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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Happy Mothers Day

 

Hello crafty friends. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I am sharing a Mother's Day card. I need to get on the ball and get several made as I send Mother's Day cards to my mom, mother-in-law, and all my sisters.

For today's card:

• I first started with stamping the DOGWOOD BRANCH - 1092H on acetate using my Misti. I wanted to mask off the branch to leave just the flowers.
• Once I knew where the flowers would stamp, I created a mask for the stem and placed it under the acetate to make sure I could still get all the flowers.
• Next, I removed the acetate and stamped on the white card stock.
• Once I had the flowers, I used a heart die cut as a stencil and a black marker to create the heart.
• I then stamped the HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - 826C inside the heart.
• Once I had the imagery and sentiment, I colored the flowers with copics and finished them with a chunky Stickles glitter for the flower centers.
• The panel was layered on a coordinating pink layer.

Have you started your Mother's Day cards?

I hope you have a wonderful craft filled week.

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Happy Easter

Hi Everyone,

Easter is just a little more than a couple weeks away, and I needed to hop to it when it came to working on some cards.

This was going to be a square card, but it seemed to need something else, so I ended up attaching it to a base with a punched border and some spring like polka dot ribbon.

I masked off a corner of my image panel and stamped the background in multiple green in using the Easy Grass Background stamp.  After stamping, coloring and fussy cutting the Big Bunny Face, I cut a slit in the grass and inserted him, leaving only his ears peeking out.

All that was left to do was added the Happy Easter Everybunny into the blank spot.

Happy Easter all you stamping bunnies!

Karin

 

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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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Happy Easter Everybunny!

 

Easter is fast approaching, and a fun bunny card is perfect to send to anyone. For my card today I first stamped EASTER EARS LEONARD PIG - 858G then masked the image. Next, I stamped VINCENT VAN BUNNY - 396L and CUTE BUNNY WITH EGG - 702D.

Once the scene was stamped, I used the HAPPY EASTER EVERYBUNNY - 048D sentiment. To get the sentiment all in a line, I stamped the Happy Easter portion first then used a piece of acetate and lined up the Everybunny where it needed to be on the card front. Once I had it lined up correctly, I removed the acetate and stamped just the "Everybunny!" portion of the sentiment.

I then colored up the scene with copics and layered on the teal.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week. I hope Everybunny has a wonderful week.

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Beauty of Springtime

 Good morning friends!

Today I have 2 more cute Easter cards to share with you.  This first one features my favorite bunny buns (Tails Up Bunny).  For the border strip I used Jelly Bean Jumble Background Splatter Background and Happy Easter Everybunny. 

I used a few dies too, background plaid die by Tim Holtz, card frame from Lawn Fawn

and the Square die from Penny Black.  The grass border is a border punch 

from Martha Stewart.

I popped up the card frame with foam strips.  The Jelly Beans were colored then masked to stamp the splatter over them, I used pink ink then blue ink.

For my second card:

I used the Chick In Nest cut out with a cross stitch circle from Rubbernecker.

I also used Springtime Easter cut out with the rectangle cross stitch die from Lawn Fawn.

My background die again is from Sizzix-Tim Holtz collection.

This card needed something else to finish it so I chose died seam binding in the yellow/gold

color from a Ranger Ink refill.  The front of the card it wrapped with a tie where the bow would go then I made a multi-loop bow on my (dowl type) bow maker and hot glued it over the tie.

The sentiment and image panels are popped up with foam (like fun foam in a sheet and die cut).

I hope you like these and Happy Easter early!

Robin

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A Friendly Note...

 

This card was inspired by my nephew. He is away at boot camp for the Navy, and we are all sending him happy mail.

I used this cute HAPPY MAIL - 429G stamp for the focal. Rather than using the entire stamp, I masked out the Thinking of You sentiment from the stamp and used just the image. I colored the scene with copics and then sponged some clouds.

I then die cut the banner and used a paper emboss folder for the base. I then stamped the FRIENDLY NOTE GREETING - 790D stamping that on one of the embossed lines of the paper.

