Welcome to the 4:00 pm hour of our World Card Making Day celebrations! Don’t you just love a day dedicated to something you love? We hope you’re enjoying what our team has put together. This hour we are excited to share more beautiful cards from Design Team members Melissa Phillips, Meghann Andrew and Virginia Nebel!
If you are only just joining us now, we hope you’ll start at the beginning by clicking on the links below to see all the inspiration our team has offered throughout the day…
9:00 am – World Card Making Day kickoff and sketch challenge
10:00 am – We are joined by Cathy Zielske, Susan Opel and Stacy Cohen
12:00 pm – We are joined by Paige Evans and Anya Lunchenko
2:00 pm – We are joined by Nicole Nowosad, Lisa Dickinson and Sheri Reguly
“Fall is such a great time to create Thank You cards….everything we celebrate this time of year centers around gratitude, including the warm, rich, cozy Autumn products available.
I’ve mixed two fall collections together to create my card today, both from Carta Bella, the Hello Fall and Fall Break collections. In the background, you’ll notice patterns that create a fall feel, such as gingham, and florals.
My focal point reemphasizes the fall feel with a chipboard wreath and leaves and cardstock stickers to embellish and bring in my sentiment of thankfulness.
Enjoy your day!”
~ Melissa
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“Hello there and happy World Card Making Day, SCT readers! It’s Meghann Andrew here, and card making was my first foray into the paper crafting world. I love the small canvas of possibilities and the idea that what I create could make someone else’s day.
Thank you cards are my most sent greeting, and today I’m excited to share a fun and easy thank you card created using Elle’s Studio Thank You and Noteworthy stamps!
Supplies | Stamps & patterned paper: Elle’s Studio; washi tape: American Crafts; Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives, Therm-o-Web; Misc. sequins
This card is simple, yet packs a big punch. When I decided to use the “thanks” script stamp, I wanted to choose a second greeting with it, but couldn’t decide between all of the lovely ones on the Thank You stamp set. I decided to use them all, and arrange them in rainbow colors to match my striped, patterned paper background.
I chose all of the phrases that fit inside the Noteworthy banner flag, stamping the flags in rainbow hues, and leaving the phrases in navy to match the word above. I needed a horizontal line to “hang” all of these flags from, so I grabbed the new gold glitter washi tape from the American Crafts Shine On collection. I love seeing that sparkle against all of the bright colors!
To finish off the card, I stamped the star circle with the Noteworthy stamp below the flags, and added sequins to coordinate with the banner flags above. Every good deed deserves a handmade card, and I can’t wait to send this one to someone special!”
~ Meghann Andrew
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“Sending a ‘Hello’ card will surely let someone know they are special! It’s sweater weather lately and I’m inspired to create an Autumn ‘Hello’ card.
My card making approach is to keep it simple. I dug into my stash of ccardstockscraps and chose a dry embossing folder. Dry embossing is a great way to add texture in the background letting your embellishment be the star of your card. I placed the card stock pieces flush to each other so that the embossed design would be continuous in the background.
Wishing everyone a Happy World Card Making Day, hope you are inspired to get card crafty!”
~ Virginia Nebel
Thank you, Melissa, Meghann and Virginia for creating these beautiful cards and sharing your techniques too!
GIVEAWAY
To celebrate this hour and our course to ensure you have some new products to work with, we want to give away two of our SCT Delivered card kits to TWO lucky winners! One winner will win our Forever Fall card kit and one person will win our Citrus Squeeze card kit!
For an opportunity to win either of these kits be sure to leave a comment below by Thursday, October 11th. Winners will be announced on Friday, October 12th. In your comment tell us what cardmakers inspire you the most! Good luck!
Please join us one more time at 5:00 as we do a wrap up of today AND we have a $250 prize package to share too!
My favorite would have to be Jennifer McGuire. I love how she shares techniques and what works for her. We watch her YouTube videos all of the time.
Wow. Gorgeous cards by talented artists! Thanks for inspiring me to pull out my Fall supplies! These are all beautiful cards but I love Virginia’s style ????
Love the fall colours!
I love Virginia’s use of embossing multiple papers at the same time…and fall is my favorite time of year!
As I am relatively new to the card making I don’t know many card makers. My mother, however, inspires me every day to use my creativity. Thanks for the chance to win the many prizes you offer.
I love so many but Kristina Werner and Sheri Reguly are my two faves.
great cards, I love the Echo Park and Carta Bella card kits. I don’t really have a favorite cardmaker, there are so many great ones out there!
How can I narrow to one? There are so many out there! I really love Virginia’s cards! Thanks for the chance to win!
These cards are beautiful!!! And card kits from SCT are always awesome!!!
I love all the cards and card making ideas. Such good inspiration today. Would love to win either of these kits…. Summer is over but Fall is just beginning! Thanks so much!!
So many talented card makers out there that inspire me but I love Vicki Boutin’s cards and Nicole Nowosad’s too!! Thanks for the chance to win one of the card kits…both are gorgeous but that fall one speaks to me!
Thanks to Melissa, Meghann, and Virginia for these charming cards!
I’m inspired by many cardmakers, and at the top of the list would be Jennifer McGuire. She has great use of color and awesome creativity, and as a bonus, she is extremely generous and kind. She’s inspiring!
