Christmas Vintage Wreath

Another Wreath Card!! So I am just in love with this die and so I pulled out this Autumn Wreath die from scrapbook.com and some of their beautiful paper pad and make another card with it! This time I took more process pictures. 

Pick out three beautiful papers I layered mine with lightest in the background and darkest in the front because I wanted my wreath to have a stronger green.

This is one of my favorite card edge techniques. I just take the cube and go around the edges, the lines you see are the edges of that ink cube as I drag it across the edge.

Next I popped my base on to a A2 card, I used the same color because I wanted that vintage wood look. I really love using craft paper!!

Pop the wreath on!

My super cute Hero Arts Greetings are just the right size for the middle of this wreath.

Tah dah! I was really happy with the way this one came out, it's pretty simple but I just think it's very Christmasy and I love the calm colors and way this came together. 

 

Breast Cancer Awareness Day

 My cousin passed away from Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Although I have known other breast cancer survivors, this one hit me harder as she was only 31, which is so young. I organized an IG hop, and I wanted my card to be really positive. She was so positive to me, despite everything going on. 

The card was really simple, but I thought really pretty. This is the new cozy autumn A2 wreath by Scrapbook.com . It's supposed to be an autumn wreath, but I'm pretty sure that's the only holiday I haven't used it for. I picked out three pink papers from Chasing Rainbows Paper Pad by First Edition. I had really struggled with this shiny pink paper, it felt like to much for me in past projects, but with it scattered throughout the wreath I feel like it worked so much better! I layered the diecuts and then glued the wreath on to a paper with a spun sugar distress ink background and a little sparkly Dyslusions sprays. 

I submitted this card to the https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/ also known as Double D Challenges. 

Unexpected Results

So I accidently purchased an iron on at the dollar store instead of a rub on. Oops! However, I have a laminator that I use for card foils...so I said what the heck it's only a $1.25 let's try. So I peeled off and applied my iron on to a piece of craft paper and voila!

 I am so surprised it worked, and it actually worked really well! How cool is that! so This is another straight forward card, with my iron on background and a die cut hole in the middle. Then I put an autumn stamp from Paper Trey Ink, I use them for almost all of my inside card sentiments, inside and added a simple leaf embellishment.  

The leaf embellishment is actually distress sprays and a chipboard from the Dollar Store. I used some blue distress sprays and mica spray. I feel like this has less going on than some of my usual cards, but I really love the way it came out, it was a happy surprise after thinking I had bought something I couldn't use!

Hope you find something interesting to craft with in your stash this week! Barbara

 

Fall Critters

 Okay so I'm not a huge fan of squirrels, they are constantly digging holes in my garden and yard for acorns. However, that being said I have caught them stealing small pumpkins from my yard and it is pretty cute...Scroll to the bottom for super cute pumpkin stealing squirrels...

Anyways so I when I saw this stamp set I surprisingly was like ohhhh it's so cute, and mostly for the sentiments. I just had to go for it. I definitely got me some nuts around me!! Pretty straight forward card with some Ohuhu coloring and fussy cutting and ink rubbing for the background. The stamp is Hampton Art  by Tracey Hey and I used Ranger Distress Inks for the background. 

Watch out for those squirrels this fall!! Barbara