Elephant Birthday

Finished card size:  A2, 4.25″ x 5.5″
  
Supplies:
Stamps:
 Take Pride T-1102 (The Angel Company)
Paper:
Recess (Basic Grey) – *use a different pattern for each piece -Cut one piece to 5” x 2” and cut the other piece to  4.25” x 2.25”
Hollo’s
     Cream A2 size card base and a piece to stamp main image on
     Brown 5.25” x 4” [...]

March Map Master

Erin go Braugh, and Happy Easter Egg. Instead, let’s celebrate this month making a Birthday card from the March map. I’m not that good on color combinations but you get the idea.
Supplies:
Stamps:
Large frog (All Night Media)
Mid-size frog (Inkadinkado)
Small frog (Hero Arts)
Happy birthday (Viva Las Vegas Stamps)
Finger print (Viva Las Vegas Stamps)
Paper:
White card stock
Black glossy card [...]

BUT…it’s all about the present!

February and March are big birthday months in our family. I generally try to make several extra cards to have on hand so  this week I will share some birthday ideas for cards with you.
Today lets start with a small card you can tuck into a gift bag for a child. Even though we all [...]

Fairy Wishes

Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Precocious Pixies (Faerie Song Art Stamps)
Paper:
Once Upon A Time Stack (Die Cuts with a View)
Copic Marker Pad (Favni)
Pink Mica Card 4.25″ x 5.5″ (California Paper Company)
Ink:
Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
Mocha Mama Powder Puff (Quick Quotes)
Copic Markers:
     Chamois
     Sepia
     Eggshell
     Baby Skin Pink
     Lavender
     Baby Blossoms
     Lipstick Natural
     Coral
     Green Gray
     [...]

Wrapping Hearts Shaker Box

Finished card size: 5.5″ x 4.25″
 
Supplies:
Stamps: 
Cabbage Flower (Savvy Stamps)
Tim Holtz Flourish  (Stampers Anonymous)
Paper:
Dollar Store Christmas tissue paper
Transparency Film (Arkwright)
Cardstock unknown
Ink: 
Color Box Lipstick Red ink pad (Clear Snap)
Other:  
Micro Beads (Pennywise Arts)
Clear Embossing Powder (Craft Essentials)
Heat It Heating Tool
Hearts (Dollar Store find)
Scotch Mounting Tape (3M)
Copic marking pens
Glitter Pens
Rhinestones (Studio 18)
Button (unknown)
Ribbon (Wrights)
Directions:

Cut 2 tissue, 2 white paper and 1 transparency [...]

Sweet Grass Stamps – Stephanie’s View

Finished card size: 5.5″ x 4.25″ 
Supplies:
Stamps:
 Africa stamps set (Sweet Grass Stamps)
Paper:
Coordinating cardstocks-two patterns (source unknown)
Orange cardstock (unknown)
Notecard (A2)
Inks:
Palette ink: Burnt Umber (Stewart Superior)
Alcohol Base markers (Copic and Shihan Touch)
Other:
Map of Africa ephemera 
Directions:

Make a copy of the map and trim to 4.5″ x 3″.
Stamp lion and lioness with Burnt Umber ink on the map.
Color with the alcohol [...]

Sweet Grass Stamps – Ken’s View

Friends
 

Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
‘Elephant’ stamp from Sweet Grass stamps
‘Friends’ stamp from Hampton art stamps
Paper:
White cardstock
Ink:
Tuxedo Black Mementos ink pad (Tsukineko)
Kaleidacolor Pastel dye ink (Tsukineko)
Other:
Transparency film
Brayer
Gold Leaf
Xyron machine
DIRECTIONS:

Brayer white cardstock with the Kaleidacolor ink.
Stamp Elephants on transparency film.
Run transparency through a Zyron and cover with Gold Leaf.
Cut out Elephants and place on card.
Stamp ‘Friends’ and [...]

Sweet Grass Stamps – Jennifer’s View

Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Africa Set (Sweet Grass Stamps)
Papers:
Taupe Textured Card Stock (Unknown)
Silver Textured Paper (Unknown)
Green Handmade Paper (ProvoCraft)
Inks:
Onyx VersaFine Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Grey Flannel Ink Pad (Close to My Heart)
Other:
Button (Recycled)
Paper Flower (Prima Mkting)
Rub-On Sentiment (Stampin’ Up)
Clear Ultra Fine Embossing Powder (Ranger)
Double Sided Tape (Scotch)
Glue Dots (Fiskars)
Heat Tool (Marvy)
Paper Trimmer (Purple Cow)
Directions: 

From the [...]

