Frightful Halloween

 Frightful Halloween

dies used:  Tim Holtz, Stampin' Up

My friends know I like to make Halloween cards so, this year is no different.  

dies used:  Tim Holtz, Stampin' Up

I made a bunch of these cards using TH dies, and SU tree die.  As you can see some of them I sponged color on trees ... others I left white.  Since I made multiples of this design I'm not showing all of them.  I'll start mailing them out probably next week.  Here's a question for you:  Do you know what type of paper is the purple behind the trees?  I'll leave this question up till my next post.

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More slider pull up cards

 More slider pull up cards

stamps/supplies used:  Altenew stamp co. Jelly fish and saying

Instructions and measurements can be found on this post. 

Here is a look at the inside of this jelly fish card.

Yet a couple more of these slider pull up cards.

stamps used:  Altenew stamp co.

stamps used:  Altenew stamp co. oranges and Stampin' Up birthday sayings

Had fun making these cards.  Now it is time to send them off to family and friends.  Hopefully they will put a smile on their faces.

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Fun Slider - pull up card

 Fun Slider - pull up card

stamp/supplies used:  Unity Doodle bird, Stampin' Up DSP, Prisma color pencils

This is a slider or some call it a pull up card ... whatever you call it ... it's FUN, and easy to create.

Slider Pull up card

stamp/supples used: Unity stamp co. Doodle bird, Stampin’ Up (pattern papers) DSP

measurements:

base card: 5 ½” x 8 ½” scored at 4" & 8"

white (inside slider card) cs: 3 ¾” x 5”

outside slider can be any size or shape

mechanism strips – ¾” x 3”

Front DSP (pattern paper) - 3 ¾” x 5 ¼”

Basic instructions:

With ½” fold on left hand side in trimmer, line it up at 1 ½” in trimmer. Cut from 1” to 4 ½”. This creates slit for the slider. Add tear & tape to ½” section.

Add foam tape on one end of mechanism strip. Flip strip over and add tear & tape on end of mechanism strip. Slide strip through slit with tear & tape inside card, foam tape showing through front of card. Punch half circle thumb hole on top of front of card.

Slide strip to bottom of card. Adhere 3 ¾” x 5” (inside white panel) to slider strip with tear & tape on it that will be on the inside of the card. Peel off backing of tear & tape and close card.

Add stamped layer to front of card on the mechanism strip with foam tape. See photo above.

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Faux postage wild flowers

 Faux postage wild flowers

stamps used:  Waffle Flower postage collage wild flowers

It's that special time of year where we celebrate handmade cards in all their beauty - World Card Making Day 2024! This year, our favorite card making holiday is on October 5th. That is today!

I am enjoying making faux postage with all the Waffle Flower company dies, and stencils.  This one is called Postage collage Wild Flowers.

Here is a close up of one of my cards.  The postage die cuts out the card with all the blocks with holes to create the faux postage.  Next you use the layering stencils to add flowers.  I have some other postage images like cancellation lines that I haven't added to these cards, yet.  I will before I mail them out to family or friends.

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Simple cards

 Simple cards

I'm back!  Today I am just starting off with a few, what I call simple cards.

stamps used:  MFP 
I used Catherine Pooler inks, which if you have been following my blog you know are my favorite inks.  At least for the past 5 or 6 years.  

basic instructions:

1.  stamp image about 1 inch from the bottom of the card (4" x 5 1/4") panel with chosen color ink.

2.  add strip of pattern paper (SU paper shown here) on the bottom of stamped card panel.

3.  stamp saying (Altenew) image.

4.  add (Altenew) enamel dots.  These just happen to my favorite choice.

You can make up a set of these cards for little gifts.

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Just a little longer

 Just a little longer....

As the title says just a little longer for my break from my blog.  No worries I'm not stopping just continuing my break for another couple of weeks.  My mojo has taken a hike so that is why I'm taking a break but I will NEVER completely give up stamping!  Right now I am prepping cards for a crop I will be attending this weekend so after that I'm sure I will be back to posting once a week.  

Thank you for understanding and sticking with me.

Taking a little brake

 Taking a brake

Just wanted to do a little post to let you all know I haven't forgotten my blog.  I just decided to take a brake from my blog for a few weeks ... BUT I will be back soon with new cards to share with you.

Thank you for being patient and understanding.

Thanks cards

 Thanks cards

A couple of Thanks cards just to have in my stash so I have them when needed.

stamps/supplies:  Stampin' Up

Here are a couple of cards of Thanks.  Both cards use butterfly dies which my friend gave me.  I added some color on some of the butterflies with ink pad, and blending brush.  Stamped the Thanks on both cards at the bottom of card panel with black ink.  Card panel on left was ripped then glued to a piece of DSP (designer series paper aka pattern paper) then layered onto black layer.  Added the butterflies and self sticking gems.  Card panel on left has some flowers stamped off the edge for some interest.  The flowers were colored in with blending brush.  Then butterfly on this card is doubled up.

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Little note of thanks

 Little note of thanks

I don't do a lot of thank you cards but decided to make one to have on hand. 

This cute bird is a stamp set with a punch.  Didn't have my camera handy so I scanned this card.  The only problem is you can't see the pop up ..... if you go to this post you will other cards with this pop up mechanism, and measurements.

stamps/supplies:  Stampin' up

Here is a look at the pop up mechanism.

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Card swap cards

 Card swap cards

I am behind in showing my local card swap cards so here are a couple of them from a couple of months past.

The fruit card is what I call collage stamping, or some call it random stamping.  I used old wood mounted stamps, so the companies are out of business now.  It's good to go old school once in a while just to remember how I started in stamping.

stamps used:  various stamp companies 

The cupcake card was done with a sketch design...I know I'm not one to use sketches, but sometimes you just have to go out of your comfort zone.  Sketches are way out of my comfort zone.

stamps used:  Stampin' Up

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Pop up mechanism cards

Pop up mechanism cards 

     stamps used:  Unity stamp co. Doodle bird, Seraphim wings

These cards are fun!

stamps/supplies used:  Unity stamp co. Doodle bird & Bevy of balloons stencil

Background on the Doodle birds are the balloons layering stencil set.

The side view shows the pop up mechanism.

Pop up mechanism notes/measurements:

Cut 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card.  Score at 1/2", 1", 1 1/2" on both ends of card.  Cut to make multiple pop ups.  Fold mechanism accordion style.  In this case valley, mountain, and valley on both ends.

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Horizonal fun fold

 Horizonal fun fold

I'm over on Blank Page Muse blog today with a horizonal fun fold card.  The images used on these cards are from Blank Page Muse or our sister company I Brake for Stamps.

I do like to make cards that are a little different in design.  A friend sent me a card that was vertical in design, but it couldn't stand so I decided to turn it around to the horizonal orientation.  This way it could stand on it's own as you see in the photo.

 Measurements:

base card - 9 1/2" x 4 1/4"  score at 4"

pattern paper (front layer) - 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"

inside white layer - 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"

pattern paper strip - 1 3/8" x 3 3/4"

For the stamped layer you can do circles, rectangles or any shape that fits the card.

stamps/papers used:

Blank Page Muse collage bird art rubber stamp

Blank Page Muse typewriter keys rubber stamp

Blank Page Muse Cyan Consortium paper pack

I Brake for Stamps Harvest Love stamp sheet

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