Father's Day and Graduation Party Posts

Hello Everyone! It's yet again raining here in beautiful, NH! So I have a few minutes to post some recent projects! Quick story: The Father's Day card was for my step-dad whom my mother refers to as "The Great Squirrel Hunter." He enjoys "removing" squirrels and chipmunks from his berry garden. I found this layout on a PTW sketch and LOVE IT! I found the image of the squirrel on an online coloring sheet and colored him with markers and pencils. The strawberry was stamped and colored.

The next project is a graduation card for a friend and former co-worker. She just graduated from Keene State College as an education major. I did her card with the same layout, but used the Keene colors and used a Whimsy Stamps image, the owl, since Keene's mascot is an owl. I embellished with 4 flowers, representing each of her years there and used a cute little $1 alphabet set from the craft store to stamp the sentiment. I love the colors and she enjoyed the card too!


On a different note, I also made the cake for the graduation party. It was part of my gift. I made a 3 layer cake. The bottom layer was golden, and the top two were chocolate. I know the pic is horrible, but in case you can't tell...the bottom two layers are books and the top is a graduation cap. The base of the cap is cake but the top is chocolate melted into a large square bar then frosted to match the cake. It is by no means professional, but it was fun to make (and tasty too!) Thanks for checking out my blog today!

Two more challenges...

Hello Again! I was going to space out my posts, but one more is due TODAY!!! So I made a card to fit in with Stamp Something as well as Whimsy Stamps Challenges! I followed a sketch on Stamp Something and the Whimsy challenge was to use flowers and a Whimsy image (if possible). Since I'm in pretty good with the owner, I'm fortunate to have several of the Whimsy stamps! I used a banana base and a floral print paper I got in my grab bag from Rusty Pickle. I punched banana photo corners and an ivory piece that I embossed with a Quickutz folder "Vines" in my CB. I cut another banana piece then another ivory and layered them. I stamped the Whimsy frog in black on white and colored with a water pen and markers. I adhered two Primas in green and put tiny blue buttons in the centers. I embellished with two pieces of yellow ribbon folded between layers and adorned with baby blue brads. Finally, I stamped the sentiment on a chipboard label covered with ivory paper and rubbed blue ink with a sponge. I pierced the baby blue brads through and glued it on. Thanks for stopping by!

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!