CAS masculine glitter birthday card

Stars on left are the centers from the top star border.  I topped them with glossy accents to give them a little something.  I always love the paint splatters I have seen, so I tried it with my glimmer mist, which was a light brown, so it doesn't make such a statement....but doesn't look horrible.  Just doesn't show up much in the picture.

The border stars were run through the xyron and then glittered.  This was the make monday video at papertrey ink.  Tell you what!!!  I will NOT do it again on such an intricate die.  The sticky stuff stretched over the centers and I had to use an exacto knife to get in all the corners to get the extra adhesive off!  Should have gone with my second idea with the balloon, but, I only had brown glitter and didn't love the brown balloon look!

Glitter die cut stars border from pti make it monday.
CAS card for paper pretties challenge.
Texture in the glossy accents and glitter on the stars for cards for men challenge
And no dp for the  Fab n Funky Challenge.
Sketch provided by Retro Sketches for the week, I just love their designs!

Papertrey ink april blog hop card

So, I began with this photo from pti for inspiration.

  I decided to take away colors, floral and damask print to begin gathering supplies.  Got out a cuttlebug embossing damask folder and then I ran through one and decided I wanted a more double look and ran it through between the plates plain to make it less embossed.

I used the only floral diesI had in raspberry fizz and their blush from pti and held them together with a brad....which I think I will color or something to change it's color.

Now I had my main concept down I needed a sketch because I kept going back to the same sketch I have been doing forever.

I am not sure if I am going to make this into a birthday card or into a bridal shower for my neice.  I wiped out my stash of birthday cards....a gift of cards to my mother for her birthday, but I have both coming up soon.  I figure I would just add a tiny tag under the bow for the sentiment when I decide what I need!

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

So I used the sketch for there she goes clear stamps challenge.

Text on the papers is from the pixie dust studio challenge.

More then 1 ribbon from the sweet stampin challenge.

Need help current projects....

So, husband is sick, got kids to bed and figured I might try and do another case card.  There was a wonderful card with strawberries that was super simple and stunning....and I wanted to recreate it and went instantly knew I wanted to use flourishes stamps, decided on the long apple stamp. 

Problem is, I stamped it on the pure white cardstock, imagining the coloring I would do with my copics, but once the image was on the paper, I'm not sure if I want to add to it.  What do you think??  Color or leave be adding only sentiment?

A papertrey ink/nicole heady release CASE

My kitchen is clean.  Honest.  littlest was sleeping, the middle little was too busy working on building transformers out of legos that he want talking (this is huge cause he never stops talking!  5yr old)
So rather then fold the mountain of laundry, 4 or 5 loads sitting on my couch, decide to craft.
Today it's the 4th Day of papertrey ink's april release.  I love so many of the design team's creations I have decided to start CASING them with things I already have rather then lust over then thinking I need then all.  I no longer have play money AT ALL since my dh's new job is MUCH less pay.  Ouch, family of 5 with stay at home mom!  Might have to get a job!

Anyways....very proud of how great my knock off looks. 

I have enteed this card into several challenges:

Cute Card Thursday--Spring Flowers
Simon Says Stamp-April Showers brings Spring Flowers
Creative Card Crew--Kraft cardstock
I used....

• Frilly flowers from papertrey ink in their sunrise yellow, avocado leaves, and poppy for dots and small flowers. 
• Dots from the pti harvest berries (ginko leaves) set.
• Pinking shears for the edges
• PTI twine
• buttons from my mom's collection, was just plain mother of pearl, but I colored it with dk brown copics and now I have brown buttons!
• Framed Out #2 Stamp Set and Die form PTI.  Sentiment is from that set too.  With pure poppy ink and Distress Ink, vintage photo on Kraft paper.

Not the same as the original seen here... Click picture to go to the Blog posting!

Sugar nellie thank you card

I made this card for the Sugar Bowl Challenge...a sketch and I used the optional Stripes challenge too. Loved how it turned out!.
Sugar Nellie Image:  Windswept???
Tag die and sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Tiny Tags.

Make it Monday, leaves made into flowers

Make it Monday Challenge at Papertrey Ink was to make a flower using a leaf die....Honestly, I felt like I was cheating...since I was using the die from the Frilly Flowers! 

