House Mouse Knit Gift & Star Spangled Mice

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Today's cards were made using House Mouse Designs stamps. Above is "Knit Gift" and below is Star Spangled Mice. Both were colored with Spectrum Noir. 

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Patchwork Greeting Cards by Melissa T.

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I had so many scraps after months of crafting that it was time for a whole 

new batch of patchwork cards. 

First, I gathered up all of the papers I thought looked good together. 

Then I cut them down to 1 1/16" squares. 

Arrange them onto card stock with tacky glue (not ATG for these, ATG makes the needle drag through the holes while stitching.) I was able to make 19 cards with these scraps. 

Here are some of the finished cards all packaged up 

with envelopes for sale at a little holiday boutique. 

This last card was my favorite because I was able to add a bit of hand-crocheted trim 

made by my mother, Jean Ness.  

I colored the thread I used to stitch around these cards so that it would match perfectly. It is Omega Cotton Pearl thread in white and I used Spectrum Noir markers to make my own variegated thread. 

To color your own thread just wrap a large amount around a tube of your choice and color (a piece of plumbing conduit pipe works great for this.)  Or if possible, leave it on the spool and color it directly (I am able to leave mine on the Omega spool.) 

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ODBDSLC268 Card Challenge "Peaches"

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I made this card as part of the Our Daily Bread designs Shining the Light Challenge for this week. Here is a link to the challenge post:

ODBDSLC268

The challenge was "anything goes" but you must use a ODBD stamp. This was the perfect reason to pull out one of my favorite stamps, the "Peaches" stamp set. You can find it here:

ODBD Peaches

I chose to make my jar full of strawberry jam because I wanted to use red card stock with it. I colored the image with Spectrum Noir and stamped it three times.  I wanted to have extra images so I could layer up the jar topper. First I hand cut the "fabric" blue gingham jar topper and then from another image cut out just the red ribbon. I used dimensional adhesive under the jar topper to make it pop.

I used Cricut's Elegant Edges cartridge to make the scalloped circles and a "Swiss Dots" embossing folder to make the background piece. 

The top and bottom border stamp is from the "Front Porch" ODBD stamp set and can be found here:

ODBD Front Porch

I also used Tim Holtz Fired Brick ink for this border piece and heat embossed it with Recollections Clear Embossing powder. 

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White & Gold Knitting Card Kaspareks Rubber Stamp

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Here is a card I made for my sister who is an avid knitter. 

I wanted a simple white and gold card so that the knitting needles stamp would be the focus. 

The knitting needles stamp can be found here on kaspareks.biz:

kaspareks.biz

I used Spellbinders "Radiant Rectangles" to die cut the ovals and rectangles and Cuttlebug's "Swiss Dots" for the embossed background. 

I used ColorBox Gold ink and heat embossed the knitting needles with a clear embossing powder. I also added a little gold grosgrain ribbon and rounded the corners with Martha Stewart's Corner Rounder. 

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March ODBD Challenge

Happy Birthday Dad!! 

I wanted to wait until today to post this one to celebrate what would have been my father's 76th birthday. He battled cancer for several years and passed away just a couple weeks ago. It is still so hard to believe.  I like to think the Lord is keeping watch over him until we are together again some day. 

This card is for the March Our Daily Bread designs challenge with Operation Write Home. The challenge was to make the sentiment the focal point. Here is a link to the challenge:

March ODBD

The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs "Missing You" set (C154) and the little decorative scroll is from ODBD "Thank You Sentiments".

The papers are from Recollections, the border was made using Martha Stewart's Arch Lattice Border punch, and I added a little grosgrain ribbon. 

I miss you Dad....

Our Daily Bread designs SLC228

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Here is a card for the Our Daily Bread designs "Shining the Light Challenge" #228. You can find details about the challenge here:

ODBdSLC228

The challenge was to make a card without using a colored image. The image could be stamped, just not colored. This took me a little while to accomplish because I love to color. However this stamp called "Cross with Vines" from Our Daily Bread designs was perfect. I stamped it in Gold ink and used clear embossing powder to heat emboss it. 

You can find the "Cross with Vines" here:

Cross with Vines

I used Our Daily Bread designs Rustic Beauty Collection papers (from the 6x6 pad) and die cut the ovals using "Opulent Ovals" (for the white oval) and "Floral Ovals" (for the large one.) 

Both dies are from Spellbinders. 

The background paper was altered because I wanted the floral detail in both corners. On the original 

6 x 6 paper the floral design is in each corner which is too big for an A2 size card. To make it fit I just used the edges of the 6 x 6 so I could have the pretty floral in each corner. 

I added a little gold ink around the edges of all of the Rustic Beauty papers, added some white satin ribbon, and layered the whole thing on black card stock.  The large oval is also popped on dimensional adhesive. 

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Our Daily Bread designs SLC227

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This week's Our Daily Bread designs "Shining the Light Challenge" is to create a card using this photo as inspiration:

You can find details about the challenge here:

ODBDSLC227

                       I created my card using an old rubber stamp that I removed from it's wood mount years ago (so sorry, I do not have even a stamp company identification.)

I stamped it using Black Memento Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 

I colored the image using Spectrum Noir.

The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread designs "Porch" stamp set.  

You can find the stamp set here:

Our Daily Bread designs Porch

The background white card stock was created using Lifestyle Crafts "Bloom" embossing folder and it reminded me of the vase in the picture.   I also added a little ribbon colored to match using 

Spectrum Noir "CG2". 

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