Let's Craft and Create Challenge #232: Anything Goes or a Penny for Your Thoughts (use a sentiment)...

 

Happy June, everyone! Often, at this time of year, our crafting time is limited because there is so much to do outside. And that's exactly why this month's challenge at Let's Craft and Create is perfect. Adding a sentiment to your card is usually much easier and quicker than adding an image. Of course, feel free to do both (like I did).

My card is a simple design with some pretty papers and one of my favorite "get well" sentiments.

The plain, dark purple paper has a velvety finish. It is so rich looking and soft to the touch. I think it definitely added some class to this card!

I glued the 4" X 5 1/4" purple panel to the A2 card front. Then I adhered the matted floral piece in the center.

I chose a die-cut that was simple. In fact, it's only the top part of a die-cut. I cut it first in green and then in purple. I fussy-cut the flowers from the purple die-cut and glued them onto the green one. As a final touch, I added some pink Nuvo Drops to the flower centers.

Before I glued my flowers to the sentiment shape, I ran its edges across a light pink ink pad. I liked the extra color that added.

The sentiment shape was popped up with foam tape.

I stamped a brief sentiment on the inside to finish the card.

Now it's your turn. We all add some sort of sentiment to our cards, at least occasionally, so I hope you'll join in this challenge.

Keep in mind, however, that you can also enter under the "Anything Goes" umbrella. Either way, we LOVE to see and comment on your entries.

Check out what the Design Time has made to inspire you by clicking here. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

Fabulous doesn't expire...

 

This AI image was offered online by its creator for anyone to use. I thought it was pretty funny, so I made a couple of birthday cards with it.

After printing it out, I matted it and glued it to an A2 card base.

Of course, I needed to add my own personal touches.

I coated the lenses of her glasses with Glossy Accents. I also glued a teeny, tiny bow to her waist and added a small gem to the center of it.

Finally, I put a small dot of glue on each scallop at the bottom of her skirt and sprinkled some clear glitter onto the glue. This added some nice sparkle to the image.

I used my computer to create a sentiment for the inside.

I enjoy seeing what crafty people come up with when using AI. I'm always amazed at their creativity and how they can get AI to produce such fun characters and sentiments. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

More graduation cards...

 

These graduation cards were made with my Silhouette for three special graduates that we will be celebrating this year. The image was a free downloadable file from Printable Cuttable Creatables. I've actually made cards like this the past three years, and each time I used a free SVG file from the same website. I appreciate their free files so much!

I'll share a close-up photo of just one of them, since they're all the same except for the color of the cardstock.

I cut the shadow from some gold metallic cardstock

On the inside, I added a die-cut silhouette of a graduate and a couple of stamped sentiments.

This is a simpler card made exclusively with die-cuts. If you need a quick card, this one is fast to put together. If you don't have a graduate die, you could use another die-cut or even stamp an image or sentiment to the right of the layered banners.

The banners were cut from gold metallic cardstock and a fibrous cardstock in burnished gold. If you know the school colors of the graduate, the banners could be cut from those instead.

I stamped two sentiments on the inside of this one.

I enjoy making graduation cards. I just wish there were more stamps and dies on the market to work with.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

Baby cards featuring aqua hearts...

I have quite a few aqua scalloped hearts; some smaller, deep pink hearts; and some mama kangaroos in my stash. They are all leftovers from someone's card kit. They ended up at the thrift store where I volunteer, and the store gave them to me to use on the cards I make for them. 

Here are three baby cards where I used some of those supplies:

I used three of the hearts for this card, brushing their edges with a little aqua ink. I also inked the edges of my panel of plaid DSP.

After cutting a slit to create a marsupium, or pocket, for a joey, I slipped a small, pink heart into the slit and glued it in place.

Mama kangaroo has been popped up with dimensionals on the center one of three hearts that were glued across the card front.

The stamped and die-cut sentiment was also popped up.

I added a strip of DSP, which was inked on both long sides, on the inside. I also glued a couple of teensy dimensional hearts on either side of the word "baby" in the stamped sentiment. They had been a very light pink, so I colored them with an alcohol marker to better match the pink heart on the front.

This card features just two aqua hearts and another popped-up kangaroo with a heart in her marsupium.

The stamped sentiment at the top was also popped up.