Sweet Grass Stamps – Bea’s View

Finished card size: 6″ x 6″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Large Elephant from the Africa set (Sweet Grass Stamps)
Crackle Background (The Angel Company)
Illuminata (Inkadinkado)
Love (The Angel Company)
Sentiment (The Angel Company)
Papers:
Light gray cardstock, 12″ x 12″, cut in half and folded to make base card of 6″ x 6″ (unknown)
Dark gray cardstock cut to 5.75″ x 5.75″ (unknown)
Pinata pink, orange peel texture, [...]

Sweet Grass Stamps – Kim’s View

  Finished card size: 5.5 x 4.25
Supplies:
Stamps:         
Elephant, border (Sweet Grass Stamps)
“Wisdom…” sentiment (Close To My Heart)
Paper:                       
Grey and Black cardstock (Bazzill)
Cloudy (Club Scrap)
Ink:                
Black StazOn ink pad (Tsukineko)
Other:
Humungo Adhesive (Ten Second Studio)
     Slate Metal
Brass Brush (Ten Second Studio)
Directions:

Start by cutting a piece of Slate Colored Metal to 3” x 3.25”.  Cut a piece of black cardstock to 3.25” [...]

February Map Master Project

Love is in the air. Love is friendship set on fire, and all that stuff. It’s also ‘Healthy Heart’ month, so lets make a red card using Regena’s February Map.

 The February map:

Supplies:
Stamps:
Big kiss (Rubber Stampede)
Tiny kiss (All Night Media)
Love sheet (Stampabilities)
Paper:
Paint chips
Red and white card stock
Patterned ‘heart’ paper
Inks:
Marvy Matchables dye ink: (Uchida)
     Pink
     Red  
Red pigment [...]

Sue T.’s Valentine’s Day Series: Day Five

 
 
 
I am going to make it easy on you for this final day. Just a bit of stamping. This card is easily duplicated if you need to make a few cards. Your kids could even help on this one.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Finished card size: 4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Birthday Builder Set 9BIRM (Amuse)
Happy Heart Day 9-8223B (Amuse)
Papers:
Recycled Brown craft paper [...]

Sue T.’s Valentine’s Day Series: Day Four

 
 
Sometimes you have to look at your stamps and think outside the box. This is a Christmas stamp I used this year. I kept looking and looking at it and thought -”hey a bit of tweeking and this makes a great Valentine stamp”. Let’s see if George notices I used the same stamp on his [...]

Gift Card

Gift Card
By: Penny Yoder    , Artistic Guide
Finished Card Size: 4.25″ x 3″
Supplies:
Stamps:
The Angel Company
Paper:
Bo-Bunny:
1 –  4.25″ x 10″ base cardstock, scored at 3″, 4″, 5″, 8″, see the template below.
Designer paper for the inside:
2 – 4″ x 2.75″
1 – 4″ x 1.75″
2 – 4″ x .75″ (for each side of the mountain fold on the [...]

Sunny Thoughts

I’m spoiled living in Georgia. We have four seasons, but winter is blissfully short. When February rolls around I am about done with cold (to me) weather and gray skies. I miss the warm sunshine and fully leaved trees and the riot of color in Summer.
I know many readers live in colder climes (and others [...]

Asian screen/shape card

Asian Screen Card
Finished card size: 10.5″ x  3.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Cherry Blossom Branch, Bamboo ( All Night Media Japanese stamp kit)
Kettle, Cup, Can of tea ( Inka stamps)
Small Asian alphabet (Bunch Of Fun)
Paper:
Cougar White ( Marco’s Paper)
Asian specialty paper (The Paper Place)
Ink:
Adirondack Earthtones Dye Ink-Lettuce
Other:
Fiskars Paper Trimmer
Blue gel pen(any brand)
Scissors
Pencil
Blue and gold Mizuhiki cord, pre-formed green and gold knot (The Paper [...]

More on Masculine Cards

Penny has three more masculine cards to share with you today.  As you can see, most of the cards shared by Penny and Melanie these past two weeks show that muted tones work well for ‘guy’ cards.  Color palettes of creams, browns, blues and greens  with a little bit of black thrown in,  evoke masculinity.   Combine these color [...]

Masculine Cards, continued

The Old Truck Masculine Card
We all do it! Keep the tiniest scraps of precious paper, rather than tossing it in the bin. Some of them are too nice to throw away and I’m never sure that I can get that paper again if it’s one of my favorites. So, it’s nice to use supplies of [...]

Faux Magic Mesh

Do you have different colored rolls of Magic Mesh in your stamping stash but never have just the right color for that card you’re creating?  I have a solution for you to get that ‘just right’ color every time you want to include mesh on your card, without having to spend a  lot of money!  Sound interesting?  Come [...]

Masculine nautical card-post 3

By Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide

Here is my next masculine themed card.  This is another Nautically themed card in a (nearly) monotone colorscheme.  It uses ripped edges so that there will be no imperfections on square corners or straight sides.  I  also looked for something to add some texture other than the ripping and embossing.   I [...]