No Time To Stamp?

I’m still in my white mode!!! This trio of masculine cards uses a bronze metallic cardstock along with copper and silver embossing. But my photos do NOT do justice to the pretty bronze paper. It looks so dark in the photos and IRL it is actually quite close in color to the copper embossing, but you’ll get the idea anyway. Here’s the group.

Two are masculine sympathy cards and one is a Christmas card. The layouts are different, but that’s about it. The trees were embossed mostly with copper, but the tips of the trees were embossed in silver to make them appear frosted in the cold air. My image panel is matted onto plain white cardstock for a clean look.

This sympathy card and the Christmas card below were made for the Featured Stamper Challengeat SCS today. This layout was taken from this card in ebethneu’s gallery. Great gallery!!!

As with the main image, the sentiment is matted white on white.

The layout for this card is from Beate’s Weekend Sketch Challenge. A great sketch!!! Although embellishments were kept to a minimum on these cards, the image panels are popped up withmounting tape.

Stamps: Winter Woods by Rubber Stampede; With Sympathy by Stampendous, SU Hope for Comfort and Star Studded Christmas Paper: PTI White, Bronze Brushed Metallic Ink: Versa Mark Accessories: Copper and Silver Embossing Powders, Brad, Mounting Tape, Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

So glad you took the time to come and look — MUCH appreciated!!! I plan to continue all this week with these very simple cards, so if that suits your fancy, hope you can come back!!! Thanks so much everyone!!

Just one quick card tonight — another to add to my copper series. I was playing with my Nestability Dies by Spellbindersand I created a frame — what fun these dies are getting to be!!!

I used 2 dies from the large rectangle set to cut and emboss this frame. I then layered it on a Sage Shadow piece cut just a tad larger and stamped the sage piecewith French Script, in Versa Mark, and dusted with Copper Perfect Pearls by Ranger. I adhered it to the card with mounting tape.

The star was made by stamping it in Versa Mark on Very Vanilla paper, copper embossing, then cutting out, leaving a narrow vanilla border. I then adhered that to a piece of Sage Shadow, and again cut out, leaving a narrow sage border. I wrapped it with copper cording and mounted it onto my frame with a Pop Dot. Done!!!

This card has no sentiment, and that’s OK. I often enjoy the versatility of having cards on hand that I can grab for any purpose at all!!! Here’s the supply list:

• Stamps: Star Studded Season and French Script (retired)
• Paper: Sage Shadow, Very Vanilla, Fruitcake Designer Paper by Basic Grey
• Ink: Versa Mark
• Accessories: Copper EP, Perfect Pearls and Cording. Large Rectangle Dies, Nestabilities by Spellbinders. Mounting Tape and Pop Dots.

Thanks much for looking! If all goes as planned, my next upload with be a couple of SU samples using retiring stamps. Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!!!

I wasn’t planning to do any copper cards today, but once I saw the Ways to Use it Challenge at SCS, which was to use metallic paper, how could I not? I only have one card today, but I’ll add it to the rest in my copper card series.

This card uses my favorite snowflake stamp in the retired set called Snowflakes by SU. It is copper embossed. My metallic paper comes into play on the round tab punched ornament topper and the strip of brushed copper metallic paper. I think these few sheets of paper in this color scheme in the Fruitcake pack byBasic Grey are just the most perfect papers to pair with copper. Not only is the color a good color, but the design in the print reminds me of the shapes and forms that appear when copper oxidizes. Believe me — I KNOW!!! I have a copper and slate tabletop fountain and I rarely clean it because I LOVE that greenish growth that appears — the colors and shapes just fascinate me — and it drives the rest of my family totally nuts because they view it as *dirty*. I, however, view it as *beautiful*. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!!

• Stamps: Snowflakes (retired) by SU
• Paper: Whisper White, Not Quite Navy (it looks dark in photo), Brushed Metallic Copper, Fruitcake DP by Basic Grey
• Ink: Versa Mark
• Accessories: Copper Embossing Powder, Ribbon, Brads, Copper Leaf Pen (to coat brads that were the wrong color), 2 1/2 and 3″ Marvy Punches, Round Tab Punch, Crafter’s Tool Kit, Cuttlebug, Snowflakes Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

Sorry I didn’t get ribbon tying photos last night. We had our Hostess Club Christmas party. We ate too much and our project was too time consuming, but a good time was had by all. I made Chicken Wings, which are super simple and super good. Everyone wanted the recipe, so I’ll share it here — it’s quick and great for get-togethers at this time of year.

