Cards in Envy Red, White & Blue

The new challenge on the Cards in Envy blog is to make Patriotic Red, White & Blue cards. Here is my card celebrating the Birthday of the USA!

Help us celebrate with your patriotic red, white and blue cards.  Come check out what the other design team members came up with and then link up your patriotic cards with us on the Cards in Envy blog!  

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Online Card Classes Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2

As a combination Christmas/Birthday present from my dear SIL, I got a ticket to the Online Card Classes Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2.  This is the first day and I have learned so much from the videos.  This is my version of the card that Jennifer McGuire demonstrated in the class.  She used Hero Arts metal die cuts that matched the stamp set and Hero Arts Shadow ink.  I used Cricut Artiste die cuts, my mish-mashed collection of Thank You stamps and Tim Holtz Distressed Inks.

Products List

Cricut Artiste Cartridge from Close To My Heart

Tim Holtz Distressed Inks in Ripe Persimmon, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers.

Close To My Heart Word Balloons Stamp Set 

TPC Studio Greetings Stamp Set (no longer available)

Stampendous Thank You (1994)

PSX Thank You

Hampton Art Thank You (2010)

American Crafts Zing! Opaque White Embossing Powder 

Versamark Watermark Clear Embossing Ink

Card Stock Xpedex

Happy Crafting!

Donna

You can visit my Creative Memories website HERE.

Inkspirational Challenge #4

The ladies over at the Inkspiration Challenge Blog have their fourth challenge it.  It is a Sketch Challenge.   Here is the sketch.

Here is my card.

When the card is open you can see that the heart is floating on the banner.

It hides a secret message inside the card!  This is a take off of a card by Jennifer McGuire from the Online Card Classes Holiday Card Workshop.  She put a small picture of her son underneath the heart.  The paper is from TPC Studio called My Funny Valentine Lucky Love.  The banner was cut using the Close To My Heart Artiste Cartridge.  The Love sentiment is from the Close To My Heart Roxie Kit.  

I am also entering this at 52 Card Pickup.

I think I managed to get my camera to focus a little better by messing with some of the settings in the menu but the poor thing is still not working too good.  

Happy Crafting!

Donna

You can visit my Creative Memories website HERE.

Elegant Wedding Card and VCMP Challenge 9

I finally finished my last challenge (#9) from the Operation Write Home Virtual Card Making Party last weekend.  Shannon at Sharing My Work for OWH challenged us to use a neglected tool.  I used my heat embossing tool.  It has been a while since I heat embossed and the results turned out gorgeous.

This is a wedding card I made for the son of a friend.  I stamped the Stampin'Up! Mr & Mrs in Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink and embossed it with Zing Clear Finish embossing powder.  It gave it a nice shiny raised feeling.  I used the Stampin'Up! Apothecary Accent Framelit to cut it out.  The paper is Creative Memories Tie the Knot Addition (no longer available).  I used Our Daily Bread Stamps for the inside of the card.

Then I made a gift card holder from my new Close to My Heart Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  I found the idea on Diane's blog Capadia Designs.  She was one of the first blogs I ever started following right after I bought my Cricut.  This Gift card holder is on page 55 of the Artiste Cartridge book and is cut at 5 inches.

That's it for the Virtual Card Making Party Challenges.  I had fun doing them and created more cards in a weekend then I did all last month.
Happy Crafting!
Donna
You can visit my Creative Memories Website HERE.