Thinking of You

 

I realized while going through my stamps that I did not have a stamp that just said Thinking of You. Well that just gets me going through all of my stamps to say how can I make a card with this sentiment if I don't have just that sentiment. I know, look at all of my sentiments and see if there is another I can use and yes, indeed I found one.

For my card:

• I used a scrap watercolor paper and sponged 2 different blue distress oxide inks with the dark ink at the bottom.
• Next, I spritzed water over the panel to get the rain effect.
• I then die cut an umbrella and some clouds to add to the panel.
  
• I found with the THINKING OF YOU AT CHRISTMAS GREETING - 183D the perfect font and sentiment. I heat embossed just the Thinking of You in white on black card stock and popped it up on dimensionals.

If you don't have this THINKING OF YOU AT CHRISTMAS GREETING - 183D in your collection, I encourage you to look for it in the DRS Designs shop because this can be used year-round for a Thinking of You card.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card.

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Always Something to be Thankful For

 

For my card today I decided to do an April Showers bring May flowers theme. 

• This ALWAYS THANKFUL GREETING - 040F is perfect to pair with my April showers bring May flowers theme. I stamped the sentiment in blue and then die cut the sentiment with a cloud stitched die cut.
• Next, I used the RAINDROP BACKGROUND - 1012H and stamped it all over the card base.
• I die cut the umbrella in navy and added white panels to the top and popped the umbrella up on dimensionals.
• The card was finished with a few punched blue flowers and Nuvo Drops were added to the center.

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

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Pet Sympathy

 

Every month I make a lot of cards for pet donations. I love looking for ways to make multiple cards with items I already have out and not waste good die cut negatives when I cut out a die cut from a card.

This first card, I water colored a rainbow then decided to die cut out the paw print and pop the paw print up on dimensionals over the rainbow. I added the LOSS OF PET SYMPATHY GREETING - 313E to the panel.

Using that die cut paw print I was able to quickly add it to a black card stock panel then heat emboss the same LOSS OF PET SYMPATHY GREETING - 313E to the panel. The second card was finished with a punched heart from my stash.

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

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Get Your Irish On!

 Good morning!

Hey I told you last week that you could find this little frog just about anywhere!  Here he is again, getting his hands on the pot of gold!  Could have been getting into that glass of Ale first I think!

So today I have used the Toad Made For You, Everything Irish and Irish On along with a shamrock embossing folder and a few stitched dies.  The nesting stitched circles made a great rainbow (to find that pot of gold at the end of, right?) and then I used a stitched 3/4 circle and a stitched banner die as well.

I used some green glitter glue on the shamrocks in the image and some green enamel dots on the banner.

I also used some Liquid Applique on the ale foam then puffed it with a heat gun!

Hope you like it; it was a ton of fun to make!

Thanks for visiting today!

Go get crafty!!

Robin

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Irish On!

Good morning!

First let me just say that I got this idea of the

little Irish looking derby on the frog from Karin.

This frog usually holds flowers but I covered the flowers 

with some die cut Clover from Taylored Expressions

The hat, pipe and glasses come from Karen Burniston, the rectangle frame is from Rubbernecker.

The DRS stamps used: Shamrock of Shamrocks, Irish On

and Friendly Flower Frog.

I popped up the frame and the frog.  The sentiment was one long line but I made it into 2 for the benefit of fitting in the rectangle.  Each Shamrock has some green Stickles in the center.  This card was in the style of 1 of the many sketches I have collected over the years (I think it was originally from ODBD). 

My next card was inspired by Lisa with the rainbow over the pot of gold.

The Rainbow/cloud is from Lawn Fawn, Clover by Taylored Expressions, and circle is from Rubbernecker.

I used DRS Stamps: St. Patrick's Pot of Gold and Rainbow Gold.

The card reminds me of all those Lucky Charms commercials,

So magically delicious! LOL!

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

 

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Blessing for You

 

I love this SLEEPING GNOME - 833F he can be used for so many occasions.

Today I used him for a St Patrick's Day card using the new St Patrick's Pot of Gold image. 

I started off with mirror image stamping the Sleeping Gnome image and then masked him. I then stamped the St Patrick's Pot of Gold image. Once the images were stamped I colored with copics.

Next I used a stencil and the colors of the rainbow to create the rainbow over the image. I then stamped the new Blessings on St Patrick's Day Greeting.

I finished off the card creating Photo Corners and adding some Nuvo Drops to make it looked like they are framed.

I have a second card this week. 

I just love this super cute CUPIG - 607G image and thought he would be perfect paired with the new VALENTINE DROP HEARTS - 261H sentiment.

