One Sketch Two Cards

Inspired by the sketch Cindy Haffner made for the current Farm Fresh Friday Challenge over at The Greeting Farm I made two Christmas cards :-) Card 1 is for FFF and Card 2 is for the Fancy Friday Challenge over at the Fancy Pants Blog.

Card 1: Peace on Earth

Ingredients:

• cs - DCWV
• pp - Pebbles Inc Legacy
• distressed ink - Tim Holtz Weathered Wood
• image stamp - Shepherd Boy (TGF)
• sentiment stamp - Wisemen Seek Him (Treehouse Stamps)
• ribbon - Making Memories Black Tie
• half pearls - Basic Grey
• embossing powder - Zing Clear
  
• sketch - FFF sketch by Cindy Haffner

Card 2: Come Let Us Adore Him

Ingredients:

• cs - DCWV
• pp - Fancy Pants Happy Holidays
• distressed ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
• image & sentiment stamps - Wisemen Seek Him (Treehouse Stamps)
• ribbon - my stash
• color - copics
  
• emboss powder - Zing Clear
• sketch - FFF sketch by Cindy Haffner

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Cut a 6.75" by 10" piece of cardstock, fold in half so card now measures 5" by 6.75"
2. Cut out the 2 upper patterned pieces to 2.25" by 3.25"
3. Cut out the bottom layer to 2.25" by 6.50"
4. Adhere the pieces to the card front
5. Cut 6.75" of ribbon and adhere to the card front
6. Cut the image cardstock to 3" by 3", stamp image and/or sentiment onto cs, & ink the edges
7. Adhere stamped cs to card front
8. Add embellishment
   

What are the chances?

That two of the challenges I frequently participate in would have the same exact challenge? LOL, guess it works out for me then ;-) The two challenges I'm referring to are the Basic Grey 2week Challenge and Farm Fresh Fridays over at TGF who's challenges are both to use an embossing technique.

So my grandpa's bday was on Saturday and being so busy with school and getting sick last week I didn't have time to make a card. I bought these papers a while ago and they ended up going perfectly with Fishing Ian from the Rock the Farm set. To make everything pull together inside the card says 'Fishing You Happy Birthday', cute huh? :-)

So where's the embossing you ask? Well, I used my nestabilites to emboss a circle edge around the image and I heat embossed the clear Zing embossing powder that I dusted Ian with. Because there was so much going on with the patterned papers I felt that doing a lot of dry embossing on a background paper would overwhelm the card. Anyways hope y'all (and my gpa) like it.


Fishing You Happy Birthday

Ingredients:

• cs - DCWV
• pp - Moxxie's A Fish Tale (get it in gear & the big catch), Reminisce's It's All Relative (grandpa)
• stamp - Rock the Farm (TGF)
  
• die cuts/embossing - QuicKutz Nesting Flowers, Nestabilities standard large circles
• ink - Tim Holtz distressed ink vintage photo
• color - Copics (G94, BG96)
  
• heat embossing powder - Zing Clear
• buttons - Basic Grey
• Elmer's braiding cord
• popup dots
  

Farm Fresh Friday....

It's that time again....time for another sketch at Farm Fresh Friday. I wanted to make a Christmas card b/c really you can never have too many :-) I used my new crochet ribbon as well as my new i silk ribbon that I just received from i {heart} paper. This card provided a little extra difficulty as I ran out of roller dot glue and had to use liquid glue & glue stick....um yeah not so fun :-P

Watching Over You

Ingredients:

• cs/pp - DCWV Luxary Stack
• cs - DCWV
• stamp - Sheppard Boy (TGF)
• ink - VersaCraft
• ribbon - i {heart} paper
• popup dots
• sketch from FFF:
  

FFF Sketch III

Time for another Farm Fresh Friday Sketch!!! I really liked this one as it had so many possibilities. I haven't used a ShortCuts Frosted card in awhile so I decided to break one out and use it for my card base. With so many friends getting hitched I thought I might increase my wedding card stash. To go with my wedding themed papers I decided to alter my Anya/Ian couple from the Cake Topper set. I made Anya a blushing bride and made the set up look like it was a wedding portrait photo with her smelling her bouquet. To make the flower embellishments I used 3 different flower punches and heat embossed my white brads to make them silver. I think I really like how this turned out....what about you?

I do

Ingredients:

• pp -
• cs - DCWV Metallics
• card base - medium frosted card blank (ShortCuts)
• sentiment tag - Making Memories
• stamps - Cake Topper (TGF), Bella Topiary (Stamping Bella)
  
• punches - Nesties, EK Success, other
• brads - K&Co
• embossing powder - Zing Silver
• emboss folder - Swiss Dots (Cuddlebug)
  
• pop up dots
• adhesive gems - Michaels
• sketch:
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Farm Fresh Friday Challenge

So this is another entry into the FFF Challenge over at The Greeting Farm. I can't tell you how much I love these stamps!!! They are just so darn cute! The challenge this week was to create a card with flowers and at least one butterfly. Here's my take:

Thanks...You're such a dear

Ingredients:

• cs - DCWV
• pp - DCWV Garden Party
• embossing powder - Zing Clear & Silver
• stamps - Dear (forest friends by TGF), butterfly & thanks (my stash)
• ribbon - Michaels
• tag - my stash
  

TGF 3 Stamp Challenge

I'm so excited that I actually got to make some cards this weekend. :-) I was sick earlier in the week and then went back to work and my classes down in Houston so I haven't had much energy lately to do any stamping or cardmaking. Saturday I started on 3 of the challenges I wanted to participate in this week. This post is about the newly named 'Farm Fresh Friday' challenge over at The Greeting Farm...the current challenge for the week is to use 3 TGF stamps. As it's the month for June brides, I decided to make a wedding card. After taking some time to figure out what pp I would use I finally ended up with this:

Old Fashioned Wedding

Ingredients:

• stamps - TGF Cake Topper
• cs - DCWV
• pp - K & Company
• ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
• embossing powder - Zing Clear
• circle punch - EK Success

I guess I just got into the whole wedding thing b/c I made an additional one with the same Cake Topper stamp :-)

Simple Wedding

Ingredients:

• stamp - TGF Cake Topper
• cs - DCWV
• pp - Me & My Big Ideas
• ink - Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
• embossing powder - Zing Clear
• dew drops - Robin's Nest
• paper flower sticker - Marcella