Day 305: Day of Gratitude Thanksgiving Card Version 2

I have been making Thanksgiving cards using the Day of Gratitude stamp set and coordinating designer paper from Stampin' Up! and using a technique I learned on Meg Loven's blog. I was able to get three more cards made today in between all the other busy-ness of Halloween! A few subtle variations in the colors on the flower image today.  And how cool that I left the felt sitting on my desk overnight and was still able to use it today!

Day 304: Day of Gratitude Thanksgiving Card Version 1

I was googling ideas for using the flower image from the Day of Gratitude stamp set and the matching designer paper by Stampin' Up!, and came upon Meg Loven's September 8, 2010  blog post.  She described how to make custom felt pads using a piece of regular felt, an absorbent tile, and re-inkers. I thought it was such a neat technique, I decided to try it, and this is the result:

Day 303: One Moment in Time Gears Card Part 2

I punched gears and circles out of brushed silver card stock by Stampin' Up! I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and rich cocoa Memento ink to stamp the pocket watch (Rubber Stampede) and the verse (Repeat Impressions) onto the silver card . I ran everything through the Xyron machine, then attached  the pieces to the front of my card.  The inside verse I wrote says:  Your birthday only comes once a year, so Celebrate!

Day 302: One Moment in Time Gears Card Part 1

I need some men's cards for upcoming birthdays.  I started out with intentions of making an entirely different card, but when I was looking for an embossing folder to use as a background, I came upon this Tim Holtz gears embossing folder, and changed my mind completely!  I used kraft cardstock by Recollections (Michael's), ran it through my Sizzix Big Shot machine, then used a Ranger silver paint dauber and  Ranger chocolate distress ink to highlight the embossed areas.  I got enough backgrounds done to make 8 embossed card bases, but will need to finish working on these tomorrow.

Day 301: Free Star Embellishments!

Today I punched out 50 small stars from the foil waste from my Botanicals 3-D kit (see Day).  Nothing like free embellishments!

Day 296: Circles for Bingo from Scrap Papers

Tonight I punched out approximately 1000 circles from scrap papers with my one inch circle punch from EK Success.  The circles are to be used  as markers when we play bingo at our church's Happy Birthday Jesus Party.  Since very small children will be playing, I thought paper circles would be safer than bingo chips.

Day 295: Daisy D's Kits

I have a little space I keep at a local craft and antiques shop and I need to make up some kits of Daisy D's papers to sell.  I spent the evening cutting samples from each of the paper and figuring out the papers that will go in each kit.