All occasion card featuring a watercolured bee an blue strips over yellow lines

I used another of the images I watercoloured loosely when I was making this cardthis card. I features a cute little bee with shimmerly wings. I ran my pattern tracing wheel on all four sides and also to create a flight path for the bee.  I cut a large blue card to fit in the envelope from my stash.  I layered on some yellow striped paper and then added three blue strips of cardstock which I embellished with some paper piercing with my tracing wheel.  I added the faux stitching with a black sharpie marker.  

For a special person who likes these colours!!  

Therese
 

All occasion card featuring a stack of cups, some ribbon flags over a hand painted decorative paper background

I made this card for DH for Father's Day!!  I started with a large envelope and trimmed out an ivory card to fit.  I added the hand decorated background paper after adding several lines of paper piercing to it.  I watercoloured the stacked cups (Cre8tive Hands), added four lines of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel and then layered it onto a brown rectangle.  Added some little ribbon flags secured with double sided tape and then added this focal element to my card with 3D foam tape.  

I am very grateful that I shared child raising duties with him!!

Therese
 

Quiting Retreat in Goodridge

 My first quilting retreat!!!!!  I joined two of my sisters in Goodridge and another 18 or so quilters for a retreat this past weekend.  There was a lady there selling fabric, ironing stations and tables in the middle for layout quilts before starting the sewing.  Everyone came well prepared with all they needed - sewing machines and tools, meals prepped for the weekend, dishes for the potluck on Saturday evening and something for the snack table.  Coffee and hot dogs for Saturday were provided.  It was really nice to see so many beautiful projects being created and to share with others.  There were about half that were camping out - most sharing a trailer/RV with friends.  It was unfortunately, a rainy weekend so there was no campfire on Saturday.  Everything was taken in stride and the weekend was good.  I worked on several projects but did not get anything completed.  Happy with my weekend!!!  Therese

All occasion cards packaged in a reused box

 I have also packaged 10 all occasion cards from my stash as a prize for the family event this summer.  I used a box that previously held Christmas cards.  My sister has been picking up boxes that will hold A2 sized cards at the REUSE center for me.  I cut an opening on the sleeve large enough to remove the graphic and added a clear plastic (transparency) on the back of the opening to keep the cards clean.  This box perfectly holds 10 cards!!    Therese

Christmas cards packaged in a clear box (chocolates)

In my stash I found the perfect box to package my panel Christmas cards for my family event this summer - a beautiful clear box from chocolates!!!  They all fit very nicely and will be visible.  I put the message so it is visible on the back.  Perfect!!!!

Therese

 

Christmas cards with a tall tree, greeting and gold star - set 7

  Here is the next set of Christmas cards that I have included in my box.  It will be a prize

at a family event this summer.  

Here is the first set and the others follow along one day after the other.

Check tomorrow for the next set.  

Therese

Christmas cards with a tall tree, greeting and gold star - set 6

  Here is the next set of Christmas cards that I have included in my box.  It will be a prize

at a family event this summer.  

Here is the first set and the others follow along one day after the other.

Check tomorrow for the next set.  

Therese

Christmas cards with a tall tree, greeting and a gold star - set 5

  Here is the next set of Christmas cards that I have included in my box.  It will be a prize

at a family event this summer.  

Here is the first set and the others follow along one day after the other.

Check tomorrow for the next set.  

Therese

Christmas cards with tall tree, greeting and gold star - set 4

 Here is the next set of Christmas cards that I have included in my box.  It will be a prize

at a family event this summer.  

Here is the first set and the others follow along one day after the other.

Check tomorrow for the next set.  

Therese

Christmas cards with a tall tree, greeting and gold star - set 3

  Here are the next set of cards that I included in my box which is a prize for a family event this summer.

First set is here. Check yesterday for the second set and tomorrow for the next set tomorrow!!

Therese

All occasion card featuring birds at the shore, a paper button with fiber and some seam binding on a fun background

I started with watercolouring the birds and then added paper piercing with my tracing wheel one it was dry.  I mounted my image to my background paper and then added a paper button embellished with fiber to a ribbon slide which I strung on a piece of seam binding below it.  I mounted this large element to my large tan card.  

Therese

 

Christmas cards with slim trees, background paper, greeting and a gold star - set 2

 Here are the next set of cards that I included in my box which is a prize for a family event this summer.

First set are here. Check for the next set tomorrow!!

Therese

All occasion card featuring watercoloured roses, striped background and some ribbon

The roses were watercoloured using the same technique as this card. this card.   Four rows of paper piercing using my tracing wheel and then layered onto another layer.  I trimmed out a green card to fit my large envelope.  I added ribbon to my striped background and then mounted it to my card front.  I added my focal element using 3D foam tape.  Tied on a short piece in bright pink to simulate a bow.  Off to a friend who has a birthday coming up!!

Therese
 

Christmas cards featuring a tall tree, greeting and a gold star

 I made up a set of Christmas cards as a prize for a family event I will be attending in July. 

