Spring

Hi Everyone,

I have spring on my mind!  It's no wonder since we've had more rain than snow and a few days of temperatures in the 50's where I live!  

While this card doesn't have the colors of spring, it does have Pussy Willows which sure are a harbinger of that time of year.   I added some strips of glitter and the sentiment, Special Place In My Heart.

I also made a card celebrating St. Patrick's Day for a special someone, using some stamps that I normally reserve for Valentine's Day. 

The background was made using the Small Shamrock Group in two different green inks.  I stamped the Silhouette Love Heart eight times, four in the shape of a shamrock, and four more times which I fussy cut and attached just along the folded center.  I drew a stem and added an enamel dot to the center.  

I used the Lucky in Love greeting for my sentiment, adding some more enamel dots for embellishment.  And I can't leave out the polka dot ribbon and embossed orange strip!

Thanks for the visit today!

Karin

 

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Winter Birthday

 

Hello crafty friends. We are well into winter where I live and I just thought a fun winter birthday card was perfect for my friends who have winter birthdays.

For my card today:

• I stamped the BIRD ON BRANCH - 328K on white card stock and colored with copics. 
• Next, I framed the image with a rectangle stencil and sponged very lightly some blue to frame around the image.
• I then added some Aleene's Glitter Snow to a few places on the branch.
• The card was finished with the sentiment from the BIRTHDAY MULTI GREETING - 219P, created a banner and popped it up on dimensionals.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Birds, Feathers, and Sweet Thoughts

Hello Crafty Friends,

I need to build up my pile of 'thinking of you' cards so here is quick and easy one. 

I stamped the Bird Feeder with black waterproof ink and then drew in a skinny tree and a little more pine needle groupings (also using waterproof ink).  I then did a quick watercolor wash in blue adding in green to the pine needles while still wet.  The bird feeder and tree were painted next.  I finished off the base card with a splatter of leftover paint and some Distess ink on the edges. 

DRS has several fun bird sentiments that would work for this image.  I went with this Thinking of You Tweetie which I fussy cut and then sponged with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.  Lastly, I added a few feathers from the Feathers 3-in-1 image. 

Hope you have a lovely New Year's Weekend!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Wishing You

 

Good morning friends!

Today I'm sharing an old favorite, we have a Great Blue Heron in our neighborhood.

It loves hunting gophers, ground squirrels, or anything in our pond.

I always thought they liked stuff from the water, fish, turtles, and frogs, but you'd be surprised at how often he is at work hunting in the field.

I used DRS stamps: Cranes and Picture Perfect Day.

The background (tan) piece is actually wood almost paper thin.

I used MFT die to cut the Herons then popped it up, HC die to cut the sentiment also popped up, and some baubles in the corner to finish.

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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A Friendly Note...

 

I needed to send a quick note to a friend and really think this BIRD BATH - 1127H is perfect for a happy note.

For my card:

• I stamped the BIRD BATH - 1127H and the FRIENDLY NOTE GREETING - 790D with memento black ink on white card stock.
• Next, I colored the image with copics and then die cut the image and sentiment with a dotted boarder.
• The card was finished with a few gems from my stash.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Tweetie!

Hello fellow crafters!

Today I'm sharing a sweet birdie card! I love the little chickadees don't you?

I used DRS stamps: Bird on Branch and Thinking of You Tweetie.

The tag die is from IO and the embossing folder is from Sizzix which I used some Distress Ink on to make it like a letterpress.  The edges are inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink as well.

This was a simple card to make and one you could get done in a hurry.

It makes a great all occasion card. 

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

 

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Seasons of Birds

Hello Crafty Friends, 

Today, I am playing with the Bird on a Branch and the Small Birthday Wishes Greeting.  

For the card on the right, I popped up the bird and also used the Winter Trees image.  I used watercolors to make the sky and the shadows.  Then I added some Snowtex. 

For the card on the right, I watercolored the full scene behind the bird.

These were super fun.  I think I am going to figure out a few more ways to use this pretty bird. 

Hugz, 

Nancy

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Happy Halloween

 

    I absolutely love how the sky came out on this image. I decided to let this image take center stage on the card.

    For the card:

• I used the HALLOWEEN CROW/WITCH FRAME - 670H and colored it up with copics. I started with a deep burgundy at the top then red, orange and 2 yellows to color the center image.
• Next, I colored the frame a light grey.
• The image was then fussy cut and popped up on dimensionals.
• To mirror the stripes on the image I added black bands at the top and bottom to frame the image and then layered on a coordinating grey to pick up the grey I used on the image.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Christmas in July

 Hi Everyone,

It's that time of year...Christmas in July!  Every year at this time I vow to start my holiday cardmaking, get all excited about the theme and promptly make a card.  And that's pretty much where it ends. Womp womp. :(  Maybe if my goal was two cards, instead of fifty, maybe then I could reach it by the end of the month.  In any case, here is my first offering.

