A Card to Say Farewell

This project uses several Close To My Heart products including the exclusive CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  This post is can also be seen on She's A Sassy Lady today.  It is so much fun to be part of the Sassy Lady design team.

It is never easy to see friends move away, even when we know it is for the best.  The French always say, "Au Revoir", which means, "Until we meet again", a very hopeful outlook.  Here is a card made for such a time.

Close To My Heart Supplies Needed:


Papers  - "Stella" (no longer available) and small scraps
Inks - Ruby Z2170  Cocoa Z2114  Lagoon Z2195
Embellishments - "Stella" workshop lace and button (no longer available)
Stamp Set - "Bonjour Occasions" B1414 (retired)
Art Philosophy Cartridge (Z1686)
Colonial White Card 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 (X1410) (link is to the 50 card value pack)
Liquid Glass (as adhesive) (Z679)

Non-CTMH Supplies:
Embossing Machine (Big Kick) and Folders ("Botanics")
Cricut machine (plus Gypsy, if desired)
Adhesives of choice

To make the card:

Choose your embossing materials, cut your main paper at 1/4" less than the size of your card and emboss that paper for the front of your card.

Sizzix "Botanics" Embossing Folder

Paper in folder ready to emboss

Embossing detail - pretty flowers!

Using your Gypsy (or inputting directly into your Cricut machine if you prefer), find the designs on the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge needed for this project.
     Heart - p. 26  Layer <s> setting (row 1, col. 5).  Cut one each at 1", 1.5" and 2.25"
     Scallop - p. 55 <Rctngle7>** (row 5, col. 4).  cut one at 1.5"

**(note - on the Gypsy, to me, this means NONE of the buttons are pushed on the left hand side where you pick icons or fonts and "shift" - clear as mud, right?  It would be the same thing on the Cricut keypad.)

Designs laid out on Gypsy

Papers loaded and ready to cut

Brush edges of card and embossed paper with ink

Attach main paper to base card

Brush edges of hearts with ink

Here's the pretty embossed paper on the card

Brush edges of scallop with ruby ink, stamp sentiment with cocoa ink, add embellishments and secure with liquid glass.  Note - Liquid Glass is wonderful for adding a 3-dimensional look to paper, details, or stamped images, making them sparkle and shine.  It is also terrific as used here - securing embellishments absolutely.  They WILL NOT fall off your card!

Completed card

Thanks for  joining me this time.  If you have any questions, feel free to send me a note.  Have a wonderful week and a safe Labor Day holiday.

Summer Sewing and Knitting

Taking a break from card making, here are a few things sewn this summer for my grandchildren:

Summer Nightgown

Detail of yolk and sleeves

Flannel Nightgown

 

Ribbon Detail at bodice

Cat friend - there was extra fabric

Hand embroidered face - M-E-O-O-W!

Summer boy's pajamas

There is a little stuffed dog toy to go with my grandson's pj's, unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it.

While we were visiting our family in California, our photographer daughter asked me to make one of my photo prop pea pods.  So here it is:

Entire Pea Pod, made 22 inches long

Detail of top - instead of knitting all the way up, I purled the last 5 rows.

The pea pod is made of worsted weight acrylic yarn, very soft.  My daughter used it at her photo shoot and was very pleased with how it worked.

Thanks for looking and have a blessed summer.  Hard to believe some of our children are already back in school!  Wow!