I found a set of envelopes in my stash that would work and then got started.  I chose to make them panel cards and used white glossy cardstock which I have LOTS of and don't use it often.  In this case the glossy is almost completely covered by the decorative paper on the front and the back is matt which worked well for adding the message paper.  The first one is the only one where I modified the glossy because there was not enough contrast between it and the background paper.  Just a bit of ink around the edges did the trick.  The trees were all cut from green decorative paper, embossed and highlighted with ink.  All have a little brown tree trunk and a gold die cut star (SX).  The greetings were all from my stash and coordinated very nicely. I included a paper clip for those who might want to add this card to their card string.   I am very happy with the result!! 

I will be scheduling the cards to show up one set a day for the next week so come back and see the rest of them!!

Therese

All occasion card featuring watercoloured shore birds with all sorts of paper piercing and some threaded eyelets

Again, I coloured these shore birds in the same way I did the image on this card this card.  I added paper piercing to the image and then layered it onto a green rectangle of cardstock which I border punched (SU), paper pierced an then added an embossed line with my score tool.  I then added three coordinating eyelets to which I added three lengths of coordinating crochet thread before mounting to my  hand decorated background paper (saran & watercolour) which I paper pierced with wavy lines and then embossed a frame with my score tool.  I added double sided tape at the back and secured the end so my thread to the back.  This large element was mounted to a large gray card!!  I really like the look of the woven threads on this card.  

Therese

 

All occasion card featuring a watercoloured watermilll scene, seam binding and a diamond background paper

 The watermill scene was watercoloured and paper piercing was added once it was dry.  I trimmed a green card to fit in my large envelope.  I added a length of coordinating seam binding to the background paper and then added it to my card front.  I mounted my image to my card using 3D foam tape and then tied on a short piece of the same seam binding to simulate a bow.  One of my first cards for June!!

Therese

Event - Everything Rhubarb at Gaetz United - good food shared with friends

 

We will be celebrating rhubarb again this year with the Gramma Link Africa group.  Make a date with your friends and come and enjoy a couple of hours with a cup of tea and some good food.   Lots of baking and many wonderful handmade items that will be perfect for gifts this year!!! 

 I look forward to seeing many of you at our event this year.   Therese

May Card Club - Card #3 - quick and easy cards with little collages over some fun backgrounds

I always try to have a quick card as our last one.  These ones feature little collages as the focal elements.  They were trimmed from a 12" x 12" sheet of scrapbook paper with my postage stamp decorative scissors.  I chose backgrounds which echoed the warm colours in the collages.  For this first one, I stamped several large stamps (diamonds- SU, script  -     ) in different inks onto a ledger scrap book paper.  We embossed our coloured cardstock rectangles, adhered our small collages and then tied cording underneath then tore off the bottom to leave an interesting wavy edge.  These were added to our card fronts over our backgrounds using 3D foam tape.  Someone suggested that maybe we could emboss our backgrounds as well.  For sure!!  I also added watercolour to the edges of the last three!!  We will meet next in September!!

Therese

 

May Card Club - Card #2 - clear embossing resist with watercolour on decorative paper with embossed focal elements

For our second card we also did a resist technique using clear embossing powder!!  Also very fun!!  We used decorative paper cut to 4" x 5.25" and used stamps with embossing ink to decorate our paper.  Again, it is transparent so you are just guessing as to the placement of the images.  We applied our clear embossing powder and heated the paper which revealed the images.  The clear embossing powder protects the original design from the effects of the watercolour we applied to the paper afterwards.  Again, a very unique and artsy result for these backgrounds.  We again dried our backgrounds using the heat gun on low.  For these cards, I provided cardstock that coordinated with the colour of the background paper to ensure that everything coordinated.  We embossed (CB) our white squares of cardstock and then layered them onto a square of the same cardstock as the card.  I distressed the edges of my coloured cardstock and used my pattern tracing tool to add some paper piercing to my embossed element.  Mounted this focal element to my card using 3D foam tape.  

I used different colours of the same background paper for all the cards - pink, green and yellow.  You can see from the cards above that the watercolour can significantly change the character and colour of the card.  I had provided laser printed images as well if anyone preferred that for their focal element.  I made a few up with images - the little hedgehogs and the cute cactus.  They other two are small embossing folders from Cuttlebug - actually the thanks and flowers are two different embossing folders.  Paper piercing on all the images.  Some very creative cards came out of these card kits!!! Therese

 

May Card Club - Card #1 - wax crayon resist & watercolour, a metal embellishment and some doodled lines

It is always a good time when you spend time with like minded people doing creative fun!!  My friends were back for cardmaking yesterday and we did some very creative & artsy cards!!

For our first card we did wax resist using white wax crayon on white cardstock.  The cardstock was cut to 4" x 5.25", we placed them on the raised side of embossing folders and rubbed wax crayon ( on its long side) all over our paper until the raised areas were well covered in wax.  You really can't see where it is so you just go around several times with good pressure. Next, we added watercolour!!  It is best to add very saturated colour so the while crayon really shows up!!!  We used the heat gun on low to aid the drying process.  I let them choose which metal embellishment they wanted and then we cut a hole in their backgrounds using a 1.25" square Nestibilities.  

I gave them all black cardstock which allowed them to make their background any colour they liked!! We glued our backgrounds to our card fronts and then added the metal embellishment which had 3D foam tape on the back.  We finished off our cards by adding some lines and dots with a fine tip black Sharpie marker.  Totally artsy cards that are very unique!!!  A very fun evening!!!  Therese