GNOME CARD

 

We are back to mild weather for December with it being about 40F most days, but cooler at night. Possible snow tonight but then rain on the weekend. It’s doubtful we’re going to have a white Christmas.

Because of the postal strike here in Canada, I didn’t mail out any cards. I made a few but not as many as I usually do as no one wanted cards they couldn’t mail out. I made some Christmas cards featuring gnomes that I made last summer so they would be ready when I wanted to make Christmas cards. One of the gnomes didn’t look Christmasy so I decided to make him into a birthday card instead. This is what I came up with.

This particular gnome die has him sitting down so I cut a snowbank for him to sit on and another one near the bottom. I added a snowflake to his hat. Every piece of the gnome has to be cut out separately; inked and then assembled. That’s why I made them in the summer instead of one at a time when making Christmas cards. I have another die that says “happy Winter” and used yet another die for ‘Birthday’. The background was white cardstock that was lightly sponged with blue ink. I then pulled out a very old glue pad and stamped the snowflakes with glue and sprinkled on glitter.

That’s all for a mild Thursday on December 19.

Cheers

Violet

 

An Owl Card

 Yet another week has flown by. Lots of rain but no snow. It was way above normal temperatures for a couple of days…as long as you were out of the wind! I finally got my Christmas cards finished and they will be off the to post office tomorrow. Can’t post them yet as some of the recipients check out my blog.

 But, here’s a card you might enjoy. I had fun making it and I remember thinking to myself, “Not sure I’m crazy about this one. Its cute and I love owls but who is going to like to get this one” and then my friend saw and loved it and wanted it. Happens all the time.

                                  
The owl is a new die I recently bought. I do love owls and couldn’t resist it. I didn’t put a greeting on it but I think it had a birthday greeting inside. There is a checkered background, wood grain paper, same paper as background on a slant; lined paper and then the owl. All the paper have inked edges with brown ink. I wanted a rustic look, but not grunge. The wood grain paper is actually brown cardstock that I ran through a wood grain embossing folder but I sponged on dark brown ink on to the folder before running it through. Gives it more texture.

 The owl took a bit of cutting and assembling but I enjoy making these and once it was made, it was a quick card to put together.

 That’s all for a cool but not cold Sunday, December 10, 2023.

Cheers

Violet

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A Birthday Gnome Card

 Another weekend over and we didn’t leave the house. For some unknown reason neither one of us are sleeping well so we wake up tired and groggy with limited ambition. I did make a few cards but that’s about all I accomplished. Joe did laundry - yeah, exciting couple we are.

I’ve been trying to purge and organize the crafting supplies (without buying a lot of new containers, etc) but it got so confusing I had to walk away from it. The only system I like so far is the sentiments. I actually (some of you will faint when you read this) cut apart my stamp sets. All and any sentiments that were stuck in with flowers or butterflies, etc. were cut out and and all placed on sheets of photo paper. Yes, they stick to photo paper. I stamped them or taped the plastic picture if it was still there on to a piece of copy paper and then stuck the stamp in the same spot on the photo paper. Now I know where each stamp is. Here’s one sample...sorry about the glare.

 

These were the large stamps for weddings or anniversaries. I thought they would show up better than all the small ones. It was a fair amount of work but I’m glad I did it. I used to get so tired of looking for a particular sentiment and not remembering exactly what stamp set it was with. Now they are all together.

But then it got confusing! Some larger flower sets were in large binders; some singles in small binders; some large square ones in containers. I have to sit down and sort out one system for all of them. But I really don’t want to buy expensive containers or envelopes for them. I’ve watched so many videos on YouTube and Pinterest but I don’t have their room, or money to do what most of them do! Oh well, they aren’t going anywhere and are no more mixed up than before I started purging.

So, this is one of the cards I finished today.

