I love this sentiment. It's a good reminder. :-) This is just a simple card layout using a stamp image and sentiment by Clear Dollar stamps, stamped using Memento ink and colored with Prismacolor markers. The corners were cut with decorative scissors from the dollar store.It's been busy here. The computer has been tied up with our conversion of analog video into digital media. Can I just interject here that I love the Mac for this?! Wow, it's been so slick! We'd tried for years to do this using Windows and the PC but finally gave up and gave in. That was a great move! This has been so easy! The girls and I have had a ball going through the years of videos from when they were very small. Nice trip down memory lane, which explains in part why I've been scarce here. I've also been on a self-imposed spending moratorium which has been surprisingly easy to live with. I have enough supplies to last me for quite a while! I've found that if I'm not shopping, I'm not wasting as much time online browsing what's out there as far as merchandise and new product, and I spend more time actually stamping. What a concept! LOL! Of course that's easy for me to say since I preordered the new Cuttlebug embossing folders etc ages ago. Hopefully some of those will be landing soon.Ahhh, it's time to follow the turtle's advice and take some time to enjoy life. :-)
What a great time to be able to join back in the daring cardmakers challenges! The challenge is to create a card inspired by this week's tempting template, and as an added incentive, a January Pesto Paper kit is being offered as a spot prize. So, here's my card for the Paper Pesto Challenge.
The patterned paper is American Crafts Bruschetta. I embossed it with the Floral Fantasy Cuttlebug A2 embossing folder. I used that same folder to emboss the piece of cardstock with my sentiment. The sentiment is from a Studio G clear stamp set. Fun card sketch with lots of possibilities!
I'm on a roll! LOL!
This is a card that I made using the new Cuttlebug A2 embossing folder, Floral Fantasy. I used it on both the purple layer and the white layer. On the purple layer, I noticed that the embossing seemed to be the opposite of what I'd expected. For the white layer I flipped the embossing folder over before putting in my stamped and colored cardstock to be embossed. It's just a matter of preference. The stamped images are from a Studio G clear stamp set. The flowers are Primas.
One of my personal challenges has been to use up some of these scraps that I'd had left over after all of my holiday crafting projects. So far so good! I'm making quite a dent in this pile of scraps.
Thanks to Happy Scrappin' Scrapbooking, I was a happy stamper last night. Some time last fall I'd preordered some of the newly released Cuttlebug A2 embossing folders. They were mailed out last Friday and landed here yesterday. I may not have posted much at all lately, but these got my creative juices flowing. They're such fun!On this first card I used the new Birds and Swirls embossing folder on metallic blue cardstock. I then used a new Quickutz bird die for the bird and embossed it with the Goosebumpz curls. The sentiment is from a clear set of Studio G dollar stamps.
I used a couple of embossing folders on this second card, the Swiss Dots for the border and the Diamonds in the Rough for the main part of the card front. I accented the embossing with some Nick Bantock Damson plum ink and stamped the sentiment with that same ink. The sentiments came from another clear set of dollar stamps. I embellished them a bit with Copic spica pens. The sparkle looks great in real life, but isn't as pronounced in photos, unfortunately.
I have several more of these new embossing folders that I haven't used yet. I hope to find more time today to try them out.
