Spellbinders Sunflower Birthday Card

Hello fellow crafters.  As you only have probably guessed by now is that I have a love affair with dies!!!  Creating with dies is such a pleasurable undertaking.  Even the painstakingly tedious process of assembling flowers.  And boy, went to you see the tiny flowers that I will share with you soon that I created....lol   For this card the Spellbinders Sunflower die was used.  The garden gate in the background is also a spellbinders die.  The little owl was a metal piece that I painted with acrylic paint.

Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, and Tie Dyed distress ink was used to color the sunflowers.  A nice chunky brown glitter creates that sparkly center.  It's a bright attention grabbing focal point.  Thanks so much for stopping by today to view this card.  It is greatly appreciated.  Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Purple Hydrangeas

Nothing says spring like a Hydrangea doesn't it?  These beautiful flowers are so gorgeous in real life.  My friend Colleen (Dietrich Designs) had a Birthday recently and she loves Hydrangeas.  It's the first thing you see when your browser opens to her blog!  So I made this card and sent it to her.  She just told me yesterday she received it so I will post it now.  I found that I would rather surprise someone with their card rather then post it first.   So here it is!

Believe it or not I found this Hydrangea image on the internet here.  I have been collecting images and stamps of Hydrangeas for an upcoming project.  I want to have a variety of images in my arsenal.....lol

Martha Stewart Punch around the Page was used for the perimeter and framing of the Hydrangeas inside the card.  Spellbinders for the actual center.  Marianne corner dies at the corners with some Recollection bling.  The Hydrangeas were colored with Copic markers.  Gold seed beads were applied to the centers with Glossy Accents and stickles makes those centers sparkle. 

This is the inside of the card.  I colored and cut another image to compliment the front of the card.  I was just thrilled to learn that Colleen loved it!!!!  Now I know she will forgive me for being a little late with her card....lol  Have a wonderful day everyone.  I will be back soon with more to show you.  I have been working on some really cool things.

Summer Gladiolus

Isn't this a flower you don't see much of anymore?  Maybe it is just where I live they don't grow.  Maybe they are considered "Vintage"?  If you can enlighten me that would be great.  I remember these though growing up.  Our neighbor had a garden full of them. 

I used yellow designer paper and some Dusty Concord Distress ink for some background colors. I embossed my panels and then distressed them with the Dusty Concord distress ink. The diecut is Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Rectangles.  I colored my flowers with copic markers and outlined with crystal stickles. The corners are a Sizzix die.

This card was sent to one of my very best friends Mother-In-Law.  Thanks for stopping by to take a peek.  I appreciate it very much!

Cinderella for a Cause

 This cards is went for a good cause. My friend Sue (Coffeestamper) son Chris had brain surgery to remove a tumor Christmas 2011.  They are collected cards to take to the Albany Medical Center Pediatric Unit. You can read about it here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/fo...l#post19174733. One of the things they asked was that you include an envelope-so I wanted to show the set together. This was so fun to make.

The image is an actual Disney Chip Board Piece.  The Roses are a Spellbinders die and the leaft flourish is a Marieanne die.  I just love making these rolled rose and die cut roses..so fun!

I glittered up the roses with some ultra fine glitter.  They really sparkle!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I appreciate it and look forward to your visits.  Have a great day!

Fred She Said Gerber Daisy in a Jar

Hi everyone. This is a card I made for a special friend's birthday. I have been inspired by the Gerber Daisies that have been growing in my garden. This image is from the Fred She Said Digital Collection. It is called Gerber Daisies in a jar and your can purchase it here.
This is a pre-colored digital image that makes putting together a card a breeze.

Here is a peek at the inside of my card. I carried the theme of the Gerber Daisies throughout. I tried to leave more open spaces on this card as this paper is so beautiful.

The recipe is as follows:

Paper-K & Company
Martha Stewart-Ribbon Loop Punch Around the Page
Spellbinders: Scalloped Square Nesties, Scalloped Oval Nesties, Oval Nesties, Floral Doily Accents
Punch-Daisy Flowers
Miscellaneous-Ribbon, Pearls, Stickles, rhinestones
Sentiment- Mark's Finest Papers

Thanks so much for taking a moment to come to visit me. We are having a busy week. Graduation is Friday!!!

