SISTER STASH - All occasion card featuring bold stripes/plaid decorative paper, brown grosgrain ribbon and a blue plane

 This is my third card from my sister's stash of supplies.  It has been really fun to find fun papers, coordinating cardstock and make a card with them.  For this card, I colour printed a little plane (digital from CLKER) and then added clouds by sponging around a torn shape with blue ink.  They look much better than I expected ( have saved that little piece for next time) and the colour laser resists the sponging so it does not affect the printed image.  I ran my tracing wheel all on four sides and mounted it to a scrap of blue from the stash.  I left it with a bit on the bottom which I trimmed with pinking shears which no longer cut fabric and then embossed a line using my score tool.  I chose this double sided paper in blues and greens for my background.  I trimmed the middle section out and flipped it over to the blue plaid side and reattached it with regular tape on the back.  I used a zigzag stitch stamp (Hero Arts) and dark blue ink to stamp over the joints which worked beautifully.  I mounted my background to a medium blue card (8.5" x 5.5") which will fit in her envelopes.  I added a length of wide brown grosgrain ribbon which I fish tailed on one end and adhered with double sided tape on the other.  I secured the fish tail end with a bit of double sided tape as well and added a bit of glue in between.  I added my layered airplane image using 3D foam tape.    Therese

Christmas cards for February - Peace cn Earth with a variety of colours and decorative papers and embossed ornaments

I have committed to making my Christmas cards monthly this year.  These are the six I made for the month of February.  I found the gold embossed Peace on Earth (Prairie Rubber Stamps) images in my stash of Christmas images so I have to think I had a plan at the time I put them there but maybe not.  I could simply have been making good use of scraps.  Either way, I went ahead and chose some coordinating decorative papers - poinsettia, plaid, brown holly and large stars are all commercial decorative papers.  The red/green on is a digital from Stampin UP which I colour printed a while back.  I tore top and bottom edges off each of the stamped greetings and ran my tracing wheel on both straight edges.  I mounted my trimmed decorative papers to coordinating card fronts and then added the large greetings.  I wanted to add a bit of an embellishment so I cut six little ornaments (Sizzix - long Love Peace Joy sizzlet die) in a coordinating colour for each one.  Next, I dug through my embossing folders and found little elements which I could use to add a focal element to my ornaments.  After embossing them all with images from different folders, I used an embossing pen and just coloured the raised areas and embossed them with gold embossing powder.  I tied six little bows from some gold thread and glued them to the top of the ornaments with a tiny drop of white glue.  Once they were dry, I added them to my cards using 3D foam tape.  

So glad to have another set of cards to add to my Christmas card box!!  Therese