Tag Card

Good Morning!  I'm back today with another card that I made for Valentine's Day.  This card was also inspired by a Pinterest find, you can see the original card HERE.  This card was for my mom so I changed the color scheme to fit her tastes and since she loves green and butterflies, why not combine the two :)

To make the card I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to texture a white piece of cardstock and then added a layer of background paper.  I used a library card pocket to hold the tag and I embellished it with a doily, some twine, a trio of felt stars and some sequins.

The sentiment on the little tag is from Verve Stamps.  To string the stars on the twine I used a large needle and my paper piercer to pre-punch the holes.

I finished off the piece with a little bit of Valentine's Day washi tape.  I like that this is a holiday card with out being overboard on the sentiments and hearts and pink and red.

I stamped a large shipping tag with this cute fairy stamp and added a die cut and stamped butterfly to the edge.  I added a vellum star behind the butterfly for some added layers.

Thanks for stopping by!

You Make Me Smile

I told you I'd be back. :)  I have another card to share with you today.  This one is for my mom's birthday.  Since I was on a Valentine's day kick, I just stuck with the same color scheme, just because pink makes me happy.

This is also a card I based off of a previous card, you can see the original one here. 

The card base is raspberry fizz cardstock with a sheet of patterned paper from MME's Lost & Found 2 paper pad.  I sponged the edges of the patterned paper with weathered wood Distress ink.  The doily was cut using my Parisian doily die out of smokey shadow cardstock.  I cut two layers of MFT's jumbo scallops out of smokey shadow and raspberry fizz cardstock and then layered them together so that just a tiny amount of smokey shadow peeks out underneath.  The raspberry fizz cardstock is stamped with Polka Dots Basics II in Memento Rosebud ink.  The die cut butterflies were attached to each other with a Maya Road stick pin before I adhered them to the card with a foam dimensional.  To finish it off, I used a sentiment from Verve's Blue Skies stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!  See you later!

Supplies

Cardstock: raspberry fizz - PTI, smokey shadow - PTI

Paper: Lost & Found 2 - MME

Stamps: Polka Dot Basics II - PTI; Blue Skies - Verve

Dies: parisian doily - PTI; signature series butterfly - PTI

Ink: rosebud - Memento, weathered wood - Distress

Etc: stick pin - Maya Road, satin ribbon - Hobby Lobby

Happy Valentine's Day

Hello, hello, is anybody out there?  My poor blog has been so neglected and abandoned.  But, I'm back today and, hopefully the next several days, with some Valentine's Day cards that I put together this weekend.  I apologize in advance for the terrible lighting in the photos, I took them at work with a borrowed camera.

Today's card is a quick and simple card that I cased out of one of my own creations.  I find that it helps to look back at my own stuff when I've been away from my papercrafting room for a while.  It helps get the creativity flowing again. 

I love the simplicity and clean lines of this layout.  The hearts were die cut out of PTI's true black and raspberry fizz felt and book pages from an old book.  I attached them to the card base using a straight stitch line from my sewing machine.  The sentiment is from Verve's Heart on Fire stamp set and topped of with a single pink rhinestone.  The bottom border was made using PTI's raspberry fizz cardstock and a Fiskar's border punch.  The ink on the paper hearts is Memento's Rosebud.

Thanks for stopping by today, I'll be back with another card later this week.

Courage

Happy Thursday everyone!  I'm back today with a quick and easy one layer card.

I made this card using the Grunge Me and Fancy Flourishes stamp sets from Papertrey Ink.  I stamped each of the images using various brown toned Distress Inks and embellished a few of the images with different colored pearls and rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty.  The sentiment, stamped in Rich Cocoa ink, is from Blue Skies by Verve.

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm still here!

I know, I know, it's been forever since I posted on here.  It's just that I really haven't done anything crafty in quite a while.  But, I've cleaned off my desk and I've done a little bit of reorganizing, so I'm hoping that will help me get my mojo back.  Meanwhile, here's a card I made a couple of weeks ago that I never got around to posting here.

Aldo and I are in the process of SLOWLY redecorating our room and we've gone with a corral and grey color palette.  I had pulled out some of my copics to help up decide on shades and those colors were the inspiration for this card.  I embossed a piece of Smoky Shadow cardstock with my Seeing Spots cuttlebug folder, stamped a piece of Berry Sorbet with my Newsprint stamp in Vintage Cream, layered some velvet ribbon and bling over the layers and added my butterflies from Blue Skies last. 

