Using The Leftovers

Where are the leftovers? It's the dividing "ribbon between the prints. This is another "Thirds Card". A classic design. The one third, two thirds division is for some reason very pleasing to the eye.

Papers by DCWV. Scripture stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs and label die from Spellbinders.

Classic Thirds Card

This is a classic thirds card. One thirds of the card is one design and the two thirds is another design. The "ribbon" dividing the two can be anything narrow.

In this case these scrapbook papers are from DCWV LaCreme stack. The ribbon is from a page of striped patterns. The bottom two thirds is a flocked piece.

Placing some kind of embellishment on the ribbon adds to the card. I have used monograms, medallions, buckles or silk flowers. There are many more accents that could be used.

African Sunset

The sunset and tree are from the Safari DCWV 8x8 stack. I glued it to my card base.

The lion image is from PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange, no longer available), the phrase is from Hero Arts and I have absolutely no idea where that little animal track is from.

I used Punch Bunch punches to punch out the track and the phrase and the paint chip they are layered on. I am going to recommend The Punch Bunch as a very fine company to purchase punches from. I have NEVER had a bad punch from them. They punch clean on text and card stock weight papers. I have a lot (I mean a whole lot) of these punches and have been very satisfied with them. They are a small mom and pop company that does not sell to the large chains. You will have to go to a privately owned scrap or stamp store to find Punch Bunch punches.

Romans 8:28

This is such a phenomenal scripture. It is such a reminder to us to look past the present and into God's purposes rather than our self centered little wants.

The paper is from the DCWV LaCreme stack. Spellbinders Pendant and Label dies were used. The scripture stamp is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

The scripture has been stamped with VersaMark and embossed with fineline black powder. It was cut out in a square and the corners were cut with a CM corner rounder. Then the edges were sponged with Ranger's Jet Black Archival ink.

See that little dotted border on the black pendant die cut on the left....that was cut out of the striped multi papered paper from the LaCreme stack.

Tiger In The Jungle

I was showing my husband all the cards that I had made using the Safari papers from DCWV. He said I needed a more jungley look. Since his comments are usually pretty accurate I started playing with my fern and jungle foliage stamps on cream paper. Each type of leaf is done in a different color. I did a random stamping to cover the entire 4.25 x 5.5 inch paper. I then heavily sponged into the rectangle with Coffee Archival ink from Ranger. There is a narrow band of Ranger's Jet Black Archival ink sponged around the outer edge.

After all of the ink was applied and dried, the entire surface was heavily talced. I almost always do this before using embossing powder. Especially with a paper that has been handled as much as this one was.

The tiger image was stamped with VersaMark and embossed with fine line black embossing powder. I then carefully sponged Ranger's Marigold Distressed in over just the tiger image.

I have no idea who designed the tiger image. It was a sheet of various tiger images that I received from master stamper Eva Hays as a gift. I think the fern and leaf images are from Rubber Stamp Avenue.

When I am going to be doing a lot of inking and manipulation on a card, I don't work directly on the card front because this ink and handling tends or warp the paper. I have a stack of white and cream paper cut to card front size. When I am all done I use my Crafters Pick Ultimate glue to attach the design to the card front. It is immediately placed under the trusty college dictionary to become a very crisp smooth perfectly flat card after several hours. (also known as "booking it")

Thanks

This card is not my usualy style, but I certainly do like it. Let me begin with the stamps. I think the bare winter tree stamp is Inkadinkado. I was stamped with Soot Black Distressed Ink by Ranger that was rubbed over while the ink was still wet to create a soft misty appearance. The thanks stamp is from Morning Star Stamps. It was stamped with VersaMark ink and embossed with #12 Stone Red powder. Both the powder and the ink a products from the Tsukineko line. I had stray powder below the thanks that I didn't notice until after I had "cooked" the embossing powder. For once I liked the look of my mistake. There is sponging around the hand cut edge of the thanks/tree images.

Spellbinders dies were used to cut the dark pink label and the leaves. The gold metallic leaf is a light weight foil candy wrapper. I glued it to some text weight paper. There is a texture to the foil that is very attractive.

