Canvas Covered Chipboard - Make It Monday #34 Challenge

I'm back today to finally participate in a Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge. This week we were challenged to create our own chipboard accents. I LOVE creating my own chipboard. I do it all the time.

I used the Fillable Frames #4 die to cut some kraft cardstock 5 times. I also used the die to cut some canvas.

I stamped the canvas with the stamps from Fillable Frames #4 set using Chestnut Roan chalk ink. I glued the layers together and punched holes with the Crop-a-Dile. I attached the chipboard to the card front with linen thread.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

It's a beautiful Saturday here. I hope you're having a great day. I've just been taking it easy. I watched Nate Berkus' new show; I liked it.

Today is my mom's birthday; love her! I'll have to send her the link to this blog entry since this card has not made it to her in New Mexico. On all the cards I make for her, I try to do actual sewing, since she sews. On this card, I used a paper piercer to pierce around the border of the plum cardstock. The black "thread" is a fine black Sharpie pen.

This card uses the same stamps as the previous card I published, but I love the colors on this card more.

Card Ingredients (all from Papertrey Ink unless where noted)

Stamps: Year of Flowers: Roses, Damask Designs

Paper: white, Plum Pudding, Orange Zest Bitty Dots patterned paper

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Fresh Snow

Tools: Heart to Heart punch (SU!), paper piercing tool & template

Other: buttons, foam tape (3M), black pen (Sharpie), black/white baker's twine, Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Happy 7th Birthday, Jonah

Hey blog peeps! Today we went to a birthday party for one of our favorite young friends, Jonah, who turns 7 this week. My Little Guy had a great time with his friends getting drenched with water guns, a water slide, and a Slip 'N Slide.

I made this card really fast this morning because I didn't have time to work on it this week. I used my Silhouette digital cutter to cut out the circle and the number 7. I love that you can use the fonts located on your computer with the Silhouette. The number 7 is in a cool font called Bodoni MT. You can't tell from the photo, but I cut the number 7 several times from Kraft cardstock and glued them together to create my own chipboard. I then cut the Cosmo Cricket paper out and adhered it to the chipboard.

I want to wish one of my best friends, Cris, Happy Birthday today. I didn't have time to make her a card.

I can't help but think about today and what our country went through on September 11th, 2001. Thankfully, we have little ones and celebrations for loved ones in our lives to show us that life goes on. My thoughts and prayers are with all the innocent individuals and their families who are forever changed by September 11th. Peace, my dears!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)

Paper: Kraft (SU!), The Boyfriend (Cosmo Cricket)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

Tools: Silhouette digital cutter

Other: Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue, Scoring Board (Martha Stewart), foam tape (3M), white gel pen (Sakura)

I Love You Mom

It's the start of another weekend. I hope you are all doing well. Tomorrow will be busy with school-related stuff and my in-laws visiting. My husband and son are also looking forward to seeing Iron Man 2.

Here's my second attempt at making a Mother's Day card for my mom. I like this card a lot.

I love the Raspberry Fizz felt from Papertrey Ink! It die cuts really well. I like the new Fillable Frame #3 die. I also used the banner stamp from Look Up by Practicing Creativity. "Mom" was stamped with some very old Hero Arts alphabet stamps. The chipboard is velvet-covered from Anna Griffin; very soft. I love that heart stamp from Stampin' Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, I {Heart} Hearts (SU!), Alphabet stamps (Hero Arts)

Paper: Crushed Curry - textured (SU!), white (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Melon Mambo & Crushed Curry (SU!), Memento Tuxedo Black

Tools: Big Shot with Fillable Frame #3 die, Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers)

Other: Raspberry Fizz Felt (Papertrey Ink), Chipboard (Anna Griffin), foam tape (3M), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Happy 5th Birthday

Hope your Saturday is going well. The Little Guy and I drove up to Oakland earlier today for my nephew's 5th birthday party. Here's the card I made for him.

The card uses kraft cardstock and Cosmo Cricket paper. I used my Silhouette to make my own chipboard again. I created the 5 using the Rockwell Extra Bold font on my computer. I cut out the numbers several times from Kraft cardstock and glued the layers together. I also used the Silhouette to cut the number out from Cosmo Cricket paper.

