Friendsgiving

Hi Everyone,

This is a super-fast to make and easy to mail card for the Thanksgiving holiday.  

I dry embossed my die cut background panel with some fall leaves and added a pumpkin pie that I made using my punches.  I simply cut out a wedge to make it look like a pie slice.

I stamped and die cut the You Make Friendsgiving Special and layered that on to a strip that matched the card base. 

Like I said, easy as pie!  

Have a great day!
Karin

 

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S’More Wishes

Hi Everyone,

 

I've been out of town, and I was overly ambitious in thinking I could make a fall card to show off here on the blog.  So, until I get back in stamping mode, here are a couple of cards I made for friends and family before I left. 

This was a get-well card that I made using S'more Birthday Greeting and Smooshed S'more.  I separated the greeting and replaced it with the words get well from the Get Well Prayer stamp.  Otherwise, I copied myself from the card on this post. 

This was a quick card that I made for my dog loving cousin. All I did was use an embossed dog themed background and made it a 4 1/4" square card, just to be a little different.  

And here is the inside greeting...

Here are the stamps I used:
Doggie Dilemma Dog with Fence

Hot Diggity Dog Birthday Greeting

I think the someone special greeting on the front may be retired, however, you can find that phrase as part of the Special Birthday Wishes Greeting.

Thanks for dropping in!
Karin

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Pumpkin Pie Memories

Hello crafty friends.

The minute someone says Fall is coming, I think of pumpkin pie.  My Dad made the best pumpkin pie with a middle layer of cheesecake.  I wish I had that recipe!  No cheesecake layer in this pumpkin pie, but it still makes me hungry!  

To make this, I stamped the Pie and Coffee image three times. The base layer also has Thanksgiving - Thinking of You. I watercolored all three images and cut out the pie and coffee in detail on one layer and just the pie on the other.  I think sponged the edges of everything with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Vintage Photo.  The layers were then stacked with foam tape. 

To make the wood look base, I scored some white cardstock and then drug three different Distress Oxide ink pads directly across the paper (Vintage Photo, Black Soot, and Lost Shadow). 

I think I am going to make it my mission to try and recreate my Dad's pie this year.  

Bring on Fall!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Birthday Toast

Hi Everyone,

Happy August!

I was in need of a birthday card, so I used the cheerful Party Toast image and took inspiration from his party hat to create the backgrounds for my card today.

Here are the stamps I used:

Interlocking Circle Background

Splatter Background

Of course, I had to use the fun matching Birthday Toast Greeting to finish it off. 

Be sure to check out all of the stamps at DRS Designs...
Have a great day!
Karin

 

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Birthday Toast

 Hi Everyone, 

One more cheerful birthday card coming your way, featuring this sweet little Party Toast and the matching Birthday Toast Greeting.

The background was made using an embossing folder (Lifestyle Crafts) and I fussy cut the toast, attaching it to a die cut square.  Some of my most used sentiments are ones that fit inside of a punch, so don't be surprised if you see me using this again and again.

I attached the image and greeting with dimensional tape, along with some fussy cut candles from

Birthday Candle Burst for embellishment.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Karin

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Smore Birthday Wishes

 

The new S'MORE BIRTHDAY GREETING - 102D is super for some fun birthday cards. I have two cards for you today with this sentiment.

For my first card:

• I stamped the SMOOSHED S'MORE - 382E on white card stock then colored it with copics.
• Next, I die cut an aperture on tan card stock and ran it through a swiss dot emboss folder so the dots were debossed.
• I then used the S'MORE BIRTHDAY GREETING - 102D stamped on white card stock then cut apart with scissors and added some dark brown copic around the edges. The sentiment was popped up on dimensionals.

For my second card:

• For the main panel I used the MARTY MARSHMALLOW AND FRIENDS - 423H and staggered it all over a white card stock.
• Next, I colored the image with copics and cut out the panel on a fun diagonal.
• I then used the same S'MORE BIRTHDAY GREETING - 102D and to get the words Sending S'MORE side by side, I used a technique I call Moving Around Your Sentiment.
• Once the sentiment was stamped I cut out the remaining layers and popped the sentiment up on dimensionals.

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

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S’More Birthday Wishes

 Hi Everyone, 

During the height of Covid, when we were all socializing outside and not sharing food, one of the things I did was make up individual packets of ingredients for people to make their own s'mores at our fire pit.  That ended up being my inspiration for today's card share.  

The colored card layers represent the chocolate, marshmallow and graham cracker that make up the delicious treat, and the twine is what I used to close up the cellophane bag.  I struggle for a while to choose an embossing folder for the background and eventually settled on using this Darice brand one. 

The S'more Birthday Greeting is newly released from DRS Designs and I stamped and fussy cut the Smooshed S'more to match.

I couldn't resist really playing off the deliciousness concept, so I took a chomp out of the corner of the S'more card by using a scallop punch on all the layers. 

Sending sweet wishes your way for a lovely spring day!

