6 Easy Ways To Use Foil in Cardmaking | Collaboration with Rise and Procraftinate

Hi Everyone, Today, my friend Amanda at Rise and Procraftinate and I are hosting our monthly collaboration video. We chose Foiling and each of us are sharing 6 ways to use foiling in our own craft rooms. I'd really love to hear what your favorite foiling technique is.

You can check out Amanda's video here: Rise and Procraftinate

My video can be seen here: Delaney Jane Cards 

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Trinity Stamps Hello Senti Mini Die


Elegant Occasions Sentiments


Park Lane Cherry Blossom Embossing Folder


Glimmer Hot Foil 4 Rolls Metallic & Holographic Variety Pack


Create A Smile Congrats Cool Cuts


Create A Smile Wave of Stars Stencil


Echo Park Holiday Quilt 6x6 Stencil


Couture Creations Classic Frame


Couture Creations Classic Rose


Apple Blossom New Job


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Thank you so much for stopping by and as I always say,
Give Cards Generously!
-Renee'

INLAY DIE CUTTING | METALLIC CARDSTOCK | ADDING TEXTURE | POPPY STAMPS DIES | CHRISTMAS SERIES 2019

I created this fairly simple set of Christmas cards using a Poppy Stamps Die of hanging ornaments. I inlaid the die outline but didn't inlay the pieces. I layered the panel over some additional metallic cardstock for the shimmer and shine to show through.

I added additional texture with a carta bella embossing folder for touchable texture.

Thank you for stopping by and as always
GIVE CARDS GENEROUSLY!
~Renee’

All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?
This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.



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MAYMAY MADE IT ADORE HIM | MARY AND JESUS | CHRISTMAS CARD SERIES 2019| Artistic images

Welcome back to another card in my 2019 Christmas Card series. I'm so excited to be sharing all these projects with everyone.

Today I used a set by MayMay Made it called Adore Him. This set is filled with really artistic images featuring the Christ child and the Manger Scene as well as Mother Mary.
I used a card sketch to get started and heat embossed with the now famous Cooper's mix: mostly gold. ;)

Check back a few videos for the snowflake cards, you will see why that has become famous. ;)
I really hope you enjoy my card.

Thank you for stopping by and as always
GIVE CARDS GENEROUSLY!
~Renee’





All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?
This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.


YouTube is at: https://youtu.be/lEL4Fnmd-Bs
Check out our online store at: www.delaneyjanecards.com
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Lawn Fawn | No line Coloring | Nutty or Nice | Christmas Series 2019

Today I chose to play with my Lawn Fawn |Simon Says Stamp Collaboration set from 2018 called Nutty or Nice.

I know this set isn't available any longer but I know many people have it and this isn't so much about the stamp set as it is about the technique.

I used what I'm calling Nichol Spohr coloring. No line coloring with Zigs. She has mastered the technique and if you are looking to learn she has so many videos on her channel showing just how to do to this.

Some very cool things about this type of coloring is that you can make your images look soft. The traditional black line sometimes looks harsh.

Lots of fun details are hidden in this little scene. Like this squirrel, is he taking this acorn from his friend or hanging it up as a gift? You tell me.

All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?

This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.

YouTube is at:  https://youtu.be/IHikKo0ipWw

Check out our online store at: www.delaneyjanecards.com

Want to visit us on Instagram? Check us out at @delaneyjanecards

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/delaneyjanecards/

Email: delaneyjanecards@gmail.com

Veterans Day 2019 - Honoring our Veterans

Today, I used the Colorado Crafts Company Lovely Legs set titled Military Strong to create two cards honoring our Veterans because today, 11/11/2019 is Veteran's day.

I know making a card or a card video isn't much. But I wanted to do everything I could to honor our veterans today. My family has a long history with the military. Several years ago my Grandma was invited to California, all the way from Wisconsin, to receive an award from the then Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was this beautiful plaque honoring her for her sons serving over 125 years collectively in the different branches of the service. I have several uncles that served and I now I have several cousins and second cousins who have also served. Something I am well aware, I was not built to do. I respect anyone who has given even a minute of thought to serving. You are heros.

I am a firm believer in making more than one card at a time if I can squeeze it in and decided to make a male an female version of the same card since the stamp set offered both images.

I kept the fatigues a neutral color although I'm sure I could recreate these using more specific colors for each of the military branches.

All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?

This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.

YouTube is at:  https://youtu.be/JGtZZlWuth8

Check out our online store at: www.delaneyjanecards.com

Want to visit us on Instagram? Check us out at @delaneyjanecards

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Email: delaneyjanecards@gmail.com

Solid Image Stamping and Using Stash Items

Today I made a card using an older set from my stash. It is far from the oldest, I love my stamp stash!



I want to show that you don't always have to have the newest items to create beautiful card. This card was created entirely with stash items that have been in my stash at least a year, some items are five or more years old. (the newest item was an embossing folder, new to me, not sure how long it has been on the market)

I used this beautiful patterned paper to base my colored stamping on. Though my stamped images were bolder, I think it still worked well together.

I used some pearls that I've had for years, some "sample" size ink pads and some really well versed techniques to make this card. Clear embossing powder over colored ink, ribbon and twine, coloring embellishments to coordinate, edging with inks... this card has so much put into the details but I didn't need to own anything new to do it.

To watch this card be made on YouTube, you can click here: Delaney Jane Cards

All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?

This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.

Speaking of blog, you can check it out at : www.delaneyjanecards.blogspot.com

YouTube is at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyFZ3_vCTd3EohFMlGfRODQ

Check out our online store at: www.delaneyjanecards.com

Want to visit us on Instagram? Check us out at @delaneyjanecards

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/delaneyjanecards/

Email: delaneyjanecards@gmail.com

I support design...not crime

Have you seen these images floating around in your social media circles? There is this huge initiative to purchase stamps, dies and craft supplies from the designers or companies hosting the designers. 

We all know that finding a good deal is sometimes a HUGE draw. I mean, I love a good sale and a coupon combo... but have you thought about what purchasing stolen designs does to the designer? It takes away their reason to develop a product. If they are going to spend the time to create something, let's say a stamp set. Paying attention to line art, details, manufacturing, creating stamps that leave remarkable impressions when stamped and then, someone steals the idea, creates a knock off item and sells it for a fraction of the cost it cost you to create it... that steals the artists reason. 

I create almost daily, if not daily, to support my own small business. I intend to support business that put in the effort because, I put in the effort.  Here are a few of the cards I've made in the past few days using products the creators are proud of.  

I hope that the next time you see the thing on that app... you know, the super cheap one... you take into account if the idea is original, if they ripped someone's idea off, if they were here in the U.S. would they be infringing on patent... Just be fair.  

All items were purchased with my own funds. This video / blog is not sponsored.

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?

This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.

YouTube is at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyFZ3_vCTd3EohFMlGfRODQ

Check out our online store at: www.delaneyjanecards.com

Want to visit us on Instagram? Check us out at @delaneyjanecards

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/delaneyjanecards/

Email: delaneyjanecards@gmail.com

Day 6 and I felt like Dory!

Have you seen that movie, the one where the blue fish continues to say Just keep swimming... ?

This card was my keep swimming moment of the week, for sure!

I embossed the image on white bristol smooth cardstock. I had envisioned water coloring these flowers with sepia tones. I did what I thought would have accomplished just that but, it did not look nice at all. I almost threw this card panel away. I never do that, but I almost did.

I got up from the craft desk and did some housework and went back to it. I figured I could splatter brown and gold splats on the image and maybe that would help. NOPE, still hated it.

I got out a stamp set that has splatters and swatches you can stamp so it looks random but it really is controlled... I stamped that on the image. STILL HATED IT!

I left it alone for a little while and did more housework. When I went back to my desk I actually picked it up to throw it away and then decided, to ink blend over it because maybe it would help. I thought it couldn't hurt. I was ready to throw it out anyway. So I ink blended distress oxide inks over the entire panel, image and all. AND... it looked like leather. I actually sort of liked it.

I decided to stamp a sentiment and then use those zig clean color real brush markers to add some deeper color inside the sentiment letters.

