Guy Birthday

 Our neighbor has a birthday next week. This is the card I made for him.

The linen paper and the basket weave are from Stampin' Up!. I added a narrow copper strip alongside the basket weave. The gears are from the Gears and Textures die cuts, also SU. This set is perfect for masculine cards. It comes with a variety of stamps as well as the die cuts. I did the sentiment on the computer and die cut it with a deckle circle. I think the edges look a little like gears too. Hubs on the wheels are 2 square faceted pewter brads from my stash. They are kind of thick for mailing but I will be hand delivering this card..

Inside I typed another sentiment and lined it with the basket weave paper.

I've used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

In the Mountains

Can you believe it is time to be thinking about Father's Day cards?  Paper Funday Challenge of anything goes with an option of mountains or coast gave me the perfect inspiration for my card.

This scene was created with SU's retired Wetlands stamps. I did a stamp off technique to give it a watercolor feel. The sentiment is an old stamp in my collection. The DSP is also SU. 

Inside I copied a sentiment from my home Hallmark program and repeated the pine tree stamp.

 

Bees

 I recently discovered preprinted card fronts for A2 cards from Whimsy Stamps. They come as a set of 8 fronts and strips of sentiment. I just finished some with bees on the front. Timely for Cardz 4 Galz new challenge to use bees. 

It feels almost like cheating to use premade card fronts but I added my own personal touches.

I trimmed the picture down to 4"x5 1/4 and glued it to an A2 card base of SU's Daffodil Delight. I used a clear gel sparkle pen on the wings and Wink of Stella on the flowers. I added a small die cut cloud from the Playing in the Rain set.  I trimmed one of the sentiments and added it across the bottom corner. This is going in my stash to send to Send A Smile 4 Kids

Sunny Birthday

 I just received new DSP from SU,  I had to break out some and make a card.

The papers are Painted Illusions. Crumb Cake base. The gold vellum is die cut with a deckle circle to indicate a sun. The sentiment is also SU. 

Inside, I added a narrow strip of the DSP to a computer printed sentiment.

The sketch is Try Stampin' On Tuesday

Grad Card

 I need a graduation card with gold and black as the school colors. It just happens The Paper Players challenge has those very colors.

I cased LeAnne's card, you can see it here. Thanks LeAnn for the inspiration.

Black card base, Daffodil Delight mat, white card stock matted with gray and elevated with foam tape.   The Daffodil Splotch is from Gorgeous Grunge. The sentiment is an old SU one. The mortarboard is a sticker backed with the gray card stock and trimmed to create a shadow and make it firm enough to elevate  on dimensionals. 

Inside is a computer sentiment with black and Daffodil Delight strips

Laser Cut Butterfly

 Happy Easter to all. It is too chilly here to be outdoors. None of my family is here so I am being productive in the craft room

Card base is 4 1/4x11, scored at 4 1/4, 8 1/2, and 9 3/4. The purple piece is 2 1/4 x 10 1/2 scored at 5 1/2. Patterned paper is 4" square.  Put glue only on the inside bottom edges and glue in place. Hint: put a 4x4 white liner inside before gluing the purple strip.

The purple is stamped with a flight of butterflies. The accent on the front flap is a laser cut butterfly sponged with blue, purple, and black. It is flimsy so I backed it with a black square. 

Here is a side view

I am submitting this to Let's Craft and Create with the option of Beautiful Butterfly

Primary Colors

 Kids love bright happy colors. This is one of the cards I will be sending to Send A Smile 4 Kids

The giraffe and sentiment are from Whimsy Stamps.

I'm going to enter this at Shopping Our Stash where the theme is "white out"--no white on the card.  I sponged Balmy Blue behind the giraffe and on the sentiment. And Pool Party in the eyes.

Using the sketch from Try A Sketch on Tuesday

For Paper Funday I used 2 square dies

Spring Flowers

I am doing some Mother's Day cards for Send A Smile 4 Kids . What a better time to use spring flowers for the current challenge at Cardz 4 Galz

I used a Bubble Bath card base. The next mat is Highland Heather embossed with swiss dots. The 3x4 white card has some black dots stamped and then ephemora flowers glued on. The sentiment is an old one in the stock. There was a smudge of black ink that I masked with a glittery pink gem. Perfect cover for an error.

Tea Party

 I went looking in my stash  for something to make a Mother's Day card. I found a sheet of teapot stickers that are ++ years old. I always enjoyed doing tea parties with my granddaughters--before they moved on to the electronic age.

I am playing along with The Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. Once I got started, I realized I was ending up with a  "cover all"

The card base is SU Basic Beige. The basket weave is also SU. To add a little texture and satisfy the embossing square I used a linen texture E/F. It is not very noticeable but gives a little texture to the basket weave. Then added a die cut a deckle edge circle from a yellow vellum. The teapot sticker went on top of that. The ribbon is SU Crumb Cake. The sentiment is stamped on the backside of a scrap of the basket weave paper. For the sparkle elements, I winked the flowers and added some gold gel pen highlights in the flowers. To finish off I added more sparkle with some flat gems. I count a total of 5 layers.

Here is The Paper Players grid

Spring is Blooming

Spring has finally come to Southern Indiana. Warm temps, flowers blooming, trees budding out, and sneezing.

The papers are from SU's Lovely and Beautiful. I fussy cut the big flower from one of the papers, then offset it and trimmed the edges. I added 3 light green punched leaves.. The sentiment is also SU, die cut with deckle edge circle and popped up with foam squares, Finishing it off are 3 clear gems. I like clear gems because they reflect the background color. 

THis is for

Cardz 4 Galz  Splash of Green

The Paper Players CAS florals

Let's Craft and Create option of ppurple and green