On the inside of this card, I stamped a sentiment and two baby footprints. I also glued another pink heart above the sentiment.

To make this card, I first added a leftover piece of plaid DSP to some pale yellow, embossed cardstock. To give the sides of the DSP a finished look, I added thin strips of pink cardstock. This panel was then glued to the front of an A2 card base.

The single aqua heart was glued onto the card front so that it was centered on the right hand pink strip. Then I added a die-cut duckling, popping its wing up with a little piece of foam tape.

The stamped sentiment was also popped up.

I stamped a sentiment on the inside and added one more little duckling.

I loved making these baby cards. It is so much fun to come up with sweet ideas for welcoming new babies. 

Baby cards always sell quickly at the thrift store, so I definitely need to keep making them.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

Tri-panel fun fold...

 

This is the card I made for my granddaughter's birthday this month. It's a tri-panel fun fold, and if you'd like to watch a video tutorial on how it is made, you'll find one here (Dawn's Stamping Thoughts).

To start with, I found three coordinating patterns of DSP and some pink cardstock for the base. The cardstock was only one-sided, but I thought the off-white on the back side coordinated just fine with the DSP patterns I had selected.

The flowers on the front panel were die-cut, and I blended a little ink onto the edges of the petals. I think they nicely frame the stamped sentiment.

This is the second panel. When making the card, you have to make sure that the sentiment panels are hidden by the panel in front of them when the card is closed.

This is the third panel with another stamped sentiment. This is also where we signed the card.

You wouldn't have to mat all the sentiment panels, but I thought the mats gave a nice, finished look.

You could also add lots more die-cuts, stickers, etc., if you wanted to.

I think this card looks especially nice when it is displayed. 

I hope you'll give this fun fold a try. It is SO much easier to make than it looks.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

You are flippin' awesome...

 

This is the card I made for two of our sons-in-law. They are both flippin' awesome, so the sentiment was perfect for them.".

It's a double z-fold card. I cut a piece of cardstock that was 5 1/2" X 11". I scored this piece along the long side at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". The first fold became a mountain fold and the second fold became a valley fold.

Then I placed the long side along the cutting blade of my trimmer and cut off 1 1/4". This narrow strip was then flipped so that the long section could be adhered to the card front and the short end section could be glued to the back

The sentiment on the front of this card was computer-generated and die-cut. I ran the edge of the die-cut along a navy blue ink pad to give it a little definition. The inside sentiment was stamped.

The bag of charcoal briquettes and the grill were made with a die-set that I've had for a few years.

When making this card, it's easiest to add your panels of DSP and/or stamped sentiments and images to each section first before gluing the narrow strip on. I measure each section and cut a decorative panel that was 1/4" shorter and 1/4" narrower. That gave me a 1/8" border on each side

I always adhere a blank white rectangle onto the last section of the narrow piece, because that is where I sign the card.

This double z-fold is another easy fun fold to make. There are lots of tutorials online and several videos on YouTube. You would just need to search for "double z-fold" and then look for one that is similar, as there are lots of different iterations of this type of card.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl

Hats off to you on your birthday...

 

For these two cards, I pulled out my birthday hat die set and a matstack that had some papers with metallic gold designs.

I started with a pre-made green cardbase that had been embossed with a wood design. 

Then, I cut two hats out of two of the patterns in the matstack. I also cut the pompoms and frilly borders from some gold metallic cardstock.

The sentiment was stamped, die-cut and popped up with foam tape.

The left hat was glued directly to the cardbase and the hat on the right was popped up with foam tape.

I added some green Nuvo Drops to the centers of the pompoms and each frill of the border.

I had a couple of leftover strips of the metallic gold cardstock, so I added them on the inside to the left of the stamped sentiment.

This card features a similar cardbase, only in orange. Since it was an A2 topfold cardbase, I turned it on its side and added a scoreline to create a book fold card.

I cut a polka dot piece from the same matstack I used for the hats and glued it to the "binding" part of the card. Before gluing the "binding" together, I tied some gold twine around the front section.

The sentiment was popped up, as was the hat, and Nuvo Drops were once again used as embellishment.

The inside of this card was pretty simple with only a stamped sentiment.

I like this party hat die set a lot, but the hats could certainly be created without dies. It would just take a little measuring and imagination!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.

Cheryl