This is the final kit from this class. I love the serendipity collage paper and this card showcases it very beautifully!! I die cut the heart from some red serendipity paper and added three little clear rhinestones which I coloured with Sharpie markers so they would coordinate. I corner rounded the white core cardstock, embossed it with a swirl embossing folder (D'vine swirl - CB) and sanded it to reveal the white core. The sanding also makes the surface feel very velvety - great texture!! I wrapped the red thread around the embossed layer and tied it off before adhering it to the red card front. I mounted the heart using 3D foam tape over the threads!! Great for Valentine's or an anniversary - hence there is no greeting.
Therese
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Monday, January 20, 2020
Cards from card kits featuring embossed rectangles, layered silk flower embellishments and little greetings
I am in the process of cleaning up my craft room and preparing for my class at the end of the month so I started with seeing if I could refurbish the card kits I had sitting on my desk. I remember now that I have tried that in the past and was not successful so I just made them up and will have them on hand for giving as hostess gifts or for the next mortgage fundraiser.
These were all from the same card kits from the September card class. I used the corner rounder on some of the corners and embossed them all to give them texture. The focal elements are layered silk flowers with sequins and a brad to hold them together. After adhering my decorative paper to the front of my cards I added the embossed rectangles in a variety of configurations. I added the silk flower embellishments with 3D foam tape and finished two of them off with little laser printed font greetings. I left one without a greeting because it makes the card more versatile! Therese
These were all from the same card kits from the September card class. I used the corner rounder on some of the corners and embossed them all to give them texture. The focal elements are layered silk flowers with sequins and a brad to hold them together. After adhering my decorative paper to the front of my cards I added the embossed rectangles in a variety of configurations. I added the silk flower embellishments with 3D foam tape and finished two of them off with little laser printed font greetings. I left one without a greeting because it makes the card more versatile! Therese
Slow Stitching - #5 of my third set of rainbow squares
I am gaining on getting this current set of rainbow squares finished! This is number five of my third set!! Again, I am having trouble getting my little cross stitched embellishments square with my edges. Just stitched the sides as I went along and I am happy with how it worked out.
Therese
Therese
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
Birthday card featuring double sided decorative paper, an original floral doodle and a layered greeting
I am working on special occasion cards for my family. It is good to be back to making cards after the holidays.
I started with a light yellow card. I trimmed the flourished teal background (gift wrap) to fit with an even border all the way around and then punched three flowers from the left hand side. I flipped over the punchies and fit them back into the openings and secured them with regular tape on the back. I added black punchie centers and added a few details using a sharpie marker. I found this laser printed flower in my image stash. This is one of my own images which I doodle while watching a doodling tutorial on YouTube. I scanned my doodles to create my own digital images for cardmaking! Pretty cool!! I coloured the flower to coordinate with the background and sponged around the edges with blue ink. I created a layered greeting using a oval greeting punchie and a pink scalloped oval punchie which I punched from the background paper which will be under the flower image. Coordinates perfectly!! After adhering my background to the front of my card I added a length of pink paper twine on the right hand side. I mounted my watercoloured flower image over the twine and opening using 3D foam tape and then added the layered greeting in the same way. Finished!! Therese
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Slow Stitching - #4 of my third set of rainbow squares
I have finished this purple square which is my fourth square from my third rainbow set of squares. I stitched the little cross stitch down first then the strips around it. I had all of them laid out and pinned before I started so I had to take it apart a bit to get the stitching for the cross stitch element in place. I am just realizing that I should first stitch the cross stitch elements in place and then add the strips all the way around that would ensure that they are square to the edges which it would seem this one is not. It is the way it is and maybe the way it was meant to be so be it!! I has been really enjoyable to have some quiet stitching time in the mornings. Therese
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Thank you card featuring an embossed sanded white core background, an embellished silk flower and a flagged vellum greeting
For this thank you card, I started with a coral piece of white core cardstock which I trimmed to fit the white card I created to fit in my small envelope. I embossed this layer with a floral embossing folder (SU) and sanded it. I took a small strip of the same paper and embossed it with polka dots and sanded it as well. I adhered it to the main layer after tucking a small vellum greeting beneath it. I added a little silk flower embellished with a white sequin and silver brad to secure the vellum greeting to the other layers. I adhered this large layer to the front of my white card. I flagged the end of the vellum greeting to finish off my card!!!!!! Therese
Monday, January 13, 2020
Thank you card featuring sanded white core background, polka dot vellum and a little punchie greeting
I started with a small envelope and made a white card to fit inside. I trimmed a piece of teal white core cardstock, embossed it with a dots embossing folder (SU) and sanded it to remove the top layer and reveal the white core. I cut a piece of vellum with silver polka dots just a bit smaller than my teal layer and adhered it to the teal one placing tiny pieces of double sided tape below the silver dots. I added a little embossed and sanded strip of the teal over the vellum, flagged the end and added a black brad to adhere it to the other layers. I added a piece of double sided tape behind the little laser printed greeting punchie and adhered it on the strip. I adhered this large element to the front of my white card. Love the look of this one!!
