Blooming Sunflower

 

Today is the day I am posting my card for our first One Plus Twelve challenge in 2025.  This is year number 7.  For this challenge, we are to use just one stamp, to make a card every month and post on the 3rd of each month.  For this year, I picked a Gina K Designs set called Blooming Sunflower.  The set includes a sweet  stamp set and matching dies for the image and all four of the sentiments.  I am excited that I get to use this set every month for all of 2025. 

For my card this month, I stamped the image and sentiment in Hero Arts Intense Black ink.  I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers and die cut both the image and sentiment.   I picked a Hero Arts stencil called Circular Grid for the background.  I brush blended with 3 Taylored Expressions inks--Potato chip, Mango and Sweet Corn. I embossed a small black strip with an older Stampin' Up Folder called Square Lattice.   I added some Studio Katia Lemon Burst Pearls around the image.

 

Please be sure to check out the other One plus Twelve posts to see the the stamp set for the 2025 cards that Kelly and Jeanette have created for January!  Here is a link to both Jeanette's  and Kelly's blog.  Be sure to come back on February 3rd to see another fun card. 

Image/Sentiment:  Gina K Designs Blooming Sunflower stamp and die set

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White; Stampin' Up Basic Black, Crushed Curry

Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black; Taylored Expressions Potato Chip, Mango Sweet Corn

Accessories:  Hero Arts Circular Grid Stencil; Stampin' Up Square Lattice Embossing Folder; Studio Katia Lemon Burst Pearls; Copic Sketch Markers

32 Christmas Cards

 

Happy New Year!

Today I am posting a set of 32 cards that I recently made, after Christmas, from an event that was held in July.  This was a class that Jennifer from Stamplistic taught in Crafters Classroom called The Big A2 32 Christmas Cards.  These are not my own designs, thought I might have tweaked a card or two.  

Crafters Classroom is a Saturday FB event that showcases maybe 8-10 companies once a month. I have participated with The Paper Cut classes nd this is the second time I have bought a kit from Jennifer.  This was a fun class that used just two 6x6 paper pack to make the cards--not one bit of stamping!  The Echo Park Paper Packs are called Christmas Time and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.  It includes 8 pages of what Jennifer called "cut aparts" Those are the sentiments in the middle of each of the cards. All of the cards are flat, other than a bit of bling, so they are easy to mail!  The cardbase and bling was included in the kit.  I added a layer of cardstock behind the sentiment and the patterned paper.

 

The top set of cards was made with the Christmas Time package and those colors are more old fashioned or county colors.  The bottom set of cards uses the Have a Holly Jolly Christmas pack and they are the traditional bright colors and also some highlight holiday baking.  I now have a stack of cards ready to go for 2025!

I hope you enjoyed my cards!  

Image/Sentiment:  None!

Cardstock:   Card bases and patterned paper included in kit using Echo Park Paper Christmas Time and Have a Holly Jolly Christmas 6x6 Paper Packs; Stampin' Up Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Garden Green

Ink:  None

Accessories:  Silver Bling Included