EASTER GREETINGS and a CARD

While we think of a number of things when

we are preparing for Easter,

like Easter eggs and bunnies and

spring and flowers,

to the Christian it holds a message of hope!

"You are looking for

Jesus the Nazarene,

who was crucified.

He has risen!"

Mark 16:6

I wanted to share a card that I created just for Easter. You might recognize these adorable stamps by Kim Hughes for Cornish Heritage Farms.

The label shape is a Nestabilities by Spellbinders. I sprayed it with Memories Mists and used a Copic marker to add an added emphasis of color along the embossed edge. The bunny is colored with Copic Markers and the pink part of the ear, the tail and the nose are accented with Aleene's Paper Glaze for an epoxy look.

Notice my punched border. It is almost covered up with the label piece but portions of it are exposed.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

EASTER GREETINGS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cryogen White Curious Iridescent/CutCardStock.com and Prism
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Stamps – Spring set by Kim Hughes/Cornish Heritage Farms
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
Label Nestabilities/Spellbinders
Border punch – Martha Stewart

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Buttons – Making Memories
Copic Markers
Ribbon
Memories Mist spray - Stewart Superior

Think GREEN!!! It's MARCH

I think it is pretty funny that when I hear "MARCH", I think of the color "GREEN"! Just seems to go with March 17th being St. Patrick's Day. Thought I would share a couple cards along that theme. This first card uses Laura's sketch #21 at 2 Sketches 4 You's blog since I just love to use a sketch as my inspiration on how I am going to arrange my card. Some recent stamps I received are a couple sets by Kim Hughes and Cornish Heritage Farms and I loved finding this great, simple shamrock on this set.

I wanted to be able to show you how I finished the shamrock image. Like I said it is a very simple outline of a shamrock and so it can be finished in a number of ways. I stamped it on a piece of patterned paper and embossed it with black embossing powder so the edges were raised. Then I did a very light coloring with Copic Markers. Next I filled the image in completely with Aleene's Paper Glaze by Tulip. I love how easy it is to fill in an image with the Paper Glaze and it dries with a 3-D, epoxy look. The patterned papers are a collection by Making Memories.

For the above card, the colors and the stamps are what set the theme. I used a "ticket" stamp for the beginning of my designs.

One feature I want to point out is that after I stamped the solid shamrock stamp with green ink, I coated each one with Aleene's Paper Glaze by Tulip. This gave each of the shamrocks an epoxy look.

I wanted to take a minute to show you the steps that were taken to create my tickets with a St. Patrick's day theme.

1. The bottom part of the above example shows the ticket stamp as it is stamped, a line of three tickets.

2. The second image show the very simple stamps that I added to the open areas on the tickets. The stamps that were used for that are from the $1 bin.

3. This last photo, shows the finished strip of tickets that are stamped and cut out. I inked the cut edges with Chalk stamp pads. So the finished card is five sets of these stamped tickets. I just alternated how I stamped the images.

Look what is growing out in my backyard.

While some of you are still dealing with snow, we have Calla Lillies growing.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

St. PATRICK’S DAY card

Materials: Solid cardstock - Prism

Patterned paper – Good Luck/GreenDay/Reminisce

Rubber stamp – Three Blank Tickets/InvokeArts and St. Pats set/Studio g

Fluid Chalk stamp pad and Ancient Page stamp pad – Clearsnap

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®/Tulip

Mini black brads – Karen Foster

Hand Held circle punch - McGill

Scor-Pal tool

LUCKY card
Materials:
Cardstock and ribbon – Paper Trey, Ink
Patterned papers – Greenhouse/Making Memories
Stamps – Shamrock and word – Sweet Spring/Kim Hughes collection/Cornish Heritage Farms
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic markers
Clearsnap Fluid chalk stamp pads
Ribbon and machine sewing
Tonic Paper Distresser
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Rhinestones – Darice
Circle punches – McGill
Scallop circle punch – PaperShapers/EK Success

CPS #86, 2S4U and a funny pic!