Papers are from DCWV Indian Summer Fall Mat Stack.

Safari

While staying with my friend Charlene in Holdrege NE she issued a challenge, "Do something with this 8x8 Safari Stack from DCWV". I never could resist a challenge.

The print papers are from DCWV's Safari stack. The goldy/brown under the happy birthday is a Dutch Boy paint chip.

I have used two different decorative scissors and punches.

The scrapbook paper covers the entire card front and presents a dramatic background.

I prefer the 8x8 or mat stacks for card making as the prints are smaller. Plus they cost less so I can have more, LOL, of course one can never have too much paper.

II Timothy 1:7

I have been gone for a while. I spent last week in Kearney NE attending workshops for my job in Agriculture Statistics. A friend commented this morning that she had noticed that I had not put anything on my blog in a while. So I'm back with one of the latest cards.

The papers are from the Citrus stack by DCWV. The scripture is a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs, the butterfly and little flower are dies from Quickutz, embossed flower images are a Cuttlebug product and the label is from Spellbinders. I used Distressed Inks from Ranger to sponge the yellow and orange inks around the edge of the label.

I had thought that this label was going to be in the trash as I embossed the flower images backwards, meaning the flowers are indented rather then raised. Then I decided to try a little sponging to see if I could resuce it. I think I like it better than the raised embossing on some of the other cards done that were similar to this one. The embossed flower image on the plain orange paper is raised by the Cuttlebug embosing, sanded and the edge cut with a scalloped decorative scissors. You can do the sanding to expose the core of the paper if you use white core papers.

In All Things

Oh my, another scripture card. I do love them. I have certainly found some great combinations.

Our Daily Bread Designs scripture stamp, DCWV paper and Spellbinders dies. There is really no need for instructions, it is all plain to see in the picture. Have fun creating.

Friendly Plastic

"This can NOT be Friendly Plastic, it just can't." is running through you minds right now. Well it is the same old Friendly Plastic that we knew, loved and played with back in the 70's.

Leave to some very didicated and out of the box artists to come up with some terrific new techniques for a forgotten product. The pendants in the first picture are a technique created and taught to me by Jana Ewy of Las Vegas.

This stuff is so much fun to play with and this new look is hot, hot, hot. Some of the pendants on the left don't have their bails attached yet, but will have soon.

To the left is the Ooze Technique perfected by Liz Welsh of England.

Now Gabriele in Germany can truly see what I was chatting about yesterday.

Spirit of Power, of Love and of a Sound Mind

Another great stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs!! These scripture verses have been stamped with Black archival ink and then the Spellbinders label die is carefully placed over the scripture and taped in place. (I use the lavender or delicate painters masking tape.) After the die has been cut, I run it through my Wizard again with the soft rubber mat to emboss a attractive narrow border.

The dry embossed daisy images are from Cuttlebug's embossing borders. The one on the blue has been sanded to show the white core of the DCWV cardstock. The daisies on the label have been brayered to add color and make them more visible on the white card stock.

Quickutz is the maker of the dies that were used to cut the little flowers, leaves and stems.

The blue paper that is attached to the card base, the darker blue of the right border and the glitter papers used for the flowers are all from DCWV Citrus card stock stack.

Called According to His Purposes

That yummy La Creme Stack from DCWV! The base layer of this card is a flocked scrapbook paper. The extreme left and right borders a cut from a striped page from the same stack.

Spellbinders created the lovely lace die cut on the left and the right. A corner punch from CM was used on all four corner of the Our Daily Bread Designs stamp.

That's it. As my friend Anne would say, "Easy Peasy". All different types of papers and borders could be used to create your very own version of this very basic design.

And We Know

Such a beautiful scripture. There are so many of these stamps available at Our Daily Bread Designs. It is well worth the time to view all that they have available.

The design begins with scrapbook paper from DCWV attached to the front of an A2 card base. Text weight black paper was used to create the scallops that were punched with an EK Success Punch Around the Page set.

The corner punch used on the cream cardstock of the scripture phrase is echoed on the one plain corner of the black layer. Another echo is found on the left side of the card is more of the scallops and a straight edges. This pulls the whole design together.

