Happy Birthday 3

This card, also being submitted in Simon Wednesday Challenge, I made was for my sister, but also for my friend Julie to see, as she has the stamp set, but just can't figure out how to use it.  So I wanted to show her another option.  I used Stampin' Up's Daffodil Delight cardstock and ink pad.  I stamped SU's Blooming with Kindness all over on a piece of Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock.  I then took a blending tool and blended SU's Daffodil Delight ink all over the card, except on the center flower.  I took two circle dies and cut the flower out of the center, and then cut out a bigger circle from the now background paper.  I stamped Happy Birthday from PTI's Swoosh stamp set.  I put a piece of SU's Daffodil Delight seam binding ribbon across the circle and a piece of yellow twine around the seam binding ribbon.  I used pop dots on the center flower and to the piece of background cardstock to SU's Daffodil Delight Cardstock to finish off the card. 

Thanks for stopping by and remember to head over to Simon Wednesday Challenge.

Happy Birthday 2

Here is the second card I am going to enter into Simon Wednesday Challenge.  I used a piece of Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock cut to 3.5 x 5.5 (gladstone).  I made this card based on the piece of dp I found (sorry, it was a scrap and I don't know who manufactured it).  I hadn't made a pink card in awhile, so I felt called to do so.  The flower is from Stampin' Up's 2015 Sale-a-bration catalog called Lotus Blossom Stamp Set.  It is a 3-step stamp.  I used SU's Melon Mambo ink.  I stamped off the solid flower 2 times before stamping it on the cardstock, the second stamp was stamped off 1 time before I stamped it on the card stock and the 3rd stamp was stamped directly on the cardstock.  I did this because I couldn't find 3 pinks that were close enough in color.  The stem was stamped in SU's Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive inks.  I cut the word Happy from PaperTrey Ink's Wet Paint set in SU's Melon Mambo cardstock and stamped the word birthday from SU's Endless Birthday Wishes.  I finished off the card with a piece of pink bakers twine, the piece of pink chevron dp and then rounded off the corners of my card.  Originally the piece of dp was going to go on the left, but I had to cover up an ink smear from my finger, I guess, as I'm not sure exactly where the smear came from.  I didn't want to scrap the whole card for that one smear.  Easy fix.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to head over to Simon Wednesday Challenge to see all the girly girl cards others have submitted.

Birthday Wishes

This week, Simon Wednesday Challenge is anything girly.  I have a few cards that I haven't put on my blog that qualify for this challenge.  Here is the first one...

I made this card for my sister and my niece and yes, I also CASED it from Maile Belles.  I just loved the card she made. So I used a piece of PaperTrey ink's Beautiful Brushstrokes Patterned Paper Collection and cut out Birthday with PTI's swoosh die set on a diagonal. 

I then stamped Birthday wishes from PTI's Swoosh stamp set in Stampin' Up's Wisteria Wonder onto Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock and then placed the dp just above the birthday and wrapped a piece of DMC light purple and silver floss around it made my bow.  I then stamped one of PTI's Beautiful Butterfly stamps in the bottom corner in SU's Wisteria Wonder and added a stamp from PTI's Beautiful Butterfly layers in SU's Elegant Eggplant.  I finished off the butterfly with some small pearls and some rainstones to the bottom of the butterfly and just on the dp.  I wish I had taken a picture of the 2nd card I made for my niece, which used the bottom half of the dp.  

Thanks for stopping by and remember to head over to Simon Wednesday Challenge to see all the girly girl cards others have submitted.  Great place to visit for ideas!!!

Fun Colors...

What a beautiful winter day we are having again today in Michigan.  It is the 2nd day in I don't know how long that it is in the mid 30's and the sun is shining!  Before long, we will be wearing boots like the one in CTD's challenge picture...I can't wait.  It will not only mean it is getting closer to summer, but the snow will finally be gone!

 

Today's card is for the Color Throwdown #332.  The colors are navy blue, turquoise, kraft and red.  At first, I was struggling thinking what am I going to do with these colors.  I tell you, these ladies love to get me to thinking beyond using flowers all the time.  I won't lie, I was seriously thinking about using flowers, but the kraft color was throwing me.  Who has ever seen a kraft color flower, unless they are dead...not what I was going for.  So after going through my other stamps, I came across one I purchased from PaperTrey Ink about a year or so ago now and have never used it.  Yup, Darnell's famous NBUS!  Perfect!

