Masculine Birthday

 A gentlemen in my church is having a 96th birthday next week. He is in assisted living. We are doing a card shower for him. This is my card. The picture reminds me of Melvin sitting in his chair reading the newspaper.

The background is Timeless Plaid from SU. The darker checks is the backside of the blue plaid.  The man is a Google clip art. The sentiment is an old unlabeled one. I punched out 3 cirlcles from copper metallic paper.

Inside I did a computer sentiment and added a strip of the brown check and 2 more copper circles.

I am submitting this to Cardz 4 Guyz challenge to use this sketch

Bright Birthday

 Spring has arrived in my craft room. This is the second day in a row I have made a spring floral birthday card. Don't we all love flowers and embellishments?

I am playing with Cardz 4 Galz challenge #244: Embellishments. Thanks to them for picking my card as the spotlight winner in the last challenge.

Today's card:

I used a yellow floral vellum from the Floral Delight Suite as the background.. I attached the vellum to a piece of white card stock so it would show better on the Daffodil Delight card base. Strips of green stripe across the bottom and top give me a place to anchor the vellum to the white card stock. The flower is a Memory Box die. I cut a green one and then a yellow one and paper pieced the yellow on top. I shaded the flowers to make them stand out. I put mini dimensionals behind the two larger flowers and glued the stems in place  The sentiment is an old one rom SU! I backed it with a strip of yellow print and the green stripe.

I finished it off with 3 iridescent gems above the middle flower. They don't show up much in the photo but IRL the really glisten.

Floral Birthday

Making a birthday card to celebrate Time Out Challenges 11th birthday. This challenge is to CASE the designer Donna Mikasa of Three Umbrellas Blog. Go check out her blog, she is super creative.

Here is her creation to CASE

I am using Stampin' Up!'s DSPs Floral Delight and Serene Love. One of the Serene Love papers has large flowers all over it. I have fussy cut them to use as accents. The center flower is popped up on foam squares.

The sentiment is an old one from SU.

Inside I did a computer message and accented with 2 more flowers.

And oh there will be a prize. More motivation to play along.

Study in Blues

 Today I am playing with a sketch from Sketch Saturday

The blue gingham is a vellum in the Delightful Wishes bundle. The dots and flowers are from the Serene Love online exclusive offer. One page of this paper has bunches of the big flowers. I fussy cut them. The small accent lower right is in blue glitter paper. The sentiment is also SU, stamped and fussy cut.

Inside, I have a computer made sentiment and a large single flower from the DSP

While I had these papers out, I made another card with 2 sets of the cut out flowers. This sentiment is an old one from SU! 

Oceans of Fun

 What can you do when the temperature is 10 degrees and there is snow and ice on the ground? Well, there is probably a lot of housework that could be done but I chose to stay in the craft room and make 4 fun fold cards for Send A Smile 4 Kids. This is called a joy fold. Don't ask me why--maybe someone named Joy first used it. Or it brings joy to the recipient. 

All the papers are new from Stampin' UP! called Friends of the Ocean. I love all the bright colors. I did not get the coordinating stamp set so I made foilage from bits and pieces of older sets and also fussy cut some of the fish from the patterned paper. The sentiment I did on the computer and popped it up on foam tape.

i know the kids are going to love these fun bright cards. I am glad to bring a little joy into an other wise difficult situation.

Cracked Eggs

 I am using the sketch from Sketch Saturday for some Easter cards for Send A Smle 4 Kids. 

All of them use a digi by  From My Heart. The papers are all from Stampin' Up!,

For the girls

I colored the images with Stampin' blends. Punched out 3 flowers and attached them with glue dots.

On this one I replaced flowers with feathers.

For the boys.

The DSP reminds me of piles of colored eggs. I decided to leave the chickens white and shaded them with a gray pencil. I covered the butterfly on the top with a feather. 

This one is a book fold card.

I'm not sure about the image but  I know boys will like the sentiment.

Easter for a Guy

 I have 2 teenage grandsons. It is so hard to do Easter cards for them. They are too old for all the cute bunnies and pastel colors of regular Easter cards. 

I think this one will do it.

I used a DSP from SU's Timeless Plaid for the background mat. The truck image, balloon sentiment. and road streaks are all  old stamps from SU. Maybe enlarge the photo to see that is is a pile of Easter eggs in the truck bed. I used a balloon punch to punch out the sentiment and 2 other balloons and then used a blending brush and inks to color them. A fine tip marker was used to make the balloon strings.

This is for Cardz 4 Guyz  #365 Clean and Simple.

Sweet Bunny

 I love cute little bunnies---except for the one who lives in my yard and goes around eating my tulips.

But the ones on cards--yes.

The image is upcycled from a thank you card I received last year. I winked the flowers and butterflies for some shine  and added pearl accents. The green polka dots was in my stash. I left off a sentiment as I am going to use it for a note card.

This is for  Cardz 4 Galz #242--Polka Dots