stripes

Tuesday Throwdown challenge #50 is using stripes. I have been making several pocket cards lately and the design for this card was inspired by a post on DaNami blog that you can see here. Pocket cards are thrifty as they only need 1piece of cardstock 5 1/2 x 4 1/4. This DP was the last bit of this stripe paper. I wish I could remember where it is from as I would relly like to have more. It has been so versatile. The trick here is to remember to only put tape on sides and bottom! The seam tape ribbon is SU. Stamps are Inkidinkidoo and The Angel Company. Inks are geranium from Martha Stewart and light green from Stampabilities. I traced over the geranium with a rose star gel pen. Three pink rhinestones add a little bling at the bottom.

The Play Date Cafe has the wonderful picture for inspiration this week.

It really says vintage to me and I was really going to try a vintage card. But I was looking in my stash of scraps and found this stripe DP that I thought, "picket fence" and it went from there. I love the button punch from Martha Stewart because you don't need padding or extra postage to mail the card. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and the seam binding ribbon from SU. It is fairly CAS but I needed a quick card to sent to a friend's mother who has moved into a nursing home. So here is my card.:

1st birthday

Tuesday Throwdown challenge is project for child or baby. I made a first birthday card. Since babies like bright colors, I chose a yellow cardbase. The triangle is from my stash. The squares are from Nana's Kids stackpack. I used stickers for the frog, butterflies, and ladybugs. The # and 1 are cut with Cricket. I decorated the inside with more stickers.

CAS--twine and buttons

Cas-ual fridays challenge CFC 2 is to use twine and buttons. My card has "Hemingway" DP from The Angel Company. The sail boat stamp is Inkadinadoo. The sentiment is from TAC stamped on a "flag" which mimics the flag on the ship. The baler's twine is threaded through oange buttons and the punched scallop. Makes a great masculine card.

CAS congrats

 There is a new challenge blog at Cas-ual Fridays. The theme this week is using text in some way while keeping cards clean & simple. I thought I usually made CAS cards but am finding I keep wanting to add more so this really did turn out to me a challenge for me. I just received a graduation announcement so decided to go with a congratulation card. Here is my card:

I have an old dictionary so I pulled out the page with the definition of graduate tore it to fit the kraft cardstock. I sponged on StazOn timber brown to give an even more antique look. Punched out a brown scallop and put dots on the scallops with gold star gel pen. The diploma is a sticker stamped with TAC tiny tidbits. Then finished off with a gold star sticker.

Mother's Day

I just finished last week tuesday throwdown challenge and here it is time for another. This week is Mother's Day cards. I love this butterfly from Stamp Affair and use it on a lot of projects. It is colored with colored pencils and then highlighted in places with Clear Star Gel Pen. The flower DP is from my scrap files. The ovals are cut with Creative Memories shape cutters. The buttons are tied with white scrapper's floss that I colored with an orange Tombrow water color pen. Can't remember where I picked up that hint but you only have to stock one roll of floss and you can have any color you want. Ribbon is from Michael's. The sentiment is from The Angel Company and traced over with Clear Star Gel Pen.

Playdate Cafe & Tuesday Throwdown

I've been away for awhile--having fun visiting grandsons so I am getting in just under the wire for the playdate cafe color challenge of red, lime, and grey. I needed a graduation card for a friend's granddaughter so thought these colors would do well for that. Then discovered I could also use this for  tuesday throwdown challenge of using eyelets or brads.
Materials:
Crdstock: white base, then everything else is from my scrap file.
Stamps: Congrats and star both from Stampabilities.
Star punch: Paper Studio. Tied on with lime green embroidery floss.
Label: Nesties 8 with computer generated words.
Silver eyelets on either end of congrats strip and red rhinestone in star center and on label.

On the inside, I used a strip of green over the white message and punched stars so the red would show through.

Play Date Cafe

This is for theplaydatecafe  fun bright color challenge this week.

The white background was torn on one side then run through a crimper then sponged on the edge with Color Box sky blue.  The other papers are from my scrap file. I have taken stamp sets apart and put them in CD cases by type so I am really not sure where the stamps are from. I think I will have to start putting better labels on the cases so I can give credit.

Easter chickies

I made these 2 cards for my grandsons using the tuesday throwdown challenge of spring theme.
I found these cute chickie stamps in the dollar bin at Michael's. I colored them with Tombow watercolor markers.The sentiment stamp actually begins with Happy Easter but with the ribbon also saying that, I blocked out the Happy Easter to stamp the sentiment and then used 3 punch out flowers to fill the space. The eggs are also dollar bin at Michael's. The border punch is Martha Stewart. The oval is Nesibilities. I've had that grass paper a long time and can't remember its source.

scraps card

papertrey paperdolls has a challenge this week of using up scraps. Good opportunity for me as I have a HUGE file of scraps. I used the sketch from Stamping 411 and rotated it. Here is my card.

It is hard to see but that scallop border punch (from ek) also embosses dots along the edge. The flowers are from Michaels--I pulled them off a stem of flowers I found in their bargin bin. I seldom buy the flowers petals pre-packaged as they are so expensive. I think this stem of flowers had about 40 blossoms on it.