I first drew pencil lines on my Gina K's White Pure Luxury cardstock to line up six of the patterned diamonds from PTI's Happy Harlequin stamp set, which I stamped in Stampin' Up's Night of Navy, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise and Gina K's Kraft inks.  After I had that stamped up, I wrapped some twine around the patterned cardstock and mounted it to SU's Tempting Turquoise cardstock.  I finished the card off with Simon Says Stamp die Happy Birthday, which I cut out of Night of Navy card stock.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to drop by Color Throwdown's blog to see the other beautiful cards created for color challenge #332.

Sending Hugs

I wanted to participate in this week's Color Throwdown Challenge #331.  The colors are light pink, bright pink, green and kraft.  

I used Stampin' Up's Crumb Cake card stock as my base and stamped the large flower in SU's Melon Mambo and the leaves in Wild Wasabi inks.  The stamp set I used is SU's Peaceful Petals.

On a scrap piece of Gina K's pure luxury white card stock, I stamped the large flower in SU's Melon Mambo and colored it with 3 Copic markers (RV10, R20 & RV25) and also colored the leaves with Copic markers (G43 & G82) and cut the flower and leaves out and mounted them on the card with pop dots after wrapping SU's thick baker's twine in Strawberry Slush.  

To finish off the card, I cut a piece of SU's Wild Wasabi card stock from SU's Banner dies and stamped sending from PaperTrey Ink's Big Hugs stamp set in Wild Wasabi ink, too.  I cut out  one of the hug dies from PTI's Big Hugs die set from a piece of SU's Blushing Bride card stock.  I also ran clear Wink of Stella across the flower and the word Hugs for a little sparkle.

Thank you so much for stopping by and don't forget to check out the other beautiful cards made with the great colors at CTD #331.

Cards I've been working on...

Here are a bunch of cards I've been working over the past few weeks in my spare time.  Some of these cards are CASED, others I made were from inspiration I found from Pinterest and Jennifer McGuire.  If you would like

 

information on stamp sets, colors or dies, please let me know. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Happy Birthday

Hi everyone.  Sorry I haven't been posting weekly as I should be.  But I'm trying to get back with a few challenges to help me keep posting and stamping.  I have been stamping right along.  I've had some orders I've had to fill.  One of the cards I made today is not only for someone's birthday, but also for the Color Throwdown #329.  The colors for the challenge were red, purple, aqua and green.  I started with Stampin' Up's "Elegant Eggplant" card stock as my base and then used PaperTrey Ink's "Tipped Tops Dies" to cut out out the polka dots designer paper (I don't remember who the manufacturer is).  I also used these dies to cut out the borders of the Tipped Tops die in SU's "Certain Celery" and "Pool Party" card stocks.  I used the happy die from PTI's "Tipped Tops dies set and cut out happy and also use one of the birthday dies out of PTI's "Birthday Die Trio" set in SU's "Real Red" card stock and adhered them with pop dots.  I then used SU's Flower Patch stamp set and stamped the flower in SU's "Real Red" ink and the center part of the flower in SU's "Elegant Eggplant".  I also attached the flower with pop dots.  I did use my clear "Wink of Stella" on the flower for a little pop of glitter.

I really wasn't sure how these four colors would come together, but they did make a fun birthday card.  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Winter birthdays!!

I'm back again with a card for the Color Throwdown Challenge #324 and another January birthday card done.

Our color challenge this week was to use Red, Black and White on our card.  I decided to do another snowflake card...



 


I decided to do a triple stamped card.  I just love the way these cards look when finished.

I used Stampin' Up's Black card stock and Gina K's Pure Luxury White Card Stock and SU's Real Red ink and Momento's Tuxedo Black ink.

The snowflakes are from SU's Endless Wishes and the very small snowflakes and dots are from Judith stamps.  The Happy Birthday is from Simon Says Stamp Birthday Messages 3x4.

I finished off the card with black and red bakers twine and a white snowflake button.











Here's the same card, but using SU's Real Red card stock, PaperTrey Ink's Snowfall Additions and a red button.