Karin

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A Birthday Toast

 Hi Everyone, 

I wish I could put into words how much I LOVE these new stamps! Super cute and punny are my absolute favorite and these are it in spades :)

I stamped, colored and fussy cut the Party Toast, and stamped and die cut the Birthday Toast Greeting before I created the background.  Wanting to make it match his polka dot hat, I inked up some bubble wrap and used that for my stamp. Green, yellow, orange and pink were the colors I chose to make that bubbly, confetti like look.  

I added a die cut frame and attached it, along with the popped-up image and sentiment to an embossed dot panel.

Cheers all around!  Now go get yourself that adorable, buttery toast stamp!

Karin

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Better with Age

 Hi Everyone,

Today's card share is a Z Fold card.  It may go by other names, but that is what it was called when I learned how to make it.  It's simply a card folded in half, with the top panel folded in half, back to meet the first fold. I like it because it's easy!

This fold gives me the chance to make two matching papers and I did that by using a grape themed embossing folder and the Bunch of Grapes stamp.  For the outside I used the Better with Age Birthday Greeting and added a fussy cut wine glass from the Pour Me Bottle and Glass stamp.

Inside I stamped and die cut the Best Year Cheers Greeting and fussy cut a matching bunch of grapes.

This is the perfect card for my wine loving friend.  

Thanks for visiting!
Karin

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Chocolate

Hi Everyone,

This card was inspired by some fancy chocolate I saw on the Web and a layout from my card here.  I figured if it worked for one card, it could work for me again. 

I used a square punch to make the candies, rounding off the corners before stamping and heat embossing the little chocolates with some gold powder. I layered them onto a stamped heart background, adding a die cut row of hearts.

The Cheap Chocolate Eve Greeting was chosen for the sentiment, and it was die cut and added to the card. 

The background stamps I used are as follows and you can find many more Valentine stamps over at the DRS Designs store!

Scattered Hearts

Splatter Background

Interlocking Circle Background

Happy Stamping!
Karin

 

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Happy Valentine’s Day

 Hi Everyone,

I was inspired by my design teammates past cards and decided to color up some Candy Hearts for the background on today's card.  They're easy and fun to color, so I simply added a matching embossed background (Darice) along with the new Double Line Happy Valentine's Day Greeting.  A few half pearls completed the look.

I couldn't resist making another chocolate card.  Last week I made bon bons on my card, and here is a regular old chocolate bar.  I'll take chocolate in any form!

I used my rectangle and square Spellbinders dies for my bar, and I wrapped it in foil and some pink paper that I stamped using Scatters Hearts.   For embellishment, I stamped and fussy cut a heart, and wrapped the bar in a piece of tulle.

I attached my candy bar to an embossed heart background (Darice) and used the new Love You More Chocolate Greeting that I divided into two parts, using some punches.

Thanks for visiting!  Be sure to stop on over at the DRS Designs store and see all of these stamps and more!

Karin

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Candy

Hi Everyone,

I'm featuring the new Cheap Chocolate Eve Greeting on my Valentine card in today's post.  I love any kind of chocolate, so I decided to make some bon bons to match up with it.   

I used a 1 1/4" circle punch and then sliced off the bottom portion to form the little truffle, and I did the same to the sentiment.  The cream colored white ones I dry embossed and the brown chocolate colored ones I left plain. I added a punched flower and little hearts to top them off.  The hearts were fussy cut from the Candy Heart Background. 

All the pieces were attached to the pink background that I stamped using the Chocolate Chip Background and pink ink.  To finish it, I added a strip of lace to fancy it up!

This is just a quick birthday card I made for my sister in law's 60th birthday.  Unfortunately any large celebration had to be scrapped due to Covid, but my niece planned an intimate wine tasting dinner for her, and the extended family and friends sent in videos.  Of course I realized I forgot to take a picture of it until I was getting ready to send it, so ignore the weird background...lol.

  

Here are the stamps I used:

Pour Me Bottle and Glass

Bunch of Grapes

Magnificent Birthday Greeting

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Karin

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Valentine's Day Baking

Hello Crafty Friends!

Ready for Valentines Day (or Chocolate Eve as we refer to it at DRS - lol)?  We are all about some Valentines cards right now, and I have a fun Valentine's shaker card to share with you. 

I stamped the new Candy Heart Background and colored it up for my background.  I also stamped it on seperate piece of paper and fussy cut some "cookies."  

It needed a sentiment so I used the new Love Your More Chocolate Greeting and cut off the bottom piece for the inside. The die took a bit of time with all the little pieces, but I love how the candy hearts look with it.  This would be the perfect card with some candy hearts, cookies, or chocolate.

Hope your week is going well, 

Nancy

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Basting and Brewing!

Hello crafty friends.

I am still on an ATC kick so I made two with two of the newest DRS Designs Greetings:  Get Basted Greeting and 'Brew'tiful Day Greeting.  I also added in the new Tipsy Turkey and the Large Beer Mug. 

Then, I added them to a card.  For the base layer, I sponged around a torn net stencil  (the same one I used on the ATC - you can see the stencil under the card). 

Here is the inside (same stencil used). 

Hope  these ATCs inspire you to make some too.  Hope your week is going well!

