Polaroid 2-Step Masking technique card

This week I have participated in 2 challenges.  This 2nd one is at Nicole Heady's, Papertrey Ink, blog.  She has a video HERE with directions to make this card.  I followed it pretty closely.  I don't have the stamps she used, so I had to use what I have.  My background is paper, not stamped like hers.  I used the green paper from Holiday Cheer, PTI.  It is not very Christmas'ey so it worked well.  My stamps are Beautiful Blooms II and Blooming Button Bits.  I used Spring Moss and Berry Sorbet ink.  Instead of ribbon I used the Double Ended Banner with Berry Sorbet paper. 

This was my first attempt at this technique, just like the window card.  Again, a little practice wouldn't hurt but it still a nice card.

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Susan

Summer Card Camp 2011

This card is for the Card Camp Color Challenge and is one I made from Jennifer McGuire's tutorial.  You can see the colors we were to use from the 5 dots on the logo above.  My card base is 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  I stamped the card front with Hero Arts Life of the Party Dots background stamp.  I used PTI Spring Rain ink.  I took PTI Mat Stack 1 die and cut a window in the front of the card.  A piece of re-cycled acetate from packaging was stamped with StazOn black ink.  The sentiment is a Stampendous cling rubber stamp.  That was adhered to the back of the front.  A piece of white cardstock, slightly smaller than the front was also cut with Mat Stack 1 and adhered to the back of the front to cover the edges of the acetate.  A frame was made with the orange cardstock.  I took Mat Stack 5 cut the paper, taped Mat Stack 1 to the center and ran that through my Vagabond.  I glued it to the edge of the window.  2 flowers were cut with Beautiful Blooms II #3 and white cardstock.  They were stamped with the coordinating stamps using Sweet Blush & Plum Pudding ink.  These flowers were adhered with pop dots at the corner of the window. 

This was my first attempt at making a window card.  It turned out OK, a little practice wouldn't hurt!
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Susan

Raspberry Fizz Card

This 5x7 white cardstock base card uses a strip of PTI Raspberry Fizz paper.  It is the prettiest, bright and cheery paper I have.  I LOVE it.  I took a Bazzil solid cardstock that matches it perfectly to cut the solid components of the card.  I used PTI Eyelet Lace Border and Medium Scallop Border dies.  The flower is from Cricut Cake Basics.  It is cut at 3".  A pink Rhinestone is set in the center and it is adhered to the card with pop dots.  At the bottom of the card I used PTI Fillable Frames #8 die & stamp.  Raspberry Fizz ink was used to stamp the frame & sentiment.  That piece was adhered with pop dots, too. 

Simple but pretty with the awesome PTI border dies and BEAUTIFUL paper.

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Susan

Hero Arts Large Flower Card

This card is made with Hero Arts Large Flower Stamp.  It is an older stamp but I still really like it and you can get it Here .  I have a lot of supplies from years of stamping, card making and scrapbooking.  I really do try and occasionally get out some of my things that I really loved when I bought them and put them to use!  This stamp is one of them.  The card base for both cards is 5x7 white cardstock.  The front panels are 4 3/4x5 & 4 3/4x2 1/4.  The pink card is made with American Crafts paper & the green one is Stampin Up Rockabilly.  That too is an old paper but I still like it.  The 2 panels were adhered together and ribbon was tied in a knot at the seam.  The pink ribbon is from Hobby Lobby, the black from Michael's.  The panels were adhered to the card front.   The flower stamp was used on white cardstock in coordinating colored ink.  I used my Dove blender pen to color between some of the lines.  A button with a pink rhinestone was adhered to the center of the pink card.  A sentiment box was made for the pink card but left blank so it can be used as needed.  The green one was stamped with a sentiment is black ink. 

Very simple cards.

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Susan

Birthday Card

This is a simple little Birthday card.  I used a piece of my favorite paper from Me and My Big Ideas ~ 12x12 Journey pack.  It is the same paper pack I have used in the travel themed cards from past posts.  I used a scrap.  The card base is 4 1/4x5 1/2 white cardstock.  A piece of 4x5 1/4 white cardstock was embossed with Tim Holtz Gridlock Texture Fades embossing folder.  Button twine was wrapped around the top of the card and the panel was adhered to the embossed piece after it was adhered to the card front.  A doily was cut with white cardstock and PTI Doily Details die.  A piece of the panel paper was cut with 1 3/4 circle punch.  It was stamped with Fresh Snow ink with PTI 2011 Birthday Tags and was placed in the center of the doily and adhered with pop dots to the card front. 

Clean and Simple!

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Susan

Butterfly card

This card is one I copied from Dawn McVey.  It was on the front cover of July Stamping Magazine, here .  I thought is was a BEAUTIFUL card!  But, as you probably know, I think all of Dawn's cards are beautiful!  It is also a simple card.  The card is 4 1/4x5 1/2.  I used some old white cardstock I had that has colored sprinkles all over it.  I cannot remember what is is called or if they still make it.  It has a 4" white doily adhered to the front.  The doilies are easily found at Hobby Lobby or Michael's.  The top one more mimics Dawn's.  I took PTI Happy Spots paper in 5 colors and used PTI Love Lives Here butterfly die to cut it.  They were all mounted on pop dots and staggered up the left side of the card.  PTI Double Ended Banner was used to cut white cardstock.  It was stamped with a sentiment and adhered with pop dots to the bottom right side of the card.  That is it!  Easy peasy!  The 2 bottom cards were for my Cricut/card class, so I used the Cricut to cut the paper. This paper is also some I have had in my stash for a long time.  I happened to have 5 colors of the same style.  I used Cricket cartridge ~ Paisley ~ Umbrella page 48, Button key ~ cut at 1”.  I used Ranger Liquid Pearls, White Opal, to form 3 pearls down the center of the butterfly.  Otherwise the steps are the same.  Dawn used the coordinating stamp for the die from Love Lives Here.  That is the main difference, besides the fact she is AWESOME and gets published most every month!

It is a super simple, but very pretty card!

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Susan

Hero Arts Antique Writing Card

 Here are 2 versions of a card made with the BEAUTIFUL Hero Arts Antique Writing stamp.  This card is based on a card posted by Debbie Olson a Papertrey Ink designer.  She is amazing and I fell in love with this card.  It is a greeting card size 5x7 white cardstock.  The stamp is 4.5" x 5.5", so I cut my cream cardstock the same size.  It is stamped in Dark Chocolate ink.  The edges are distressed with the Tim Holtz distresser.  That piece was mounted on Dark chocolate cardstock just slightly larger than the cream piece.  A second piece of cream cardstock was stamped from the area of the large butterfly.  I colored the butterfly with colored pencils, swiped it with a VersaMark pen and rubbed Pearl Ex ( this is an older version of Perfect Pearls) on the butterfly.  I cut out the butterfly and applied some brown jewels to the spots and body and to the smaller butterflies on the panel.  I also took my finger and touched some of the gold Pearl Ex on those butterflies. I wrapped a plum colored ribbon length ways around the panel.  The card front was stamped with PTI Fancy Flourishes in Tim Holtz Antique linen ink.  The panel was adhered to the card front and the butterfly was mounted on pop dots.  PTI Double Ended Banner was used to cut white cardstock and a sentiment was stamped in Dark Chocolate ink.
This is a really pretty, classic card.  The stamp is just GORGEOUS!
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Susan