The Card Concept: Travel Abroad or Stay At Home

 

Hi Folks! It's time for a new post at the Card Concept, and we have 2 choices to 

inspire you, Travel Abroad or Stay at Home.You can choose.

 

I zoned in on the globe and knew what stamp set I was going to use.

It's an oldie from Concord & 9th called Globe Greetings.

I have a recipient for this card. My DIL is a geography teacher, and she really is,

The World's Best Teacher. 

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The stack of books is from PTI: Glorious Globes Basics, and the gorgeous leaf is

The Greetery's Jumbo Curiosity Buckeye Leaf. 

The tiny blossoms are also from the Greetery: Botanicuts: Apple.

Sorry I don't know what stencil I used for the background. If you know,

I'd love to know the name. I found the panel in my stash, and loved the design with the 

globe. Inked in gray,  it gave off vintage vibes.

Play along for 2 weeks, and be sure to mention what style you used, and don't

forget to add our inspiration photo to your post. 

I call this card, Vintage Layered. (a term I made up, perfectly acceptable, btw!)

The Card Concept #180 {Travel Abroad} or {Stay At Home} 

Playing with The Greetery's Calico Collection

 

Well hi, crafty friends. Did you get any of the Greetery's latest release?

I had to play with some of my order immediately, and chose The Stencil Shapes

Autumn to play with first.

For this card, I followed Lori's tutorial on You Tube, and didn't stray far from her 

brilliant and careful instruction. I liked this, but wanted to do more. 

So I did.

I went bolder with my colors, and cut the panel with the Patchwork die. Love all the 

stencils, and the result is a gorgeous design with a panel for my sentiment.

Honestly, Betsy's brilliant!

Lastly is the Botanicuts Apple dies, with the Bushel Basket. Once again, followed 

the great instructions from Lori, and added a stenciled panel from Printshop Calico

stamp and stencils, cut with Cozy Cup Coaster die. 

The EF is an oldie from Cuttlebug. 

I left this card without a sentiment, so I could use it later. 

Hope to do more soon. Love this release!

The Flower Challenge #72 Reminder: Add Sparkle

It's reminder time at the Flower Challenge, where the theme this month is

Add Sparkle. 

I used a few sparkles on my reminder card. Paper with glitter stripes, glitter

paper, and some sparkle spray on my bouquet.

You can see the sparkle on this photo. I've had this stripped paper for years

and was so happy to use it for this card.

The Glitter paper is from Poppystamps

My die cuts are from the Greetery, and the paper I used for the wrap is a wrapping

off a bar of soap I saved because it was just too special to toss!

Add some sparkle to your creation and play along!

Botanicuts: Bluebells, Lavender, & Wildflower,

It's a Wrap, Deco Frames

PTI: Brushed Off Rectangle

The Flower Challenge #72 Add Sparkle Reminder

 

The Card Concept: Change of Seasons

 

Hi and welcome to a post for The Card Concept. We're back after a summer break

with a new challenge: Change of Seasons.

What inspires you? The butterfly? The colors? The flower?

I saw the butterfly, and decided to add a butterfly to my card. But I 

also saw the lovely grey background and remembered a card  Betsy

Veldman did, with her red rubber stamp, Fond of Foliage 

from the Greetery on her grey card.

Betsy used an oxide ink, I used my white Pigment ink, stamping several times

until I was happy with the impression. 

Hollyhock Stems is a multi-stamp process, and I used several inks from

 Concord & 9th and Altenew.

Jumbo Butterfly is also from the Greetery, and is stenciled, and color penciled.

Sentiment from Arched Sentiments and is white embossed.

Hoping you find time to play along with The Card Concept.

We love seeing your creations!

Have a wonderful week!

The Card Concept #179 {Change of Seasons}

The Flower Challenge #72 Add Sparkle

 

Did someone say 'sparkle?'

Hi and welcome to a new month and a new challenge. Add Sparkle is our theme

at the Flower Challenge.

Sparkle plenty, with this card. The flower is from Altenew's Craft-A-Flower

collection, and is called Carolina Allspice.

