Lighthouse Trio

CPS #171

Yet another Father's Day card.  This one is for The Color Chef challenge at Kelly Jo's Stamp Pad (Colors -- cream, muted green and soft blue), and for the sketch challenge at CPS.  As you may be able to tell, I had many ideas for this card. The lighthouse stamps are digital stamps from KLM Designs, one of my favorite digi stamp stores. I printed them on soft blue vellum and placed them on cream ovals, overlaying them so some of the cream was visible. I decided to leave them just black outlined and thinks this I recently bought Spellbinder's Impressabilities Seas Scape and embossed the green background with it.  The embellishments are decorative buttons I had for another project but decided to string them on some rope for a more seaside feel.  The sentiment is Font Tiranti Solid, bold.

My favorite things of this card is the Impressability SeaScape and the lighthouse digis.




~ Be a beacon of light in someone's life!

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Mint Condition

CPS Challenge #167

A double challenge today.  Aren't these colors cool?  ColourQ has some really terrific color combos for their challenges.  I chose the sketch from CPS because it had such a masculine feel to it.  The brads are from K&Company.  However, I traded out the turquoise color brad because it was the wrong shade. I made my own with the Baja Breeze paper and clear emboss powder to get the leather look of the other brads.  It was also the perfect time to use my suede paper!

SPIES:

Stamps:  Sentiments --Happy Birthday from Hero Arts; Dad from Hampton Arts.
Paper:  Baja Breeze, Tan Suede, yellow and green cardstock from stash. 
Ink:  Tim Holts Distressed Brown Ink.
Extras:  Brads, Ribbon. 




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16 Now, See You Later, Gator!!

CPS #162

A fun birthday card for my youngest son's 16th birthday ToDay!  I looked for a car stamp and found this digital stamp, Gator Mobile, from Paper Popsicles.  I think he adds to the fun.  I also liked the straight lines of the sketch challenge this week at CPS.  Boys never like a lot of fuss.

SPIES:

Stamps:  Digi Stamp -Gator Mobile from Paper Popsicles.
Paper:  Night of Navy, Yoyo Yellow and Berry cardstock.  DP - Plaid from Sandylion.
Ink:  Watercolor pencils
Extras:  colored brads, number punches.


Later Gator!



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Happy Easter

CPS

A festive Easter card.  I had some new Easter DP I've been wanting to use and so even though I wasn't able to get this entered in time for the challenge at CPS, I still used their sketch  because it compliments my stamp trio.  It's also a very classic layout.  The bunny, egg and sentiment made a good stamp trio that I found in a bargain bin.

Now I'm off to 'Spring Forward'!





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Flower Power

 

  

  

 

I just can't stop trying out those bright and colorful challenges.  Another one, this time for Color Dare  #56 and CPS Challenge #155.  This is my first card for Color Dare and I believe I missed the deadline, but I will submit it anyway.  It's always nice to have new visitors to the blog!  I had that big beautiful aqua blue flower so I knew it would be the inspiration for this card.  I plucked off the yellow center and added the raspberry button instead.

Happy Lent!

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Bee Pink

 

Doodle Inspiration 

 

  

Pals Paper Arts #28  

  

CPS-Card Sketches #153 

  A pink bee for Valentine's Day!  Not to brag, okay, maybe to brag a little......this has to be one of my favorite cards I've made so far.  I love the color combination.  Does that make me a true girlie girl or is it that since I live in a house of testosterone I never get to see much pink!  Either way, pink is fave.

As I mentioned in one of my posts from yesterday, I have been sketching and doodling some lately, which included drawing out some of my own card layouts and images for cards.  The 'doodle inspiration' here is one of my own and my inspiration for the card. I actually didn't stay true to my own sketch in that I did not add as many swirls and hearts mainly because there wasn't enough room and once I put it on paper it had a mind of it's own.  I knew I wanted to make the bee pink and black so the PPA color challenge this week was perfect.  And, then when I saw the sketch at CPS everything just came together.  That doesn't seem to happen often for me with my cards.  Usually I start creating one and then I get bogged down with alternative visions dancing around in my head.  One reason I dusted off my sketch book, to get them on paper at least for future use. I do believe I am going to have to use my bee again sometime soon!

Stamps:  Absolutely none whatsoever this time!

Paper:  Light and dark pink cardstock and DP from stash.

Ink:  Again, absolutely none.

Extras:  Heart doily, pink bubble gems, black patterned ribbon, black transparent ribbon, Wingo Zingo alpha, heart dies and swirl die from Sizzix.  The 'swirl' die is the tail from the Sizzix Bigz lovebird die.

Bee Happy! ♥♥♥

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Cherish

CPS 150

Color Q #16

A card for two challenges, CPS and Color Q Challenge 16.  A little challenging to combine all those colors in such a tiny card, but I did it.  I tried to find paper as close to the colors as possible. 

Stamps:  Cherish.
Paper:  Pumpkin, burgundy, raspberry, light pink and white cardstock.  DP - DCWV border strip.
Ink:  Versamark and burgundy emboss powder.
Extras:  buttons, brads, fabric flowers, clear gem, raspberry ribbon.

Blessings!



