Swans-a-Swimming

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying a great holiday season and had a Merry Christmas day.  Thought I'd drop by with another one of my Twelve Days of Christmas series cards that I have not posted.  This features swans -a-swimming but I only have 2 of the 7.  The other 5 must have swum away out of site. I stamped the swans on 2 panels of white card stock and fussy cut one set of the swans to attach to the blue fiber cloth that I used for the background on the other panel of white cardstock.  Added some silver embossed snowflakes and stamped sentiments.  Used silver metallic CS for the card base. Stamps are from a free stamp set with Creative Stamping Magazine.

(The blue fiber cloth is what is used as a pot cover for plants)   

Challenges: 

Double D Challenges: Twelve Days of Christmas-Part 2.  This is my 3rd entry for this challenge.

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #469 Anything Christmas with Optional Theme-use word Christmas

Christmas Kickstart Challenge: #26 Last minute Madness-If it's Christmassy, link it up!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Quick Cards from Stash

Hello!  I am sharing 4 Christmas cards that were quick and easy to make because I used Patterned papers and die cuts with no stamping involved.  For the top card, I trimmed a Patterned Paper from a stash of magazine freebies, embossed it with Divine Swirls EF, and inked the edges with Gold Pilot Marker.  Wrapped the panel with Gold Metallic ribbon and tied on a bow. Added this to a card base of Shimmery Pink CS. Finished with Cheery Lynn die cut words of Gold Metallic CS.

This card uses more of the Patterned Paper on a Gold Metallic card base with the same ribbon and die cut words.

For this card I used Pattern Paper accented with silver foil snowflakes.  I inked the edge of the panel with a Silver Metallic Pilot Marker and popped up die cut snowflakes(backed with white foam) from Silver Metallic CS.  Finished with Cheery Lynn die cut words that I cut from White CS that I heat embossed with Silver EP.

This is another version of the card directly above but used Silver Metallic CS for the words along with die cut snowflakes. All 4 cards were created with scraps of Metallic CS.  Dies for snowflakes were from Cheery Lynn Build a Flower  and an Unknow Freebie.  

Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper. 

Alphabet Challenge: Q is for Quick and Easy.  All 4 cards were quick and easy. 

613 Avenue Create Challenge: #227 Anything goes with Optional Twist: Scrap your stash! Used scraps of Metallic CS for die cuts, Ribbon, and leftover patterns. 

Use Your Stuff: #381-Use your scraps.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly: #408 Here Comes Suzy Snowflake

Daring Cardmakers: Anything goes challenge with theme Baubles and Bows

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

More Oxidized Metal Technique

Hello!  As promised I am back with 2 more cards made using leftover portions of a panel that I created with the Oxidized Metal technique.  Please check this post for all the details on the technique that I used. For the above thank you card I used a Black card base to which I stamped the leaf from Gina K Designs Skeleton Leaves and embossed that with Gold EP. I added the leftover strip at the bottom edge. This time you can see the leaf that I stamped before adding embossing and more embossing powder to the silver paper.

I used GKD Fired Brick CS as the base for this card.  I embossed 2 corners with a Sizzix EF that I  have never used. The flower design seemed to pick up the flower from the leftover strip of Oxidized Metal panel that I added.  I inked the edges of the strip with Pilot Gold Metallic marker before attaching. 

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up Challenge: November Oxidized Metal + Stamping + your Choice. Leaf stamped on the panel and Black CS. Used dry embossing with Sizzix EF's.  

Just Us Girls Challenge: 512 Word Week Thanks

Simon Monday Challenge: Simon says Thanks/Thanksgiving

613 Avenue Challenge: 227 Anything Goes - Optional Twist Scrap your stash. Use leftovers from panel. 

Use Your Stuff: Challenge # 381 Use scraps.

