Bracket Card Gift Set

On to more gifts! I am making a set of cards for dear friends of mine who served in our congregation to help out for a while. They are so lovely and I wanted to thank them for their service as they move on to another congregation. I started with a series of cards using bracket/Labels 1 die cuts from Spellbinders. I am going to show half of them here. A couple are doubles so you will see less than the 8 or so cards I made. I am adding others to the pile and will show them later too.

I CASEd this card from someone, I saved the card image but not the link, sorry. It is so hard to photograph mostly white cards so sorry if these come out weird on your computer screen.

 

 

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Paper: cranberry, pretty in pink, white-SU!
Ink: memento black, regal rose
Stamps: SU!
Accessories: cranberry ribbon-SU!, pink ribbon-Stash, Cuttlebug embossing folders, foam dots-Jody Morrow

Anniversary Card for Hubby-12 Years! And I WON Awesome Blog Candy!

I combined the Clear Dollar Stamps challenge CIC2 with my anniversary card for hubby! I am such an idiot though, I missed the deadline for entering it in the challenge! They extended the deadline for Thanksgiving and I though it was until Monday but it was only until Friday! GRRR! I am going to add it to their Mr. Linky anyways but isn’t that a bummer? I really can’t complain too much because I WON Spellbinders Black Friday Giveaway! I got a set of 4 sets of Nesties!! AWESOME right?

I am so glad the ribbon actually shows in the photo, being tone-on-tone and all. Still a bit hard to see but there is a starfish, fish, pail and some other stuff that is under the focal image. Hope you like it. the bird is coloured with Copics and the rest is stamped and sponged. The whole card is spritzed with Shimmer Mist. Hope you like it, hubby did! When I asked him to bring it through to be photographed, he actually waited for me to finish with it so he could put it back on display. Since he doesn’t say much (about anything), this is pretty significant.

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps, Cloud 9 Designs-sentiment
Ink: baja, sahara sand, cocoa, caramel-SU!
Paper: chocolate-SU! Taylored Expressions-white CS, Bella Bella paper-MME,
Accessories: foam dots-Jody Morrow, lighthouse charm-Jesse James, Copic markers, Shimmer Mist-Luminarte, brads-stash

Gift Card Holder/Gift Box for OCC Sketch Challenge and Verve Blog Party #5

This box was really fun to make. I was dubious about the accuracy of the template I was using only because scoring channels are REALLY wide. The set is made by Oriental Trading Company and I’ve had them for years, I just never got around to making any of them. Well, I marked the very center of the scoring channels and used my Scor-Pal. The template went together beautifully! I was so excited and I can’t wait to use more. This box is pretty small so it is perfect for a gift card or jewellery, DS game or other small gift.

Click on the sketch to visit the challenge.

I know my ribbon is a bit hard to see, May Arts silk ribbon is a bit sheer when placed up against patterned paper; wish I’d remembered that beforehand. Oh well. I added pearls so you could see it better. The flowers were initially flat, the light pink center was part of/the middle of the darker pink flower. I very carefully cut it out. Then I scored the darker pink flower, now a ring only and accordion folded it. I cut the turquoise paper with a Purple Cows hand held cutter with a tiny wave blade. Not EASY! Then I scored and accordion folded it too. The light link circle was cupped using an embossing stylus and a piercing mat. I also curved the leaves using similar techniques.

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Paper: Crate Paper
Accessories: foam dots-Jody Morrow, Kaisercraft pearls, Sizzix swirl die, Oriental Trading Company template

Gift Card Holders for Verve Blog Party Challenge 5

This challenge was super easy because while the challenge email was sitting in my inbox, I was making gift card holders for hubby to take to work to sell! I had wanted to spread the love, posting several times rather than all at once but oh well, it is worth the chance to win a prize!

All tags are Cuttlebug dies with white CS-SU! using JustRite Stampers for the lettering. All gold and silver cord are by SU!

Gift Card Holder #1

Template: Cash or Charge by Lauren Meader for PTI
Paper: Alpine kit-CTMH, silver shimmer and white CS-SU!
Accessories: silver ribbon,  Basic Grey notch and die tool for insert, snowflake punch-MS

 

Gift Card Holder #2

Template: Cash or Charge by Lauren Meader for PTI
Stamps: snowflakes, joy, hearts-SU!
Ink: celery-SU!
Paper: celery CS-SU!
Accessories: rhinestones-stash, ribbon-May Arts

Gift Card Holder #3

 

Template: Cash or Charge by Lauren Meader for PTI
Stamps: Taylored Expressions
Ink: riding hood red-SU!
Accessories: Copic marker, foam dots-Jody Morrow

Gift Card Holder #4

Template: copied from Mastermind Toys
Stamps: snowflakes-SU!
Ink: Versamark
Paper: rose red-SU!
Accessories: Pilot gold paint pen, gold EP-SU!, ribbon-May Arts

Gift Card #5

Template: copied from Mastermind Toys
Stamps: SU!
Ink: memento black, handsome hunter-SU!, Versamark
Paper: handsome hunter, white CS-SU!
Accessories: gold EP, Pilot gold paint pen, Copic markers, foam dots-Jody Morrow

Enjoy, Rebecca

I was Featured on Cardoftheweek.com!!

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN to my WHIMSICAL WEDNESDAYS POST!!

Yeah!! My Luminaria tutorial was chosen by Suzanna of Card of the Week. She picks her favourite tutorials as well and picked mine!! Thanks Suzanna!

In case you missed it, be sure to click on the link above. It even folds down for storage – BONUS – so no worry about where to store it til next year. Hope you enjoy it.