Autumn Leaves

One of my hobbies for years has been pressing flowers and leaves.  The colorful leaves deserve to be preserved.  They are never as colorful as when they are fresh, but still make lovely cards.  I needed some cards for personal use and decided to use some of the leaves I pressed a couple of years ago.

I chose a Cuttlebug embossing folder for these cards.  I used a variety of patterned papers with a green tone.  I then highlighted the embossed swirls with Brilliance Cosmic Copper ink.  The sentiments were stamped with the same ink.

I attached the leaves with Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue.

 

Chickadee

This card was made with a stamp and die from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils.  Paper is from Echo Park.

ODBD bird stamp and die

I participated in a challenge in September and forgot all about it.  Would you believe I won a prize?  Actually, the winner are just randomly chosen from the participants.  Anyway, I won a $25 gift certificate at Our Daily Bread Designs.  Of course, I went shopping!

One of the things I ordered was this bird stamp and die.  I stamped the sparrow on white cardstock, then cut it out with the die.  Next, I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils.

When I put it on my patterned paper, it was hard to see the details without mounting the image on another color.  I trimmed off that white border that is left by the die and cut another piece out of the brown cardstock.  All this 'fussy-cutting' took me a while, then I had to glue the image to the die-cut.  After all this, I assembled these cards.

 

 This patterned paper is from a 6X6 pad called Songbird Collection by Prima Marketing.  The sentiments are gold stickers that I put on the ribbon.

Gate fold card

I have had a total loss of mojo lately.  I decided to make a fun card for a friend.  I can't actually post this until she receives it, but it is in the mail.  I'm just writing this and will post it after she receives her card.

I enjoy making gate fold cards.  The two attachments on front of card cross to opposite side for closure.  The image is from Stamper's Best and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  The sentiment on front is an unlabeled unmounted rubber stamp.  The card is held closed by small magnetic buttons that are attached between layers of paper.

It's hard to read the inside of the card in this photo.  The left side says 'Butterfly Wishes' and the right side says 'Dragonfly Dreams'.   These stamps are by the Stamp Doctor.  The center sentiment is by Penny Black.

The butterflies are made with punches by Martha Stewart and the dragonfly is a sticker by Starform.  I actually punched 2 of each butterfly.  The dark one is glued flat on the card and the gold one is only attached in center.

A few more sticker cards

These are the reverse sticker technique (see previous post) using silver stamps on pearlescent paper.  I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder.

The red card is the outline portion of a gold sticker and the gold card is the reverse part of the same sticker.

Playing wih stickers

I have been using the metallic vinyl stickers for a long time, but recently learned a new trick.  Don't ever say you can't teach an old dog new tricks!  After watching the videos HERE on Sticker Basic 1 & 2, I watched the video on Reverse Sticker Technique.  I had been using only the outline portion of these stickers, but couldn't bare to throw away in left-over inside pieces.

I used the outline part of the sticker on the red card.  I used the transfer tape to put the inside parts onto a red circle.  The sentiments are also stickers.

Here's 2 more cards that I made with the left-over parts from some stickers I used long ago.

These 2 cards really are different colors of gold paper from my scrap box.  On the red sticker, I added color to the gold sticker with a Sharpie marker.  You can learn about this technique in the video about Adding color to Peel Off Stickers.
I'm still working on my half and half box for the OWH Card Drive, so I made 2 holiday cards and 2 thinking of you cards.  I will have to mail the box early this week, so I need to keep the numbers even.

OWH Card Drive

I'm still trying to finish enough cards for the OWH Card Drive.  I made 2 of each of these today.

Thanksgiving

I was getting cards ready to mail to Operation Write Home for the Card Drive when I discovered that I didn't have enough holiday cards.  I made up a few more Thanksgiving cards, but they need to be mailed soon.  Deadline for them is the end of this month.

The sentiment is a very old stamp from Stampendous, cut out with Nestibilities die.  The paper is from Paper Studio.

Another turkey

I made a second turkey card, but stamped it on flat marbled cardstock.  I also popped it on some dimensional foam.  I also cut out the sentiment with a Nestie tag die and used different ribbon.

These stamps are from Serendipity and the paper is from MME.  I stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored image with Prismacolor pencils.

Turkey time

I'm trying to complete my box for the OWH Card Drive.  We are supposed to make half holiday cards and half general cards (missing you, thank you, thinking of you, etc.).  I haven't managed to make enough holiday cards.  Since I'm having trouble with Christmas cards, I decided to try Thanksgiving cards.  Here's my first attempt.

I stamped this turkey on some watercolor paper that I had tea stained.  The image is hard to color because of all the texture in the paper.  There's a lot of fruit and veggies on the ground and they are hard to see them on this paper.