FM127 With Sympathy

I have decided to donate a few cards to my local cancer center.  When I spoke to the director she said they could use all types of cards, but she specifically asked me for some sympathy cards.  Here is one that I made using some scraps I've had lying around.  If you cannot tell, I'm big on using up all the scraps I can.

The top die cut piece is part of a Top Note die cut and the flowers were punched out using a Martha Stewart flower punch.  I added some liquid pearls to the centers.

I'm entering this card into the Friday Mash Up challenge for thinking of you / sympathy cards to be donated.

I'll be back with more cards that I'm donating to the center.


Blessings,



 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Fancy Flourishes, Birds of a Feather
Paper:   Ocean Tides, scraps?
Ink:   Scarlet Jewel, Black
Other:  liquid pearls. Top Note die (SU), MS flower punch

Embedded Embossing

I wanted to be sure to join the ODBD challenge to create a card using "embedded embossing".  My friend and fellow challenge chaser Silke Ledlow did a photo tutorial on this technique.  Isn't her card amazing?  I didn't want to miss out on this one.  **EDITED**  Because of the issues with Blogger I ended up missing out on the challenge:)  Just gotta laugh about it.

I used the colors from the current Play Date Cafe challenge:  PDCC81.  The stamped images are from Bird & Butterfly Labels (ODBD).  They coordinate with Labels 18 dies from Spellbinders. 

I first stamped the flourishes using silver pigment ink.  After cutting, stamping and adhering the three die cuts, I ran the whole card through the cuttlebug and embossed the front with Papertrey's Picnic Plaid impression plate.





Stamps:  Bird & Butterfly labels (ODBD), Fancy Flourishes (PTI), Tag-its #3 (PTI)
Paper:  white (PTI)
Ink:  pear tart (memento), silver (stampabilities), purple (memories)
Other:  Labels 18 (spellbinders), picnic plaid ip (PTI), ribbon (hobby lobby), corner rounder

Golden Anniversary

This card was made by special request.  One of my husband's co-workers asked me to make a 50th Wedding Anniversary card with specific wording; therefore, the sentiment was computer generated.

Since she didn't make any specific color requests I chose this textured pp from DCWV's Old World Mat Stack.  I've had it for years and seem to forget about it.  I embossed some flourishes on it using Ranger's super fine detail gold EP.  Love that stuff.

After I cut the sentiment panels out with my Labels 10 nesties I traced the smaller one with a gold paint pen.  Then added some tiny gold pearls. 

Here's the inside with the requested wording:

It was so nice to get a special order card.  She loved the end result and actually paid me double what I had asked for!  Can't argue with that:)

 

Flourished Blooms

Hello everyone!  I'm finally getting around to posting again.  It's been too long since I've made a card, so right before I crawled into bed last night I made myself create a quick card.  This is a CASE of Maile Belles card here.  I've been wanting to make a card like this since she first posted it in March.

• die cut the flowers using Beautiful Blooms #3 dies and rounded corners
• ran that panel through my Cuttlebug using the Linen/Canvas impression plate
• stamped some flourishes in Hawaiian Shores ink with Fancy Flourishes
• adhered that panel to black cardstock and added some Papertrey buttons
• stamped sentiment from Fillable Frames #4 and punched it out with SU! word window punch

All supplies from Papertrey Ink except word window punch and corner rounder