and Slimline mini Cards

DiesRUs Challenge - #181

Mod Squad Challenge - Animal Themed