I layered the panel onto a piece of gold tonic cardstock and then onto dark brown.

I love how this ended up. It looks so regal and beautiful and stunning and warm and I was so excited to share it. 

Moral of the story for day 6 of this coloring challenge, keep swimming, that blue fish has it right.

Coloring without coloring on Day 5

What a neat concept, to color without actually coloring. My Favorite Things makes this set called abstract art, many companies make similar sets which consist of scribbles, paint brush swipes, spots, dots and splatters.

I stamped the image, Simon Says Stamp's beautiful flowers across two card panels of Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock. And I heat embossed it with ultra fine gold embossing powder.

I die cut the panel out with a Mama Elephant stitched rectangle from the Basic Set Dies. Then I simply stamped the large scribble from the MFT stamp set over the image, twisted citron for the leaves and spun sugar for the flowers.

The sentiment was heat embossed in the same gold embossing powder and it is from a Pretty Pink Posh stamp set called simple sayings Courage. I felt like the line style matched this stamped image so well.

I layered it on a piece of Tonic Gold Pearl Satin finish cardstock. I then mounted the matted panel to a piece of Bazzill Guava Sensation cardstock, which is an excellent match to the spun sugar distress oxide, and then onto another piece of the gold pearl cardstock.

I know I used a lot of products to make what seems like a super simple card, but I think it turned out really pretty and in just a few minutes I had a very beautiful card, in my opinion.

That completed day 5 of the coloring challenge for me.

Day 4 and some Deer

Today I made a super quick card. I die cut this deer silhouette landscape scene from some lawn fawn licorice cardstock.

I ink blended three distress oxide inks in mustard seed,  spiced marmalade, and broken china on a piece of Simon Says white cardstock.

I heat embossed the sentiment from a Simon Says stamp set in the lower right corner in white embossing powder. I layered the die cut over the ink blended panel and adhered it to a white card base. 

Today is day 4 of the 30 day coloring challenge. Did you color today?

Happy Birthday To My Brilliant Son

I've been creating a lot of custom cards the last few weeks as well as stocking our new shop with our ready made inventory and it has made life pretty busy!

I had the opportunity to create a birthday card for a fellow card maker's son. The request was for a birthday card, no direction, color scheme, idea... etc. And those are sometimes hard when you want to ensure the card is exactly what the "customer" wants.

I was drawn to this set of papers for a masculine birthday card. I figured the woodgrain paper would add enough visual texture so the card could remain fairly flat. A single silver brad is the only raised element on this card front. 

I don't know much about her son except: he likes football, he has 4 beautiful children and a lovely wife, and he is a Pastor. That is about all I know... well, he apparently has an amazing sense of humor... I give you the inside sentiment as proof~ ;)

I wanted to add some detail to the card front so I used some stitched edge dies and created all the panels with those. I figured, masculine but detailed... right? 

I would really love to know what you think of my card today. I love blog comments!

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PMS Peggy Strikes Again!

 I've been wanting to get PMS Peggy out of her stamp sleeve for a few weeks now and today I used this awesome color challenge to do just that.

The Color Throwdown Challenge is a dark pink, light pink, white and green and this is what I came up with. Remember, neutrals are ok and I've added some tan, brown, grey and black. If you are interested in the Color Throwdown, click here: CTD451

I used this paper pad from American Crafts yet again. I'm digging these patterns and colors lately. Both pink patterns came from this pad.

I also made good use out of this set from Unity Stamp Company: PMS Peggy

I wanted to create a vintage feeling card because this stamp set screams 1950 to me. So I tried to give the feeling of vintage wallpaper to stand Peggy up against.

I used a Memory Box die to create the speech bubble and stamped the sentiment using Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink.

I colored the image using Copic Markers. Including the dots on Peggy's shirt. Then I fussy cut her and edged the image with my Tombow dark grey marker. I added sparkle to her lips, heart on her belt and to the polka dots on her shirt using a Spectrum Noir Clear Glitter Brush Marker. Although it is difficult to see in the photos, it is visible in person.

I finished the inside with another fabulous PMS Peggy sentiment and a strip of patterned paper.

I'd love to know what you think of my card for today.

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