I colored up the Snowy Birdhouse, die cut and matted it.  I layered it onto a background made using the Interlocking Snow Background stamp and added a few punched mini snowflakes. 

For the greeting, I used some punches for the stamped Christmas From Our House Greeting and attached it with some dimensional tape.  A bit of glitter glue finished off the snowy look of the birdhouse and branches. 

Have you made any holiday cards yet this year?  Check out the Christmas stamps from DRS Designs right here.

Thanks for visiting!
Karin

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Lucky in Love

 

I needed a quick anniversary card and the FLOWERING BIRD BRANCH - 616L is just perfect for showing love with those cute little birds.

• I stamped the FLOWERING BIRD BRANCH - 616L on the card base and colored with copics.
• Next, I die cut the heart aperture out of the card stock and used dimensionals over the image.
• The LUCKY IN LOVE - 992F is a great sentiment for an anniversary card so I used that and stamped it in red.
• I finished with a couple of punched flowers that I shaped with a stylist and added a bit of pink Nuvo Drops to the centers.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Happy Birthday

 Hi Everyone,

Herre is the last of my birthday cards for my March birthday friends. I decided to use the Fuzzy Chick for a spring themed card. 

I added the hat from the Birthday Party Pig, used a flower brad for the puff on top and created the background with a few stamps:

Splatter Background

Easy Dot Background

Happy Birthday Arc

Inside I added the Favorite Easter Peep Greeting (minus the Happy Easter portion) along with a second chick.

Wishing you a happy spring season! Thanks for peeping in...

Karin

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Best Fishes

Hi Everyone,

Boy this looks like a rainy week for me, which isn't bad news, because that just means more stamping time for me!  

Masculine cards are always a challenge for me.  I usually go for neural colors or a pairing of orange and blue, like I did below.  I sponged a sky and also sponged the water, using some sticky notes, a scallop punch to aid me along. The photo makes the water look more splotchy than it does in real life, and I'm not sure if the gel pen waves show up to well either.  You'll just have to trust me on that. 

I stamped and embossed the Silhouette Fishermen and also stamped the Best Fishes Hook, coloring in the hook with a sliver pen, to give it a look of metal.  I then paper pieced the actual phrase on top. The two fish were stamped a colored using Copics and a bit of that white pen again. 

The fish came from these 2 stamps:

3 in 1 Ocean Floor Designs

4 in 1 Ocean Designs

Here's a card from the previous release that I forgot to share here on the blog.  This one is the opposite of masculine, but it's pretty simple in it's design as well.

I stamped the birds multiple times, and wrapped the panel with the ribbon, before attaching the sentiment, which was die cut.

 The stamps I used are:
Flowering Bird Branch  
His  Blessings Faith Greeting

 I then added a big gem embellishment to finish it off.

Thanks for visiting today!
Karin

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2 Cards

Hi Everyone,

It's a gloomy weather week here in north east Ohio, so I needed to spur on some spring though my stamping.  

This lovely greeting is suitable for Easter, or even a sympathy card.  It's always nice to have those in one's stash, for unexpected moments.  I dry embossed one half with flowers and stamped and colored the other side to match.  After attaching the die cut greeting, I added a few square gems to balance out the design. 

Here are the stamps I used:
Dogwood Branch
His Blessings Faith Greeting

 

Did you know that DRS Designs has a birthday stamp for every month of the year?  They do, and it's such a fun way to personalize someone's card!

Here I used the month of April and designed it using extras and leftovers on my craft table.  The chick was a spare from my place cards, the die cut grass was also an unused extra, the background stamp is always on my table, and the flower is one I didn't use on this card.  The moral of the story is, don't throw anything out!

Here are the links to these stamps:

Chick in Nest

Splatter Background

Easy Grass Background

April Birthday Greeting

Cheers to sunny days ahead...  

 Thanks for visiting!

Karin

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Bluebird Window

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Spring has definitely sprung! And our pollen counts here have been insanely high. So allergies are also in full swing. Yay..(sneeze). 

As a nod to our dogwoods, which are in full bloom right now, I used a dogwood branch on my card, but sort of turned it into a cherry branch. There are pink dogwoods, but I can't remember the last time I saw one. For my card, I stamped the bigger branch a few times off to the side of the top panel, then used a smaller rectangle to cut out the window. I used my "into the window" technique, which is similar to out of the box..just goes a different direction. The smaller branch w/ the birds, was stamped onto a smaller panel & put behind the frame. The frame is popped up a bit & I added the greeting & a little bird to it, along w/ some stickles in the flower centers. 