I started with a stenciled background, and added Altenew's Polka Dot Leaves,

before layering on my flower. 

The last layer of the flower and leaves are die cut from glitter cardstock. 

In case you're curious, below is an actual Carolina Allspice, apparently 

from a flowering tree.

Gorgeous, isn't it!

Play along all month, and remember to make a flower/flowers the main element

on your card.

The Flower Challenge #72 Add Sparkle

One More Card Set for Alisa

 

Sent With Love is one more set of cards for Alisa, my daughter, who asked for 

some general cards to send out to ladies at her church.

This is a simple set of 4 cards, (so simple I might make it 8), using The Greetery's

new Wild Elegance release.

I began with Color Spots Stencil, stamped with Altenew Inks. I love their inks 

for sets that coordinate so beautifully. 

This set of inks for instance is Fall Harvest, a set of 4 that blend and 

coordinate together perfectly. All one color, no new color formed from

the blend, which is what I wanted for this card set.

The Lovely Silhouettes stamps and dies were backed with a darker shade of

matching cardstock for a little uplift.

The tips of the flowers were also embossed. And each card has a matching

envelope.

I found some wallpaper pattern in my stash and added it to the inside of the box.

I forgot how much I love doing these boxes, so quick and easy, and such a great

way to present the cards!

The back of the box gets some stamping love too!

I don't usually do CAS cards, I'm more of a 'use it all' lover of card making.

But I think she'll like these simpler designs. All my color coordinated bling

is from Poppystamps.

Thanks for the visit!

The Flower Challenge #71 Circle/Circles Reminder

 

Hello! It's reminder time at the Flower Challenge.

This month it's Circle/Circles. Use a circle with your card.

The circle on this card is cut with 2 sizes of circles (Memory Box), which

forms a frame. It hi lights the clear embossed print of the stamped image

(The Greetery). I added a bit of white pencil to the framed part of the 

stamped image, and glued on some sparkly bits.

The beautiful rose is Altenew's, and the outside frame is The Greetery's. 

The card is a special one made for our granddaughter, Karly, just married.

The Flower Challenge #71 Reminder

2 More Cards for Alisa

 

In my previous post I mentioned my daughter who asked for some of my cards. 

These 2 will also go to her. Thank you cards and other basics she sends out to

her church friends.

Marcia Hill and I were sharing that we just can't seem to put the Greetery's 

Wild Elegance away. 

These 2 cards use Elegant Arches stamp, with. the center cut away. The butterfly and 

dragonfly were both added along with blooms from Honeysuckle Stems.

The butterfly and dragonfly are stenciled. The flower is inked and pencil detailed.

Is it time to put these sets away? We'll see... Just might have to do a few more!

Card Set for Alisa

 

Hi there! 

Do you have your own fan club? Have to say, (totally puffed up), I do.

My family thinks I'm so talented. Not even going to tell them it's the 

stamp companies, and all you brilliant inspirers that should get credit.

My daughter asked for some general cards, (she apparently ran out of the 32,000 I've

already given her!), and I was thrilled to have an excuse to play with my Greetery's 

new Wild Elegance. 

Now here comes the warning: this is a long post. Feel free to scroll quickly. Or, if 

you like details, take your time, look around, and please comment. Oh, I love those

comments!

Alisa is a worship pastor at her husband's church, and the women's pastor as well.

She keeps in touch with the flock with calls, cards and plans all their retreats.

(Did I mention cards?) I LOVE that my cards go to women who love God. 

The 4 cards I did for her are from the Greetery's newest release, Wild Elegance. 

If you pushed that button for the full release, you received stamps, stencils, dies, 

and a whole lot of inspiration from the Greetery's Look Book.

This bouquet, for instance comes with an outline stamp and stencils for coloring. 

One card uses the stencils, the other copics and pencils.

I paired Lovely Silhouettes with the rubber stamp Elegant Arches for these cards.

I did some fun stenciled envelopes for the cards as well. (Thanks Kelly Lunceford

for the reminder).

Hope you weren't too bored, and maybe got some ideas to do a card set of your own.

And I'll bet you've also got your own fan club... we all deserve it!

Have a great weekend.