Sympathy Butterflies

Hi, I'm thrilled today to be the CAS on Friday Guest Designer.  This challenge is Sympathy - and I like to have sympathy cards ready because I often don't feel like making a sympathy card at the time.  

I kept this card as CAS as possible with a sentiment stamped onto the card base then embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  I then added three hot foiled and stenciled butterflies that I had from a previous project.  These were added with foam tape to give a bit of lift.

And that is it.  I didn't add any bling because sympathy cards are not really the place for too much bling and the hot foiling adds some shine.

Thanks for visiting!  Please head over and check out the fabulous cards made by the CAS on Friday design team.  Thanks to the team for choosing my card a couple of challenges ago which gave me the chance to guest for this challenge.

Products used:

Stamps: Brushstroke Expressions (MFT)

Ink:Versafine Clair Nocturne, Blue Suede Shoes, Dress Blues, Sea Glass, Utown, All that Jazz, Daydream Black Jack (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock: White

Dies: Small Butterflies Hot Foil and Die (Pink Fresh)

Accessories: Silver Hot Foil, Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

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Postage Birthday

Hi, it's time for another challenge from the team at Freshly Made Sketches and this week our sketch hostess is Michelle Langley.  I took the general layout of her sketch to make this card using postage collage products.

After stenciling the images and die-cutting, I arranged them to as closely match the sketch as I could.  I then worked on the vertical panels.  Firstly I sprayed two panels with Distress Spray Stain then I went over both panels with Distress Spritz.  This card is so sparkly in real life.

I finished with a bold birthday sentiment.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Please check out the fabulous cards made by the rest of the design team.

Products used:

Stamps: Mixed Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne, Salvaged Patina, Chipped Sapphire, Saltwater Taffy, Fossilized Amber, Ground Espresso, Cracked Pistachio Distress Inks

Cardstock: White

Dies: Postage Collage Cupcake Die, Postage Collage Die

Accessories:  Postage Collage Blocks Stencil, Cupcake Stencil, Cupcake Die and Stencil, Spun Sugar, Chipped Sapphire Distress Spray Stain, Saltwater Taffy, Uncharted Mariner Distress Spritz

Cheers

Karren

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Envelopes

Hi!  It's Freshly Made Sketches day and our hostess this week is Donna Mikasa.  She has a fun grid design for us and here's what I made:

Okay, so I didn't remember the sketch properly and put my sentiment in the wrong place, but hopefully that's okay!  I was too lazy to do any maths to make all the images fit perfectly in a grid pattern, so deliberately went a bit haphazard.  I die-cut the envelopes from various cardstocks to match some of the colours in a Colour Cube card.  

I added some mini seals and enamel hearts then stamped, die-cut and stacked the sentiment.  The envelopes are popped up on foam tape.  And that's it!  A pretty simple card.

Thanks for visiting.  Please head over and check out the wonderful cards made by the design team.

Products used:

Stamps:  Elegant Sentiments (Waffle Flower)

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne

Cardstock: White, Blush (Lawn Fawn), Stone Grey (MFT), Misty Morning (Altenew)

Dies: Postage Collage Envelopes, Postage Collage Mini Seals (Waffle Flower

Accessories: Enamel hearts

Cheers

Karren

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Magnolia Birthday

Hi and welcome!  It's Good Friday and a public holiday here in New Zealand, so what better than to get into the craft room?  I decided to make a card using the latest sketch over at Card Challenges, as well as the tic-tac-toe challenge at Paper Players and the birthday challenge at Krafty Chicks.  Because of time zones and full-time working, I don't often get to play with Paper Players so try and grab the opportunity when I can.  I went with the left diagonal with Die-cut/Flowers/Layers to come up with this card:

I coloured up the magnolia a few weeks ago when I was doing a bit of Copic-colouring so I don't know what colours I used, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found it already coloured and die-cut!  That formed the basis for my card, so I matched the flower colours with various cardstock colours and die-cut them from both a strips die and a stitched ric-rac die.  I layered the ric-rac over the strips and adhered them to a white card base that I'd embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.