Earlier this week, I visited Archiver's while I was in Austin and I found tons of inspiration for my scrapbook for the cruise we took 2 years ago.  Yes, I'm that far behind. :)  I purchased a kraft 8.5 x 11 binder from Hampton Arts.  It's meant to be one of those everyday life journal/scrapbook type things, but I like the size and I like that the binder itself can be customized.  I took plenty of pictures, bought lots of paper and embellishments, and I am now ready to start scrapbooking our trip.  I already did one page, yay me!  And, I'll post it on here as soon as I remember to photograph it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Case Study

Hi guys, long time no blog, huh.  I'm back today with a card for this week's Case Study challenge.  This week's inspiration card kept running through my mind when I sat down to craft yesterday and I happened to have some butterflies colored in the inspiration colors so I just went with it.

I tried to keep as true to the card as possible without directly copying the sketch.  The orange paper is from pink paislee.  For the bottom scalloped panel, cut a piece of Hawaiian Shores cardstock, stamped my sentiment in brown ink and added two score lines on either side of the sentiment before punching the border with a Martha Stewart punch.  Some felt ric rac, an orange button, and brown twine completed this panel.  The white panel is stamped in brown with PTI's Fancy Flourishes.  I stamped the largest butterfly from Blue Skies, colored them with copics, cut them out and attached them with glue dots.  Some brown bling on the butterflies and on the bottom scallop finished off the card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Little Star

I really enjoy participating with the weekly Viva La Verve sketches!!  I decided to go with a baby boy theme for this card so I could use one of my favorite Pain Janes.  I stamped a very subtle musical background on aqua mist using white canvas ink.  The musical background stamp is from Papertrey Ink.  I used my new circle scallop die from Prickley Pear to mat my sentiment on.  I finished off the card with a few crystal swirls and some distressed tickets.  Despite the sewing, this card came together quite quickly.

Thanks for stopping by!

A Happy Birthday VLV

Hi all, I'm back today with another Viva La Verve card.  I created this card to add to my stash for the next boy birthday we need to attend.  I always seem to have a distinct shortage of masculine cards. 

The blue Bo Bunny paper was punched on both edges with my MS star border punch and matted onto PTI aqua mist cardstock.  The two panels are from Imaginisce's Birthday Bash line.  My star was die cut, sponged, stamped and then I added three chocolate pearls from Pizazz Aplenty.  Three more chocolate pearls on the right hand side finish it off. 

What type of cards do you find yourself running short on?

Viva La Verve Week 4

Happy Tuesday everyone!  I'm back with the fourth week of Viva La Verve's card.

Even though I didn't use pink on this card, it's still a Valentine's Day card.  I made this card for my nephew and I thought he would prefer green and blue to pink and red. :)

My cute Little Loveasaurus was colored with copics, then I went back and pressed in some "scales" using my colorless blender.  After that was done, I coated his costume with Shimmerz paint in ultramarine and added stardust pen to his spines. 

After die-cutting the focal image, I curved the "RAWR" sentiment to fit along the edge of the circle.  The inside of the card is finished out with the sentiment "means I love you" but I couldn't get a good picture of the inside.

Here's a closeup of all the shimmer on this adorable dinosaurs costume.  I love the way it reflect the light!

That's all I've got today.  Be sure to stop by this Saturday for Prickley Pear's 4 day blog hop!  There will be plenty of eye candy and prize winning opportunities.

Thanks for stopping by!

Viva La Verve Week 3

Hi guys, I'm back with week 3's sketch for Viva La Verve.  I've got to admit out of the three card I've made so far, this one's my favorite.

I went for the pink and craft combination again, it seems to be a favorite of mine right now.  The paper is from MME's Lost and Found collection and I've incorporated it into all three cards.  The tag pulls out to reveal a sweet message, lol.

I went for a polka dot theme again both on the background paper and the tag.  The pocket was made using impressed kraft cardstock.  After scoring the pocket, I die cut the front opening using PTI's mat stack 4 die.  The left over piece was flipped and attached to the top of the card.  The tag was also cut using the same die using more raspberry fizz cardstock and stamped with more polka dots.  The top of the tag was made by die cutting a piece of scored and folded kraft cardstock.  The swirls on the kraft piece were stamped using the hearts on fire scrolled heart from Verve.  I stamped the sentiment from Verve and added three pink rhinestones from Pizzazz Aplenty for some added sparkle.  The start was stamped using hot pink dye ink, cut out, and attached with foam dimensional adhesive.

