Get Well Soon

Another get well card for all those sickies!  Hope you are feeling better and it passes pretty quickly.

I kept this card pretty simple, not coloring in the lilacs.

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Card details:

Stamps: Lilac from Our Daily Bread Designs, Simple Sentiments from Sweet Stamp Shop

Cardstock: Whisper White, Perfect Plum and Basic Black from Stampin' Up

Inks: Perfect Plum from Stampin' Up and Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black

Embellishments: Open Scallop die from My Favorite Things, Lilac Twine from The {Twinery}

Balance

Sharing a card today that I made using the spotlight technique.

I really wanted to just focus on the basket in the bike so I chose not to color any of the image other than that.  Once I had colored the image, I added some Sparkle N Sprinkle Dimensional Glue to the flowers to add a little shine to them.

I know I used a sketch for this card but now I can't find which one it was.

Hope you like this card, I am usually a straight and narrow so doing the sentiment strip for me was a step out of my comfort zone.

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Card details:

Stamps: Bicycle from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Basic Black from Stampin' Up, Crafter's Companion Premium White

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copic markers

Embellishments: Basic Grey candy buttons 4216, Dimensionals from Stampin' Up!, Sparkle N Sprinkle Dimensional Glue, Oval spellbinders dies

Happy Birthday Dad

Today our theme at Blogger's Challenge is "It's Your Birthday!"  

This is one I've been hoarding and not wanting to give away as I really like how it turned out.

I stamped the bike off before stamping it onto my card stock.  The image was stamped over it and I added some pearls to embellish.  Think it still has a masculine feel to it.

Hope you are having a great week, I know I can't wait for the work day to be done with and get the weekend started, although it always goes by so fast.

I'm also entering this for the Birthday Card Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

Join us over at Blogger's Challenge and build up that birthday stash.

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Card details:

Stamps: Old Fashioned Afternoon from Sweet Stamp Shop, Dad from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise and Very Vanilla from Stampin'Up!, Year.o.graphy collection from Simple Stories

Inks: Close to Cocoa from Stampin' Up!, Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Chocolate

Embellishments: Dimensionals from Stampin' Up!, LeCreme Pearls from Want2Scrap, Pennant Trim die from Verve Stamps

Thank You...You're the Best

This month over at Paper Crafts, the July Gallery Challenge is all things nautical.  

This paper from the Unchartered Waters Collection from Glitz screams nautical to me and combined with the Lighthouse Collage set from Our Daily Bread designs, this card turned out just like I envisioned it.

I stamped the image directly onto the patterned paper to give it that ocean feel.

Thanks for stopping by to visit me today, hope you are having a great week!

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Card details:

Stamps: Kind Deeds from Clear & Simple Stamps, Lighthouse Collage from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Unchartered Waters Collection from Glitz, Night of Navy and Whisper White from Stampin' Up!

Inks: True Blue Fan from Clear & Simple Stamps

Embellishments: Bo Bunny Weekend Market jewels, Dimensionals from Stampin' Up!

Thanks so Much

Today over at Blogger's Challenge (where I've been slacking the last few weeks) we are Embossing.

I've had this background sitting on my desk for a week or so and thought it might work with the image I wanted to color.  I used the Crocheted Poppy image from Our Daily Bread Designs and colored it with my copics and then applied several layers of clear embossing powder over it.  Once I had several layers on it, I put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then cracked it.

The original image has a crocheted border to it, but I opted to die cut just the circle and use the Crocheted Circle Die with it instead.

I wanted a bold sentiment with it as I also embossed this with black embossing powder and used the Phrases2Say set from The {Stamps} of Life.

Hope you will join us at Blogger's Challenge and show off your embossing skills (any embossing).

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

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Card details:

Stamps: Crocheted Poppy from Our Daily Bread Designs and Phrases2Say from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Basic Black, Naturals White

Inks: Dylusions Spray in Pink Bubblegum, Fresh Lime and Vibrant Turquoise, Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers, Versamark

Embellishments: Clear Embossing Powder, Crocheted Circle Die, Black Embossing Powder

Lighthouse Birthday

I can never have enough birthday cards in my stash and I NEVER have any masculine cards. 

I got this Lighthouse set a few months ago from Our Daily Bread Designs but hadn't inked it up but once.  I think I need to make a batch of these so that I have a few guy cards :-)

Hope your Tuesday is going well, our little gal is getting over the flu and has been a bear this week back at school.   It's affecting us all in that she's DRAMA.  Praying she bounces back soon!

Card Details:

Stamps: Lighthouse 2 and Dad from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Marina Mist, Crumb Cake from Stampin' Up! , Gina K. Luxury White; Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Bluebell

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics B00, W3

Embellishments: Divine Twine, Circle Dies from Spellbinders, gem from Bo Bunny Zoology jewels

Card Parade using MME Blush

Last month my friend, Beth Matson and I challenged ourselves to use up some of our patterned papers.  We are hoping to continue to do this although she is MUCH better at creating to use up the whole pad of paper than I am.  