Therese
Therese
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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Thank you card featuring gift wrap background, a punched accent and a little punchie greeting
For this card, I started with a smaller envelope and created a white card to fit inside. I tore a piece of this beautiful teal gift wrap (from England) and layered another piece of the same paper in behind with back facing front which is this beautiful pink colour. You can see a hint of the pattern showing through the pink. I punched a flower on the right hand side, flipped it and adhered it back into the opening using regular tape on the back to keep it in place. I added a teal sequin on the front and a little silver brad to keep it in place. I found the coordinating pink greeting in my stash. I sponged its edges with teal ink and adhered to my card front over the torn gap using 3D foam tape. I have enjoyed time in my craft room making these cards!! Therese
Slow Stitching - #3 of my third set of rainbow squares
I have finished my third square for my third set of rainbow squares. This red one had a fairly wonky cross stitched element which I adjusted and pinned but I see still did not manage to get it stitched in place very square to the edge. So it is!! No plan for stitching this one other than doing one side at a time. I like the colours in this one and the embroidery thread is a variety of colours as well. Three more to go and then I will see about working up some quilting squares to around them - still working on the exact pattern I will be using. Therese
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Saturday, January 11, 2020
Thank you card featuring laser printed digital background, seam binding and a punchie greeting embellished with clear dimensional paint
For this card, I started with the colour printed background which I trimmed to size and adhered to a very deep rose card. I added a length of deep rose seam binding just leaving one end flagged. I mounted a laser printed (digital) punchie (SU) greeting which was watercoloured to coordinate with the paper. I added clear dimensional paint to the center where the Thanks is and let it dry before mounting it to the front of my card using 3D foam tape. Therese
Friday, January 10, 2020
Thank you card featuring gift wrap, die cut gears, handmade washi tape and a little punchie greeting
After the holidays I always send cards to those who have blessed us with gifts over the season! I got started with this card. I started with a burnt orange card, added the kraft and black background (gift wrap from England) and then layered on three gears die cuts (TH-SX) in ivory, kraft and black. I added a length of handmade washi tape from my stash (clothes pattern paper and double sided tape) over the bottom edge of all of them to give me a horizontal element to anchor my greeting. The greeting ( laser printed punchie - Modern Label Punch - SU) I found in my stash, sponged the edges and added dots using a sharpie marker. I adhered it to my card using 3D foam tape. I love the look of that washi tape and it is so easy to do. Click on the link to go to the tutorial. It is amazing how long supplies last - our trip to London was over a decade ago!!! Therese
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Thursday, January 09, 2020
Slow Stitching - #2 of my third set of rainbow squares
I am enjoying stitching my little cross stitched elements to my squares!! As in my last one, I did this orange very similarly. I stitched the little cross stitched heart embellishment down first and then added strips of fabric all they way around pinning as I went. For this square, I started by stitching with coordinating floss all the way around the center and then just kept going around the middle. I stitched the edges as I encountered them. I did not realize that I had incorporated one little strip that was the same as the background square until I had already stitched it down. It makes it look like there is a blank spot so I will be careful of that in the future!! Therese
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020
Christmas cards featuring embossed foil gift wrap backgrounds, little greetings and vellum or fiber
These are the last two cards I was able to make from the one piece of gift wrap salvaged from the Community Dinner we attended with our friends and neighbours.
