A Little Pink A Little Blue

Today's faith based cards were created for Grace Klein here in Birmingham (@grace_klein_community). This is a wonderful faith based organization that has many charitable endeavors both locally and globally. Their goal is to give out 100,000 scripture based cards this year to be included with the food, clothing and school supply boxes, etc. They want cards in bundles of 25 which is daunting to our kind of card makers but my goal is to donate 100 cards by the end of the year. If you have any questions or want to join me, please send me an email or comment on this post and I will give you the details.

The Color Hues Challenge #95 gave me the perfect excuse to break open the pinks and blues from the last The Stamp Market color release. I really needed something to take my mind off things, so I spend the afternoon in a pink and blue crafty haze. 

I used the cerulean, soft berry, tea berry and white cardstock combined with the Papertrey Ink Delightful Brackets die. The sentiment from the Stamp Simply Fear Not set was stamped using cerulean ink. I used dies from the Penny Black Flower Family set to cut from tea berry and soft berry cardstock adding white flat back pearls for the centers. 

After cutting out the bracket die for the previous card I thought it resulted in a great frame so I attached it to a powder blue panel.  I used the small die from the same set to stamp the sentiment from the Stamp Simply Words of Encouragement using cerulean ink. A trio of flowers with stems trimmed off were cut from tea berry cardstock to anchor the sentiment piece. 

For the last card, after cutting the three flowers from white cardstock, I attached to a cerulean cardstock panel. I inked the centers using tea berry and soft berry ink and added pink flat back pearls. The sentiment from the set was stamped using tea berry ink onto a small piece cut with the smallest die from The Greetery Nordic Circles set and attached with foam dimensionals. 

These cards represent #33-35 and are part of my second bundle of 25. 

I am also submitting these to the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #667-668. 

A Cup of Cheer

Todays Christmas card was created for the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #33 to feature candy and/or cookies. 

I used the Honey Bee Stamps Mugs & Kisses dies to cut the cups from patterned paper and the rest of objects from cardstock scraps. After that it was easy to assemble the coffee cups and figuring out to arrange all the items on the stitched edge linen cardstock panel. I stamped one of the sentiments from the Hug in a Mug directly onto the panel and the other onto a white cardstock scrap which was then cut out with the matching die (both stamped with gala red ink). After attaching all to the card front I added clay "chocolate sprinkles" to one up and colorful clay candy to the second one. 

Products: Honey Bee Stamps and Dies, Sunny Studios dp, PTI cs, The Greetery clay pieces,Lil Inker Designs die, Wplus9 ink

Nothing like waiting to the last minute to submit to a challenge! 

{The Cat's Pajamas} Peace, Joy and Penguins

Some of my favorite TCP characters are the penguins. Even though they have been around over 20 years they have such a modern, graphic look to them. The Peace, Joy and Penguins digital stamp was a physical stamp years ago (2013 actually). And although I loved it then I like the the digital version as I can resize it to fit my needs. 

Using Silhouette software, I resized the penguins and printed onto Copic friendly cardstock along with the snowflakes from the Penguin Sleigh digital set. I then cut out with a modern oval die. After coloring with Copic markers, I attached to a sno cone stitched cardstock piece that was embossed with an older Darice embossing folder. The mini sentiment came from a set that happened to be laying on my worktable. A few enamel dots provided a bit more texture. 

Products: The Cat's Pajamas Digital Stamps, MFT cs, Doodlebug enamel dots. Darice embossing folder, Copic Markers

Copics: Penguins-W00, E81, YR30, YR31; Scarf, Hat, Presents, Candy-YG01, YG25, YG17, RV10, R81, R83, W00, E81; Shadows-BG000

Yay, another Christmas card completed!

{The Cat's Pajamas} Ho Ho Ho

Hello all. Have you started on your Christmas cards? I usually make them throughout the year so I am not scrambling to finish in November and December. This year I am way behind and this card represents Christmas card #5. I need to get busy but life events keep getting in my way.