Hugz, 

Nancy

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Thanksgiving Blessings/Food

Hello Crafty Friends!

In celebration of my love of humor and food, I have this fun card to share today.

It features the new Blessings for You Thanksgiving greeting and the Tipsy Turkey image. I was just going to add the food, but the little turkey was staring up at me so I tucked him in there too.  Of course, he is hoping you do Thanksgiving Vegetarian style this year or consider ham - lol.  

The card bases were done with Ink, Spray, Smash and the Ink Swipe techniques. 

Hope you are having a great week!

Hugz,

Nancy 

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Popsicles

Hi Everyone,

Is there anything more summer like than popsicles?  I think not!  So I made a card celebrating that sweet summer treat.

I don't have a popsicle die, so I began by die cutting out rectangles and rounding off the top corners.  I used my word window punch for the two "indentations" on the treats and inked up the edges of all the papers for a bit of dimension, finally attaching some real sticks to complete them.

I layered them all onto an embossed citrus background, since in my mind the flavors were orange, lime and lemon. 

Lastly, for the greeting I chose the 1 Line So Sweet Greeting.

And YOU"RE so sweet for stopping by the blog today! 

Have a great one!
Karin

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Watermelon Note

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! I think Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer & when I think of summer, I always think of watermelon. So I'm using a watermelon image for my card today. The ant is a bonus, lol. After I colored the scene, I die cut it then added a black scallop frame. For the bg, I embossed the red section w/ a border folder showing summer foods & the white section w/ the companion checkerboard folder. I added a narrow black strip to cover the divide & a couple of die cut buttons. I added a little black stickles on top of the buttons.

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:  Watermelon & Friend, Watermelon Border , Friendly Note , Sweet Birthday 

paper:  Staples 110# white, black, red

ink:  Memento tuxedo black, (Kaliedacolor fruitcake used on inside)

accessories: Rubbernecker Square Stitch , Square Stitch Frame, Rectangle Stitch   dies, Misti, stickles, Memory Box Scalloped buttons die

Watermelon & Friend 798H	Watermelon Border 095H	Friendly Note 790D	Sweet Birthday 161E
Memento Inks	RN Square Stitch dies 5005D	RN Square Stitch Frame dies 5121D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
Stickles	Cuttlebug Simply Charmed 20-00611	Staples 110# White Card Stock	MISTI

AC color card stock

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Trick or Treat & Thanks

Hi Everyone,

While I'm not sure if Halloween will look the same this year, I'm hoping communities come up with some creative options for kids to dress up and celebrate safely. 

In that spirit of hopefulness, I made a card using the Ghost Family Portrait (which look like trick or treaters to me!) and the Small Trick or Treat Greeting. I simply die cut and matted both, and layered everything onto a background inspired by the colors candy corn itself. 

Inside I stamped and colored up the Candy Corn Border and matched it with the Favorite Veggie Candy Corn Greeting.

I needed a thank you for a friend, so I stamped, embossed and fussy cut the Polka Dot Flower, adding a gem to the center.  I die cut the word thanks in green, and attached it in place of the stem.  I framed it out and glued it onto an embossed background.  Super easy!

After I was done, I happened to notice that it actually looks cute in the horizontal direction too.

You can check out all of the newest Halloween stamps (and flower stamps too) over at DRS Designs!

Have a happy day :)
Karin

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Pumpkin Spice

Hi Everyone,

With Halloween fast approaching, I was running out of time to make a card celebrating my love of hot drinks. This cute Paper Coffee Cup can be decorated for any time of year, and I was remembering making a snowman type cup for this card, so I wanted to replicate that in some way for the fall. 

I made the background using an embossing folder (Darice brand) with fall words and made patterned paper for the bottom portion using the Candy Corn Border stamp and Copic markers.

The cup was made by stamping it and decorating it using the Splatter Background stamp in candy corn colors.  Then I stamped it two more times, once on white and once on orange, fussy cutting the lid, sleeve and cup, and then assembling them like you see here. Since the sleeve was orange, I used that as my "pumpkin", attaching a yellow face.  I have a jack-o-lantern die (Darice brand), and those were the negative parts left over, but I did have to do a bit of extra cutting to make the mouth fit the cup.

I paired it with the Pumpkin Spice Everything Nice Greeting that was stamped and die cut and I attached that, and the cup, using dimensional foam tape.  Since the end of the greeting states "everything nice",  I resisted my urge to add a creepy spider as embellishment...lol.

Cheers to hot drinks!  Happy stamping...
Karin 

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Halloween Scream

Hi Everyone,

I'm struggling with an injured finger, and while it's taking it's sweet ole time healing, it's been a challenge to stamp and type.  Hence, the short and sweet post.  And the super CAS cards.  Lucky for me the stamps are cute, and completely saved the day :)

This first one features a die cut along with these two stamps:

It's a Scream Halloween Greeting

Silhouette Graveyard

The stamps I used for this one:
Favorite Veggie Candy Corn Greeting

Candy Corn Border

Thanks for being sweet and visiting today!
Karin

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