BYSH Cardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party

 Welcome to the first day of the BYSH Cardmakers Falling for the Holidays Linky Party. The party runs October 20-27,2023.  Once again we have some awesome sponsors who are giving away some fantastic prizes.

Here is my first project for the party.

My card today features the A Wonderful Tree red rubber stamp from Unity Stamps who is one of our sponsors.

My card base is some MFT Kraft cardstock cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. The stamp gave me a vintage feel so that's what I made a vintage card. 

I stamped my image on some white cardstock. Since the image is a single stamp I colored it with markers to stamp it. I did have to stamp it multiple times so was glad I used my Mini Misti. Once my image was stamped I let it dry for awhile. 

While waiting for the ink to dry I made my card base. I have a paper pad that I got from Hobby Lobby that is all vintage paper. I found this diagonal striped paper that I thought worked well for my card. I cut the pattern paper to 4" X 5 1/4" and adhered it to my card base. 

I then went back to my stamped image and distressed it with some Tea Dye Distress ink. I then cut my image down close to the image. I then distressed the edges of the paper with my scissors. I then inked the edges with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink. I then adhered that to the center of the pattern paper.

To finish my card I stamped a sentiment on a scrap of white cardstock with black ink. I used a sentiment banner die to cut out the sentiment.  distressed the sentiment strip with the same Distress Inks and adhered it to the card below my stamped image with some thin foam strips. I added some small green, red, and gold gemstones to the tree.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will pop over to the BYSH Cardmakers and link up a project or two for a chance to win one of the awesome prizes. See you soon.

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Be Joyful

 

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I have another mini slimline card for you today. I recently received this Mini Slimline Diamond Wire and Wood Grain die from Kat Scrappiness and just had to use it. I think it is so pretty and I love the look it gave my card front.

For my card I started with some heavyweight white cardstock that I cut, scored and folded to make a card base that measured 3 1/8" X 5 3/4". I made it this size to match the size of my card front panel. I wanted it to completely cover the front of my card.

Next I chose a couple of pattern papers from a 6" X 6" paper pad in my stash. I am not sure of the name of the pad, sorry. I wanted a kind of vintage look. For the background I chose a tone on tone red snowflake pattern that I cut with the Mini Slimline Never Ending Dies also from Kat Scrappiness. I used the largest die to cut the snowflake paper. I am really loving these Mini Slimline dies. Next I found this vintage looking paper that looked like a page of newspaper ads. I decided to use it with the Mini Slimline Diamond Wire and Wood Grain die. Because it is a pattern paper the wood grain embossing didn't show up as well as I wanted. I ran it through my die cutting machine using the embossing sandwich and that helped a little.

To help bring out that would grain pattern I decided to ink the edges of the frame with some Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  To do this I used the Mini Blending Brushes at Kat Scrappiness. You get 3 sizes of these brushes, I used the largest and it worked great. Definitely something you want to add to your stash. I adhered the two pattern papers together using some liquid adhesive.

Next I started on my nutcracker. I found him in Cricut Access. If you have a Cricut and don't have Access you really should. I sized the nutcracker to fit my card and cut out the layers and adhered him together. I then used my Vintage Photo and the same mini blending brush to distress him. I adhered him directly to my card panel with liquid adhesive. He has quite a bit of dimension from all his layers.

I heat embossed my sentiment with some Antique Gold embossing powder on a scrap of cardstock used to cut his pants.  To finish the card I added some Gold Pearls from Kat Scrappiness. Be sure to check out her embellishments she has some great ones for the coming holidays.

Thanks for stopping by today. I love when you come to visit. I hope everyone has a safe Halloween. I hope you will come again.

Masculine Birthday Card

 

Here is the birthday card I made for my husband's birthday next week. This image was created using the draw and cut feature in Cricut Design Space. I found the image in Cricut Access. It was a Draw and Cut image already but I wanted to make some changes. I duplicated the image 3 times and using the contour feature hid the contours I didn't want so I could make the lighthouse red, the windows a dark blue, and the clouds a very light blue. I had a lot of fun playing with this one.

I found the sand layers in Access also and just resized them to fit what I needed. I cut everything out of white card stock. After my Cricut Maker drew and cut everything it was time to get working on putting my card together.

For my card base I started with some heavy weight card stock that was cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. Next I took the two layers for the sand and ink blended them with some Antique Linen and Vintage Photo distress ink. I then added some splatter to them using the same inks and a small round paint brush.

I found the blue pattern paper in my stash so not sure where it came from. I think it is from the Lawn Fawn Watercolor Wishes 6 X 6 paper pad. I couldn't find anymore of it. The corners were already cut at an angle. It was perfect for the sky in my scene.

I adhered the two sand layers to the bottom of the blue pattern paper using some liquid adhesive. I stamped my sentiment using some Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy ink. Next I added my lighthouse. The bottom of the lighthouse was adhered directly to the sand layers using liquid adhesive. Since the lower part of the lighthouse was on the two layers of sand I adhered the upper part of the lighthouse with a layer of foam tape so that it would be level with the bottom part. 

I was left with some blank spots at the top that needed something. So I went through my stamps and found the birds in a Hero Arts card kit that I bought a couple of years ago. I stamped them on each side of the lighthouse using the same Soft Navy ink I used for the sentiment. I then used some foam tape on the back of my scene to pop it up and adhere it to my card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Feel free to leave me a comment and let me know what you think.