Thanks

Happy Wednesday! We have finally made it half-way through the week! The weekend is just around the corner.

The card I'm sharing today uses a background that I created awhile ago. I have a container of backgrounds and I just pull one out here and there and make it into a card. I used a stencil and embossing paste for the background. I had some leftover distress ink on my craft mat so I ran my panel through it so that I wouldn't waste the ink. There wasn't enough ink to hit all the embossing paste spots, but I like the subtle look that it has. For my sentiment I used a die from Simon Says Stamp.

Have a great day!

Supplies:

Cardstock

Embossing Paste

Distress Inks
Stencil

Simon Says Stamp Die - Thanks On a Line

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Mixed Media Canvas

Oh my! I have a new found love/addiction for deli paper! I've been on sites watching videos on how deli paper is used for quite a few months. I just put it in the back of my mind to try sometime. Then I found this stamp from Everyday Valentine at Joggles and I knew I had to buy it. I didn't know what I'd use it for however. When I ordered the stamp I picked up a small amount of deli paper to try. I will definitely need to buy a larger quantity.

For my base I used a 6x6" canvas panel. The background was created using Dylusions paints and my Gelli Arts gel press printing plate. I've had the 6x6" and 3x5" plates for a few years. When I went to a stamp show in June I picked up the 8x10". Love it, I'm so glad I splurged on it! I used three different paints and then printed my background. Because it's kind of a messy job I went ahead and created two more backgrounds on deli paper at the same time. I'm going to use those for canvas projects also.

I added some texture to the background with some translucent embossing paste and some stencils by accident. I meant to grab my white paste. Since you can't see the translucent, I grabbed another stencil and used the white paste. For the flowers I used some I had in my stash from Recollections. The smaller ones where already colored. The larger ones were white so I used distress ink with water on my craft mat and ran them through the ink. After they were dry I matted the sentiment with DCWV burlap, adhered the flowers and my canvas is ready to hang out in my craft room!

I had two scraps of the background paper left. Because I can't toss things, they are large enough to use for two cards. I'm going to go work on them now. I'll post them later.

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November Swap Cards

These are the cards I sent out to my swap partners this month. For the one above I used a stencil and translucent embossing powder. Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

For the card below I used a stencil with embossing paste and then covered the image with some distress ink. Sentiment from Hero Arts.

For the card above I used a stencil from Hero Arts along with some translucent embossing paste. Sentiment and diecut from WPlus9.

The card below is stamped with a Hero Arts stamp and heat embossed. Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

No cards will be swapped for the month of December. We will also be changing partners. I understand that they switch it up every couple of months.

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October Swap Cards

These are the cards I sent to my swap partners for the October Swap. I can finally post them! For the card above and below I used two different embossing folders from Darice. One is called Foliage and the other is called Leaves Assorted Pattern. For all the cards I used Distress Inks. I used a combination of these colors: dried marigold, wild honey, bundled sage, mowed lawn, fossilized amber, crushed olive and ripe persimmon. The sentiments are from an older stamp set I had in my stash called Autumn Foliage by Inkadinkado stamped onto acetate. 

For these two cards (above and below) I used a stencil from Echo Park called Branches. I used translucent embossing paste colored with distress ink. The one below used plain embossing paste colored with distress ink. All the leaves are from two different packages of leaves that I picked up at a craft store. 

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Snowflake Cards

For both of these cards I used a stencil by Memory Box called Winter Large Snowflakes. I used translucent embossing paste from Studio 490, Wendy Vecchi to add dimension. I sprinkled Great Impressions glitter sparkling ice over the embossing paste while it was still wet and then set both pieces aside to dry.

I can't remember who the manufacturer of the patterned paper is. I'm leaning toward Recollections. This patterned paper was in my scrap pile and since they were a decent size I just went ahead and gave them some life! The gold glitter paper is from Recollections. 

For the sentiments I used a stamp set from Technique Tuesday called Jingle All The Way. I stamped the sentiments with VersaMark and heat embossed them with gold embossing powder. The bling is from my stash. Card bases are PaperTrey Ink.

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