Let's Toast!

Happy Labor Day if you're celebrating in the USA! Kudos to all the workers out there! 

Tomorrow is my brother & sister-in-law's anniversary but also the Card Chain reveal day. Thought I'd share the anniversary card I made them a day ahead of time (they already have received it and love it!):

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White;

TH Classic kraft card stock;

Momenta watercolor print;

Lawn Fawn patterned (retired);

Spellbinders Betterpress Porcelain; scraps of black

Dies - Trinity Stamps Toaster Card;

MFT Stitched Numbers

Press Plate with die - Spellbinders You Are Everything Sentiments

Stamps - Pear Blossom Press Stamp & Die Bundle;

Other - enamel dots brand unk

I knew of Trinity Stamps before I got involved with Craft Roulette. They were stocked at my local stamping store Anchor Paper for awhile but not right now. So, since they give random prizes at CR, I started visiting their online store. I recently picked up a die set that I thought would make a perfect card for my bro & SIL; it's getting first play here. 

First, I die cut all the toaster pieces & assembled. Same with the slice of bread card. Since D&D have been married 30 years, I added those #s on the inside of the bread slice. A pressed sentiment sits on the toaster front, popped up with foam tape. Here are a couple additional views:

Isn't that little slice of toast card the cutest?! The card base is a full A7 card which I stamped on the inside (no photo) with a Taylored Expression sentiment (see that set HERE; it's a fave). Since my toaster set got first play here, I'll share at Darnell's NBUS #78.

I also made a card early this morning (more vampire hours) for Craft Roulette episode #282:

Supplies: Paper - Neenah Solar White; 

Authentique Latest & Greatest; Lawn Fawn Summertime;

Paper Studio A2 card; scraps

Stamps - MFT Aug 2018 Freebie;

Stamps w/dies - Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate Critters (dies HERE);

Unity Happy Retirement (die HERE)

Dies - AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

MFT Pierced Rectangle Frames 

Other - Foam tape

Host Mary Gunn had Meg Daves (‪@ITeachStamping) as her guest. Meg has been teaching card making for 20 years; this was her first appearance on CR. She enjoys doing card sketches with a twist. As usual, they spun the wheel four times for the necessary parameters:

• Project - Card for a Teacher: I made a retirement card for my friend, Becky who will soon finish teaching first grade.
• Colors - Classroom: I used primary colors, plus the colors of the animals which might appear on a classroom bulletin board scene.
• Element - From The Country: I used 3 barnyard animals. 
• Random - Frame: I used a pierced frame die cut stacked 3 times. 

Simple stamping, die cutting, coloring & assembly. The wrinkle on this one is the LF speech bubble that's 5 continuous bubbles. I stamped the 3 sentiments every other one, then used a black marker to draw the missing edges. I trimmed into three pieces, leaving out the extra two bubbles.

That's it for today, friends! Hope to see you back tomorrow and, by the way, the Card Chain sign-up for September runs until 9/6 - details HERE.

Thanks for visiting and have a crafty holiday!!