Put a Little Love on the back

Hi everyone, today I have a little different kind of post for you. I want to talk about the back of your cards.

Do you put any thing on the back? 

Do you sign and date your cards?

The reason that I'm asking is this, long ago when I first started making cards. I made Christmas cards. And I sent them to a lot of the older ladies from my church. I used a lovely PSX stamp on the front and a very sweet stamp on the back.

After that Christmas I got so many sweet comments on this card, and so many of them even comment on the back of the card.

After that year when ever I sent cards if I forgot to stamp the back, I would hear about it through the grape vine (mother in law) :).

So many of these sweet ladies have keep all the Christmas card for the past 20 something years. And use them every year in there decorations. I don't even have a copy of every Christmas card that I have made. You just never know what will be a treasure to someone.

So I wanted to give you some ideals for the treasures that you create for someone in your life.

There all all kinds of stamps for the back of cards.

There are sweet stamps that pull at the heart strings.

                   

          Link                                                                               Share My Heart

                        Like this sweet stamp that went on the back of this birthday card. 
  

And then there are the Funny ones.

 

A Little Off Greeting

                      

        

Link                                     And some that give you a place to sign you name                                                            Dragonfly Created for You                                               

  

You can match the back to the front.
                                      Snowman Stamped by
And easy way to stamp on a dark card is to stamp on sticker paper and die cut.  

                                                                                                             I like to add the year to my Christmas cards.

And you can find stamps for the seasons.
                                       Leaf Handmade By

And this is the little stamp that started my obsession with stamping the back of my cards.(PSX)

It's old now and does not stamp very well, but I still love it.
Oh and you can all ways use heat embossing on dark cards.

I hope this will give you some ideals to share a little extra love on the back of your cards.

All the stamps can be punched at DRS designs 

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Haunted Halloween

Hello all, well it's Thursday and that means it's challenge time at DRS designs.

The challenge this week is

Any Autumn Holiday

The holiday that I chose is 

Halloween.

I started my stamping the Silhouette Haunted House with black ink.

On glossy card stock. then I sponged on different layers on ink.

For the tag I stamped the Tiny Happy Halloween, then over stamped with the Empty Spider Web

I used the same stamp to stamp the purple background.

I hope you will join in the fun.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Burlap and Lace

Good Morning everyone, I hope you weekend has been going well. Our weather has been the  perfect fall days.

The card that I have for you today is a double front card. I saw one on YouTube and I new that I had to give it a try.

I started by stamping the New Sunflower Hurricane Candle then I used the Spellbinder Marvelous Squares to cut out the image and the layers. Copics were used the color the image.

Have you seen were they are using the lace and burlap for country weddings? Well that was the inspiration for the edge of the card. I used a MS punch to make the lace.

When you Open the image you see this.

 

   

 I use the Thank You Lord Greeting on this panel and stamped the Sunflower Trio with Antique Linen ink.

This is the inside with Thanksgiving Blessings and more burlap and lace.

This is the Copic that I used.

This is the link to the video.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Happy Fall Y'all

Hi everyone, today I have a card that I did for the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge.

The background was stamped with the DRS designs Vicki's Versatile Background and Memento inks I used three different colors and turned the stamp a quarter of a turn when I added each new color. The October Pumpkin with Fall Leaves was stamped with black ink and colored with Copic markers. The Greeting is Happy Fall Y'all.

I hope Y'all like my fun fall card.

Here is the colors.

Have a Wonderful day,

Janett

So Thankful challenge

Hi everyone, well it's Thursday and I'm back with another fun 

          DRS designs challenge.

The challenge this week is 

So Thankful

( It can be Thanksgiving, Thank You, or Give Thanks)

I started this card by making the plaid background. I used the 

Woven Plaid Background Stamp

I used four different colors of Memento Ink, 

on a quarter piece of card stock.

(Sue has a wonderful Tutorial on using The Woven Plaid stamp.)

Then I cut three strips and used a die to cut the ends.

I stamp the Medium Silhouette Leaf  on to white card stock with the same Memento Colors.

With black ink I stamped the 1 Line Happy Thanksgiving .

I hope you will join us in this fun challenge.

Here are the colors that I used.

Did you notice I did not use any Coipc markers on this card.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Girly Rose Birthday Card

Good Morning everyone, today is my daughters birthday, she is a girly girl and has been all her life. Were I'm more of a tomboy. She keeps all the cards that I give her and her family. So I new that I want to make her a special birthday card, and it had to be girly. This one took a lot of trial and era. 

The stamp is a old PSX stamp. It was colored with Copic Markers. I used refills to color the seam binding. The background is a embossing folder, I added the half pearls at the cross points. And the edge was cut with a Spellbinder die. 

Well What do you think, is it girly? Let me know what you think.