Challenges Entered
The Corrosive Challenge - Birthdays
Creative Cowgirls - Anything Goes
I Did It Creations - Lace & Ribbons
One Stitch At a Time - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Birthday

Fred She Said Spring Flower-Tulip

Today, I have the third in a series of the Spring Flowers collection from Fred She Said. If you would like to see these images, they can be found here. I have one more flower to complete on these 4-1/2" x 4-1/2" cute little easel cards.

Don't you think these little easel cards are just so sweet? I used the Spellbinders Lotus Die for this card along with the Spellbinders Fancy Tags and Large Circle Nestabilities. The edges were distress inked with Spun Sugar.The Martha Stewart Punches are Branch, Frond, and Small Butterfly. The flowers were in the clearance section at Micheal's. I glittered this up and used ribbon and pearls for embellishment. As you can see in the picture above, I made this card with an extra piece as well for writing my sentiment.


Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you found some inspiration to do some spring cards for your collection. They make wonderful Birthday cards that are sure to be enjoyed for many years to come.

Challenges Entered
Creative Cottage - Spring
Simon Says - Happy Birthday
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Spring
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Happy Birthday plus Pearls
House of Gilli - Pastel Colors and Bling
Karen Doodles - Spring
Shabby Tea Room - Birthday or Celebration
Squigglefly - Spring Theme
Woodware - Spring is coming
Creative Inspiration - Easel Card
Little Claire's - Flowers
Stamp Scrap Doodle - Spring has Sprung
Anything Goes - Die Cuts
Flourishes - Butterflies
Going Grey - Anthing Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Birthday

Fred She Said Crocus Card

Don't you just love spring flowers. I am so enthralled with the Fred She Said Spring Flower set found here, that I have decided to do a series of 4-1/2 inch ease cards in each of the flowers. I have the Tulip one already done and will show that to you in the next day or two. I will be working on the Snow Drop Flower next.
So you know me, I always have to work things up a little different. I hate to write on these cards so I created a way to have a tag that slips out to write my sentiment on. I decorated the top as you see here that slips out. It is plain on the back so I can just write my greeting.

This sentiment was something I picked up in the dollar bin at Micheal's. I just love the Ranger Distress Inks and this one is the color Sage. Recipe
Spellbinders - Square Eyelet Nestabilities, Fancy Tag
Martha Stewart - Small Butterfly Punch
Paper - DCWV Pocket Full of Posies
Pearls, Stickles, Ribbon
This image was colored with Copic Markers.

Challenges Entered
Bunny Zoe's - Spring Flowers Everywhere
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Happileigh Scrappin' Challenge - Purple
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes with a Digi
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes
Card Cupid - Anything Goes
Catered Crop - Follow the Recipe
Stamping Vacation - Inspiration Photo

Gingerloft Guest Designer-Use Those Flowers

Hey everyone! I am so excited today as I am a guest designer for the "Use Those Flowers" at the Gingerloft Challenge. This is the second time I got to be a Guest Designer and play with Tami's fabulous digis. I chose this Gingerloft digi called Playground. Isn't he just darling. I colored him with my Copic markers. Here is a nice close up of how cute this little guy is. Not only did I have fun coloring and creating my focal point, but I finally had a chance to play with my Birthday present. I made these flowers with my Cuttlebug Quilling Kit. These are so much fun to make and so easy. You just run your dies through the bug and then roll the pieces on a special quilling tool that is included in the kit.Here is another close up of the flowers and the butterfly I used to embellish this card. The following is a list of supplies I used for this drawer easel card.

Spellbinders-Beaded Circle Nestabilities, Fancy Tags
Sizzix - Leaf Die
Martha Stewart Punches: Branch, Frond, Large Butterfly, Fleur de Lis, Hydrangea Punch-Around-the-Page
Cuttlebug - Fancy Corners, Chrysanthemum Quilling Kit
Stickles, and Pearls

This is a whopping 6 x 6 Easel Card with drawer. I found a tutorial here to make this card. Wanted to make extra something big enough to put extra flowers in the drawer. I thought this would be a great gift to give to someone who scrapbooks or is a cardmaker and fill the drawer with those handmade flowers. The other idea I had was to give it to a dog lover and put dog bones in the drawer...lol
Thanks for stopping by today. Please join us in the "Use Those Flowers" Challenge over at the Gingerloft Challenge Blog and check out Tami's fabulous Digi's here.

