Copper Theme

Hi Friends,

In honor of my new blog template in warm brown/blue colors, I created a coordinated card to go with it!!  (Not really, total coincidence!)

Made two cards as entries for Hero Arts "A Blog Named Hero" blog challenge: "Who's the Boss".  This is the first of my two posts for my cards. 



For this card, I went with both dry embossing and heat embossing.

I dry embossed a border on some Cool Caribbean CS with an embossing folder, then heat embossed my sentiment in copper EP.  I added two die cut Spellbinder flowers that I had made earlier to finish it off.  The leaves are DSWV textured CS. (BTW, Both the die cutting and dry embossing were done in my new, awesome-est ever Fiskars Fuse machine!!)






The DP I used for the flower is "Desert Spring" by SEI,  I received it in a card kit and loved that copper foil running through the design so I had to go back and order more.

Check out card #2 in the post below!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!
 

Happy Thoughts

Hi Friends,

Made two cards as entries for Hero Arts "A Blog Named Hero" blog challenge: "Who's the Boss".  This is the second post for my two cards. 

For this one, I cased this card I spotted on Pinterest recently by Cristina Kowalcyzk.  I liked the colors and the simple design. 

The bike (by PSX stamps)  is embossed with white Zing EP.  I glued on Flower soft in "Spring" and "Meadow" to the basket.  The dotted ribbon is PTI and the border was punched with an EK Success border punch.  My sentiment is Hero Arts "Card Messages"



 TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!
 

Embossing Challenge!

Supplies used: SU Fifth Avenue Floral and Thoughts and Prayers stamp sets. Blue Bayou, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, White CS. Chocolate Chip and Baja Breeze ink. Soft Sky DS Ribbon, Simple Flower Embosslit, Texture Plates Kit #4, Fiskars border punch, large half-back faux pearl from SU Pretties kit.

Here's my Wednesday Belli Challenge post! This week Chris challenged us to use embossing on our cards. So this was a good opportunity to try out a couple of the new embossing gadgets from Stampin Up! I used the Simple Flower Embosslits die and the diamond design from the Textured Plates Kit #4. The Embosslits die is kinda cool because it cuts the shape at the same time it's embossing it. This is different (and easier!) than the Cuttlebug dies that come with coordinating folders so you can emboss them after you've cut them. The Textured Plates, on the other hand, don't emboss as deeply as the Cuttlebug folders. However, I tried spritzing the CS first with water before I ran it through my Big Shot (a tip I read on SCS) and I actually got a pretty decent impression. The Textured Plates aren't intended to emboss like the folders though, so I'm thinking these work as good as their supposed to. I like them a lot more than I thought I would! The Belli DT created more fun cards using embossing!! Check out the new Creative Belli Blog and see what the other gals did!! Join in the challenge by uploading your card to the Belli Blog website or posting to SCS! Be sure to use Keyword CBC63 when you post your card!! Thanks for checking in!!

Soft and Sparkly

Supplies Used - Paper: Me and My Big Ideas DP, SU River Rock, Soft Sky. Sizzix Texture Plates #4, Ticket Punch, MS Layered Daisy Punch, Jolee's Jewels, Cricut Storybook Cartridge

Did lots of stamping and crafting yesterday but didn't spend a lot of time photographing and uploading, so I'll have to get caught up on that part throughout the week. But first! This week's Featured Stamper is "SgtStamper". I love checking out a gallery I haven't been to before. She has one of those galleries where you just want to sit down and Case a bunch of cards on every page of her collection! I don't even know how I settled on this one for today "Korean Thank You", but there's so much more in there, I hope you'll check it out! I stayed with most of her design elements but changed up the materials used. Thanks for stopping by today!