Shine on You

Happy Friday everyone!  Hope you had a great week.  Here's a quick and easy card I whipped up for a friend.

The beautiful embossing folder from Darice made this card a piece of cake.  My sweet friend recently gave me the folder as a thank you gift.  I just had to put it to use.  It's funny that I have sooooo many embossing folders in my stash and I never reach for them.  Why not?  They make such quick and interesting cards.

I'm playing along at Curtain Call for their Anything Goes challenge

and

Simon Says Stamp Spots and Dots challenge

Have a wonderful weekend!




 
Stamps:   Shine on You (Stampendous)
Paper:   White, Orange Zest (PTI), Tempting Turquoise (SU)
Ink:  Black
Other:  Blue gemstones, embossing folder (Darice)

Our Own Little Challenge

I'm back today with a fun little challenge that my girls and I decided to do together.  My youngest daughter loves all kinds of crafts and often makes cards.  My oldest daughter has never been interested in card making.  She's an artist and prefers to draw.  However, she has suddenly shown an interest in card making and it was her idea for the three of us to make cards today!  I jumped right on it and turned it into a challenge.

 We each had to make a card using a Kraft card base and stamps from Beautiful Butterflies.  The other supplies were optional.  Here's what I set out:

I knew that I wanted to use some polka dots for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge, so I decided we could use bitty dot patterned paper too:)

Here's what I came up with.  Although I didn't create a birthday card I used the sketch from the current birthday challenge at Moxie Fab.

Here is the card that my oldest daughter made.  She actually lit the corner on fire to distress it.  Then she sponged distress ink on the edge.  She came up with the embossing on her own (without seeing my card).

And here is what my youngest daughter created.  She sponged the colors on her die cut.  She actually asked if it would be too ironic for her to stamp the sentiment in black when it was referring to rainbows.  LOL!!

We had a lot of fun making these and then sharing the end results with each other.  I'm sure they'll want to do this type of challenge again soon.

Have a great weekend,



 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Beautiful Butterflies
Paper:   Kraft, white, bitty dot pp

FYI 43, Retro Sketches 57 & Simon Says BD

Happy Thursday once again!  It's time for the next For Your Inspiration challenge.  As always, you have two weeks to play along and create a project based on our inspiration photo.  Just link your card or other project up at the FYI blog.

Here is the photo for the current challenge.  Isn't is beautiful?  Anyone know where this is?  I'd love to know.

You can see that I took the colors and textures from the photo to create my card.  I used two different embossing folders from the Decorative Tile Set.  The one I cut up into panels was inked up using Royal Velvet, Sweet Blush and Lemon Tart inks to mimic the colors of the sky.

I used the current sketch from the retro sketches challenge for my layout.

I'm also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Birthday challenge.

Blessings,



   
All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Wonderful Words: Birthday
Paper:   Kraft, white
Ink:  Royal Velvet, Sweet Blush, Lemon Tart
Other:  Wonderful Words: Birthday die, Decorative Tile Set embossing folders (cuttlebug)

Birthday Balloons & Show Choir

I'm taking advantage of our snow day today to get a card and some photos of our weekend posted.  We spent a fun, busy weekend in Ohio to wrap up my daughter Michal's show choir competition season.  We were blessed to stay with Lynn and her family.  Since her son Ryan is also in show choir we got to see his group compete. They were amazing!

I just need to say that Lynn and Pat are raising four wonderful young men.  It was so great to meet all the boys and spend time laughing and playing games together.  Her little Marcel is hilarious and adorable.  Lynn could create a whole new blog all about the clever things he says and never run out of material.  He had us in tears a few times.

Here are a few shots from the competition.  Lynn has some great pictures of our time together on her blog post HERE.

I also wanted to share a card that I made for my nephew's 2nd birthday.  He's all about colors and the alphabet so I made this fun card for him.  He loved the background and started naming all the letters.  This boy already knows all the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.  This card was inspired by Gayatri's awesome card HERE.

Well, I'm off to go shovel the driveway.  I'm so ready for Summer.  At this point I can skip through Spring and head straight to a HOT summer day.






All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Up, Up & Away, 2012 Birthday Tags
Paper:  Vintage Cream, White, Pure Poppy, orange & turquoise scraps
Ink:   black (memento)
Other:  By the number dies, Up, Up & Away dies, Bookprint IP

For Your Inspiration #40

Welcome back to the next For Your Inspiration challenge!  This week we have a stunning photo with one dominant color.  Isn't it gorgeous?

I used Papertrey's Giga Guidelines set to make two simple cards based on the picture.  I added some embossing to both main panels to dress them up a bit.

Please join in on this challenge.  You have until Wed, March 6 to link up your project on the FYI blog.

 Hope you have a wonderful day!

Love Birds

Just a quick card that I whipped up for my parent's 48th wedding anniversary later this month.  After all these years they are still love birds.  It's really sweet to see.  What an inspiration for me and my siblings.

The two little birds and sentiment are from Paired Up by Clearly Besotted.  I stamped them on Spring Rain card stock and trimmed them out by hand.

I'm entering this in the Crafty Creations Challenge -- Love and /or Hearts 
and into Papertrey's anniversary challenge (inspired by Jess Witty's use of a neutral background and two pops of color HERE)





 
Stamps:  Paired Up (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:  White, Spring Rain (PTI)
Ink:   Dutch Blue (CTMH)
Other:  Tree With Leaves embossing folder (Darice)

5 minute card

Two posts in one day?  These days it's rare if I posts two cards in one month.  Okay it's not that bad, but it's close.

I needed a quick card today and turned to retro sketches for help.  This card took about 5 minutes to put together.

My husband asked me to make a card for a woman at his work who is retiring.  I just need to make it big enough for everyone to sign and keep it simple.  No problem.

I made the card base 5x7 and used my new 5x7 Polka Dot cuttlebug folder.  I love that they make bigger folders now.  The flowers are stickers that I've had in my stash for about six years now.  How sad is that?  I don't even use stickers so why do I have these?  Oh well, it helped to make a really quick card:)

Have a wonderful weekend,




Stamps:  Enjoy the Ride (PTI)
Paper:   Groovy Guava (SU), Vintage Cream (PTI)
Ink:  Blue Breeze (Kaleidacolor pad)
Other:  3-d stickers (Marcella K), gold gel pen, polka dots CB folder

Papertrey January Blog Hop

I absolutely love cards that are made using black!  It just makes colors pop.  Black backgrounds are no exception, so I just had to play along with PTI this month.

I heat embossed images from Dot Spot in white and then added some sparkle with red rhinestones.  For the birthday banner, I lightly colored the die cut with my C1 Copic marker while still in the die.

Happy Hopping!






 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Dot Spot, Birthday Basics
Paper:  White, Black, Basic Gray (SU)
Ink:  Versamark, Pure Poppy
Other:  Spellbinders Ribbon Banners die, red rhinestones, Copic marker

Orange Blooms

I'm playing along with CASology's latest challenge -- Orange.

This card was quick and easy.  I just bought this gorgeous die from memory box called Wild Blooms.  Had to put it to use right away.

• Embossed cream panel
• Die cut bloom image
• Back with patterned paper
• Add tag and embroidery floss
• Mount on orange panel
• Adhere to card base

Yay for quick cards and gorgeous dies!  

Blessings,




 
Stamps:   Birthday Basics (PTI)
Paper:   Orange Zest, Vintage Cream (PTI), SU! pp
Ink:   black
Other:  Wild Blooms die (memory box), Decorative Tile embossing folder (CB), orange embroidery floss

Splash of Lime

TGIF!!!  Had a bit of time today to play along with two challenges.  I also needed a birthday card for tomorrow.  I inked up one of the tags from 2012 Birthday Tags (PTI) that I hadn't used yet.  I really like the distressed striped on the image design.  I thought they'd go well with the embossing folder.  The lime paper is a scrap of adhesive vellum that I had in my stash for far too long.  Glad to finally put it to use.

Here are the challenges --

The Play Date Cafe challenge this week is:

I'm also entering this into the Moxie Fab Repetition challenge.

Have a fantastic weekend!




 
 All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:   2012 Birthday Tags
Paper:   Black, White. Lime adhesive vellum (shortcuts)
Ink:   Black, Pear Tart (memento)
Other:  Distressed Stripes embossing folder, twine, YG03 copic marker, 1 3/4" circle punch

PTI Anniversary Day 2

The best part of February has arrived!  It's Papertrey's 5th Anniversary and the festivities are underway.  Today the contest is to use one of the stamp designer's digital images and create a card.  I chose Dawn's birthday circle.  You can see Nichole's post for the free download.

You've seen this design from me before HERE, HERE and HERE.  I guess it's my go-to look when I need a quick card:)  I just love using dies to make impressions for quick CAS cards.  Once again it was one of the Limitless Layer circles that I impressed on the card base.  Just use the tan embossing mat under base so that the die does not cut through.

I printed the birthday image and then punched out the inside with a 1 1/2" circle punch.  That left the outside ring which I punched out with a 1 3/4" circle punch.  The inside circle is popped up over the buttons.

Have a wonderful day,



All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Dawn McVey's 5th Anniversary Digi
Paper:   White, black 2008 Bitty Dot pp
Other:  PTI buttons, Limitless Layers circles, 1 3/4" & 1 1/2" circle punches (ek success), Scor-Pal, Black DMC embroidery floss

PTI January 2012 Blog Hop

It's the 25th of the month so that means the Papertrey Blog hop is going on.  This month we are to choose one of our favorite projects from 2011 and create something new based on that.  I chose this wedding card that I made using Harvest Berries.   You can see the original post HERE.

This time I chose to use the same colors, but changed it up a bit by adding the negative die cut over the stamped leaves.  I used the smaller version of the above sentiment that is found in the Star Prints set. I also trimmed a bit off the card front and  punched the border on back of the base instead.

Happy hopping!





All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless stated.

Stamps:  Harvest Berries, Star Prints
Paper:   White
Ink:  Lavender Moon, Almost Amethyst (SU), Versamark
Other:  Harvest Berries dies, silver EP, Apron Lace border punch (fiskars)