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.

Mojo Monday #336

I have a card to share with you today that follows the sketch this week at 

Mojo Monday.

A while back I bought the DCWV Chalkboard stack, I love the chalkboard look with fonts on it. 

So finally I used some of it to create this card.

 I used my Cameo and white gel pen to write the birthday wishes on a piece of the red chalkboard paper.  It has a very rough feel to it much like a chalkboard.  I then triple cut layers around it.

The houndstooth background paper is from the DCWV Natural stack, then I embossed the red with my houndstooth folder.  I added some velvet like ribbon and a CTMH embellishment.

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope you have a wonderful day.

Southwestern Kokopelli

Hello visitors.

Living in the Southwest I love to create southwestern themed cards.

This card will work very well for a male card, you know the ones that are sometimes are to make.

I stamped the 2 Kokopellis and the cactus and heat embossed them with copper embossing powder. I distressed the edges around the stamped images. I also stamped and embossed the happy birthday. The background paper is a single sheet from Paper Pizzaz.

I will link this card up to the Sentimental Sundays challenge this week, which is to make a male/boy card, which is great because I am trying to build up my male card stash.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Play Ball!.........

Hello everyone!  Are you ready for Spring to start, or in our house we look forward to the baseball season starting.

Here is Arizona it has been unusually hot this Winter it has been in the upper 70s or 80s.

My husband really likes baseball (I do too)and his birthday in April 2nd which sometimes falls on opening day.  So here is a card I made a while back to give him, but had never posted it.

I cut the background pattern, baseball and the chevrons using the CTMH Artbooking cartridge.  The happy birthday is stamped using a Sweet & Sassy stamp.

Then I found another baseball card idea on Pinterest that I liked so I started to make that for him but it is not done yet so I will share that in another post.

This week at Sentimental Sundays the challenge is to make a male/boy card so i will be linking this card to that challenge. 

Dazzles & Teal

Hello, I am back again to share a card with you that I made.

This week the throwdown at Operation Write Home is a color challenge to use teal or turquoise as your primary color on your card.    I am sure you have heard of OWH, they are a fabulous organization that does wonderful things for our troops that are deployed.  If you have not heard of them please check out there blog HERE.

This card is so pretty in person.  The bees & flowers are Dazzle stickers that are very sparkly.  I have so many of them but always forget to use them.  I triple matted the 3 labels and the strip behind them.  I think it really sets them off.

I will stamp a sentiment on it when I decide how to use it.

Thanks for stopping by to take a peak at me blog.

Watercolor Poppy Birthday

Well hello, I am back with a post today of a card I made using my Rubbernecker 2 step stamp set Poppy Fields .   Rubbernecker has some beautiful sets and also some of the funniest saying stamps I have ever seen.

I made this card following the sketch this week at Mojo Monday.

The theme is "tall & Skinny", my card measures 8.5 x 4 inches and fits into a business size #10 envelope. 

It took me a couple tries to line of the two stamps but then again it is not supposed to be perfect.  :.) The happy birthday is a Verve stamp.  I did some faux stitching around the flower and also in the scalloped circle.

The background paper I made using watercolor paper and my water soluble crayons.  I am having funny making some of these papers.  I first spritz the watercolor paper with water then scribble on it with the color crayons I wanted, then sprayed it again pretty heavy with water so the colors would blend together.  After it was all dry I sprayed it with Tattered Angels spray so it has a sparkle to it.  Over at Sentimental Sundays this week the challenge is to make your own background paper so I will be entering this card in that challenge also. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.  I hope you enjoyed my card today.

Birthday Wish

Hello all, I am back again today to share a birthday card with you.

I love playing along with sketch challenges and I ran across a new one last week called WHAT IF? Wednesday sketch challenge from The House that Stamps Built, a Repeat Impressions stamps blog.

I love the way the color combination looks.  I used papers from the DCWV Nana's Kids stack.  I embossed the white background with a Spellbinder M-Bossabilities reversible folder.  The white banner I embossed with the Cuttlebug folder birthdays.  When I went to adhere the wish sticker I notice that it was right after the word birthday from the folder, that was purely accidental.

I will be entering this in the WHAT IF? sketch challenge.  

Thanks for stopping by, if you like to do sketches head on  over to the WHAT IF challenge you have till February 18th to link your card.

Few Birthday Cards

Hello, again it has been sometime since I have posted on my blog.  I have been busy making cards just have not got to sit down and post them.

So today I am going to share with you a few birthday cards I have made recently.

This made using papers from an old K&Company speciality paper pack that I have.  The white parts are the bottom on the card are raised up, almost like puffy.

The papers on this card are from the CTMH Sonoma paper pack.  I stamped the happy birthday using a Verve stamp.

This is a simple card, however the background paper I made using my water soluble crayons on water color paper, then spritzed it with some Tattered Angels, I love the way it came out. The happy birthday was cut using the CTMH Artbooking cartridge.  I also used a stick pin that I received in a swap a couple of years ago.

Well thanks for stopping by, I have some more cards to share you which I hope to post in the next week.

Thanks

Birthday card for Mom

Happy New Year!

WOW it has been a long time since I posted on my blog.  Things got really crazy around here for the holidays as I am sure it did for a lot of you. 

I was creating but just did not get time to sit down and type up a blog post.

Today I have a card to share with you that I made for my Mom's upcoming birthday in February.  She is here staying with us so I had to make it on the sneak, she pops in my room now and then during the day to see what I am up to so I always had to have something ready to show her, LOL.

I made this card following a sketch from The Sweet Stop from a past challenge.

The papers are from a K&Company paper pack Floral Dreams.

The flower are paper Recollections, I stamped the center label with a Verve stamp. 

I will enter this the challenge this week at Stampin Royalty where the challenge theme is Birthdays.

Well I hope you like my card and thanks for stopping by.

Southwestern Look for Mojo Monday

Hello, I guess I have been MIA again from my blog, sorry it has been hectic and then I also got sick.

Today I have a card to share with you that I made for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch #322.  I love the way it turned out.

A couple of weeks ago I got some Tim Holtz Distress Paints and started to play around with them creating some papers.  I should know better than to watch his videos because I have to have whatever he demonstrates, he is amazing.

The background paper is one I made using the distress paints. In person it has a bit of a sparkle to it because I misted it with Tattered Angels.

The colors reminded me of southwestern colors so I went with that theme.  I mated the background paper on dark purple to pick up the purple that is in there.

The copper strip across the middle I did using one of my MS punches, then added a double layer of ribbon.

I stamped the pot on vellum and heat it embossed it with brass.

I will add a sentiment later when I decide how I will use it, but all and all I am happy with how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping to take a peak.