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My card today features some fabulous images from Fred She Said. If you're looking for quick and easy cards to make, this should be your first stop. Here you will find not only digi images, but also pre-colored images and Digi papers.
Fred She Said is the sponsor over at the "Come and Get It" Challenge Blog this week. Please stop by and play along with the wonderful sketch challenge and you might win some of the Fred She Said images for yourself.
My card was made using the Roses Dream Digital Paper set along with the matching pre-colored Lenten Roses, also called Hellebores, in the purple and cream colors.
We are having such an early spring here in PA. The crocuses and daffodils are already blooming profusely. We actually never had a real winter, which is fine by me. Snow is pretty to look at, but, except for not having any snow pictures this year, I didn’t miss it.
My card today uses the pre-colored crocuses from the Spring Flowers digi set from Fred She Said. I actually printed them out twice and fussy cut the three flowers and mounted them with foam tape for added dimension.
The design inspiration came from Verve Sketch # 1 for March. I LOVE their sketch challenges and really need to play along more often.
The papers are some long retired papers from Close to my Heart. I love the color purple but I don’t have much purple DP my stash. I guess purple isn’t the “in” color.
The Hand stitching was done with matching Embroidery Floss.
Other Challenge Blogs for this card:
Creative Card Crew - Vintage
Digital Tuesday - Think Spring
Scrap Creations - Ribbon and Pearls
Lady Bug's Craft Ink - Anything Goes
Prairie Fairy - Distress it.
Totally Stamalicious - Flowers
Paper Creations - Spring is in the Air
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthday
Here is another of my creations using a Fred Shew Said Pre-colored Digi Image. The inspiration for this card started with a sketch challenge over at My Time Made Easy. It fit perfectly with this fabulaous image. I chose not to include an Easter Sentiment on the front becasue I thought it woudl also make the curtest Baby Card. I like to keep my options open.
The image is called Easter Chicky from Fred She Said and comes in a digi for you to color or the pre-colored images that come in 8 different colors. I printed the image and portions of the image three time. I then fussy cut and have layered three times with foam tape.
The papers I used are from the Florentine Paper Pack from Close to my Heart.
The ribbon for the bow is actually Color Ready Seam Binding that I colored with a sponge dauber and three colors that match the paper pack.
The hand stitching throughout the card was done with matching embroidery floss.
Other challenges for this card:
Our Creative Corner - Flowers, yellow, glitter, ribbon, Blue
Yesterday was such a gorgeous day here in Eastern Pa. The temperature was in the 60's, the trees are budding and the robins have arrived a little early this year. It was so beautiful that I had the grandkids outside to play and I sat and hand stitched a card. It seems like it's been forever since I've been able to find time to do stitching. I've even got a few more in the makings.
Anyway, this card was inspired by a sketch over at Mojo Mondays. They always have such fabulous sketches each week.
Then I decided to use the Pink pre-colored Lenten Roses (Hellebores), from Fred She Said for my focal point in the tag area. I printed it out twice and cut the second set of flowers out, turned them slightly and mounted them with foam tape onto the original.
All of the papers are from the "Lucy" collection from Close to my Heart. The Happy Easter is from the "Say it in Style" CTMH Clear stamp set.
I used a yellow copic marker to color a few pearls to bring out the yellow in the centers of the flowers along with some yellow bakers twine. The thing I love about the CTMH Bakers twine is that they were made to match the colors of their papers.
Here is the absolute greatest product. The bow on the card is hand dyed "Color Ready Seam Binding" from CTMH. This is the absolute best way to always have the exact color of ribbon for your projects. I just mixed a little re-inker with alcohol then ran the piece of seam binding through it. I scrunched it up and held the scrunched up ball between tweezers and heat dried with a heat tool. By drying it this way, you get varigated colors. If you want a solod color, just let it dry on it's own. It doesn't take long since you are using alcohol.
The Hand Stitching around the card was done with matching Embroidery Floss.