I finished the card with the little yellow butterfly.

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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Gnome One Like You

Hi Everyone,

I'm still plugging along with my March birthday cards and being lazy for ideas, I copied the card I made in this post, and just updated it using spring colors.  

I stamped the Tree Slice Woodgrain behind the window for the fussy cut Peeking Gnome and used some die cut grass along with some punched flowers. The Gnome One Like You Greeting finished it off.

Embossing Folder-Darice

Flower Punch-Stampin' Up

The reason I made a gnome themed card, is because the gift is this spring colored, gnome themed butter dish :) Cute, eh?

Lastly, a personal note....Happy Birthday to my dad! 86 years young today, but not the recipient of the butter dish...lol! 

Happy Spring to you and yours!

Karin

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Bunny Buns!

Good morning friends!

I love this cute little bunny!

Bunny buns has left little eggs to find everywhere,

how fun!

Today I've used Tails Up Bunny, and Happy Easter Everybunny.

 

I also used some Elizabeth Craft Designs dies and some Amazing Paper Grace dies.

My second card is just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

Green card and a cute redheaded Irishman!

Today I used When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and

Proud Fisherman

The dies are from Stampendous.

This guy with his derby has to be Irish right?

Well, that is what I think every time I see him.

These cards were so fun to make I hope you'll do some too!

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Daisy Basket

Hi Everyone & Happy March 1st!

I've loved seeing all the bright, cheerful cards here on the blog.  It looks like we're all ready for spring to show up and I'm joining in with my Mother's Day card that's an explosion of daises.  

I stamped, colored and die cut the Daisy Basket and layered it onto a background.  For that I used the Medium Daisy Bloom and colored it to match. 

I added an embossed strip along with the Happy Mother's Day sentiment that I created using my circle punches and finished it with some glitter glue to give the flower centers some pizazz!

Happy Stamping!
Karin

 

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Un"FROG"ettable!

 

I am feeling spring just around the corner. So I thought I would create a spring card and even included a springing frog using this FRIENDLY FLOWER FROG - 1115G and some pastel colors.

• I stamped the FRIENDLY FLOWER FROG - 1115G and colored with copics.
• Next, I used an eraser to stamp the smaller yellow and green dots on the white card stock and a larger pink dot was added sponging in a circle template.
• I then stamped the UN'FROG'ETTABLE GREETING - 266E.
• I then fussy cut the FRIENDLY FLOWER FROG - 1115G and popped it on dimensionals.
• Under the frog I hand drew in some motion like he is hopping.
• I finished off the card with some punched yellow card stock.

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

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Happy “Twos”-Day

 Hi Everyone,

Happy "Twos"-Day! Yes, I made a card to celebrate this very specific day!  Did you realize that the date is 2/22/22? And if you're reading this at 2:22 am or pm, extra celebratory salutations to you!

I tried to come up with some ideas for celebratory things to do today, but all I could think of was making this card.  I colored, and fussy cut the stamped Spring Crocus, because I thought they looked like tulips.  Two-lips...get it?  I can hear the groaning right through computer...lol!

I stamped the Sticky Note Calendar and colored in the 22nd to match the color of the embossed background of my card and attached it along with a die cut greeting.

I finished it by adding a strip of floral ribbon and attached the image to finish it.

 

Thanks for stopping by on this very special Twos-day!

Hugs, 

Karin

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Gnome One Like You!

Good morning!

DRS stamps: Gnome Smile Greeting, Peeking Gnome, 

Arched Window, Vicki's Versatile Background, and Toadstools

I used a separate background piece for the inside of the window and some lace for curtains.

To do this I cut out the window panes and popped up the image panel over the background with "curtain" glued to the back of window.  It gives a little depth better seen in person.

The butterfly and mushrooms are glittered.

The lacey border is from Concord and 9th.  I used some purple pearls in the lacey holes.

My next card is an easel card done with a single die.

