SumMore Fun: MaryAnn

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Hopeful

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using the following stamps:
Wings Set and the word Hopeful from the set Oops A Daisy

For today's post I wanted to share a card using a truly versatile stamp set with you. I chose to use the Smaller of the Monarch Butterfly Wings for my card today. I made this card as a future card to send during the month of October which is breast Cancer Awareness month.

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Wings which I placed very closely together on a piece of vellum then used White embossing powder and heat set. Fussy cutting is not my favorite craft task but this was actually super simple and easy to do, so much so that I made a few more for a future project. I had some scraps of the patterned paper and lined them up and glued them to a piece of printer paper and die cut a nice rounded edge rectangle and applied thin strips of silver washi tape to hide the seams. I die cut a butterfly from a dark purple piece of cardstock to adhere the wings to using multi matte medium. The sentiment was stamped using a pretty purple ink.

With all the stamping and layers ready to go next up was assembly of the card. I used Tombow Extreme to affix the die cut rectangle to the front of an A2 sized top folding piece of Neenah Desert Storm 100lb cardstock. The butterfly was attached using Tombow glue and some Nuvo Drops in Silver Lining applied to give the body and tips of antennae some detail. A few more drops of Nuvo were applied to finish off this card.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Masculine Birthday ~ Motorcycle Themed

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using the following stamps:
Motorcycle No Limits and Map

I am always trying to add to my card stash "Masculine" themed cards that I can pull and pretty much use for Birthdays. Today's card hit the mark perfectly!

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Map on a piece of pattern paper from my stash using white pigment ink and then applied some clear embossing powder on top to heat set, the heat must have brought out the purples in the patterned paper as the color shifted from white to the color you see. Next I used Memento Dew Drops in Tuxedo Black to stamp the Motorcycle I then applied versamark and clear embossing powder to really achieve a deeper black and some dimension. Once I was happy with my motorcycle I used my Brother Scan and Cut to cut around the Motorcycle. Lastly I stamped the pull tab using a sentiment from No Limits

With all the stamping and layers ready to go next up was assembly of the card. I used a slider channel die on the Map layer, created a slider tab for the Motorcycle to slide on, then created a pull tab to reveal the stamped message. After applying some foam tape to the backside of the map layer I affixed it to a piece of Desert Storm cardstock. to an A2 sized side folding piece of Neenah Desert Storm 100lb cardstock. Final assembly was attaching a piece of green paper to a side folding A2 sized card base of Neenah white cardstock, then attaching the Motorcycle and Map layer using Tombow glue

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Ahoy!

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using the following stamps:
Ship at Sea Ahoy Lined Background

I am always trying to add to my card stash "Masculine" themed cards that I can pull and pretty much use for any occasion. Today's card can be used for the following types of occasions. Retirement, Birthday, Fathers day, Get Well, just to name a few.

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Lined Background using an acrylic block in a random pattern on a piece of Neenah 110lb cardstock using Versamark and then embossed with clear embossing powder. Next I used Memento Dew Drops in Nautical Blue with a blending pad to give an ombre effect. Once I was happy with the blending I die cut with a stitched rectangle die and set it aside. Then I stamped the Ship at Sea using my Tim Holtz stamp platform onto some Varsity Blue cardstock using a white pigment ink pad and applied clear embossing powder. I then die cut the ship with a smaller stitched rectangle die and set it aside. The last thing to stamp was the Ahoy which i stamped onto a piece of velum using the Nautical Blue ink pad (NOTE: my inkpad is super juicy and I used my heat gun held at a distance to speed up drying) I then tore the edges of the velum to add some interest to the layer.

With all the stamping and layers ready to go next up was assembly of the card. I affixed the blended background layer to an A2 sized side folding piece of Neenah Desert Storm 100lb cardstock. Next was attaching the piece of burlap which I removed threads from all sides to give the current appearance. I then affixed the ship layer using a good layer of Tombow glue and placed a couple of acrylic blocks on top to really set the layer on top of the burlap. The Ahoy sentiment was attached using Tombow again behind the stamped letters and also where I knew I was going to be attaching the pearlescent embellishments.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Hello

