US Memorial Day - Remember

This past Monday was Memorial Day in the US and one of the groups I belong to chose Flag as the theme for our TGIF mingle. I had nothing that really fit the theme so this is created using clip art for the flag and the image was provided courtesy of Cora at http://paperflowers1.blogspot.com/ I printed the image on velum and layered it over the flag and then stamped the word Remember but the ink didn't show up very well so I used white gel pen and then a sparkle over that.

Another Bold & Bright Floral

This card was created to finish up the single piece of Basic Grey "Sultry Uptown" scrapbook paper which you can see the full sheet here http://www.franticstamper.com/bgsultry.htm . The bold bright theme was the colour challenge on a group I belong to and I thought I would just see how many cards I could get from one sheet of the same paper. So this was the second one of this dimension (7 1/4 x 3 3/4) and I made one (5 1/2 x 4 1/4) with a horizontal design but a right side fold. The other two cards are in previous posts to this blog.

Birds of a Feather

This is a variation on the gothic arch that I've used for the creation of this ATC for the TGIF mingle on Altered Designs. Stamps used are www.Quietfiredesign.ca except for the tree foliage which is an unmounted that I can't at the moment remember which company. The birds are from www.retrocafeart.com

For My Friend

This card was done for a sketch challenge on one of my groups. It also helped to use up some more of the 12 x 12 sheet of paper which was used for the previous card.

Birthday Wishes

On Persnickety Stampers we have a monthly colour/theme challenge and for May it was Bright, Bold & Floral. For me that is usually a big challenge but while I was at the stamp store this 12x12 pattern paper from BasicGrey caught my eye. I thought this certainly is brighter and bolder than I would normally use.

This is a different sized card than standard ( 3 3/4" x 7 1/4") but when I get freebie envelopes from the card shop, that sometimes drives what size I make. I used a section from the upper left corner of the sheet with the flowers on a subtle distressed background stripe in grey. To this I added "Birthday wishes" from the SU! set Sincere Salutations and a flourish stamp from Autumn Leaves flourishes v:1 in black Versafine from Tsukineko

The Beauty of Nature

This is what you make from mistakes. When I was trying to do the scene stamping for the previous card I did what I do when I'm tired, add just the one more thing I think it needs and then go off to bed. However on looking at it in the morning shake my head, going what were you thinking???? So I put it aside and did the other one from scratch.

I kept looking at this mistake thinking there had to be a recovery for it. In looking around my studio for something to fix it, found these card blanks with the neat window in them. So with an accenting colour cardstock, an exacto knife and my computer I set to work. I laid the window over my scenery mistake until I found a section I could live with, marked out the shape with a pencil, cut it out and glued it into the window after I put two coats of clear emboss over it. Used duplex cardstock and made another card for the inside . The green you can see and the otherside white, glued the one side of the green card to the inside front of the orange/yellow card. I did the phrase with top and bottom border in a word document printed it in black on paper changed the document to colour and lined up my cardstock on the paper, taped it down and ran it through the printer again. Trimmed it and fastened it to the card front and this is my recovery.

In Wilderness

The card Lottery theme on Persnickety Stampers group for May is scenery. So this is what I created using several different stamps from several different companies. For the main part the colour was added with a sponge before stamping and then highlights with markers after stamping. The verse and the foreground tree are stickers from PSX that have been in my drawer forever I think.