CASology: Week 355 Appreciate

 Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Truckin' with Heart

Hello!  Playing with dies from Cheapo Dies to create a card with a lot of love! Die cut the truck from DCWV Foil CS,  tires from Black and Silver CS, hearts from Red CS and Metallic Silver CS, words from Red CS. Assembled the pieces on a panel of White CS that I edged with Silver Metallic Marker. Attached that to a panel of Patterned Paper and a card base of GKD Red CS.  Love the way this came together for a fun Valentine card.
I put this all together with GKD Connect Glue....this is the best glue ever. You must give it a try. I never liked to use glue before....too messy....but this works just great!  I was not paid for this endorsement.
Challenges:
Alphabet Challenge: V is for Vehicle.
Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge: 386 Hearts on Fire
Double D Challenge: Looking Back in Time.  The pickup truck is from another time.
The Male Room: Challenge #102 Anything Goes
Happy Little Stampers: January Anything Goes with Dies
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges: January always about using Patterned Papers

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Winter Cards

 Sharing a couple of Winter / Holiday cards that I made with foil accented cardstock from my stash and used with Blue CS and Silver Metallic CS.  The top card was finished with a precut and stamped topper and holly leaves cut with a GKD die.  The second card uses die cuts and stamp  from GKD sets.

Challenges:

Use Your Stuff: Challenge #341 Christmas/Holidays

Tuesday Morning Sketches: 484 Anything Goes

Mod Squad: Challenge is Christmas or Winter Project using a Metal Die.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Playing with Glitter

 Hello!  I am not one to use glitter very often.  In fact, I try to avoid it all together because of the mess.  But after seeing some cards covered completely with glitter, I had to give it a try.  I used tree stamps from Gina K Designs Northwoods 2 set that I stamped with Versamark on Navy CS and heat embossed with Silver EP. I then used double side adhesive paper on the panel and added Crystal Glitter to cover the entire area. Used a Swiffer dust cloth to clean up the mess. Placed the shiny scene on a Silver CS mat and the a Navy card base.  Finished with a Hero Arts sentiment stamped with Silver EP on  die cut of white CS.

I made a second card with the same tree stamps, Silver embossing powder, and Navy CS but without the glitter.  I added snow with Liquid Pearls and edged the panel with Silver Metallic Pen before attaching to a white card base.  The sentiment from a magazine freebie was heat embossed with Silver EP.

Challenges:
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says Baby It's Cold Outside.

Sweet Stamping: Whatever the Weather

Allsorts Challenge: Week 495 Inspired by a Song.  My song-Let It Snow

Just Add Ink: #435 Photo Inspiration shown below

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Blue Christmas

Welcome!  I created this Christmas card for the challenge at Tuesday Morning sketches.  I chose snowflakes when I saw this whimsical sketch...maybe I was influenced by Carol and Janee's  cards.  I used Gina K Design stamps and a die from Seasonal Sentiments set. I stamped the snowflakes and word Merry with Versamark on GKD Powder Blue CS and heat embossed with Hero Arts Silver EP.  Attached the word Christmas die cut from Silver Metallic CS and some White enamel dots to finish. Edged the panel with Silver Metallic Marker before adhering to card base of blue. 

Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #475 

Allsorts Challenge: Week 489 Christmas 

Use Your Stuff: Challenge #334 Enamel Dots

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Out In the Galaxy

Hello! I'm out in the galaxy!   The background of my card was actually the result of an accident. Sometime ago, I spilled a bottle of Hero Arts Metallic Blueberry Mist and quickly grabbed some cardstock to absorb it and ended up with several panels for backgrounds.  On this piece I sponged on some Distress Oxide Inks including Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans and Wilted Violet. The result was perfect for a card for the current Fusion Challenge Galaxy.  Added some stars with a White Gel Pen and Clear star pen.  On a strip of clear vellum, I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with Silver EP.  Die cut stars from Gold and Silver metallic CS with Sizzix die.  Embossed the top star with Swiss dots EF for some more texture. Assembled all the elements on a Silver Metallic card base following the sketch on the  Fusion graphic below. 

