Hello cards for GDT submission

This is my last week as Guest Design Team member at CRAFT Challenge blog 

This week we were to make a card for challenge 217 "For the Girls".
I used a cute Digi Stamp by Pink Gem Studios called "Birds in a Row". These cards were made for my daughter and her two friends.

I embossed the base layer with the fancy swirl Cuttlebug folder

The sentiment stamp is from SU and the coloring I used were Gel glossy pens.

Swap card made

We had a shoe-box swap at Elaine's last night.
This is the card I made with the Wetland Stampin' Up set. I just got in on Monday and immediately had to make a masculine (universal) card!

I can't wait to try other techniques as seen in Pinterest and Google with this stamp set.

Card Set

I created this card set months ago but forgot to post it. I picked up this fabulous bird house stamp while I was in Florida last January at one of many craft store my friend Sue and I stopped into. it's made by Hero Arts called Tall Birdhouse

I wanted to create something different so I took the negative of a punched out circle and used it as a stencil to sponge in various colored SU inks on top of the image. My inks I had matched some old card stock I had pretty perfectly! Trying to use up what I have as I don't need any more cardstock or patterned paper.

For the sentiment sections I used various SU punches and left the field blank to add a sentiment as needed.
This set or individual would make great friend to friend cards, birthday cards, a mother's day card etc. Therefore I left it blank for now.

Thank you card received

I received this beautiful thank you card from Judi. I had placed a SU order last week and I received this card this week.

I love the color and the new ruffled ribbon! I don't have that embossing folder and it leaves a deep embossed effect on the whisper white card stock.

Lovely! Thanks Judi.

Turquoise bracelets

I made these two last night while watching TV and trying to keep cool during our heat wave. Today will be 98 degrees. I don't want to be kept inside but might as well keep busy!

I used the same directions as seen here to make them. This time I picked up a tube of turquoise beads from JoAnn's craft store Monday night (thanks for the color suggestion Kristen!) and set out to make these.

Black cording cut at 19 inches
Black sewing thread cut at 36 inches
Sewing needle
Button or bead (this time I went to my glass bead stash I picked up months ago from Michael's)
I used crimper beads, the directions just have you knot it but I had a bag of these crimps so wanted to use them up.
I did two patterns 2:1 and 7:1, total of 38 beads approx for a 7.5" bracelet

GDT Week 216 submission

This week at CRAFT Challenge blog we were given a picture for inspiration. (see below)

I created this ocean scenery card by using chalks and a digi image from DigiDarla

I cut out the image in an oval and had a scrap piece of burlap and made that an accent piece.
The sentiment is from Stampin' Up. I hand drew the seagulls.
Below is the inspirational picture we were given.

Juggling Hearts

Made this cute card for my daughter.
I cut a piece of white cardstock at 4 x 5 1/4" and used my Martha Stewart Diagonal plate in my embossing board to create the lines. Super simple!

The image (with the red card stock) is raised on foam squares. I colored it with my Crayola markers and edged the two white cs layers with my brown ink pad.

The "postage stamp type edging is a new Spellbinders edge die I picked up Monday night at Joann's for 5.00! It comes with three edges, I had fun playing around with the different cuts. This was actually the negative of one of the dies.
 Sending this to my daughter today.

Friend birthday card

I made this for a dear friend whose birthday is this Thursday.

I used some pieces of card stock I had in my stash to add to this sweet image.

Using Crayola markers and a glitter pen I colored the image.

The inside sentiment is a very old wood rubber stamp from delta creative #057790056 Starry Happy Birthday.

Bracelets

Ever since I saw these corded bracelets, I just wanted to try and make them. A few sites (followed from pinterest) just did not explain it well or I could not follow.

However I found a post on Crafts Unleashed who explain it perfectly.

I was able to go through my jewelry stash and find the right elements to complete three of them last night.

I have a lot of vintage buttons and they went well with my bead selection.

The bracelet on the left are wooden beads, the center is clear elongated faceted beads and the one on the right has silver metal beads and a very old silver metal button with a shank.

I am off to make more for a craft fair this fall.

CRAFT Challenge Blog submission

As July guest design team member at the C.R.A.F.T Challenge Blog I created this card using the image from Rick St. Dennis Silent Night. The challenge was Christmas in July.

What I did was print it landscape and proceeded to make a tri panel card.
The first panel I cut out the dome shape and colored with my SU inks and blender pen.

I added glitter to most of the image and to the inside sentiment (you may not be able to see it).
The second panel I used a Sizzix die to cut the holly and berries. This would be for the sentiment or note to the recipient this holiday season.

The last panel I ran through the SU embossing snowflake embossing folder and added a computer sentiment of Holy Night to go with Silent Night... Holy Night.