Patriotic Congrats

Happy Memorial Day to all my American friends!  No parades this year, no John marching in his uniform, but as I said yesterday, my nephew is due to graduate from West Point, so I decided to make him a congrats card to celebrate the day.  He was commissioned on Friday and will graduate in June, so I'll save it to send to him at that time!  I used an old favorite Artistic Outpost stamp called Hero to make my vintage-inspired card:

My card base is the new In Color, Misty Moonlight....I love it, of course, I love almost any blue!!  It's a bit softer than Night of Navy, but coordinates nicely with it.  I stamped my image twice, once in Night of Navy and again in Merry Merlot.  I fussy-cut the striped portion out and adhered it to the Navy image.  I found some star-patterned paper in my stash, and added a border of diecut stars backed with Merry Merlot:

The sentiment is from Label Me Bold, stamped in Merry Merlot, cut closely and mounted on a Stitched Rectangle diecut.  On the inside, I really didn't have any sentiments to convey how proud we are of him, so I diecut some Merry Merlot letters and applied them to a stitched star diecut, then added some of the stars from the front:

We are proud of him!  I am entering this in the Double D Challenge this week, which is the letter "M"...my "M" is for military!

Thanks for popping by today!  We are going to have a little cookout with Dana, Wayne and Cassidy, so I am very much looking forward to that!  John got all the patio furniture and grill out, so we're all set!  I hope you have a wonderfully blessed holiday.  We pray today for the families of all the ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country! God bless America!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold, Hero (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Merry Merlot, Misty Moonlight, Misc DSP
Ink	Night of Navy, Merry Merlot
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Mini Treat Bag Die (ret), Alphabet Dies (Papertrey), Star Die (Paper Rose)

Congrats Card

Happy Monday, peeps!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  I am squeaking this card in for the Color Throwdown challenge just in the nick of time, because I just HAD to play with these colors:

I needed a card for a new recruit, and I thought it would be fun to play with the Bloom and Grow stamp set, and try for a watercolor-y effect.  So here we go:

I placed the stamp in my Stamparatus and cut a piece of Thick Whisper White cardstock to fit, then inked up the image with some Night of Navy ink.  Once I stamped it, I inked it again and spritzed it lightly with some water, then stamped again.  Quickly, before it dried, I used an aquapainter to push some of the water around, then added a little more shading with some Night of Navy ink.  I will need to experiment a little bit more, but for the first go, I thought it worked out pretty well.  I added some Itty Bitty Background speckles as well:

I diecut some layers from Blushing Bride cardstock and gingham with the Stitched Rectangle dies, then added a few more florals, stamped in Blushing Bride, and a sentiment from Label Me Bold:

I added a sentiment from the Bloom and Grow set on the inside as well:

My sketch came from CAS(E) This Sketch, although it probably has too many layers to really be considered CAS,  I loved the sketch anyway, so I'm giving it a go!

 Thanks for popping in today--enjoy your day and be blessed!

New House Congrats

 

Hi peeps!  Running a wee bit late today...no school, luckily, because Cassidy had a little mishap on the playground yesterday and has a sprained pinkie finger, which is causing her a lot of pain.  It's better this morning, but we may have to take a wee little trip to the urgent care!  Anyway, I made a quick little card yesterday for my college roommate who just had a new house built....all on her own!  She became a widow a couple of years ago and moved to TX to be near her daughter.  She couldn't find a house that she liked, so she had one built!  The little houses from November's Paper Pumpkin kit were so cute, I just had to use them as a congrats card for her:

I layered them on a piece of DSP from Fancy Pants' Park Bench papers, then layered that on a piece of So Saffron.  The sentiment, stamped in Lost Lagoon, is from Watercolor Wishes:

And just to break up the empty space, I added a little twine bow, using the one-hole method (you can see a tutorial here) so it would stay in place:

So happy you could visit today!

Cassidy with the "Valen-fly" she made at school!  The body was made of a clothespin with googly eyes!  CUTE!

Have a blessed day!

Project Details
Stamps	Watercolor Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, So Saffron, Paper Pumpkin kit, Park Bench DSP (Fancy Pants)
Ink	Lost Lagoon
Accessories	White Baker's Twine
Tools	Big Shot, Rectangle Stitched Die (Lil'Inker), Dimensionals

Squeaking in IB117

Hi peeps!  I am squeaking in another card today, since I wanted to play with Laurel’s Inspired By challenge….haven’t done one of hers for a long time.  Here’s the pretty inspiration photo:

I could think of several ways to use this inspiration.  In the end, I chose to use the plaid, polka-dot and floral hexagons from Six-Sided Sampler:

I used shades of Blush Blossom, Strawberry Slush and Pistachio Pudding, and added a diecut sentiment from Itty Bitty Banners and a shabby white seam binding bow:

I also used the sketch from RetroSketches:

These colors remind me of summer!  Thanks for looking!

Mojo Monday 314

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I haven’t played with a Mojo Monday sketch for a while, so I thought I would do that this week!  Here’s the sketch:

I needed an “extra-special” card for someone, so I broke out the glamorous Winter Frost Specialty designer paper, silver ribbon, silver Encore ink, silver Glimmer paper,  and some textured Coastal Cabana for my card:

I did some random stamping on the textured cardstock with images from Creative Elements, and I stamped the flourish on the white circle with silver Encore.  My sentiment is from Delightful Dozen, which I stamped in Bermuda Bay:

The mat & butterfly really look amazing in that Glimmer paper!  Love it!  And while I had the Coastal Cabana ink & Creative Elements set on my table, I made a little note-sized thank you card, using the polymer set, Another Thank You:

I cut out & popped up the flower, adding some Dazzling Diamonds glitter:

So simple, yet so pretty!  Thanks for visiting today!

A kitchen chair makes a good stampin’ table!

SSC234 & OCCC

Happy Saturday!  I had a chance to do a little stamping today and I found this beautiful color challenge at Our Creative Corner from my DT girlfriend, Anne Marie, and I just had to put it to good use:

My niece just graduated from nursing school, so I wanted to make her a congrats card.  I thought these colors would be fun—hope it’s okay that I didn’t make a holiday card!  Here we go:

 

I chose to use Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette and Cherry Cobbler as my colors.  I also used the sketch from Stamping 411 for this week:

Pumpkin was taking a little break on my computer desk this morning….overpowering a different kind of mouse!

At 18 years old, she still mouses like a champion!  And she has to put up with all kinds of distractions…Cassidy is getting ready to give her a kiss, although it looks like she is going to bite her, LOL!

Thanks for visiting today!  If you have any questions about stamps or accessories, let me know!