Purple, Green and White

This week I am entering a card at Joan's Gardens using purple, green and white.  The guidelines for the challenge are:

• Use a leaf design for the background (die cut, embossed or stamped)
• Add purple flowers
• Use White, Green and Purple Colors
• Use A Sentiment
• You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens
• Mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge

This card was a lot of fun to make because I used some diamond glitter spray to make a subtle sparkle on some of the design elements.

The first layer is a solid green glued to basic white cardstock; the second layer was white cardstock run through an embossing folder, dry embossed with green ink to make a green background with white leaves.  I didn't want to add too many flourishes or other leaves because it would have made it too busy. I stamped a sentiment using purple ink onto white cardstock and ran that through a die cut, then trimmed the die cut down so it would be more in proportion to the A2 card, then attached it to the card with dimensional stickies. Tiny little purple flowers were punched out and embellished with a rhinestone in the center of each one; I cut two Pippi butterflies--one purple and one out of white vellum, and sprayed them both with more of the diamond glitter spray, then attached them to the card. Note: the glue I usually use does not stick very well to surfaces sprayed with the glitter spray.  I'll have to remember that.  :o)  The card is finished off with a little purple and white gingham bow.

Here is the card:

Here is a list of tools I used to make the card:

• Sizzix: Fall Set
• Spellbinders: Labels 22
• MemoryBox: Pippi Butterfly
• PaperStudio: Daisy Lever Punch
• Krylon: Glitter Blast Diamond Dust Spray
• My Sentiments Exactly: Q2238
• Rhinestones
• Green Ink

Items listed in green may be purchased at Joan's Gardens.


I am also entering this card at Flutterby Wednedays and Word Art Wednesdays.

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  As always, I ask for God's highest and best for you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Blue and White Birthday GBCB-015

I am entering a card challenge at Joan's Gardens this week.  We get to use blue and white, and there is a little twist this time.  Here are the requirements:

•  Use lots of layers (more than two)
•  Use blue and white
•  Take a picture of this card then:

•  Add some type of embellishment to dress it up
•  Post a picture of both cards on your blog

•  You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens
•  Also, mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge

I had already recently made some light blue and white cards, so to shake it up a bit, this card has a darker shade of blue coupled with white.  Monochromatic cards are often so stunning, so I tried to keep with a purist monochromatic theme on this card. First I started out with white cardstock and sponged blue ink around the edges. Next is a piece of white cardstock embossed in a lattice EF; then I used a scroll punch on some scraps of blue paper and made a little bottom border on the white cardstock.  The sentiment is from a JustRite stamp set I just got from Joan, and it is backed by more blue paper. The flowers are Cheery Lynn Cuties rolled flowers.

Here is what the original card looks like:

Needs something else, doesn't it?

So, I added some white punched foliage, two more flowers and a blue bow with white polka dots, and here is the finished card:

Here are the tools used to make the card:

• JustRite: Grand Sentiment Stamps
• Cheery Lynn:  Cuties #4 B156; Cuties #3 B151
• Martha Stewart: 5-Leaf Punch
• EK Success:  Scroll Punch
• Lifestyle Crafts: Nesting Flowers
• Paper Studio:  Lattice Embossing Folder
• Stash:  Blue and White Polka Dot Ribbon

You can get JustRite, Cheery Lynn and Martha Stewart products from Joan.

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  I always count it a great honor when you come and visit.  As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Rich, enormous blessings,

Ginny B.

Yellow, White, Butterflies and Polka Dots

This week I am entering a card at Joan's Gardens for her weekly challenge. The challenge this week is to make a yellow and white card.  Yellow represents hope and joy to me.

Here are the guidelines for this week's card:

• Use Yellow and White as your color theme
• Use at least 2 butterflies
• Use some Polka Dots
• Include some type of swirl(s)
• You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens
• Mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge

I used yellow on yellow polka dot paper (hard to see the dots in this picutre, but they are there) as a background, and used die cuts from the following:

• Spellbinders Jewel Flowers and Flourishes; Fancy Togs 3 - S5-031
• Memory Box Pippi Butterfly
• Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish 

The sentiment is one that was previously featured at Word Art Wednesday, which I printed out on my computer, cut and embossed with a die and stuck onto the paper with dimensional stickies. A large yellow rhinestone is put in the center of the flower for added pop.

You can get all the dies from Joan.

Here is the picture of the card:

In addition to entering this card at Joan's challenge, I also want to enter it at Word Art Wednesday.

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I always count it a great honor when friends come to view posted cards.

As always, I pray God's highest and best for you today and every day.

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

It's Never Too Late

One of my favorite quotes is by George Eliot: "It's never too late to be who you might have been."  It's so encouraging and spurs me on to reach higher and go farther.

I made a card this week using that quote and some Spellbinder and Memory Box dies, which is larger than I usually make; sometimes there is just not enough real estate on an A2 card, so this one is 8 1/2" by 5 1/2 ". Cream colored cardstock was used. The background is made from a brown paper lunch sack--the kind you get at the grocery store, and it is embossed with a basket weave EF.