I started with the small scrap of striped paper....(both patterned papers from Springtime Echo Park) and built my color scheme and design from there. 

The aqua paper looks like raindrops and there is a giant flower....so it works with the Simon Says Stamp Challenge of April Showers brings Spring Flowers.
Since I used two patterned papers, I am entering into the Paper Pretties Challenge.

I love the aqua with the raspberry fizz and the fizz kinda matched the dark pink stripe on the paper.

Since I used a Button AND a Bow (I rarely use both!), I am entering into the Paper Shelter Challenge.

This card definately has flower power...so it is entered into Crafty Creations Challenge.

Sentiment is from PTI Out on a Limb set.  Button was a random one I had that I colored with a copic to look raspberry fizz like....really should by some actual buttons....and ribbons that match eventually...but for now, I am getting the inks and will have to be satisfied with just that.  But hey, a girl can dream....I will just have to hit the family hard to get me gift certificates for my birthday coming up!!!

Fathers day spring like card

Okay...WoW...2 cards during nap time!  I have been moving on this! 

I really wanted to do this sketch from Retro Sketch because I really love it.




 I had a little inspiration from a design team member from over at crazy for Challenges (who challenged to use blue/white and one other color)  So, I don't know if I count, but I used blues white and the extra colors were really only the fault of the only matching paper that was masculine...so I hope it qualifies, I am very happy with it!

I haven't been doing so well about keeping up with my personal masculine challenge of always making a masculine for every girly card....so I did today!  I am joining Cards for Men in their Springtime colors challenge  I hope the colors are sprng-like enough, they were the only patterned papers I had that were masculine and matched my blue I wanted to use!

Image:  Papertrey Ink Masculine Motifs
Ink/Cardstock:  papertrey ink--blueberry sky and white
Patterned papers:  Little Yellow Bicycle :  Traveler paper pad

Flourishes Mothers day card

Totally Gorjuss Challenge had this wonderful sketch, so I started figuring out what I wanted to make with it!  Love the clean and simple look to it!

I had some time while the kids were coloring, so I stamped and copic colored (R81,83,85) these lovely flowers from Flourishes...I just love Cherry Blossoms, and so springtime that I had to do it!  I found that Flourishes Blog had a Mothers Challenge, so I decided to make this mother's day card, my second this season, so I guess I might have to let my husband choose which his mother will get....I am guessing this one!  :)

I couldn't figure out the embellishments to add and use to this stamp and sketch, so I saw that Totally Papercrafts had a Bingo Challenge, so I went with the Pink/glitter/pearls combo

Used Glitter on the centers of the Flowers, pearls actually covered holes, which were not cut nicely by my edge punch...looks nice this way anyways!  :)  Cardstock base and lt pink are Papertrey Ink.  Oval cut with Spellbinder Nestie using the OUT OF BOX techinque (tutorial found at splitcoaststampers.com)  The small sentiment by the flower is from Tiny Tags (papertrey Ink).  And finally, the Background paper is Echo Park Springtime 6x6

Finally, I did use my cuttlebug, which has been my favorite tool recently, so I entered into Simon Says Stamp Challenge for that!

This is definately a spring time card, so I am also entering it into Karen's Doodles Challenge, Crafty Creations also has the Signs of Spring Challenge, Cupcake Craft Challenge: Spring is in the air,and Full of Flowers for the 4 Crafty CHicks challenge.

Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed!

Kraftin kimmie birthday card

Pixie cottage challenge for sketch....I really didn't like any of the embellishments I had for the three circles at the bottom, so I decided to go with my sentiment three times there!  :)  Since my Main image is on a tag, thought the sentiment can be my embellishemnt!

kraftin kimmie challenge for tags.  It is kinda funny that this is the week for tags, I had colored this gal and slapped her on the tag, but I never figured out how to use her,but now I was able to get it working out nicely on a card! 

What I am doing at sassy cheryls

Embossing at fab n funky challenges.  I actually did two embossing, dry with the folder and heat for the sentiment.

Sentiment is from Tiny Tags at Papertrey Ink, Twine is also from PTI.  Lovely mermaid is from Kraftin Kimmie.  New Leaf  and Kraft cardstock PTI, Purple is from Echo Park Springtime 6x6 pack.  Unknown stamp is a crackle on the New Leaf CS, stamped in versamark.  Tag was from a scrapbooking kit of unknown origins.

