Thinking of You

This week's theme at Card A Day Blog is "Thinking of You". Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out today's card. I have all of the cutting instruction at the bottom of this post.

 

I used markers to color my stamp, then stamped on and off my white mat, varying the height of the stamp. This is then layered onto an orange piece of card stock.   The butterfly is stamped on white cards stock, colored, cut out and all the edges are inked.  I thought the butterfly need a little something so I used a little bit of stickles, on just the wing, to make it stand out after the card was all put together.   

 

 

For my embossing layer I started out by cutting my turquoise paper to fit inside the embossing folder. After it was embossed I trimmed around the outside edges leaving the embossed frame. I wanted a little bit of the kraft card stock front showing on my card. 



I layered the orange and white card stock with another flower stamped on the edge for the inside of the card.   I inked all of my edges with distress ink.

 

Thank you for stopping by.  Tomorrow Laury is the Card A Day Blog Designer so don't forget to stop back and see what she has to inpire you. 

Cutting Instructions:
Card Base: Kraft 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Embossed Frame: Turquoise -5 3/8" x 4 1/8"
First Mat: Orange - 4 5/16" x  3 1/8"
Stamping Mat: White  4 3 /16" x 3"

Recipe:
Paper: Recollections - kraft, orange, blue and white
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Nature Walk
Markers: Stampin' Up Stampin' Write - Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Peach Parfat, Crushed curry and Pear Pizzaz; Marvy LePlumeII - Sky Blue No. 75; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up - Framed Tulips
Stickles: Crystal Ice
Misc.: Adhesive, scissors

Nature Walk

I've been working on some cards for the Rotary Club Auction and here is the first one I came up with.  I decided to use a stamp set I haven't used very much from Stampin' Up.  After cutting my Kraft cardstock I stamped the flower several times at various heights.  I embossed my cream cardstock and glued the two pieces together.  I then wrapped my ribbon around them and attached to the card base.  I stamped the butterfly onto kraft cardstock and punched it out. 

To finish off the the inside of the card I cut a cream mat and stamped the flower again.

1 card made for OWH and one card made for the Rotary Club.
Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cutting Instructions:
Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Cream Cardstock - 2 1/2" x 4" then embossed
Kraft Cardstock - 3 1/2" x 4

Recipe:
Paper: Cardstock: DCWV - Green; Recollections - cream, kraft and black
Embossing Folder:Stampin' Up - Square Lattice
Ink: Stampin' Up - Basic Black
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Nature Walk
Punch: Stampin' Up - Curly Label Extra Large
Ribbon: Stampin' Up - 1/2" Seam Binding
Misc: adhesive

Bloom Layout

I had a little bit of free time this week end so I finished a layout I had made in Design Studio. It's not a Fall, Thanksgiving or Christmas related just one I have been wanting to do.

 I started by stamping The bird and bee from Nature Walk and the Decorative stamp from Bliss in Soft Suede randomly on my tan cardstock.  I stamped the Butterfly from Nature Walk in Rich Razzleberry.   I then used my glue gun to attach a piece of lace, I had left over from another project, to the back of my stamped cardstock.  I inked my tan photo and journal mat with Soft Suede.

 

I used pop up dots for the branch at the bottom of the layout The other branch I cut apart and placed it where I wanted it to go.  After that I added the large purple flowers then my pearls from the Stampin' Up Pretties Kit.  I then filled in the area around the flowers with the punched purple and orange flowers.  I used two different sizes of pearls for the centers.   I then added the yellow roses after twisting the wire around a paint brush handle. 

 

The vellum butterflies are inked and placed randomly around the page.  I layered the single butterfly wing on the page with hot glue and then layered the other one a little bit off so that it looks like they were flying.  The butterflies that are in one piece I used pearls for the bodies.  This large butterfly was a happy accident as I was originally going to cut the outline out of vellum and the body out of the pattern paper.  I had my papers in the wrong spot when I went to cut.  I liked how it turned out so I didn't recut it.

For the journal spot I was originally going to use "bloom" in the center of it but decided to leave it for a journal spot instead. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Recollections - Tan; DCWV - Purple background and circle; Scraps from my stash - orange, green, brown, purple, and Stampin' Up - vellum

Cricut Cartridges: Bloom, George and Basic Shapes, MS Elegant

Stamps: Stampin' Up - Bliss and Nature Walk

Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede and Rich Razzleberry

Punch: Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Shapes

Misc: Recollections Pearls - brown; Stampin' Up - Pretties kit; adhesive, pop up dots, glue gun, Purple flowers - Prima embellishments (I've had forever), yellow roses - Prima Flowers - Fleurs de Prima, scrap of lace