White with a Pop of Color

I loved the Make-it-Monday challenge this week to make a card with white on white die cuts and a pop of color.  I needed to make a card for my nephew's 6th birthday so this was perfect.  He's having an Orange Party.  It's always been his favorite color so all the food and drink will be orange.

I'm also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Clean and Simple challenge and Addicted to Stamps Anything Goes challenge.

Captain America Birthday

Wow, it's been a busy Summer so far.  I have not made anytime to sit down and make cards just for fun.  Seems I'm always making one quickly as the need arises.  This card came about because my daughter asked me to make a card for her friend's 16th birthday.  Her request was to make it in the theme of Captain America because that's what her friend likes.  I guess it's an inside joke that he thinks he's Captain America :)

I started with a Navy card base and stamped the medallion and stars in white ink.  I added the die cuts and voila!  Such a quick and simple card.  I just love how it turned out.  I really do need to make more time to create easy cards.

I'm playing along with two challenges with this card:

Virginia's View Challenge -- use die cuts

and

Seize the Birthday -- stars and /or stripes

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend,




 
All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  2012 Birthday Tags, Everyday Classics 
Paper:   Enchanted Evening, White, Men of Life pp
Ink:   White
Other:  By the Numbers dies, Suffix Style dies, One Liner dies

Diagonal Stripes Birthday

Here's a quick birthday card using Papertrey's Diagonal Stripes cover plate.  I love these colors against the black stripes.

Entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge -- to use die cuts.

 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Boutique Borders: Birthday
Paper:   white, black
Ink:  Raspberry Fizz, Black
Other:  Stripes- Diagonal cover plate, Hawaiian Shores buttons, Pink Sorbet twine (Twinery)

CAS(E) this Sketch #75

It's been a long time since I've played along with CAS(E) this Sketch.  I love the simplicity of the sketch for this challenge so I gave it a go.

I wanted to finally ink up my Circle Scribbles stamp set so I used it to create the background.  It ended up a bit busy for my taste, but it will make a fun birthday card for someone.  The little banner is trimmed from a stamp set in the 2012 Birthday Tags set.

Have a wonderful weekend!





 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Circle Scribbles, 2012 Birthday Tags
Paper:   White, navy
Ink:   Pinkolicious (color box), Tangelo (memento), Buttercup (CTMH), Brilliant Blue (SU!)

Divided Panels

Happy Easter everyone!

As soon as I saw Maile Belles' card HERE (third card down) for the April Papertrey release I knew I wanted to make a card using divided panels.  Then a few days later Maile posted more cards with divided panels HERE.

Here is my attempt.  After I stamped the entire white panel I used the largest die in the Curved Rectangles Nestabilities set to cut it at an angle.  I then adhered both pieces to a Tropical Teal card base trimming away the excess at the top.  What do you think?  I really like how it came out.

I'm playing along with a birthday challenge again.

TIME OUT Challenge #3

 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Embellished Elegance, Damask Designs
Paper:   White, Tropical Teal
Ink:   Tropical Teal (PTI), London Fog, Rose Bud, Dandelion (memento), Breeze (CTHM)
Other:  Embellished Elegance dies, Curved Rectangles Nestabilities (Spellbinders)

No Stamps, No Ink

Today I'm taking the day to try some new recipes and make some cards!  I could run around town doing errands, but I'm choosing to stay home today and dig into some crafty goodies that have gone unused lately.  Yay for a day off work!

Here's a quick birthday card using Papertrey's Text Block Birthday die.  I received this die as a birthday gift from a sweet stamping friend.  It was such a wonderful surprise.  I love that I can make a super quick birthday card with this.

I cut the text block out of gold glitter card stock and layered black behind it to make it pop.  It's difficult to capture the sparkle of the gold papers in a photo but in real life this card shines.

I'm playing along with two birthday challenges:

TIME OUT Challenge #3 -- make a masculine birthday card

and

CAS on a Sunday #31 -- use die cuts on a birthday card

Have a wonderful day,

Garden Grace Birthday take two

Okay, I couldn't resist making one more quick card using Garden Grace and the stitched rectangle dies.  I just changed up the color of the card base and the sentiment from the last card.  I like the brighter look of this base.  I also added a few more flowers in the lower right corner.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  Anything Goes

and

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Happy Birthday

 
All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Garden Grace, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday
Paper:   Simply Chartreuse, White
Ink:   Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink (SU!), Pear Tart, Black (Memento), Ripe Avocado
Other:  Stitched Rectangles (Lil' Inkers)

Garden Grace Birthday

I'm back with a quick card I made for my mother.  Her birthday is on Wednesday so I'm ahead of the game:)

I finally broke down and bought these awesome stitched rectangle dies from Lil' Inkers.  It's ridiculous that I waited so long.  These dies add just the right touch to your card panels.  I love them!

The stamps are Garden Grace from Papertrey.  My friend loaned me her set for a wedding project I was doing.  While I had them here I thought I'd make a quick card.

I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge:  Anything Goes

and

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Happy Birthday

Hope you are enjoying your Saturday,




 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Garden Grace
Paper:  Ripe Avocado, White
Ink:  Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery (SU!), Ripe Avocado
Other:  Stitched Rectangles (lil' inkers)

Golden Birthday

Hi all!  I really didn't intend to take that long of a blog break.  Just got busy and didn't feel like blogging.  I know most of you get that.  I have still been making cards -- mostly because my friends and family still have birthdays coming up.

Here's one I made for my daughter using some of her favorite colors: black, gold and burgundy.

I just loved this Apache Blessing and doesn't it look cool embossed in gold?  Love it!  The gold strips are mulberry paper.  I used my hole punch to make the little gold dots from some gold Christmas stickers.

She adored this card.  It's totally her style - a bit busy for my taste, but just right for her.

Hope all is well with each of you!

Playing along with Simon Says Stamp Birthday Challenge.

 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Inside Out Birthday II
Paper:  True Black, Scarlet Jewel, mulberry paper (unknown)
Ink:  Versamark
Other:  circle nestabilities, gold Christmas stickers, gold EP

Make a Wish

I'm back again with another card for the festivities at Papertrey.  I decided to try my hand at another color combo and sketch challenge.  I took some creative license with the sketch:)

Here are the color combo and sketch I combined:





I had these two Kraft "rings" sitting on my desk as scraps from my father's birthday card here, so I decided to use those as the top half-circle piece of the sketch.  I layered them over some guidelines card stock that I chose for the base.  The candles were cut out of Kraft paper as well so the ink colors are not as vibrant.  I added touches of gold glitter pen to everything to make it sparkle and shine.

The photo doesn't really do it justice.  It really looks better in real life.

Well it's back to work tomorrow so we'll see if I can squeeze in any more crafty fun this week.


Blessings,



 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Polka Dot Parade #12
Paper:   Guidelines cs, Kraft
Ink:  Hawaiian Shores, Raspberry Fizz, Scarlet Jewel, Summer Sunrise
Other:  Polka Dot Parade #12 candle dies, circle nestabilitites (spellbinders), gold glitter gel pen

72 Amazing Years

Hello again!  It's been a long few months.  I think I remember how to write up a post:)

Well once more the Papertrey anniversary celebration contests get me back to card making after the busy holidays, etc.  I had to make a card for my father's birthday this weekend so I played along with the color and sketch challenge HERE.

Here's the color scheme and sketch I chose:






Since it was for my father I went light on the Scarlet Jewel and Pure Poppy, only using them on the gift.
It was fun to get crafty again!  Hopefully I'll have even more time to play along with more contests tomorrow.





 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Big Birthday Wishes, Make a Wish Additions
Paper:  Dark Chocolate, Kraft, Fine Linen, Classic Kraft polka dot patterned paper
Ink:   Scarlet Jewel, Pure Poppy, Fresh Snow
Other:  Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), By the Number border dies

One More Happy Background

I'm so glad that I had a bit of time today to join in on the birthday bash at 10 Minute Craft Dash.  My card was super quick to put together.  I used the "Happy" background that I created for these two cards.  I just had to create one more card before putting all those stamps back into their sets:)

I stamped the white panel a few times to create the background paper, then I taped two chevrons together that were in my scrap pile.  I die cut the birthday word from a scrap of Pure Poppy card stock and adhered it all together.

Total time:  6 minutes 28 seconds!  Does that count since I had all the scraps laying around already?  I hope so.

I'm also playing along at Seize the Birthday -- anything goes.

Blessings,


 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Various "happy" clear stamps
Paper:   Black, white, Pure Poppy, tempting turquoise (SU)
Ink:   black
Other:  Chevron cover plate, birthday trio dies

My "Happy" Background

Here are two fun birthday cards that I made using a variety of "happy" sentiment stamps.  I went through all of my clear stamps and pulled out any sentiments that were simply the word HAPPY.  I found nine different stamps and arranged them on a block.

As you can see I started by stamping the card base with white ink.  I then die cut a circle and stamped it a few times in black.  I mounted that up on pop dots and added the die cut "birthday" word using my new Birthday Trio dies from Papertrey Ink.

Here's another color combination.  For this one I colored in the drop shadow to match the birthday die cut on one of the "happy" words.  It's a subtle touch but it adds a little something to the card.

I'm entering both of these into the Moxie Fab World birthday card challenge.

I'm also submitting these into the Words, Words, Words challenge at Our Creative Corner.

Blessings,



 

Stamps:   variety of "happy" sentiments (mostly from PTI)
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise / Pure Poppy, Ballet Blue / Orange, white 
Ink:   White, Black
Other:  Birthday dies (pti), circle die (spellbinders)

I'm Still Here

Hi all!  It's been a long time since I've posted anything here.  It was an unplanned blog break, but a much needed one for sure.  Once I started my new job things got really busy with the end of the school year activities as well.  As soon as school was out we headed out of town to a wonderful beach vacation in North Carolina.

Since I'm settled back into the home routine I just had to play along with Stephanie's first Clearly Besotted challenge.  I just love her stamps.

I chose to keep things really simple by making a one layer card.  Gotta ease back into stamping:)  I stamped the leaves and then used a marker to add some shading.  I remembered seeing Debby Hughes do that on one of her cards.  Love that look.  After stamping the sentiment I added a few epoxy stickers and voila -- done.  Can't wait to make more of these to have on hand.

I'm so glad I didn't miss out on the chance to join this challenge.  Making this simple card has really helped to jump start my creativity again.  I may not get a lot posted, but I'll definitely be back to making cards again.


Have a great weekend,





Stamps:   Leafy Accents, It's Your Birthday
Paper:   White
Ink:   Certainly Celery (SU), Black (memento)
Other:  peeled paint distress marker, gold gel pen, epoxy stickers (recollections)

More Glitter Tape

So my obsession with glitter tape continues:)  I'm not apologizing for it one bit.  I love this stuff.  So many gorgeous colors to choose from too.

This is for the latest CAS(E) this Sketch challenge and CAS-ual Fridays Birthday Bash Challenge

  

This is such a great sketch.  It's so versatile.  I cannot wait to see all the beautiful cards that people make for this challenge.

Not much to explain here.  I masked off the edges of the card base and stamped the background image.  I then cut several strips of glitter tape and made little banners.  Finished with a big sentiment and some rhinestone gems.





 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   Background Basics: Retro, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday
Paper:   White
Ink:  tuxedo black (memento)
Other: lots of glitter tape (american crafts), rhinestones