Challenges Entered

Delicious Doodles Challenge - Make the Card "You" Want
Polka Doodles - Flower Power
Simply Create - Power of Flowers
Stamp Something - March Digi Day
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Four Legged Friends
Meljens - U R Such An Animal
Die Cut Dreams - Spring Garden Theme
KB Cute Monday - Anything Goes Using a Digi
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes With a Digi
Desert Island Crafts - Make it Square, Inspired by Nature, Handmade Flowers, Hand Colored Image, Pearls, Birthday Theme
Tip Top Tuesday - Use Your Favorite
By the Cute and Girly - Springtime
Creative Belli Challenge - Animals

Fred She Said Daffodil Birthday Card

Can you tell that I have spring fever!!! This is just the beginning of what I have been working on. This is from the Fred She Said collection called "Spring Flowers" that you can find here. This is what I was talking about with my Copics. The light, the dark, and the shadow....trying to master that!!! Hope I can find some place around here to take a class in the fall.
Oh and let me tell you how much I love distress inking. I distressed this beaded spellbinders die with sage distress ink. I also distressed the frond leaves that I punched with my Martha Stewart punch. The branches and butterflies are also from Martha Stewart. The tag is a spellbinders fancy tags. The little flowers I got on clearance last year at Micheal's. The paper is a new release from K & Company. As you can see in this picture, I made an extra circle so that I can write my sentiment or include a picture of my family to the "Birthday" person. I like this little added touch!This card is 4-1/2" inches round and I created this custom box envelope to match. I am keeping the template because I have a feeling I will be making more of these cute little cards. Thanks for stopping by. I sure to appreciate your comments.

Challenges Entered
A Spoon Full of Sugar - Birthday Wishes
Anything Goes Challenge - Distressing
Digital Tuesday - Punches
Scrap Creations - Birthday
Sweet Stamps - Flowers
Tip Top Tuesday - Bling It On
Tuesday Throwdown - 3D
Cooking It Up With Katie - White, Wings, Wishes
Crafty Creations - At the Bottom of my Garden Lives.....
Forgotten Scraps - Spring or Flowers
Freshly Brewed - Ribbons and Bows

Fred She Said-Spring is in the Air

"Spring has Sprung" here in Georgia and oh boy the pollen is an inch deep everywhere!!! I am sneezing like there is no tomorrow!! lol It's that time of year where nature under goes a rebirth. The flowers are starting to bloom so what better way to celebrate than to bring out some pretty Fred She Said images and make some cards.
This image is the "Tulip Trio" image that was a freebie last year. Isn't it beautiful. I am still practicing with my Copic Markers. It's a whole other world of coloring and I think my next post you will see some improvement in my capabilities. It takes thinking in light and dark shadows.
This is the card and envelope gift box combination I made. I used the Tulip Medallion from Spellbinders and distressed inked all the edges with tea dye distress ink. The butterflies are a small and large butterfly punch. Everything has been stickled and I used pearls for accents. The paper is the DCWV Butterflies and Flowers stack.

This is the inside of my card. Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to get out some beautiful flowers and create some cards to celebrate the coming of spring. The Fred She Said store here has a wonderful selection of beautiful flowers for your creations that I am sure you will enjoy crafting with.

Challenges Entered
Crafty Emmas - Flowers and Flutterby's
Card Creations by C - Sparkles
Crazy 4 Challenges - Flowers
Just Us Girls - Envelope Gift Box
Little Claire's - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft - Spring Flowers
Shannon's Sentiments - Fussy Cutting
Sugar Creek Hollow - Inside Out Challenge
Happileigh Scrappin Challenge - Sketch
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Spring...Flowers Everywhere
House of Gilli - Recipe: Some form of Sparkle, 3 Patterned Papers, at least two dies or punches
Lexi's Creations - Flowers

Fred She Said - Fall Flower Collection Aster

Greetings Bloggers! Today is the day to play with some Fred She Said Fall Flowers. This is the Aster from the Fall Flower Collection at the Fred She Said Store here. I just love this digital flower set. There is a Sunflower, Black Eyed Susan, Chrysanthemum, and this Aster. What a lovely set of cards you could make with those for a wonderful gift!Here you can see that I printed out the image 3 times. I cut one with the oval spellbinders then layered one whole cut floral on top. I then cut out the biggest flower and popped that as well for dimension. My favorite embellishment was used on the flowers....."stickles"!!! lolI used the cuttlebug thin stripped embossing folder for the sides and placed some pearls in the center of the flowers.

