MIM's #219 - Kissing Technique

Hi again,
Wow, I had time for two posts this week.  I had one more birthday card to make.  This card is for my future daughter-in-law's mother.  Sharon is such a sweet lady and it's been fun getting to know her over the past year, as we help Nick and Danielle prepare for their wedding (only 16 more days!).

I haven't had a chance to participate in a MIM challenge for awhile and Lizzie Jones showed us the "Kissing Technique" this week.  I haven't done this technique in a long time, so I thought I would on Sharon's card.  I really love how this card turned out.  It wasn't how I envisioned it in my head, though.  Lizzie suggested using a large solid images, and the PTI's Beautiful Butterflies set popped right into my head.  I also used the Ombre Builders set, too.  I loved Lizzie's card, so I CASED her card with a few minor changes.

I don't have a lot of PTI's ink colors.  I tried to use the ones I do have, but they were too juicy and didn't work well.  I ended up using SU's Certain Celery and Lavender Lace inks.  I loved how the circles came out on the Lavender Lace butterflies, but you can't see the triangles very well on the Certain Celery butterflies.

I finished off my card by die cutting Birthday from PTI's Swoosh die cutting set, and stamping birthday, from PTI's Swoosh stamp set, in white and heat embossing it in white, too, on an angle and placing the card back together again on a piece of Certain Celery card stock.  I added a few purple flower sequins from Simon Says Stamps to finish off the card. I am also entering this card into the Simon Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes, too.

Happy Birthday, Sharon.  I'm looking forward to giving you your birthday hug in a few weeks and sharing a few happy tears as we watch our children start a new chapter of their lives together!

I'm getting so excited for August 15!
  

Just a few birthdays...

Hi everyone,
I have a few cards I've made over the last week to share.  We celebrated my mom's 77th birthday and my brother-in-law's birthday this past Sunday at my sister, Kathy's new home, just off the river.  We had a great, hot day to celebrate on the water.  It was beautiful way to spend the day!

I recently watched a video, on Paper Smooches Educational Blog and Kalyn showed us how to watercolor and die cut from that water colored background.  It was an aha moment for me!  The way she demonstrated it was so easy and for the first time ever, I love how my water colored paper turned out.

I used Simon Says Butterfly Drift Craft Die for the first time (NBUS) and cut out the butterflies from my very pretty water colored background paper.  I then cut out the same butterflies in black and popped the water colored butterflies into the black outline to make them pop and added a pearl to each one for a bit of dimension.  I splattered yellow and orange water color on the Gina K Pure Luxury White card stock and stamped Happy from PTI's Wet Paint in SU's Tangerine Tango ink and Birthday, also from PTI's Wet Paint set in Tuxedo Black ink and mounted the card on a piece of SU's Tangerine Tango card stock.  My mom thought this card was awesome!


The second card is obviously a guy card for my brother-in-law.  Unfortunately he couldn't celebrate with us on Sunday, but my sister, Carla, delivered the card to him.

Almost everything on this card is from Stampin' Up.  The stamp sets are Moon Lake and Itty Bitty Banners.  The die cuts are Bitty Banners from SU and Simon Says' Shapes with stitches.

I inked up the image on a piece of watercolor paper with Tuxedo Black ink.  I used watercolor pencils to color the image.  I used SU's Mossy Meadow Card stock and ink for the happy birthday sentiment and also Gina K's Pure Luxury Ivory card stock.  I popped up the sentiment and put twine behind it, to finish off the card.



Thank you so much for stopping by.  I love it when you do. 

You are beautiful

RI just thought I would post a quick birthday card for a friend of mine.  Her birthday is today, but we had fun celebrating last night. This card is a CASE card from Maile Belles. I love the cut out panels she does. Here's a link to her card. http://mailebelles.blogspot.com/2014/08/cutout-panels.html.   I basically used the same colors she did.  Only I made yellow my primary color and I decided not to pop it up either and added speckles in yellow, orange and black.   I also embossed over the butterfly with some sparkly embossing powder.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Have an awesome week. Only 27 days until the wedding!!!

Happy Father's Day

Hi everyone!  This weekend was a busy one with a wedding shower for my future daughter-in-law and spending today celebrating Father's Day with my hubby, my dad and most of the family at my parents' home.  The weather was perfect...no rain!!