Once the image and sentiment were stamped I colored with copics and added some white highlights to the hearts.

I die cut the wonky frame and layered on coordinating pink paper.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my cards this week. I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

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End of the Rainbow

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! It's the last day of January & not quite Valentine's Day yet, but I was in the mood to make a quick St. Patrick's Day card. The idea for this, just kind of popped into my head so I went for it. I started by stamping & coloring the image, then used my into the window techinque to cut around the top, then inserted the stitched rainbow die behind it. I colored each rainbow strip then put them back behind the image. A little Wink of Stella gave them a nice sparkle. 

Just to make it look nicer,  I added a narrow yellow strip at the bottom of the rainbow, then stamped the greeting. 

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 - Everything Irish, Gold Rainbow  (inside:Shamrock Shenanigans )

paper:  Staples 110# white, X-Press It

ink:  Memento tuxedo black

accessories: Rubbernecker Rectangle Stitch dies, MFT Stitched Rainbow die,  Copic Sketch Markers, Wink of Stella

Everything Irish 204G	Gold Rainbow 685F	Shamrock Shenanigans 692F	Staples 110# White Card Stock
X-Press It Blending Card	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	MFT Stitched Rainbow dies	Copic Sketch Markers
Memento Inks	Wink of Stella

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Lightning Strikes at DRS!

Wow.  Have you seen all the cool cards made with this new Lightning Bolt stamp?  Everyone has used it is different ways, and this one stamp has made an awesome embellishment!

Julie used it to make an awesome card a few days ago.

Sue used it to create this great nature//rain scene.

Robin did a western themed card - I can hear those horses now.

Shelia's scene makes me want to dance in the rain (maybe a little further from that lightening).

Robin created an sweet rainbow card full of fun colors.

I created a streaky rain scene and did my lightning in glitter.

Karin used a super fun sketch and doubled up her lightning bolt!

This stamp is super fun and reasonably priced (especially if you buy it unmounted).

Hugz and enjoy your Sunday!

Nancy

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Lightning Up!

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! We've had pretty wonderful weather here this week. Nights in the mid forties, days in the mid seventies. Sigh..I wish it would stay that way all summer. But I'm sure it won't. And I'm sure we'll even have some summer thunderstorms...kind of like our little Miss Froggie here.  She's thinking of her sweetie. Never mind she's about to be struck by lightning! 

My card is pretty simple. I stamped the lightning bolt then used a clear glaze pen to fill it in. I figured out quite a while ago that it will resist sponging w/ Distress inks. So after I sponged on the stormy sky colors, they wiped right off my lightning bolt. I masked the ground & sponged it then added some raindrops. I also flicked some water on the bg & blotted it w/ a paper towel to add to the rain look. Miss Froggie was colored w/ Copics & fussy cut. 

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:  Frog Sunbather, Raindrop Bg, Lightning Bolt, You Light Up My Life, Splatter Bg (inside: Wonderful Day Gnome )

paper: Staples 110# white

ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress inks stormy sky, chipped sapphire, London fog

accessories: RubberneckerRectangle Stitch dies,  Copic markers, Glaze pen

Raindrop Bg –1012H	Frog Sunbather -173G	Lightning Bolt 911H	You Light Up My Life 1057D
Wonderful Day Gnome 857F	Splatter Bg 855H	Memento Inks	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Distress Inks	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	Copic Sketch Markers	Sakura Glaze pens

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Under The Weather

Good morning!

Here is a bit of the dramatic for a get well card.  Your favorite horse/western 

lover will love it.

Best tip (do as I say not as I do, LOL!) Use a piece of paper under your hand while sponging on layers of color or you may end up with ink where you don't want it like I did!!

I stamped the lightening using a soft gray and used Black for the cowboys

using my Misti to get a very black black silhouette.

I finished the ground using torn masking tape to match the stamp ground

and sponged with black (I think you could also use a black marker

to do this step).

DRS stamps used: Lightening Bolt, and Cowboy Silhouette. 

After sponging on colors (Milled Lavender, Wilted Wisteria, Stormy Sky, Broken China, Black, Marmelade, Lemonade and Picked Raspberries [using a torn piece of paper towel to edge clouds]), I used a white gel pen to fill in the Lightening Bolt.

 The inside has the Under The Weather sentiment and Horse Silhouette (I used my Misti again for the horse).  I then used an embossing folder with a bit of yellow brayered on then misted.  I did not run it through the cutting machine as I did not want the impression on the horse so I used my heavy hammer on just the parts of the folder that I wanted to show the impression of sun rays.

Hope you like this card to make for your friends and family.

Thanks for visiting today!

Woohoo, I almost forgot, today is my birthday!!

Robin

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