Chevron Cup Coffee Card

There are already over 180 card entries at the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and it's only day 2. This Chevron Cup Coffee Card is my second entry. I've used a stamp set by Your Next Stamp called Coffee Break. It was one of the stamps sets I found during the last hop that made my list. The layout is from Tuesday Morning Sketches #356 and all patterned paper are from the Sunshowers collection by Heidi Grace Designs. Instead of coloring the image I decided to paper piece it to add the chevron to the cup. The image was stamped three times, once on the white backround cardstock, second onto the chevron paper and third onto Crumb Cake cardstock. I did use Copic markers to color the nose and ear. The polka dot area was stamped using the Kinda Eclectic stamp set and Lost Lagoon ink by Stampin' Up! Three rhinestone flower stickers by Jolee's were added for the final touch. That's it!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day! 

Father's Day Card with Bicycle

It's been a crazy humid day here in Oklahoma, which made for a good excuse to stay indoors My niece is visiting for a couple of days and she requested to use my supplies to make her dad a Father's Day Card. He likes to ride bicycles and rides in competitions, so it only made sense to make a card using a bike. However, this required a trip to the craft store because the only bike stamps in my stash are girly. We didn't have much luck at the store in the stamp department and luckily found some 3-D stickers that worked perfectly. She used watercolor paper and watercolored the background to look like a sky and road. The road was stamped using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set by Stampin' Up! and Staz On black ink. Two small die cut clouds were cut using an Impression Obsession die. The Father's Day sentiment is by Hero Arts and the stickers were added. It turned out great!

 My niece Hailey, who is twelve, would like to enter her card into the following challenges:

• The Male Room: Father's Day
• Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes
• Tuesday Throwdown: Watercolor
• Crafty Cardmakers: For a Special Man

Sweet Baby Card

Hello and thanks for visiting my blog where I love to share my handmade cards. Today I made this Sweet Baby Card for a cousin and his wife who are expecting their first baby. They are having a girl so I'm sure at this point they are on Pink overload! So, I decided to use Purple and Green to mix things up a bit. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I hope they love it too.

The image is called Giraffe Heart 2 by Bugaboo Digi Stamps and it was colored with Copic markers. After coloring the image I used a Lil' Inkers stitched rectangle die to cut it out. For the layout I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday. Selecting the right papers gave me a little challenge, but if you do enough digging eventually you find something that works. The purple gingham card base is from Current and it's larger measuring 5" x 7". Then a layer of Watercolor Dots by Recollections was added after it was matted to white cardstock. I found the green patterned paper from the Spring paper stack by American Crafts and the purple was found in my scrap bin. A little purple twine from The Twinery was added along with three silver puffy heart stickers from Freckled Fawn. The last detail was adding the Sweet Baby sentiment from the retired Itty Bitty Banners stamp set by Stampin' Up!

This Sweet Baby Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Sketch Saturday: Sketch
• Cards und More: Baby
• Without Words: Purple and Green (No Halloween)
• Addicted to Stamps: Anything Goes
• Crafty Girls Creations: Anything Goes

Wishing you a wonderful and crafty day!

Chevron Watercolor Card

Happy Tuesday! It's time for another challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and this week the challenge is to Watercolor. Our sponsor is Freckled Fawn and they generously provided the darling silver puffy heart sticker used on my Chevron Watercolor Card.

To create the watercolored panel I used a chevron stencil by Clear Scraps along with my Aqua Painters. Using watercolor paper, I first die cut the stitched panel with Lil' Inkers Stitched Rectangles. Then I added ink colors by Stampin' Up! which include: Blushing Bride, Rose Red and Cherry Cobbler. You can't really see it in the photo but I added clear Wink of Stella to the larger rows of chevron to give it a little sparkle. The sentiment is from TPC Studios and was heat embossed with Blushing Bride emboss powder. To add a little more interest a strip of Rose Red cardstock was embossed using the Decorative Dots embossing folder and the watercolor panel was adhered using stampin' dimensionals. That's it!

We would love for you to join us this week! You have until mid-day on Monday 10/19/2015 to play along. Click here to check out the wonderful inspiration from the design team. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

This Chevron Watercolor Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp: Wonderful Watercolor
• Crafty Boots: Use Pink
• Ooh La La Creations: Pretty in Pink
• Where The HeART is: Anything Goes/Use Stencils

Simple Butterfly Card

When I first started making cards I didn't own very many stamps. My stamp collection consisted of mainly sentiments. My card designs were created using patterned paper and stickers. Over the last year I have rarely use stickers and relied on stamping, embossing and punches. This afternoon I was looking through my sticker draw and found several beautiful butterfly stickers by K & Company. I immediately decided to revert back to my old ways and I made this Simple Butterfly Card. The only tools you need is a trimmer and a decorative edge punch. Sometimes it's nice to keep things simple. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!