Here are the tools used to make the card:

• Spellbinders: Foliage, Carnation Creations, Basket Weave EF, Moroccan Accents, Nestabilities: Labels 22

• LifestyleCrafts: Nesting Flowers

• MemoryBox: Pippi Butterfly

And here is the card:

Ugh.  Not very attractive. This card looks totally clumsy and not what I want to give to anyone. In addition, the print on the sentiment appears to be rubbing off.  Not acceptable.

So I reworked the card into something I like much better.  Here is the transformed card:

I plan to enter this card in the Word Art Wednesday and Flutterby Wednesday challenges.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.  I pray for God's highest and best for all who happen by here, both today and every day!

Many rich blessings,

Ginny B.

Red, White and Black

This week I am submitting a card for the challenge at Joan's Gardens. It's a fun one, using vellum and the colors red, white and black.  Here are the requiremnts:

• Make a flower using vellum
• Use colors Red, Black and White
• Use die cut border
• Use a seniment
• You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens
• Also, mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge

When there is a requirement of using black, I always have to figure out how to use it without making the card look dreary and sad.  Too much black can be a depressing thing; you don't want to use a lot on a birthday card or wedding or anniversary card, and you surely do not want to use too much on a sympathy card.  So I have attempted to make a cheery birthday card here using the color requirements using some discontinued papers of red and black which I had in my stash, and a printed out birthday sentiment from my computer. The vellum flower is surrounded by white foliage and topped off with a clear rhinestone.

Here are the products I used, which you can get at Joan's Gardens:

• Cheery Lynn:  Dancing Doily Lace Border

• Spellbinders:  Foliage, S4-328; Whimsy EF, ES-004; Moroccan Accents, S5-064; Aster Flower Topper, S5-102; Layered Flowers, S4-355

• Nellie Snellen:  SD-002

Here is the card:

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  I always count it a great honor when people come to visit. As always, I pray for God's highest and best for you today and every day.

Many blessings,

Ginny B.

A Virtuous Woman

This week at Word Art Wednesday we were given a wonderful scripture graphic about the Virtuous Woman.  I can't think of a more wonderful sentiment to put on a Mother's Day card. However, since my mother and my husband's mother have both gone to Heaven, I will be giving this as a birthday card to a precious woman of faith who has been a mentor to many.

I started out with white cardstock and put some dark turquoise paper on it, followed by a sweet butterfly print with happy colors.  I printed out the sentiment and put a frame around it, backed by the same turquoise paper, and backed again by a redish pink frame.  A bright pink bow and a die cut turquoise butterfly finished off the card.

Here are the products I used for the die cutting:  

• Spellbinders:  Fleur de Lis
• Memory Box:  Pippi Butterfly

Here is a picture of the card:

I am also entering this card in the Flutterby Wednesday challenge this week.

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  As always, I pray for God's highest and best for you today and every day.

Blessings,

Ginny B.

Peaches and Cream

This week at Joan's Gardens we have a challenge that has really made me dig deep for ideas.

Here are the requirements for this card that I am making for this week's challenge:

• Use some type of Fan - stamped, die cut, etc.
• Use colors Peach, Cream and Green
• Use Lace
• Use Pearls
• You must use a product sold at Joan's Gardens. Also, mention that you are doing the card/project for Joan's Gardens Challenge.

The background mounting is green paper and an ivory piece that was embossed. I don't have a lot of peach colored paper, nor do I have a fan die, so I cut out some fan pieces out of an almost-peach-colored pink paper and dabbed a little yellow ink on it to "peachify" it. I am using a paper lace doily as part of the background papers, and it is dabbed with some peach colored ink. Pearls are glued to each fan blade; I added some green flourishes and a rolled rose.  The sentiment is printed from my computer.

These are the products I used that you can get at Joan's Gardens:

• Nellie Snellen:  SD 002
• Cheery Lynn:  Fanciful Flourish
• Spellbinders:  ES-005 Embossing Folder; Spiral Blossom One

Here is a picture of the card:

Thank you for stopping by my blog.  As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Blessings,

Ginny B.

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Happy Tenth Anniversary

We have a really sweet challenge this week from Flutterby Wednesdays.  We are to make a love-themed card, and I chose to make an anniversary card for my daughter and son-in-law for their tenth anniversary.

I used two embossing folders, pink ribbon, and a heart cut out, in addition to a die cut sentiment that says "Happy Anniversary." Oh, and little pink butterflies, of course!

It was a pretty simple card to make, although, 90 per cent of the time it takes me to make a card is all done up in my head first, thinking what will and what won't look good, experimenting with sizes and shapes.  I'm probably not alone in that respect.

Here is the card:

I pray that everyone who visits my blog will have a God-blessed day.  As always, God's highest and best to you today and every day.

Blessings,

Ginny B.