                                    
The gnome is from IO  (Impression Obsession) and was fun to put together. The diagram had everything flat. Not my style. So I die cut one image to use as a base. Then I die cut the hat twice, trimming away the brim on the second one. Inked the edges and then glued the brim on top of the first hat. This makes it more dimensional in real life. The arms/hands gave me a bit of a problem….keeping in mind I’m tired and groggy making these. When I die cut both hands and held them to where I wanted them to be, the hand waving was backwards. After a few ‘duh’ tries I realized I just had to cut one hand twice so the thumb would point in the right directions. If both were facing down, than one hand from each die would work.

 I didn’t like the beard being just white so I tried a couple of things but nothing looked ‘beard-like’ so I just laid a piece of white paper down on a mat made for embossing and drew lines. It doesn’t show in the photo but in real life you can see the lines…..I’m fussy, I know.

The hands and arm are one die cut as well but I die cut them twice from different paper; cut the mitts off and glued them one. He is a sitting gnome so the shoes are just die cut and glued on. I added some leaves and a gem to his hat. He is sitting on a die cut crate which I deliberately glued the back on upside down so it would be flat. Otherwise, he would be crawling out of it which I didn’t want. The gnome is attached with dimensional glue dots so he not flat on the paper.

The sentiment was then stamped and some red gems around it. The background paper was from a 6” pack I just cut down to 4 x 5.25 and then sponged green ink around the edges. It was then mounted on a green card base. Whew! Done.

That’s all for a fairly cold (frost almost every night now) Sunday, November 19, 2023.

 Cheers

Violet

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Gate-fold Card

 I’m finally back with another post! Life has been busy, mostly good, but not all. My ‘golden years’ seem to be a but rusty. My hip flexor problem is not completely healed so my usual summer time activities are very limited and then yesterday I had to have a biopsy on my thyroid. Ouch. My neck is a bit sore today so it’s a ‘do something that doesn’t aggravate your neck’ day. Always something. Now, that’s the bad news, the good news is I won an award from the city for my garden; had my photo taken with the mayor; and a $20 gift certificate from the nursery that sponsored the contest. Cool! More plants!

Today’s card is a little different than my normal ones because instead of making an A2 size card,  it’s a gate-fold card . I don’t make many of those and I don’t know why. This may change.

                                      
I like to put a band around the cards to hold them together. The sticker is from a dollar store sticker pack of flowers. I had no idea what to use this for and it sat alone in the package, until now!

And here is the card with the band off and laying beside the card - which was supposed to be cropped out but I forgot to do it.

The photo on the left is one I took in my garden. It’s not a dandelion but a tall Allium that is going to seed. I like them and I have several.  However, it looks like a dandelion so I went with it. It was mounted on the soft brown cardstock which is the same as the background on the right side. However, the rights side was run through an embossing folder with all the grunge dots. The sentiment was die cut a couple of times; glued together and then onto the card.  Once its opened, the greeting is in the middle in the inside. I may start making more of these.

 That’s all for a nice, but not great day -the wind is keeping the temperatures down a bit. Our temperatures are more in the average range again, instead of high.. but we need a good rain. May was the driest month in over 100 years.

 Cheers

Violet

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Three Cards today

     We finally had a couple sunny days here in Ontario but rain predicted for Thursday night and most of Friday and then snow on Saturday and the temperatures will drop to just above freezing on Saturday as well. It is not feeling much like spring yet.

    Today I’m posting three cards all made with the same stamp but one was just inked with black ink while the other two were inked with VersaMark and then white embossing powder and heat set. Which one is your favourite.

      All three backgrounds started out as white cardstock and had various Distress Inks sponged on them and then water was splattered on; let dry for a few seconds; then a towel was placed on top to absorb the excess water which leave those lovely white splashes.

                                    
        This stamp was stamped using black ink on white cardstock that was coloured with various Distress Inks. The streaks and bits were added to give it some dimension and movement. The black ink just didn’t get very dark even though it was in my Tim H. stamping platform and reinked a few times. It was okay but I thought I could do better.

