A Perfect Thank You for July 4th Weekend

Hello everyone. I have a card to share with you that uses red, white, and blue colors, since this is the 4th after all. It is a Thank You card, and I got to use stamps from 2 new sets I just got recently. So I had lots of fun. Here is my card:

I have to say that I was happy with the way this turned out. I don't usually use these colors, and I'm definitely going to start using them now! I also was happy with my new stamp sets. The sewing machine is from the Stella and Rose "Mabel So Sweet" set from My Mind's Eye. I stamped it with CTMH's White Daisy Ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. The ruler is from The Girl's Paperie "Paper Girl" set. I stamped it with the same white ink on red cs and also heat embossed it with white ep. The "Thank You" sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly and the rest of the sentiment are alpha stickers from Pink Paislee.

The card base is white with red and white striped paper by daisy d's adhered to it using my ATG Gun. (I love my ATG Gun, btw! lol) The blue and white striped paper is from We R Memory Keepers. I punched the right edge with a Martha Stewart punch. The red flowered piece is a die cut from my stash. I also added buttons (which I threaded with white floss)  and pearls from my stash.

I think you can tell that I distressed and inked the edges of the larger pieces of dp. I am entering this in the following challenges:

Scrapping Stamping Challenge Central - use red, white and blue

Crafty Creations Challenges - make a Thank You card

Tuesday Throwdown - use red, white, and blue

If for any reason these links don't work, you can find all of these listed in my sidebar. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. Hope you all have a Happy 4th!

                                                

Follow Rainbows and Chase Moonbeams

Hello all. I wanted to share with you a card I made using Magnolia's Flying Tilda, which I colored with Copics and added a soft shine to the wings by painting on several colors of shimmery Smooch. I have had this Tilda for a while, and for some reason haven't gotten around to using this stamp until now. I'm so glad I did. I love the fairy wings!

I think you can tell that I stamped her on a separate sheet of cardstock, then colored and cut her out. I added her with 3D Dots for dimension. It is hard to see the lovely shimmer of the Smooch, so I took a closeup, but even so, I don't think it really shows the shimmer very well. You'll just have to take my word for it! : )

See what I mean? Oh well......The base card is made with Bobunny "dotted swiss" paper, and the gorgeous stitched paper (NOT stitched by me!) is from Prima's SEW cute stitched collection of dp. I cut it to make 2 triangles - just to add some character to the look. On top of that is a circle that I cut out of some Heidi Grace glitter paper - more subtle bling. I added some pink ribbon, flowers, and pearls from my stash. I colored the flowers with Copics to match Tilda's dress. See - that's just another reason that I love my Copics. Wish I had LOTS more!   Back to the card, I THINK that beautiful pink glittery butterfly is from K & Co. The sentiment is actually written on a clear peel off that was also in my stash. I'm not sure who made it, but I do love the thought. I adhered it to a piece of cardstock that I cut out, inked the edges, and popped up using 3D Dots again.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

My Grafico - Anything Goes

Pile It On - Use Circles

Crafty Creations - Let It Shine

Just Magnolia - Butterflies

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! Please leave a comment if you have a minute. I love to read what you have to say!

                                                         

A Lovely Sentiment from ODBD

Hello all. I finally had time to post a card for a few challenges. I have been busy working on some scrapbooks for my sil's and a mini-album for a friend,  but all of these things are secret....shhhhh.......so I can't post anything about them yet!
I missed my card making, and then a friend needed a card for her mil, who had been in the hospital, so here is the card I made using a stamp from ODBD's With Heartfelt Sympathy set.

Here is a closeup of the lovely sentiment, which I stamped with black pigment ink and heat embossed with Ranger clear embossing powder. I then punched it out with a 3 inch scalloped punch and added a drop of Stickles (in a color I really like called Patina) in each scallop. I raised the whole sentiment up on 3D Dots. That is a Spellbinders Pendant Shapeability underneath.

