September 5 2025 Class Cards

 The Cards A Latte group will meet again on September 5th at 10 AM at the Local Bean coffee shop I Hudson NC.  We will be making 4 cards.

August 2025 NC Demos Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the NC Demos Blog Hop.  We are here the last Sunday of the month and so glad you could join us this evening.  This months theme is "Upcycle".  This I have to admit was a challenge but I hope I did ok. I wanted to do something different.

My sons work nights so they usually have dinner late and I find my dinner the next morning in the frig on a plate covered in aluminum foil.  This happens several times a week so there is a lot of foil being thrown out.  So one day after taking my dinner out to heat it up I looked at the foil and a light bulb went off in my brain.  I have used foil on cards before and other items but this time I took the foil, crumbled it up and made like a stamp out of it.  I wasn't sure it would work but it did and made the cute irregular designs on the paper so I knew I was using it on my card for this blog hop. 

I cut white cardstock 5 x 3 3/4 made made 5 aluminum foil stamps and stamped Strawberry Slush, Azure Afternoon, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green and Black on it and loved the way it came out.  I put this piece on a piece of Basic Black 5 1/4 x 4 and on a card base of Basic White 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4 and put it on the side.  I need something more for this card.

I love the 6 x 6 paper packs but I always wind up with a ton of strips because the paper is either cut down to 5 1/2 or 5 1/4.  These 1/2 or 3/4 inch strips I sometimes use on the inside of the card but I still wind up with a ton left over.  I was ready to throw them out and then this card challenge came up and I decided instead of throwing them out I would use them.  So I cut them down to 6 x 1/4 got out my quillling tool and quilled a flower for the front of my card.  Let it dry and added it to the front over my aluminum foil stamped front.  

To finish the card I added a sentiment from one of our ephemera packs and my card for this blog hop was done.  I hope you like it.

Thank you so much for stopping by this evening and please make sure to stop by all the other blogs for some great ideas.  I know I am looking forward to checking them out too.

Till next month be safe and keep on stamping.

Tina Lesson 
Jo Anne Hewins 
Toni Campana 
Tracie Evans Langley - the Sassy Stamper 
Laurie Meier 
Kelly Taranto - The Late Night Stamper 
Tonya Bowers