Marcella Hawley from Power Poppy.
She has the most exquisite stamps and her
coloring is amazing. I was able to
attend a class with her in St. Louis
and it was fabulous. Love to see
her post in the mail every day.
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Happy WCMD.
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Please do not make choose just one card maker, they all had great & useful ideas! Thank You all!
Love the embossing! Jennifer McGuire is at the top of my list for her extreme kindness in sharing all that she does. She is a top notch paper crafter. Of course there are so many more talents out there in card making land.
I have so many card making idols! My current fave is Stephanie Klauck – her creations are very inspiring.
This card is fabulous, and I am definitely stealing the idea of using different colors of card-stock at one time in an embossing folder to make a background!! The card is very autumnal and since Fall is my season, I really like it!!! It would be great to the Fall kit, too. Thanks for the chance to win it on this World Cardmaking Day.
Both kits look adorable! Thanks for the inspiration projects and the giveaway!
I especially love the fall cards, so lovely! It’s hard to pick just one cardmarker I admire but it would have to be Jennifer McGuire, I just recently started following her, she’s amazing!
Love these fall cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
I began card making with Kristina Werner. She is still my favorite. Jennifer McGuire and Laura Bassen comes right behind. Thanks for the inspiration today and everyday. These kits look fun to use.
There is so much talent out there, thank you so much for sharing. It’s hard to pick but Kristina & Jennifer are at the top of my list followed by Yana Smakula.
There are so many who inspire me! Jennifer McGuire, Yana Smakula, Jessica Frost Ballas to name a few.
I love Jennifer McGuire’s style.
I love these cards! I think that Carta Bella line is gorgeous! Wonderful inspiration…thanks so very much ladies and Happy WCMD!!
Love the Forever Fall card kit. I find inspirational card makers al the time. I don’t have a favourite as it keeps changing! Thanks for the chance to win xxx
I love so many card makers, and Jennifer McGuire is my favourite. She always reminds us to be kind, and to encourage others.
Oh that’s a really tough questions. Jennifer McGuire is my best inspiration for techniques, but for general design there’s just too many to name!
Jennifer McGuire and your own Susan Opel are two card makers who really inspire me. I am loving all the inspiration today….thank you!
Love the cards.
The continuation of the embossing folder over the 3 colours is great idea. Love the results.
Virginia and Meghann’s card went straight to my pinterest board! Love all those layers and the colors of Meghann’s thank you card. :)
I am continually amazed at how the simplest ideas are often the most effective. Never in a million years would I have thought of dry embossing strips of colored cardstock abutted against each other .. so Virginia Nebel’s example of that just set off explosions in my brain! What an utterly brilliant idea!
Heh, certainly the rest of the card was delightful but it was that embossing of the cardstock that made me say, “wow!” :-)
I absolutely love the card by Virginia Nebel. What a awesome idea to use up my scraps! So would have never thought of that idea but can’t wait to try it! Running to grab my embossing folders right now! I love people who share ideas and different ways to use items we already have! Very inspirational! Thanks Virginia!
Such beautiful cards! I am inspired by so many card makers out there – your team here at SCT as well as Justine Hovey, Jennifer McGuire and many more. I love how the embossing was done on this card! Thank you for the inspiration and the chance to win an amazing kit!!
Your cards are great, I especially like he Owl one, so colourful and warm as is your bird one. Beautiful cards and great embellishments. , and the embossing really adds to the cards. Thank you
Again, such great card ideas!! I have enjoyed all of these projects
by these card designers today, hard to pick just one for sure.
I do enjoy Jennifer McGuire and Nicole Nowasad unique ideas..
but everyone today, has come up with some wonderful projects.
Fabulous card ideas, I have to say I love Debby Hughes style of cardmaking!
I love the card kits and the cards that you have made. thanks for the inspiration. Makes the fall cards so beautiful with all of the colours that you have used.
All beautiful cards. I especially like the banner idea on the thank you card.
I love these thank you cards! Thanks for sharing!
Great cards. Fall is my favorite time of year.
That’s a tough question. If I had to choose (and I wish I did not) it would be Jennifer McGuire.
What fabulous fall cards! i love the creative use of the embossing folder. so many cardmakers inspire me Jennifer McQuire, Laura Bassen, M. Pranter, Channin Pelletier, Francine Vuilleme and so many more.
Bonnie Krebs with Art Impressions is my favorite card maker
Beautiful fall card kits for my favourite season. I’ve just started following Jennifer McGuire and like her technique videos – easy to follow and great ideas!
I receive the SCT Sampler every month and you do such a great job of curating them. It would be wonderful to win one of your full kits as I’m sure the same thought goes into them. I follow so many card makers it’s hard to pick just one, but Jennifer McGuire is one of my top picks.
Love Jennifer McGuire but also love my fellow Canadian Amy Rysavy!!
I subscribe to Jennifer McGuire’s blog and love her designs and talent. I also get posts from Emily Leiphart’s blog. Sandy Allnock is so talented, too. There are too many to mention since I have been card making since 2001. Oh, I also love Tim Holtz innovative style, too. Anyway, thanks for a chance to win one of the awesome card kits. :D
Cute cards ladies!!
I must say that Melissa’s card is my favorite. Love the colours and the warm feeling it gives me.