Congregation Easter Cards

It is time for my mid-term project for Jan's Digital Stamp Shop Challenge Blog. Our challenge is Anything Goes and runs for a month.


I like to make Christmas and Easter cards for our small congregation and this is an example of one kind that I have made. I used two of Jan's digi stamp sets to make the card which I will link for you at the end of this post. I designed the card in Silhouette Studio so that I was able to size everything correctly. The wreath of dogwood flowers is one of her pre-colored images that I placed on the card panel together with a sentiment from an older Easter stamp set. I sized the cross to fit in the wreath and then copied it to a seperate page so that I could cut it out as I wanted to pop it up.

After printing the crosses and cutting them out with my Silhouette Cameo, I added gold foil to the crosses, which gave them that beautiful shiny edge. Since I have a laser printer, I could apply toner foil with my laminator to the printed digis. I then colored them with Copic markers.


I cut the cardpanels with a stitched rectangle die from my stash and adhered them to a white cardbase. I then added the crosses to the cards, popped up with foam tape.

We would love to have you join us at Jan's Digital Stamp Shop Challenge blog.



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A shaker card

It is Friday again and today I am back with a new result of a challenge between BożenA and I. It was my turn to choose the topic this time and I chose a shaker card. This is a technique that I use very little and decided that it was time to do so and what better motivation than a challenge!


A few days after I nominated the challenge topic, I received my Waffle Flower Sneak Peek kit that I subscribe to and can you believe it - it was all about shaker cards. Even had a molded shaker window in it in the shape of a butterfly. So I got to work. 

I used the stencil in the kit to create a background. I realized after I had completed it that I should have moved the stencil before doing the bottom part of the butterfly, but I actually liked the "artsy" look and decided it worked on this shaker card. I used the window dies included to cut the window and the frame and inserted the molded window.


I created the shaker elements by inking cardstock and using a mini punch to cut out the star shapes - making them match the darker colors on the background butterflies. I completed the card by stamping a sentiment from the stampset included in the kit and embossing it with clear embossing powder.

I am excited to see BożenA's shaker card. I invite you to head over to her blog and see what she has made and leave her a comment while you are there.

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Snowmies

Snowmies! Isn't that the cutest term for these guys? I saw my friend Donna create with this sweet image and I knew I wanted to do so too. 


Butterfly mania

Being that it is March, I have now received my third Waffle Flower Sneak Peek kit and it is all about butterflies. There are some really cool tools in the kit, but I cannot tell you about them all just yet as I have some future projects done with them to share here later.


Rain Dance

Today I am sharing my DT project for the brand new challenge at Jan's Digital Stamps Challenge Blog. I used this sweet image from the Rain Dance stamp set.


Stamping on vellum

Hello Blogland Friends! It is Friday again and today I am sharing my project for the next challenge with my crafty friend, BożenA. It was her turn to nominate the topic and she chose a technique which calls for stamping on both sides of vellum.