Another Appeal card

Here is another card I have made for Jo Street's Candlelighters Appeal and uses the A La Carte stamp Elebration. If you haven't already seen the appeal on Jo's blog then click here to read it. I stamped the elephant in Basic Gray onto Whisper White cardstock and then coloured in the image using my blender pen. I matted this onto a piece of Bashful Blue cardstock and tied a knot of (retired) Bashful Blue ribbon around. The card is a white A6 blank with a strip of the dotty DSP taken from the Subtles Paper Stack with the sentiments punched with the Word Window and Modern Label punches. The pearls are from my non-SU stash.

Love & Laughter

 

Here are two more cards I have made to send to Jo to sell for the Candlelighters Appeal (see previous posts for more info) and it was the perfect excuse for me to use my Love & Laughter stamp set which is brand new in the Summer Mini. For the top card I embossed the wedding dress stamp in silver and cut one end of the card with one of the Edgelits dies and then matted it onto a longer piece of Basic Black cardstock which had also had one end shaped with the die. This was then layered onto a white card blank and some Basic Rhinestones added down the side. The sentiment (also from love & Laughter) was silver embossed, punched with the Curly Label punch and matted onto a Basic Black Decorative Label with a couple of Basic Rhinestones added. The second card was also made with a silver embossed image and matted on Basic Black. A piece of Whisper White was embossed at the top and bottom with the heart folder from the Textured Impressions Embossing Folders set. matted onto Basic Black and then layered onto a white card blank. The silver embossed sentiment was punched with the Modern label punch and added to the bottom of the card.

A Challenge and an Appeal

My card today is a dual purpose card and uses the cute Young Vermillion. The challenge this week at CAS-ual Fridays is a CAS card using a bird and I also wanted to make some cards for a charity appeal so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone so to speak. As you will know by now I am a huge fan of Vicky (aka Crafting Clare) and when I visited her blog yesterday she had written about an appeal by Jo Street (view Jo's blog here) - this is what Vicky wrote;

I always like to feel that our crafting can help others. I was reading this post by Jo Street of Dinky Daisy Designs yesterday - she has been devastated by the plight of a little girl at a playgroup her son attends. Jo wants to do something to help so she's holding a sale of cards to raise money for Candlelighters, the organisation which will be caring for the little girl and supporting her stricken family. It seems to me that it's easy to make two cards if you're making one and I think lots of us could spare some from our stash, so do pop over to Jo's blog and offer your services.

I completely echo Vicky's last statement so if you can spare a card or two please get in touch with Jo and let's help her raise a lot of money to help this very worthwhile cause.

Now onto the card - I stamped the bird onto a piece of Naturals Ivory cardstock in Early Espresso and blended the colour with a blender pen then I embossed the bottom section of the cardstock with the Stripes Embossing Folder and tied round some Linen Thread before matting onto a piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock and fixing to a white card blank. I made a frame from Cherry Cobbler cardstock using the Framelits dies and positioned this over the bird using silicone glue to raise the frame up a little. The sentiment was punched with the Word Window punch and matted onto a Modern Label.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and the sunshine (while it lasts!) x

Young Vermillion

These cards were made with the a la carte stamp 'Young Vemillion' stamped in Soft Suede. For the one on the left I took a piece of DSP from the Neutrals Paper Stack and embossed a frame using a folder from the Designer Frames Embossing set, this was then matted onto Soft Suede cardstock, and some Soft Suede Taffeta ribbon tied around before fixing onto a card blank made with Natural Ivory cardstock. The Young Vermillion, which had been stamped onto Very Vanilla, was cut out to fit in the frame and a sentiment from a retired set stamped on the right.
The other card was made using the same colours with Linen Thread added to the Very Vanilla panel and the sentiment punched with the Modern label punch.

Framelit Embossing

Today's card is using one of the Framelits dies to emboss rather than to cut. This is done by placing the cardstock on the non-cutting side of the die and using a silicone mat along with the die cutting machine plate(s). As all machines are different you do have to play around with this to make sure you get the sandwich right but it is worth it in the end, so I suggest you use some scrap card to start with and once you get the sandwich right, write it down because, if you're anything like me, you'll never remember next time!

After embossing a piece of Whisper White I then used the negative part of the diecut as a mask and stamped the image from Wedding Sweet in Rich Razzleberry. Perfect Plum and Rich Razzleberry butterflies, cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die, were scattered around and some Perfect Pearls added to their bodies. The sentiment was punched with the Modern label punch and layered onto a Rich Razzleberry label which is cut with one of the Lots of Tags dies. This was layered onto a piece of Rich Razzleberry cardstock before glueing onto a card blank.

Cheeky Monkey!

A few weeks ago when I was on my 'punch art' fad I came across this cute little monkey which I just had to try. Before blogging it I have spent ages searching to try to find the originator and do you think I can find it again? If anyone can help then please let me know so that I can give credit.

The monkey was made with various round and oval punches (all SU) and the leaves are from the Bird Builder punch. The shed wall is just a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock with lines drawn with a Chocolate Chip marker and cut at angles at the top and the window frame is the Word Window punch. A retired sentiment was punched with the Modern Label punch and 'hung' with some Linen Thread.

A bit of a fun card to show you today using my much neglected Owl Punch. I love this little owl but he has been pushed to the back of my punches and forgotten about - not any more! I don't know if I'm the only one who does this but I tend to use the newer things and get hooked on those and forget about the older stuff, anyway he's out now so I will explain how this card came to fruition.
The DSP is from Well Worn and reminds me of tree bark so I cut a strip to stick down one side of the card and cut a hole with a circle punch before glueing to the card blank. I lightly sponged inside the aperture with Crumb Cake and a sponge dauber so it didn't look too white and then started assembling my owl. His body and the smallest and largest part of his eyes were punched from Chocolate Chip, with the middle size eye pieces punched in Very Vanilla. His front was punched from another pattern in the Well Worn DSP pack and two branches punched with the Bird Builder punch using Crumb Cake. These were glued into place and a sentiment, punched out with the Word Window punch, was matted onto a Modern Label and positioned on the card. Easy peasy but quite cute!

Quick'n'Easy again

I have a really simple card to show you today using a scrap of DSP, from the SAB freebie pack, Everyday Enchantment. A strip of the DSP was glued to a slightly wider strip of Riding Hood Red cardstock and then run through the BigShot in the Square Lattice Embossing Folder before fixing to a white card blank. The sentiment was stamped onto Whisper White, punched out with the Word Window punch and then matted onto a punched Modern Label. A tiny flower was punched with an Itty Bitty Shapes punch with a Basic Pearl placed in the centre. Very quick and very easy!

Firstly I must apologise for the awful quality of the photos but this was a card I made tonight, which I have to take to work tomorrow, so I had to take the photo under artificial light. I was asked by a friend to make a Christmas card which is going to be taken abroad and given to a German lady. She wanted a traditional 'British' style card and what can be more British than a robin?

I coloured the stamp from Beautiful Season with Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler and Chocolate Chip markers and stamped onto Whisper White and then used a blender pen to colour in the image. The berries were highlighted with a white marker and some Dazzling Diamonds was added to the leaves. This was matted onto a piece of Old Olive and then onto Cherry Cobbler which had been stamped with the small holly stamp, from Pines & Poinsettias, in Cherry Cobbler ink. Some Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding was tied around before layering onto a white card blank. The sentiment was stamped in Cherry Cobbler and punched with the Modern Label punch and another label, in Old Olive, was placed behind. I added two Basic Rhinestones for an added bit of sparkle.