This month we picked the Lost & Found 2 Blush paper pack from My Mind's Eye.  I'm a big fan of My Mind's Eye and have about 20+ pads alone of theirs that need to be used up.

I created this Mother's Day card a little while ago but had not posted it yet.  It uses almost the whole background sheet of the Blush paper.  These are some of my favorite floral images from Verve Stamps to work with.

Mother's Day Card Details:

Stamps: Blessings from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Rustic White from PaperTrey Ink, Basic Black; Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Blush Collection

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copicx R81, R56, G21, G24

Embellishments: Ribbon Tags Trio and Circle Dies from Spellbinders, Seam Binding and Basic Pearls from Stampin' UP!

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This Happy Birthday care was a simple less than 10 minute card (8:37 to be exact) using some circle punches and scalloped circle die to create my flower.

Happy Birthday Details:

Stamps: Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush patterned paper, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake

Inks: Dish all the Dirt Brown

Embellishments: Bo Bunny Vicki B. jewels, Circle & Scalloped Circle Punch, May Arts Woven Burlap-Natural Tan

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My next card I think took me the longest as I spent a lot of time coloring my bicycle image.  It's a larger image than I'm used to working with on my normal card sizes, but I loved coloring it.  The image is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

Card details:

Stamps: Bicycle from Our Daily Bread Designs

Cardstock: Dark Chocolate, Kraft Like a Rockstart Ivory, Lavendar Moon, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush patterned paper

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic markers

Embellishments: scalloped edge punch, dimensionals

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This was another quick card using using the Hearts2die4 set and it definitely didn't turn out how I wanted it too, think it's too busy and my sentiment didn't stamp good on the patterned paper so you really can't see it.  Hoping it blends in so much you can't even tell :-)

Looking at it now though I think I may add in a sentiment on the bottom.

Card details:

Stamps: Hearts2diefor from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush Patterned Paper

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose

Embellishments: twine, dimensionals

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This next card I created for a few challenges but didn't get them posted in enough time.  That's what I get for procrastinating but I still loved how it turned out.  It uses the Retro Sketches Sketch from last week and again the Hearts2die for set.

Stamps: Hearts2diefor from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Paint the Town Pink, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush Patterned Paper

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose

Embellishments: twine, dimensionals, Scalloped Border Dies

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And if you have stuck with me this long, this is one of my favorites using the papers.  I thought the sentiment fit in with the papers perfectly and I added this adorable flower that my friend Ashley Nguyen Newell had sent me awhile ago.  Love, love, love how it turned out! 

Stamps: Birthday Darling (retired) from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Basic Black, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush Patterned Paper

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress

Embellishments: handmade flower

Hope you will visit Beth as well and say "hi". I've gotten a peek at a few of her cards and love how they turned out.  She's got such a great style and I always love seeing what she comes up with.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me today!

Flower Happy

If you are a follower of my blog you know how much I love floral images, so when I saw some fabulous images from Our Daily Bread Designs when I was at the York, PA show last weekend I had to pick some up.

This post is going to be quick as the kids and hubby are all gone and I've got to get some laundry done and in between hoping to get my stamp on.

My first card uses the CAS(E) this sketch and is for Bev's challenge to use lots of sparkle at Hope You Can Cling to Challenge at SCS.  I used my 2way glue pen and applied lots of glitter to my Poppies.

Card details:

Stamps: Crocheted Poppy from Our Daily Bread Designs, Sweet Pea from There She Goes Clear Stamps

Cardstock: Gina K. Luxury White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic

Embellishments: Art Glitter-crystal

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My Happy Birthday card uses the die cut that coordinates with the image above.  Can't wait to use them together but since the other one was CAS, I didn't want to add another layer.

I tried my hand at the 10 minute craft dash challenge again, but this time I failed by completing this in 13:29 or somewhere close to that...all I know was I was over the 10 minute mark.  Darn embellishments!

This is for Cindy's challenge for Birthday Celebrations in Pink for Hope You Can Cling to Challenges at SCS.

Thanks to my friend Chera for pointing out these gorgeous ornate flowers that I was able to print out on my Silhouette cameo.

Card details:

Stamps: Treasured Words by Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Confetti White,  Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, Paint the Town Pink, Authentique-Gathering

Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Paint the Town Pink

Embellishments: Ornate flowers on Silhouette Cameo, Zva Crystal Flourish-Chocolate/Champagne, Crocheted Circle Die from Our Daily Bread Designs, Paint the Town Pink Ribbon

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For my last card I created a pretty simple card using the Violet image from Our Daily Bread Designs as my focal point.  After finishing the card, I'm wishing I would have used a different background color as this is so light it was hard to capture the true color (a very pale purple).

Card details:

Stamps: Violet  from Our Daily Bread Designs, Good Times from Mama Elephant

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, VIP Purple, Gina K. Luxury White

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic

Embellishments: Zva Creative Self-Adhesive Embellishment-Pearl White, Viva Pearl Pen-cream, dimensionals

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Hope you have a great Saturday-off to change out the laundry!