Here's the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs: Flowering Bird Branch,  Dogwood, Blessed Day, 4 in 1 In the Sky (inside:Blessings Faith )

paper:  Staples 110# white

ink:  Memento tuxedo black,  (Kaleidacolor Baby Powder also used on inside)

accessories: Rubbernecker  Rectangle Stitch dies, Copic Markers, stickles

Flowering Bird Branch 616L	Dogwood 1092H	Blessed Day 245D	4 in 1 In the Sky 952D	Blessings Faith 650G
RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Stickles

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Springtime Birthday Wreath

 I just love the new Flowering Bird Branch image and have been wanting to turn it into a wreath.  I stamped it a few times, fussy cut it out, an then colored it up.  I thought it would make s pretty Spring Birthday card so paired it with the Extra Tweet Birthday Greeting. 

Hope you are having a good week!

Hugz,

Nancy

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May Your Faith

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a great weekend. It has been pleasantly warm here which meant I just wanted to be outdoors enjoying the warmth while it lasted!! I did take some time to create a couple of cards over the weekend. Making cards is so relaxing for me. Here's one I created using the new flowering branch image.

I stamped the image and colored it with Copics first, then I used a cloud stencil and created the background using a light blue ink. The His Blessings Faith greeting was stamped with Versafine black ink and I smudged it a little bit. So I stamped the trio of butterflies, colored the image and fussy cut this one since it is the right size and orientation.  I kind of like having the butterfly there, but it is a tad too big compared to the birds. But I didn't want to throw the panel away. Gotta love those quick fixes we come up with!

Thanks for stopping by today. You can find this image and greeting here at DRS Design's on line shop.

blessings,

shelia

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Have I Toad You!

 Good morning!

Today I've used the Friendly Flower Frog, Have I Toad You and You Brighten My Day

DRS Design stamps.

I also used a stencil for the background from Lavinia.

I like the blue and green color scheme.

The circle die is from Rubbernecker.

My second card features the new Flowering Bird Branch, the classic Dogwood Branch

and Extra Tweet Day

I filled my background with the dog wood and stamped the Branch and 

sentiment separately.

The branch was die cut with a "cross stitch" type oval die from Rubbernecker.

My sentiment was die cut with (a very old) Spellbinder label type die.

The branch was popped up using  a foam sheet (Fun Foam).

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Chicks and Bunnies

 

                                                                        Hi Everyone,

 I last weekend was a nice one for you and yours, and that you are in Spring time mode now!  Once the Easter holiday is past for me, it means stepping outside and getting the yard ready for warmer weather.

While these two cards celebrate Easter, this cute images are appropriate for any spring time card! 

Here I made a background using the Large Original Plaid stamp in pink, green and yellow inks.  The Chick in Nest was stamped, colored, die cut and matted.  The Favorite Easter Peep Greeting was a cute match.   

 

This was a last minute card made from left over scraps from my craft table.  I had an extra Tails Up Bunny that I couldn't use when I made this card, so I attached it to a background stamped using the Splatter Background stamp. 

I had a scrap of pale green cardstock, so that was attached behind the bunny and I added the 

Some Bunny Loves You Greeting.

Thanks for visiting the blog today!

Karin

 

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Easter Chick in Wreath

 by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! This is the post that almost wasn't..Blogger was playing an April Fool's joke on me all day Thurs. Finally I was able to but sheesh! Kind of been a week of things gone wrong..internet was down for a couple of days..flood watches here, along w/ high wind alerts & now freezing temps again. 

Anyway, I have a really cute little Easter chick to show today. I thought it would be fun to put the chick inside a wreath. So I stamped the chick, masked most of it, then stamped the berry wreath. I colored all the berries in Easter egg colors then die cut it & added a scallop circle behind it. I used the same colors to color in the greeting below it.

And here is the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend & a Happy Easter!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs: Chick in Nest, Deco Easter Greetings, Berry Wreath (inside: Hope is the Greatest Gift, Berry Branch  )

paper:  Staples 110# white, blue slate, X-Press It

ink:  Memento tuxedo black (Kaleidacolor Baby Powder also used on inside)

accessories: Rubbernecker Circle, Circle Scallop, Rectangle Stitch  dies, Copic Markers

Chick in Nest 645F	Deco Easter Greetings 571F	Hope is the Greatest Gift 638F	Berry Wreath 845L
Berry Branch 301P	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Circle Scallop dies 5029D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock	X-Press It Blending Card

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