Sweet Stem Thinking of You

A dear friend of mine, from church, Father In Law passed away this week. I used the Sketch challenge from SCS SC321 as a kick off point to get inspiration for my card. this is the card I made.  I hope my friend and here family like it.

I used several Cuttlebug folders  Victoria a reg one and Polka Dots a larger one. I used my MS Lacey Doily Punch and SU Scalloped border punch. I really like how all these effects came together on the card.  I decided to heat emboss the images and sentiment with  Versamark and Black embossing powder. I used my Soft Subtles SU Watercolor Wonder Crayons to apply a soft color to the images.  I like how it turned out but the dry air did give me a bit of static issues on the Cardstock. I am loving the crispness of my BIG SHOT withthe embossing folders. Iused GP white card stock and SU Sahara Sand.  I have been liking the gingham ribbon again I thought the squares on it went great with the squares in the sketch.  You should try the inspiration of challenges if you have been a little rusty lately and are trying to get back into the swing of paper crafting. I find them very inspirational. Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

baby Mailbox tin and Gift boxes.

I have finally caught up on all my Birthday, Baby, and Thank You Projects. One of the baby projects I am actually got done before the twin babies are born.

I was originally going to decorate stamp T shirts but I just couldnt come up with what I wanted to stamp on them. I found these mailboxes on clearance at Target so I bought 3, and purchased Gift cards and a set of T shirts to divide among them.  I still need to make 2 more cards but I made  3 gift boxes withthe Sizzix Scallop scorecard Box with flowers. I used various DP. I decorated with scrap ribbon also. The  oragne and Sheer Blue ribbons are  from weddings. If you have a question  just ask and I wil ltry to get teh exact info. 

Hope you like them, it's older DP, SU ones.  I cant remember the name I spilt packages with my friend. You could say I used alot of Stash on these projects.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Baby Card

last week I spent time watching my neices and nephew while my SIL had her baby girl. I made this card for her last Friday.  I used my Cuttlebug Baby Die in My new Sizzix I made it for the Sketch on SCS last week.  I used Pink Pirouette and ChocolateChip and Melon Mambo for thuis card..I love the colors together. The mambo is Embossed with CB "Baby Words" embossing folder...and The Pink in the background with PolkaDots by QuiKutz. and Chocolate Chip in Swiss Dots by Cuttlebug.  The image is old SU retired set..been loving using my SU Watercolor Wonder Crayons again..my brushes had not been used for a while..
Until Later...Happy Stamping!

A Thank You Card

I made this add for my Daughter's SIL, she made a cute mosaic picture collage of my grandson for me at Christmas. It is so cute and I enjoy it so much. I also made it for SCS CC311 & TLC313.

The quilt pattern is called "Bargello" , yes I learned something new!  There is a tutorial here if you want to learn how to make it. 

The color challenge used SU colors, Perfect Plum, Regal Rose, Always Artichoke. Loved using these colors. I pulled out my retired stamp set SU...Sweet N Sassy... I also used My Pink Stamper's Fruit &Veggie Puns

 I did not have enough Designer Paper in the correct colors so I stamped the images form Sweet and Sassy  in th e 3 colors on White cardstock and embossed the "Script" CB embossing folder on to Always Artichoke in order to coordinate the DP with the color challenge.

Hope you like it ...Until Later Happy Stamping!

Masculine Brithday Cards, OH MY!

One of the hardest cards I find to make is the one for the men in my family. this week I made a series of 6 Masculine cards. I am just going to show a few but they all had the same theme in the same color I used the tortise and the Bird from SU Wildlife Reserve(retired)  my favorite go to set wehn making a man card!

I made them to go with Wendybells F4A50 "Almost Monochrome". 

 I used GP White, Sahara Sand and Always Artichoke! I so need the Green right now anyway I can get it.

I used White Craft ink to sponge wipe on the Sizzix:Tim Holtz: Bricked embossed background. Love the look. Sizzix Leaf Branch(name?) die was used, as well as either the SU: Circle Punches, large oval punch and Designer label Punch.  and  a MS Embossed Zig zag punch.

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Another Day, Another Card!

I know it seems unbelievable...but I made another card.. nothing totally new I just was looking at my stuff and I had some pieces of card stuff that were not used so I decided to make a card withthe scraps..even the base is scrap since it was a piece that didnt fully emboss to the end..something shifted when I was embossing.

   There are only a few new things used for this card. One was the embosslit butterflies from SU.  I have used them before and I love them.

 I did add an Embassy Black to the cardstock colors but other wise the colors are the same as on the daisy cards I posted a week or so ago.  I also used the SU scallop border punch on this card.  I also used the Happy Birthday Stamp again on the inside of the card. Now I am down to about 10 Birthday cards in the rears! I hope you like the card.
Until Later... Happy Stamping!

Retro Robo Birthday Card

So I need to get my stash of cards restocked...funny how it has drained itself the last few years while I have been so busy! Now I just need my routine back on track. Today I made this cute little card for a little boy. It was fun I dont  know why I dont get to do this more often!
I finally got to use my "Robotz" Cricut cart  which I just love...I also took a closer look at it today; I didnt realize it actually made a ton of 3D Robot boxes.  I might have to give one of them a try when my Card stash is replenished.  I used my stash box...I finally found it... amazingly I couldn't find it last week when I needed the green strips for the daisy card..so my Craft Space memory is improving...and the Mojo is starting to flow a little better.
  For this card I used pieces of  SU: Night of Navy, Certainly Celery, GP white. The black is Embassy, the light purple and a textured gray, sorry I cant remember.  I used SU Birthday Whimsy to stamp.. and QuiKutz EF's  Retro Diamonds and Polka Dots....I used Cuttlebug: Diamond Plate. After assembling all the pieces I realized that I hadn't done anything for the background. I remembered my DCWV Latte designer paper, becasue it had all the colors in it.  Luckily I had a large enough piece of stash that didnt look flowery and actually looks pretty good with the diamond and circle theme going on.
Last of all I put the pieces together and wished I had some little gear shaped metal brads becasue the wording looked lonely.  I remebered I owned a Creative Memories Hexagon Punch. so with that and a 1/4" handheld circel punch I managed to make some nuts. I hope you Like it!
Until Later...Happy Stamping!