                                                                                
                                                                                   Who wouldn't love to get a card expressing such a sentiment? How nice to know you mean so much to someone! ODBD has so many great sentiment sets, including some brand new ones that I really want! This card happens to fit their current Shining the Light Challenge 63 which is a Sentiment Only Challenge.
                                                                                     In addition, this week Linda Lucas is hosting Stamping Sisters in Christ's Challenge #92, which is based on John 13:34-35. Here Jesus is giving us a NEW commandment to love one another as He has loved us. So Linda has cleverly turned this into asking us to use something NEW TO US on our creation. In my case, the lavendar dp is new to me (and I have already forgotten who made it!!!), as is the lovely Prima flower (which I have been saving for just the right creation), and the beautiful Floral Butterfly Ribbon Round from The Paper Company is new to me also. So I have all sorts of new goodies on this card for this challenge! Oh, btw, I did want to add that the pale green floral dp is from K & Co. - specifically from a collection by Brenda Walton. She always designs the most beautiful vintage-look creations!
                                                                                      I am also entering Shabby Tea Room's current challenge #65 (Technique Week), where the technique is to use wet or dry embossing. I used wet (or heat) embossing on my sentiment, as I mentioned previously. 
                                                                                      If for any reasons any of these links don't work, please look in my sidebar. They are listed there under my fav scrappy places.  Thanks for stopping by my blog! I hope you'll take the time to leave a comment - I love to read them! Have a wonderful day.

                                    

A Birdie Card to Share With You

Hello all. This is going to be a quick post (really! lol). I have so many irons in the fire right now, but I wanted to show you a Mother's Day Card I made for a friend to give to his mother. I have so many birdie stamps and would love to have 10 times as many. One can never have too many birdie stamps! Anyway, I wanted to use one for his card, so here is what I came up with:

I have always liked this birdie stamp from Inkadinkado. I computer generated the sentiment. It seems

to me to be a perfect sentiment for a mom. Mine certainly prepared me for life and gave me wings to fly away, knowing that I could do anything (with the help of the Lord, of course!) She was a wonderful mother in every way, and she is greatly missed by me and all who knew her! Now back to the card....

I used a Spellbinders Label 1 Nestie, and outlined the embossed edge with a Copic marker. The interesting thing was that I put my aqua gemstones on BEFORE I diecut the Label. This kind of broke some of a gems and smooshed them into the paper. Maybe everyone but me already knew this, but I never even thought about it, and I ended up really liking the way it turned out!  I definitely plan on doing that again! I added the red gems and the delicate butterfly peel-offs after I did the diecutting.

I took some white cardstock scraps, inked them with some colors to match the pretty dp, and ran them through my Sizzix Big Kick using a pretty Spellbinders Impressabilities Butterfly template. I them used a little Distress Ink and gently inked the raised design. I added some Prima gemstone swirls and a few more gemstones in the upper right corner. So there is plenty of  BLING on this card!  Finally, I added some 3D Dots to raise the diecut for dimension. I am entering this in these challenges this week:

Stamp Something - Anything Goes (They are having a 3 yr celebration with great prizes, too!)

Creative Inspirations Sunday Challenge Blog - Glitzy/Bling                                                     

Crafty Creations - Challenge 118 Anything Goes                                                                      

  Thanks for stopping by my blog! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

A Slightly Shabby Chic Birthday Card

I wanted to share with you a birthday card I made for my friend, Helen. She and I have been best friends since we were just 4 years old! She lives in Virginia, where we grew up, but I have been living in Tennessee since college. Let me tell you, that was years ago! Anyway, I don't get to see Helen much, it seems. Her birthday was April 17th, and I have had this coughing thing that really got me under the weather, so I hate to say that I didn't get a card out to her on time AGAIN. (It's not like this is the first time I have done that to the special people in my life.)