This is a picture of the card and envelope together that I made. This was such a fun card to make. I loved the blue and white together. This is about as close to Clean and Simple that I have come to a card in a long time. Hope you have enjoyed viewing this creation!Challenges Entered
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Blue and Flowers
Fairy Fun Friday - Embossing Wet or Dry
Sew Many Cards Challenge - Embossing Wet or Dry (Must use a Digi)

Paper Play Challenges - All Shapes and Sizes

Cooking It Up With Katie - Embossing, Fancy Fold, Autumn Color

Paper Pretties - Pearls, Rhinestones, or Glitter Dots
Stampin' Royalty - Stitching Madness

You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!

Isn't this just the cutest!!! Oh my goodness-it is super quick too! I know the people at Splitcoast Stampers (Pamzi in particular) always ask me how long it takes to make my cards. The last card took me about 8 hours. But I can tell you that I made this in about 45 minutes. I know the next one I make will be like 20 minutes max-cause now I have my template!!!
I bought this little tea light in a pack of two at the dollar store. The blue cardstock is just leftovers and so is the white. I used my spellbinders scalloped die for the top and bottom. The top is the smallest die in the large set and the bottom is the next size up for the small.

I used the lace edge Martha Stewart border punch and trimmed it down very small and added pearls. The flowers on the top are some things small enough to go on the top that I had laying around here. The Martha Stewart branch and butterfly punch were also used.

If you are interested in making one of these, you can catch the tutorial over at Splitcoast Stampers here. It doesn't show you how to do the bottom part. For that, like I said, just cut the next size up from the smallest die, then I took a pencil and traced the tealight in the middle of the die cut and cut out the hole so you can turn the tealight off and on. I slipped it into place and put a bit of glue around to hold it.

I cannot wait to make more of these. They are just so darn cute!!! I am going to try to make the acetate box to put it in as well. This is a super fun and quick project!!! Have fun!

Fred She Said - Plain Cupcake

Greetings Blog Friends. Today I wanted to show you a project that I am working on. I have lots of September Birthdays coming up so I need to get a head start on these Birthday Cards. I picked the image from Fred She Said called "Plain Cupcake" which you can find here. My friends favorite color is blue so I wanted to rename the image "Blue Velvet Cupcake"!!! lolThe reason for that is pretty clear in this picture. I am complete enarmored with this recipe called "Blue Velvet Cupcakes". They are made just like the "Red Velvet" version but you use Wilton's Royal Blue and a dash of Violet gel food coloring. They are so beautiful. Since my friend lives so far away, I can't actually makes these for her, but I can send the recipe right!!! lol The second recipe is called Blue Hawaii Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes. They are really pretty too when made up. Trust me, but they never last long enough around here to take a picture of them!!!
Here is a picture of the open card with the envelope on the right. I printed my cupcakes out three times for each cupcake and layered them for dimension. I used some tinsel glitter on the top to make it look like sugar sprinkles...Yum.

I hope you have enjoyed viewing this project. I am making something else to go with this card that I will share with you later on this week that I am really excited about. Thanks for stopping by.

Blue Birds of Happiness

Greetings Bloggers and welcome to my blog today. This card and envelope was made for a friend of mine whose Birthday is coming up soon. I have had this Bird stamp since the beginning of the year. With going to school and Design Team commitments, I haven't had a chance to ink this baby up until this weekend.


I have been hoarding two pads of K & Company Tom Coffey papers. Gosh it is so beautiful, I have hated to use it as you just can't find it any more!!! I finally cut into some sheets for this card. I got this Martha Stewart Bird and Twig PATP punch for Mother's day. I also used the Martha Stewart deep scallop punch for the corners and the MS Branch punch. The leaves are a sizzx die cut that I used a cereal box to create them as chipboard. Then I applied glue and glitter to them. I made the crochet flower and used a brown corduroy brad for the center.