 

    So this time the image was stamped using VersaMark ink and white embossing powder that was heat set. It was heat set before I sponged on the background and all I had to do was wipe over the embossed image with a dry cloth to remove any ink that was sitting on top. I use this technique a lot and I really like how these two turned out.

    Once all three were dry I used a curved sentiment and stamped them using VersaMark and black embossing powder on the black card and white embossed on these two.

    I love to experiment! Hope you enjoyed these cards. If there is any technique you struggle with or you want me to try out; leave a comment and I’ll see if I can make a card or two per your suggestions.

   Cheers

Violet

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A New Stamp Set

     Still very hot and humid here but the weeds were getting out of control so I spent the afternoon hoeing and weeding and ripping out some plants that were overgrown. Whew! Glad that’s done.

    Have you ever seen a real cute stamp set and bought it without really planning on how you can use it. This was this set. I seldom buy a stamp set unless I have a clear idea of what I can do with it and how many times I can change it. ….but once in while!!! This is the card that was the final project.

                        
The main stamp are the words only! The cupcake, candle and present are separate stamps. I did struggle with this one a bit but probably because I never use sketches.

So, I stamped it in black ink on a piece of scrap paper at first just to get an idea of how well it stamped and what it looked like. I immediately knew it needed to be stamped in colour. Red is a happy colour so it was stamped in red on white cardstock. What next? I didn’t like it taking up the entire A2 card so I cut one side off and rounded the corners on the other side. I found some paper with dandelion bits on it which I thought would be perfect as a background so it was glued to a red card base - it looks pink, but its red. Then I stamped the cupcake, present and candle on separate cardstock, coloured them, added glitter, and glossy accents on the cherry to make it shine and hand cut them. They are then glued in the empty spaces. It needed something else so I added three red gems to the top left corner which looked bare. It’s okay, not my favourite stamp set but I will use it again.

That’s all for a hot and humid…..and no rain…Tuesday.

 Cheers

Violet

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A New Stamp!!!

          It was a rainy/snowy weekend and the same weather continues. Luckily the snow melts almost as soon as it hits the ground during the day but stays on the grass at night….but there has not been any more than a small snow shower so that’s good. But it sure is damp outside. Damp cold is the coldest there is. We are under a ‘stay at home’ order and although we are allowed to go for a walk for exercise, it’s too cold for me. I’ll stick to card making, scrapbooking and quilting.

         This was supposed to be posted yesterday but by the time I realized it was Monday, I was too tired to be bothered turning the computer on. Let’s just say the posts will not be on a regular basis in 2021. Besides the fact that I never know what day it is, it is quite often too cold in my ‘lower studio’ which is actually the basement where I make cards so I may not have as many to post as I usually do. We shall see.

     Today’s card did not turn out quite like I expected but it’s still okay. This is a Simon Says 6” stamp.

                                         
     I stamped it on white cardstock with VersaMark ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Then the background was sponged with various Distress Oxide Inks. I think I only have six colours of Oxide inks even though I do like them a lot….it gets pricey keeping everything up-to-date so I don’t bother. Once I was happy with the blending it was cut down to 4” x 5.25” to fit on a standard card base. The Happy Birthday sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink onto a piece of velum and heat embossed in white. To heat emboss on velum, get the heat gun very hot and go over a section and off; over and off; until it melts the embossing powder but does not harm the velum. A large piece of double sided tape was glued to the back of the velum so once the backing was removed, the velum had adhesive evenly over it and it was easy to lay it on the embossed design and trimmed to fit. Then it was all glued to the card base. It’s okay, but not exactly what I wanted. I’ll definitely be using this stamp over and over though so stay tuned.

         That’s all for Tuesday on January 21, 2021.

 Cheers

Violet

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Butterfly Cards

         It’s Monday….the last Monday of October! The weeks are flying by.

 Today I’m posting two cards because once again they are very much alike.

