Hummingbird Note Card

I've got a cute little note card up on the Dies R Us Blog today.  I love to watch the hummingbirds in my backyard and when I saw this die by Memory Box, I knew I had to have it!

 

I started working on the hummingbird first with a piece of white cardstock and several different colors of  Distress Oxides. I just sponged the inks across the cardstock and then die cut the hummingbird out.

Once I cut the hummingbird out I colored over it with a clear Wink of Stella pen to give it some sparkle and shine. It gave it the iridescence that I've seen on some real hummingbirds.

 These photos don't do it justice.

Then I die cut all my other pieces.

I used a white card base and layered some pink cardstock on it and added the white floral background die cut on top. I popped up the pink stitched oval die cut to give the card some depth and added the hummingbird on top. I also added some flower shaped sequins around the stitched oval.

Supplies

Memory Box Marvelous Humming Bird

Impression Obsession Floral Background

Tutti Stitched Ovals

Wink of Stella - Clear

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Interlocking Gate Fold Card

I've got an Interlocking Gate Fold Card up today over at the Dies R Us Blog. 

I saw a tutorial on this by Jennifer McGuire and thought some of the Creative Expression Sue Wilson dies would be perfect for these interlocking gate fold cards. You can see the tutorial here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwtv17b-Nmk&t=1034s.

 

I started with 2 pieces of purple cardstock 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 and scored them both at 5 1/2. I glued the two longer sides together to make the card base. For the die cuts, you need them to be pretty sturdy since they interlock, so I die cut each piece out 3 times and glued them together.

Here are flower diecuts

Once everything is cut and glued you need to let the glue dry before putting the card together. Trust me on this...I learned the hard way! I started with the white diecuts and centered them on the card front and marked in pencil where I needed to add the glue. You only want to glue half of the diecuts so you can open the card. I then did the same with the lavender diecuts and then glued it all together, again making sure the glue dries before you try opening the card. I then added the flowers to the center of the lavender diecut.

I really enjoyed making this card and I love the look. I hope you'll give it a try! It's not complicated at all and Jennifer McGuire does a great job explaining the process.

Supplies

Sue Wilson Designs - Frames & Tags Millie

Paper Roses Lyla Flowers

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

ScraPerfect No Clog Writing Tip

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Hello Note Card

We've got a new card sketch up today over at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Challenge Blog. We post a new card sketch every Monday and ask you to play along with us.

Here's this weeks sketch

 I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

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Team Stunts

I've got a sketch reveal up at Sketches in Thyme today. We have a new sketch each week and a daily reveal by one of the DT members. 

Here's the sketch for this week

 

This is my granddaughter back when she was a cheerleader at the age of 9. Her team made it into the competition and we were able to go. I believe they came in 2nd in their age group so they didn't get to go on to Disney. I thought they did an awesome job and couldn't have been prouder!

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Masculine Birthday Card

Here's a masculine birthday card that I made for my brother's birthday using the weekly sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new card sketch up every Monday and then all the DT members reveal their take on the sketch on Wednesday.

Here's the sketch

As you can see I turned the sketch in order for the car stamp to fit on the card.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

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Let's Celebrate

I've got a card up at Creative Inspiration today. Every Sunday we have a layout and card sketch reveal challenge. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's the card sketch for this week

This was such a fun sketch to work with. I used a lot of different die cuts here and did some embossing and inking too. 

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Stitched Silver Stars

Today I have a card up at Dies R Us and I am mixing a couple of different stitched dies on my card. Stitched dies are very popular right now and I love how they add a bit of dimension to cards.

Here's all the dies I used along with the actual die cuts

I started with a white card base and added a black panel to help everything pop. I took another piece of white cardstock and covered it with some faded jeans Distress Oxide and stamped silver stars all over it. Then I just started layering on all the die cuts and it was done. A very simple card but the stitched dies just seem to add so much to it.

Supply list

Lawn Fawn Reverse Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Windows

Tutti Stitched Nesting Stars

Sizzix Celebration Words

Distress Oxide Faded Jeans

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

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Split Card Design

Today I have a different type of card up at the  Dies R Us Blog. It's called a Split Card Design that I found on YouTube. These types of cards are perfect for die cuts. The top piece of the card is actually split in half and held together with the die cuts so that it opens all together.

I started by cutting out the clouds and grass using both cardstock and vellum. You don't have to use vellum, I just liked the look of it. I used stitched curves dies for the clouds and plain curves for the grass. Once you've got them cut out you need to fold over the left side of the die cuts and position it where you want it on a coordinating piece of cardstock which will be the inside of the card. The flaps you created will then be glued to the back left of the cardstock. 

Once that was done I cut out my flamingos.

I put my flamingos together and then positioned them on the top of the card so that the heads were adhered to the clouds and the feet adhered to the grass. This holds your two split pieces together so you can open the card as one piece. Then you will need a base to adhere everything to and it also covers up where you adhered the cloud and grass flaps. I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then used a black glaze pen to draw the birds and also the eyes of the flamingos. I then went one step further and die cut another set of flamingos and added them to the inside of the card directly behind the flamingos on the front of the card. It dresses up the inside and covers up the glue on the vellum.

I hope this makes sense to you but if not you can always check out one of the videos on YouTube. I happen to like the one by Jennifer McGuire.

Supplies Used:

Impression Obsession Hill Landscape Layers

Memory Box Stitched Curves

Impression Obsession Flamingo Set

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

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Let's do Coffee

We've got a new card sketch up today at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Blog.

This is my take on the sketch

Here's this weeks sketch

I  hope you'll stop by and play along with us! Be sure and check out the blog on Wednesday when we reveal all the DT members cards. I love seeing all the different takes on the same sketch!

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Surfin

I'm up today over at Sketches in Thyme and we have a really cute sketch to work with this week.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

This was the perfect sketch for these pics of my granddaughter trying out the boogie board. She caught on so quickly and we could hardly get her out of the water at the end of the day.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us at Sketches in Thyme. You'll see a different DT member's take on the sketch each day this week.

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