Did I mention this was my favorite card? Lol.  Don't forget to stop by on Jan. 29 for the first day of Prickley Pear's 4 day blog hop.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Viva la Verve Week 2

Hi guys, I'm back with week 2's sketch card.  Once again, it's a Valentine's Day card using two shades of pink and craft cardstock.

The card base was made using raspberry fizz cardstock.  The background layer was letter pressed using craft cardstock, white hybrid ink, and PTI's giga guidelines impression plate.  On top of that, I layered another piece of raspberry fizz stamped with polka dot basics II using white hybrid ink.  The scrolled heart was stamped onto vellum, die cut, and embellished with fuschia pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty.  A shiny, satiny ribbon finishes off this card.

That's all I've got today.  Thanks for stopping by!!

Viva La Verve Week 1

I finally got a chance to play along with Verve's weekly challenge.  I'd wanted to play along last year, but somehow never got around to it.  Each week a new sketch is uploaded onto their Splitcoast Stamper's forum.  Here's the thread for week one.  And, here's what I came up with:

The background is made with several different grey and pink patterned papers edged with tea dye distress ink.  A brown ribbon loop behind my stamped image helps the image to pop a bit more.  Since Valentine's Day is around the corner, I decided to challenge myself to create Valentine's themed cards along with the sketches.

Stop by tomorrow for the next challenge card!  See ya later alligators!

Embellish Felt Challenge

Embellish Magazine has a new challenge up on their blog and this time it involves felt.  I have a confession to make:  several months ago I went out and purchased several sheets of felt to use on my cards.  Well, that felt has sat at the bottom of my paper cart ever since.  This challenge was the perfect excuse to break it out and start using it. 

I used last week's Mojo Monday sketch for my layout.  The sentiment is a Plain Jane stamp from Verve and the border stamp is from SEI's Juliette line.  To make my felt flower, I die cut 5 scalloped circles.  I folded four of them into quarters and sewed them onto my fifth circle.  I used a large pearl to cover the where I stitched in the center.  Easy peasy.

Thanks for stopping by!

Mojo Monday Cards

I'm back today with a couple of cards I made earlier in the week using the current Mojo Monday sketch. 

This first card uses some designer paper from Tim Holtz' Lost and Found paperstack.  My scalloped circle is embellished with some flat back black pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty.  You have got to check out their selection and prices on flatback pearls and rhinestones!  They have great selection, reasonable prices, and wonderful customer service!  My focal image was stamped with PTI's text style background stamp in tea dye distress ink.  I then layered the beautiful Ferris Wheel stamp from PPRS.  Some pure poppy saddlestitch ribbon and a ticket tag from Tim Holtz finishes off this card.

My next card is a bit more elegant and soft:

This card's focal image is a Plain Jane by Verve and my scalloped circle is embellished with liquid pearls.  The top background was made using my new PTI Embellishments stamp set with pink ink to create a tone on tone effect.  The pink flourish on the bottom was made using the same stamp set and coordinating die.  I am totally in love with this set, it has so many possibilities!  I added some ivory pearls from Pizzazz Aplenty to add a bit more bling. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Mojo Monday

Howdy ya'll!  I'm back today with a card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch challenge. 

This was a really fun card to make.  It has so little stamping, that it came together quite quickly.  The background papers are from a new pad I found at Hobby Lobby.  The pad is full of yummy black, brown and cream papers that are flocked, shimmered, and textured.  Here's the closeups:

What do you think of the closeups I've been including in my posts?  Do you like them?  Are they useful?

Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop

Welcome to the Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop! Verve turns three today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! If you've already been hopping along, you arrived here from Sarah's blog. If not, head on over to Julee's Blog (owner of Verve), for all the info on how to win prizes (after all, what's a party without presents?), and to start hopping from the beginning. If there's a hiccup along the hop, you can always head to the Master Hop List to get the full list of links.

So here's my creation for the blog hop!

I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch as a starting point and just went from there.  The top panel was made using my Martha Stewart score board and scoring on the diagonal at 1" intervals.  Then I sponged it with Tea Dye distress ink and added pearls at each inersection.  The Cup of Life image was stamped onto cream cross stitch using Memento Rich Cocoa.  Then I overstamped "Tea" on the right hand side using Fresh Snow ink.  My flower was also made using cross stitch fabric and my Prickley Pear hibiscus die.

