Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge #271 Embossing

 

Happy New Year and Happy Monday! Wishing you all an incredible and crafty 2018. My card is for the new challenge at Merry Monday and Linda choose embossing for this week's challenge #271. I pulled out this Christmas embossing folder, backed on some glitter gold, and then added some candy cane ribbon and done. Very quick and easy. Wish so much going on after Christmas I decided to keep it as simple as can be. I hope you will find some time to play along with us this week. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by...enjoy your day!

Papertrey Ink April 2013 Blog Hop and ColourQ #186

The 25th of the month means it is time for Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop and this month's theme is anything "tilted", I have some friends that fit that description too and they both know who they are! Just kidding...this seems to be one of the trends right now and my card was so much fun to make and I am so happy with how it turned out! I used Comfort Food from PTI for my card and used the spoons as the tilted portion. I love the VersaMark/color ink and heat emboss technique and love the color of my ice cream carton, looks like strawberry to me.  

To make my card work for PTI's blog hop and ColourQ Challenge 186 I used the colors for this weeks ColourQ challenge, they are so bright and cheerful, so perfect for springtime. Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...have a wonderful day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz, Simply Chartreuse and Fine Linen

Stamps: Comfort Food

Dies: Comfort Food

Ink: Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz and Simple Chartreuse and VersaFine - Black

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Clear

January 2013 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

It seems like it has been forever since I posted a card or even left comments on any of the blogs I follow. Last weekend we had an extra day off and I was a bit under the weather and then back to work and I have been subbing all week.  By the time I get home I am beat, too tired to spend much time on the computer other than answer a few emails. Today is Friday and my last sub day this week and then the weekend!!! Two days of time to play with paper and ink, I can't wait. Ok, it's the 25th of the month again and that means another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.  I set aside a few minutes to get my card together and this month's theme is to have a "black" background, not a background color I use that often, but I am very happy with how my cards looks. Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a peek!

Ingredients

Solid Card Stock: PTI - Black, White and Spring Rain

Stamps: PTI - Hands of Time

Dies: PTI - Hands of Time

Silver Paper: Stash

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Silver

Bling and Brad: SU

Make It Monday #50 Shaker Card

I haven't made a shaker card or embellishment in so long...this really brought back some fun memories for me.  Several years ago when I was scarpbooking and this was the new trend, my friends and I would try and come up with some pretty wild ideas for shaker boxes and what a mess did they make! Glitter, sparkles and confetti everywhere but it was fun...so night before last I could not sleep so I was up at 3:30am and working on my card and this is what I ended up making. So instead of using glitter or confetti I oped for buttons and I am very happy with the way it turned out.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Pure Poppy and White
Printed Paper: PTI - Simple Valentine
Dies: PTI - Filigree Border, Doilies, Heart and Spiral Notebook
Stamps: PTI - Love and Marriage and Think Big Favorites #11
Embossing Powder
Buttons: PTI - Pure Poppy and Hibiscus Burst
Rose: Prima

Clean & Simple Day 4 - 1 Stamp, 3 Ways

Today is day 4 for the Clean & Simple online card class and it's also the 4th day of making a card with a technique I have never done before.  Today the lesson was to take a background stamp and use it in a different way so I used number dies in a solid color, stamped them with VersaMark and used white embossing powder.  I had these butterflies forever and was so happy that they matched the color on the card, I think it turned out to be a nice finishing touch.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Spring Moss, Sweet Blush and Berry Sorbet
Printed Paper: PTI - Polka Dot Parade
Dies: PTI - By the Numbers
Stamps: PTI - Big Birthday Wishes and Background Basics: Newsprint
Bakers Twine: Unknown Source
Butterfly: Jenni Bowlin Studio
Doily: Wilton
Embossing Powder: Stampendous - White
Ink: VersaFine - Black

Clean and Simple Day 3 - Tone on Tone Dimensional

So today's card was a little bit more work, but well worth when you see the end results. For my card, I used PTI heart dies...I cut out six of each in white and then glued them all together and placed the final raspberry fizz heart on top.  It really gives the card a dimensional look that is pretty easy to do.  My sentiment is stamped in VersaMark with white embossing powder over the top.  So, like the class title, it is pretty clean and simple!  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - White and Raspberry Fizz
Stamps: PTI - Think Big Favorites #11
Dies: PTI - Hearts
Embossing Powder: Stamp Stuff - White

Clean & Simple Day 1

My friend Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea told me about this online class-Clean & Simple Card Making, so we decided to take it together.  Today is the first day and this here is my card...clean and simple Halloween.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Solid Card Stock: PTI - Orange Zest and Black
Stamps: Tim Holtz - Trick-or-Treat and PTI - Been Boo'd
Spider Die: Cricut - October 31
Buttons: Joann's
Embossing Powder: Stamp Stuff - Detail Black
Ink: VersaFine - Black and VersaMark

Thank You

This card was so much fun to make and I used my new Thank You stamp from PTI.  It was such a treat to open my box from this month's release and find that extra surprise inside, better than a box of Cracker Jacks! I needed to make a few thank you cards for gifts I received from students this Christmas and came across this box of embossed cards from the stash I got from my sister. I decided to play around with some of the new PTI inks too and masked off the outer edge of the card so all of the stamping would be in the center square. Thanks for taking a peek!

Ingredients
Card Stock:  My sweet sister
Ink:  PTI - Canyon Clay and Spring Moss, VersaFine - Vintage Sepia
Stamps: PTI - Rosie Posie and Sending you a big Thank You

One more card...

I have another entry to CAS-ual Fridays Embossing challenge this time using snowflakes as my theme. I haven't used embossing powder in awhile and forgot how much fun it is to use. Hope you enjoy the card.

Supplies Used
Solid and Printed Paper: Creavite Memories
Ink: VersaMark
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Snowflakes
Stamps: PTI - 2008 Holiday Tag Collection and Signature Christmas
Embossing Powder: Stampendous - White

                                    

CAS-ual Fridays Embossing Challenge

This is my second card challenge with CAS-ual Friday.  It is always nice to be inspired to try something different.  I have several embossing mats from Cuttlebug and I finally got tempted to pull them out and give them a try and I love the way my card turned out...kind of fairy tale looking. Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies Used
Paper: SU White
Printed Paper: KI Memories
Bling: Kaiser Rhinestones
Die: PTI Limitless Layers
Embossing Mat: Cuttlebug Swirls