My Simple Butterfly Card is entered into the following challenges:

• CAS-ual Fridays: Kraft and Text
• My Craft Creations: Butterflies

Bat Halloween Card

Happy Friday everyone! This past week was busy for me so I didn't have time to make a card until today. I have to tell you I'm loving the weather this morning! It was a cool fifty degrees and it's really the first morning that it feels like fall. In case you haven't looked at the calendar lately, we now have 26 days until Halloween and I can't wait. This Bat Halloween Card was made using the Color Splash challenge at The Play Date Cafe and the Halloween challenge at Craft Us Crazy. I recently received the Toxic Treats stamp set by Stampin' Up! and I couldn't wait to use it! The bottom picture shows the little embossed purple toad on the bottom of the card. Thanks for stopping by my blog and have a wonderful weekend!!!

This card is also linked to: Addicted to Stamps and More! Halloween challenge.

Bat Halloween Card Supplies: Black folded card by Recollections, white card stock, black card stock, plum webbed ribbon by Creative Impressions, Toxic Treats stamp set by Stampin' Up!, VersaMark stamp pad, Zing black glitter embossing powder, Stampendous! amethyst pearlustre embossing powder, Fiskars grass edge punch, black bat glitter stickers by The Paper Studio, black 3-D adhesive squares, and Radiant rain shimmering mist in ice by Creative Imaginations.
 

Merry Christmas Card

It's Mojo Monday time again. The sketch for this weeks Mojo Monday challenge is designed by Julee Tilman. I added a little zebra print accent to enter my card in the animal prints Christmas Card Challenge. It took me a little bit to get the idea together for this Merry Christmas Card, but I really like the way it turned out. Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Merry Christmas Card Supplies:

• Paper: Very Vanilla card stock by Stampin' Up!, Christmas Emporium Collection patterned paper by Graphic 45 (#4500368), light green glitter card stock by Core'dinations, red glitter card stock by DCWV, and Garden Green card stock by Stampin' Up!
• Stamps: Zebra background stamp (UR1020) and Christmas and New Year stamp (ER1106) both by Stampabilities.
• Inks: ColorBox warm red and warm green chalk ink by Clearsnap.
• Other Stuff: Cricut machine, poinsettia dimensional sticker and rhinestones both by Recollections, and Radiant rain shimmering mist in ice by Creative Imaginations. 

This card is also linked to:

•  Make It Monday: Anything goes challenge.
• Stampin' for the Weekend: Starting Christmas Early

 

Inspired Card

It's another great Friday and a fabulous CAS-ual Friday challenge.  This weeks challenge is to use two circles.  I'm hoping brads don't count!  The wonderful sponser this week is The Twinery.  Since I prefer to use twine instead of ribbon, I couldn't wait to play along.  This inspired card features a beautiful and bright circle fabric sticker by American Crafts, it's from the Amy Tangerine collection. 

Inspired Card Supplies: White cardstock, patterned paper by American Crafts (Amy Tangerine collection, Charlotte's Shade, 35684), inspired fabric sticker by American Crafts (42242), bright green twine by Doodlebug Design Inc., green glitter brads, and foam tape.

Fishing Father's Day Card

My father-in-law is the fisherman in our family.  Since I'm pretty sure he won't be looking at my blog I thought I would share the Fishing Father's Day card I made for him.  This card was super simple to make and would be easy to duplicate if you have access to a Hobby Lobby store.

Fishing Father's Day Card Directions:

1. Make card from cream cardstock or use ready made card.  Finished size: 5" x 6 1/2".
2. Trim pebble patterned paper (item #154534, The Paper Studio) 1 1/2" x 6 1/4", trim small fish on blue patterned paper (item #444471) 3 6/16 x 6 1/4", align papers and place a couple of pieces of tape on the back to secure, ink edges, and adhere to card.
3. Trim gray cardstock, trim cream cardstock, ink edges of cream cardstock, layer, and adhere to card.
4. Adhere fishing stickers (SPJJ102 by Jolee's).
5. Stamp Happy Father's Day sentiment (C4666 by Hero Arts) with black ink, layer with gray cardstock, and adhere with foam tape.

