Card Designs by Terry

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Around the Bend Bundle

Hello friends!

Today's card is number 11 in the Crafting at the Lake series. This card was designed by Susanne and it uses the Around the Bend Bundle.

I started with a Basic White Thick card base. I added the leaf edge die from the bundle to the lower right corner of the card base and cut the corner from the card base. It left a beautiful curved edge with leaf images.

From another piece of Basic White cardstock, I cut the triple flower die image three times. I poked all of the center seeds out of the flowers. Then using a sponge dauber, I added Pale Papaya ink to the edges of all nine of the little flowers.

I stamped my sentiment to the card front using Old Olive ink. I then attached the flowers using black dimensionals. The black dimensionals added a nice contrast that shows through the holes in the flower centers. I then attached a piece of Soft Sea Foam to the inside of the card base so that the curved edge would be attached to the Soft Sea Foam cardstock.

To complete the card, I added little drops of White Pearlized Enamel Basics. These are liquid drops that dry into solid pearls. They come in white, red and black and are really fun!

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this card.

Stay well and keep creating!

Terry

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Monday, March 20, 2023

Greatest Journey Bundle

Hello friends! What a gorgeous weekend we had. And as of today, Spring is officially here. Yaay!! I am so excited to be getting my little angel outside playing in this beautiful weather.

Today's card is number 10 in the Crafting at the Lake series. It is one of my designs and I used the Greatest Journey Bundle. This was another fun card to create.

I started with a piece of Basic White cardstock. I used a Blending Brush to add Crushed Curry ink to the top three quarters of the cardstock. I then added the moon image that I cut out from a piece of Masking Paper using the die from the bundle. I placed the moon in the upper left corner of the cardstock. I then used Blending Brushes to add more ink colours. I added Pumpkin Pie, then Blackberry Bliss and finally Night of Navy ink.

I squished some ink into the lid of the White Craft ink pad and added a drop of water from a Water Painter. I picked up this diluted ink with the brush of the Water Painter and flicked dots of the white ink onto the ink to create stars. Once the stars were dry, I removed the masking paper from the moon.

I used the edge die to cut a piece of Basic Black cardstock to look like a mountain. I used another die to cut out the hiker. I stamped the trees image on the left side of the card front using Evening Evergreen ink. I placed them so they would be peeking out from the mountain. I then attached the Basic Black mountain piece to the bottom of the stamped cardstock.

I added a very tiny piece of So Saffron cardstock to the back of the lantern the hiker is holding so it would look as if it was lighted. I then attached the hiker to the top of the mountain on the right side of the card front.

I matted this onto a piece of Basic White cardstock and then attached it to a card base of Coastal Cabana cardstock.

On a strip of Basic White cardstock, I cut a banner cut into the right edge and then stamped my sentiment using Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I biased the sentiment to the right edge. I then wrapped a piece of Coastal Cabana twine around the left edge of the sentiment and tied it into a knot. The twine is from the Three Twine Combo Pack. I added my sentiment to the card front using dimensionals.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this card.

Stay well and keep creating!

Terry

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Greatest Journey Bundle (English)

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Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Stampin' Up! Masking Paper

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So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

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Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

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Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

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Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

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Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad

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Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

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Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill

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Blending Brushes

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Water Painters

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Three Twine Combo Pack

[160597]

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Love for You Dies

Hello friends! Everyone in our circle is all healthy again. I took my little angel to the library today. She loves looking at books and was super excited to see all of the books. I love that they have a special section where she can take out as many board books as she wants. As soon as we got home she pulled the books out of her bag and sat down right in the entry to read them. Pictures at the end of this blog...

Today's card is number 9 in the Crafting at the Lake series. It was designed by Susanne and uses the Love for You Dies.

I started by folding the Basic White Thick card base in half and then placed a mask from the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks set over top of it. I used Blending Brushes to add ink to the card front. I started with Mango Melody in the center and then added Flirty Flamingo to the rest of the front.

I used the dies from the Love for You Dies set to cut out three different layers of "for you". The first layer, the large shadow die, was cut out of Vellum cardstock. The second layer, the smaller shadow die, was cut out of Flirty Flamingo cardstock. The third layer, the fine line script, was cut out of Basic White cardstock with adhesive sheet attached to it. Once the layers were cut, I adhered them all together and added them to the center of the card using dimensionals.

To complete the card, I added a tiny Loose Daisy Embellishment with a tiny dot of Tombo Multipurpose adhesive between the two words.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this card. It is a very simple card but the colours make it pop.

Stay well and keep creating!

Terry

Pictures of my little reader:

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Best Day

Hello friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. I actually have no idea what the weather was like as I caught a stomach bug from my little cutie. I spent the weekend going from bed to bathroom. All is good now though thankfully.

Today's card is number 8 in the Crafting at the Lake series. This card uses the Best Day stamp set and was another of my designs. As you all know, I'm a crazy cat lady so of course I had to have this set.

I started by stamping the cupcake cat image onto a piece of shimmery white cardstock using Black Staz On ink. I coloured the image using Watercolor Pencils and then blended it using a Blender Pen. I used Pumpkin Pie for the cat; Bermuda Bay and Old Olive for the party hat; Bermuda Bay for the tie; Flirty Flamingo for his nose; Garden Green for his eyes; Melon Mambo for the balloon; and Old Olive and Garden Green for the cupcake wrapper.

I cut a circle in a piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock using the Layering Circles Dies. I then used the Cane Weave 3D Embossing Folder to emboss the cardstock. It's important to die cut first before embossing because if you did it in the reverse order you could flatten the embossing when you die cut. I attached the embossed cardstock to the stamped image so the cat image would be in the center of the circle window. I then matted this with a piece of Basic White cardstock. I wrapped a piece of Pool Party ribbon across the front of this cardstock and then used another piece of the ribbon to tie a faux knot. I attached this cardstock to a Pool Party card base using dimensionals.

On a small piece of Basic White cardstock, I stamped my sentiment using Black Staz On ink. I used the stitched banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set to cut it out. I attached this to my card front using dimensionals.

To complete my card, I added some Iridescent Pastel Gems and coloured the balloon with Wink of Stella to add some sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed this card. I think this one will be perfect for my older granddaughter. She loves cats too and finally talked her parents into letting her get a cat. He is orange and his name is Mango.

Stay well and keep creating!

Terry

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