The Copic's that I used.
R 81,83,85,89
YG 61,63,67
Refill RV10,02

Have a Wonderful day,

Janett


                 


I interned this card in a challenge at Craft Hoarders Anonymous 

Shades of Fall

Hello everyone hope you had a great weekend. I got to do some stamping yesterday and I thought I would share them with you.

I stamped the Leafy Tree E1302 with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I used Copic markers and dotted the color on the image starting with the lightest color and going to the darkest. I added some Flower Soft at the bottom. I used the Large Classic large Oval to cut out the image.The yellow and brown layers were cut with the A2 Card Creator. I had so much fun making the card front I used the IO Cover a Card Scratches CC044 I started with my lightest color and stamped the cream card stock then turned the stamp a quarter turn and added the next color. I used some burlap for the ribbon and I pulled a string from the burlap and made a bow and a button.

I'm interning this card in the Impression Obsession Shades of Fall Challenge.

Here are the colors that I used.

Have wonderful day,

Janett  

Daily Thread

Fall has arrived in Georgia, with cool night and mild days. It's my favorite time of the year. I love sleeping under a quilt the was made by my mother and her sisters, it so warm and comforting. There really is nothing like a homemade quilt.

For my card today I used the new Designer Quilt Square  from DRS designs. I stamped it three times with black ink and colored it with Copic markers then fussy cut. These were layered onto a dark eggplant paper.

I stamped the Daily Thread Greeting  and added some paper piercing and pen stitching. The background was embossed in a embossing folder. The sketch is from Splitcoststampers.


Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Indian Corn and Sunflowers

Hi everyone, It's Thursday and that means it's time for another DRS designs challenge. The challenge this week is a color challenge.

                             

I started by stamping the Indian Corn in black ink, coloring with Copic markers and fussy cutting. I used a Spellbinder die and cut the oval in brown card stock. I used a die to cut out the lattes from Kraft colored card stock. The sunflower are from the Autumn Flower Spray I stamped it three times and colored and fussy cut the largest flower. The ribbon was colored with Copic markers.

I hope you will join us for this fun challenge.

Here are the colors that I used.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Challenge card, It's all about Fall

Good morning everyone,it's a dreary raining day a perfect day to spend stamping. And I have the perfect challenge for you, DRS designs is sponsoring the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge.  The prize is a $10.00 voucher to DRS designs.

And this is my card.

 I started with the Argyle Background stamp and Olive Grove Memento ink. Then I used the Argyle Diamond and Memento Peanut Brittle ink. 

For the next layer I used the Open Leaf and the same Memento ink.

I used the new Silhouette Corn Stalk stamp and the Peanut Brittle  stamping first and second generation.

The center panel I used the Scarecrow  and he was colored with Copic markers.

The pumpkins are from the Fall Fence.

I hope you will join in this fun challenge.

Here are the colors that I used.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Autumn Is Calling

Today I have a new Greeting stamp to share with you it's Autumn is Calling. 

The leaves are just starting to change,and the nights have been cooler.

Autumn is my favorite time of year.

I stamped and colored with the Fall Leaf with Acorn then fussy cut. For the background I stamped the 

Lines O'Plenty Background

I used Gelato's to create the background behind the greeting. 

The ribbon is seam binding that I colored with Copics.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett 

Food Challenge

Hi everyone, and welcome back for a new challenge at DRS designs. This week its Food, lets see all those yummy cards.

I started with the beautiful Apple Trio I just love to color this image. Then I stamped the strip with Silhouette Branch Background. The Greeting is the new Thank You Lord. I hope you will join us in this fun challenge.

Here is the colors that I used.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

Sunflower Hurricane Candle

Welcome everyone, today I have a new stamp from DRS designs. It's the beautiful 

Sunflower Hurricane Candle.

After stamping and coloring with Copic markers I layered it with  green card stock

The flags were stamp with Bunch of Wheat in Memento Cantaloupe ink.

The Small Autumn Greetings was stamped on to green card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Everything was attached to a Kraft card.

Here the colors that I used.

Don't forget to join us in the challenge this week it's Hot Trends ( Twine)

Have a wonderful day,

Janett 

Designer Quilt Block

Hi everyone sorry for being gone for so long, but my Daddy had a Heart Attack and spent a week in the hospital. Were home now so I hope to get caught up.

The new DRS designs challenge this week is 

Hot Trends 

this weeks trend is

Twine.

I have a new stamp today, it's the Designer Quilt Block. I'm really liking this new stamp it works great as a background or as a focal image. I used a 1.5 square punch to cut out the blocks and Copic markers to color the image. 

I stamped the Open Leaf 

on a 1.5 inch square.

The smaller squares are 3/4 of a inch.

I poked holes and tied twin knots.

This is colors that I used.

Join us in this fun challenge.

Janett