I am intrigued with monochromatic cards so I decided to give it a try with lots of Christmas red. I combined the Santa Gnomie and toy sack digital images, resized and then printed onto Copic friendly cardstock using Silhouette Software. I colored the image with Copic and Caliart markers and then fussy cut out. For the sentiment I stamped the physical version of the Big Holiday Words set using Versamark ink onto a red cardstock panel, then clear heat embossed . The digital version of the sentiments are found here. The image was attached using foam dimensionals and then the panel to the red card base with a layer of craft foam. A trio red sequins added a bit of sparkle. 

Products: The Cat's Pajamas digital stamp, The Stamp Market cs, Doodlebug sequins, Ranger Embossing Powder, Versamark ink

Copics: Skin-E000, E00, E02; Beard-C1; Clothing/Toy Sack-R21, R24, R27, W00, W1; Gloves/Boots-N2, N5, N7

Do you like the monochromatic look? 

Cards for Bulgaria

This is the third year in a row that our church has partnered with Mission Bulgaria to provide Christmas shoe boxes for the Roma children in Bulgaria. What is different from the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes (which is also a very fine organization) is that their hygiene/school needs are provided separately so our boxes can be filled with the fun stuff like toys and candy. And the best part, is that we have a specific child to provide for complete with their name and a picture. One photo is attached to the shoebox top and one is to keep so that we may pray for them throughout the year. This mission sends around 3000 boxes and our church usually does about 300 of them. Click here for more info. 

I used some older products including a ready made PTI card front and the Reverse Confetti  (no longer in business) Joyous Holiday stamp and die set for the angel and an Illustrated Faith (retired) set for the nativity. Inside is a message from us that I typed in English and then used Google Translate to translate into Bulgarian. The sentiments (Christmas Blessings) were also translated and printed onto cardstock and cut out with an older Paper Smooches die. 

For Magdalena, age 7:

For Petar, age 11: 

Products: Reverse Confetti stamp and die, Illustrated Faith stamp, PTI card panels and cs, MFT, Concord & 9th cs and Michael's metalllic cs, MFT dies, Altenew and Delicata ink, Copic Markers

Copics for Angel: Skin-E00, E02, E11, R21; Hair- N2, N3, N5 N7; Horn/Halo-Y21, Y23, Y26; Dress-W00, E81, BG11; Wings-BG10, BG70

Copics for Nativity: Skin-E02, E11, E21, E15; Clothing-BG10, BG11, BG23, YG91, YG93, YG95; Baby Jesus-E00, E02, W00, E81; Manger-E30, E33

Both had to be done very quickly as I was running out of time. Due to lengthy overseas shipping all boxes are mass shipped in September in order to make it for Christmas.

Fall Mums

Today's faith based card was created for Grace Klein here in Birmingham (@grace_klein_community). This is a wonderful faith based organization that has many charitable endeavors both locally and globally. Their goal is to give out 100,000 scripture based cards this year to be included with the food, clothing and school supply boxes, etc. They want cards in bundles of 25 which is daunting to our kind of card makers but my goal is to donate 100 cards by the end of the year. If you have any questions or want to join me, please send me an email or comment on this post and I will give you the details.

This project has had a major stoppage on my part. I won't bore you with what all has happened to us in the past month but suffice to say there has been very little time to craft. 

There is a bit of fall here in Alabama. September is usually one of our hottest months so it has been a nice weather break. I love fall mums so I used The Greetery Sunflower BotaniCuts to create mine. I cut the flower from honey nut cardstock for the flower then blended on rusty hinge distress ink before assembling the layers. The leaves and veins were cut from two different colors of green cardstock both of which were in my scraps bag. I blended on forest moss distress ink on the leaves. The large sentiment from the Comforting Commands set  stamped in mowed lawn distress ink and then cut out with the matching die and the smaller one with rusty hinge cut with a strip die. Before attaching the images and sentiments I partially blended antique linen onto a stitched linen cardstock.

While my supplies were out I made a second card with another mum as the center piece and using all the same colors. That's the only way I am going to get this many cards completed before the end of the year. I included an older stamp and die Papertrey Ink Inspired:Lord for the sentiment. 

Products: The Greetery stamp and dies, PTI stamp, die and cs, Ranger Distress Ink

These cards represent card #31 and #32 of my second bundle of 25.

I am submitting the first card to the Color Hues (#94) Challenge - Rust & Green. 

And the second card to the Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #665-666 and also to the Freshly Made Sketches #653.