Make it monday Generational stamping

The Challenge at Papertrey Ink Make it monday is Generational stamping:  Stamping off.


Keeping with my "make masculine" pledge, I made several cards for the make it monday challenge.  I used my new stamps and ink that just arrived yesterday..yea!




The first card is on an old stamping up grey blue with black ink stamped off twice to make shades of greyin the Chevron stamp set. Celebrations stamp and die for the sentiment.

This is also going into the Papertake Weekly Challenge of ANything Goes...I think it might qualify for the additional one color monotone...although it is hard to see that there is any color in there at all! 
Additionally entered into Joanne Sheen Masculine challenge also.


Second card uses new think big set for the celebrate....stamped in 3 colors (chartruse, clay, harvest gold) and stamped off once.  Added a little bling to give a little something extra to it, cause I just couldn't figure out what more I could add to it without ruining it.  I have a problem with that.  I don't embellish well.  If I don't case it, and I embellish it, then often it ends up looking a little odd!

I entering this into Simon Says Stamping Challenge of ANything Goes too.










Third card uses the new ballon Heart 2 Heart #2 stamp set and Think Big Favorites #13.  Used 3 new inks, blueberry, leaf and harvest gold.

I used my phone to add the pictures, b/c it is fastest, but I can't figure out how to turn pictures in blogger on my phone or edit the pictrues on my phone to change them....so I guess this is what you see today! :)

So now, the question is....which of the three is the best?  And are they all good enough for a male?  Or is the celebrate on in the middle have too girly of colors...or are the ballons too girly? the yellow make it to unmasculine?  Have to see what my husband things when he gets home...I am guesing that he will say only one is truely good for a man...  :)

Make It Monday...graduated backgrounds

So I finally got back to stamping today.  (instead of stamping eariler this week I made my youngest 2 summer nightgowns considering it had been in the mid 80s....crazy.)

So the make it monday challenge is to make graduated backgrounds...with ink refills and water color or copics...I used  the latter till I get refills to try the others style.
This is actually my second time doing these....i copied Nicole from her blog post when this stamp set (Happy Trails) first came out.

I did 2 cards this time....keeping with my masculine challenge to make a man card for at least every girly card.
This was my first background.
Yellows, oranges, reds
Then I sprayed with glimmer mist...Love the outcome.







Then, I had to find the masculine colors, and I always look for my husband's approval on these so I went with greys and blues

I finished the card off with the light blue cardstock and a black shimmer paper, the shimmer was also die cut with the matching pti dragon fly die and stamped and embossed on black.
I only inked up the celebrate on the sentiment because the rest I figured would seem girly to my guy.





On the sunset colored back ground I also used the black shimmer again for a mat and for the pen.  I sprayed the background with glimmer mistand love how it looks.  messed up the stamping on the sentiment because the paper was curling and I didn't have enough hands, and didn't think to put it on the mat first to flatten it out...duh!

FIRST time rosettes color challenge

So this morning, I get my email blog post from Ashley Cannon Newell with her card from the embellish challenge.  I fell in love with the colors and felt moved to stamp!  So we did our grocery shopping and picked up my dear friend's little 4 yr old to distract mine so I could have a nap time stamping session!  Worked out so good that I am also going to get the blog posting done before nap and school pick up too!  Awesome!
The inspiration for the challenge:

On to the card....

Base card is hawaiian shores from papertrey ink.

 I took kraft cs and used the lace impression plate from papertrey and ran it through my cuttlebug several times so I could punch out all the little pieces.

I then cut out my frilly flowers dies from pti and alternated them out of raspberry fizz and the pti Sweet Blush and put them together with a pearl brad that was from michael's years ago.  I curled the petals up for more dimension.

I hand cut the ribbon looking sweet blush card stock for the sentiment...which is another pti.... Tiny tags, which is stamped in the versa magic turquoise gem ( very close to the hawaiian shores match)

Since I actually did my own design and didn't case Ashley's card, which was actually my first thought, I am entering it into the challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

Make it monday kissing challenge

Make it Monday Challenge:  Kissing!

I have decided that since I have so few masculine cards in my stash, I would focus all possible challenges on making some.   (last one I did was green and purple, so that one was out!)

So I started looking through my stamps for the background stamp to kiss.... wow, don't have one, but my celebrations set from forever ago does have stars and circles, so saved there. 

Next I look for a solid stamp, again, not an easy task.  But have masculine motifs, so guess we will settle on a boat for this card. 
The patterned paper in the background is from an old stack from walmart
So I used 3 sets, all papertrey ink.
Celebrate....and die.
It's a celebration....circles kissed to boat.
Masculine motifs....boat.

And of course, in front of the card is the cheek tickler made for me by my almost 5 yr old. 

So, could I give this to a make adult?  Or is the aqua mist with the brown look too "baby boy"?

I wasn't sure about trying other colors, but did anyways, with the limited amount that I have currently of papertrey ink colors.  I tried with spring moss and poppy and I think I like the spring moss the best. 

Pinter-inspiration flourish challenge

I made this card for the flourishes' pinter-inspiration challenge of purple and greens.  Love it. 

I used the sketch from sketch saturday challenge.  I stayed true to the design, but couldn't add the last embellishments . ...i am just not good at adding those and figured I would just ruin the card if I did.

And here she is....I just love this image from Flourishes!

It is a pretty simple card, but I prefer it that way.  When I add too much, it just looks wrong to me.  Not that there is anything wrong with that style, I really admire those who do that, but my brain does not work that way!

I used the water lilly from flourishes, colored with copics.

The sentiment is from out on a limb from papertrey ink.

All papers from dcwv.

Thanks for looking.

Mothers day card in yellow

Here is my mother's day card early!  I am never so fast, so I am feeling good about getting this done ahead of time!  I must say a great BIG Thanks to the Simon Says Stamp challenge who spurred me on to make something for my mom!    I used the sketch from the Totally Gorjuss Challenge to help me with my creation.  And finally, the sunny yellow color scheme inspired by the Fab n Funky Challenge.


Card Details:
Echo Park: spring time papers
Tiny Tags and Die from Papertrey Ink
Image from TAC, colored wih copics

Thanks for looking!

Krafting kimmie double trouble

Wow, I had a hard time with this card because I dont have many matching stamps but was determined to make this work! 
Hand wrote sentiment
Echo park spring time paper
Cs from su, purple is a glitter paper from joannes
I have a few princesses in my life that will love this card! Chi
Sketch from sketch saturday challenge.
And of course entered to krafting kimmie challenge of double trouble...using 2 images of theirs on a card.

Make it monday, yellow and red challenges...birthday card

Used Frilly Flowers stamp set and die from pti and used the celebrations stamp set also.
The color combination was inspired by the Cupcake challenge
The Papertrey Ink Make it monday challenge was to partically cut out a die cut and I did that using the Frilly Flower die from Papertrey Ink.

Yellow paper is one from SU, but am unsure of the color :)  Poppy red from PTI.  Vintage mother of pearl buttons covered in glitter given to me from my mother.  Black and white bakers twine was used and a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background.

Hope you like it!

One Layer Papertrey Ink Harvest Berries All occasion cards

So, I have been super bad about using craft items recently!  I got this set from papertrey ink before christmas...in fact, I got another set at the same time and that one is the one I USED for my christmas cards.  Anyways.  I have been in love with their Januanry release but have promised myself to buy nothing till all stamp sets have been inked and used  a lot....or at least enough that I had gotten back their worth....  Not sure if that makes sense, but 8 cards here...I am gonna value them at 2.00 each.  Value total:  16.00  Stamp Set cost:  15.00  Yea!  I have gotten back the value of the stamps.  Plus, I like these cards so much that I will have to do a re-creation of them with a different sentiment.

I want to send these to my aunt who likes my cards, or give them to my mother (who loves green!), or give them in a tote bag (yet to be made) with envelopes to a friend to had our family over for dinner. 

It was nice to break it down....did some while dinner rolls were baking, some while chili was simmering and finished them off after the kids were in bed.  They are still drying now, but I am very happy about the results! 

Inks used are spanish olive versa magic for the dark leaves, and memento rich cocoa for the sentiment and the berries were stamped in the cocoa  then covered in the liquid pearls--ruby red.  The light solid ginko leaves were stamped in papertrey ink spring moss.  All stamps are from the Papertrey Ink Harvest Berries stamp set.  Ivory cardstock (some on SU, some papertrey)

Just so I remember to get up before the kids so they don't get into them before I do!

Entering the challenge contest at Truly Scrumptious for something forgotten....both the liquid pearls and the Papertry Stamps are both unused before now!

Flourishes "let it snow" challenge

I am back making cards again.  Feels nice.  I only regret that I have no flourishes stamps to use for this challenge.  I need to make my chirstmas cards, so any challenge HAS to be made into a christmas card also.  Maybe I will win some goodies and be able to get a few christmas stamps that way....I do have a few on my want list.  Here is the Flourishes Let It Snow Challenge Link

Flourishes Tag Birthday card

A nice little simple card for a almost tweener.  I decided on the tag design from the Flourishes Challenge.  Thanksfor the inspiration!  Magnolia stamp is from Flourishes.

I wish I could be  in the christmas spirit flourishes style...but alas, no christmas tags for me since I still don't own a christmas set from them!  Eventually I guess!...

flourishes double embossing challenge

I was moved....for the first time in months to make a few cards. The flourishes blog challenge was to double emboss and although I have seen this done, seen the tutorials before, I have never tried it and wanted to make a card for a friend who we visited this past weekend (after not seeing each other for a YEAR!!! Yep, we only live 3 hrs apart! How sad are we! Kids really get in the way of things sometimes!

Anyways, I made a flourishes card using only sentiments from cherries/peaches set of theirs. I am hoping to be the lucky one who wins....I would really love to get a new set from them partly for free! I don't have a christmas set from them and would really love a few of them. So cross your fingers for me!

I used a cuttlebug folder and a spellbinder label to double emboss (check out splitcoast for a tutorial...or a link from the flourishes blog post)

Although I didn't do much on the inside, I did emboss the sentiment in bronze (as I did on the sentiment on the outside) I thought the quote "true friends grow separtely without growing apart" is perfect for us because although we NEVER talk and rarely see each other...whenever we visit, it is just as if nothing had ever changed or is uncomfortable. Love that. I intend to make our visits much more frequent...especially since my 6 yr old really enjoyed her 3yr old!

I also made a christmas card with the same double emboss technique using papertrey ink stamp set called in the meadow. LOVE THIS SET! Will see many christmas card this year using this set!

Proposed tunic top

Alex has 7 random pieces of clothing and this is the 3rd top I am making to match and expand her wardrobe.

it is an ottobre pattern from the 6/10 issue.  I am making it in a 122 size (euro) which is actually a little too big but she grows out of her tops fast since she has a long torso.

hoping to get it finished tonight or tomorrow. 

Froggie Birthday-Masculine

I am trying really hard to make several boyish or masculine cards since I tend to only make girly ones. This froggie is a digi from all that scraps and I love him! fun, plus can be for girls or boys or men! Yea for versatile!

pale yellow green CS base is from Papertrey ink along with the tag die/stamp from tiny tags.

Froggie is colored with YG 17, 3, 1 copics along with the balloon too. print paper is from colorbok "english moss' that I just got from Joannes on Thursday.

That paper had been sitting with a few other items bought with birthday money on my desk....mocking me....waiting for me to play, but I couldn't get away till today to actually create something with my new stuff! Still haven't broken in my punches, but I will get to those very very soon!

No....the balloon is not like that. My printer went crazy...don't know what happened, but another printed normal, but I colored the frog so nice that I wasn't going to do it over again.

Pixie Cottage Challenge for birthday cards challenge

Halloween card

This card is for the Kraftin Kimmie Challenge of spooky cards...well, I don't have any of the halloween stamps, so I had to improvise. Since Drucilla here is a little crazed with her little Pins in her friend, I figured she would work out nicely for the halloween card. I never make halloween cards....so this brought me out of my comfort zone. I had the skull/crossbones paper from Hobby Lobby a long time ago....and had even had this stamp in mind when I bought it! The Orange cs is embossed with my cutting plate for my cuttlebug (yep, weird, but makes a nice texture without being overly strong) Distessed the edges of both cs. I used a spellbinder label die and the out of box technique.

The Layout is based on the Sketch on Sketch Saturday.

copics in YR's and C's

Negative Space Baby Boy Card

My Friend just had a baby boy on Tuesday morning and I needed a card! I used the challenge over at Charisma Cardz challenge for the use of negative space where at least 2/3rds of the card is to be blank. This ends up being perfect because in order to get my husband to sign it, the card did need to be nice and plain.

BG copics colored the Hippo from a TAC stamp set that starts with silly, but I can't remember the rest of the name. The sentiment and tag die comes from Papertrey Ink tiny tags. The Grey ribbon is SU taffeta from forever ago! I also entered this into the Blue Greens Challenge at the Copic creations challenge.

Cherries fresh from the farm Thank you card!

Challenges entered into: Flourishes Farm Fresh--Cute Card Thursday--circles--Wrap it in Ribbon at Pixie Cottage Challenge--

Flourishes Cherries and Peaches set provides the image, colored with copics Rs and YGs. Cut out with Spellbinders using the out of box techinque and Sponged with antique linen distress ink.

DCWV red textured cardstock for both, all distressed with timholtz vintage photo distress ink and the ribbon is from RABOM (ribbons and bows oh my.com)--dk brown satin.

Sentiment is from a Papertrey set (out on a limb? not sure off the top of my head...it was out on the desk and I need to find its home! )
Hope you like! thanks for looking!

Flourish CASE challenge

Challenge of the day...to CASE a flourishes designer or someone who is a friend or the such.

Here is the card I cased....Honestly, I really had a hard time finding one I wanted to case as I have become a more simple card maker and am not into too much stuff on my cards. They are lovely, but I have a hard time taking gorg cards and simplifing... I think it is the influence of my husband who prefers it that way....and since my 6yr old loves everything I make, is the the only adult critic I show things to on a frequent basis! :) I live to please! :)

Flourishes Peaches stamp set with SU cardstock and designer paper from a scrap kit....probably from long ago. Michaels cheap orange satin ribbon....twine that found on Amazon for cheap to make my order up to a 25$ to get my free shipping :) hehe... the tag is a sticker from the SU kit also. Copics were YG 03, 17, 67--YR 07, 04 and some other one or two.

Image cut out with Out of Box technique with spellbinder label and backed with the same die.

Lily Celebration!

I made this card for another of the birthdays we have coming up in a few days. My sister in la I think will enjoy this one!

Main image from Flourishes colored with copics R90s or is it 80s...85, 83, 81 I guess
cut out with a spellbinder and edged in stickles.

The pink paper cut like ribbon is stamped wih Papertrey Ink sentiment of Celebrate from "out on a limb".

Both the pink and striped paper is from a TAC (the angel company) that is old and I used it from the leftovers from a series of scrapbook pages I made.

Green CS is wasabi from SU and the embossing is a cuttlebug folder swiss dots.
The pink dots are from michaels long ago and were not even rom the scrapping section!

Entered into a noon time Flourishes Challenge--- Sketch
thanks for looking.

Bright and Beachy Birthday Card!

In about 2 weeks our families will be coming together to celebrate 8 birthdays for June and July....and I will need several girly cards and felt inspired to actually create!

My card features K and company patterned paper (summery set on clearance forever ago.)

Silver cord on the right hand side from SU.

The Mermaid from Kraftin Kimmie is colored in Copics and mounted on pumpkin SU cardstock.

3 random brown rhinestones from clearance somewhere.

Tag made from Papertrey Ink die with "wish big" stamped 4 times from the matching "Tiny Tags" Stamp Set.

The Happy Birthday sentiment at the top is from Papertrey Ink set "Its a Celebration"

I love this card. Bright and Cheery, sunny and Beachy and Fun and not too busy that my husband didn't like it!

Hot Hot Hot challenge at Papertake weekly challenge for hot colors (orange/yellow)

Beachy challenge from Totally Papercrafts Challenge--I added the sand so she would be beachin it under the sea....closest stamp I had for a beachy scene.

Kraftin Kimmie for Tag Challenge

Sketch from Saturday Challenge

My craftin Mojo just finally came back after my copic class at my local stamp store and have actually kept making things. I made several items after the monday class, then here today I made little mermaid and started several other items! Thanks for looking!