Other challenges for this card:
Cherry Lynn Designs - Doilies
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Something Old/New - Ribbon/papers new - all else old.
Kaboodle Doodle - Think Spring
The Pink Elephant - Lots of layers
Truly Madly Crafty - color challenge - pink, green yellow used
By Lori Designs - Pink, Yellow, Green
CCEE Stampers - Flowers
Charisma Cardz - Ribbon
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Jelly Park - Favorite Product - Color ready Seam Binding
My card today was inspired by the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog.
The papers and stamps are from the Close to my Heart "Lucy Workshop on the Go". This paper is so gorgeous and just perfect for Spring.
The Hand Stitching was done with matching Embroidery Floss.
It's easy to create spring cards right now because here in Pennsylvania, we haven't had winter yet. The temperature today is in the 50's and the spring bulbs are already 6" high through the ground. This is my kind of winter.
Other Challenges for thei card:
2 Sisters - Stitching
All Sorts - Anything Goes
Here is the Valentine Card I made for my husband today. I got away from the traditional colors for this to make it look more masculine. However, I forgot myself and started adding pearls and stick pins and then remembered who it was for. But, that's OK. It just made it look romantic looking.
The inspiration for this card started with a Sketch Challenge at Die Cuttin Divas. I used the CTMH exclusive Cricut cartridge called Art Philosophy to cut the doily and a MS paper punch for the side border.
The Papers I used are from the Close to My Heart Sonoma paper pack. I changed around some of the colors of papers to match the flowers. I used the new CTMH Card Word Puzzle Stamp set for the flowers and butterflies. I stamped them with Black Memento ink and colored them with Copic Markers.
The Over the Moon in Love With You is from the December Stamp of the Month, called Mad about you.
I tied a green bow and stuck two stick pins from the Bling Assortment through the back for some added bling.
Challenges for this card:
Cards for Men - Valentine/Love
The Crazy Challenge - Valentine
I'm finally getting caught up with all of my stamping obligations and it feels so good!!!
Here is a Valentine card made using the Fred She Said Hearts and Roses pre-colored image. I love this set because the pre-colored images come in 7 different colors for any occasion, or a digi that you can color yourself. I added the Happy Valentines Day but you can add any sentiment or non at all.
The inspiration for this card started with the January Verve sketch, week 1, that the Heart worked perfectly with.
The paper I used are all CTMH from the Roxie Paper Packet, except for the green punched strip. That was left over scrap from a Christmas card but it worked perfectly for this card.
The Hand stitching around the card was done with matching embroidery floss.
Other Challenges for this card:
Wags & Whiskers - Valentine/Love
Stampin with the Dragon - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Needles & Pins
Drunkin Stampers - Love
JUGS - Red, Pink, White
Scrap, Stamp & Doodle - Have a Heart
I Did It - Love
Stampin Sisterhood - Inspiration (roses, heart, pink)
Stampin Sisters in Christ - Make a Heart stand out
Inky Impressions - Heart You
Welcome to the Fred She Said Christmas Tag Blog Hop. I'm having a really hard time believeing that Christmas is only 9 days away. Where did this year go!
Fred She Said is having a fun little Christmas Challenge! The theme is " Make a Christmas Tag OR Share a favorite Holiday Recipe "
The PRIZE is a $25 GC to the Fred She Said Store. There will be one winner chosen randomly. Entries will be accepted until Friday DEC 30th midnight EST. ... more details at the Fred She Said BLOG :)
I made a gift tag / Ornament. Papers are layered on chipboard and decorated with Fred She Said Christmas Wreath. This makes a sturdy tag that can then be used as an ornament.
Welcome to the Winter Themed Fred She Said Blog Hop.
I’m so glad you dropped in today because our Design Team have some fabulous Fred She Said art work to share with you.
