Butterflies Soar

Big Shot, Cards, Love & Sympathy, Pop It Up
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Here’s my next card for the “fly” challenge – and it was very hard to photograph!  I used the Quatrefancy DSP acetate to make the base for this Butterfly Pivot card.  It’s beautiful in real life, but was a bear to photograph.  The accent paper is Gingham Garden and the sentiment is from Love & Sympathy. 

Here’s another photo that helps you see the acetate – maybe

Supplies
Stamp Set – Love & Sympathy
Cardstock – Quartrefancy acetate, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Gingham Garden DSP
Ink – Pear Pizzezz
Etc – Buttery Pivot die and accessories, Word Window punch

Hop over to Karen’s blog to check out all the challenge cards!  Hugs, Fran

Fly Away

A Dozen Thoughts, Big Shot, Cards, Graduation, Holidays, Mini Catalogs, Occasions Mini, Pop It Up, Really Good Greetings, Stamp Sets
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There are lots of things to celebrate at this time of year!  The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Team was challenged this month to use the word “fly” as their inspiration.  I started with the inspirational sentiment from Really Good Greetings – thinking “graduation” – and did this card.  

I paper pieced a hot air balloon and added it to the Lucy Label insert.  I love this insert because you can use it for anything!  The “bravo” is from  A Dozen Thoughts.  The Lace tape is retiring – hurry!  Then I added a little line of flags to help celebrate the big event.  Here’s a look at the “mechanics” of the card –

Supplies
Stamp Sets – A Dozen Thoughts, Really Good Greetings
Cardstock – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Watercolor Wonder DSP
Ink – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango
Etc – Lucy Label die, 1 3/4″ circle punch, Candy Dots, Doily tape, flag punch

Celebrating is a lot of fun!  Hugs, Fran

Tattered Field Flowers

Cards, Field Flowers, Stamp Sets, Techniques
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My goodness – there’s less than 2 weeks before the new catalog!  This technique was done by tearing 2 pieces of paper to make a mask on either side of where you want your color.  I applied the colors with sponge daubers and then over stamped the color with the now retired Netting Background stamp.  Remove the masks and stamp your Field Flower inages and embellish.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Field Flowers, Netting
Cardstock – Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink – Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight
Etc – Spong Daubers, embossing folder, butterfly punch

I saw this technique on Sudsol, a demo site, and cased the design.  Hugs, Fran

Easy Love (& Sympathy)

Cards, Love & Sympathy, Sneak Peek, Stamp Sets, Work Of Art
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Love & Sympathy 03

Here’s a quick and easy sympathy card using Love & Sympathy and Work of Art.  From the bottom up it’s Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, So Saffron stamped off, and Soft Sky.  The image and sentiment are done in Jet Black Stazon.  Think of all the color combos you could try!

Supplies
Stamp Set – Love & Sympathy
Cardstock – So Saffron, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink – Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, So Saffron stamped off, Soft Sky.  Jet Black Stazon
Etc – Subtle Candy Dots

Sometimes you just need things to be easy!  Hugs, Fran

Different Fonts

Another Thank You, Cards, Sneak Peek, Stamp Sets, What's Your Type
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This is the same card as this one – the only difference being the size of the sentiment on the front.  Using the larger image really makes this card “pop!”  (and the Silver Glimmer stars help, too!)  It’s amazing the different looks you can get just from changing the sentiment.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – What’s Your Type (available starting June 2), Another Thank You
Card stock – Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink – Tangerine Tango, Coastal Cabana. Island Indigo
Etc – Retro Fresh washi tape, star punch

I’ve been a bit hit or miss lately as I help my parents move.  Hope you’ll just bare with me.  Hugs, Fran

Zoo Babies

Birthday, Cards, Holidays, Remembering Your Birthday, Stamp Sets, Zoo Babies
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This card is a combination of several baby cards I’ve seen using this stamp set.  I chose to make it into a birthday card – a belated birthday card!  Unfortunately, I need lots of these.  This is an easy card – and an easy layout.  It’s great for show casing all kinds of images.

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Zoo Babies, Remembering Your Birthday
Card stock – Basic Gray, Neutral DSP, Smokey Slate, Pool Party
Ink – Smokey Slate
Etc – Pennant die, 2 1/2 circle punch, ABC embossing folder, button, baker’s twine

I’m cleaning up my office today.  Between old and new – it’s a mess!  Hugs, Fran

Bloom With Hope

Big Shot, Blendabilities, Bloom WIth Hope, Cards, Embossing Folder, Sneak Peek, Stamp Sets
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You are going to WANT to have a party!  This set is one of the hostess sets that will be available in the new Annual Catalog.  It’s called Bloom With Hope and has 11 stamps – flowers and sentiments – that are just waiting to be colored with your new Blendabilites.  I did this one with the Cherry Cobbler markers.  Do you see the new Mossy Meadow In Color card stock?  Beautiful!

Supplies
Stamp Set – Bloom With Hope
Card stock – Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow
Ink – Memento Tuxedo Black
Blendabilities – Cherry Cobbler
Etc – embossing folder (retired) 2 1/2 circle punch, Modern Label punch

This is going to be one of my favorites! Hugs, Fran

Pretty Hamburgers

Big Shot, Big Shot Hamburger die, Daydream Medallions, Daydream Medallions Framelits, Sneak Peek, Stamp Sets
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Hamburgers for everyone!  I mean hamburger boxes.  These little cuties are one of the new Big Shot dies in the upcoming 2014-16 Annual Catalog.  They are small – the bottom measuring 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 – and oh, so cute.  I added a die cut top using the Daydream Medallion Framelits and acetate from the Quatrefancy Specialty paper.

Supplies
Stamp Set – Daydream Medallions
Cardstock – Soft Suede
Ink – Versamark
Etc – Big Shot Hamburger die, Daydream Medallions Framelits, Blushing Bride Chevron Ribbon

After some experiments, I found that this die goes together best using glue.  It’s a “medium” difficulty simply because there are pleats.  Definitely worth the extra effort.  Hugs, Fran

Stamp a Ma Jig Thanks

Cards, Gorgeous Grunge, Lots of Thanks, Stamp Sets
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Last night my Tool Time class was about the Stamp a Ma Jig and this is the card we did.  Not only did we line things up all over the place, but we did a little “ombre” stamping. 

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Lots of Thanks, Gorgeous Grunge
Card stock – Whisper White
Ink – Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe
Etc – sequins, Stamp A Ma Jig

Make sure to check out the Weekly Deals for this week!  Some of my favorite things happen to be on it!  Hugs, Fran

In This Together Sneak Peek

Blendabilities, Cards, In This Together, Sneak Peek, Stamp Sets
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Here’s another card featuring Blendabilities.  This set is called In This Together and it had 3 cute images celebrating friendship.  I used every color of Blendabilities that I have to color this!  Inside I put a gift card

Supplies
Stamp set – In This Together (available June 2)
Card stock – Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana
Ink – Memento Tuxedo Black
Blendabilities – Rich Razzleberry, Delightful Daffodil, Old Olive, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Etc – 2 1/2 circle punch, Pansy punch, Brights, button, Baker’s twine, Brights Candy Dots, Arrows embossing folder

These Blendabilities are going to be fun!  Hugs, Fran