Lost Art Cards and Designs

Stamped on Ivory card stock with matching envelopes,  each card set was made with muted colors using Mama Elephant Creative Color Inks, Papertrey Ink Dye Inks , Rubber Stamp Tapestry  stamp sets, Michaels Arts and Craft Stores gift tag set and organza ribbon, special textured effect artistic paper found at A.C. Moore, and a stenciled background using Simon Says Stamp stencils.

Introducing my granddaughters, Claire and Emma! They are enjoying their Valentines cards!

This is my first video post.  If the video doesn't work please comment below. I will try to fix it. This is too previous to miss.

These cards were made using Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things and Rubber Stamp Tapestry. . Somehow I don't think they will make it to the framing stage  😊

This " Sweet Baby" card was made using various Parchment Craft and Ink Blending techniques.

I like the soft effect of vellum for a baby card.

To make the base card underneath the vellum card front, I blended 2 shades of yellow and a very soft pink, both pigment inks.

Paper piercing and trimming using special parchment tools add their own embellishment to this card. I love the sweetness of this stamp and die set by Papertrey Ink.  One of their anniversary challenges was to take certain letters of our first or last name, each letter representing a different technique or characteristic to add to the card.  "Sweet Baby" was completed using no more than 5 colors, a touch of gold, paper piercing, rounded corners, and yellow ink.

A Cuppa thanks to the warehouse staff of Papertrey Ink.  Your careful packaging impressed me from my very first order.  Each stamp set wrapped in tissue paper, dies placed in a nicely printed and sturdy envelope, and a signature notecard make receiving a much anticipated order from this company pure joy.

Their customer service is excellent, beginning with the kind helpfulness of Julie Heskamp and the rest of their behind the scenes staff.

Enjoy a cup of tea on me!

Challenge:  take a piece of white card stock, cut it into 1 1/2 inch squares, alter each one and then make a card front to fit a 5.5x 5.5 inch square card....and make it look good!   Ideas flew through my head.  Joy and creative energy flooded into my soul and I accepted the challenge given on Papertrey Ink's blog in honor of their 9th anniversary.  I had a lot of fun trying to meet their challenge idea and hoping this was what they had in mind when describing the project.

   Following their instructions I began by cutting the squares of white card stock.   I decided to use several colors of coordinating Papertrey Ink Dye Ink applied to an acrylic block,  sprayed with water and blended together to make a tie dye effect when each square was placed on the acrylic block.  I like the way each square turned out differently.  After drying ,each piece was stamped with Rustic Wreath in two shades and then some flowers from One Big Happy in various places on each square. Adding sentiments completed the look.

Four years old.  Imagination soaring, active, busy little minds dreaming about growing up some day. 

This card was designed for my grandson Gregory for Valentine's Day and comes complete with his own grab bag of paper airplane parts ( wish now I had taken a picture of them all)  for him to play with alone or with his dad as they fight imaginary battles or go on far away trips in their minds. There are enough parts there , that even if his baby sisters get them, he will still have fun. 

This card set was made with the Love You to Pieces: Airplane Stamp and Die set and Hello Sunshine stamp set both by Papertrey Ink, various chalk and die inks, markers and some supplies I had on hand.  I had been working on the card and card envelope, but it was missing something!

When I read about the "grab supplies" in 5 minutes and use them all to make something, I knew what was missing! Something hands on for Gregory to play with and that would set his imagination roaring.  A grab bag full of paper plane cut outs in decorative cardstock. 

I ran back downstairs after putting everything away, grabbed up the supplies I would need and the result is this cute envelope tied with string.  Hope he enjoys it as much as I did making it!

 Life.