CADB Post: Christmas Ornament Card

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. The holidays are fast approaching and it's time to get started on all the holiday cards that we need to get done. How time flies! This week's theme at the Card A Day Blog is, Christmas Ornaments. Here is the card I made.

I just love snowflakes, and I have quite a few on this one. To start with I used a 5.5" x 4.25 inch white card base. For my embossed background, I used a piece of white card stock, cut to 3.5" x 4.75", and embossed it with the Spellbinders Embossabilities folder, Holiday Magic, and matted it with a piece of blue card stock cut to 3.75" x 5". I added that piece to the top of my card base.

For my ornament embellishment, I used the third and fourth dies from the Spellbinders Die set, 2010 Heirloom Ornament. I used my Cuttlebug to cut and emboss each piece, then I stamped snowflakes on them using one of the various snowflake stamps that I have, and a blue ink pad. I inked the edges with the same blue ink, and stacked them up using dimensional tape. I added this piece to the top of the embossed background piece.

I thought it needed a little sparkle, so I dotted the snowflakes on the ornament and in the embossed pattern on the white background with Crystal Stickles. It really added a beautiful sparkle to the card. I think Crystal Stickles have got to be my favorite Stickles variety, because it really does add a beautiful sparkle to whatever you put it on.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my card, and that you leave me a comment, and let me know what you think about it. I always love hearing what others think of my creations. Be sure you check out the Card A Day Blog each day for some wonderful card making inspiration, and if you like entering challenges, check out our monthly challenge, where a wonderful prize is awarded to one lucky winner.

CADB Post: Happy Turkey Day!

Well, maybe not quite yet...lol! This weeks theme at the Card A Day Blog is Thanksgiving. Here is my entry for this theme.

To make my card, I first printed out my image, this cute little turkey, and one of the sentiments that comes with the set, from McMahon Five Designs.com. I cut it down to about 3 x 3.75 inches, then colored it with Copic markers, E57, E35 and E33, for the head and body, YR16, YR61, YR20, For the lower part of the feathers, and R06, and Spectrum Noir marker,  CT3 for the top of the wings. I also inked the edges using Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Tea Dye.

For my card base, I used a 5.5" x 4.25" white card, then added a piece of the striped patterned paper from the DCWV Rustic paper pack, cut to 5.25" x 4" on the top of the front, and to that, I added a medium gold piece from the same paper pack, cut to a little smaller than my bottom piece, but before I adhered it, I attached a piece of ribbon that I had in my stash along the bottom. I then added my image above the ribbon.

I hope you like my little turkey card, and that you leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Please be sure to stop by the Card A Day Blog each day, and see what our designers have created for each of our themes. If you like a challenge, check out our monthly challenges. You might win a great prize!

CADB: Patchwork Reindeer

It's time again for another Card A Day Blog entry, and this week's theme is Christmas Animals. I thought this cute little patchwork reindeer, from Clear Dollar Stamps, was just adorable, and I'm sure you'll agree.

For my patterned background paper, I used the diagonal blue and white striped paper from the DCWV Christmas Ultimate Scrapbook Kit in a Stack, that I purchased a few years ago, so I'm not sure if it's still available anymore. I cut that piece at 5.25 x 4". I also used a dark blue with snowflakes patterned paper from the same pack, cut to 4.5" x 3.5", and used it to mat my image and ribbon.

For my image, I printed my image at about 2" x 3", on a piece of white card stock, then trimmed it fairly close to the image. I then colored the image with my Copic markers, BV00, YG41, B23 and B12. I adhered the image to the left side of the mat.

On the right side of the mat, I cut a piece of light blue card stock paper at 1" x 3.5", added a piece of white card stock, cut slightly smaller than the blue piece, adhered that piece to the blue piece then adhered both to the right side of the mat. I added a piece of light blue diamond patterned ribbon, from Really Reasonable Ribbon, with wedges cut on the ends, and added a piece of rick-rack to the middle of that. On the inside of the card, I stamped, " Merry Christmas" from one of the stamps I have in my stash.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my latest creation, and that you leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Be sure to visit the Card A Day Blog each day for some wonderful card making inspiration. Also, if you like challenges, go check out our monthly challenge for a chance to win a great prize!

Card A Day Blog Post: Trick or Treat

Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by. It's time again for another Card A Day Blog post. This week's theme is Halloween. Here is the card that I conjured up for the occasion.

To make my card, I started with a 5.50" x 4.25" white card base. For my background paper, I chose the Halloween candy print paper from the K & Company 4.75" x 6.75" Halloween paper pad cut just slightly smaller than my card base. I then added a black piece of card stock cut to 3.75" x 5", that was embossed with the Cuttlebug swirl folder and my Cuttlebug. I then embossed the spider web corner stamp from the Inkadinkado clear stamps All Hallow's Eve stamps set with my versamark embossing pad, on black card stock using white embossing powder, cut it out, and adhered it to the corner of the black embossed piece using dimensional tape.

