I wanted to toy with the idea of an offset, corner circle for the image. I wasn't in the mood to make a Christmas card tonight (or any themed holiday for that matter) but I love this stamp set from Inkadinkado, "All Hallows Eve" and in particular, the pumpkins. I stamped the image with a Colorbox ink pad called "Dune" and colored it in with my Spectrum Noirs. The cover paper was a sheet I purchased (I am not kidding here) 20 years ago at, I think, Michaels. I used a sentiment from a generic stamp set I got from Aliexpress. Finally, I used some ribbon I got from Tuesday morning and some orange butcher's twine to finish it off
Long story short, we had to mandatory evacuate from the island for hurricane Matthew and a friend of the family allowed us to stay in his vacation home on the mainland. When I say vacation home, it conjures up images of a little cottage or condo. This house is GORGEOUS! Instead of a lifeboat, we stayed in a luxury cruise liner. Our house didn't have any significant damage outside of some large limbs down, but our electricity was out for 3 days and we weren't allowed back across the causeways for 2. We ended up spending all three days in his home which only lost power for a total of 3 minutes. It was just incredibly generous of them to help us out because it was a 90 year old woman, my parents and my husband and I and 3 cats. Finding hotel rooms at that time was near impossible and my grandmother wouldn't do well if we had to drive for 8 hours.
Anyway, there was nothing out there stampwise or sentiment wise for our particular situation so I made it up as I went along. I fell in love with this card and while I will be doing something with the stamp set later today, this is the technique I used to make the spinner card: Kelly Marie Alvarez - Jump For Joy Card. I do not own the slide cuts die, so I kind of duplicated the idea in my Silhouette. I found a random map and traced it in Silhouette and filled it with the Palm pattern from Summertime Designs (she no longer maintains a page). I found a picture of a hurricane and traced it as well. This was a fun card to make and I highly recommend heading over to see the technique used.
I fell in love with this stamp the moment I saw it. I was looking through some Kristen Werner cards and spotted one she did with a front and back stamp from Art Impressions. Loved it! For this one, Sarah looks so happy with her face turned up into the sun! It reminds me so much of my mother in law. She just loves spring and those big hats. Anyway, she gave us a VERY generous gift card for our 10th wedding anniversary and I wanted to send her a thank you card expressing how much it meant to us. Time to use my stamps!
Looking down from the top, it's difficult to see there are basically 5 layers to the front of the card. I stamped and uploaded to my Silhouette so I could use them as a print and cut file.
I used the Sarah front & back stamp and the Curtain window stamp set, both from Art Impressions. I colored in using my Spectrum Noir markers. I printed from my Silhouette using the reg marks, colored the stamps, then ran them through to cut. After I assembled the card, I ran a black marker around the edges to give it a more finished look. I had the polka dot paper on hand so not sure what brand but it was part of an Easter pack from a few years ago.
I opened the templates in my Silhouette and used pattern fill using the Sweetly digital paper pack from Granny Enchanted . I also used various elements for the basic shapes that came with my Silhouette. Distressed edges using Distress ink vintage photo and embossed with the Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls embossing card.
These two cards were made by request for my husband's coworker. Unfortunately, the specs were pretty much non existent. I wasn't even sure what the thanks was for other than it wasn't a wedding or shower, the recipients are hillbillies, and nothing feminine. So, this is what I came up with. Virtually identical but the strip of cardstock. The only ribbon I have is rather feminine or holiday specific so that was an ix-nay on ribbon. i didn't use any dimentionals since they're being mailed. The only added touch was the brads.
This is just a thank you card for my mother-in-law that I made using a free silhouette cut file from Bird's Cards mix and match collection. This was just made with some scrap ribbon.
