Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Last Group of September Swaps

Well October is almost over! This is the last group of my September monthly swaps. As a recap the theme was fall/Halloween. We are currently a group of ten amazingly talented demonstrators. This last group, we all used the Painted Harvest stamp set. I really love this set and have seen so many different uses for it besides fall cards. I hope you enjoy this last group. Stop by next week for my October swaps. The theme next months is a card sketch.

 This first card was made by Vicki. I like how she used the Stitched Shape Framelits to die cut the sunflower instead of fussy cutting it. She also used the Early Espresso as her base layer which really grounds the card and pulls the browns. Also embossing the Layered Leaves Embossing Folder ties well with the stamped and punched leaves. Vicki stamped her sunflower with Crushed Curry and the center with Early Espresso.


This next card Mena used a lot of the same colors but looks so different. In addition to the Painted Harvest stamp set, she also used the Hardwood background stamp to make her wood panels, which she die cut with the Wood Crate Framelits. Also in addition to the above inks, her second sunflower is Bermuda Bay. Mena did fussy cut her flowers. She also used Old Olive & Wild Wasabi to stamp her leaves.

This last card I made. Since the Eclipse technique is so popular I thought I'd give it spin and make it a bit simpler. So after stamping my sunflowers, I punched the cat and used  dimensionals to give it dimension. My card base is Very Vanilla. Again a lot of the same colors as the cards above but a very different look.

I hope you enjoyed all of this month's cards. Stay tuned for October's swaps. It probably will be a week lapse, since I probably won't get the swaps until after the 1st of the month. So I'll have to plan something else to post in the meantime.

Thanks for stopping by. If you don't have a demonstrator I'd love to be yours. You can find all these products in my STORE or click on the links below. Make sure to use this month's VIP Host Code. If you need help with anything, contact me.





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Monday, October 23, 2017

Another Week of Fall Fest Swaps!

So here we are again with another group of swaps! I hope you enjoyed last week. I kinda grouped these together as I did last week by color. Today it's mostly black and white with a pop of color. I'm also trying to list all the supplies for all the projects at the bottom. I hope that helps.

This first card Mena kept it nice and simple. I love these kind of cards! It makes it so easy to make a lot of them! The stamp set is from our Annual Catalog called Christmas Pines. It was in last year's Holiday Mini and fortunately they carried it over. It also has a coordinating die called Pretty Pines. The stamp set has some nice sentiments that you can use for the front and inside of your card. I really like how the foil snowflake really helps pop the sentiment off the card. She did use dimensionals on the sentiment layers to give it added dimension and a rhinestone for some extra bling!
This next card was done by Vicki. I'm loving how so many kept the simple theme of their card! Again great for making multiples. This is a new bundle in the Holiday Mini called Hearts Come Home. The stamp set has 3 images of homes along with a few sayings that work great for outside and inside of your card. The coordinating Edgelits have 4 pieces of rows of homes along with a piece that will make it look like stars in the sky and a tag topper piece. In this card you only see 2 of the house on the one die. This is great for creating town scenes. Here Vicki gave the card a pop of Old Olive Mini Chevron ribbon.
This card took a little step away from the simple and what a beautiful card! Laura made this and what a fantastic job she did! She used the Cheers to the Year stamp set and the coordinating embossing folder called Winter Wonder. This card reminds of the song in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer! I think it was called Silver & Gold and that's exactly what this is. Laura did the Tarnished Foil Technique on this card. So if you see some black on the silver, you're not seeing things! She also used Year of Cheer Specialty Designer Series Paper that has Silver, Gold, Copper, & Champagne in it! It's really beautiful paper and this card looks great with it! She tied it all up and looks like a present!
This next card is also so beautiful! Debbie made this great card. I did get this bundle too (Musical Season), thinking I might use it to make some cards for myself. My daughter had been in the Marching Band in high school and this would also be great to use for scrapbooking as well. Debbie did the black and white too but added a bit more pop of color. She did the swoosh technique. It's simply swiping the ink pad on the card stock without being too heavy. For the greenery, Debbie used markers to color it in. Thankfully the framelit has a die that cuts it out! I like how she added the red tinsel at the bottom to carry your eye down. I think it would still look great without it. The horn is champagne foil. Isn't it gorgeous! It is very close to silver, but if you put the two next to each other, you can definitely see the difference. So besides die cutting the horn, there is a lute, a drummer boy, and I believe a hand held harp, and a treble clef symbol.

I have one more week left of swaps. I hope these have given you some inspiration to make some of your own cards. Thank you so much for stopping by. Please leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you. If you don't have a demonstrator, I'd be delighted to be yours. You can shop for all these items in my STORE or click on the links below for all the items used in these swaps. While shopping, don't forget to use this month's VIP Host Code and print out your tracker sheet to earn FREE product from me!




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