Chicken Wings - frozen in bags - 5 - 8# (thawed). Marinate them for 24 hours in:

• 1 cup Soy Sauce
• 1 cup Lemon Juice
• 1 cup Oil

The ingredients want to separate, so mix it up once in a while. Drain. Bake at 350 for 1 hour (or less if done sooner) in a single layer, uncovered, on a cookie sheet withsides. Transfer to crock pot for easy serving or a pot luck dish. Everyone is guaranteed to love them!!!

Thanks much for looking!!! I have a fun challenge for tomorrow morning — hope you can check back. More of you played last weeks challenge than any other — thanks much!!! Remember, you can go back and play any of them at any time!!!

This is installment #2 on my copper card series.All the cards in my copper series are super simple layouts and designs that can easily be adapted to any images. The are all quick cards to makewith sharp, crisp lines and not a lot of detail work. In case you missed it, here is my first set of copper cards. That link will also tell you about these bookends made of solid copper from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

These simple cards really don’t need a lot of explaining. In creating simple, quick designs, I love to use large images. All images used on this set of cards is from Flourished Christmas by Flourishes. I also love the brushed copper metallic paper run though the Cuttlebug with the textile folder! Here’s the list of supplies used on this entire set of 3 cards:

• Stamps: Flourished Christmas by Flourishes
• Paper: Sage Shadow, Forest Foliage (retired), Very Vanilla, Brushed Copper Metallic, Fruitcake Designer Paper by Basic Grey
• Ink: Versa Mark
• Accessories: Copper Embossing Powder, Copper Brads, Copper Cording (retired), Ticket Corner Punch, 1 1/4″ and 1 3/8″ Round Punches, Mounting Tape, Dimensionals, Cuttlebug and Textile Embossing Folder

Just love this deer image with his flourishy antlers!!!

For this card I ran the Forest Foliage through the Cuttlebugand wrapped the bottom with copper cording. I really love the texure the Cuttlebug embossing adds!

That’s it for today! I have a few other projects to work on before I get back to my copper series. Thanks much for stopping in — have a great day — schools are closed here today due to blowing snow and wind!!!

This is only the beginning of a larger project. I am making cards to give to my sister who, along with her husband, own and operate a business in the copper industry. The area in which we live is well known for its history of rich copper. Though there is still an ample supply of copper in the earth beneath us, it is no longer mined due to the high cost of getting it out. Mybrother-in-law is a geologist and my sister is a gemologist and they are involved in many different, and very interesting, aspects of the gem and mineral world. The copper bookends shown above are one of many things they produce out of our native copper. And since I was making her some *copper cards*, I just wanted you to see these unique bookends. If you are interested in learning more about our local, mineral rich history or in seeing more of what they produce (they also specialize in Michigan greenstone and Petoskey stone), you may click on Keweenaw Gemand Gift.

All the cards in this set of three use the same supplies:

• Stamps: Rejoice by Flourishes
• Paper: Sage Shadow, Very Vanilla, Brushed Copper Metallic, Fruitcake Designer Paper by Basic Grey
• Ink: Versa Mark
• Accessories: Copper Embossing Powder, Copper Brads, 1 1/4″ and 1 3/8″ Circle Punches, Crafter’s Tool Kit, Dimensionals, Cuttlebug, Textile Embossing Folder

I absolutely love copper, and I especially love that shade of green it turns when itoxidizes. I thought the shade of green in the Fruitcake DP was just perfect, and with its snowflake pattern there was no doubt!!! (Oh, don’t be misled - those bookends will NOT turn green — LOL — they are highly polished and coated — the ones you see above are probably 10 years old and look just like they did the day I got them!)

I love this “Joy to the World” copper embossed and I love the Brushed Copper Metallic paper run through the Cuttlebug with this folder — I think the style of the sentiment and the embossing compliment each other very well.

Well, that’s it for tonight — I’ll have many more uploads of copper cards coming over the next week or so, among the other things I upload, so thanks much for looking and please stop in again!!! Much appreciated!!!