For MoJo Week 144
It has been such a long time since I have done any crafting. I had 2 neices and their 5 children for Memorial Day and then 2 grandsons for a week. My craft room is also a guest room so I had to put every thing away. I have been having craft "withdrawl". LOL! But I have been printing out all the MoJo sketches so I am ready to go. It is the season for weddings so I decided to start with that. This card is a quick one from my scrap paper file. The card is ivory cardstock. The layers are dark brown, a tan fleur de lis print, white rose print and a ivory ribbon with gold embossing. I used a glitter pen to enhance the center rose and the love which is stamped in timber brown. On the inside, I used the ribbon to anchor the top of the message. Wow it is fun to be back in the craft room. And thanks to the MoJo crew for making it easy to get back in the swing.

I found this sketch challenge at http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com. I had just bought the "Scor-bug" from TAC and wanted to try something with it. I scored the white card to make a grid. I punched the border with a Martha Stewart punch. Then stamped 3 daisies(one of those $1.00 stamps at Jo-Ann's checkout aisle) and colored them with Tombow markers and drew in stems. Inside I used the same border punch for the pink and let it show beneath the front. The sentiments are from TAC also. I am looking forward to doing a lot more accenting with the Scor-bug.

Here are my masculine and feminine card for Papertrey Paper Dolls challenge. Both cards are on creme cardstock. The stripe paper is More Mimi from TAC. For the masculine one I cut with some brown and beige stripes showing. For the feminine, I cut with just green and pink stripes. The stem stamp is from PTI. I love the versatility of having just the stems on a stamp. On the masculine card, I "smudged" timber brown ink on the stems to look like cattails and then swiped green, brown, and blue inks at the bottom to give the marsh effect. On the feminine one, I used the same stems stamp and then used a flower petal stamp from TAC, stamping it several times across the stems. then used a butterfly from the same PTI set. I mounted this on pink and green coordinating papers. On this one I traced the Happy Birthday with clear gel pen and used a little clear gel pen on the butterfly. 3 pink rhinestones at the bottom (they don't scan very well) add even more bling.

I needed a special 50th wedding anniversary card for a neighbor. I received candy for Mother's Day that had this beutiful gold ribbon. That served as my inspiration. The card is ecru cardstock layered with gold shimmer and then white roses paper. I wrapped the layers with the gold ribbon, tied a bow with my Bow-Easy and added a "diamond" brad acccent. I cut out the number 50 with Cricut and stamped congratulations with gold ink from Studio G. I think it looks really elegant and I'm pretty sure it will be a one of a kind for them.

MoJO week 137. Using orange is a challenge for me. But I found this pretty green w/orange butterflies ribbon at Michael's. Here is my creation. I used white cardstock, then orange polka dot from Nana's kids pack. The stems stamp is from PTI and the flower stamp from TAC. I did a off stamp (stamp on scrap paper first, then on my card stock) technique for the flowers because my orange was too bright. The blessings stamp is part of a stamp from TAC. This is for my daughter for Mother's Day. I wanted her to know what a blessing she and her family are to me. I just wish we closer geographically.

I found this sketch at http://www.oz-somestamps.com/ I love Heather's sketches. She always puts the dimensions of all the papers to cut. No thinking!! I am changing some flower arrangements at home so am recycling the daisies. The papers were all in my scrap file. I love the blue and yellow combination. The stamp is one of those $1.00 specials in the bins at the checkout line at JoAnn's. Hope you like my "thrifty" card.

It has been awhile since I have been in my craft mode. Bridgette http://hoosierstamper.blogspot.com/ and I discussed using up our many, many scraps of paper. So here is one I did today. The base is white linen cardstock with 4 various pink, green, purple scraps of paper. I found these glitzy butterflies on a discount rack at Hobby Lobby. I love butterflies so had to buy 2 packs!! I used Martha Stewert pink geranium ink around the edge of the scalloped circle and rose star gel pen for the dots. The message is from TAC stamped with pink geranium. On either side of the message are 2 stamped tiny flowers that look like brads (a frugal idea) covered with clear glitz gel pen to carry over the glitz from the butterflies. I think this card will cheer up its recepient.

This is MoJo week 134. I made a birthday card of ivory cardstock. The design papers are More Mimi from TAC. The Happy Birthday stamp is also from TAC. I had scraps of paper with the pink butterly so glued it to cardstock, cut it out, and added jeweler's wire for antenna. Then used pop dot to make the butterfly look in flight. The inside has an accent stripe also from the More Mimi papers. I used hot pink paper and avacado paper and ribbon to pick up the design colors in the print. I think it is a very pretty and cheerful card. Hope you like it.

It's been a busy week and I thought I wasn't going to get a card done for this MoJo Week 133 but I made it in time. This is on cream cardstock with aqua and brown papers. The papers are all from TLC except the paisley "ribbon". I used the for you stamp from the mini messages from TLC.

I won this Pemberly matchbook kit from my TAC angel Bridgette for her color combo challenge. It did not come with assembly instructions for the matchbooks but I could see right away the subtle blend of colors would work really well as sympathy cards. So here is one I made. I scored the 51/2 x 8 1/2 at 4" so the front is a little short. I completely covered the front with the aqua blend paper and did a 1" strip of coordinating on the inside back. I cut the diamond on Cricut and shaded and stamped the message with Studio G sapphire. I cut the dragonflies with the Cricut in a blended blue paper scrap and also in black. I glued the black ones to the card and used pop up dots on the blue ones. It gives a shadow effect to the dragonflies. I always have fun think of ideas when I get a new set of paper. I'm sure there will be more to come from this set.