The other news, my techie husband stayed home to wait for UPS to deliver his iPad. It arrived about an hour ago. I can hear him and my son oohing and aahing over the device downstairs. What a cute pair of nerds! I'm off to play with the iPad too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts (SU!), sentiment (Inkadinkado)

Paper: kraft (SU!), The Boyfriend 6x6 paper pack (Cosmo Cricket)

Ink: VersaMark, Chestnut Roan (ColorBox)

Tools: Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers), Silhouette (5 created using Rockwell Extra Bold font)
Other: Clear embossing powder, linen thread (SU!), foam tape (3M), Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue

Thank You

Whew! My computer has been acting up. Thankfully, we have more than 1 computer in the house and a super techie sweetie for a husband.

This card was submitted to Embellish Magazine's first publication call. I'm very happy for Ashley and Mac in their new endeavor.

The color challenge involved the following colors:

I love kraft cardstock! I didn't want to miss this challenge. I had to have Jen Allyson's digital cutting kit after seeing Kristina use it on her Finally Friday video.


Supply List
Stamps: none
Ink: none
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up! – kraft + chocolate chip + riding hood red patterns designer series paper + pink flamingo designer series paper
Tools: Fiskars - corner rounder; QuicKutz Silhouette - Thank You & card front; Stampin' Up! - 3 heart punch + hole punch
Accessories: Jen Allyson's Project Cuts - Cut-Out card digital die cut kit; Stampin’ Up! – tempting turquoise button + chocolate chip brad; Sakura - white gelly roll pen; Black Bird Studios - twine; 3M - mounting tape; Tombow - glue

Instructions
1. Trim kraft cardstock into an A2 card.
2. Use QuicKutz Silhouette to cut out card front and the welded word Thank You (cut word 3 times).
3. Glue 3 copies of Thank You together.
4. Use the gel pen to add faux stitching to the welded word.
5. Wrap part of card front with twine.
6. Punch hole and add the chocolate chip brad.
7. Round corners of kraft cardstock.
8. Punch heart shapes 3 times out of kraft cardstock and glue together.
9. Punch heart shape from designer paper and glue to chipboard.
10. Use foam tape to adhere card front and welded word to card base.
11. Thread button with twine.
12. Adhere button and heart chipboard.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Hope you're all having a great weekend. My sweet mom celebrated her 65th birthday yesterday. This is the card I made for her yesterday. I can't believe she's 65 years young!

My mom is very active. She seems like she never sits down. Several times a week she goes for very long walks. A few weeks ago, she joined my sisters and brother-in-law for an extreme hike outside of Taos, NM. It was 16 miles round trip and it took 10 hours! She wanted to accomplish it before her 65th b-day. She did it! She has better knees than I do. I wouldn't be able to do this hike.

My design was inspired by this card created by Angie Tieman. I love all her designs! The faux stitching was inspired by the fabulous Kristina.

I used my QuicKutz Silhouette to make my own chipboard again. I created the 65 using the Rockwell Extra Bold font on my computer. I cut out the numbers several times from Kraft cardstock and glued the layers together. I also the Silhouette to cut the numbers out from some pretty Carolyn Gavin for K & Company paper (thanks, Ericka!). No craft knife or sanding block required! I used the Big Shot to emboss some dots onto Melon Mambo cardstock. The brad-type embellishment is actually a clear button that I backed with some more Carolyn Gavin paper. On top of the button I added a kraft colored heart. I also did some faux stitching on the heart.

Thanks for looking. Have a good one!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU!)
Paper: Kraft, Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze - textured (SU!), patterned paper (Carolyn Gavin for K & Company)
Ink: Melon Mambo
Tools: Big Shot (with Dots embossing Texturz plate - SU!), QuicKutz Silhouette (65 created using Rockwell Extra Bold font), Corner Rounder (Fiskars), 3 Heart Punch (SU!), Circle Cutter (Martha Stewart)
Other: White Gelly Roll (Sakura), Kraft Taffeta ribbon (SU!), clear button (SU!), foam tape, Tombo Mono Multi glue, Diamond Glaze (JudiKins), twine

Happy Birthday, Rosa Elena!

This card is actually a belated birthday card for my friend, Rosa Elena. I really like the Razzleberry Lemonade paper. This card uses the same colors as the card I made yesterday.

For this card, I made my own chipboard again with my QuicKutz Silhouette by cutting the word "birthday" 3 times from Melon Mambo cardstock and gluing the 3 layers together. To repeat the pattern on the ribbon, I used my Sakura pen to add dots to the birthday chipboard.

