Friends Ephemera card

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Today's card uses the same colors as yesterday's card but is quite different.  

For this card I started with a Tempting Turquoise piece of card stock and a scrap of the Unity designer paper that I had left over.  I also found a packet of American Crafts ephemera (Bungalow Lane) that I had received as a Christmas gift.  I opened it and discovered that it had several pieces that would fit the same color scheme as yesterdays card.  I chose 3 different pieces to use on this card.

First step was using an old SU retired background stamp, (Sanded) which I stamped on a smaller piece of the TT card stock with the Pretty Peacock ink.  Then I took the pieces of ephemera and jazzed them up a bit by adding ink to the edges of the larger flower, Wink of Stella to the centers of the flowers and glitter on the little side berries. 

I stamped the same sentiment with Versa mark ink and embossed with Black ep. - The flowers were then layered with foam tape and the punched heart was added along with 3 gems and finally another piece of the Washi tape was added to complete the card.  Simple and easy to create.

Again since I finally used the Ephemera I will add this card to NBUS #75 challenge.

Friends Make the World Beautiful - NBUS#75

Hello and Welcome!

Today's card is one I made for (no challenges at all).  I have a friend having a birthday this week and I plan to give this card to her.

The card is (loosely) based on this card: Created by Tonya Brooks.  You can view her video on how this card was made HERE

Originally I had planned to use some floral dies I had to look similar to the ones in this card.  However...as often happens when I start making a card mine took a detour and wound up looking like this:

So basically I start with an A2 size White card.  Then I took a piece of patterned paper from Unity Stamps (Jubilant Tapestry) and distressed the edges with, Pretty Peacock ink (SU).  Next I stamped 2 areas with a background stamp from the Feb. KOM (Happy Soul) with Memento Tuxedo black ink.  I then cut a piece of Tempting Turquoise (*retired SU) card stock and used a retired* SU punch to create the paper border.  I then distressed it with the Turquoise ink and wrinkled it up.  To create the brown section I used a piece of Core'dinations card stock and an embossing folder (SU - most like it's retired) After embossing it I sanded it with a sanding block so the peach color came through. That piece and the turquoise piece were then glued down on the patterned piece.

I cut a tag out of the same piece of brown card stock but turned it over to the peach side and distressed with SU Calypso Coral ink.

Next a sentiment from the Unity March KOM (Love and Good Vibes) was stamped with Versa Mark ink and embossed with Black embossing powder. I used a punch and a die from my stash for the 2 hearts which were glued and then stapled to the tag.  The flower is from an old SU punch and was distressed with the coral ink.  I added some gems and Washi tape and a piece of turquoise ribbon (SU*) that I frayed before threading it through the hole. This was mounted with foam tape.

Since the paper was new (or had never been used) along with the Washi tape, Sentiment stamp & one of the hearts I'll enter this for NBUS#75 which is offering a gift certificate to at least 3 people for participating in the challenge as they are celebrating 75 challenges!

Flap Card Attempt & Announcement

 Hello and Welcome! - I've been absent for a bit but not because I haven't been stamping. (More on that later in the post).

So awhile back I found a card that I had received in a card swap that had this cute little flap on it that had been closed with Velcro.  I wanted to try and make a card similar to that so I looked up flap cards and found a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD51w3HslUs) on how to create an "easy" flap card.

I watched the video and followed the directions and while my card is nothing like the one she made and doesn't close like hers it's still a version of a flap card.

I used Sweet Miss Daisy (Unfrogettable) stamp set again for this card.  The images were stamped on Watercolor paper and colored with watercolor pencils and then fussy cut.  The balloon has crystal effects over it but doesn't show well in the photo.

Needless to say this card was not as easy as I thought it was going to be.  Oh the parts all came together just find but keeping it closed was another story.  I tried some Velcro (which wasn't very good quality) so I ended up ordering a different brand which eventually worked.

Anyway here are 2 shots of the card showing the Velcro and the inside of the card.

Hope you enjoyed my version of a flap card.

Now for my Announcement.  -  If you've never heard of, Splitcoaststampers.com   be sure to check it out. It's an amazing place to see all kinds of cards and projects for Free with one exception...see below.

I was asked to be on the Fan Club - Dirty Dozen Team! - So I've been busy making cards for the June theme (Golden Opportunity).  However since it's a paid membership you won't be able to see my cards here on this blog for now. - The membership is only $24.95 a year or 6 months for $14.95.  

Tomorrow is the day the Dirty Dozen posts their projects for June.

I'm just excited about being asked and I promise that while you won't see these cards unless you join the Fan Club I will still be creating cards for this blog that you can see like the one above.