So here is the card I did make, using Whiff of Joy's Nikki Celebrating Raccoon. I love this darling raccoon carrying presents. I stamped him with black pigment ink, and then heat embossed him with clear embossing powder from Ranger. Then I colored him with Copics, cut him out and adhered him with 3D dots onto the Spellbinder's Lattice Pendant diecut that I cut from a lovely piece of dp from Crate Paper's Portrait Collection. In fact, all 3 layers of dp on this card are from that collection. It is so pretty and springlike! I drool over all of that collection (which gets so messy....lol).  The "Celebrate" sentiment sticker was placed on a scrap of dp from Little Yellow Bicycle. I distressed the edges of all of the dp to achieve a slightly shabby look, turned down one corner and attached a heart pin from Fancy Pants, added 3 heart buttons (threaded 2 of them), 3 pearls, Prima flowers with brads in the center, and finally added 2 ribbons. One is a piece of lace ribbon on the bottom of the card, and the other is some Close to my Heart organdy ribbon tied to the left edge of the diecut. 

    I am using this for 4 challenges this time:
                                              
 Pile It On -   2 or more  ribbons
 Simon Says Stamp -  Emboss Something (wet or dry)
Whiff of Joy -  Use one of their stamps and a recipe challenge - 3 buttons, 2 papers, 1 ribbon
 7 Kids College Fund - Easter or Spring, including just spring colors, so I think this will do! Also you must use something bought at their store, which is where I bought my Whiff of Joy stamp! 

If any of the links don't work, these are also listed in my sidebar. Each of these challenges are offering super prizes this week - check them out!

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I only hope Helen didn't stop by, as I would like for her to get her card in the mail before seeing it on my blog!  I also hope you all had a wonderful Easter and were able to be with loved ones.  My son went back to school before Easter this week, and I sure did miss him on Easter Day!  It was a fairly quiet Easter this year. It was our first Easter with our BichonPoo baby, Augie, and actually I take back what I said about the quiet. Augie is always zooming around the house. He loves to rip up paper, so he is definitely in the right place, kwim? lol  Anyway, come back and visit my blog soon. Leave a comment if you have a minute - I love to see what you have to say!                                                                  

An Easter Card

Well, I can't believe that the last time I posted, I was showing you Valentines! Now I am with an Easter Card I wanted to share with you. I have this cute stamp with dancing bunnies from Cowtown Stamps.  I just love their stamps, and I wanted to use this one for Easter.  My problem was how to use Easter Bunnies (kind of) in a card, but still get across the real message of Easter. Sooooo........ I used Pink Paislee alpha stickers to spell out REJOICE, and then inside I computer generated text to tell WHY they are rejoicing............BECAUSE HE IS RISEN!!!!  I kinda like how that worked out and hope you do too.

My base card is white. I used a teal Coredinations cardstock as the next layer, and the layer on top of that is designer paper from a company I love more and more......Echo Park.  I cut out a Nesties Label 1 diecut (using the back side of the Echo Park dp), edged it with some glimmery Smooch, adhered it, and stamped a few flowers, leaves and grass on the bottom. Then I took the bunnies that I had colored with Copics and cut out, and I adhered them with 3D dots for dimension. I added the lovely silky ribbon from American Crafts and placed a pearl in the center. I cut out some white cardstock, adhered the alphas for REJOICE and used gemstones to dot my i and j.

Since I used the Smooch and the Gemstones, I believe this qualifies me for Tuesday Throwdown's challenge this week, which calls for bling and sparkle! They are giving a wonderful stamp set from The Greeting Farm, if you'd like to play along!

I am also entering Creative Inspiration's challenge this week. Their challenge is do make something for Easter. I think I have that covered! They are giving away 4 digis from Meljen's Designs to the winner. I absolutely love their digis!

Btw, here is the inside of the card.....you know, where I explain why the bunnies are rejoicing. lol 

Christ is risen indeed!!!  I just couldn't leave that out!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I would promise to post more often, but I am afraid you have heard it all before! : )