My excuses and Sunburst technique cards

So, I have been away from my blog for a LONG while. I have good excuses. A trip of a lifetime I was able to take with my mom. It was amazing. We loved it. England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and back to England in 15 days. I have been home for nearly three weeks now. It took a while to settle back in, to family and home, not to mention work. Ugh! So my crafting mojo was even slower to return. But here I am.

Above is Edinburgh Castle. Mom and I both agree, Edinburgh, Scotland was our favorite location we visited. Such an amazing city and country. And the people, so kind and devoted to their city and country. But they love sharing her with us.

Here is Stonehenge. I believe we took roughly 300 photos that day. The way they have the area set up is amazing. You walk 360 degrees around it and in some places you get very near the stones. Just awe inspiring. The hard work, determination and ingenuity of ancient people. Simply amazing.

The Roman Baths in Bath, England. Another jaw dropping moment. The craftsmanship and details in such and ancient creation. Stunning.

My first castle of many. It stole my heart. Cardiff Castle in Cardiff, Wales. 

And Wow! Just Wow!!! York Minster. Words can not describe. Inside and out just a stunning display of beauty. I just can not hardly believe how old things are there and how well preserved and all the detail work done by hand in a pre-technological age. Everyday I was BLOWN away. 

Not that I am done with extolling the crafts of ancient places, but on to something more modern for the moment.

I have seen several of these sunburst type cards lately. I love the look, using a whole paper packet is great for variety and makes it easy on coordination. I followed this Youtube video and several pictures for additional decorating ideas. I embossed the piece after gluing all of the triangles to the scrap of paper.

All of these were made with CTMH paper sample sheets, of discontinued paper packs.

I added stamped sentiments.

Layered on some crocheted ribbon and different shades of bakers twine.

These cards are simple yet striking.

Such an easy technique and the look is so different because of the patterns selected.

A masculine card.

A neutral card. The possibilities are endless. Enjoy.



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Neon tie dye cards gift set

I made this set of cards as a gift for a high school graduate, in hopes she will enjoy using them to keep in touch with friends as they go off to different colleges.

In this picture I hope you can see a little better the Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist in Pearl, that I spritzed all over the front of each card.

These were all sponged with my new favorite ink, Hero Arts Neons.

The CTMH sentiments were all stamped using the VersaFine Black ink pad.

I used my birthday present from my sweet mom, the EK Success flower punch to punch from black cardstock.

Adding a Queen & Co. Twinkle Goosebumps bling to the center of each flower.

Layer all the card tops onto black cardstock.

Attach all those to a card base, and BaZiNgA! Bright and cheery note cards to write in and keep in touch with friends.

This is the package of Glimmer Screens. I had purchased these last year at our local Scrapbook Expo, and just now got around to trying them all. It's love! Although they market them for use with their glimmer mists, I like the bolder look of sponged ink, personally. I just used a small amount of Dawn dish soap on my palm and my fingertips to clean the ink off each screen when I was done.

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Sponged inks over stencil cards

These are created using Tattered Angels Glimmer screens and various VersaFine inks sponged over the top.

I stamped CTMH sentiments using VersaFine Onyx Black ink. Another new ink pad I am really loving. It makes a very crisp and bold impression.

I added some punched spiky circles behind coordinating colors of gems. 

This shot is to show the Glimmer Mist I sprayed over the finished sponged image. The camera flash catches the shimmer better. They are very pretty in the natural light. 

And for fun I thought I would share my sweet Thor, who wanted in on the photo shots. He's such a sweet helper.

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Neon Petite Petals card

I was inspired to make these cards by this card on Pinterest. I recently ordered these stamps and coordinating punch from SU! and thought they would be perfect to recreate this card for myself. I still have my Hero Arts Neon stamp pads on my work station so I decided to use them also. 

The sentiments used for both of these cards are from the CTMH You Are My Happy set. I used my decades old Creative Memories wavy cutting board to cut the black cardstock. It was very dusty, because it had been so long since I last used it. Add some Queen & Co. rhinestones and they are all done.

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Neon fireworks card

I have seen the SU! Too Kind stamps used as fireworks, here and here are just a few of them. So when I received my Joann's order of Hero Arts Neon stamp pads I knew exactly what my first project would be. I love how they turned out. 

Here I added the SU! sentiment and surrounded it with embossing from one of their newer border embossing folders. Unfortunately what I learned the hard way is, if you want to surround your sentiment with the embossing, the wide folder partially flattens the first embossed section. I haven't come up with a work around for that.....yet. I am still playing with it. 

This card I embossed with one SU! border folder and then I did the lower zig zag border with a Sizzix folder that is approximately .5 inch wide so it does not crush the first embossed section. For some silly reason my folder has the printing on the debossed side so I accidentally ran it through the wrong way, but its not terrible, just not what I was wanting. But I'm rolling with it. 

These are the thoroughly awesome ink pads and the SU! Too Kind stamp set I used. Fun stuff.

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Embedded embossed quilt block card with a Disney theme

I was inspired by all my Disney themed scraps to make a quick quilt block card. I adhered all my 1 inch punch squares to a scrap piece of paper and then cut it, a larger cardstock layer out of black and then two much smaller layers for my sentiment, all on my Cricut using CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. I stamped the zig zag stitch lines and then I ran the quilt block piece through the Cuttlebug with one of the new CTMH Embossing Folders. The yellow strip of paper is scored on my score board and layered onto a 4 x 5.25 inch piece of white cardstock that I scored across the top and bottom. Adhere my quilt block layers and pop up my sentiment and this simple scrap card is finished.



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More water color cards

I'm still playing around with water coloring. I stamped this SU! Easter stamp and heat embossed the image. Then I used a 1 inch paint brush to pick up some ink from the lid of a few different CTMH stamp pads and then just roughly painting over the image. Free form, no stress. I did go back with a smaller detail brush and add some more shading with the inks. 

All of the shaped cut outs were cut on my Cricut and the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. I created the double layers so I could have a narrow color card stock border. The top layer I ran through the Cuttlebug using various embossing folders. 

If you would like to have this card topper .cut file for you own Cricut cutting projects, go ahead and leave a comment below including your email address and I will send the file out to you. 

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