                         
    I found this piece of cardstock with the butterflies in the stash and decided to use it. Then I found another piece…..time to use them both up. Yes, I’m on another ‘use the stash’ binge. First thing to do was to find a card base that matched which luckily I had. Then I trimmed the hexagons so they were not cut off straight and glued it to the card base. Then I die cut another hexagon from light purple cardstock and glued it on. I wanted something dramatic on the large light purple hexi so I glued on a wooden butterfly….and didn’t like….blah! So I ran some purple ink over the butterfly…much better but it needed some bling. So I squirted glue over it and down into the ceases and added purple glitter – nice!  Some light purple gems were then glued around the butterfly and I called it done.

         For the next card I followed the same routine but I wanted something different, but still dramatic, as the focal point.

                       
    I looked through my butterfly dies and I found a fancy butterfly already cut out of some papers that actually matched the background of the card….but it sort of blended in and got lost…which is the opposite of dramatic. This die does not come with an outline die so I just placed the die on black cardstock and drew around it and hand cut it. Then the fancy butterfly was glued on and then onto the card…excellent idea! A large pink gem was added to the butterfly as a head and this card was finished as well.  Neither card had a sentiment on the front as I wasn’t sure if they were going to be used for. Time will tell.

        That’s all for a cool Monday on October 26, 2020.

Cheers

Violet

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Happy Thanksgiving and Two Cards

 

        Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers. We are staying home and celebrating together – no travelling to family this year. I have much to be thankful for and I’ll be most thankful when they find a vaccine for this pandemic.

        Today’s I’m posting another ‘possible’ birthday card for our grandson who is turning 16 soon plus the card that hubby actually picked for him.

        He liked this one but didn’t pick it.

                            
     This is a tone on tone card. Every once in a while I try to break out of my comfort zone and try something new. First I ran this bronze coloured cardstock through an embossing folder but then I decided it was ‘too much’. So I cut the bottom off and taped on another piece that was not embossed. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with copper embossing powder….which had a bit of glitter in it. Much better but probably could have done without the glitter. Oh well.

Then I had no idea how to finish it. I pretty much only use sketches when entering a card contest which I haven’t done in months so I just wing it. Finally I decided to die cut some feathers and a die cut rope out of the same cardstock and glued them on. Getting there. I die cut two buttons from the same cardstock; glued them together; drew a black line across to mimic thread and then glued them on to cover the ends of the feathers. Almost there. The bottom just needed something else too so first I splattered on some Distress Ink but it just soaked right in and pretty much disappeared. …you can see some very light splatters but not much. So then I dug out some bronze metallic paint; covered up the top of the card and splattered that over the bottom. Finally I called it finished!

Joe liked it but then he spotted this card and decided Jack would like it better.

           
I posted the details on this card last month. You can probably figure it out as it is pretty straight forward. That’s one of Tim Holtz’s Crazy Birds.

That’s all for a windy Monday, October-12-20 20. We are expecting a thunderstorm tonight but they quite often miss us…..although my brain disorders attacked me late yesterday afternoon which usually means a storm is coming. We shall see. Take care all and I’ll be back on Wednesday with two cards using a new stamp and die set….there is a story there!

Cheers

Violet

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Stripes and Gold Dots

         We are having some pretty nice weather for October and even the strong wind is coming from the south so it’s warm. It would suit me if it can just stay like this until next April and then start warming it.

        Today’s card was fun to make.

                         
    I found several of these dark wine-brownish strips in the stash and decided to use a few of them in a card instead of putting them back in the stash. This is actually a one layer card that I seldom make. The light mauve card was still on my desk that wasn’t used from a previous project and the strips looked pretty nice with it – nice contrast. So first the strips were trimmed down to various widths and adhered to the card on an angle. Then the 3-d flower sticker was glued on. It needed something else and lo and behold I found a package of bows the same colour as the strips and it was glued in place. But it just needed something else so I pulled out some Rangers gold liquid pearls and added little gold dots all over the card… and called it finished. I wasn’t sure if I wanted this as a birthday card or a thinking of you card so I didn’t add any sentiment to the front this time.

