Birthday Card for a Friend

This is a card I made for one of my college roomies. She is a wine aficionado so I thought this cut from the Celebrate with Flourish cart would be pretty cool. The DP is Once Upon A Time. CS is Rich Razzleberry and Pear Pizzazz and vellum CS, all SU. Used some SU stamps on the inside.

This is a note my DD wrote to go inside. I think it's hilarious, and so representative of Ems' personality! Click on the pic for a larger view.

I had fun making this card. Hope you've enjoyed it too--thanks for stopping by today!

He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

This is the card I made for our church members to sign for our Christian Ed coordinator who is leaving. A while back, I discovered how you can use SCAL and Lettering Delights images together to do a kind of "print and cut" a la the Cricut Imagine. It is a trifle labor intensive, but I did make a few images this way and this image of the kids around the world holding hands really appealed to me. I have saved it all this time with the intention of making this very card, which I finally did. I printed the words to the song in various colors for my BG. I edged around the main image with a marker, which didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but it looks okay I guess. I stamped a couple of sentiments from ODBD on the inside.

Thanks for looking! Have a fabulous day!

Front cover of Star Book

This is the front cover of a star book I made for our Christian Education Coordinator, who is leaving us. I've been wanting to try one of these and thought this was a good occasion. All CS, ink, and DP is SU. Main colors are Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, and Whisper White. Almost all the stamps are from ODBD--I love their stamps so much! Some are SU and I have noted those.

I used my Cricut and the Elegant Edges cart and my gypsy to weld the shapes together to get the bracket shape. The title is cut using the Inspired Heart Cricut Lite cart. The bird is from ODBD's Sing to the Lord set, embossed in gold and colored with inks and blender pens.

The pix of the other pages are in the previous post--just scroll down to see them. I couldn't fit all the pix in one blog post LOL! Thanks for looking!

Interior pages of star book

For the first page I made a tag with a stamp from Scripture Collection 2 and SU's Lovely as a Tree. The bird is from Flourished Christian Symbols and is stamped in Not Quite Navy Craft ink, embossed with clear EP. "Faith" is cut from the Home Accents Cricut cartridge.

Here are some more scripture stamps from ODBD scripture collections 2 and 5. The dragonfly tag looks gold in the pic but is actually copper. It's made out of a metal rimmed vellum tag that SU used to sell, dragonfly is MM. Flowers are from Mike's, and of course I can't seem to make anything without using my butterfly sizzlit! It is also stamped with Ecclesiastes from ODBD Randi's song. The little flourishes above and below the scripture are from retired SU set Noteworthy.

This page I die cut with my nesties and stamped the cross from Flourished Christian Symbols in versamark and embossed with clear EP. Butterfly and flowers are from Don't Worry! and scriptures are from the collections (I think 5).

Shells here are from retired SU set Stipple Shells. This set is very fun to use masking on. Swirly clip and ribbon are SU

This page uses Our Daily Bread and The Living Bread stamp sets. The little pocket contains a nestie shape with Ecc. 3:1 stamped on it. Flourishes are from Home Accents Cricut cart.

Thanks for looking! Hope you've enjoyed this project!

Some Cards...

Good morning! I hope everyone had a fabulous Fourth! I took the kids down to TX to visit my parents. We had a wonderful time.

These are some cards I made for the lady who won my cards in the scholarship auction. The first is a CASE of a Michelle Zindorf card. The neat thing about Michelle is she does a whole tutorial for every card she does. I have done a similar card before, but I'm better at it now and I'm really pleased with how this turned out. Colors are Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point. Flourishes are made using Cricut. Bottom edge is pierced.

In this card I was going for a paint chip effect; as usual I am a couple of years behind the trend, but it seemed like a good technique for a masculine card. CS colors are Bordering Blue, Brocade Blue, and Ballet Blue (all retired), and Night of Navy. Ink is N of N. Stamp is SU.

This last card uses PTI Plum Pudding CS, ink and ribbon. Flowers are ret. SU set, sent. is PTI. Vellum is PTI (I think it's called basket weave or something like that--it has a texture to it--very pretty, but almost opaque).

Well, thanks for stopping by today. As always, comments are greatly appreciated!

More Masculine Cards

I made these cars a while back but never got them blogged. This was my brother's birthday card. I cased the design from p. 58 of the May/June issued of Papercrafts. That was a pretty good issue, I have to say. All products are SU. Set is Bring on the Cake.

The next card was a birthday card for a friend of my son's. Sets are PTI's Grunge Me and Boy Basics: Game On. CS is Soft Sky and Pumpkin Pie, DP is Scenic Route. Ribbon is PTI, embellie is SU's Build-a-Brad.

This last card was for my son's birthday (he is 13! GAAA! How did this happen?!?!) I used SU's Extreme Elements and PTI"S Game On. Colors are Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Cajun Craze, and Night of Navy. This card is a total case of one in the SU 2010-2011 IBC. My sewing on this one sucked, but I used it anyway. Matt said he liked it.

I really like making masculine cards. I get tired of girly floral cards sometimes. What's your favorite kind of card to make? Thanks for stopping by today!

PTI Swaps

Hello! I know it's been a long time since I posted. I just haven't been in the mood to blog.

I finally finished the last two spots in my regular PTI swap over on SCS. You can see the other two spots HERE and HERE. This card is for the masculine card portion of the swap. The only things PTI here are the stamp sets: Grunge Me and Boy Basics: Game On. All CS, inks, and accessories are SU, except for the Cuttlebug embossing folder. Colors are Baja Breeze, Blue Bayou, Kiwi Kiss, and Pumpkin Pie. Sketch is from p. 66 of the May/June issue of Papercrafts.

The next card is for the regular card category. All products here are PTI except for the border punch and the ink used to stamp the sentiment (SU), and the DMC floss threaded through the buttons. Stamp sets are For the Graduate and Love Lives here. Ink used is Sweet Blush Hybrid. DP is Bitty Boxes. CS is Sweet Blush and Lemon Tart.

Well, thanks for stopping by today! I had a great time making these cards. Hope you get some creative time today.