For this first card, I embossed the layered giftwrap/paper combo with the ornaments. The bottom seemed plain in comparison so I added some dots to it by manually embossing them in place. After gluing this layer to the front of my green card I added a length of red fiber to the top above the ornaments adhering the ends to the inside with double sided tape and then tied on a short piece to simulate a bow. Next, I added a little stamped punchie greeting over the fiber using 3D foam tape on the back. I sponged and added dots with a gel pen to embellish the little greeting.
For my other card, I embossed the layer background with snowflakes, added a strip of vellum before adhering it to my green card. I added a layered snowflake embellishment (large silver, small silver foil, tiny red) over the vellum and tucked a small font greeting to the left of the vellum and snowflake. Therese
For this first card, I embossed the layered giftwrap/paper combo with the ornaments. The bottom seemed plain in comparison so I added some dots to it by manually embossing them in place. After gluing this layer to the front of my green card I added a length of red fiber to the top above the ornaments adhering the ends to the inside with double sided tape and then tied on a short piece to simulate a bow. Next, I added a little stamped punchie greeting over the fiber using 3D foam tape on the back. I sponged and added dots with a gel pen to embellish the little greeting.
For my other card, I embossed the layer background with snowflakes, added a strip of vellum before adhering it to my green card. I added a layered snowflake embellishment (large silver, small silver foil, tiny red) over the vellum and tucked a small font greeting to the left of the vellum and snowflake. Therese
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Exchange cards featuring wood grain tags, botanical prints and wildflower die cuts
My Exchange cards for this month! I started with a hammered botanical print which I created with my Big Shot a while back!! I trimmed them to fit on my brown layers which are just a slight bit smaller than the green cards created to fit in my smaller envelopes. I sponged their edges with green and brown ink. I used wood grain tags cut from Christmas crackers which our daughter included in our box of gifts. I ran my tracing wheel over them and sponged their edges. I added some coordinating fiber to the tops, added them to the botanical layer using 3D foam tape and then ran their ends to the back using regular tape to secure them. I die cut two wildflowers (TH-SX) from brown cardstock and used white glue to adhere them to the tags. I adhered the botanical layers to the brown and then to the front of my green cards. Love the soft look of those botanical backgrounds!!
Therese
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020
Christmas cards with embossed foil gift wrap, fiber ribbon and colour printed images

For these two cards I glued foil gift wrap (Community Christmas Dinner gift) to scrap paper and then embossed it with a poinsettia embossing folder (SU) before trimming them to size for my red cards. On the first one, I added the green fiber ribbon to the card after adhering the background to the card. I layered the Christmas image -Joyeux Noel - from my stash onto red and then mounted it to my card using 3D foam tape. I tied an extra length of the ribbon to the right of the image. On the second card, I added the green ribbon to the background before adhering to my card front and then tied on three lengths of red fiber as accents. I mounted a similar image - Merry Christmas - from my stash to red cardstock before adhering it to my card front using 3D foam tape. This paper does so well with being embossed! Really nice cards!! Therese
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Monday, January 06, 2020
Christmas cards from foil gift wrap from the season
A few more cards from the gift wrap I collected at the Community Christmas dinner!! Thanks to my neighbour who very carefully unwrapping her gift so I could have the paper!! For these two cards I glued the gift wrap to scrap paper and then embossed them with two different snowflake embossing folders before trimming them to fit on my red cards!!
