Sympathy card for a music lover

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 I was recently asked to make a sympathy card for a friend to send to a family member. She liked a sympathy card I made a few years ago (you can see that one HERE, which was a CASE of one I saw on Instagram by Jennie Lundin) but she wanted me to incorporate music into it somehow. 

I used quite a few discontinued stamps on this card, so I haven't included a links list at the bottom of this post.

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Craft Roulette #136

I joined in with Craft Roulette on Saturday morning. The parameters were: 

Project: Tic Tac Toe

Colours: Violet, Red +2 (I used orange and yellow)

Element: Leaves

Random: Fringe

 I used a very old stamp from Stampin' Up, embossed with white embossing powder onto watercolour paper, then coloured with Nuance powders. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions (if you look closely, I cut the ends of the sentiment banner into a fringe) 

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Case me a Christmas Card with Deb McCleary

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2022 - a Christmas Card blog series!

For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Deb McCleary. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) (except for the Joy word die, which I believe is discontinued)  

This is the card I Cased: 

Deb also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Blue tiles

 I'm doing a big clean up and purge in my craft room, and I'm chucking out so much stuff, but once in a while, I come across something that I have to save. I had a box of little things for cards - flowers, die cuts, stamped images - and most of them went in the bin, but not these little squares. I no longer own the stamp I used for the blue flowers (it was from Hero Arts, but it's discontinued), but I remember the technique, taught to me by Sue Madex.

The little squares were covered in versamark ink, and then clear embossing powder, and embossed. Then I repeated this 5 times - 6 layers of embossing! Then I put them into the freezer, left them there a while, then I took them out and cracked the embossing. 

I paired these squares with a stencil from Picket Fence Studios and a sentiment from The Ton. I also put it all on a card base made from my favourite colour cardstock, Ballet Blue from Stampin Up, which they discontinued years ago (how could they??)
 

 

 

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Masculine sympathy card

 Another sympathy card I made a couple of weeks ago - this time, a masculine one. I made about 7 or 8 of these, so I will have some on hand if/when needed. 

Sadly, both the sentiment stamp from Avery Elle and the leafy silhouette stamps from Stampin' Up are discontinued, but the dandelion stamp is still available from Hero Arts. This card is a CASE of one I saw on Instagram by Jennie Lundin.

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Online Card Class - day 8

Today's Online Card Class has a video from Cathy Zielske showing how to make a simple shaker window with a word die, and then use the leftover letters on a second card. This is what I came up with: 

I used word dies from Hello Bluebird to cut a panel that I had coloured with Distress Oxide inks and then sprayed with Perfect Pearls in water. I used sequins from Brittney Lee. I added some faux stitching lines as a finishing touch.

For the second card, I adhered the leftover letters onto a white panel, then matted that onto a piece of navy cardstock, and then a blue cardbase (Stampin' Up Ballet Blue - years later, I am still annoyed they discontinued this colour!) I stamped a background stamp from Hero Arts (Flower Dot Pattern, my favourite stamp of all time, sadly discontinued) onto the cardbase using Ballet Blue ink from SU.

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Teresa Abajo

Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2019! I have asked cardmaking friends to join me in the lead up to Christmas by challenging me to make a card using a specific style, theme, technique or product.

My guest for today is Teresa Abajo of The Tamarisk. In honour of the fact that today is Halloween, Teresa has challenged me to make a card with the theme "Creepy Christmas".

You can check out her take on the challenge HERE. 

Here's what I came up with:

I stamped the Christmas Tree and the gingerbread man (which I turned into mummies) from Lawn Fawn, stamped the bat from Stampin' Up, and drew the rest of the images by hand. I coloured in the tree and the ornaments, then masked it and used my Life Changing Blender Brushes to blend Distress Inks over the background. I added some splatters of water and Perfect Pearls to the background before removing the mask. The sentiment is modified from a stamp by Birch Press.

I'll be sharing this at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge where the theme this week is "Anything Goes" 

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Therese Calvird

Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2019! I have asked cardmaking friends to join me in the lead up to Christmas by challenging me to make a card using a specific style, theme, technique or product.

My guest for today is Therese Calvird of  Lost in Paper. Therese has challenged me to make a card with the theme "sentiments".

You can check out her take on the challenge HERE. 

Here's what I came up with:

I was inspired by some cards by Laura Bassen to make a background using stripes of colour. The colour scheme was inspired by another card challenge I have been set that you will see next week! I stamped and white embossed a sentiment from Stampin' Up over the stripy panel. I cut the panel using a stitched rectangles die from Lil' Inkers, and then cut it on an angle through the middle. I cut multiple white pieces using the Joy die from Birch Press, a shadow from vellum and a top layer of glitter cardstock. The "to the world" stamped sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

I had some of the stripy panel left over, so I made another card!

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Alcohol inks and pearls

I've been asked multiple times to make videos of my alcohol ink cards. Seeing as I told myself I would try to make more videos this year, I made a video. It has four cards in it!

For the first card, I used Alcohol inks in Salmon and Peach Bellini, and Alccohol Pearl in Alchemy. The giraffe is from Reverse Confetti "Lift me up" and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued). The Stitched Hillside Border dies are from Lawn Fawn.

For the second card, I used Inks in Aqua and Sailboat Blue, and Alcohol pearls in Tranquil. The birdie stamp is from My Favorite Things (Tweet Friends) and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued).

For the third card, I used Alcohol ink in Indigo and alcohol pearls in Tranquil. The cute stamps are from Mama Elephant "Up and Away" and the cloud dies are from Memory Box. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued).

The final card has alcohol inks in Salmon and Pink Sherbet, and alcohol pearls in Intrigue and Enchanted. The elephhant is from Mama Elephant "Fly with me" and the sentiment is from Avery Elle "So Happy".

 And here's the video! (I apologise in advance for the coughing)

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Rainbow cloud

I've seen a few rainbow cloud cards in blogland - I love the look!

I used the Mini Cloud Edges stencil from MFT to create the cloud panel using Distress Oxide inks, and added a floating elephant from Mama Elephant. The sentiment is a very old one from Stampin' Up. 

I will be sharing this card at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "No Designer Paper"

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Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Wallace

Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2018!

My guest today is Michelle Wallace, and she has challenged me to use reindeer on a card. You can check out her take on this challenge HERE.

Here's what I came up with:

I used an older Stampin' Up stamp called "Dasher" along with a sentiment from Stamp-It (sadly, this company is no longer). I created masks using dies from Lawn Fawn and Lil' Inkers Designs, and used Stampin Up Night of Navy ink to stamp and to blend ink over the masks. I embossed the sentiment in silver, and I added some extra glittery bits coming off the reindeer's antlers using silver gel pen and Stickles.

I will be sharing this card at this week's Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "Anything Goes".

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