No Time To Stamp?

My original card just wasn’t cutting it for me — nothing terribly wrong with it — but it just looked plain, unfinished.  This original card was made for a color challenge at SCS a few months back and I uploaded it over there, but never did post it on my blog as I just felt it wasn’t quite *right*.  So this evening I decided to try to do something about it.  Let me show you the original, the remake, and then I’ll explain what I did.

I just thought it was so plain, something was lacking, maybe the colors were poor choices for this card — here’s the remake I did this evening.

I think it’s a huge improvement — how about you?  My remake is large, a full sheet folded in half, so its 8.5 x 5.5.  I took my original card and cut the front of the card off — and there you go, an image panel to work with!  The only thing I did to that image was to add the black pearls. I think you can see them better here.

Just a little thing, but they added a lot!  I then white embossed my sentiment along the bottom of my new card front, scored a partial line a little above my sentiment using my Scor-It.  It adds so much IRL, but is barely visible in my photo above — but if you look real closely you can see it.  I then adhered my image panel to the card and I was done!  A remake that made a dramatic difference (in my opinion anyway), but took only a very short amount of time.  I do feel so much better about this card now!!!

Stamps:  Cross of Christ by Our Daily Bread, Graceful Words by SU

Paper:  Cameo Coral, Sahara Sand, Black, White

Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black, Craft White, VersaMark

Accessories:  Petite Oval Nestabilities and Tag die by Spellbinders, Scor-It, White Embossing Powder, Ribbon, Cording, Pearls, Mounting Tape, Cropadile, Eyelet, Ticket Corner Punch

That does it for tonight again!   Thanks again so much for taking your time to stop in.  I truly do appreciate it!!! Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead!

Tonight I needed to make a card for our Pastor — did you know it is Pastor Appreciation month?  Well, there’s not much month left, so tonight was the night to make it.  I had already colored my image by the time the Featured Stamper Challenge at SCS popped up, so it was with great pleasure I could scan the gallery of an online friend, Kay Kalthoff, a/k/a SpeedyStamper, to find a card that would suit my already colored image, and I certainly found one, right on the first page — how lucky!!!  It was a super simple layout with a single image and single sentiment — JUST PERFECT!!!  This is Kay’s card that I chose to case.  And here’s my card for our Pastor.

I was in a simple white mood tonight!  As for the challenge, I stuck with the basic layout but I changed colors, images and the size of the card.  My card is 5″ high x 5.5″ wide.  I used a set I haven’t used yet from Our Daily Bread Designs, called Fruit of the Spirit.  I found this fruit bowl quite easy and relaxing to color and I was pleased with how it came out.  Once colored, I cut and embossed it using my Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, added my sentiment to the card front (love the size of this sentiment), popped my image up on foam mounting squares and I was done. 

Stamps:  Fruit of the Spirit by Our Daily Bread Designs

Paper:  PTI White

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Rectangle Nestabilities by Spellbinders, foam mounting squares

And before I go I have a question for you all — although I’ve kept a good supply of SU paper, ink and embellishments, I haven’t purchased any new SU sets for a long time, probably a good 7/8 months.  I’d like to get a few new sets for Christmas, and I’m going to a workshop on Wednesday.  Just wondering, what are YOUR favorite SU Christmas sets in the current book?  You can help me decide what to buy!!!  THANKS!!!  

And thanks so much for stopping in again — I truly appreciate it!  We have our Harvest Brunch at church today, so that’ll be fun!!!  I’m teaching 2 classes here on Tuesday, so I’ll have to try to get ready for that — and that should be fun, too!!!  Hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable Sunday!!!

This is an index card to add to my Scripture Box.  I thought the Lord’s Prayer was a perfect addition to my box.  The idea behind the Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge is to make projects containing scripture as an aid to memorizing that scripture, adding one new project each month.  Well, I’ve fallen behind, but I will get caught up!  This is the 4th index card for my Scripture Box, and though I have committed the Lord’s Prayer to memory since early childhood, I just wanted it in my box, so here is today’s index card.

Isn’t it pretty!  I just love making cards for my Scripture Box.  They are all 4 x 6.  This is the first I’ve made in a vertical orientation — the rest are all horizontal, but it’ll still store in the box horizontally.  You can see the box here, along with a tutorial on how to make it using my Scor-It.  I find these Scripture Cards very easy and relaxing to make — they are just such fun little canvases!!!  And they have a meaning, a purpose, and a home in their nice little box.  A very rewarding project!!!  I suggest you try one if you are so inclined.  You can read about the Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge here.

I used two sets relatively new to me by Our Daily Bread — The Lord’s Prayer and The Cross of Christ.  They work beautifully together — such gorgeous sets to work with. 

Stamps:  The Lord’s Prayer and The Cross of Christ both by Our Daily Bread.

Paper:  SU Basic Gray, Bashful Blue, Kiwi Kiss.  Periphery DP by Basic Grey.

Ink:  SU Basic Gray (stamped off once).  Versa Fine Onyx Black.

Accessories:  SU:  Corner Rounder, Ticket Corner Punch, Round Tab Punch, Pretties Kit, Taffeta Ribbon, Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Piercer, Mat Pack, Cropadile.  Martha Stewart Leaf Punch and Bird Punch.          

Thank you so much for stopping in again!!! I truly do appreciate it!!!  Friday brings our usual Stamp  Simply Challenge once again — hope you can join us all!!!  Wishing you all a wonderful rest of the week!!! (Oh, this is my 2nd post for today, so scroll down to see the earlier one if you missed it.)