A small Home sweet Home

A clean and simple new home card for my BIL and SIL.  I probably fretted more about making this than actually shows on the card itself.

I stamped in the center of the base cardstock and lightly watercolored the image.  I cut and die cut the top piece to show the image and then adhered it with dimensional tape... then I remembered I should stamp a greeting of course.  I dithered about trying to make the 2nd "home" darker and decided to stop and admit defeat.

Ingredients
Card size - 5 in x 5 in
Cardstock - Recollections 110lb and 65lb
Stamp - Clear Dollar Stamps: house inchie and Nice Neighborhood
Ink - Gina K Designs Color Companion Black Onyx
Color - Koi Watercolor
Accessories - Spellbinders square die, Scotch foam tape.

Musical Simple Sympathy

This card  was made in memory of a High School friend and her daughter who were tragically killed last week.  

I wanted something personal that related to both of them.  I met my friend during marching band and her daughter was accomplished in her school's chorale.  I didn't want it too heavy with black so I used one of the school colors of purple for contrast with the white.

I hope it gives some comfort to their family.

Ingredients

Card Size - 4 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in

Cardstock - Recollections white 110lb white, 65lb purple

Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps 3 step rose (sentiment)

Ink - Brilliance - purple

Accessories - Allegro embossing folder, Cuttlebug single and double note dies, Dimensionals, Corner Chomper

Hey Turkey!

A relatively quick card I sent my eldest who wasn't able to join us for Thanksgiving this year.  I'm thinking now I should have either split the sentiment to make a "ground" or stamped it in the leaves corner. 

I'll update my supplies list later when I'm atat my craft table. 

Simply complex fuzzy Mustache Card

I made this a while ago and forgot to write down what I did.  I'm fairly certain I stamped the mustache in black and then covered it with glitter glue to adhere the flocking.

This card is for a family member that actually gets stopped and asked for autographs because they are convinced he is Tom Selleck.  I decided to keep it simple and think it works.

Ingredients
Card size - 5.5 in x 8.5 in;
Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Smooth; Revelations - black;
Stamps - Stampabilities Mustaches Clear Stamp Set;
Ink - Memento: Tuxedo Black;
Accessories - Glue; Fun Flock: Black

I see you're 20!

I made this card for my neice who turned 20.  I wonder if she got the 20/20 pun-tasticness of this card.  Probably not but at least I amused myself.  I clear embossed the lenses and frames.  If I did it again I might use a very, very, very, very pale color to tint the lenses for the slightest contrast.

Ingredients:
Card size - 5.5 in x 8.5 in;
Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Smooth; Recollections: black;
Stamps - Stampabilities: Mustaches Clear Stamp Set; 7 Gypsies; Hero Arts: Classic Caps;
Ink - Memento: Tuxedo Black, Rose Bud; Versamark;
Accessories - pink rhinestones; clear embossing powder

CAS Kentucky Wedding.

I saw this link on Paperlicious blog and remembered that I had seen the challenge whilst looking for inspiration for this card.  It didn't occur to me that I had actually used bling until I was blogging this so I am delighted to be able to "enter" this in CAS-ual Fridays challenge!

I took inspiration for this card from the invitation.  Basically I reversed the colors and used stamps from my collection to create a similar effect as the card but with a difference.

The colors for the wedding apparently are purple and blue.  I decided not to use the purple and just keep it simple.  Apparently the blue was chosen by the groom for UK basketball.  It really is a religion here.

I know a lot of people struggle with Wedding Cards but I think if you know the invitation is designed by the couple then it gives you more information than who and the venue - it gives you a style and reference point.  That said when I got married I had plain and simple black and white invitations.

This is what I came up with using the invitation as inspiration.  The damask stamps are from Clear Dollar Stamps and I think they mimic the original pretty well.

You can't really tell but after I colored the rings with Copics and then went over the top with some Tsukineko galaxy gold for a slight sparkle and of course the ladies ring need a "diamond" to sparkle too.  And I think that qualifies as "bling" on a CAS card!

What I really like though is the embossed border to just take it one step further than the original.

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 inches

Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections

Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Just Rite Stampers, See D's

Ink - Memento, Galaxy Gold

Color - Copics

Accessories - Spellbinders Nestabilities, Rhinestone (I just couldn't afford the diamond for a card!) and NO airbrushing - I might have to have a moment of silence.

What the Canadian is this about, eh?

Honestly, for whom do you think this card was created?

I could understand if you immediately said my great friend that moved to Canada last year.

I could understand if you said well someone of Canadian descent.

Or even if you said  - oh you created that for Canadian Thanksgiving.  All quite logical presumptions.  Now the answer is none of the above.  This card was created for my eldest to give to his friend because they have some sort of Canadian joke going.  I didn't actually get an answer as to what the joke or conversation was.  I presume it was one of those you had to be there things eh?

IRL - that ink matched pretty close to the red cardstock.  Honestly - given that I had less than an hour's notice of needing this card and then the ensuing "that's not the Canadian flag discussion" I really think it turned out well.

Recipe

Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah, Archiver's open stock

Ink - Memento Lady Bug

Stamps - Inkadinkado

Flower wishes and lost pictures

I made this card for my husband's auntie.  She has only been a part of our lives for the last few years because of her husband having been adopted after birth.  Such a joy to make connections with relatives we never knew we had for so long.

I like the simplicity of the image but wonder if it needed more.  What do you think?

Recipe
Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Memento black tuxedo
Color - Copics
Accessories - Glossy Accents

Now for the lost pictures - I seem to have lost the pictures of the Anniversary card I made for my BIL and SIL this year and also the pictures from the card I sent my Neice.  What is really bad is I can't even remember what I stamped! as we have moved my craft area from area of the house to another and done some decoration since then.  Oh well, I hoped they liked and more importantly I hope that it comes back to me what I did when I'm least expecting it!

Flying by to say thank you

This is a pretty quick and straight forward card I put together for some thank yous that we needed to send out.  The last time I used this butterfly I made it in blue so I wanted to up the color a bit.  I picked a copic color that matched the stamping ink and colored the ribbon to match.  If you haven't ever tried it is a great way to match colors and it stiffens the ribbon to make it easier to work with and I find the ribbon doesn't fray.

This one is pretty much the same as above except with the Prima and brads instead of the ribbon.

Hmmm I think these might actually qualify as CAS...

Recipe
Card size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah
Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics
Accessories - white grosgrain ribbon, prima flowers, brads