All supplies from Hobby Lobby.

Bling Swirls Birthday Card

When I first started making cards one of my main forms of embellishments were dimensional stickers.  I was looking through my stash last night and decided I needed to utilize what I had on hand.  I found a new package of Jolee's boutique pastel swirls (50-20923) that are fun and have bling.  My oldest niece is turning fifteen this next week and I needed to make a card for her.  So, I decided to make her this bling swirls birthday card for another shot at the CAS-ual Fridays bling challenge.

Bling Swirls Birthday Card Supplies:  White cardstock, pastel pink glitter cardstock, Jolee's boutique dimensional stickers (pastel swirls repeats, 50-20923), TPC Studios clear stamps (Greetings, ST93416), ColorBox pigment stamp pad in Orchid by Clearsnap (15034), Stampabilities pigment ink pad in light pink (711366) (I mixed the two ink colors because one was too bright and the other was too light and I didn't have something in between), Stampendous! Pearlustre translucent embossing powder (EP150), heat tool by The Paper Studio, and foam tape. 

Inside sentiment

Zinnia Flower Happy Birthday Card

Inspiration for a great card design is all around us.  Today's inspiration came from the many flowers starting to fill the yards with color.  The Zinnia is a wonderful summer flower and the Zinnia Flower Happy Birthday card is bright and cheerful.  I like to have several birthday cards on hand to give to family and friends.  This card makes a great addition to my stash.

Supplies used: White cardstock, pink cardstock, lime green cardstock, Sizzix Texture Boutique, Sizzix embossing folder (Flower Vine & Twizzle Set, 656799), Fiskars edge punch (Upper Crest), flower stickers by Martha Stewart Crafts (Dimensional Zinnia Stickers, M355004), Hero Arts clear stamp (Classic Messages, CL414), and Stampin' Up! classic stampin' pad in Lucky Limeade (122935).

Zinnia Flower Happy Birthday Card Directions:

1. Make card from white cardstock or used ready made card.  Finished size: 4" x 5.5".
2. Trim pink cardstock and adhere.
3. Trim white cardstock, emboss using the Sizzix Texture Boutique machine, and adhere to card.
4. Edge punch green cardstock strip, start with a strip 2.75" wide.  Layer with white cardstock and adhere.
5. Adhere flower stickers, stamp sentiment, layer, and adhere.

This design would also work great for other sentiments, thank you, thinking of you, hello, and best wishes.  If you don't like Zinnia's pick another flower.  If you don't want to use stickers, stamp a flower image.  Making a few changes can change the look of the card.  Have fun!

Using Butterfly Dimensional Stickers

Butterflies alert us that winter is over and spring has arrived.  I love to watch them flutter around my backyard flowers.  One of the quickest ways to add interest to one of your handmade card creations is by using butterfly dimensional stickers.  My favorite stickers come from K & Company.  K & Company makes it easy for you to find coordinating products by giving their collections names.  Both cards in the photo were made using butterfly dimensional stickers as accents.  The card on the left used paper and dimensional stickers from the Julianne collection by K & Company.  The card on the right was a created using paper from The Paper Studio and dimensional stickers from K & Company.  I like making different versions of the same design just to see how the paper and colors make a difference in the design.    

Floral Thank You Card

You don't have to spend a lot of money to make beautiful cards.  I'm a firm believer in working with what you have.  With this floral thank you card if you don't have a butterfly sticker a butterfly rubber stamp would work just fine.  With this design several sentiments could be used, thinking of you, miss you, just because, etc.  So don't be afraid to mix it up a little. 

Here are the supplies I used: Recollections folded cards in pink 4.5" x 6.25", The Paper Studio texture paper in lime, Basic Grey green at heart patterned paper (m-gah-2134), white cardstock, pink cardstock, Hero Arts chalk ink in iris, Hero Arts rubber stamp Thank You (D5510), K & Company Sweet Nectar Grand Adhesions dimensional butterfly stickers (30-662070), Martha Stewart Cornflower punch, Recollections rhinestones, paper trimmers, and adhesive tape runner.

Floral Thank You Card Directions:

1. Trim background papers, ink edges if desired, and adhere to card.
2. Measure the butterfly sticker and the sentiment to determine how big to make the focal point.  Trim papers to measurements leaving the accent paper a little larger for layering.
3. Stamp sentiment, ink edges if desired, layer, adhere to card and attach butterfly sticker.
4. Punch flowers, layer together, adhere to card, and attach rhinestones.