New Canadian cards!

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Tim Holtz distress inks and stains

This morning I was playing around with a bunch of the new inks, stains and paints that I purchased off of eBay.  I thought I would have been so overwhelmed with all these new techniques that I have been trying but its been ok.  The only overwhelming aspect is the big fat mess that my craft room is in because of my ADD nature. I always start one thing and get distracted and do something else.  After having just realized all the time that I have missed from not having tried Cricut Craft Room to using new CTMH stamps to now the Tim Holtz materials I can't seem to do one thing!

Anyway, the cards below were done with the stains and some stamps I had laying around. I backed them on white card stock and antiqued the edges with fired brick ink (Tim Holtz ink pad). I kinda like them better than the other Canadian cards but there are great parts with both.

Made by a Canadian with love!

I know I've been making lots of cards for Christmas lately and shy'd away from my Canadian cards.  My friend Monique comes back from a vacation abroad and sees one card I had made and says, "Oh wow! These would make fantastic thank you cards for those people I visited!!" So here I thought.... Oh thats kinda cool! Make Canadian cards, not just for Canada day but for those Canadians sending love out in the world! So thanks Monique, you were my inspiration for the next following cards!

 All cards were made with kraft card stock and various Close to My heart stamp sets! I also used the Art Philosophy circut cartridge to cut out the shapes.  (Note: the Greetings from Canada stamp is not a CTMH stamp). Aren't they cute?! Who wants one????

Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and Maple leaf stamp

One way borders

Cranberry Ink

Whisper Ink

Gold Embossing powder by Stampendous

Crystals from Dollarama

Unfortunately the Miss you, happy and goodbye sentiments along with the speech bubble are from a stamp set no longer available

If you like what you see at all, please take a look at my Etsy page or contact me above!

Have a good night, 

CTMH order came in!!!

Yesterday, I got the ever so exciting package in the mail of the close to my heart items that I had ordered!  I went straight to the designing board and practiced with a couple of my new stamps/inks!

Used Kaboom's stamping set, Balloon talk, Hopscotch alphabet, one way borders along with the art philosophy cartridge to make the heart and circle.

I used the art philosophy cricut cartridge to make the maple leaf with the seasons stamp set which comes with the cartridge.  I also used the one way borders (because I love them!) and Balloon talk for the Miss you sentiment.