Just One More Card

Discovering the world of card making. One Project at a time.

Valentine’s Day Treat Bags with Hero Arts and Lawn Fawn

In case you didn’t know – I’m the only girl in a 11-person-company. All my colleagues are guys, which makes giving Valentine’s gifts kind of awkward. 🙂

In order to avoid misunderstandings and getting in trouble with various wives and girlfriends, I didn’t go down the heart-shaped love road but gave the day a rather funny spin.

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First step: die cutting some tags and prepping them before filling some yummy treat bags

If you recall my Winter Care Package project, this is basically the same idea, just in pink and all sweets.

I cut the tags from pink card stock, used a stencil and pink ink to add some patterns and then used embossing paste for the white dots at the top. The sentiment was stamped with Versafine ink.

The critters were stamped with Memento ink on Neenah card stock, then colored with Spectrum Noir markers. I have more birds than any other animal because I had too much fun giving them funky feathers 🙂

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The Hero Arts Missing You stamp set is perfect for these fun valentine’s gifts
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This is the final “product”: a cellophane bag filled with sweets for each of my colleague’s (well for each one who’s on the European continent today)
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Heaps and heaps of sweets waiting to be filled into the bags
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Bags filled, now they needed to be closed and the tags needed to be tied around them

The treat bags are simple cellophane bags filled with yummy sweets; I used pink twine to tie the tag to around the bag and seal it.

This didn’t take too long, maybe in total about 3 hours including the filling of the little bags with chocolate, and I had tons of fun. I feel this is also a great way of giving guys that you are not romantically involved with a little something for Valentine’s Day without giving the wrong impression 🙂

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Close up: the bag filled with yummy chocolate and the tag attached to it with pink twine

I’m submitting this project to the Addicted to Stamps #82: Make Your Mark challenge since I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color in the critters.

Supplies used:

  • Pink card stock
  • Neenah Solar White #80 card stock
  • Memento Tuxedo black
  • Versafine Onyx black
  • Spectrum Noir markers
  • Pink bakers twine
  • Memory box stencil (for the background on the tags)
  • Dreamweaver white embossing paste
  • Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil (for the white dots)
  • Lawn Fawn Tag You’re It dies
  • Memento Luxe Lilac Posies pigment ink (for the tag outline)
  • 3d adhesives
  • Sharp scissors and lots of patience for fuzzy cutting the critters

Wplus9 Step it Up: You are so loved

Sometimes, I do my best work when I don’t even intend to ðŸ˜‰ This was the case here: I was frustrated about having wasted three hours, and four pieces of Bazzill Marshmallow card stock. The mojo simply hadn’t kicked in for me two nights ago.

I already wanted to quit crafting for the night, but then spontaneously grabbed my Wplus9 “More Fresh Cuts” stamp and die set and got to work.

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I had seen a beautiful card on the Make The Day Special blog and I just had to try to re-create the fake brick wall with embossing paste, too. So. much. fun.

I used Distress Ink and a dauber to gently put on some ink on the embossing paste once it was pretty dry. I love the effect that is the result.

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The sentiment was stamped with Versamark and embossed in white; the stamp is from CAS-ual Fridays. I used some distress ink to make it stand out more against the wood background. I also used the distress ink around the border of the die cut and around the border of the actual card so the eye would be drawn in more towards the center (and yes, I could cover up some oopsies this way, too).

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The flowers are glued or 3-d mounted on the center piece, which is 3-d mounted on the embossed bricks with some twine in-between to add dimension. Some Wink of Stella clear gives the flowers a beautiful shine without drawing too much attention.

I’ll be entering this card into the Wplus9 Step it Up challenge and the Make The Day Special Romantic Card challenge.

Color Palette Challenge #2: Wishing You…

What had originally started as a one layer card became stencil and embossing paste galore… but I just couldn’t help myself. I used my new stash of Simon Says Stamp “Lots of Dots” stamps to fill in the butterfly shape, but it was a bit too flat for my taste to just stamp the sentiment underneath it. So I broke out my Memory Box stencil and Dreamweaver embossing paste and got to work:

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This time, I put on the embossing paste rather thickly because I wanted lots of structure around the butterfly. I also used the stencil at an angle to make sure I got the most out of the distressed border. Since I had die cut the butterfly shape out of a piece of card stock earlier to create a mask into which I stamped, I still had the actual butterfly shape left over. I used that to mask off my stamped area so I wouldn’t get any embossing paste onto it.