Thanks for looking and have a good one!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (I masked off the stamp to only get the word Happy)
Paper: Crushed Curry (textured), Melon Mambo, Razzleberry Lemonade
Ink: Chocolate Roan Craft Ink (ColorBox)
Tools: QuicKutz Silhouette, Embossed Curve Punch (EK Success)
Other: Melon Mambo ribbon, White gelly roll pen (Sakura)

Feliz Navidad - Using the Medallion Stamp Again

Here's a second card for Cath's Moxie Fab Classy & Elegant Challenge. I started this card last week. I've been obsessed with the SU! Medallion stamp. Here's one more use for it. I took a large star chipboard piece and stamped the Medallion stamp on it. I embossed it with white embossing powder. I love how it looks. It felt "Christmas-y" to me, so I decided to post it on Cath's challenge.

I added small pearls to the star and continued with additional larger pearls. I used my Big Shot to emboss large dots with a Texturz plate.

Card Ingredients (all SU! except where noted)
Stamps: Medallion, Felicades Siempre
Paper: Whisper White, Kraft
Ink: Whisper White Craft Ink, VersaMark ink
Tools: Big Shot, Dots Texturz plate, corner rounder (Fiskars), Threading Water edge punch (Fiskars)
Other: Whisper White taffeta ribbon, white gelly roll pen (Sakura), pearls (Michael's), white embossing powder

With Love, From Me to You

Hi everyone! Where is the week going? There is not enough time in the day. I finally ordered from the new SU! catalog. I got my order on Monday. I had to have the Medallion stamp.

This card is for Kristina's Finally Friday challenge:

Create a card using patterned paper that was originally not intended for the topic of your card.

I used paper and chipboard from the SU! Country Living Holiday Collection Stampin' Kit to create this love-themed card.

I made my own heart chipboard by punching the heart out 5 times from kraft cardstock and gluing all the layers together.

I've had 1 bottle of Liquid Pearls for years...I don't think I've ever used it. After see this card by Kristina, I had to try something similar.


Thanks for stopping by and have a good one!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Medallion (SU!), sentiment (Feeling Groovy by Verve Stamps)
Paper: Kraft, Country Living Holiday Collection Stampin' Kit (SU!)
Ink: VersaMark, Riding Hood Red
Tools: 3 heart punch (SU!)
Other: Baby Blue Perfect Pearls, Tombo Mono-multi

Happy Birthday, Aeshia!

I made this card for cute little 3-year old, Aeshia. We just got back from her fun birthday party. When I found these shiny chipboard letters at Big Lots, I knew they would make the perfect addtion to a feminine card.

Edited to add: I'd like to wish all of you moms a great Mother's Day!!!!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Birthday Whimsy (SU!)
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Kiwi Kiss, some unknown pink DSP from SU!
Ink: Rose Red
Tools: Baby Border punch (EK Success), Big Shot, Sizzix flower die
Other: chipboard, ribbon (Costco), rhinestone (Michael's ), Gellies chipboard letters (Pressed Petals), corner rounder, foam tape

Happy Birthday, Saharra

Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #44 had the perfect colors to create a card for my niece, Saharra, who turned 3 yesterday. The colors this week are:
chocolate chip, close to cocoa, pink pirouette, whisper white

I used this card made by Anna Wright as the inspiration for my card. I love how she had the owl hovering above the tree stump.

Have a good weekend. Thanks for looking!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Birthday Whimsy (SU!), Whoo Loves You (Hero Arts)
Paper: White (JudiKins), Pink Pirouette (textured and regular), Chocolate Chip, Candy Lane DSP (SU!)

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Encore Bark Pigment Ink (Tsukineko)

Tools: Big Shot, Dots Texture pad (SU!), Threading Water border punch (Fiskars), Take it Easy Alphabet (Sizzix)

Other: Heidi Swapp chipboard, white gel pen (Sakura), Souffle pen (Sakura), clear embossing powder, linen thread (SU!), foam tape, Pink Pirouette Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Felt Fusion flower, mini brad (Making Memories)

You are My Love Affair to Remember

I was so thrilled to get the Audrey award (along with Sam from Ryemilan's Stamping and Scrapbooking) for the card I did inspired by "The Sound of Music". Sankari and Brooke asked us to be the guest designers for the new Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge movie, "An Affair to Remember". Thanks, Brooke and Sankari!


This is one of my favorite vintage movies. I've seen it several times. I LOVE Cary Grant movies and I love Deborah Kerr. I must admit I saw "Sleepless in Seattle" in 1993 before seeing "An Affair to Remember". I loved how "Sleepless in Seattle" weaved in the story about meeting on the roof of the Empire State Building just like Nickie and Terry. The building plays such a prominent role in both movies that I had to use the image of the Empire State Building as my inspiration for this card. I got the image from this site.