Challenges:

 Fusion Card Challenge: Galaxy-Used both the sketch and  the photo as inspiration.

Dies R Us Challenge: #103 You Are a Star.  Used Sizzix Star dies

Just Add Ink: #422 Just Choose 2  Used embossing powder and embossing folder. 

613 Avenue Create: #212 Anything Goes

Simon Monday Challenge: Simon says Sprinkles and Splatters.  You can say my background was one big splatter by accident. The stars are the sprinkles.
A Blog Named Hero: Challenge Sparkle and Shine. Used Metallic Blueberry Mist, Metallic CS, Silver Metallic EP. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Welcome to my blog!  I am celebrating the New Year with a sparkly card that I made with some beautiful shiny paper that was in a Hero Arts kit.  I thought it was perfect teamed with some Champagne in glasses stamped with Repeat Impressions Wine Series stamps.  I created the glasses with Silver Vellum, Versamark ink, and Silver EP and then fussy cut.  Added some bubbles with  Stardust pen.  Added a layer of Silver Mirror CS and Black card base.  I hope you see all the texture and shine in the photo.  The New Year stamp is an old one from my stash.
Challenges:
The House That Stamps Built: Challenge D2717 Anything Goes.  Happy New Year to all at THTSB.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Merry and Bright

Hello! I am back with  a very quick post to enter this card into challenges including Merry Monday Christmas Challenge 267 which is to create a card with the colors Green, Blue, White/Silver/Vellum.  I used them all just to have all bases covered.  I used stamps and die cuts from Gina K Merry and Bright Stamp TV kit.  The Blue and Green card stocks as well as Vellum and Silver Metallic paper were from my stash.  Used Versamark and Zing Silver EP.  I spritzed the blue card mat and the ornaments with Gold Shimmer mist for more shine but hard to see in the photo.  The sentiment was heat embossed with silver EP on clear Vellum and fussy cut and attached with Vellum Tape. 

The hard part of this challenge was getting a good photo because  Metallic Papers are always hard for me to photograph. 

Other Challenges:

Tuesday Morning Sketches: Sketch #341

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Anything Goes

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Waves of Blue and Silver

Hello! I am back with this card that I made for a sketch challenge and also for a color challenge.  I used Distress Oxide Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean inks and Versamark with Silver EP to create my waves.  Then I added  some Snowflakes cut from Silver Metallic CS with a Sizzix die.  Finished with GKD sentiment stamped in Distress Oxide Ink. 

Challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches: Challenge Sketch #249

Color Throwdown : Challenge ctd469 Blue, Light Blue, Silver

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Playing with Oxide Ink

Hello! It is fun to get new products and items to play with!  I just received Hero Arts July kit---first one that I ever bought---and it included Summer Flower and Creative Vases stamp sets and  Oxide Ink Iced Spruce and more.   I just had to try the Oxide ink after seeing Jennifer McGuire's post.  She makes me want all the colors of this ink.  And I liked the result in making the backgrounds for these 2 cards.
For the cards shown here, I started with  panels of white CS and sponged them with the Iced Spruce ink.  For the top one, I sprayed water on Hero Arts Floating Flowers cling stamp and laid it on the panel a couple of minutes. On the bottom card I used a very old SU background stamp Antique Cracking.  After drying my background panels, I finished with some die cut flower images that I stamped and colored with Copics.

Top card-Used Hero Arts Sweet Pea Bouquet, Butterfly, Watering Can, and Sentiment stamps and Frame Cut Dies . The can was stamped on a metallic silver left from a recycled box shown below.

Bottom Card-Used Hero Arts Sweet Peas and Bow stamps, Hero Arts Dies, Cheery Lynn die cuts, Mirror CS, White CS base, Blue Satin Ribbon layered on Light Blue Organdy Ribbon with Silver Thread.