 

 Thanks for hopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Samantha's blog for a little more Verve-y goodness.

Mojo Monday

I got some stampy time in today too!!  Unfortunately, it was at the expense of dinner making time, but luckily hubby stepped in and fixed dinner for us.  Isn't he sweet!!  I really liked this week's Mojo Monday sketch and knew exactly how I wanted the card to look.  Here's how it came out:

Overall, I really like it.  I just wish I'd stuck with the label 1 nestie instead of changing it up.  The other shape looks kinda funny. 

That's it for today.  The PPRS blog hop started today and will continue through the end of the week.  Be sure and come back tommorow, for my portion of the hop.  Oh and don't forget to leave comments on the corresponding blogs for a chance to win some goodies!  Nicole has the details for today's prizes on the PPRS blog.

Tootles!

Spring Time and Cheer Up

Hi guys, I'm back with two cards today.  The first one is based on this week's Mercy sketch.  I used my new Kioshi pad from Basic Grey and an image from Prickley Pear that I had previously watercolored using twinkling H2O's.  I stamped and embossed the image onto watercolor paper and used my twinkling H2O's like watercolors to color the image.  I love how they give just the right amount of shimmer to give the image some pizazz without making it overwhelming.  Anyways, here's the card:

And a closeup of the stamped panel:

The paper did warp a bit from the watercoloring and embossing, but not enough to bother me.

Supplies:
papers: Kioshi Basic Grey, watercolor paper, green cardstock
stamp: Prickley Pear
other: ribbon, button, twine, brads

I also made another card for a friend who's been having a hard time lately.  I'm hoping to give it to her paired with a little box of candies to help cheer her up.  It's hard to be sad when you're eating some chocolate! :) 

I used a previous Mojo Monday sketch and some new SEI paper I picked up recently.  I only bought one sheet, but I can already tell I'll be back for more.  When I first saw this stamp at Verve, it just called to me.  I loved what the verse was saying, to me it seems like a hopeful message.

Supplies:
papers: SEI, BoBunny, DCWV, black and white cardstock
stamp: Verve - Plain Jane
other: black ribbon, pink rhinestones

I'm experimenting with a fun project this weekend and I'm hoping for good results so I can share with ya'll (yes, I'm a Texas girl!) on Monday.  Wish me luck!

Enjoy your weekend.

Mojo Monday and TCP Tuesday

For today's card, I mixed up last week's TCP Tuesday color combo with this week's Mojo Monday sketch. I also made another TCP Tuesday card from two weeks ago, but my camera died mid-session. I was thrilled to use lots of my new goodies today including my Little Star Plain Jane, MS Border Punch and paper pack, and some hot fudge cardstock from MFT. Sigh, I am one happy girl! The stars around the saying are colored in with copics and jazzed up with a stardust pen. I finished out the inside using the same color scheme and used my border punch to continue the star theme on the inside.

Supplies:

Paper: kraft cardstock, hot fudge cs, baby blue cs, Martha Stewart travel multimedia pad

Stamps: Little Star - Verve

Tools: Nestablilites, MS - star border punch, sakura stardust pen, ribbon

So, what do you think? Do you like this card?

Thanks for stopping by!

Memory Book

My friend's grandfather died recently and I mentioned how many memories she had of him and how she wanted to write them down. With this in mind, I created a memory book for her to write stories of her granparents, attach pictures, etc. I purposely left the pages inside unlined so she would be free to add anything she wants to them.

I made the notebook using a pair of 8x8 covers and 1-1/2 inch coil from Bind It All. The covers were covered in designer paper from K and Co and sponged with London Fog ink to give them an aged look. I wanted to leave some blank space on the front for her to add a picture of her grandparents to the cover. To continue with the aged look, I used a Tim Holtz nameplate to frame her family name and I added Diamond Glaze to the inner oval to give it a shiny look.

The little tag attached to the key ring translated to "Memories of my Grandparents". This key ring is a left over part from my camera's broken strap. It sure came in handy for this project. I think it adds just the right touch.

I also created a simple card to complement the notebook. I think this is the fastest card I've ever made. It only took 10 minutes to make!Here's a picture of the set together: I apologize for the long post and so many pictures!! Did you make it to the end? If so, thanks for hanging in there!