For my sentement, I used the Trick or Treat stamp from the same stamp set, and embossed it with black embossing powder, on a piece of purple card stock cut out with the Spellbinders Die set, labels eighteen, using the middle sized die. I inked the edges with black ink, then attacked it to my card using dimensional tape. 

To add a little more scary to my card, I added three little, more cute than spooky ghosts, from the Stickety-Doo-Da Halloween sticker set.

I hope you like my spooky little card, and would love to know what you think, so if you have the time, please leave me a comment. Also, be sure to stop by the Card A Day Blog every day for some great card making inspiration. If you love challenges, you might also want to check out our monthly challenge. You might just win a great prize!

Card A Day Blog Post: Autumn Greetings

Hi everyone, it's hard to believe fall is almost here. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that school got out, and we were looking forward to a relaxing summer break.

Today, for my post at the Card A Day Blog, I have a card that I made to send in my next shipment to Operation Write Home.

To make my card, I started off with a 5.5" x 4.25" white card base. For my background paper, I embossed a piece of medium brown card stock paper with the pumpkins Cuttlebug embossing folder that was cut to 5.25" x 4", rounded off the opposite corners with my corner rounder, and adhered it to the front of my card base.

For my image and greeting I used a medium brown ink pad, the pumpkin vine and the autumn greetings stamps from the Inkadinkado clear stamp set, Autumn Foliage, and stamped them on a piece of white card stock, cut at 3.75" x 3". I colored the pumpkin and blooms with different shades of orange and yellow. Then I inked the edges with orange ink. Sorry if I wasn't specific about some of the supplies I used, but I made this card a while back, and can't remember some of them.

Before I attacked my image to my card base, I cut three pieces of brown velvet ribbon that is edged with gold stitching, cut it at about 2", then cut a "V" at the ends, then adhered them to the right side of the image. I then added that piece to my embossed card front.

I hope you like my card, and that you will leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Make sure to stop by the Card A Day Blog every day for some wonderful card making ideas. Also, don't forget to check out our monthly challenge for a chance to win a wonderful prize!

CADB Post: Embossing

Hi there, and thanks for stopping by. It's time again for another post for me at the Card A Day Blog. This week's theme is embossing, and here is the card I made following that theme.

I was making a tag album, and I was using Tim Holtz Distress Ink, various stamps from my collection, and embossing powder to make all my tags, and I thought, this would be great for a card, and since this week's theme was embossing, I decided I would use the same supplies for my card, that I used for my tag album.

To make my card, I started off with a 5.50" x 4.25" white card base. I then cut a piece of white card stock, cut to 5.25" x 4", and with the Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad, Festive Berries, I decided to stamp the words Happy Birthday on the bottom of the card stock piece, since I needed a birthday card to send to someone. With the same stamp pad, I stamped the bird images on the upper part of the the white card stock piece, sprinkled them with clear embossing powder, then heat set the images. Then using a makeup sponge, I inked over the images. To finish off my card, I added a piece of red checkered ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon, across the top piece just above the sentiment. 

Please let me know what you think about my card, I just love to hear your comments. Be sure to visit the Card A Day Blog every day for some wonderful card making ideas. If you like to enter challenges, you might want to check out our monthly challenge. One lucky winner will win a great prize each month.

CADB Post: Die Cuts

Hi everyone! It's the end of summer break, and I'm getting ready to go  back to work, and the kids are getting ready to go back to school. Wow, how the summer just seems to fly by way too quickly, even though we had over ten weeks off. Today we will be getting in one last outing, which will be a trip to the movies, before we go back in a couple of days.

Anyway, getting to the topic at hand, my card for this week's them at Card A Day Blog, die cuts. Here is the card I made.

I started off with a 5.5" x 4.25" white card base. I then added a dark blue piece of card stock cut to 5.25" x 4", rounded the corners, then embossed it with the Victoria Cuttlebug folder. For my next layer, on a piece of white card stock, cut slightly smaller then the blue piece, I cut a window in the middle using the next to the largest die from the Spellbinders Labels Eighteen die set, rounded the corners, then embossed it with the same Cuttlebug folder. On the inside of the window, I adhered white lace seam binding on the back side, then attached that piece to the top of the blue paper.

For the butterfly embellishment I used the smallest butterfly dies from the Spellbinders die set,  Les Papillions Two. I cut the bottom layer out of the same blue card stock that I used on my card, and white for the top layer. I added a rhinestone to the middle of the butterfly, then added it to my card.

I hope you enjoyed hearing about how I made my card, and try to make something like this for yourself. Please make sure to come back every day and see what our designers have made to spark your card making creativity. Don't forget to check out our monthly challenges for a chance to win a great prize!