Thank You cards for Grandma...

images (c) Stampin' Up!, 1990-2007
images (c) Stampin' Up!, 1990-2007

Grandma asked me to make her some thank you cards to send and these are two of the designs I came up with for her. She wants 15 cards in all and I made 5 of each of these...so one more design and 5 cards to go. If the one using Baroque Mofifs looks familiar...it's because I just changed the colors and sentiment of one of my SAS Christmas cards.

Autumn Harvest

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So I received an order for cards this morning and I thought I'd start working on them right away. Of course, I got side-tracked and made this. Very time consuming, but totally fun to make. I wheeled the pumpkin pie cs with the Autumn Leaves wheel from the Holiday collection. I stamped the large pumpkins on naturals white using the masking technique and then water colored with the crayons and an aqua painter. Then, everything else is stamped on naturals white (with black stazon for all), water colored and cut out. It is all layered using glue dots and dimensionals.

Using my scraps!!!

images (c) Stampin' Up!, 1990-2007
images (c) Stampin' Up!, 1990-2007

Ok, so I'm organizing my new craft room and I found boxes and bags of scraps. I thought, just for a second of throwing them away, but just couldn't! I have a hard time throwing anything SU! away. So, I vowed to use them...I started last night by creating these two very quick and simple cards. I did not cut ANY full sheets of cs, not even for the card bases. I was so proud of myself. So, this is my mission...to get using those scraps.

Both cards are made with Baroque Motifs.

Baroque Christmas

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I wanted to make a Christmas card with this set for my stamp-a-stack to show how versatile these stamps are. Simple but elegant. It does need some gold brads, but I'm out...the horror!

Crayon Resist Christmas

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I LOVE this card. The image is totally cased from somewhere, but I cannot remember where I saw it. So, whoever came up with this...thank you so much!! This card is so beautiful IRL. I used the crayon resist technique on glossy cs. First I stamped with stazon, then colored in the snow areas with a plain white crayon. Next, I sponged on classic ink to the image, the white parts showed through, of course. Then, I used a bit of two-way glue and daz. diamonds for a bit of sparkle. The sentiment is also on glossy cs and heat embossed. All of the colored cs is sponged and stippled like crazy. The effect is awesome!

City of David

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I just love this City of David set. I colored the stamp with water color crayons, misted with water then stamped. I always seem to use earthy tones with this set and make simple cards. I think it goes with the "theme" of the stamps..."a simple gift". Sorry for the crooked scan...no matter how many times I did it, it would not come out straight. The card is straight IRL...LOL!

Holiday Harmony Designer Paper fix

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Ok, so there is this problem with the Holiday Harmony Designer Series Paper (don't worry, SU! will make it right!) and it happens to be on my favorite piece of the paper. So, I sat down tonight and fixed the problem!! On the phrases sheet of the paper the word 'greetings' is spelled wrong and the accent on the word 'noel' (which, of course, I don't even know how to add to my post...LOL) is in the wrong place.

Here's what I did to fix the problem so I can still use these sheets...until I get my new batch, of course. I trimmed the entire sheet of paper into strips where the 'r' should be in all of the 'greetings' words. Then, I stamped 'Merry Christmas' over all of the 'noel' words using the Merry Christmas stamp from the Holidays and Wishes stamp set. Finally, I continued to stamp 'Merry Christmas' on the sheet to even it out. I used rose red craft ink for this. Let me tell you it looks GORGEOUS!! Even better than before. This card is really simple and rather boring, but it shows the fix.