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  • Vintage Vogue Mother’s Day Card

    Alright, the count down to Mother’s Day is on!  Here is another card we made during our Mother’s Day card class but the nice thing is, you could use it any time of the year!

     

    embossed vintage vogue mother's day card

     

    Can I just say, I can’t believe how long it took me to realize what a great combo Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry are!  Sigh, of course I discover this right as Blushing Bride is retiring.  Oh well.

    This card was also an excuse for me to use the library clips I’ve been holding onto for a while and are retiring as well.  In fact, this card’s whole concept came from me wanting to use the clip to hold a couple pieces of cardstock as the focal point of the card… I just worked out from there.

    We did some stamping with Versamark (the flourish to the right of the torn edges), heat embossing (the white sentiment words), and fussy cutting to make this card.

    Embossed Fancy Phrases for Mother's Day

     

    And in the end, I finally got around to remembering to decorate my envelope.  I stamped on the outside and lined the inside with matching Rich Razzleberry designer paper.  Don’t you just LOVE how a lined envelope looks?

    fabulous sweet mothers day card and envelope

     

    And of course, this is also one of my goodbyes to Vintage Vogue as well.  Definitely one of my favorite “vintage” sets.  So, I will probably use this card for a Grandma but can see making this design again later in the year for birthdays or thinking of you cards.  What would you use this card for?

     

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    Vintage Vogue Mother’s Day Card Recipe:

    Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Fabulous Phrases
    Ink: Versamark, Blushing Bride, Basic Black
    Paper: River Rock cardstock, Rich Razzleberry CS, Blushing Bride CS, Whisper White CS, Brights Designer Series Paper Pack
    Accessories: Clips assortmant pack, white embossing powder, heat gun, basic rhinestones, stampin’ dimensionals

  • Scrapbooking Sunday: Using the Simply Scored Board

    For the first time in I don’t know how long, I actually created a scrapbook page without copying a sketch or a sample of someone else’s.  All because I got my hands on the new diagonal score plate for my Simply Scored and wanted to play with it!  I had a ton of scrapbooking ideas with the diagonal score lines but after realizing how little time I had this week, I opted for the simple approach… diagonal scoring as an accent piece of cardstock.

     

    I loved how easy it was to make embossed diagonal score lines at the spacing I wanted… I didn’t have to be constrained by the size of an embossing folder or the predefined spacing of a folder or texture plate.  Sure, I’ll use my diagonal score plate to make envelopes too… but hey, I needed to get a scrapbook page done! 🙂

    I grabbed my photo and a scrap piece of Crumb Cake cardstock and started scoring away.  Because the diagonal plate sits into my Simply Scored board, it was pretty painless to get through.  Then I just started layering other textured pieces to my layout to add some color and fun throughout the page.

    I thought the piece of Well Worn designer paper went great with the colors in the photo and then I trimmed the designer paper with strips of the 1/8” Early Espresso taffeta ribbon.  I added some retired corduroy brads to the top of my scored strip, and for the last bit of fun, I stamped my title using the Letter It stamp set.  I did some heat embossing with clear embossing powder for some height and shine.

    So, if you just ignore my distracted, and thus wonky, journalling; I think it is a quick page that lets the photo to the talking!  Switch out the designer paper and cardstock colors and you could have a totally different feel to your page!

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    Family Scrapbook Page Recipe:

    Stamps:  Letter It, Vintage Vogue
    Ink:  Not Quite Navy classic, Whisper White craft
    Paper: Well Worn designer paper, Not Quite Navy cardstock, Chocolate Chip cardstock, Crumb Cake CS, Ridinghood Red CS
    Accessories:  Simply Scored, Diagonal Plate for Simply Scored, Early Espresso 1/8” ribbon, Corduroy brads, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch, Paper Piercer, Heat Gun, Clear embossing powder, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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  • Butterfly Framelit Window Frame Card

    If you are on my mailing list, you’ve seen this card with my last newsletter but I love it so much that I had to share it on my blog too!

    Now, I’ve done the window frame style card before (like this card) but I really wanted to play around with using the new Labels Framelits since they gave me a super easy way to make a big window on the front of my card.  So, one night I started playing and this card came out:

    I started out by picking two of the patterns from the Sale-a-Bration designer paper Everyday Enchantment.  I guess, I thought this evoked a garden window at the time.  Then I started stamping some flowers from the Vintage Vogue stamp set and cut them out by hand.  Not the fastest process, but actually pretty relaxing.

    Then I started layering my elements by popping up the green piece of designer paper and layering flowers above and below the level of that paper.  Finally, I finished it off with butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies dies to make my garden complete!

     

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  • Shades of Spring quick card

    Oh my goodness!  Can you believe it is April 30th already?  Where has the time gone? 

    Well, I had to post my last card from the “traveling with limited crafting supplies” series in honor of this being the last day of the Occasions Mini Catalog since everything but the base cardstock are from the mini – Vintage Vogue stamp set, Shades of Spring DSP, Hugs scalloped cardstock. 

    This card started out as an idea I had late at night but when I started working on it during the day my idea didn’t work quite right.  So, starting from just the blocks of DSP, I turned the card on it’s side and started adding elements till I got the finished result I liked. 

    It was a bit of a challenge since the only green ink I had was an old olive marker and most of the paper I had was either card bases or chocolate chip.  But challenge only makes you get more creative, right?  So, the flower is stamped on the pink DSP, the leaves are cut out of the green DSP, and the center of the flower is a circle of the polka dot DSP – all from the Shades of Spring DSP that is gone after today.  I also used the Hugs scalloped paper to make a nice background accent for my flower and popped it all up with dimensionals.  It was a fun card to create.  If you have any cards like this where a challenge helped inspire your creativity, I’d love to see what you’ve done.  Just leave a comment with what your challenge was and a link to your inspired finished project.

    Supplies:
    Stamps – Vintage Vogue
    Inks – Chocolate Chip classic
    Paper – Shades of Spring DSP, Hugs CS (both retiring after today!), Lavendar Lace CS
    Accessories – Circle punch from Itty Bitty Bits set in the Summer Mini, Stampin’ dimensionals