            That’s all for Wednesday, October 7, 2020.

Cheers

Violet

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Crazy Bird Card

        The heat wave continues with temperatures around 100F and more with the humidity. Last night we had rain clouds; thunder and a bit of lightning…..and not a drop of rain. Someone got it, but not us. The grass is crunchy when we walk on it and we are under a watering limiting ban – houses whose address ends with even numbers can water on even number days and then those with uneven numbers do it on the uneven days.

        There is still a need for scrub hats and masks so I’m back to making them….in between making Christmas quilts and charity quilts….busy, busy, busy…just the way I like it.

        Today’s card was made with some left over bits from a card I made for yet another grandson whose birthday is coming up later this month. Our family has four birthdays in July!

                           

         My grandson’s favourite colour is green so I made two green card bases; one for his card and one for this one. The strip with the stars was left over from his card with the star already die cut leaving the negative space. A coordinating piece of paper was glued behind it and then I die cut a yellow star frame to go around it. The birthday sentiment was die cut three times and glued together to make it thicker. It and the rope were die cut from the same yellow as the star frame. The bird is a Tim Holtz crazy bird that was quickly coloured with Distress Ink sponged on. Then it was die cut with the matching die. The beak and eyes were stamped and die cut; the beak was coloured with more ink and then glued in place. It doesn’t show on the photo but in real life it does make a difference. The bird needed something to stand on so I hand cut a banner and stamped that funny sentiment that came from a Power Poppy flower set. Not sure who’s going to receive this one yet, but I like it.

        That’s all for a hot and humid Wednesday, on July 8, 2020.

Cheers

Violet

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A Bird and Music Notes Card

        Hello everyone! It’s Friday again! This year seems to be going slow and fast at the same time! The days seem long because we are still stuck at home for the most part; but here it is past the middle of June already! Crazy! We normally would be getting some walks in but we are under a severe heat warning right now and it’s way too hot to be doing anything much outside. Some good news is that Ontario is definitely flattening the curve on this dreadful pandemic. We only had 173 new cases yesterday in the entire province and Ontario is the most populated province in Canada. Hopefully where you live is also doing well. Keeping the ‘social distance’ bit is the key!

        Today’s card is the second one made with the music sheets that I downloaded from Pinterest and it is the card my friend chose. Please refer back to Wednesday’s post for details.

         I used the same papers for this card as for Wednesday’s card but instead of just stamping a solid image over the notes, I added a stamped and hand cut bird. The bird was stamped on white cardstock and then lightly coloured using some ink and a blender pen. Because I was just using cardstock, I didn’t want to use water to spread the ink. There was no die with this stamp so I just cut it out by hand and then glued it to the card. The label was punched and the sentiment added.

        That’s all for a hot and humid Friday, on June 19^th, 2020. Yesterday Joe and I celebrated our 32^nd wedding anniversary! We normally go out for supper to celebrate but this time we did the Chinese take-out and celebrated at home. It’s the first time we have had take-out since the pandemic started.

Cheers

Violet

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The Scarlet Tanager Card

        Ah, finally spring-like weather – but it brought pouring rain with it! That’s okay! We don’t have to shovel rain! I was hoping to get out in the garden today but the rain came fast and furious….maybe tomorrow.

        Today’s photo card features my husband’s favourite bird, The Scarlet Tanager.

                      

         Once again the sentiment was added in Photoshop and then the photo was printed. It was mounted on this navy card with red polka dots and with just a few poking out, it picked up the red in the bird.

Next week I’m going to feature a couple of ‘flip cards’ from an old Sizzix die set…..definitely not my favourite die to use but “If I buy it, I must use it”. It’s an old die from our former scrapbook store’s sale table. When I'm using it, I quite often think, "I should have left it there!". But once the card is finished, its "Oh, I'm glad I bought that die". 

