Two cards

Hi Everyone,

It was a cold and snowy weekend, so it was the perfect time for some stamping.  Here are two recent makes of mine that I'm happy to share here today. Both are pretty quick and easy.

In honor of the next card holiday, here is a valentine suitable for anyone.  I stamped and die cut the Valentine's Full of Love greeting, coloring in the empty spaces on a few of the words using a red marker.

I took a ruler and drew lines down one side of the cardstock, and added gems and punched hearts in traditional Valentine's day colors.

Thankfully I didn't have a need for this next type of cards, but they're the hardest to make when in a time of grief.  They're a must have staple in the card stash for sure.

I love the Calla Lily Sympathy Frame stamp because it's an image and greeting all in one.  I stamped and colored it, adding a bit of glitter glue to the center of the flower, after I had trimmed and matted it.

The background was made using the Splatter Background stamp, and I added a die cut and embossed flower panel on top of that, tying it with a gauzy ribbon before attaching the image.  

Have you begun your Valentine card making? Be sure to check out the stamp catalog right here!

Have a great day!
Karin

Birds and Birthdays

Hi Everyone,

My sister in law and her husband have birthdays a few days apart, so I made them matching cards for the celebration.  Tony is a bird lover, so I'm always on the hunt for a bird stamp I haven't used for him before, and it's a good thing too; he said he's saved all of them throughout the years! I'm not 100% convinced that's true, but both of these bird stamps were new to both of them :)

I took inspiration from last weeks card for these, using an embossing folder with flourishes and birds on it, and the original sentiment ends with the word, "sweet".  I just swapped it out for "tweet", to match the bird theme.

Here are the stamps used:

Bird Feeder

Sweet Birthday Greeting

Extra Tweet Birthday Greeting

And here is the inside and the stamps used:

Popped Up Birthday Greeting (end portion)

Snowy Birdhouse

My sister in law's card is virtually the same; except I made it a little girly using glitter on the snow and a ribbon.  

Here are the stamps used:

Snowy Birdhouse

Extra Tweet Birthday Greeting

And the inside stamps:

Bird Feeder

Back Nine Birthday Greeting (end portion)

At the last minute, I realized I didn't have a birthday gift bag (just lots of those Christmas ones!), so I took a plain navy bag with white trim and jazzed it up with a row of gems, some die cuts and the big Brush Happy Birthday Greeting.  Hurray! DRS Designs to the rescue!

I literally took the photo after putting it together before running out the door to the party, but I think everyone was more impressed by the bag, than what was in it...lol :) 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Karin

Greetings, it's cold outside!

Hi Everyone,

While the winter hasn't been super snowy for me, and I'm grateful for that, I decided to make a few cards celebrating the season.  Snow outside or not, it's fun to stay inside and partake of my favorite hobby of stamping, so I hope you are inspired to get out your stamps as well.

I have a simple embossed background of poinsettias, and I colored up the Bird Feeder

 stamp from DRS Designs, die cutting it and attaching it with dimensional foam tape.  I wanted it to be a generic card, available to use for any occasion, so I inked up the word Greetings, from the Seas and Greetings stamp, attaching it in the same manner as my image. A few pale green gems finished it off. 

Originally, I was going to pair up the Baby it's Cold Outside Greeting with a snowman stamp, but I feel like I've done that before.  I chose to be a bit more creative, and took the hat and scarf elements from the Medium Mr. Snowman, and paper pieced them on to the Paper Coffee Cup, 

adding some googly eyes and a small punched heart. So, it's a snowman coffee cup, I guess? Anyway, I hope you think he's as cute as I do :)

 I layered everything onto a background that was stamped using the Interlocking Snow background stamp and a piece of embossed snowflake paper. 

Here's to staying warm and inky this winter season...

Have a great day!

Karin

Warm Wishes

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope your year is filled with health, wealth and most importantly, lots of stamping time :)

I chose to use the All in 1 Christmas Village for today's card and in doing so, it reminded me that I skipped watching It's a Wonderful Life in December.  Doesn't this look like it could be Bedford Falls from the movie? 

 I chose to do the opposite of my Christmas day post here, and completely color up the scene, adding my requisite glitter glue for the snow.

Even though it's hard to see, I stamped the card base using the Tree Line Border and completed it with the friendly Warm Wishes Greeting.  See?  The Village is not just a stamp for the holidays, you can use it all winter long.  

Wishing you a warm January ahead!
Karin