It's that day again, time to show you my Card Positioning Systems card for this week and a card that I created using the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch using the supplies from the I Am A Scrapaholic's October kit plus a funny photo we took on a trip.
This weeks sponsor was Kandi Corp. You might ask what is that? I would say it is a pretty fun tool that it would pay to look into if you aren't acquainted with it. A brief description is it is a heat tool designed to attach their crystals or metal embellishments. Their decorative pieces come with a glue backing that melts when using the heat tool. It is fast, it is easy to use and while I have used the metal embellishments on paper, the beauty of this tool is it works so well on unusal surfaces like ribbon.
I used a decorative flourish that was cut with a Cuttlebug die and this provided just the perfect places to attach the metal pieces and a few orange crystals.
For the above card, I used Kazan's sketch #11 at 2 Sketches 4 You and my supplies from the I Am A Scrapaholic's October kit. The papers are from g.c.d. designs and they are wonderful! The beauty of using papers from one collection of papers is how well they go together. For my card, I used both sides of the papers because the backsides are great solid prints.
My chipboard piece was painted with a green Crackle paint. I love the look that you get with this paint.
And, I thought I would share a funny with you. There is a road we drive down in Oregon or Idaho, I forget exactly which one. We came across this road sign and just had to stop and take a picture and believe me, we wanted to drive down that road and find the house that just might have that good, old fashioned, chicken dinner ready!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANKS card

Materials: Metal embellishments and Crystals courtesy of Kandi Corp

Cardstock - Prism

Die cut flourish – Cuttlebug/Provo Craft

Scallop square punch and square punches – McGill

Thanks stamp – Kim Hughes/Cornish Heritage Farms

MISSING YOU card

Materials list:
Solid Cardstock - Prism
Patterned paper – Changing colors, Cider stripes and Harvest Dots/Loverly Collection/g.c.d. studios (the reverse side of some of the prints)
Chipboard Flourish - Bazzill
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Green Crackle paint – Ranger
Rhinestones – Michaels
Rub-on greeting – Making Memories
Tonic Paper DistresserMachine sewing

Do You Know My Friend, Kim?

Kim Hughes, that is? If you know her, you probably know that she has been designing her own collection of stamps with Cornish Heritage Farms. I can "work" with stamps that are already designed but I just don't think I could "design" stamps so I am in awe!!! All of that to say this: I pulled out some of her cute stamps to create a couple cards to show you today. I mostly love her cute and curly-Q lettering for her word stamps. Both of these cards also combine some Cornish Heritage Farms background stamps because they have a whole lot of great ones. The candle is colored in with Copic Markers and the flame is accented with Tulip Glitter Fabric Dimensional paint.

This next card started out with all white and all yellow cardstock. I wanted to show you how much color you can add on your own with stamps and stamp pads. The vellum paper was white/clear when I started. I colored that with a "direct-to-paper" technique. All that means is that I picked up the stamp pad in my hand and held it by the bottom of the pad. I then applied the pad directly to the paper, rubbing the colored ink into the paper to add color. I used more then one color of pad. I like the Clearsnaps Fluid Chalk stamp pads best for this and I really like the way that these shades blend together. So don't fear if you start to color with one color and it is too intense, you can "quiet" it down with a lighter shade of ink. I also used the ColorBox pigment pads.
This photo shows the piece of white paper that I started with before stamping the bird and the swirl branch. I just added a large enough rubbing of three shades of the ColorBox inks to the paper and then stamped on that spot. I now had custom colored paper.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

WISH/CANDLE - Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Secret Garden/Life Is Beautiful/Sassafras Lass (both sides), this paper comes with that scalloped edge that I used across the bottom of my card
Rubber stamps – Cute Curls/Kim Hughes Collection and Victorian Backgrounder/Cornish Heritage Farms
Stamp pads – Colorbox pigment and Fluid Chalk stamp pads/Clearsnap
Ribbon
Tulip Glitter Fabric Dimensional paint
Stickles
Oval Scallop punch – McGill

DARLING BIRDIE - Materials:
Cardstock – Prism
Patterned vellum – Hambly Screen Prints
Rubber stamps – Cute Curls and Scripty Words/Kim Hughes Collection and “NEW” Vintage Ledger Scrapblock/Cornish Heritage Farms
Stamp pads – Colorbox pigment and Fluid Chalk stamp pads/Clearsnap
Tulip Glitter Fabric Dimensional paint
Button – My Mind’s Eye
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Flower - Prima