Textured Beautifully Baroque Merry Christmas

For today's Christmas card, we took a slightly different take on the ornament that we cut out from Stampin Up's "Beautifully Baroque" stamp set.  If you missed my two previous Christmas card posts using this stamp please check them out; Beautifully Baroque Seasons Greetings and Beautifully Baroque Christmas Cheer.

For this card and my previous card I cut out the ornament shape from the "Beautifully Baroque" stamp.  I used the curly stamp from "Everything Elenor" to set the background and the embossed with a writing embossing folder.  I used the "Merry" from "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set along with the coordinating punch.

I hope you enjoyed this series using the Beautifully Baroque stamp set.  I can't wait to create more using it.

Happy Crafting,

Melanie

Relax, Happy Retirement!

This Retirement card was made for my Father in Law.  He is retiring this week from the EPA after 35 years. When starting this card I realized how few masculine stamps I have.  I finally decided on this relaxing theme, when I saw these palm trees from a pirate stamp set I bought to do my son's birthday.

I decided that the "HOT" Polaroid trend would work great for this card.  I used my Cricut to cut mine out, but there are many die cuts available.  I think it sets the perfect scene for this retirement card, I just want to leave it all behind and go myself.

I hope this inspires you to try your hand with the Polaroid trend.

Happy Crafting,

Melanie

Masculine Graduation Card

Tis the season for graduation, whether it be from preschool, high school or college.  Our neighbor's son is graduating form high school and this is the masculine card I made to honor this accomplishment.

To make this card I used a polka dotted background stamp that was recently retired from Stampin Up.  I was thinking this would be a great card to try the masking technique on too.  For now though the background is square.  The sentiment is from the very versatile "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set.

I used my Cricut to cut the graduation hat out, if you are interested in making your own it is easy to do with a paper trimmer.  Check out this tutorial.  If you are interested in seeing a more feminine graduation card I made in an earlier post click here.  I am also entering this into The Paper Players Challenge #146, come check out the details and enter yourself.

I hope this gives you some inspiration to create your own graduation card for that special grad in your life.

Happy Crafting,

Melanie

Handyman Father's Day Card

With Father's Day coming up, I wanted to come up with a new card for the great men in our lives.  Last year, I did the oragami men's shirt card, you can get instructions and take a look at it here.  This year, I decided to do a punch art card with wrenches.  There are great instructions of how to construct these wrenches at "Two Happy Stamper's" blog.

This card was easy to create with a few basic punches, aluminum foil (create faux metal), the Big Shot and assorted card stocks.  I first punched my wrench pieces and sponged the edges, the I ran several layers of aluminum foil through the Big Shot in an embossing folder then with Stampin Up's Apothecary Accents framlits dies.  I assembled my layers and added another Apothecary Accents die cut along with the "Happy Father's Day" sentiment.  The sentiment is from Stampin Up's "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set and was punched out with the Modern Label punch also from Stampin Up.

For this card used the following punches:

3/4" Circle Punch

1 1/4" Circle Punch

1 3/4" Circle Punch

Stampin Up Word Window Punch

Stampin Up Itty Bitty Punch Scallop

I hope this gives you some ideas for the great men in your life,

Melanie