Cards By Ducky

I recently received an email from Cards for Kindness where they said they are in need of Valentine's Day Cards. These cards were quick to put together using  Concord & 9th Up Up and Away Dies . I used patterned paper in my stash from Altenew that I have had for years to make the balloons. For the background, I used a turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th called Bitty Burst Turnabout and stamped it twice using two different colors of inks from PinkFresh Studio . If you are unfamiliar with turnabout stamps, to use them, you place the stamp in a stamping tool such as the MISTI and then rotate the paper after each color to fill in the design as shown above. For my cards, I stamped directly onto a card base made from Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock .   To finish the cards, I stamped a sentiment from a retired stamp set from Clearly Besotted using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and paired the cards with a matching envelope. PinkFresh Studio recently came out with a new ink cube ho

To create this card, I used Spellbinders Glimmer Poinsettia Hot Foil and Die Set . I used my Glimmer Hot Foil System to add Spellbinders Aura Glimmer Foil to the poinsettia on cardstock from Concord & 9th. I then used my die cutting machine to cut out each layer and glued it together using Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue . For the center, I used an embellishment from Trinity Stamp's Gold Eclipse .  To create the leaves, I used the leaf from Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia Etched Die Set and a leaf from The Greetery's Pine Wisp Die Set . I glued the die cuts onto a sheet of Neenah Solar White 80# Cardstock cut to 5.5" by 3.75" and stamped a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's The Magic of Christmas Stamp Set  with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink . I then glued the card front onto a card base made from the same colored cardstock as the poinsettia. The colors used are listed below. I cut a strip of Tonic Inca Gold Mirror Cardstock to glue to the bottom of the card f

I created these holiday card sets using the  Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Classic August 2023 Card Kit . Hero Arts card kits are released the first Saturday of every month and they have several  subscription options or can be purchased individually. However, once a kit is sold out, they are no longer available. This card kit was nature themed and comes with dies to create trees lines, mountains, and canyons as well as embossing powders and cardstock, but I decided to use some of the dies for holiday cards instead.  For each card, I first stamped the northern lights using a stamp from  Hero Arts Northern Lights Polar Bears Stamp Set onto Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock with VersaMark Ink and embossed the image with  WOW Opaque Bright White Superfine Embossing Powder . I then ink blended the background using Distress Oxide Inks and blending brushes from Simon Says Stamp . Because I heat embossed the northern lights, the embossing powder will resist the ink that is blended over it. Th

  I actually started these cards last year and I had intended on making a set that had all snowflakes but my dogs got ahold of the rest of my snowflakes so I decided to create more of a variety. These cards use Ranger's Perfect Pearls which is a metallic pigment powder to make sparkly snowflake backgrounds.  To make the backgrounds, I used snowflakes from  Gina K Designs Sparkling Snowflakes and  Colorado Craft Company Big & Bold Nordic Snowflake . I used my Embossing Magic Powder Bag so that the Perfect Pearls only stuck where I stamped and then I stamped the background using VersaMark Ink . I then put Perfect Pearls on the card front and used a paint brush to spread the pigment powder around. I took a lint free cloth to wipe off the excess powder. The colors used for each are listed below.  For the sentiment for each card, I used a stamp from  Colorado Craft Company Lovely Legs Bethlehem's Light stamped with VersaMark Ink and embossed using  WOW Opaque Bright White S