Saturday, June 21, 2014

Special Occasions

April, May and June were all filled with many special occasions and my crafting supplies were being put to good use. Birthdays, Mother's Day and Father's Day... but I didn't share with you three other cards I made in the past few weeks.

For our 34th anniversary (!), I wanted to make hubby a masculine "time-themed" card. So I got out my Tim Holtz clock stencil, some gesso, inks, rub-ons and metal hardware.


This was my first attempt at using gesso, and I am very pleased at how it turned out! It was a lot of fun to add texture to the inked cardstock I had created in Tim's Creative Chemistry class a few months back.


No bows or flowers for this one! Just clocks, gears, metals and twine.


This next card was created for a co-worker's son who graduated this week. The tie is actually a white ribbon (I didn't have black!), dyed with black alcohol ink and covered with Claudine Hellmuth's Multi-Matte. I love the way it turned out! The cap is simply a piece of cardboard covered with black cardstock and popped up with black foam dimensionals. The tassel I found at the Dollar Store (a pack of six for a buck!) and was attached with a gold brad.


I was also called upon to provide for a not-so-special occasion... a co-worker tragically lost both her mother (expected) and a few days later, her husband (totally unexpected and sudden). Spellbinder's dies make it simple to create a distinguished card in black and white.


It seems like there is always a need for a card... the next one up on my "To Do" list will be for a niece's wedding in two weeks!



9 comments:

  1. The cards are beautiful but my heart breaks for your coworker losing her husband so suddenly and on the heels of losing her mom. I am not sure I would survive that.

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    1. It was a shock to hear that's for sure. Thank you JoJo!

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  2. Beautiful cards! I am sure your husband appreciated the masculine card. Gifts for men are always so hard to figure out. Condolences to your co-worked!! We lost my father-in-law and my Grandmother last weekend. So hard when God does a recall!!

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    1. As I wrote to you earlier, my condolences to you as well. Yes, hubby does appreciate that I don't "frill" up his cards! ;)

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  3. Congrats on 34 years, wow as well as all the other cards you made, happy and sad occasions, but yours truly portray each sentiment so well.
    Xo

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    1. Thank you Dagmar! I used to make birthday cards for work too, but our Program grew so much, I would be a card factory by now! So now I just make them for special occasions.

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  4. Who wouldn't love and appreciate one of your clever card creations? I'm sure you put a smile on a lot of faces.

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  5. What a delightful collection of thoughtfully designed cards!

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