A little over 9 years ago, one of my sisters and I took my parents on a Mediterranean cruise. We had an overnight stop New York (we were actually staying close to the JFK airport). My sister is pretty adventurous. My dad stayed back in the hotel. My mom, my sister, and I ventured off in the subway and made our way to Manhattan (my sister is the only one who had been to the city before while she attended Cornell University). Our destination...the Empire State Building! We had a great time. The problem was getting back to our hotel. It was almost midnight, so the subway became a little scary. At one point, we were convinced we were being followed by some young men. I though we were going to be mugged. Whew...we got back safely. Seeing NY city from the top of the Empire State Building was worth all the effort.

I first saved the photo onto my computer. Using Picasa, I cropped it slightly and added the text "Love Affair to Remember" to the bottom of the photo. The photo already had a vintage look to it. I printed it on matte cardstock a few times. I cut out the building and used foam tape to layer it on the other photo to give it some dimension. I inked the edges of the photo with Basic Black ink. The rest of the card is simple. I covered the chipboard with my favorite Riding Hood Red designer paper. Thankfully, my husband has the perfect tiny sanding tools, so I was able to get into the groove of the heart. I masked off the word "You" from a stamp in the Best Yet set. The rest are stickers, ribbon, some leftover paper from my Christmas card, and some mini rhinestones.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Best Yet
Paper: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red DSP, printed photo on white matte cardstock (JudiKins)
Ink: Basic Black
Other: heart chipboard (SU!), Riding Hood Red Taffeta ribbon, Making Memories Black Metro Alpha Shimmer Sticker, Martha Stewart glittery sticker, foam tape, mini rhinestones (Michael's)

I Want to Hold Your Handbag

Can you imagine the Beatles song with this title instead?

I didn't plan to make this particular card for for Theresa's Designer Handbag Inspiration Challenge #5, but since I had silver foil paper, a perfect sized piece of chipboard and some textured cream colored paper, I had to use the architecture of the Dolce & Gabbana Miss Easy Way Satchel as my inspiration for this card. Almost every Tuesday evening, I take my son to storytime at the library. I was sitting next to a woman who had a Dolce and "Cabbana" purse. Even though it was a knock-off, it had this silver riveted tag on it. I used a slit punch repeatedly to get the look of a zipper opening. I used my silver gel pen to draw in the zipper. I have a buckle punch (I've never used it) that I used on silver foil paper to get the silver brackets. I cut out the middle part of the buckle for the look I wanted.

I also used the colors in the bag: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Pink Pirouette, and Rose Red. I didn't use white, since I focused on the front of the handbag, and not the side.


After I finished the card, I couldn't figure out what sentiment to add to it. I reached for my Verve Feeling Groovy set and the idea came to me. I modified a Verve stamp by adding some individually stamped letters after "hand" to create "handbag". People, I may be pulling out this trick again for future competitions.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Feeling Groovy (Verve)
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Pink Pirouette, silver foil (Only the Best Los Gatos), cream textured cardstock (from Peru)
Ink: Rose Red
Other: Making Memories mini silver brads, corner rounder, SU slit punch, EK Success buckle punch, silver gel pen, dimensionals, chipboard

Wishing You Love - AVS10

I like this card. This card uses sketch #10 from the Anni-VERVE-sary. The heart-shaped BasicGrey chipboard fit perfectly on top of the "v". I stamped the Wishing you Love stamp in dye ink and then with VersarMark ink so I could emboss it with clear embossing powder. There is something I just love about kraft cardstock. I love it. When I see you all use it too, it just looks great.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: For a Friend
Paper: Very Vanilla, DSP (My Mind's Eye), Blue textured cardstock (don't know who makes it), Kraft confetti (CA Paper Goods)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, VersaMark
Other: Clear embossing powder, BasicGrey chipboard (thanks, Ericka!), Crayola pencil, River Rock ribbon, 1" circle punch, foam tape

Happy to Sew a Birthday Card

I made this card the other night, but I figured I would let Blogger post it for me while I'm out of town.

I stamped the large image from the Fresh Cuts set on the large Pumpkin Pie flower. I don't know if I like it...it just makes the flower look dirty. I also stamped that same stamp on the scallop circle and the chipboard button. Since the chipboard has glossy paper, I stamped it with gold Brilliance ink. I love Brilliance inks.

