Just For You, Cupcake

Hi there, Blog Friends! How's your week starting off? Aside from the weather turning wet and cold, it was a good day for us. I did, however, realize this morning that I've been neglecting my cardmaking lately, so I'm on a mission to get at least the four Viva la Verve November sketch challenge cards made and posted by tomorrow.

My DD will be going to a birthday party this coming weekend, so my card for the Week 1 sketch is a girly birthday card. I used plenty of sparkly Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

Here's a look at the inside. Still girly, but without the flash.

Thanks for stopping by. See you in a bit, with another Viva la Verve Sketch Challenge card!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Cupcake, Happy Birthday (Quietfire); Sweet Treats (Verve); Flower (Studio G)
Paper: Summer Song (My Mind's Eye); The Basics Stack (The Paper Studio); Bright Blossom (S.E.I.); Que Sera Sera (K&Co); Floriade1 (Two Peas in a Bucket-Anita M. Richards)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Dies: Blossom Nestabilities, Standard Circles Lg, Lacy Squares (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Stickles; Liquid Pearls; Colored Pencils (Prismacolor); Sewing Thread
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Isn't it fun!

Hi there! Quick post here today. My great-niece is having her first birthday soon, and I made this card for her. I used this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club sketch #34.

This sketch actually has two long skinny panels on it, but since the balloon stamp was so large, I opted to use a medallion for the second panel to keep from covering up the entire front of the card. I really like all that orange and pink. 8~D

The balloons are covered in glitter glue and paper pieced, and the number "1" on the front of the card is covered in Glossy Accents to give it some shine and dimension.

This is the inside, but it could just as easily have been the front, I think.

  



Hope you all had a great day today. Thanks for visiting!

 

Stamps: Party Balloons & Everything Happy (Stampendous)
Paper: Bright Blossom (S.E.I.); Bright Pattern Pack (Colorbok); Basics Pack & Textured Cardstock stack (The Paper Studio)
Ink: Memento; Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Copic markers
Dies: Nested Lacey Pendants, Floral Doily Accent (Spellbinders); Curlz Alphabet (Sizzix)
Accessories: Pompom ribbon (Fancy Pants Designs); button; twine (The Twinery); glitter; Stickles; Glossy Accents; foam dots
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Friendship

Hi there! My card this morning is all sunshiny and light. I'm using the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club sketch #32, with the embellishment flipped to the right, and Flourishes stamps. The colors work perfectly for the CR84FN Color Challenge #36.

This little sweetie is from a new set called Sweet Days of Summer.

This is the first time I've sponged clouds and it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I don't have a cloud mask, so I just made my own with three circles I punched from cardstock. I used two 1-1/4" circles and one 1" circle. I arranged them how I wanted, taped them together, and sponged over them with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Easy.

I sponged Crushed Olive Distress Ink for the grass and just lightly around the edges of the oval, then stamped the girl. I colored the flowers in the stamp with a Copic marker (Y38-Honey). 

The sentiment is stamped on vellum with Staz-On and cut out with one of the Ribbon Tag Trio dies. I didn't need the ribbon slits, so I trimmed them off. I colored the pearls with the same Y38 marker I used on the stamped flowers.

On the inside, I used a sentiment stamp from the Sweet Nature stamp set and added the tiny butterflies from the same set as the little girl stamp.

Cut a few rectangles, did a little sewing, added half a doily, some raffia and a flower, and Poof!, I was done. ;)

I hope you have a sunshiny day today! Thanks for stopping by.

 

Stamps: Sweet Days of Summer & Sweet Nature (Flourishes)
Paper: Pocket Full of Posies Stack (DCWV); Bright Blossom (S.E.I.); The Basics Stack (The Paper Studio); Recollections; Vellum (The Paper Co)
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Staz-On, Copic marker
Accessories: Classic Ovals Lg Die & Ribbon Tag Trio Die (Spellbinders); Scallop Diamond Edger punch (EK Success); Raffia; Paper Doily; Flower (Recollections); Twine (Twinery); Pearls; dimensionals, sewing thread
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Ink Up Inventory

Hi friends! I don't have a challenge card to share with you today (I have several to make, but just haven't made them yet). ;) Instead, I made the cutest little inventory notebook for my purse.

For awhile now I've carried a spiral notepad around that has lists in it of dies, Copics, embossing folders, ink, etc. that I already have, so I won't buy duplicates. You may have something similar. Well, it worked great until the amount of room I left for each category filled up. (Who knew you needed so much stuff to make all these little cards!) 8~D Since my current notebook is a spiral, I couldn't add or rearrange pages, so now things are scattered throughout the book, and there's very little organization. I saw this video yesterday at The Paper Boutique for making a refillable notebook out of index cards and it looked like the perfect solution. (Linda has lots of other great tutorials on her blog, too.)

This was easy peasy to make, and so much fun! You can watch Linda's video for instructions, but if you have any specific questions about mine, just ask, and I'll get back to you with the details. 

Oh, one more thing I like about this book is that you can type your inventory in Word, stick the cards in your printer, and out come nice, neat lists of everything. And when you need to update the lists, if you've saved the information, all you have to do is add in your new goodies, print out a new card, and toss the old one.

I'm off to get my lists typed up right now! 

Hope you had a great day today. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Stamps: Cover text created in Word, printed onto a transparency and rubbed on. Tab text made with a label maker.
Paper: Bright Blossom Stack (S.E.I.); 3x5 index cards
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Dies:  Labels Sixteen, Parisian Accents (Spellbinders); File Tabs (Tim Holtz/Sizzix)
Accessories: Chip board; Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper; Crop-A-Dile II; rhinestones, 1" notebook ring, label maker, sanding block & sandpaper
Size: Cover: 3.25" x 5.25"; Index cards: 3" x 5"; Tabbed dividers: 3" x 5.5"

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Tomorrow's Forecast

Hello there! It's our last weekend before school starts back here, so I spent time with my daughter today rather than make cards. She's a big reader, so we sat on the front porch in rocking chairs with bowls of ice cream and read books. She read the Narnia series last year, and her dad is reading the Percy Jackson books to her now, so she was excited to find a fantasy book about Greek gods that has a girl as the heroine (Pandora Gets Jealous). I'm working my way through The Count of Monte Cristo. Great book--I recommend it--but teeny tiny print and still over 1000 pages, so plan on spending a lot of time with it!

I eventually got down to the craft room and here's what I came up with for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch Challenge #30.

The Bright Blossom stack from S.E.I. is full of gorgeous designs. This was one of my favorites. I loved working with all the intense colors and glittery shine.  I got some new butterfly dies from Cherry Lynn Designs that I wanted to try out, so I put one on this card. It's the small one. I inked the die before cutting it, so the embossing shows up pretty good. The larger butterfly, underneath it, is a Martha Stewart punch. I originally put a few dots of Stickles on the MS butterfly, but I didn't like how it looked so, before it dried, I got a paint brush and spread it over the wings.

Here's the inside of the card with another dimensional butterfly:

The rest of the card is pretty straightforward.

Have a wonderful, crafty weekend!

 

Stamps: April Showers (Flourishes)
Paper: Bright Blossom (S.E.I.); Shimmer Stack (DCWV); Bazzill Basics; Recollections 
Ink: Colorbox; Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Accessories: Dies: Floral Doily Motifs (Spellbinders), Dimensional Butterflies (Cheery Lynn Designs); Monarch Butterfly Lg. punch (Martha Stewart); Diamond Lace Edge Punch (EK Success); Tropical Paisley embossing folder & Distressed embossing plate (Sizzix); roses (Recollections); Stickles; rhinestones; glitter
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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