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Snowboardin' Celebration

 

CPS 149

Happy Saturday!  Wow, it's been a whole week since I posted anything and that long since I did any crafting.  The new year is proving to be a tad bit too busy!  Anyway, I am late posting this for the CPS challenge tonight, but I am submitting it anyway.  Took me a bit to get my bearings after a week away from the crafting table.  And, when I finished with this card, I realized I used the same colors as the last card I posted!  Oh well, everything just fell into place tonight so that's OK.

Again, I needed a masculine card.  I am beginning to think there are too many men in my family!  hahaha  I AM joking!  The snowboard digital stamp was great and I kept thinking of what else to do for a male teen birthday card and I was looking at birthday stamps and BAM!  Icing is like snow......so why not have the snowboarder 'snowboard' over the frosting of a cupcake.  So, I printed the cupcake on four different colors of cardstock, then pieced it all together and coordinated them with some of the paper strips behind the images.

Stamps:  Happy Birthday, Inkadinkadoo; Snowboarder digital stamp from Bird's Cards; cupcake digital stamp, Lindsay's Stamp Stuff.

Paper:  DP, Making Memories 'Just Chillin'; orange textured cardstock, Bazzill; chocolate, light blue and white cardstock.

Ink:  Staz On Timber Brown

Extras:  Number punches; turquoise star brads; orange brads; oval metal frame.

I have LOADS of cards to do in the next few days as I did not get my Christmas cards finished and so they are becoming New Year's/Winter Blessings/Valentine cards.  There is always a way to improvise.

More to come...

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Nifty Fifty Birthday

 

CPS 148

I've been MIA from the blogging world most of this first week of the new year.  Getting back to reality always takes a push after the holidays.  It was a nice surprise to find my profile featured on 2Sketches4You this week too!  So a shout out to Laura and Kazan over there, thank you so much!  Hopefully if I had any new visitors on their behalf that they found me up and running after making some changes here for the new year.

I did find some time to get at least one card done this week.  My brother turned 50 this week and so I challenged myself again in making another masculine card.  Why are masculine cards so challenging?  Maybe because there is a limited amount of card making supplies out there to cater to the adult male gender?  Guess I will have to surf the net in my free time (that will be in 2020!) to find more masculine supplies before I need them again.

Yet, I digress a bit.  I made this card also for the CPS 148 challenge this week.  I love their simple designs that then you can embellish as little or as much as you want. Since I'm on a crafting budget and I blew that for supplies for Christmas cards and I'm number punch challenged, I used my computer to make the number fifty and cut it out. 

Stamps:  None!

Paper:  DP from DCWV.  Baby blue, cocoa brown and paprika cardstock.

Ink:  Timber Brown from StazOn for distressed, antique look around paper edges.

Extras:  Decorative ribbon; Photo rounder punch; Birthday embossing folder from Cuddlebug; Sizzlet gift die cut; Sizzlet Happy Birthday die cut; numbers printed off computer and cut out.

Now I'm off to finish some new year cards and thank you cards and peruse the world of card challenges!

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CPS Challenge - Choose Your Own CPS Sketch

Happy New Year!  

I think I have finally knocked out some kinks in my blog facelift and can now post my first entry for my first challenge for 2010!  I still have some things to add back and have a list of things I want to add on to the blog, but that will wait until another day.

Gift Card Holders/Cards

As I was thinking about how to make a card/giftcard holder together, I was perusing through CPS' past sketches and found #84 and it was perfect for what I wanted to do.  I needed two masculine cards for giftcards and so this is what evolved.  It took me a bit to decide how to close the flap, button with ribbon and in the end I decided on velcro.  I had the iron on kind and it worked out better than I first thought.  It did take some time and care so that I didn't burn the paper even with covering the card with a pillow case before applying the iron heat.

 

CPS#84

 

Stamps:  Penguin - Inkadinkadoo; Reindeer face- Recollections; Sentiments-Recollections.

Paper:  Cardstock from stash; DP for penguin:  Meadow Grass Strip by Max's Backyard;  Reindeer - snow DP from basicgrey.

Ink:  Versamark dazzle in champagne; green, black, gold tinsel, and burgundy emboss powder.

Extras:  Ribbons:  red velvet (penguin card); green plaid and red plaid (reindeer card);  green tinsel ribbon for giftcard holders inside flap; green button (penguin), candy cane accent (reindeer); oval scallop border die cut; square punch; velcro.


For the ornament card holders I used the Sizzix ornament die and coordinated paper.  On the ornament, I cut two dies per holder, one in solid cardstock, the other in dp paper to match the card.  Then, I cut the DP ornament on top to make the pocket for the gift card and glued it onto the solid ornament, leaving a pocket in the middle.  Then, I added holly dies as a front border, made the ornament top in the same dp paper and added the green tinsel ribbon.

Happy New Year!

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HO HO HO

HO HO HO --  CPS 141 Sketch

 A very simple and cute sketch from CPS this week.  My first Christmas card for the season.  I loved the Santa stamp and the little candy stamp.  I used red and green cardstock and dotted patterned paper that I embossed and I used a rope border punch on the green cardstock.  Embellishments included:  green brads, red button, holly die and green ribbon and red pom pom ribbon.  Ink was Versamark with Evergreen and Rich Red embossing powder.  To bring out Santa's white beard and hat fur, I used Stampendous! Crystal Snow.

HO HO HO!