The only adhesive I used on this card is holding the flower layers together. The brown textured paper and the ribbons are sewn onto the cardstock. I had the sewing machine out since I was hemming some new shirts, so I figured I should use the machine on a card. My old sewing machine is on its last leg, plus it only does a straight stitch. I could use a new one!

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Fresh Cuts
Paper: River Rock, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie Die-cut Blooms, brown textured paper (I don't know who makes it)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie, River Rock, Brilliance Galaxy Gold
Other: Large Button Chipboard (Target $ bin), American Crafts stripped ribbon, celery ribbon (Michael's)

Happy 18th Birthday

I'm in a rush to pack, but I need to create 3 cards before we leave. Three nieces are celebrating birthdays in the next few weeks. We fly out bright and early tomorrow morning.

This card is for Analisa who turns 18 on Aug 6th. I like gift cards...receiving and giving. I don't know how to shop for girls anymore, so this gift is a no-brainer. I wanted to design a card around the gift card.

This card started with some BasicGrey paper that is part of a Matchbook Kit. I rubbed the raw chipboard with Rose Red ink.

The matchbook flap is attached to the pink cardstock with eyelets. The paper on the inside of the flap is yummy. I got it from my local scrapbook store. It it almost like cloth. I can't remember who makes it.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Happy Birthday (A Muse Artstamps)
Paper: Parchment Pink (Only the Best), DSP (BasicGrey- Oh, Baby! Girl Matchbook Kit), brown stone textured paper (don't know who makes it)
Ink: Rose Red, Basic Black, StazOn Jet Black
Other: BasicGrey ribbon, Making Memories staples, Chipboard (Heidi Swapp), Clear Square Sticker (A Muse...blog candy from Theresa), flower (blog candy from Jenn), rhinestone (Me & My Big Ideas), corner rounder, eyelets (unknown source), glue dots

Happy Father's Day!

I was going to submit this card for Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #11, but my white embossing powder is approximately 10 years old, and it has yellowed and it was very obvious against the stark white cardstock. I created a different card instead for Kristina's challenge.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Father Figure (Verve Visual), Priceless (SU), Heidi Grace Clear Stamps Greetings
Paper: gray/white designer paper (Making Memories), white textured card (from Peru)
Ink: Going Gray, Rose Red, Old Olive, So Saffron, Versamark, ColorBox Frost White
Other: Chipboard (Provo Craft), PSX White Embossing Powder, foam tape

Ouch! (SOA Challenge #7 - Scrapbook Sketch)

This is my 2-page layout for Stampin' Out Alzheimer's 2008 Challenge #7. The requirements for this challenge: use the 2-page layout sketch, use at least 4 photos, and 1 stamped image or sentiment.

(Edited to add: the journaling text)
This page should be called Maui Ouwie! You were having such a good time running on the beach and kicking water all over, when you tripped and fell on some black rock (the first picture was taken right before the accident).
Ouch! You got a huge scrape. We had trouble finding a large enough Band-Aid. A lot of our pictures should be called "Kalino and the Band-Aid" or "Band-Aid on Vacation". You didn't let this injury ruin your first trip to Maui.
April 2007
Kalino 3.5 years old

Scrapbook Ingredients
Stamps: Aloha! (Stampin' Up)
Paper: flowered designer paper (STARfish & Dreams), banana & guava-colored paper (My Mind's Eye), don't know where I got the light banana paper
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava, Cameo Coral, Mint Melody, Brilliance Pearlescent Coral
Other: Making Memories green brads, SU felt flowers, Provo Craft chipboard letters

Pure Happiness (SOA Challenge #2 - Scrapbook Sketch)

This scrapbook page is for Stampin' Out Alzheimer's 2008 Challenge #2. When I saw Jen's layout for this challenge, I knew I had to use this photo of Kalino from our vacation in Maui last April.

The text on the metal tag says "This is one of my favorite photos. Kalino looks so happy!"

Scrapbook Page Ingredients
Stamps: Happiness, Friendship Blooms
Paper: Textured cardstock (Colorbok), tan paper (dollar store), striped paper (Provo Craft), Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up)
Ink: River Rock, Groovy Guava, ColorBox Frost White
Other: PSX White embossing powder, chipboard letters (Provo Craft), metal tag (Stampin' Up), rub-on used on the metal tag (Hambly Screen Prints), foam tape, starfish (dollar store), green ribbon (Michael's), white gel pen