Have a safe and happy weekend! We are still doing the ‘safe at home’ as much as we can….if it wasn’t for needing groceries and our meds we not be leaving at all.

Cheers

Violet

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Snow in May???

        SNOW IN MAY? This should not happen. I happened to wake up about 3:00 and looked out the window and almost fell over when I saw the snow coming down…hard! It must have quit shortly after that because it was just enough to cover the lawn when we got up. My poor tulips. Here’s what they looked like in the snow. Tulips in the snow is a nature oxymoron.

I have a few unusual coloured daffodils in my garden too. Here are two of them.

        Today’s card was made using a photo of one of the most beautiful warblers that grace Southwestern Ontario every spring….the Prothonotary Warbler.

Having Photoshop Elements makes it easy to get the sentiment printed on the card. The photo was mounted on white, then yellow cardstock. A ribbon was wrapped around it with a bow tied. The card base is from a set from Michaels and I struggle how to use these ones. So finally the top was covered with that brown cardstock with words printing on it and the curved areas were just cut off and the edges lightly sanded to make them smooth. Then a matching piece about 2” high was added to the bottom of the inside. It seemed to work. Then the main image was glued in place. My friends and family love receiving these cards with my bird photos on them.

        That’s all for a cold and snowy-during-the-night Monday,

May 11^th, 2020.

Cheers

Violet

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The Cardinal Card

        The dreaded Covid-19 virus is still spreading. Some people refuse to stay in self-isolation to stop it. They must think they are immune and they obviously don’t care who they spread it to. In spite of the seriousness of it, I think the best thing to do is to spread some good news; keep your spirits up with laughter from someplace – a movie, book, or whatever brings you joy; and be creative. So, I shall continue to post on the blog as long as I can. So far, we are just fine but we are diligent about self-isolating ourselves – no visitors allowed; we don’t go out unless absolutely necessary. I did have to go get some groceries yesterday but I went at 7:00am when it was for seniors only and very few people; and I wore gloves and stayed away from everyone; and washed my hands well as soon as I came home – and as soon as the grocery bags were emptied they went immediately into the washing machine. We shall continue to stay in until it safe to go out.

        So, today’s card features one of my favourite birds – the Northern Cardinal.

        This stamps and dies are similar to the ones from Stampin’ Up. I stamped the bird and stem on white cardstock and die cut them. The stitched hexagon was die cut and left in the die while I pounced on some blue ink over a stencil. The light blue piece was in the stash so I quickly ran it through the wood grain embossing folder to give it some texture and glued it over the dark blue card base. Then the hexagon and bird were glued in place and the gold peel-off sentiment was added. This was definitely a quick and easy card but I like how it turned out.

        That’s all for Monday, March 23, 2020.

Cheers

Violet

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Another Star Card

Last night we were under a tornado warning…luckily none occurred but some areas near us had very strong winds which took down some large trees. We are still under a heat warning and a severe thunderstorm warning for this evening and overnight. This has been quite the summer!

 A couple of weeks ago I posted a card that had die cut stars on it…scroll back to find it. The piece of cardstock that I had die cut the stars from still had lots of solid space so I decided to make it into a card as well. Here’s how it turned out.

 

 I simply found some coordinating paper…from the stash…and die cut stars out of it. The solid piece was glued to a white card base because I wanted to inlay some of the stars. Some were glued into the open spaces, some were glued on top. Then a simple black peel-off sentiment was added.

That’s all for a hot and humid Monday, July 29, 2019. If I don’t melt, I’ll be back on Wednesday with another card.

Cheers

Violet

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Cats and Candles Card

The heat wave is intense! Temperatures today, with the humidex added in, means it will feel like 46C (114.8F) and tomorrow is even worse, 49C (120F). This is some crazy hot and humid weather which of course creates some severe thunderstorms as well. We are staying put today…and tomorrow.

After rejecting a few cards I made for our grandson’s 12^th birthday, which is today, I went in a totally different direction and created this one….the one we sent.

