Crushing on Cardstock - Day 1 Lovely Friend

Good Morning my Crafty Friends,

Here is another card made from Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner's Crushing on Cardstock's Class. I got the inspiration from Cathy Zielske's Day 1 "Torn Heart" example which was very pretty and here's my take on it.

This is the list of supplies with links that was used to create this card:

Waffle Flower Nesting Circle Die

Stampin Up Blushing Bride

Stampin Up Rocco Rose

Stampin Up Terracota Tile

Stampin Up Cajun Craze

"Lovely" Die Sentiment – Mounted on Lawn Fawn Vellum

"Friend" Sentiment - Concord & 9^th Turnabout Dahlia Stamp Set - White Embossed with Ranger's Super Fine Embossing Powder on Simon Says Stamp Black8 Cardstock

Cardbase - Accent Opaque 100lb 11 x 4 ¼ scored at 5 ½

White Panel – Accent Opaque 80lb 5 ¼ x 4 stacked three times

I highly recommend this class and I hope that my card will inspire you to give it a try.

Thank you for stopping by,

Mel Sanz

Crushing on Cardstock - Day 1 - Hey how you doin?

Hello my crafty friends, it's been a while since I posted anything but here I am again with a brand new project.

For today's card, I was inspired by Christina's Day 1 - Creating Patterns - Smile Card from the Crushing on Cardstock Class. I had so much fun taking this class and in the next few posts, I will be showing you my take on the class.

In case you are interested in the class, here is the link https://www.onlinecardclasses.com/

To create the plaid pattern, I used Stampin Up Cardstock in the color Pool Party and Crushed Currey. The Giraffe is from Whimsy Stamps set called "Giraffes Peeking" and was colored with the following Copics:

Yellow - YR2, YR33, Y6, Y11

Brown - Y13, BR1, BR3

Here are the sizes of my panels:

Checkered Panel - Stitched Rectangle Die 3 5/16 x 4 9/16

White Panel - Stitched Rectangle Die 3 6/8 x 5

Black Panel - 4 1/16 x 5 5/16

Cardbase - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded at 4 1/4

To add dimension, each panel were stacked twice. The sentiment was white embossed on Black Cardstock and is from the Whimsy Stamp set "Hey Ostrich".

Black Cardstock is from Simon Says Stamp "Black8" and the white is Accent Opaque 100 lbs.

I hope you were inspired to create, have a great day and see you soon.

JDS - Love You!

Good Day my crafty friends! 

I hope you are enjoying the lovely weather as much as I am, let me say that it does feel good not to freeze for a change.

It's time for another beautiful DT Card for the wonderful Jan from Jan's Digital Stamps. This weeks card was made using the My Mom's stamp and below are the products I used to make it come together.

Love You!

First step on this wonderful journey was to go to Jans Digi Stamp Shop and download the My Mom stamp. I highly suggest that you head over the site to grab yours as it's on SALE fort the month of April. Did I say SALE?? Yes I did! There are also a few other wonderful new stamps who are also on sale so go check it out!

For this specific card, I resized the image to approximate 2.07" x 1.97" so that it would fit in the heart shape die. I then printed it on my Accent Opaque 80lb cardstock and colored it with my Ohuhu Markers.

Here is my list of markers:

Brown Hair - Y13, BR1, BR2

Blond Hair - YR2, YR33, Y6, Y1

Pink - P1, RP1, RP6, R15

Blue - PB4, PB2, PB1

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Once I was done coloring my image, it was time to cut my different layers of cardstock.

Here is my list of cardstock with their dimensions:

Base Card - Accent Opaque 100 lb 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 5 1/2"

Navy Panel - Stampin Up Night of Navy 4" x 5 1/4"

Dark Red Strip - Stampin Up Black Berry Bliss 4" x 1 1/2"

Pattern Paper Panel - Simon Says Stamp - Love You Monthly Kit 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"

The heart was made with the largest die from Simon Says Stamp Hear Animal and to crate the border, all I did was to cut a heart on the Night of Navy cardstock and then place the die back in place and trace around the outside of the die which created the perfect frame. I then used my scissors to cut it out.

It was then time to use all the other dies from my die set to cut the other smaller hearts and the Sentiment. Everything was then stacked a few times to create dimensions using scrap cardstock and voila, my card was done.

I have to say that it's very difficult for me to use pattern paper but I have been stepping out of my comfort zone lately and it feels good.

I hope my card will inspire you to create! As always, I encourage you to go check out the Challenge Blog to see the rest of the DT creations. We would love to see you join in on the fun so please show us your creation for a chance to win. Please remember that you can enter up to 5 Times per Challenge. All the details are on the Challenge Blog.

Be sure to follow Jan's Website in order to get notified when Sales and Freebies are announced.

Stay Healthy, take care and thanks for stopping by!

Mel Sanz - In a Crafty Mood

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JDS - Fancy Rose Thank You

Good Morning Crafty Friends!

Mel Sanz here with once again a DT card made for Jan’s Digi Stamps.

Today’s card is using the “Roses” Digital Stamp found here in Jan’s Digi Stamps Shop. 

Fancy Roses Thank You!

To create this card, I resized the Rose and printed it on Accent Opaque 80 lb Cardstock. I then colored the image using the following Copics:

Rose: BG11, BG13, BG18

Leaves: YG03, YG93, YG95

The Rose and Leaves were fussy cut and to add dimension to the Rose, it was stacked 3 times. As usual, I used a black marker to ink all around the image which I find gives it a nice finish. 

For the background, using a Blender Brush, I lightly inked some Broken China Distress Oxide on a 5 ½ x 4 ¼ panel and then stacked 2 Lawn Fawn Fancy Lattice Backdrop on top. I then lightly repeated the inking process on a smaller panel of 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 which was then mounted on a 4 ½ x 3 ¼ white panel. This smaller panel was then glued centered to the larger one.

The Rose and Thanks die cut along with a few Studio Katia Sparkling Sea Confetti Sequence were then mounted to the card and for the finishing touch, I used my Clear Wink of Stella to add some sparkle to the Die Cut and the background.

The entire creation was then glued to a 5 ½ x 4 ¼ top folding card made with Accent Opaque 100 lb Cardstock.

Here is a closer look:

If you want more inspiration, feel free to pop over to the Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the team made. I am sure that you will find something that you will like. 

I would really love to see what creative things YOU have been up to! Which is why I invite you to join us at Jan’s Digi Stamps Challenge where its always Anything Goes. What I mean by that is that you can participate with absolutely anything…Cards, Scrapbooking, Papercrafting, Sewing, Jewelry, Sculpture, Baking, you name it! If you made it, we want to see it! 

Please submit a picture of your creation and see if you will be one of the lucky winners this month! 

We have two draws per month:

• 1 for entries using a JDS set
• Another random draw from all the entries

This means that if you use JDS images in your entry, you have 2 chances to win!

Do not forget, you need to be a follower to qualify to win!

Thanks for coming by today, have a great day and stay safe!