For the Boys

Happy Memorial Day, America! Today I decided to celebrate the lives of those who helped to keep our freedom and the land that we love by making an All-American type card (which just happens to fit 3 different challenges this week!) I used Quarterback Ian from Greeting Farm stamps and a pallet of browns and tans. I started with a base of dark brown then layered a tan piece which I used CB folder Tiny Mosaic. Then I distressed the edges of some football paper that I got in a grab bag at the Rusty Pickle booth at the CK Convention last weekend! Next, I took a piece of cardboard and "antiqued" the edges with cocoa ink and a sponge. Next, I took a strip in the dark brown and punched a silver large eyelet in it, then mounted it across the card. Next, I flipped the same football paper, and mounted it on the cardboard. I colored Ian with a water pen and markers. I cut the football out of the image, traced it on a piece of leather and cut that to fit in place. I drew the lines with a white paint pen. Finally, I used to chipboard tags sponged in brown, and I doodled the words BIG and Game and tied them with hemp twine and adhered to the corner. This card fits the "Nothing Girly, for the Boys" challenge on Roses On Paper's Challenge Blog, Cute Card Thursday's "Sports" Challenge, and I used the Papertake Weekly Sketch for their challenge. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend! Thanks to all our heroes :)

Two for today!

Hello! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Today I am posting two cards. The first is a card I made for my dearest friend's birthday! We celebrated the day at the Creating Keepsakes Convention! We got some fantastic bargains and had a great time! So the card...I started with a brown base then layered a pink and brown plaid printed paper. I cut two strips of the same brown as the base card and pierced one piece with rhinestone brads and the other I layered two prima flowers and glued a Dew Drop to the center. The image is one I got from my friend and colored it with colored pencils. Finally, the sentiment was typed and printed on the computer in brown and mounted on brown. Not my best work, by any means, but I love the color combo! Sorry about the lousy pics...still no real camera!

The next card is a get well card I made for one of my customers. She is having 2 surgeries over the next few weeks so we thought we'd send her some well wishes! This card was made with apricot cardstock, blue cardstock and Basic Grey paper. I stamped the Whimsy Kid's image "Rainy Day Emma" in black and colored with water colored crayons and an aqua painter. I embellished the image with Crystal Effects to simulate rain on the umbrella and around. I mounted this on green then blue then apricot. I used coordinating ribbons and fanned them out over the edges of the card. I affixed some felt flowers in green and orange and topped with a Robin's Egg. The sentiment is stamped in green and mounted on the designer paper and mounted on blue. I used the same sentiment (in full form) on the inside of the card from the Stampin' Up sympathy set.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to be participating in some challenges again soon! Keep checking back! Happy Monday!

Thank You

This is a Thank You card I made for an old friend of mine. She organized a "mini" reunion of a group of us that used to work together through high school and college. We had such a blast! The base of the card was a light blue. I cut strips of light blue, pink and white cardstock. I embossed the pink and white with the CB textile folder. I glued the embossed pieces on first, then layered the plain blue pieces on. The image is "Daisy" and she was colored with colored pencils. I punched photo corners in pink and a coordinating decorative paper and layered them. I attached to the corners of the image. I mounted the image on a lopsided piece of the pink paper and used 3D foam to raise the image. I stamped the sentiment from a SU set, and mounted on light blue. I finished the look with Dew Drops in the corners. Thanks for stopping by! I'll be posting more later!

Get Well and For You

Hello! Thanks for stopping by! Last week I was house sitting and for some reason felt VERY creative! Luckily, I had brought some stamping supplies with me and got down to business. The first card is a Get Well card I made for my niece. She's been ill and is going to be having surgery soon so I made this to cheer her up. I used a blue base and an alphabet print paper as the first layer. I colored a Sugar Nellie image I received from an image swap using an aqua painter and some markers. I adhered it to apricot card stock. I adhered green ribbon to the side. I glued 2 orange flowers on top of one another and finished it with a dew drop. Finally, I stamped the sentiment (from Whimsy Stamps) and mounted it on the base blue.

The next card is a card thanking the homeowner for the opportunity to care for her dog last week. I used a pink base. I used the CB Textile folder to emboss white for the first layer. I adhered a sheer white ribbon to the left. I used a Magnolia stamp (Tilda with Rose) as the main image. I colored her with colored pencils and embellished her wing with Elmer's 3d paint pen in white, and cut her out and adhered her to the ribbon. I glued a paper rose I found at the dollar store (in 6 packs) and used the ribbon and hairpin that were from the rose, and stuck them to the lower left hand side of the card. I finished it with the sentiment (Whimsy Stamps) "for you" and adhered that to the base pink.

Thanks for stopping by and I have several more to post so keep checking back! Happy Monday!

Another Brother's Birthday!

Hi All! Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone is spending lots of time outside enjoying the warmer temps! Today is my brother, Adam's, 29th birthday. He "collects" antique tractors, so I took a photo of one of his tractors and edited it to be a black and white photo. I printed it on white cardstock and cut it to look like a photo. I punched brown textured photo corners with a SU punch and embellished each corner with a pewter square brad. I adhered the photo and corners to a red base. I used the computer to make the sentiment and printed it on white cardstock, then brown and red accents underneath. I used 3-d foam to glue it on the photo. Inside, the words are done the same way and it says "Just remember it takes one to know one. Happy Birthday." It's not my favorite card I've ever made, but it's simple and suits his taste! Thanks for stopping by and have a great night!

Birthdays for Brothers

Hello! I'm back with a couple of projects I had made to deliver to my older brothers yesterday at my brother Ken's 40th birthday party! The first card I made was for my brother, Kevin. His birthday was a couple of weeks ago and I never mailed it. So I printed out a belated apology on the inside :P I started with a beige cardstock as the base. I cut a smaller layer of wood print paper and embossed it with the branch folder on the CB. I punched corners with the SU corner punch and stuck hardware stickers all around. I pierced the corners and stuck in basic brads in a pewter color. The sentiment was printed on off white cardstock using the printer and Tahoma font. (The rest of the sentiment is inside and it says "To wish you a belated birthday!") Then I mounted it on red, and used 3-D foam to adhere.

The next card was The Big 40 card I made for my brother,Ken. I started with a 5x7 white card base. I layered on a piece of decorative paper. In keeping with the black, white and red theme, I punched photo corners in the black and red. I layered the corner sizes and flipped them on each corner. Then I did a layer of black and embossed with the Traffic Jam CB folder. I punched white corners and adhered to the black. Next, I wrapped black ribbon around the entire card and adhered inside. I covered the inside top flap with more of the same striped paper. I used scrapbooking tile stickers to make the words THE BIG and I used some squiggly silver clips to embellish. Finally, I free hand drew out and cut a 40 in black. I used 3D paint pen in silver to embellish the numbers. I remounted the 40 onto red cardstock and recut. I used 3D foam to adhere to the center of the card. I am very happy with how the card came out...but the pic leaves a lot to be desired! I'm hoping to get a camera sooner than later...thanks for bearing with me!

It's been a while...

Hello All! Sorry I've been away so long for those of you who check in on my projects! I haven't had a whole lot of stampin' mojo these days but I have been attempting to keep track of my projects that I do get to! Today I am posting a couple of projects from last week. The first is the card I made for my dear friend, Miss Ashley for her baby shower. She is due at the end of May and is having a girl! Her shower was great fun, and I must say that she and her sister, Allison, are the BEST gift opening team ever! It was the quickest unwrapping I have ever witnesses! I may have to hire them for our family events ;) Anyway, the card is on a rusty red, textured base. The next layer is white, embossed with Versa mark and white embossing powder umbrellas from a SU set. I cut a small, SU Bashful Blue rectangle and then a smaller floral print paper next. I wrapped organdy ribbon and tied in a knot. I used white cardstock to stamp in blue "your shower" and set it into a metal book plate and attached it to the cardstock using gemstone brads.

The next image is one of the Thank You cards I made as a gift for Ashley. Her theme is "love bug" from Babies R Us, so I went with a cute little bug theme. I've found that a lot of people don't use the cards for what I made them for, so I made these less "baby" and more plain. I used blue cardstock as the base, then layered white cardstock which I CB embossed using the stylized flowers folder. Next I layered the same red color as the shower card and the floral print paper. I used the sheer ribbon as an accent. Then I punched small circles on white, and stamped the cute little SU ladybug holding a tulip. I colored her with markers and embellished her with 3d paint pens on the dots and the flower. I then punched scalloped circles and overlapped them in green and blue, and adhered the ladybug on top. I used 3d dots to adhere to the card. Thanks for bearing with all my chatter and stopping by today! I'll have more tomorrow :)