This stitched die cuts out the frame plus the stitched rectangles inside the frame…I just sponged some Distress Ink Broken China, I think. onto them. This die is just a tiny bit bigger than the standard A2 card size so I had to make the card base a little larger as well. The card base was actually a 5.5 x 7 card so I just trimmed it down. Green is Seth’s favourite colour so that’s why I used it. He also loves cats so three die cut cats were added. The birthday greeting is from on old stamp set as are the candles. I stamped the candles, cut them out by hand, and glued them onto the bottom rectangle. Glossy Accents was added to the candles to make them look more realistic….not that a 12 year old boy would notice…and the flames have stickles added for some sparkle. Hope he likes it.

That’s all for a very hot and humid Friday, July 19, 2019. Stay cool, be safe and be creative over the weekend and I’ll be back on Monday with another card.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.

 

       

A Star Card

        The hot and humid air has returned with a vengeance….but it did bring some much needed rain! We could be looking at temperatures well over 100F Friday and Saturday…could even be as high as 112F….hey, this is Canada, the cold north!...not in the summer months!

        Today’s card was almost picked for Seth’s birthday card but in the end we picked another one….to be posted on Friday.

 

         The background was made with a Happy Birthday embossing folder. Light blue ink was rolled on one side so the embossed words stayed white but the background is light blue. The stars were die cut from a piece of cardstock that was sitting in the stash….no idea where it came from. They were glued on and if you look carefully you can see the word ‘happy’ in the middle of the bottom star. Green bakers twine was wrapped around the embossed cardstock before it was glued to the card base. This was definitely a quick and easy card. Next week I’ll post the card that I made from the piece of green that the stars were die cut from.

        That’s all for a hot and humid Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

 Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.

A Quick and Easy Card

            The bitter cold weather is back and will stay for a couple more days…..enough already, let spring in! I think I’ve finally gotten rid of my never-ending virus but now Joe is down with a very bad head cold and a fever….and he HATES taking medicine but I insisted he have a Tylenol to get his fever down….and more than one a day…so now he says if he doesn’t get over this cold soon he will have to go to rehab…Good grief…..just slightly over dramatic!.....the “man-cold”… so much worse than a regular cold!!!

        Today I’m posting a card that I made using one of my own photographs. The camera club had random objects out for us to photograph and this was one of them.

 

         I just loved the fall leaves and the lantern bulbs together. This time I just printed it out and added the peel-off sentiment; mounted it on white cardstock and then on to the orange/dark peach coloured card base. This is definitely a quick and easy card.

        That’s all for a cold Monday, March-04-19.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.

Make a Wish Card

            Winter is back! Our short-lived mock spring has disappeared….although it’s not the same bitter, record-breaking low temperatures we had last week, its still cold! Today we stayed in and I finished the quilt I’m donating to the Friends of Rondeau for their annual fund raiser. It’s off to the local quilt shop, “The Quilting Studio”, who has offered to quilt it for me free of charge on their long-arm….and donated half the material! Cool!

        Today’s card is another one made with one of my photos. I like it okay but it could be better…..but I always think of how I could improve a card once it’s made.

 

           This is an exploding milkweed plant…. that reminded me of the dandelions… which reminded me of making a wish on them….I know its hard to keep up with my thoughts….try being me! Anyway, this photo was just calling out to be a birthday card so I added the “Make a Wish” sentiment on the computer using Photoshop Elements and printed it off. I added a few lines here and there across the letters with a sparkly gel pen for some hi-lights. I need to buy a die with this sentiment so it will show up better….that’s the “could be better” part. To add a little bling, gold thread was wrapped around it three times and taped at the back. Then it was glued to the light blue card base. It looks crooked in the photo but its not….some of the card base got cut off when I cropped it down.

                That’s all for a cold and windy Friday, February 8, 2019. Have a safe and wonderful weekend everyone and I’ll be back on Monday with another card.

Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes take a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.