The Right Tools

Cardz 4 Guyz new challenge is Sports and or Hobbies.

So for the guy who loves woodworking.

The stamp is by Stampendous and colored with SU Blends and gelly roll metallic pens. The die cut happy birthday is from SU and layered 3 times to make it more prominent.

Inside the card is a computer made sentiment and a die cut pliers. The die cut tools no longr have a label so I don't know who to credit.

School

My kids are grown so I don't need teacher's gifts or cards and don't have many school theme products. But I did find a scrap of paper with alphabet letters. And, I always need thank you cards.

Just getting in under the wire for the challenge at Make the Cards Challenge

I picked up the green in the letters to use Garden Green by SU for the base.  The T and U are Tim Holtz dies. The strip sentiment is from SU. All tied together with some twine. 

I used this sketch from Sketch Saturday

Ducks in a Row

 Do you have all our ducks in a row? Some days I feel like mine are flying all over the place. 

"Just Us Girls" current challenge  has the cue word "basket". I went in search of a basket stamp. I only found one in my collection. Hm, may have to do something about that. This set is by Rosie's Roadshow.

The card base and frame are Daffodil Yellow from SU. I die cut the frame with SU deckled rectangles. Looks like ruffled duck feathers? The basket is a separate stamp that is fussy cut and then glued over the middle duck's head. Do you feel like that duck somedays? I added some shading with gray and blue to add some depth. 

This is also for Let' Craft and Create #187 "Frame It"

And Cardz 4 Galz #180 "3 of Anything"

Winter Scene

 I have a fun little winter scene to share for this week's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches. I am finally breaking out the Christmas and winter theme papers. Time to start on those Christmas cards.

The woods scene paper is from Storybook Gnomes in the current SU mini catalogue. I used SU Diorama dies for the cutout, then stamped some snowflakes all over and embossed it with a falling snow E/F from SU. The deer is fussy cut from another paper in the Storybook Gnomes collection and is popped up with mini dinensionals.  I added 2 sparkly snowflakes and a tiny sentiment.  A little Wink of Stella to the snow on the trees adds a bit of sparkle.  

Here is the fun sketch

I hope we have inspired you. Check out the designer cards aat Tuesday Morning Sketches and then share your own creation. 

The diorama dies are new so  I will share this at My NBUS blog.

Chicken Soup

 I am trying to get a stock of get well cards made up. before the cold and flu season arrives. And what is better for colds and flu than chicken soup?

This is a digi image from Bugaboo Stamps.

I colored the image with SU blends and a silver metallic pen. The die cut gray scalloped circle is from DCWV. The bottom rows of chevrons are from SU--actually backside of one of the Christmas papers.  Then I used a Cuttlebug chevron E/F turned sideways so it would mimic the colored chevron rows.

I used this sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

Beautiful Fall Leaves.

 I live in a part of the United States that has a lot of hardwood trees. Every fall they put on a really colorful show. We will just get in the car and drive around our area looking at the beauty.

This week's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches is a perfect one to display some gorgeous colored leaves.

The background paper is from a 6.6 pad in SU's new catalogue. When I first saw this paper it just reminded me of falling leaves. 

A few years ago, I bought a long garland of silk colored leaves at JoAnn's. I pulled off all the leaves and use them on cards. The leaves are attached at the base with large glue dots and then I added a raffia bow. The sentiment is a really old unlabled one.

I hope you will check out all the design team cards at Tuesday Morning Sketches blog and then share a creation of your own.

Duct Tape

There are a lot of jokes that go around about duct tape and men.   So for a masculine card for Cardz 4 Guyz why not use duct tape? I was going to use burlap on the card but Cardz 4 Guyz challenge is to use a stencil so I pulled out Tim Holtz stencil called burlap.

I used a Kraft card base. The sentiment is done on the computer. I saw this saying on a sign somewhere on my travels a few years ago. I die cut it with a deckle edge rectangle from SU. The edge of the sentiment is also stenciled. Then it is secured to the card with real duct tape and a bandaid. Inside I added another strip of duct tape at the top of the white liner.

Summer Weddings

 Tis the season for summer weddings or at least it was for me. My anniversary is August 31, 54 years ago. Using our sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches this week 

This is my interpretation switched from landscape to portrait.

The bride and groom is an old unlabeled one. I highlighted the bouquet and the man's cummerbund and tie  with red and then added a red ribbon accent. The background is a white floral from Sizzix. I love the elegance of black and white for wedding cards.

Go to Tuesday Morning Sketches to check out the designer's cards and share your own creation.

Flower Bouquet

Wow! Tuesdays roll around really quickly.  Time for another Tuesday Morning Sketches 

When I saw this sketch, I knew exactly what to use. And, I actually followed the sketch exactly!

The bouquet is an SU stamp, colored with markers. This is the actual stamp, unfortunately now retired.

I covered the hugs with a white fish tail banner. Then added die cut circles. The sentiment is an old unlabled one.

Check out all the design team cards at Tuesday Morning Sketches then share your design with us.

Santa Train

 Okay, time to break out the Christmas papers and start on some cards. Even though I have a box full of Christmas papers, I had to have this new one from SU called Santa Express. Who identifies! 😂😂😂

There is one sheet of paper that has these cute little carts full of gifts. I fussy cut one cart and 2 of the trees. The Ho Ho paper is the reverse of the carts design. Another of the papers is the diagonal strips. The sentiment is an old one and punched out with a SU label punch.

This set of papers will be perfect for Send A Smile 4 Kids to send to children's hospitals.

The layout is the sketch from Sketch Saturday