The image was stamped with black stazon ink and colored with pencils and blended with baby oil. I used distress green ink for around the spellbinders label die cut. Then I glittered the edges with some crystal stickles. I added green rhinestones in the corners.H
Here is the inside of my card with the envelope again. I carried the embellishments to the inside of the card as well. I hope the Birthday Girl will enjoy this card. To tell you the truth, I hated to mess it up by writing my sentiment and name inside....lol. I almost sent it with a sheet of paper on the inside with my greeting and signature so that she could use the card again....but I decided not to...lol

This card has been entered into the following challenges:
Res-Q-Challenge - Close it Up (Stitching)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Stitching
Cupcake Craft Challenge - Dazzle Us
Whoopsidaisy Challenge - Ribbons and Bows
Paper Play Challenge - Flowers and Sparkle
Pixie Dust Studios - Punch It Out
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Ribbon & Bling
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturday - Handmade Embellishment

Fred She Said Tulip Bouquet

Greetings bloggers! If you are looking for the Fred She Said Blog hop click HERE
Today is my Mom's Birthday. This is the card that I made and sent to her. I think I am on a red kick!!! When I found out how wonderful it is to use that Rangers Brick Red Distress Ink, I knew I had to do this image from Fred She Said in red. My Mom's favorite color. I have done this tulip image in Pink's and Blue's but it is equally as beautiful in Red.


This is a picture of the card with the matching envelope. And don't you just love that Tulip Border punch from Martha Stewart. I was lucky enough to walk into my local Micheal's one day and find an end display cabinet full of spring marked down punches. I think they were less than half price. This is one of the three I picked up. It is so cute with this image. Also, the corner treatments are from a Cuttlebug die that I have in my stash...and wouldn't you know the center looks just like a tulip and also matches perfectly.
I put crystal effects on the picture that holds the tulips to make it look like porcelain. I also added some little tiny pearls on there as well. The butterflies are also a Martha Stewart Punch!Here is the inside of my card. The tulip image in the corner at the bottom is also a Fred She Said image that matches this perfectly. I love using these two images in combination with each other. This particular tulip comes with 3 other flowers. You can check it out at the Fred She Said Store. I am so lucky to be on Tracy's Design Team and get to play with all her Digi's!!! They are awesome.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Carol

MMSC#49 Fancy Pansey Cupcake

Hi everybody. Do you know what time it is??? It is time for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. Don't let this one scare you. I will break it down and give you some hints on how I came about my contribution to the design team. First things first:

"YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between.

"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

Just have fun and come play with us :)

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Can you see how shiny this is? I used Crystal effects on my image and stickles! But, let me tell you what I did so you can do this same sketch. I enlarged the fancy sketch to the size I wanted my puzzle pieces on microsoft word then printed it out. I lightly tacked that paper to a cereal box and cut out the puzzle pieces. I ran some white cardstock through my cuttlebug wit the swiss dot folder and the swirl folder. I then traced my puzzle pieces on the backside, cut out and adhered it to my pieces....sponged a little blue china distress in around the edges, mounted on pop dots, and put the puzzle together. Easy peasey...I know you can do this too!!!!


My cupcake image is from Sunshine and Dragonflies-it is the Sugar Frosted Pansies cupcake that I dressed up even further by adding some pansy digi's from the Fred She Said Line called the Blue Pansy Set. I just love the vivid blue of this Card and Envelope Set. The envelope is made with our own Priscilla's 6 x 6 envelope kit at Priscillastyles. (By clicking on the Business name it will take you right to the items used in my project.)

Here is the inside of the card with a couple of cookbook markers as just a little added fun bonus.
Martha Stewart Pansy Around the Page Punch, Deep Edger Doily Lace Trim, and Checkerboard Border Punch were used in the making of this card. The paper is DCWV At Home stack. Hope you enjoyed viewing my card today and that you will join us in the challenge.

Challenges for this card.
The Corrosive Challenge - Texture
Crafty Angels - My Favorite Things
Cute Card Thursday - Mono Mania
Hand Full of Stamps - Digi It
One Stitch in Time - Torn, Distressed, or Shabby
Pals Paper Art - Flowers