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I almost forgot what I had learned in my Online Card Class “Stenciled”, but before the embossing paste started to dry I remembered to pour some dry Distress stickles onto it to give it a really nice shimmer.

The sentiment is from my new Simon Says Stamp set “Sketchy Greeting” (I’m trying to use new goodies within a week of getting them and I managed to do that with this set, yay!).

I’m entering this card into the My Favorite Things Color Palette Challenge #2.

Welcome Little Ones – Baby Card Set

My best friend asked me for some baby cards because some of her friends and colleagues are expecting little ones. Of course I rose to the challenge, but only thanks to Stempelküche and Stempelmeer who delivered my supplies within 24 hours – thanks!

Since some of the soon-to-be parents either didn’t share the gender of the baby or choose not to know before hand, my friend needed cards for both baby boys and baby girls. To keep the task manageable (I’ve never done a card set before and I only had one weekend to get it all done) I decided to do the same designs and just mix up the colors. I used the Lawn Fawn Plus One stamp set and dies from Memory Box “Baby Clothes”.

For the sake of full disclosure, I was inspired by many of the cards I pinned on this board.

Here’s what my project amounted to:

Little Square Cards. Using regular colored card stock. Corners rounded with the Corner Chomper. For the circles, I used the Sizzix Circle die set.

Matching twine for the color girl (and boy) color scheme. I only had pearls in white, but with my Copic Markers I could color them pink and blue to match the cards.
I stamped the pram on the patterned paper, then on Copic Color Express paper and colored it with three colors each (blue and pink). I fuzzy cut the pram. Later, I added baby blue stickles to parts of the stamped image (for the pink, I used the pink stickles).
Using the Memory Box die “Baby Clothes”. It’s tiny, but incredibly cute. Only downside – while the dies have heart and star shape opening, they are not cut from the paper. I colored them with Copic Markers and outlined them with a Gelly Roll pen to add some glitter.
For the card base, I used Stampin Up’s Woodgrain background stamp; the white piece in the center was embossed with a Darice woodgrain embossing folder. Some color matching bakers twine is tied through the die cut and adhered to the back of the center piece. 

This is by far my favorite card design.
Simply stamped the background with the Lawn Fawn stamps in Versamark (I was too slow, the embossing powder didn’t stick when I was done, but it looks pretty nonetheless). The center piece was cut with the My Favorite Things Rectangle Stax. The image is stamped on Neenah Solar Crest White. The light pink part is colored in and covered in pink stickles. The moon and stars were also stamped on patterned paper, cut out, adhered to the card and covered in Glossy Accents for dimension.
On this card, the embossing with light blue ZING embossing powder actually worked. And I love the stitched die cut from the MFT STAX, it looks gorgeous!
The card base got sponged with some white pigment ink to make it less intense and more “cloudy”. The bottom looked empty when I was done, so I used a clear glitter pen to draw stars and hearts.
I cut a cloud template by hand and used it to sponge some pink distress ink onto the die cut (Ornate Labels by Sizzix). The stamped image was colored with Copic Markers; the bird is covered thickly with Glossy Accents and the bag with pink stickles. The Copic Express paper wasn’t quite think enough and warped a bit because of the moisture from the two glues.
Using buttons for the first time. I had only pink ones, so I used my Copic Markers to color one in blue. Looks cool, doesn’t it?
This card was pure fun one I had figured out the math on how big I could make the circles and where to place them to have an even look. The rattle was colored with Copics.
Very simple card and still some nice dimensions: the patterned paper is adhered directly to the card base and the outline traced with a white Signo Pigment Pen. The copic paper is 3D mounted on the center of the patterned paper.

Hope you had fun looking at the images. I had tons of fun making these card. Oh, and just one more thing: Of course I also created matching envelopes and sent them off to my friend in style:

Matching Envelopes for the cards, nicely wrapped to be send off.

Supply list (if I forgot something, just ask):