Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Valentine Tags

I am on a committee at church that is doing Valentine Treat bags for our shut-ins. I needed to make 25 tags so they had to be quick and easy. I used a punch for the tags. Then the stripes and splatter are from SU Gorgeous Grunge set stamped in Real Red. The heart is from a set without a label and the back side love stamp is Inkadinadoo. I am entering these for the "one layer" challenge at Tuesday Throwdown.

I will use red ribbon on them but thought they would scan better before putting on the ribbon.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Spaceship

Today for the sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches I have a little boy's birthday card to share.
The cute double-sided DP is from Bo-Bunny. I added an orange strip and then some green polka dotted tape at the seam of the 2 pieces. The image is an old Inkadinkadoo space set colored with star gel pens. I added 3 google eyes around the rim of the spaceship. The sentiment and both tag punches are SU.
Here is the sketch I followed

Monday, January 27, 2014

Star Wars

My grandson will be 7 next month. He has an 8 yr old brother. And there is nothing you want to know about Star Wars that they cannot tell you. So I found a pack of Star Wars theme paper from Creative Imaginations. I made this card for the 7 yr old.
I had only a portion of an R2D2 left so I punched out just the top with a circle punch. That is backed with a blue scallop and then a silver metallic circle. The blue background and the black with silver dots are part of the  DP pack. I punched out a white tag and then punched stars at random and backed it with the silver metallic. There are 3 stars punched out of the silver metallic accenting the top left of the card. This is all really busy but I know my grandson will be wild about it.
 I was totally inspired by Brian King's use of the sketch by The Paper Players. I loved the pom pom tie he made for his tag. I used thin silver ribbon for mine. Okay, I know we don't usually use ribbon on boy cards. Does that cancel out if I used duct tape on the inside?

 I also liked the way he tilted the focal point of the sketch. So I guess I pretty much cased Brian's card. I hope he doesn't mind.
Here is the inspiration sketch

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Emma's Birthday

I see it has been a whole month since blogging. I had to put away crafting supplies to use the guest room for Christmas and then have been away for 3 weeks. We were trying to escape some of the Indiana cold. We did that but came back a week too early--still really cold here. I'm ready to go again.
My granddaughter's 10th birthday (can that really be possible--double digits already) is coming up soon so I made this card for her.
This is a Penny Black stamp colored with colored pencils. The sentiment is from SU, stamped in Wisteria Wonder and die cut with banners dies also from SU.
I used the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches