Cherish Friendship

 

This is a center step card.  It took some tweaking, and I won't say how much card stock I went through before I figured out the dimensions, but the end result will fit in a standard A6 envelope!  The background of this card is the Tile technique.  To me, the tile gives an antique feel.

 

 

This is the inside of the card.  I used the same background stamp as I did in the tile technique and I stamped off before I stamped the background.

 

Stamps:  Cherish Friendship, Everything Eleanor, Itty bitty bits

Ink:  Crumb cake, Cajun craze, Summer starfruit, Midnight muse, Gumball green, Daffodil delight (and others I can't remember...lol)

Paper:  Comfort cafe DSP, Soft suede

Punches:  Itty bitty shapes punch pack, 3/16" corner

Accessories:  Rhinestone jewels, Soft suede 3/8" taffeta ribbon

 

 

 

Great Pumpkin Blog Hop Week 5

 

Week 5 of Terry Blais' The Great Pumpkin Blog Hop!  Fun times!

 

My card is on a Tangerine Tango base and uses the Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP.  This is a penny slider card.  The center portion where the bat is, is raised with two dimensionals stacked on top of each other, and I placed four along the top and four along the bottom edges of the center portion.  There are also 2 dimensionals in the middle of the pennies.

 

What cracks me up about this card is the googlie eyes!  They weren't originally in the permanently cross-eyed position.  I think I've spun poor Mr. Bat around so many times he is dizzy!

 

Stamps:  Tricky Treats

Ink:  Basic black

Paper:  Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP, Tangerine tango

Punches:  1 3/8" circle, 1 3/4" scallop circle

Accessories:  1/2" striped satin basic gray ribbon, googlie eyes

 

My Grandbabies

I have to introduce everyone to my three precious grandbabies.  Tavin is 5 and Paeton is 3.  Tavin just started kindergarten yesterday, and he loves school.  Paeton wants to be just like her big brother, and she will start preschool on Wednesday.  Tavin is the spitting image of his daddy, who is the spitting image of his dad.  Handsome men, for certain!  Paeton, with her tiny button nose, looks exactly like her beautiful mom.  They are growing so fast!

 

Elijah is my youngest grandbaby, and he is 8 months old.  He just started crawling in the last few days.  I wake up most mornings with a new picture or video of Eli, and there is no better way to wake up than to the smiling faces of your grandchildren.  Elijah is the perfect combination of his mommy and daddy.  Absolutely adorable!

 

 

All of my grandchildren live on the East Coast.  Since I live in the Northwest, we don't see each other nearly as often as I would like, but they are always in my thoughts. 

 

My heart overflows with love for my family.  I feel incredibly blessed.





Aviary Hello

 

This is a card idea I got from the current Stampin' Up! catalog.  In the evenings after my family is in bed, I look through the catalog and get ideas, not just of card layouts, but also color combinations.  This card looks HAPPY, don't you think?  The sentiment is from the Penant Parade stamp set, and the stamp was the perfect height to fit right on the strip of whisper white.  I was able to free-hand stamp the word in alternating ink and it actually lined up pretty well!  It is hard to tell in the photo, but the Labels collection framelit is actually a frame around the stamped image.  I used the 2 1/2" circle punch to cut the circle in the center of the framelit piece and it is on top of the Whisper white card stock as a frame.  Cute, huh?

 

Stamps:  Aviary, Penant parade

Ink:  Soft suede, Lucky limeade, Pool party

Paper:  Comfort cafe DSP, Pool party, Soft suede, Whisper white

BigShot:  Labels collection framelits

Punches:  2 1/2" circle punch, Boho blossoms punch

Accessories:  In-color 11-13 printed designer brads

Tri-Shutter Christmas Card

 

This is a card I made during Terry Blais' Christmas class.  Her blog can be found here.  She also has instructions on her blog for how to make this cute card.  This looks like a good one to use this year for Christmas!  It just has a couple rhinestones, so I think it will survive the USPS...

 

I love the dimensions to this card when it's open!

 

See Terry's blog for a complete recipe for this card as well as step-by-step instructions.

 

Flower Pot Birthday Wishes

 

This is a card, or flower pot as the case is here, that Kim Becker brought as a M&T to our club.  I have seen something similar where the card is shaped like a flower pot and there is an insert that slides out of the card and contains the sentiment.  That version lays flat.  Don't you just love the way this card stands on its own?!  This is super cute ;)  Kim's blog can be found here.

 

Stamps:  Bring on the cake

Ink:  Basic gray

Paper:  Twitterpated DSP, Real red, Old olive, Baja breeze

Punches:  Scallop edge border, Extra-large oval, Bird builder, Boho blossoms, Blossom, Fancy flower, 1-3/4 scallop circle, Itty bitty shapes

Accessories:  1/8" mini brads

Apothecary Wet Embossing

 

Isn't this card elegant?  There is just something about black and white that draws me in.  This was a technique class I gave for my club members, and it's called the wet embossing technique.  You put VersaMark on the embossing folder and run your card stock through the Big Shot.  This example used black embossing powder on very vanilla card stock.  When you heat set the powder, it gives the illusion of being wet.  This card looks difficult, but it is really quite easy.  I love that kind of card!

 

 

 

Stamps:  Apothecary Art

Ink:  Basic black

Paper:  First edition specialty, very vanilla, basic black

Accessories:   Vintage wallpaper embossing folder, Labels collection framelits, Boho blossoms punch, 3/16" corner punch, Vintage faceted designer buttons, 1/8" black taffeta