I then adhered the white-embossed sentiment to the flower with liquid glue and added foam tape behind both before adding to the card.  Some clear shimmer pen to the centre of the flower added a bit of sparkle and I decided not to add any further embellishments.  

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps: Magnolia Blossoms, Bitty Birthday Wishes (MFT)

Ink: Amalgam (Gina K.), Versamark

Cardstock: White, Black, X-Press It, Blush, Coral Bliss (Altenew), Bellini, Wildberry, Crimson (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Magnolia Blossoms, Stitched Ric Rac (MFT), Slim Stripes (Pink Fresh Studio)

Accessories: Copics, White EP, Subtle EF (SU)

Cheers

Karren

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Edited to Add: This card got a shout out at Paper Players and Krafty Chicks.

Sticky Note

Hi all and welcome to another sketch from the team at Freshly Made Sketches.  Our sketch hostess this week is Judy Rozema and here is the card I made.

As soon as I saw the torn edge, I thought stationery so that’s the route I took. I created two sticky notes and a torn edge and adhered them to an embossed background. I finished with some silver foil paper clips and a bold sentiment - albeit in the wrong place!

Thanks so much for visiting. The design team have some gorgeous cards so I hope you’ll check them out.

Products used:

Stamps: Take Note (SSS)

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne

Cardstock: White, Stone Gray (MFT), Misty Morning (Altenew), Peach Sorbet, Terracotta (Spellbinders) Mist (Lawn Fawn), Off The Grid patterned paper (MFT), Silver mirror foil

Dies: Push Pin Notes (Spellbinders), Notebook Edge (MFT), Notebook Journal Card (SugarPea Designs)

Accessories: Distress Mix Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

Cheers

Karren

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The Desk

Hi!  This card uses the colors at this week's Card Challenge.  When I first saw the colours, my mind went blank, but then I started scrolling through my MFT products and came across the various office die sets and decided to give it a go!  Confession:  all these products have never been used, even though I purchased the kit when it was released so... hangs head in shame... but pleased they finally got used because they are fun!

I created the "office" using various dies from three different sets.  The "wall" is stenciled with a small brick stencil and Lost Shadow Distress Ink.  The "floor" and the computer screen are patterned paper. I used the challenge colours as closely as possible, although the desk may be a bit too brown.  Once I'd assembled all the die-cuts I went looking for a sentiment and found this one (also never used) and thought it worked well with the office theme.

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Sticky Note Sentiments (MFT)

Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturne, Lucky Clover, Lost Shadow, Scorched Timber Distress Inks

Cardstock: White, Black, Celestial, Beeswax, Truffle, Teal Topaz (Spellbinders), Floor to Ceiling patterned paper (MFT), One of a Kind patterned paper (Paper Rose)

Dies: At My Desk, Office Greenery, Around the Water Cooler (MFT)

Accessories: Salvaged Brick Stencil (Honey Bee Stamps)

Cheers

Karren

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Peony Sympathy

Welcome to a new challenge over at Tic Tac Toe.  I played with the centre column: Colouring Technique (stencils)/Dies/Sympathy to come up with this card.

I used some postage collage dies, stamps and stencils for my main image and backed that onto an embossed panel cut from a very dark purple cardstock. After I stenciled the background I left the stencil in place and spritzed on some Broken China Distress Spritz to give a bit of shine and interest.

The sentiment was already hot-foiled so I stacked it three deep and added it to the card front.  I stamped a sympathy sentiment on the inside of the card.

Thanks for visiting.  Head on over to Tic Tac Toe and play along!

Products used:

Stamps: Nesting Postage (Waffle Flower), Moments of Grace (SSS)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Celestial Mist, Glacier Iris, Dreamy Periwinkle, Reindeer Moss (Altenew)

Cardstock: White, Glacier Iris, Andromeda (Altenew)

Dies: Nesting Postage Collage (Waffle Flower), Here For You hot foil and dies (Pink Fresh Studio)

Accessories: Nesting Postage Collage Peony Stencils, Broken China Distress Spritz, Black Hot Foil

Cheers

Karren

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