For the first one, I coloured the JOY in light blue shimmery watercolour, distressed the edge and adhered it to the front of the card using 3D foam tape. I die cut two leafy branches (TH- SX) from silver foil cardstock and mounted one above and the other below which very nicely yielded a wreath shape. Love the way the paper looks embossed and the little branches looking like a wreath!!
For the second card, I coloured the JOY using a pink/red shimmery watercolour, ran the pattern tracing wheel around the edges and mounted it to my card front using 3D foam tape. I added a little silver foil star punchie using 3D foam tape as well. Really happy with these two! Therese
For the first one, I coloured the JOY in light blue shimmery watercolour, distressed the edge and adhered it to the front of the card using 3D foam tape. I die cut two leafy branches (TH- SX) from silver foil cardstock and mounted one above and the other below which very nicely yielded a wreath shape. Love the way the paper looks embossed and the little branches looking like a wreath!!
For the second card, I coloured the JOY using a pink/red shimmery watercolour, ran the pattern tracing wheel around the edges and mounted it to my card front using 3D foam tape. I added a little silver foil star punchie using 3D foam tape as well. Really happy with these two! Therese
Slow Stitching - #1 in third set of rainbow squares
Here is my first square incorporating the little cross stitched hearts I made earlier. I positioned the little yellow heart embellishment and then stitched all the way to secure it properly to my base square. I added strips of fabric around it and pinned them into place before starting my stitching. Generally, I did one side before moving on to the other sides using coordinating floss. I stitched down the edges as I went when they did not incorporate into the basic stitching. I like how this one worked out!! Therese
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Sunday, January 05, 2020
Thank you card featuring a layered punchie greeting with a length of folded seam binding
For this thank you card I started with a pink card and added the patterned scrapbook paper background. I found a coordinating oval font greeting punchie (SU) in my stash and sponged its edges in pink. I adhered it to a green punched oval (SU) and then to a scalloped oval punchie from vellum. I cut a piece of deep rose seam binding and folded it in half and crossed the ends. I added a small piece of double sided tape where they crossed to keep the two lengths together and added another piece to adhere it to the front of my card. I added 3D foam tape to the back of my greeting and positioned it over the fold seam binding! Pink and green is my favorite colour combination so I am inclined to really like this card and it soft background and greeting with a bit of punch with the seam binding!! Therese
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Christmas cards with gift wrap from gifts
We attended a Community Christmas dinner on Christmas day and our neighbours won a prize!! I loved the paper so she very carefully unwrapped it so I could reuse the paper!! It was beautiful foiled paper in this diamond pattern!!
So for this card I trimmed the gift wrap and glued it to scrap paper to give it a bit of weight and then trimmed it to size for my green card. As foil is want to do you can see the little areas where the glue was a little heavier which I found a bit disappointing. I hoped that they would be less visible when the glue dried but not really. Anyway, I added a silver ribbon from top to bottom and tied the ends together on the front. After trimming the ends, I added silver shimmer paint to the JOY on this laser printed greeting which I had in my stash. It is a fun font to use for large greetings. I ran my tracing wheel on all four sides before mounting it to the front of my card using 3D foam tape.
So for this card I trimmed the gift wrap and glued it to scrap paper to give it a bit of weight and then trimmed it to size for my green card. As foil is want to do you can see the little areas where the glue was a little heavier which I found a bit disappointing. I hoped that they would be less visible when the glue dried but not really. Anyway, I added a silver ribbon from top to bottom and tied the ends together on the front. After trimming the ends, I added silver shimmer paint to the JOY on this laser printed greeting which I had in my stash. It is a fun font to use for large greetings. I ran my tracing wheel on all four sides before mounting it to the front of my card using 3D foam tape.
Saturday, January 04, 2020
Slow Stitching - cross stitched heart accents
I have stitched up six little hearts for my next set of rainbow squares in my Slow Stitching project!! They are all different and some have been modified from the patterns in my book!! It has taken several days to get them done and I will now be able to get started on my third set of squares!!
Therese
Therese
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