 
The last card, I went back to using the black card stock as the base, turned the card width wide and stamped Hello from Altenew's Halftone Hello set and just tied the bakers twine in a bow.  Don't you just love this Altenew stamp?  I just had to order it when I saw it, but had to be patient as it was on back order for a bit.

Let It Snow...

January is a perfect time to use a lot winter stamps and dies.  I'm glad I have many birthdays in January, because I have  a lot of winter stamps and dies.

The Merry Monday challenges are back and so am I for another year.  This week's challenge is to use snowflakes.  They could do this challenge for the whole month and I still wouldn't be able to use all the snowflake stamps and dies I have.

This card could work as both a Christmas card and a birthday card.

I started with Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock as my base, and cut out the rectangle shape with Lil' Inkers Rectangle Stitched Mats out of another piece of Gina K white card stock.  I took another piece of Gina K white card stock and die cut out three Memory Box Frosty border dies.  With inspiration from Jennifer McGuire faux Laser Cut Card video, link here, I cut the dies up and placed them randomly inside the cut out rectangle.  I loved Simon Says Stamp's January Card Kit, and used a piece of the Bo Bunny 6x6 Altitude designer paper as my backdrop.  I ran my Clear Wink of Stella over the dp for some added sparkle, which didn't show up in the picture at all.  I also used Bazzill's Velvet card stock (also part of the SSS January Card Kit) behind the rectangle die cut and adhered it all to the white card stock base.  I then added the "Let it Snow" stamp from Hero Arts along the bottom of the card, which was stamped 3 times and used Silver Wink of Stella randomly on the frosty die.

I am also adding this card to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #3, as I haven't used the frosty die, the HA's stamp or the BoBunny dp, and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, to use something new (new crafty stuff!), which was the Bo Bunny dp.




Thanks for stopping by and would love to read your comments.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (just a tad late!)

Wow!  What a crazy Christmas season it has been.  It flew by and I know I didn't spend enough time thanking God for his gift of Jesus to all of us. I even forgot to take a picture of the whole family!  Sorry, I haven't been able to post for the past four weeks, either.

I did get my Christmas cards out before Christmas (Al wasn't sure that was going to happen).  I keep telling myself to get them done early, but for some reason, I can't make it happen.  I'll try that goal again this year!   So here's the funny part about my Christmas cards...I participated in Merry Monday's Christmas Challenge blog almost every week during 2014...I didn't use one of the cards I made for any of those challenges.  Instead, I found inspiration from Jennifer McGuire and my good friend, Marcia Hill.

The first card, I used Flourishes' "Santa, I Believe" stamp set, which went out of business during 2014.  Which it so sad, as they had beautiful stamps.  I had to use two different kinds of designer paper as I didn't have enough of either.  I bought both of these last year and forgot to write down who the manufacture was of each.



The next card is one that was inspired by Marcia Hill.  Marcia and I have been friends since I girls started preschool together 22 years ago.  She got me hooked on stamping!  Be sure to check out her blog.  I linked her blog to her name above.  She makes amazingly beautiful cards!  She made this card as a swap card for a stamping group we started going to this year.  Here's a link to the card on her blog.  http://marciasstampinpad.blogspot.com/2014/11/o-holy-night.html.  I used a different stamps and an oval die cut, but overall the same card.  Thanks, Marcia!  Your card saved me! 

My last Christmas card I sent was inspired by Jennifer McGuire.  If you haven't checked out her blog, it is well worth many visits!  She did a "My Favorites" series in December that was just awesome.  She has done them in past year's, too.  You can go to her "My Favorites" page and look back to previous years.  I fell in love with this card the moment I saw her video and wasn't sure I would be able to reproduce it, because I am very ruler challenged.  I can't draw a straight line with a ruler, ever!  But she proved me wrong, as I was able to do it...on 30 cards, too!!!  Here's a link to her card, http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2014/10/video-stamping-patterns-giveaway.html.  I changed up the colors and used different snowflakes and Merry Christmas stamps, as I didn't have the stamps she used. 

I've been making cards throughout December, but forgot to take pictures of all of them.  That is how busy I've been.

I do hope that everyone had a beautiful Christmas and I wish all of you a very blessed New Year.  May 2015 bring us all good health, creative minds and a joyous spirit!