DRS stamps: Gnome One Like You, Tree Home Gnome, Birthday Multi Greeting

The glossy paper for the frame die cut was colored with alcohol inks first, the other matte paper for the flower and butterflies die cut was sprayed with inks first then die cut.  I sponged the edges on the card with Green Brilliance. The die including frame, card base, flowers and butterflies is from Memory Box in 1 set.

Thanks for visiting!

Robin

 

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New Images and a Dogwood Obsession

Hello crafty friends,

Some fun new designs will hit the store this weekend, and I have a sneak peak card showing 3 of my favorites.  

I saw a fabulous card Julie from our team made for a Splitcoaststamper.com challenge recently where she cut out a lot of holes and colored up her main panel with splashes and splatters.  I thought this would work well to showcase the fun new Billiard Balls (533G).  When stamping them on the base I got a stamp line so I colored and fussy cut the new Pool Cue, Ball, and Rack image (469K) and tucked it in.  There are two new pool related sentiments and I used the Racking Up Birthday Greeting on the front (498D) and the other one on the inside.  

My son-in-law is a big pool enthusiast so these new stamps are going to be a hit with him!

I have been a kick with the Dogwood Branch image and have a few more creations to share:

This one features the Dogwood branch done in a wreath and the new Chick in Nest.  My background is done with sprays and sponging and I water-colored the chick and the flowers using the leftover color to splatter on the flowers and the background. 

I bought a jar new die from CTMH and I doodled on some lines on the jar, tag, and the background panel using a metal nib dipped in India Ink (another new obsession).  I am still getting ink blots, but I am embracing them.  I also used the Happy Mother's Day Greeting on this card. 

And lastly, you can really see my obsession with the dogwood image on my Art Journal page.

I stamped and water-colored a bunch of the flowers and fussy cut them while watching a movie.  Once I assembled the wreath, it still needed something so I added in a Happy Bee.  More leftover ink splatters and a doodled border plus a computer generated sentiment that grabbed my attention this week.  

Hope your week is going well and you are finding new obsessions too.

Hugz, 

Nancy

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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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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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Peep, it’s spring!

 Hi Everyone,

I love this darling little Chick in Nest stamp, and while it's great for Easter, it makes for a great spring time hello card too.  

I attached it to a background of embossed chicken wire and a stamped Checkerboard Background in yellow ink. I covered up the seam using some lace and burlap trim, embellishing with a pre-made yellow flower.

The peep greeting was made using only the word peep from the Favorite Easter Peeps Greeting and a word bubble punch.

For my scene on this card I stamped Frog Boy Cutie Pie Kid and then masked him off in order to create the sky and river bank behind him.  I wanted him to look like he was standing in the creek catching frogs, so it tried to color over his feet and make the bottom of his overalls darker in color.  I'm not sure how successful I was, but his little face is just so cute!

I stamped the Have I Toad You Greeting by splitting it in half, to fit inside a punch and added the I Love You Greeting, that was also made using a banner punch.  

I remember picking dandelions for my mom as a small child, as a symbol of my love for her.  Perhaps if I was a boy, I may have brought her frogs instead :)  

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

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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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Frogs and Flowers

Hello Crafty Friends!

Have you seen the fun new Have I Toad You Greeting that we came out with last month?  I used it with the fun Frog on a Log (one of my favorite DRS stamps), but DRS has a lot of stamps it would look fun with such as the toadstool stamps, Frog Boy Cutie Pie Kid, Friendly Flower Frog, and the Tiny Frog.

My backgrounds were made with heat embossing and I used the Tree Slice Woodgrain stamp for the red background.  The image was colored up with water colors.  I cased a card by Cara Denise HERE when making this card. Her sketch inspired me. 

I also want to share a vintage Art Journal page I made last week with the Dogwood Branch stamp.  The vintage picture was a damaged one where I cut off the damage.  My Grandmother is in the middle in the cute skirt - I am guessing she is about 18 in the picture.  

I water-colored the flowers, sponged the cloud background and did some stenciling.  I just kept adding ink and stencils and paper until the background worked. 

Hope you are having a good week.

Hugz,

Nancy

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