Challenges:
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Challenge #167 Anything Goes with Ribbon-Layered 2 ribbons.
Happy Little Stampers: Anything Goes With Dies
Double D Challenges: Pastels

What fun playing with Oxide ink!
Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Embossed Impressions

Hello!  Today I was playing with a technique doing embossed impressions using a die with Versamark to make an impression on CS and then heat embossed with EP.  I saw this technique on a Jennifer McQuire video and just had to try it.  It is easier to watch how to do this than explain it in words.  I used an Ornament die to make my impression and created this holiday card.
Supplies: Die Marianne Christmas Bauble; Stamp Spellbinders Heirloom Ornament; Versamark Ink; Zing Metallic Silver EP; Blie CS, White CS, Silver Metallic CS; White Satin Ribbon; Sakura Metallic Silver Pen.

Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #304 Use a sentiment.
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: October Anything goes Christmas
Winter Wonderland: Christmas Challenge Frosty or Wrapped Up. Used Cold Colors of Blue and Silver.
Allsorts Challenge: Week 386 Sparkle and Shine

I am not going into details on how hard it was to get a good photo of this card but was happy with this one after doing a lot of editing on Photoshop to get the colors correct.
Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Pink and Silver

Hello!  I am back with another Pink and Silver Christmas card using some leftovers from yesterday's card.  To this card, I added an embossed layer of Silver Metallic CS which I wrapped the center with Pink Vellum so the attached ornament would shown better.   I've included 2 photos to show from different angles.  It is so difficult to capture Metallic CS without glare.
Supplies Used: Marianne Christmas Bauble Die; Pink CS, Silver CS, Vellum;
Card & Papercraft Embossing Border(freebie with magazine); Silver Twine; Fun Foam.

Challenges:
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: #215 Pinks with Gray or Silver

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Snowflakes and Snowman

 

 Second Post Today

Welcome!  I am playing with some Foil Pattern Paper that I received in a magazine for Christmas.  I thought the snowflake theme paper with silver foil accents was perfect to make a card for the Winter Wonderland challenge at The Shabby Tea Room (Graphic shown on right).  I stamped a Snowman designed by Marcella Hawley with Memento Black ink and colored with Copics.  I cut it with an oval die and matted on a scalloped oval of Silver Mirror Metallic CS.  The Sentiment from Creative Clear Stamps was heat embossed with silver EP, fussy cut, edged with blue ink, and attached with foam tape.  I assembled the card with White card base, a layer of the sparkly Silver Metallic CS, the Pattern paper with Foil Accents and the image. Added some more shine and sparkle to the image with Wink of Stella and Stickles Frosted Lace.

 

Other Challenges:

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says make it sparkle. Lot of sparkle from the Silver CS.

Addicted to Stamps: Challenge #116  is Winter

Classy Cards 'n' Such:  Challenge #117  is Let It Snow...show some snowflakes on your card.

Power Poppy Challenge: Power and Spark Challenge Time To Rewind- Chose to use Pop of Pastel Challenge for my rewind.

 

 

Another photo with blue background.
Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Christmas Card

 

Welcome! Another Christmas card using stamps from GKD by Melanie.  I used the Poinsettia stamp from A Year of Flowers to create a masked border of flowers embossed with Silver EP and inked with Distress Ink Barn Door.  I then stamped a single flower in the same way and water colored with the same ink.  I stamped the sentiment from Melanie's Festive Frame set with the Barn Door ink  and heat embossed with Clear EP.   I added a strip of Silver Metallic CS on the lower edge of the card (Looks BIRL) and added pearls to finish.

 

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: Photo Inspiration on right. Inspired to use red, silver and circles (pearls) for Christmas card.

Mod Squad Challenge:  Use Silver and/or Pearls

Stamp TV: Mix It Up Monday Challenge STV15MON45 Mask a Border

The Glory of Christmas: #72 Clean and Simple

The Paper Players: Challenge 271 Create a CAS Christmas card
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra: Any thing Christmas

 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa