A Simple Card

Hello, hope everyone is having a wonderful day.

Today I have a simple card to share with you following

the sketch over at The Stamping Bug.

I have a hard time doing CAS so I embossed the background.  When

I was first picking out my paper, I could not decide whether to us

the coral paper or the turquoise paper so I just

used both for a matting.  I stamped the

sentiment and that was about it.

There is still time left if you want to play along with this CAS sketch

at The Stamping Bug. 

Here is the sketch.

Spring Birthday - Distress Oxides

Hi, today I have a card to share with you that I created

following the sketch this week at

My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge.

Here is the sketch.

I thought this looked like a fun sketch to create.

I love to create my own background paper using various mediums

and lately, I got the urge to place with my Distress Oxides. 

So using some Bristol paper I made a piece of paper using Oxides

in Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, and Wilted Violet.

I love this combination of colors.  I made a larger piece so that I could

just cut off a panel for this card but still have the rest of the paper to use on another card.  

The colors reminded me of Easter but I didn't want to make an Easter

card because I probably would not use it as I don't send out

Easter cards.

The purple edge I made using one of my Fiskars punches.  The purple

circle is a Unity stamp that I stamped using Catherine Pooler

ink Sweet Sixteen and then hand cut it out.  The sentiment is

also a Unity stamp.  Cp inks are the greatest.

  The butterfly is from Stampin up that

is a 3 step stamp, so I used the same colors as I used on the panel.

Well I am just getting this one in under the wire at

MFT Sketch Challenge so I better get this posted.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Challenge entered:

a2z Scrapbooking - anything goes - ends 3/31

A Inky Mess - anything goes with mixed media - ends 3/24

Always a Happy Birthday - Birthday anything goes - ends 3/30

A PAR-fect Day

Hi, boy October and November are such busy birthday 

months for me.  

One of my son-in-laws loves to gold so using the sketch this

week at Paper Players I created this card.

When I saw this sketch I knew it would be perfect.

I was looking through my single sheets paper trying to figure out what I wanted to use and I ran across this argyle pattern paper, thought

it would be perfect for a golf themed card.

I cut all the parts with my Cricut Explore.  The circle I embossed with a 

dots embossing folder but flipped it so it looked like divets

in the ball.  I always worry about cutting text from 

paper when it is small letters, so this time I cut the

word out of vinyl and stuck them onto the pretty silvery gray paper.

As a matter of fact this SIL works at a printing place and he brought me that

paper.  It is so pretty in person.  He has brought me some

pretty unusual awesome papers.

Thanks for stopping by I hope you enjoy my card and am

inspired if you have a golfer in your family. 

Challenges entered:

Paper Players - sketch - ends 10/27

Little Miss Muffet - anything goes - ends 11/2

Bugaboo Tulip Blocks

Hello, it is time again for the BugaBoo Crafty Challenge over

at the Crafting Circle.  The challenges starts on the 15th

of each month and runs for a month so you have

plenty time to join in.

You need to use a Bugaboo image for this challenge but that

should not be a problem as all the images are adorable, plus

there is always a Friday Freebie. 

This month I chose to work with a 4 square 

Tulip Block.

I printed the image on Strathmore Bristol paper and colored it using my

Zig Clean Color pens and water.  I cut the center of the green panel using

a Gina Marie in and out dies.   The die is pretty cool as it cuts out a piece that has

a dotted border and then leaves behind and "window" with a dotted border. 

And that is my card, so you have have plenty time to come on over and

join in at the Bugaboo Crafty Challenge 

Challenges entered:

DigiChooseDay - anything goes - ends 8/29

LemonShortbread - anything goes - ends 8/27

Stamp Art Papel - anything goes - ends 8/22

I got to play along with the sketch this week at Mojo Monday.

I don't always get to but love to when I can.  This week

is contest/prize week since it is the first Monday of the month.

You could win a set of Verve stamps of your choice.

Here is the sketch

This card was so hard to photograph due to the gold fold on it, but is person

it looks really cool.  I'll try later to get a better picture.

The top square of paper from the Bazzill Kraft Foil pad.

I had seen someone make a card using this paper a few months back and had to find me a pack of it, this was my first card using it.

The happy birthday is a Verve stamp from the Treasured Words set that

I stamped and heat embossed in gold.

Well thanks so much for stopping by, if you get a chance hop on over to 

Mojo Monday and play along. 

Monster Love!

Well Hello, it is that time again, time for another

Bugaboo Crafty Challenge over at the 

Crafting Circle blog.

It is a fun challenge, starts the 15th of each month and runs all

month long.  You can make anything you would like as long as you

use a Bugaboo image, the images are so cute that is easy to do.

Plus Jodie has a Freebie every Friday.

The image I chose to use is call "Love Monsters" and it is

just too cute. 

As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to color it in bright colors using only

primary and secondary colors.  Felt like I was going back to school, ha ha ha.

I colored him using my Copic markers and layered him on a bunch of matching colored paper that was embossed with a variety of patterns. 

The card matches the sketch this week over at 

Tuesday Morning Sketches, with the addition of a couple

small elements. 

I added a corner die cut from My Little Paper World, this was an afterthought to cover up a small tear that happen in the corner of my picture after

I colored him(don't ya just hate when that happens?).  I had used washi tape

to tape the Gina Marie die so it would cut exactly where I wanted it, well when

I lifted it up it torn the paper.   I added a Spellbinder die cut in orange

so I would have some where to stamp the sentiment using a Unity Stamp from the.........So Glad you were Born set.

A little funny story about this image, I had it colored and laying on 

my desk when my 2 1/2+ year old great grandson came in and saw it.  He

picked it up and got all excited and tried to take off with it "OH NO".

So I knew right then and there what I was going to use this for,

his birthday card. Perfect!!!

So that is my card for today, be sure and head on over

to the Bugaboo Crafty Challenge and join in, you have till

April 14th to post your project. 

Challenges entered:

Tuesday Morning Sketches - sketch - ends 3/19
Creative Moments - anything goes/twist blue - ends 3/21
Inspiration Destination - anything goes - ends 3/28
Fab n Funky - Children - ends 3/21

A Baptism Card

Over the past weekend one of our great-granddaughters was baptised. 

Here is the card I created for this blessed event.

There is a lot of embossing on this.  All the papers are pearl white paper and the purple tones are also pearl.  I embossed the background with Design Objective folder, this folder is 8 1/2 by 11 in size and fits in my eBosser.  I love the larger size for making bigger cards.  The cross is cut using the Cricut New Testament cartridge.  I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder, but did not want the pattern too deep so it would no clash with the background so I ran it through the Cuttlebug a second time putting it under the plates and not in the folder (hope this makes sense).  This way it flattened out the embossing a bit but left a slight impression.

The center is a resin flower from CTMH.  I stamped the sentiment with a GinaK stamp, the colors matched better is person than it does in the picture.

Here is the inside and the sentiment is computer generated. 

This week at Sentimental Sunday the challenge is to use embossing wet or dry, I have used both on this card.  The sentiment is heat embossed.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy my card.