Multi-Purpose Love Cards Featuring Concord and 9th Stitched Turnabout Stamps

I had heat embossed using my rose gold embossing powder and the Concord and 9th Stitched Turnabout stamps a couple of years ago.  These card fronts sat in the stash waiting to be made into cards.  So sad!  I'm sure if you are a regular cardmaker that you can relate.  We all have high expectations that sometimes are sidelined due to other priorities as life gets in the way.

I am proud that these cards are finally made as I believe they are quite pretty and I'm pleased with how they turned out.  The cream die cuts were made using Waffle Flower's Sprigs dies and I lightly colored with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink.

Super glad these cards finally made it to completion.  Makes me want to get out that stamp set and use it some more!

Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Using Capsule Crafting by Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title:  Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.  As the quarantine process has extended and even though there are re-openings everywhere, out of an abundance of caution and love for our fellow citizens, we continue to isolate to help slow the spread of the virus.  As such, we decided to modify the challenge for the month of June.  Instead of a weekly challenge, we determined to use a capsule crafting approach.  Capsule crafting was created by Kristina Werner and you can see her take in these posts.  I explained how I chose my capsule supplies in this post.

This will be my last post using the capsule to craft some cards, our challenge for June.  I'm really pleased how these cards turned out.  I ink blended a background using Distress Oxide inks and then stamped with Oxide ink using my Simon Says Stamp You Are background stamp.  Using my Waffle Flower Sprigs dies and Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments for a sentiment strip, the card almost made itself.

I've so enjoyed our capsule crafting and look forward to July and the challenges ahead!

Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Using Capsule Crafting Week 1 Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title:  Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.  As the quarantine process has extended and even though there are re-openings everywhere, out of an abundance of caution and love for our fellow citizens, we continue to isolate to help slow the spread of the virus.  As such, we decided to modify the challenge for the month of June.  Instead of a weekly challenge, we determined to use a capsule crafting approach.  Capsule crafting was created by Kristina Werner and you can see her take in these posts.  I explained how I chose my capsule supplies in this post.  

For this card, I ended up using my Waffle Flower Springs dies to make an arrangement on the front of my card.  I ink blended Distress Oxide inks onto white cardstock, die cut the sprigs and placed them on an ink blended matting which I had sprinkled with Distress Oxide ink.  The sentiments came from my Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments  which I fussy cut out to create a unique sentiment strip.  The sentiments were also stamped in Distress Oxide inks.

As you can see, I played around a bit with the layout and colors arranged on the card front.  I also did a bunch of different sentiments so that I don't just add a bunch to the stash with the same sentiment.  So much fun!

My God is Mighty to Save

Feeling the spring kinda mood and wanting to make something light and cheery, I decided to use my Papertry Ink Walk by Faith sentiment stamp set to create these cards.  The postage frame is from The Greetery and the sprigs were die cut from watercolor paper colored with my Brushos watercolor crystals.  I tried to get a variety of greens by mixing Emerald Green, Leaf Green and Brown.  I'm so very pleased with how these cards turned out.

The sentiments stand out given the Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide shaded background.  The delicate feel is just what I was trying to achieve.

These are delightful and I am enjoying the making process immensely.  Guess we all need something to distract us and these worked very well.