Triangles and Leaves in Green, Turquoise, and Navy

New dies to play with - triangles and leaves.  I love the calm and serene look of this card.

Card details:

• Card stock is Papertrey Ink (PTI) enchanted evening (navy blue) and Hawaiian shores (turquoise) and Paper Source jadeite (green - discontinued color).  
• The triangle die is the larger triangle from PTI Two Triangles.  The star is cut from the PTI Super Star borders die.  The leaves are cut with Meadow Leaf from Poppystamps dies.    
• The sentiment "Thinking of you" is computer-printed with navy ink in Herculanum font (bold).

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (149)

Green Trees with Purple

A simple landscape card with three trees and a bird.  Rounded corners and a bit of patterned paper.

Card details:

• Card stock is Papertrey Ink classic kraft (tree trunks), new leaf (green), winter wisteria (lavender), and royal velvet (dark purple bird).
• Green-and-white patterned paper is a very old scrap.  Not sure who made it.  Love it for this card!
• Dies are from the Papertrey Ink Trendy Tree Tops set.  
• Sentiment "Thinking of you..." is computer-printed in "Lucida Handwriting" font with purple ink.
• Corners are rounded with 1/2" Corner Chomper.

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (148)

PTI Winter Wisteria with Anchor #108 floss

This post is just to show a picture of Anchor floss color #108 with PTI Winter Wisteria card stock.

Blue Hearts and Dots with Scalloped Border

A square panel with scallops on each side, for this week's Sketch Challenge #118 on Operation Write Home's Stars and Stamps blog.  I like the monochromatic blue colors with a variety of hearts, dots, lines, squares, and scallops.

When I planned my card, I was thinking of a symmetrical placement, with a heart in each of three corners and the sentiment in the fourth.  But then I drew a border "L" (which I meant to be a full square border, until my first line at the bottom extended too far to the right), and the asymmetrical arrangement looked so much nicer.  Love those happy accidents of card making! 

Card details:

• Card stock is Neenah solar white and Papertrey Ink enchanted evening (dark blue) and blueberry sky (medium blue).  The dotted paper (one of my homemade PowerPoint papers) is computer-printed on Neenah. 
• The hearts are punched with an EK Success 1" punch. The scallops are cut with Papertrey Ink small scallop border die. 
• The sentiment "Miss you" is computer printed in blue ink, outlined in darker blue, with "Lucida Handwriting" font. 
• The border "L" is drawn with cobalt Copic 0.5 multiliner. The baker's twine is The Twinery denim. 
• The scalloped panel is popped with foam tape. 

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (146)

Cream with Brown and Yellow Dots

For this card, I started with three colors of card stock - cream, brown, and yellow. I created the sentiment, then the coordinating polka dot paper. A few stripes to balance out the dots, and I was done. Except for cleaning up debris from many things I tried that didn't work!

Card details:

• Card stock is Neenah classic cream and PaperTrey Ink dark chocolate (brown) and summer sunrise (yellow-orange).
  
• Sentiment "Thank you" is computer-printed in Hobo Std font (outlined) with brown and yellow-orange ink. I adjusted the spacing and font sizes. The T and K are in a separate text box from the other letters. The dots are periods (...).
  
• Patterned paper is the same periods (...) with spacing adjusted to make a polka-dot pattern.
• The fiber is brown embroidery floss.
  

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (145)

Aqua with Black and White Pennants

The story of this card: I had a black triangle scrap from another project. I cut two more black-and-white patterned triangles. I put them together and drew some dashed lines with black and white pens.

It needed something vertical. I added a contrasting ribbon with black-and-white baker's twine to echo the patterned paper. Then I thought about a sentiment. A small tag was my first idea, but the scale just wasn't right. So I layered an aqua circle onto black and printed the sentiment with a strong black stencil font.

It ended up as an interesting card. Bold and simple, but nice details to look at. The black triangle was a good way to begin it.

Card details:

• Card stock is Papertrey Ink aqua mist and true black. The patterned paper is one of my PowerPoint designs (click here for more info), computer-printed on Neenah solar white.
• The deep turquoise twill is Papertrey Ink Hawaiian shores. The baker's twine is The Twinery charcoal.
• Circles are EK Success punches, 1-1/2 and 1-3/4". The holes for the twine are 1/8" .
• Sentiment "Thanks" is computer-printed with Stencil Std font in black ink.

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (144)

Orange Card with Multicolored Stars

Many stars and bright colors for a "Celebrate" card. Usually I would think of orange and black as Halloween colors, but this card is not at all Halloween-ish.

Card details:

• Card stock is Neenah solar white (sentiment banner and colored stars) and Papertrey Ink orange zest (card base) and true black (outline stars and banner layer).
• The stars are die cut with Papertrey Ink super star border die set. The "hollow" stars are cut in black and layered over the "solid" stars, which are cut in white and colored with Copic markers.
• The sentiment is computer-printed in black ink using "Hobo Std Medium" font, outline and expanded.
  
• The multicolor stars and letters are colored with Copic markers G14, V04, YR04, and B14.
• The "v" in the banner is cut with a square punch. (Correction April 11, 2012: Insert the card stock from the side of the punch ... not from the bottom.)
• The sentiment banner is popped up on foam tape for some dimension.
  

Created for Operation Write Home, "supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them." (143)