This is what my hubby would love to do every day, but right now it's just not possible.    When I saw this stamp, I knew it would be perfect for him!  This stamp isn't new in the Penny Black line, but it is new to me!

I used Stampin' Up's Real Red card stock as the base.  I stamped PB's Dropping You a Line in Tuxedo Black in on Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock.  I water colored the image with SU's Pear Pizzazz, Soft Sky, Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Island Indigo and Smoky Slate inks.  I finished the card off with Happy Father's Day from PaperTrey Ink's Keep It Simple Father stamp set.  I did cut the stamp as is was a one line stamp and it didn't fit in the corner.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I love it when you do!

So many cards and so little time!

Sorry it's been awhile since I last posted.  The wedding invitations are being sealed, addressed and stamped tomorrow for Monday's mail.  I will post it at a later date.  Oh my what an undertaking that project was.  I have been working over time and doing the invitations in my spare time.  Needless to say, my house cleaning has taken a back seat and that will be one of my projects for the coming week.  In the midst of overtime and making the wedding invitations, I still had to make a few cards for my sister's employees who had birthdays this month.  Here are the last two I've created. 


On this card, I used Stampin' Up's Crazy About You stamp set, Hello You Thinlits, Pear Pizzazz and Rose Red ink, Rose Red and Certain Celery card stock, as I didn't have any Pear Pizzazz card stock and Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock.  The flowers are Fancy Blossoms die cut from Memory Box.  All the flowers and the word happy were embellished with clear Wink of Stella.  I just can't resist some shimmer!

I blocked off part of the card with micropore tape and stamped the leaves and glued down Happy in the white space, stamped birthday and added the flowers.  I finished the card off with pearl accents.






On card number two, I used SU's Bordering Blooms in Pool Party and Early Espresso inks on Gina K's Pure Luxury Ivory card stock and Pool Party card stock.  The Happy die cut is from PaperTrey Ink's Wet Paint Cuts and birthday is from Wet Paint Stamp Set.  I added SU's Beautiful Wings Embosslits to finish the card off as it needed just a little something more.   And because I love shimmer, I did add clear Wink of Stella to the blooms, the butterflies and the word happy. 



Thank you so much for stopping by.  The next two weekends, I have bridal showers to attend, but am hoping I'll be back to posting once a week until my next wedding project...the wedding program in mid to late July.  Only 62 days until the wedding and I still have to buy a dress!  I don't wear dresses very often, so yes, I am procrastinating!  Have a great week!!

Some Penny Black to share today

I love Penny Black stamps and they have been coming out with some gorgeous stamps in the past year.  I thought I would share a couple of cards I've made about two weeks ago.  I CASED the card from a local stamp store, but changed the colors.  I used purple and black card stock from a local scrapbook store (that has since closed, so bummed!) and Gina K's pure luxury white card stock.  I stamped the flowers (PB's Flower Festival stamp set) in Tuxedo Black ink and used Copic Markers (RV25, V25, YG95, Y13 and Y08) to color them.  I thought the card needed a little bling, so I added yellow Wink of Stella over the yellow middles.  I stamped Happy Mother's Day from PTI's Keep It Simple: Mother Mini stamp set.  I did cut the stamp to put Happy above Mother's Day.  I used a piece of purple baker's twine and a pink button to finish off the card.

The second card is from PB's Pretty Petals stamp set.  I stamped the flowers with Tuxedo Black ink on Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock and colored the flowers with Copic Markers (R23, YR68, Y13, V25 and RV25).  After coloring the flowers, I added glossy accents and set them aside to dry. Originally, the card was going to be CASED from Penny Black's pinterest board. The card I love has the flowers coming up from the bottom of the card, but when I check on them as they were drying, I notice a few were upside down, but that the flowers looked cool coming down from the top of the card and waa-laa, my card changed immediately!  I finished the card off with die cutting out Hugs (PTI's Big Hugs dies) in Stampin' Up's Tangelo Twist card stock  and added the sentiment from PTI's Big Hugs stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink and mounted the flowers to SU's Tangelo Twist card stock.

 Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate it when you do.

A yellow & black kind of day

Hi everyone,
I just couldn't pass up Color Throwdown #339.  The colors they chose this week were yellow, black and white.  These colors are awesome together and scream CAS card to me, my favorite kind of card to make.  I don't have to think too much...hahaha!  This card, again, is pretty self explanatory.


