Baby Banner

A woman I work with had a baby a while back and so I made name banners for her new daughter Kennedy and big sis Zoie. I used Cricut cartridges Birthday Bash for the pennants, Create a Critter for the butterflies, and MS Holiday Cakes for the letters. I just love that font.

Circles and scalloped circles are cut with Nesties.

The dark pink CS is PTI's Raspberry Fizz (that is the last of it except for scraps). Other CS is SU's Pumpkin Pie and Pretty in Pink. DP is also SU. Orange grosgrain is PTI.

Here is my darling son who grudgingly agreed to hold up my project!

And in the background you can see my messy refrigerator and the best dog in the whole world, Lyle!

I used some retired SU felt flowers to jazz it up a bit, with rhinestone brad centers. And of course I had to add some glitter to the butterfly wings!

Thanks for dropping by today!

Halloween-a-thon Day 5: a la Zindorf

This card is a CASE of a Michelle Zindorf card--you can see her vastly superior one HERE. I actually think this turned out well except for the white gel pen accents--I can't do mine as well as she does, and the white accents really make her card. But it's still cute! This is the Haunting Jumbo Wheel, stamped in Basic Black Craft. I mounted my panel on Cajun Craze and Basic Black, on this year's (I know, right? Something current!) SU Halloween DP with some black grosgrain and mounted on a CC card measuring 4 x 7.25".

As long as I'm posting my Zindorf CASE's, here is one I made a couple of days ago. I was very pleased with how it turned out. You can see Michelle's original HERE. I needed a sympathy card for a dear friend from NC who lost his son recently. I knew I wanted to use this stamp and in the process of doing a search on SCS, I ran across Michelle's creation. The stamp is Sail Away, from this past summer mini. She mounted hers on Marina Mist, but I didn't have any so used Perfect Plum. It makes it rather dark but oh, well, I still like it. The other panel is River Rock. measures 7.5 x 4 I think.

Please take the time to investigate Michelle's blog or SCS gallery. She is an amazing artist and also teaches workshops all over the country--I went to one several months ago and it was awesome! You should definitely try to go if she comes to a town near you.

Stamping Club Swap

Hi everyone, today is my SU stamp club, and the members make swaps for each other. This is mine for this month. CS is Very Vanilla, Basic Black, and Daffodil Delight, SU's new yellow. I like it pretty well. I wanted to die cut some butterflies out of the First Edition DP and stamp the damask design from the SAB set Bliss on it in black. But I needed another color, so I went to my trusty color coach, which suggested DD. I wouldn't have thought of it myself, but I absolutely love it! I added pearls to the butterfly and stamped the damask element on the BG as well. Another new thing for me--I used the black craft ink. Normally I am not a big pigment ink user, but my hybrid ink was not opaque enough on the DP, so I went to the craft ink. I really like it. You just have to be SUPER careful not to smudge! Either dry it with your heat tool (or emboss it) or let it sit overnight.

The sentiment is from a retired SU set. I just went and looked up the name and now I can't remember it--getting old is not for sissies! (ETA: It's called Warmest Regards.) I used the square lattice embossing folder on the DD strip. I'm very pleased with how this card turned out! Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you get some crafting time!

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime...

The ridiculous being the card in the previous post! I made this card for 2 different challenges: 1) Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #38--to use ribbon on a card--easy, since I almost never make a card without ribbon LOL! 2) Cricut Cardz Challenge #52--to make a card using only words on the front--no images.

I couldn't find an all-ready-to-go cut that I wanted to use, though there are tons of cute ones, so I used the font from Winter Woodland to cut the word "rejoice". This is a gorgeous font, but it really doesn't cut well at less than 1.25", which is the size I used. Even so, the O and C are a little raggedy--it's really better at 1.5", but I didn't want to make a bigger card than 3 x 6, so that's what I did. Card base is Always Artichoke, DP is Deck the Halls, and letters are brushed gold on Cherry Cobbler (all SU). Punch and ribbon are SU as well.

The inside is heat embossed in gold with a Scripture from ODBD. I am so pleased with the way this card turned out--hope you like it too!

Farm Fever Get Well Soon

This is a card I made for our pastor who injured his back. I have a dirty little secret--I love puns! Oh, I can hear you all groaning, but it's amazing how many stamp sets are out there that use puns. Our pastor, judging from his sermons, is also fond of puns, so I thought he might like this. The set is Farm Fever, SU retired, and Farm Backgrounds from Pink Cat Studios. Card base is Gina K Luxury Base Weight in Pumpkin Spice. I also used GKD layering weight white for the focal image. Pinked circle was made with Nesties and Pacific Point CS (SU ret.) Corn stalk was watercolored and cut out. I used SU cotton twill, PTI wooden button and jute for the embellishment. OH! I almost forgot, I flocked the sheep (hmm, there may be some pun opportunities there!)--it actually shows up pretty well in the pic for once, go figure.

I hope you enjoyed this card, have a great day!

Summery Picnic Card

I have been having a ton of fun with the Vintage Picnic set from PTI! Sorry but you're probably going to be seeing a lot more of it!

Here I used Lauren's My Time Sketch 20. I stamped the flowers in brown on vanilla, colored them with Stampin' Pastels. Basket is stamped on Creamy Caramel. DP is retired SU but looks fab with the Melon Berry base. Punched scallop circle is Summer Sunrise. Buttons and jute are PTI. Sent. is from Birthday Basics.

Hope you have time for a picnic sometime soon!

CPS105, SCA3C14

Well, ladies, I have been extremely busy over the last week! Saturday was my SU group's Stamp Camp. We had 60 people and they made 6 projects: 3 cards, 1 bag-in-a-box, 1 adorable pic frame, and a miniaturized version of the cocoa to go box. I will be uploading pix of those later, but first...if you ever want to stamp but can't seem to find your mojo, a sketch and/or color combo challenge is a great way to get moving again! Here I have combined CPS 105 from Card Positioning Systems and SCA3C14, from Sara's Creative Adventures. I also played with my new sets from PTI--Tags for Spring (bird) and Beyond Basic Borders (tree and sent). Sara's color challenge was to use New Leaf, Ripe Avocado, and Spring Moss. I don't have Spring Moss, so I used one of my all time fave colors, SU's Certainly Celery. I used the Birds and Swirls cuttlebug embossing folder, and my new Making Memories slot punch tool. Ribbon is New Leaf Satin and ink is New Leaf and Summer Sunrise. Hope you've enjoyed this--why not give these sketches a try?

Easter Cards

Morning everyone! Yesterday I had a chance to play with my new Our Daily Bread Designs stamps. They are so pretty. I am going to be teaching a stamp class at my church, so I have been playing around with ideas. This first card uses the sets The Cross of Christ and He Is Risen. CS and ink are SU Whisper White, Pale Plum and Perfect Plum. The Perfect Plum layer is embossed with the Birds and Swirls Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. Ribbon and eyelets are SU retired. I have to tell you, Perfect Plum is probably my least fave color, but it looks nice with Pale Plum and both are good for Easter cards.














This card uses Flourished Christian Symbols and He Is Risen. and the Doodle jumbo wheel from SU. I wheeled the Almost Amethyst CS with Versark and embossed with a mix of clear and hologram highlights embossing powder. Very pretty and sparkly in real life. Stamped the cross in Almost Amethyst and dotted flower centers with Stickles. Layered on Barely Banana, card base is Lavender Lace. All supplies except stamps and Stickles by SU.




On this card I decided to add some color to the vines on the cross. I colored the vines coming off the cross with markers, stamped on Whisper White. Stamped the cross in Bashful Blue on another sheet, colored the flowers and vines on the cross and cut out, popped up on the first panel, layered on Barely Banana. Used punches for the flowers and punched the corners out of Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls. Colors are Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, and Bashful Blue. All supplies except Cuttlebut by SU.

Tonight is my son's Arrow of Light awards ceremony. It is the last award he will get as a Webelo; next month he will cross over to Boy Scouts. He is growing up too fast! I have to finish decorating his arrow today. I will upload a pic here tomorrow. Have a great day!