Squash Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I wanted to make a fun fold card for a dear friends birthday so I 

decided to try a squash card.   You can tell best by the

third picture how is squashes up to fold.  

It was less complicated than I expected.  The base is a 

8 1/2" by 8 1/2" piece of double sided patterned paper.

You score at 4 1/4 " diagonally and vertically so

that it is quartered.   Burnish the score lines.  Then score

diagonally from both corners, burnish well.

I just eyeballed sizes for the front and two inside layers.

The flower and leaf are part of new set  from 

Altenew: Mini White Splendour Anemone.  Colored

with Copics.

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts #790: Flowers  7/27 

AAA Birthday #63  8/1

 

 

Beautiful Blossoms #19 8/14

Creative Creases #87 8/2

Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge: 8/1

NBUS Challenge #64   8/1 

Triple B: Birds, Blooms, Butterflies  8/1

Word Art Wednesday Week 667-668  7/24

Girls Day

 Had a fun day a couple weeks ago at my house with a couple

dear friends.  We all had projects to share and enjoyed 

chatting, lunch and crafting.

 

 Diane had the cute duck card and the inlaid flower card:

 

Shirley had this darling phone card and the glitter flower

card.  We had a good laugh over who the phone card 

could be sent to, not a young person!

My two cards:

The lighthouse is a die by Die Versions.

Butterfly card is Catherine Pooler and the background

is stenciled after first blending of the card front.

 

Dad

 Thanks to all who extended birthday wished to my dad.  His

90th birthday was rough but he made it.  He died the following

day after being on hospice for about 7 month.  His last

day was peaceful and pain free, he died with my mom

and I at the bedside and while a favorite priest visited

and prayed with him.  

It will be busy here for awhile but I will be back to

card making and commenting soon.

Happy 90th

 

My dad will be 90 on the Fourth of July so I made a special card for

him.  Circle die cuts are I got from Pinkfresh Studio's.  Teddy bear

I believe is Great Impressions - this had been in my stash

for many years.  Embossing folder by Darice. Looking forward

to our family get together to celebrate!

A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure 7/11

AAA Birthday #62 7/1

 

Seize the Birthday #286 -Add a star  7/10

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: ATG 7/5

NBUS June Challenge 7/1

Leftover basket

 

I've been going through my basket of previously stamped images to use them

up.  I had over 12 acetate images stamped many years ago and run

through the Xyron.  Time to use them up!  A few I put Pearlex on the back

( third and fourth card)  then found it easier to use a variegated patterned

paper as a backing (first and second card).   I made about a dozen and this

is just a few of them.  I used snippets for most of the layers.  

 

 I have some Christmas ones left to play with another day.

A few fun challenges:

Card 1:

Snippets Playground #483:  7/8  All but card base are snippets 

Cupcake Inspirations #597 7/4

Card 4:

Allsorts Challenge Week 786  6/28 

Beautiful Blossoms 7/15  Mood board

Gem of a Challenge Week 11 6/27

Sweet Stampin: Fabulous flowers  7/3

Father's Day cards

 

I pulled out some old paper packs today in masculine colors to get

some Fathers Day inspiration and came up with two and a spare!  The

light house die makes two cards since you do an inlaid design, the

top one is my spare and the middle one is for my hubby.  The

lighthouse is Die Versions and the wheel is Momenta.  On my

dad's I paired a couple papers and embossed with a Tim

Holtz wood grain embossing folder, picked some coordinating papers

and come up with the third card.  Below is the snippets I used

up on all three, anxious to play with the rest of them as they

are great for masculine cards:

Have a wonderful day!

A few fun challenges:

2nd card :

Allsorts week 784  6/14 

Cupcake Inspiration #596 6/21

Die Cut Divas: Favorite shape - I like all shapes of dies, light house 

is one of my favorites  7/1

Mix It Up Challenge #71: Inlaid die cut option  6/15

Word Art Wednesday weeks 651-652  6/19

613 Avenue Create: Masculine  7/6

3rd card:

Can You Handle the Pressure: (optional-beach)  6/20

Snippets Playground #482  6/22

Butterflies

 

I think I have found my mojo!  I ink blended the yellow and pink

Catherine Pooler inks.  I then used a Catherine Pooler stencil over it with

 the same colors.  Then I embossed it with with a butterfly embossing

folder.  The butterflies and sentiment are also Catherine Pooler's,

coloring with Copic markers.  

A few fun challenges:

Allsorts Challenge 783: option lots of layers 6/7

Ally's Angels #82 6/11 

Alphabet Soup Challenge: E is for embossing 6/12

Can You Handle the Pressure 6/5 

Cut It Up #305-ATG 6/12

Word Art Wednesday Week 649-650  6/5