Recipe: Black card stock (local scrapbook store), Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock, Tim Holtz Harlequin stencil, Tim Holtz distress ink in Squeezed Lemonade, Penny Black's Dreamy cling stamp and Sprinkles and Smiles clear stamps, Versa Mark ink, Tuxedo Black ink, clear and white embossing powders, Hero Arts Pearls & Gems and black baker's twine.

I am also submitting this card in Simon Wednesday Challenge Clean and Simple, too.



Thank you so much for stopping by and check out both Color Throwdown Challenge #339 and Simon Wednesday Challenge for awesome cards that will given you great inspiration.

Bringing some happy...

Hi all, just a quick post today.  I needed to make a masculine card and the Color Throwdown Challenge #338 had the perfect colors,

this week, for a masculine card.  This card also qualifies for Simon Wednesday Challenge--make your own background.

The colors this week were teal, green, kraft and white.  This card is pretty self explanatory.  

Card Recipe:  Stampin' Up's card stock in Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon, and Old Olive.  Gina K's Pure Luxury White card stock.  SU's Stripes and Chevron embossing folders, SU's Bitty Banners framelits and Hello You thinlits dies.  The birthday stamp is from PaperTrey Ink's Keep It Simple: Birthday Mini Stamp set, which was stamped in VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  To finish off the card, I added some twine.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I appreciate it very much.  

There is still time to enter both the CTD challenge #338 and Simon Wednesday Challenge and don't forget to stop by their blogs and see some awesome cards using these great colors and quite an assortment of different backgrounds.  Great places to visit if you are looking for inspiration!

Mother's Day Card

Doing some catching up.  This card is one I made for a make-n-take for a group I belong to.  We try to meet once a month.  We meet at each others homes.  A couple of the ladies make the food for dinner, some make make cards to swap, and then we make 3 or 4 cards that we've  brought for make-n-takes.  Before the night is over, we sign up for the next month's get together.  It's so much fun to see what the group comes up with for dinner, swaps and make-n-takes.  We had quite a group earlier this  month. 

This card was inspired by a few different cards I liked on Pinterest.

The card base is Stampin' Up's Pink Passion.  The next layer is white card stock.  I stamped the diagonal stripes (Clearly Besotted) in Tuxedo Black ink.  The top layer, I used a piece of water color paper.  I inked up the spotted background stamp (Rubber Necker) with Peeled Paint, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, and Tumbled Glass (distress inks and stains), spritzed the stamp with water and then applied it to paper.  While it was drying, I die cut the flower (Glorious Gerber Daisies from Memory Box) in SU's Pink Passion and glued it to the water color paper.  The sentiment is from SU's Mother's Love stamp set (stamped in Tuxedo Black ink).  I finished the card off by adding some pearls. 

I may not be able to post as often as I would like.  I've been blessed with the pleasure of making my son's and his finance's wedding invitations.  As soon as they are delivered (mid June), I will post their wedding invitation.  We are finalizing the design, via the US mail, as their jobs have taken them to Wisconsin.  I am hoping to go into "producing" them beginning in May.  This will give me about a month to have them ready for Nick and Danielle to address and get ready for the mail.  Their August wedding will be here before I know it.

This is all in addition to me going full-time at my current job, which is awesome, but, right now, as I am adjusting to working full time, my card making has taken a bit of a back seat.  I hope you will hang in there with me.  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Peace and quiet

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to post for the past two weeks.  I'm adjusting to my added hours at work.  Right now, work is winning.   

I made this one for my son's 17th birthday about three weeks ago.  Here ya go, Julie, sorry I haven't been able to post it until now.  My youngest loves to hunt, so I thought this set from Penny Black would be perfect for a birthday card for him.

I started by stamping the row of pine trees in the back and then using the blending tool, I blended in blue and pink sky and added a bit of sun.  I then blended in the grass.  I added the larger pine trees, deer and birds.  I mounted the card on a piece of yellow and green card stock. Tim thought his card was awesome!

Recipe:  Penny Black's Nature's Friend stamp set, G-689 stamp by Art Impressions, Distress Ink in Broken China, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Forest Moss and Crushed Olive.  Stampin' Up's Daffodil Delight card stock and green card stock that I can't remember where it came from.  Stampin' Up's Chocolate Chip marker.

Thank you so much for stopping by.