Quick hello card with distress inks

 I am addicted to distress inks lately! They just blend too well and make cute backgrounds! This one I used Mustard seed, worn lipstick and seedless preserves. The hello dies I got from Lawn Fawn and I punched out some circles to place around instead of sequins just to change it up!

Anyone need some sunshine?

I am super ecstatic at how this turned out! In hind sight though, I think I would have used a bigger sentiment stamp.  This was my faux watercolour technique where I used mustard seed and fired brick distressed inks along with the recollections yellow shimmer spray.  I painted the flowers which were stamped and embossed in Stamp Stuff gold and then flicked some more of the inks at splatter.  I added some sequins and backed it on yellow card stock! What a nice spring time card! 

New cards with leftovers chez moi!

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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

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Have a good night, 

On the roll with cards

Yesterday, I wanted to make some different cards so I ransacked my pinterest account and started to make cards like ones which Ive pinned to do one day!

Happy Easter!

Easter time equals some time off to spend with the family and craft! Today I spent a bit of time making 2 cards with my latest DCWV paper pack (Lilac).  I like this pack as it is versatile and you can easily make mens cards with them (we all know how hard it is not to girlie up mens cards)!

 For this card, I punched out squares (I think 1 inch) from various pages from the pack and aligned them as you see on the card.  I have seen soo many youtube videos about the ATG gun so I bought one recently and tried it for the very first time!  The ribbon was from Michaels and I just glued it onto the card.  The stamp saying "thoughts of you" was in the $1.50 stamp pile by the check out at Michaels.  I really like the way it tuned out!

This hello card was using the same paper pack but the squares were punched out at 2 inches each and glued onto the card.  I had some leftover pieces from the previous card so I used it as a strip above the squares.  With beige cardstock, I stamped the line stamp which I got at Michaels (can you tell where I shop?) but I had a hard time getting the middle to ink up or stamp down no matter how hard I pressed.  I decided to stamp a purple Hello onto my card (1.50 stamp bin at Michaels) and used pop dots to make it dimensional.  The Hello looked sort of plain, so I added some embossing powder from Zing (metallic purple).  I love Zing powders as they are amazing to work with and always give great results!

Hope you enjoyed seeing my cards and please feel free to leave a comment!