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using:
Cherry Blossom

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Cherry Blossom using my Tim Holtz stamp platform on a piece of Kraft cardstock using Memento Dew Drops in Rich Cocoa. Then using my Prismacolor pencils I colored over the cherry blossoms and leaves. The hello sentiment is from my stash that I used Versamark and golden peach embossing powder. I chose to die cut the panel with a dainty scalloped edged die.
I then affixed the layer to a piece of green cardstock. Once all layers were dry I attached the project to a top folding A2 sized card base made with Neenah 110lb cardstock. To finish off my project I added a couple drops of Nuvo.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Bunny with Egg ~ Easter Card

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

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Here's my inspiration for you using:
Bunny with Egg Mini Animals and Flowers & Backgrounds Set

Today I am sharing a cute Easter card that was super easy to make once I cut the mask for the bunny. I am not much for fussy cutting but am finding I am doing quite a bit of masking on my cards lately.

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Bunny with Egg using my Tim Holtz stamp platform on a piece of Copic friendly cardstock and again on a piece of masking paper. I then cut out the mask and applied it just to the lower half of the bunny. Taking the one stamp from the Backgrounds set that looks like a small patch of grass I positioned it in my platform and stamped across the bottom of the card. I did this a few times moving the panel and using different colors of green inks to achieve the look of grass. I colored the bunny using various Copic markers until I was happy with how he looked. Taking the Tulip stamp from Mini Animals and Flowers set I placed it on stamping platform and first inked the stem and leaves with a green ink and stamped the Egg and then inked it with a bright pink on the flower and finished off the Tulip. The Happy Easter sentiment is from my stash and I used the same ink on it as I did the Tulip in the egg. I chose to die cut the panel with a dainty scalloped edged die and used a larger die from the same set to die cut a layer of soft plaid paper from my stash.
I then affixed all the layers to a piece of yellow cardstock. Once all layers were dry I attached the project to a top folding A2 sized card base made with Neenah 110lb cardstock. To finish off my project I added some homemade enamel dots that I affixed with pink stickles. I chose the pink stickles so that just a hint of sparkle is visible on the card.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Cross of Flowers

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using:
Cross of Flowers

Today I want to share my take on a pencil colored image on black cardstock.

Card Recipe:
I stamped the Cross of Flowers using my Tim Holtz stamp platform on black cardstock from my stash using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then I proceeded to color in the stamped image with Prismacolor Premier pencils using bright lights on my craft desk so that I could see the ink stamped outline. Once I was happy I set it aside and created the white top layer. I stamped the cross onto some scratch white cardstock and trimmed it to the very edges of the cross. Taking my previously diecut top layer I placed the cross that I had just trimmed on the back and traced it with a pencil once I had it positioned just where I wanted the opening to be. I used my small steel ruler and an exacto knife on a self healing mat to cut the cross from the white cardstock. I used tiny foam squares and affixed it to the top of the pencil colored image and then affixed the whole thing to a piece of yellow cardstock. Once all layers were dry I attached the project to a top folding A2 sized card base made with Neenah 110lb cardstock.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Hello Friend

Good Morning Dreamerz and Happy Wednesday!!

Today is my day to take over the SumMoreFun Designs Blog.

Here's my inspiration for you using:
Oops a Daisy

Today I want to share my take on a Eclipse Card with you.

Card Recipe:
I first stamped the larger of the 2 daisies in the set on some masking paper then fussy cut it so that I would have a mask that I could not only use for this card but for future projects also. For the stamped layer I used a piece of Bristol Vellum cut to 5.25 x 4.00. I then took and made a very light pencil mark/line thru the center lengthwise as I wanted the flowers and die cut layer to be as centered as possible. I stamped the largest daisy using my Tim Holtz stamping platform as near to the center as possible using Gray Flannel ink from Memento. Next I applied the mask of the stamped image and took the smaller of the 2 daisies and positioned it where I wanted and stamped it in the same color ink, to achieve the second daisy I flipped the card 180 degrees and stamped the next daisy. The sentiment was then added using Tangelo ink from Memento. After removing the mask I used a big hello die and die cut the center, I also die cut 4 more times using gray cardstock from my stash that would be used in assembly for the final project. Using Faber Castell watercolor pencils I colored in only the parts of the flowers that were on the die cut letters paying close attention to where the petals from one flower intersected another. Once I was happy with the colors I assembled the card by gluing down the die cut base to gray cardstock, then I started adding in the layers of gray cardstock on top of each other to build up the word hello, the final step was gluing down the letters I had previously watercolored and adding a tiny yellow/gold rhinestone on the sentiment.

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