You’ll definitely want to play along because we have some wonderful gifts that THREE of you could win by just collecting the word/s along the way and putting them together for the secret phrase. Entry instructions will be at the FSS Challenge BLOG. Entries will be accepted for 2 weeks - until Friday December 2nd midnight EST. Winners will be announced Saturday December 3rd
PRIZES: 3 random winners. 1 winner for each prize below:
$30 GC for www.cropstop.com
$30 GC for Fred She Said
$30 GC for Fred She Said
If you’ve come here from Carol’s Blog, you are on the right track. If you just happened upon my blog, you will want to start at the very beginning at the FSS Blog so you can collect all the words in the correct order.
My card today was made using the pre-colored Fred She Said newly released Christmas Poinsettia Lantern. Isn’t this just the prettiest image! I used this week’s sketch from Midnight Madness challenge blog. It was just perfect for my lantern.
I added some yellow stickles to the centers of the poinsettias and the candle flame. I also added some red Bling on the ribbon and right hand corners.
The papers are all from Close to my Heart and the Hand Stitching was done with Red Embroidery Floss.
My special words for the phrase are “a Very”.
Now hope on over to Val’s Blog and see the gorgeous artwork from her.
Other Challenges for this card:
Pile it on - Traditional Christmas
Mami Doodles - Christmas
Digital Tuesday - Christmas
Wags n' Whiskers - Christmas
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas Traditions
I wanted to play along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge from last week with a House Mouse Stamp that I have had for at least 10 years and have never used it. So, here it is.
I'm also submitting this for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge. I'd LOVE to win some new HM Stamps.
I normally do fancy hand stitching around the card, but I'm getting this card in at the very lasy minute so I did a small amount of hand stitching on it with brown embroidery floss.
I purchased some jpeg's of actual vintage Christmas cards and postcards some time ago and finally found the papers I needed to use them. These Bo Bunny Chrismas papers are just perfect. I think you may be seeing a few more in the next few days.
The inspiration for this card started with last Tuesday's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge.
The ribbon was 3/8" satin ribbon that I hand stitched a zig zag parrern is then pulled the threads to ruffle it together. I thought this looked more vintage then just using the ribbon. The white pointsettia flower brad was in some stash that I had from last years embellishment assortment called Mistletoe from Close to my Heart . I distressed it then attached it to pointsettia leaves from an old CTMH stamp set.
The Hand stitching was done with new England Ivy Embroidery Floss up the sides and top of the cards.
Here is my last post for today. I saved the best for last.
I absolutely LOVE Vintage Christmas cards so I decided to purchase some vintage images. Then I found this fabulous Christmas Paper from Bo Bunny to go with them. I think I should have bought much more of this paper.
The inspiration for this card came from a Verve Sketch Challenge. They have some beautiful sketches every week.
The hand stitching was done using my own design with Embroidery Floss. For the stitching around the green paper, I used a running stitch and Gold Metallic Embroidery Floss.
Other Challenges for this card:
Winter Wonderland - Vintage Christmas
My time to craft - Punches and Dies
ABC Christmas Challenge - Unused Stash (ribbon, gold embroidery floss, and those round circle things the pearls are inside of.)
Here is my second post for today with a set of Six Hydrangea Note cards. These are also 4" x 4".
I used the pre-colored images from Fred She Said called Hydrangeas. After the image is cut out using a nestability die, I keep the die on and sponge blue around the edge and brown on the bottom. This gives the appearance of it having a white layer underneath.
I cuttle bugged the front of the card and used one of my favorite punches for the corners. I wanted to give it an antique look.
All papers and inks are from Close to my Heart.
Here is the first of threel posts I may be putting up today. I was going to do one each day but I may just get it all over with today while I have a few extra minutes.
I've been on a note card kick lately. These cards are all 4" x 4". I think what I enjoy about them is the fact that I can make them in sets. This set can be used for Thank You cards or just a note card.
The image is a pre-colored one for Fred She Said called Pumpkins and Sunflowers. Everything else is from Close to my Heart. I just love this blue and orange combination.
