Happy New Years eve! This little card is done on a notecard ( 5 x 3 1/2) which makes the assembly very easy. I used a new set from the upcoming Occasions Mini called You Plus Me and some non-tradional Valentine colors – Crisp Cantaloupe and Baked Brown Sugar. My favorite part was sprinkling the little In Color sequins across the front. The washi tape is from Sweet Sadie. I just can’t wait for January 6 when the Occasions catalog “goes live!” Wishing you a wonderful New Year. Hugs, Fran
Love, love, love this little bird in the Saleabration set – A Happy Thing! I used Blendies to color him, cut him out, and set me on the Hardwood background. The design is the same as this card. Hope you’re enjoying the Holidays – I am! But I’m glad to get back in my craft room too! Hugs, Fran
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A Happy Thing will be available for FREE during Saleabration – January 6-March 31! For every $50 you spend, you will get to pick a free item from the Salebration catalog. It’s a really cute set, especially for Blendabilities. Here I stamped the image 3 times and colored it with Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi Blendies. The background is done with Harwood. Then I added some Dazzling Details to make the lemons sparkle! Hugs, Fran
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This beautiful set is called Indescribable Gift. I stamped the flower twice and colored the background and flower using Blendabilities. The ribbon goes through a slit in the front, cut with a craft knife.
Then I fussy cut the flowers and popped them up and added some Dazzling Details.
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Time for a sneak peek! This is From the Herd – a set coming out in the Occasions Mini starting January 6th! (Can you believe we’re talking about a new year?) This fun set has a main image and lots of cute, cute sayings. I chose to make a window card with the Oval Framelits so the animals could peek through. The Crumb Cake card stock was stamped with the Hardwood background stamp. I used a ruler to draw lines and add “nails.”
Since the image is large, I added the inside greeting to the opposite side of the front greeting. The animals were colored with Blendabilities – there are new colors in the catalog!!
Aren’t they funny? This will be a fun set! Hugs, Fran
My second card for Karen Burniston’s Design Team challenge is for Thanksgiving. I used her Circle Accordion die and lots of punches to create a turkey! My turkey is punched from Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso and Crushed Curry. The Designer Series paper is SU’s Color Me Autumn. I went around the circle with the KB Rings Frame Edges 1 and lots of Cajun Craze Candy Dots. The leaves are punched from the SU Bird punch and finished off with an Early Espresso button and twine.
Inside shows off a greeting from Mingle All the Way (Holiday Mini). I hope you’ll jump over to Karen’s Facebook page to see an “entire year” of ideas from all the designers!
Today starts the Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge for December. We were challenged to pick a holiday and make a card. I chose New Years and Thanksgiving. So here is New Years!. For New Years, I used Karen’s Katie Label Accordion die turned from portrait to landscape. The video instructions can be found here. The wonderful thing about this technique is that I could easily use Stampin Up’s Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series paper! I embossed the stars and sentiment from Bright & Beautiful in gold embossing powder and die cut them with the matching Framelits.
For the middle panel, I just omitted the line about Christmas. The little stars come from the negative part of Karen’s Star Edges. It makes a very shiny New Year’s wish!
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My oldest daughter had a special birthday yesterday – 30! This is the card I made her using Karen Burniston’s Spiral Pull Card die, Poppy the Owl character die and lots of star stamps. The sentiment on the front is from Pictogram Punches and Poppy’s little camera is from Project Life Point and Click. I added Crystal Effects to the lens.
Pull cards are so much fun to make and receive! I used the spiral included with the die and added lots of stars! To make Poppy on both sides, I simply copied an idea from Karen Burniston and made two, glued back to back. The inside sentiment is from Really Good Greetings – which is a perfect name for this set.
Beach House Washi tape is across the bottom of the card. We celebrate 4 birthdays in December so I better get busy! Hugs, Fran
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Just in case you’re celebrating National Bathtub Day tomorrow, I thought I’d share a card! The challenge is to make a card for “another” holiday in December – and I chose this one. Using the Bokeh technique, I created a bubbly background with Island Indigo, Marina Mist and Pool Party inks. The sentiment is from Amazing Birthday. To make the bubbles on the tag, I used my Stampin Mist and Dazzling Details bottles as stamps. Then, since it was out, I added Dazzling Details to some of the bubbles.
The inside sentiment was created in My Digital Studio. To play along with the Creative Crew, upload your own “holiday” card using the keyword CCREW1214HF CreativeCrew SUO. To see all the projects for this month, head over to the Splicoast Creative Crew Gallery. Hugs, Fran
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Another challenge card for the December Creative Crew on Splitcoast! This challenge was to create a window on your card. I used the Window Frames Collection Framelits – perfect! The card size is a 5 x 5 and has Ornamental Pines stamped behind it.
The candle on the front was hand cut and the flame is from the Bird punch. I “dripped” Dazzling Diamonds down the side of the candle.
The garland under the candle is made with he branch in the Bird punch – just like the flame. Tie a bow with the Cherry Cobbler seam binding and you have a pretty window card. Play along by using the keyword CCREW1214CF, CreativeCrew, SUO. Hugs, Fran
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