Quick and easy card set

Along with the cards I’ve shown you, I gave Pickle’s teachers a set of four cards to use themselves. I decided to do a One Sheet Wonder set that I stumbled across a while back by Julee Tilman and you can find the directions on her blog. I wish I would have gone back and checked out her examples before making mine… I think that some embossing and matting would have been great.

I have to say, you can’t beat making eight cards out of such a small amount of paper, without tons of extra scraps left over like normal.
In making these I used half a 12 x 12  More Mimi SWIC patterned paper, four sheets of brown CS for bases and then scraps of kraft and white CS from my scrap bin.

For the first card I stamped my butterfly in Bordeaux Palette ink sponged everything in Burnt Umber and added some brads.



For the second card I stamped a butterfly in New Canvas on the base, added some scor-bug on the strip and colored the other butterfly with Prisma Color pencils and highlighted with glitter pen.



For the third card I added some piercing to some corners and stamped in New Canvas and Burnt Umber palette.



For the last card I stamped with Burnt Umber and Bordeaux together, added some glitter pen to the butterfly and tied on some tan floss.




Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Please let me know what you think! I hope that you have a wonderful week.

Stamps: Found Joy, Life So Big, Fun Flower Pots, Enjoy Nature
Ink: Burnt Umber, Bordeaux, and New Canvas Palette
Paper: Brown, kraft, white CS, More Mimi SWIC
Other: floss, brads, Prismacolor pencils, pop dots, glitter pen

Joy in Small Things

I have been trying to mentally step back and take a look at the broader picture sometimes and in doing so have noticed some of the small things that I haven't been taking the time to enjoy. My energetic 5 year old boy is very good about living in the moment and enjoying the little things, such as a butterfly. It amazes him, and me, how a little caterpillar can turn into a beautiful butterfly. I love some of the butterfly stamp sets that TAC carries and seem to throw them into alot of my creations!

This card is one from my June card class. We used the May and June Jubilation special stamp set, Found Joy that is only available through the end of the month.



Stamp: Found Joy
Ink: Versa Magic Purple Hydrangea, Burnt Umber Palette
Paper: Kraft, purple, white
Other: sponge, Nestabilities Labels One

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look, let me know what you think! Hope you have a wonderful week!

May Angel Blog Hop

I'm still here... spent a bit of time doing some cutting and mounting... I got a hot knife so I've learning the ropes of cutting and mounting in a new way. I LOVE the results though!

It is that time again... an Angel Blog Hop!!! Woo Hoo! This month the theme is masculine. So take a look and then follow the links below to hop on over to some of my fellow Angels' blogs!

I made two cards for this hop. The first one is finally putting that sneak peek image to use! This image is from our April Celebrate Him Promo, but keep an eye out in our next catty as I think he is coming back! I colored him with copics and chalked in some blue and green for the background.



Stamps: That Guy, Greatest Dad
Ink: Noir Palette, Burnt Umber Palette
Paper: Brown, Kraft, White, Red CS
Other: Chalk, pop dots, eyelets, chalk
Copics: 0 C1 C3 E01 E11 E51 E55, E57 R20 R24 R27 R29 B93 B95 B97 G12 G14 G16

This next card uses a sentiment from the That Guy April Promo set and image from Found Joy, part of our current May and June Jubilation! You can get this set of six for $5.95 with a $30 purchase! I stamped in Burnt Umber Palette and embossed with Transcendence clear embossing powder. I chalked with blue over the entire background and then mounted on Navy and Brown Cardstock. In real life the background is much bluer... just isn't wanting to show up in my photos.



Stamps: That Guy, Found Joy
Ink: Burnt Umber Palette
Paper: Navy, brown, white CS
Other: chalk, transcendence

Thanks for taking a look, let me know what you think! I hope you have a wonderful week!

Now hop on over to my fellow Angels' blogs to see what masculine things they have to share too!

Rita W

Heidi

Julie

Carol

Shirley

Laurie