Posts Tagged ‘simple cards’
Lovely as a Tree One-Layer Card
One of the difficulties when I design a card is my tendency to layer. I love layers of card stock on cards, and I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist. Sometimes, however, it is time to break out of a pattern and try something new. When creating cards for my All About Men Stamp Camp, I wanted to focus on less layers and different styles. Well, this is one I came up with that was a big hit with my stampers.
You fold a base piece of card stock in half and then cut off about 3/4″ -1″ of the front piece. You then layer a 1″ strip of DSP on the back piece. The new Going Places DSP is filled with interesting and masculine designs, which made it a perfect back liner for this card. Stamps I used included the pine tree from Lovely as a Tree and the background from You’ve Got This. Colors were Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow. The card was finished off with a button and thread.
Simple, classy, masculine, and economical!
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Welcome, June! It is time for a brand-new catalog season! I am so excited about this new stamp set from the new 2014-2015 Stampin’ up! catalog – Work of Art! It is such fun to use. This is the card my hostesses made at my Hostess Appreciation Party last month. We used the new 2014-2016 In Colors – Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, and Mossy Meadow. Love, love, love those new colors.
Wetlands Triangle Thinking of You Card
I love this color combination – Cherry Cobbler, Midnight Muse, and Marina Mist. It gives off a bold, masculine feeling – which matches the Wetlands stamp set. This is a very basic card design – with very little frufru. I live with men. They are not impressed with frufru.
Wetlands Embossed Woodgrain Card
Here’s a simple, easy card using the Woodgrain embossing folder and the distressing kit. Sorry about the bad picture 🙁
Wetlands Thinking of You Card
Quick and easy card today – I even had the embossed polka dot strip already set to go! You could use this card for a masculine birthday, thinking of you, sympathy, get well, or for any other general occasion. Just a little bit of sparkle on the side from the glimmer brad – Enjoy!
Wetlands Alcohol Ink Technique Card
At last week's Technique Tuesday class, I taught my stampers a quick and easy technique using a clear block, dye ink refills, and hand sanitizing lotion. Yes, you read that right – hand sanitizing lotion.
I used a mini hand sanitizer (about 1 oz) and added 7 drops of Soft Suede dye ink refill. I shook it up enough to distribute the drops of ink. Then, I dropped about 5 or 6 drops on top of a large clear block. I flipped the clear block on top of the center of my Very Vanilla card stock, pressing it lightly. When I pulled away the clear block, it made a super-cool yet subtle design (more subtle due to the light ink refill I chose). To speed up the drying, I used my heat gun. Then I stamped the goose in Baked Brown Sugar right on top of the design (which I think looks a lot like grassy sand bar).
Here's the end result – the little droplets are just a bonus – my poor little goose was very nervous being photographed 
Lovely as a Tree Simple Swipes Card
If you don't have the Lovely as a Tree stamp set in your collection, you are really missing out on a classic! I believe this is one of the oldest current catalog stamp sets available. This stamp set is one of my go-tos when it comes to techniques!
At February's Technique Tuesday, I taught the Simple Swipes technique – oh so easy with a great watercoloring effect!
I used Soft Suede, Wild Wasabi, and Marina Mist watercolor crayons and my AquaPainter to achieve this landscape effect. I'll be making up a bunch of these to swap at Milwaukee Regionals.
