A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday, 16 April 2026

Blue Doves


Blue is beyond all colours in being my favourite colour - I love all shades of it.  So for Can You Handle the Pressure "Blue on Blue Monochromatic", I have this card in a pale aqua blue:

I embossed my background panel and then gently swiped ink over the raised part of it.  I die cut the sentiment out of a scrap of cardstock, and then before I removed them from the cardstock, I rubbed the same ink over the embossed words and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

Both my best friend and I love peace doves as a theme for Christmas cards and have to make several every year for her to buy at my fund raiser each year so while I was making the above card, I decided to make a second peace dove card.  This one is going to Shopping our Stash "Sparkle" and to the Snippets challenge.

A very quick CAS card!  The dove, the leaf, and the sentiment were die cut out of scraps of different colours of glitter cs and out of scraps of white, glued together for more substance, and added to the card base.

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Supplies for card 1:
Ink - Mama Elephant Winter Blue
Paper - white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Couture Creations embossing folder, TH sentiment die, clear embossing powder

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white shimmer cs, two shades of blue glitter cs, white glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black dove die, Memory Box peace die


8 comments:

  1. Two very nice cards. Thanks for sharing the second one over at the Snippets Playground. See you in the treehouse later. xxx

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  2. great additions to your Christmas stash, I especially love the glittery dove xx

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  3. Oh Susan, both cards are just beautiful!!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

    Darlene
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
    Can You Handle the Pressure Co-Owner

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  4. Two beautiful blue, peace dove cards, Susan. I especially love the sparkle from the second one! xx

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  5. I love the colors you chose for this beautiful card

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  6. Gorgeous cards Susan. I'm like you and do like to make 'dove' based cards for Christmas. We certainly need our doves around the World right now! Hope you're keeping well and also that the pooches are thriving! Love from Di - and Dudley xx

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  7. I love both shades of blue and both of these beautiful, peaceful dove cards! Your Christmas stash is growing by leaps and bounds, my friend!

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  8. Beautiful dove card!! Way to go shopping your stash for our "I don't sweat, I sparkle" challenge!! We are so glad you joined the fun and played along with us over at Shopping Our Stash...you rocked our sparkle challenge with your glittery dove!!
    Deb Horst, DT #SOS571

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