I’ve been playing around with a new hostess set in the new catalog called Pun Intended. These are the images in the set – a light bulb, bumble and camera – and lots of fun sentiments! These are little enclosure cards – tiny, 1/2 notecards. They are a nice way to start playing! Just stamp! Notice some new In Colors? Lots of fun for the next few days! The only way you get your hands on this set is host a party 🙂 Hugs, Fran
This 5 x 7 card was inspired by one I saw on Technique Tuesday. Using the new In Color inks – Dapper Denim, Emerald Envy, Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach, Sweet Sugarplum – I watercolored on water color paper the background. The sentiment is from Timeless Love, stamped in Stazon. I cut the butterflies from black card stock and drew the ante. And then, because I just can’t leave things alone! – I added some Dazzling Details.
I really like larger cards! Hugs, Fran
I had a piece of stenciled paper on my desk and quickly turned it into this. The paper was stenciled with stencil paste, ink re fills and glitter. The sentiment is from Tin of Cards. And that’s the Sale a bration washi tape – sniff! Just pieces – Hugs, Fran
Pick a flower (card!) Both of these cards use Flower Shop and the same colors. One background is embossed with the Honeycomb embossing folder and the other
uses a stencil and Soft Sky ink to create the background. Which one do you like better?
Hugs, Fran
Today is Day 2 of the Great Outdoors Challenge. Today I’m heading to the skies with the Elizabeth Craft Design Rainbow Skies die, Karen Burniston’s Partly Cloudy stencil and Stampin Up’s Tin of Cards sentiment. The base is Daffodil Delight – bright and sunny!
The card size is 5 x 7 with the patterned paper being 5 x 5.
And inside is the wonderful Hot Air Balloon Pop It Up!
The front balloon has a cloud at the bottom of the basket – which is the top of the Pop It mechanism.
Fly over to Karen’s blog to see all the awesome creations for this month’s challenge! Hugs, Fran
Today is day 1 of the Karen Burniston Challenge for April – The Great Outdoors – and I’m doing something new. I saw a beautiful card here by Kittie Caracciolo and I’m casing it 🙂 Here is my version
I started by sponging the top of the card with Soft Sky and the bottom with Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz. The small flower are from Stampin Up’s Floral Wings and are in Rose Red. Then I took an Elegant Eggplant marker and started making the little dotted flowers around it. To soften things out I used a white gel pen and some Pink Pirouette and Daffodil Delight markers. The picket fence is a very, very old Sizzix die (I mean really old!) and the butterflies are an old SU embosslit. The grass is from Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Edges, cut is Pear Pizzaz and sponged with Old Olive. The flowers are a mix from an SU punch and the flower in the KB Garden Bench die. The gate swings open by just creating a score line. I added a banner and sentiment.
On the inside I repeated the sky, grass and die cut grass and flowers from the front. The tree is from All Season Tree. The focal point is the Garden Bench die (fav!!) and the bird from SU’s An Open Heart. More butterflies, more flowers!
Thanks to Kittie for the awesome inspiration and a chance to try some “new to me” techniques. Check out what the other designers have done for this challenge on Karen’s Facebook page and blog! Then stop by tomorrow for some challenge fun! Hugs, Fran
In honor of Shannon West’s (from Stampin Up) campaign – I’m Bring Birthday’s back – this month’s Creative Circle Blog Hop is a darling, perpetual calendar!
The box has two cubes that can be rotated for the days of the month (remember that the 6 is also the 9), a flip top for the months, and a space int he back to hold your birthday cards so you can actually mail them out! (I am the worse!)
I used the Whisper White Heavy card stock and the It’s My Party Designer Series Paper Pack to make mine. This paper stack has 48 sheets of double sided paper in it! My balloons on the front are from Balloon Celebration and are punched out with the matching Balloon Bouquet Punch.
This card uses the bow from the Cutie Pie Thinlit, more It’s My Party paper and the Elegant Dot embossing folder.
This card uses the Picture Perfect stamp set and Blushing Bride.
And last, but not least, this card uses the Bokeh technique. You can find it on Splitcoast here.
You can get the pattern here:
To see all the other wonderful designs for this pattern, follow along on our hop! One lucky person who leaves a comment will win the pattern 🙂 Hugs, Fran
Fran Cassidy Sabad – You are here!
Whoa! It’s bright! I was just messing around with the Sunburst Thinlit Die and thought I’d see what it looks like embossed. So here it is – in all it’s bright glory! I die cut the sunburst first and then ran it through the Big Shot with Tiny Triangles embossing folder. The stamp set is Sunburst Sayings and the paper is from It’s My Party Designer Series Paper Pack. Hugs, Fran
This card is a re-do of an oldie but a goodie. I originally saw the layout from Sandy McIver several years ago. This recreation is done in Marina Mist and So Saffron. The stamp sets are Gorgeous Grunge and Everything Eleanor – with Trust God as the sentiment. It’s such a nice, flat card, even with the butterfly, making it easy to send.
Hugs, Fran
There is a cute, little pyramid box die in the Occasions Catalog that matches the Playful Pals stamp set. But the box die can be used for so much more. Here are few animals I made using both the stamp set and the die. For this post, I made a few other things – first a strawberry. Done in Real Red and Old Olive with the Basic Black marker for the seeds.
The leaf part is made with the Flower Patch stamp set and matching die. I punched a hole through the top sections and tied a ribbon to make a hanger.
Then I coated each “seed” with Crystal Effects to make them shine.
This little chick was cased from an ad I saw in a magazine – that was not in English! At first I thought it was a Stampin Up ad – but I’m not sure, since I couldn’t read it and Google couldn’t translate what was written on a photo. (I tried) The red part is a retired Boho Hearts punch (not sure that’s really the name – 3 hearts on a whale punch). The beak is a small heart.
The wings are another retired punch – but could be done in any shape that’s fairly round. Hugs, Fran
