January Cards for Papercrafting Group

We meet Monday to make some cards for ourselves, for the Outreach Committee to send and/or for sale at the clubhouse.  It was almost 60 degrees so I could spend some time in my basement studio without freezing.  I turned on the space heater, wrapped in a blanket and put on some heavy socks and thick-soled shoes.  Some coffee and leftover Christmas candy helped too!

The first card uses a frame die-cut to highlight some floral stamps.

 

 

The flowers (dahlias?) were stamped with a rock and roll technique. Press the stamp design on one color stamp pad and roll the edges around in a different color. I stamped lines of handwriting over the blooms with Papertrey Ink's Fine Linen stamp cube for an antiqued look.

 

 

The paper frame was two-sided paper. Either side could be used as the frame.  I chose the dark solid color for the sample, but will make another with the lightly patterned paper as the frame.

 

 

I finished with a script For You stamped in Papertrey Ink's Chocolate Chip and then sprayed the stamped area with Smooch Spritz in gold for some shimmer.

 

 

The dark frame could use a gold bow at the bottom to anchor the design. I might add that to the kit!

 

The second card uses color contrast instead of shimmer.

 

 

I stamped three feathers in purple, blue and green on the white sentiment band

and anchored it with a bright green scallop

to match the ribbon and first layer of the backgrounds on the black card.

 

 

 

The bright green layer is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder D'Vine Swirl. The scallop die cut is from Papertrey Ink. The sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up--and the

sheer ribbons in purple and green are from Christmas Tree Shoppes.

 

Two pretty, quick cards to make with items already in my stash!