More Monday Crafting!

Hello and happy Monday to you all!  We're back with more projects for you and I know you'll be inspired just like I was when I saw these.
Karin is up first with another one of her amazing cards.  She used the Build Your Own Flourish set to make this one and I love the tone on tone look of it!

"There are many fabulous stamps in the "Build a Flourish" set and all of them work so well together - this set has actually become one of my favourites!!! . For this card I used the ornate corner stamp with purple ink on my already patterned paper to bring my card together. Then I used the same ink for decorating my little flower label. I finished with stamping a sentiment from the "Many Thanks" set which is perfect for all different styles of thank you cards!"

Stamps: Gel a tins - "Build a Flourish" and "Many Thanks" , Dies: Spellbinders, Patterned paper; Pion Design + dried flower

Angela has another card to share with us.  I love using stamps for something that's not their original shape.  Making these dimensional scallops with the Build Your Own Paisley- Floral set is a great idea.  This is such a pretty card!

"I've been seeing layered scallops all over the place lately and I wanted to try it using the paisley stamps from the Build Your Own Paisley Floral set. It worked so well! Starting with the bottom layer, I alternated colours and curled up the bottom edge, then trimmed off the excess."

 

"The thank you sentiment is from the Many Thanks set. I love how this turned out! Almost perfect."

Keep on working on those cards for Operation Write Home challenge and the Monthly Challenge.  I'm loving all the things that you've been making!

Working for the Weekend!

Are you singing an 80's song now?  Sorry about that :) 

More card cuteness is coming your way today!  Cherie has been working with the Save the Date set this month and every time I see another project I want that set that much more!  Check this one out!

"I love this set; so many different ways to use it. It's even great to use on cards!"
 

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Die Cuts: Quickutz Silhouette
Stamp: Gel-a-tins

Karin has been working with the Build Your Own Flourish set.  She has such a gift for making great cards!  I need to lift some of these ideas :)

"Build a Flourish is absolutely wonderful for creating your own patterned paper - I just LOVE it. For this card I used the Faded Jeans ink from Tim Holtz distress inks for the flowers and then went over my flowers with my ink blending tool adding the same color - which I think turned out quite nice. The label/doily is cut with my Silhouette SD and then stamped with a flower from the "Bulid a Flourish" set and a sentiment from Gel-a-tin's great set Happy Days - filled with different and very useful sentiments for birthdays and other celebrations!"

Well that's it for today!  Be sure to check out yesterday's post and learn about our Operation Write Home challenge, and don't forget about the monthly challenge too!  We want to see you win!



Monday Funday!

Good morning to all you gelly fans out there!  I hope everyone got to enjoy their weekend.  Mine was great!  Lots of work and fun on Saturday and lots of relaxing on Sunday.  Please be sure to check out our Monthly Challenge for this month and our DT call that's going on right now.  You have until the 18th to get your DT entry in and you have until the 30th for the challenge.  Don't miss out!

Today I have another one of my cards to share with you!  I have been a card-making fool lately and I think I'm starting to enjoy it!  If you know me, you know that I struggle with cards.  Trying to make them pretty while also keeping them flat enough that you can still mail them can be hard, but I'm getting better at it :)  For this one I used the You're So Tweet set.  I spent a fair amount of time fussy cutting the birds, but that's only because I don't plan.  I just make a bunch of stuff and decide what I want to do with it.  So, after layering with different thicknesses of foam adhesive, I have a card with a lot of dimension that should be totally safe to send off to a friend (while still being cute!).

Materials Used:

Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket

Stamps: gel-a-tins You're So Tweet

Ink: Staz-On and Ranger

Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels

Distress Stickles by Ranger

Karin is a master card maker.  I love her work and this card is no exception!

"For this card I've used stamps from Build a Flourish for the background and the stamps from this beautiful set are just perfect for that. To get a more vintagey touch to this "homemade" pattered paper I used my inkblender and Tea Dye Cham Ink. Ribbon from Reprint and the sentiment is from another great Gel-a-tin set: Happy Days."

Ink from Tim Holtz/Ranger's Distress inks; Peeled paint and Victorian Velvet

Have a great day!





Friday Cards!

It's finally Friday, gelly fans!  I'm looking forward to a calm (and hopefully slightly cooler) weekend for us.  I plan on doing some creating and I even get to have a girl's night on Saturday!  Woohoo!

Today's projects are by Karin and Gladys and I know you'll love them!  Let's see what Karin has for us first...

"For August I got the "Build a Flourish" to work with, and when I first saw it I have to admit I wondered how I was to make 4 cards from it - but wow- when I started using it I fell head over heels in LOVE with it. The stamps are so beautiful and useful I know this will be one of my favorite sets! It is fabulous for backgrounds and for adding that extra touch to labels and just beautiful to add to patterned paper."

For this card I've used stamps from Gel a tins sets; Build a Flourish and Many Thanks. Paper from K and Company and the label is Spellbinders.

Gladys has a card to share that she made with the Admission is Free set!

"This is another card using admission is free. Using 3 tickets and stamped Happy birthday to you!"

Paper: plum pudding, kraft cardstock and 2008 bitty dot basic

Stamp: admission is free from gelatins

Ink: vintage sepia and satin red from versafine, danube blue from memento

Other: buttons and rattan string pink and purple

There's still plenty of time to get your entry in for the Monthly Challenge!  We're also still accepting appications for our DT until Sept 18.  Check out the call here.

Have a wonderful weekend!