You Encourage Me

This is a white card base with orange white core cardstock from DCWV attached to cover the whole front. A Cuttlebug border embossing folder was the placed on the very edge of the cards opening edge and run through a die cut machine. (this means which ever one I had out at the moment) The raised image was then carefully sanded to let the white core of the orange cardstock show through.

I also used a matching narrower Cuttlebug border folder on the left side of the scripture. The scripture is on a Spellbinders Label. The raised daisies have been brayered with yellow ink.

I stamp my image and then die cut. Normally the die is taped down over the image after the die has been lined up. I have found that with the curved sides of the Labels dies I have to use a clear quilting ruler to get everything straight.

Tape used on my dies is a painters masking tape. There was a lavender Duck brand at Wal Mart that was just perfect. It is very low tack and does not pull up a layer of paper when removed. I did find a pale green masking tape at Menard's that is meant for delicate surfaces and it works fairly well. If I ever find that lavender masking tape again I am going to buy four or five rolls.

According To His Purpose

A very very favorite scripture that has been such a comfort in troubled and stressful times, this lovely stamp is a product of Our Daily Bread Designs. It has been cut out with a Spellbinders Rectangle Nestibilities in cream cardstock and layered onto a black scalloped rectangle. On the left side of the card is Spellbinders Borderabilities in black. There is a very narrow band of cream layered onto the black for that final touch of elegance.

The paper covering the cardbase is from DCWV La Creme Stack.

God Is My Salvation

I have been punching and die cutting up a real storm. This design uses DCWV Indian Summer Stack papers. These are NOT my normal colors or choice. It was fun to get outside my box and try some new combinations.

Spellbinders Label and Oval Nestibilites dies were used. The corners of the Our Daily Bread Designs phrase are from a discontinued Creating Memories punch. The branches are an EK Success Martha Stewart punch.

I sponged the edge of the card base and the leaf pattern multi color label.

I always thank God for you

These three cards are the same basic design. There is a variation in embellishments and some papers.

A punch was used for the little butterflies. Die cuts from Quickutz were used for the large butterfly and the flowers.




Spellbinders Label and Pendant dies are the larger die cuts and Rectangle


Nestibilites for the scripture verse.

The verse from Our Daily Bread Designs was deliberately place at the top of the rectangle to allow for embellishments below. I was at my stamping group when I made these cards or I would have tried some ribbon too.






The papers are from DCWV Citrus stack.

The Lord Is My Strength

This has been so much fun! I would really like to have more of these great Our Daily Bread Designs stamps.

Spellbinders Pendant dies are pretty great too. This one is called In Spades.

I used DCWV Indian Summer glitter stack to create these lucious colors combinations.

To Everything There Is A Season

Spellbinders Borderabilities In Spades and Rectangles Nestibilities are the dies used for this card. The phrase is from Our Daily Bread Designs and the paper is from DCWV.

The scrapbook paper was used to cover the entire card front. Glitter paper was used for the borders. Note that the cut out from the border was used to accent the phrase.

I have to admit I am not particularly wild about this design. It was one of those plans in my head that just didn't work out well on execution. Oh well, another day, another card design. I am not sure exactly what it is that I don't care for. Maybe it is the dotted paper? Maybe the phrase needed to be centered on the card? Should the card be landscape instead of portrait?

Psalm 23

For my devotions I am doing an in depth study of the Psalms. I am at the 23rd Psalm. This is a condensed version of part of the introduction. It has hit home for me.

The late Donald Grey Barnhouse was leaving the funeral service of his first wife.
While drivng down the highway he was trying to think of a way to explain and convey comfort to his young children. They drove by a large van and it's shadow passed over their car. He immediately knew he has the example and words needed for the moment.

"Children," he asked, "would you rather be run over by a truck, or by it's shadow?" Of course the children answered, "We'd much rather be run over by it shadow! The shadow can not hurt us."

Barnhouse, as master illustrator then said to his children, "The truck of death ran over the Lord Jesus two thousand years ago so that only its shadow now passes over us. That is all that has happened to your mother. Only the shadow of death has passed over her. She is unharmed in heaven."