Thank you cards

We received so much love and support from family and friends the last few weeks. Oma's funeral was on Tuesday and we wanted to send some special thank you cards to those who helped with the service. My mother in law has asked for 6 cards so I thought I would start with hers first. I have had these plastic Thank You signs since my first child was born 5.5 years ago and knew I wanted to use them up. When I saw the Freshly Made Sketch #169 I knew it was perfect to use. My OCD insisted I center the thank you under the circle, I hope that's ok for the challenge.  I found some scrap embossed pink paper in my bin that worked well with the grey zip strips. I added a butterfly stamp glittered with a clear wink of stella brush and some stickles down the body of the butterfly.

 

With Sympathy and sadness

Our dear sweet Oma passed away at the age of 94 on January 7th. I'm so thankful that my hubby was home for the holidays and we were able to be with Oma in the hospital during her last couple of weeks.

This is the card I made for our parents and aunt's and uncle's.  The tulip stamp is from the Stamp Barn and I used Copics to color it in. (G43, G46, R20 and R22) I added some Platium liquid pearls to the center of the tulips. Once that dried I fussy cut, which I absolutely do not enjoy at all :) I used some white cardstock and ran it through my big shot with a swirls embossing folder. The sentiment is from Unity Stamps and its mounted on Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock from SU.

Seize the Birthday - Getting Sketchy

Today's card is based on a sketch over at Seize the Birthday. This year, I'm challenging myself to use up some of my stock pile (hoard, collection, etc) of patterned paper. This sketch was perfect! I was able to make 3 cards with this sketch and finished off the plaid paper from the Timberline paper pack. I also used some Lagoon cardstock, gems, chipboard arrows (Heidi Swapp) and chipboard from CTMH. Sprayed the chipboard with Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Mustard and Tropicana Teal. The sentiments used were from You Mean the World to Me. I made two of these birthday cards and a thank you card for our pastor.

 

 

Happy 41st Birthday!

My hubby turned 41 yesterday and here is the card that I made with my 5 year olds help.

 

We used Freshly Made Sketches #167 and we would like to add it to the Seize the Birthday who challenged us to create a birthday card with a PARTY theme. I thought fireworks for the New Year's Day birthday was fitting.

 

 

We mostly used Close to my Heart products for this card. Inks are Sunflower (retired) and Pacifica. Stamp set is called Kaboom it was a stamp of the month. Added some sparkly gems for the center of each firework.

 

 

 

 

Library Bag

My dear friend is an avid reader. Since I don't have her current book wish list I decided to create something for her to carry her books in. I purchase a plain linen tote bag from Michael's on one of the 25% off everything days.

I had some red iron on in my stash (yes I am a craft supply hoarder but I usually have what I need when I'm crafting late at night) I found the read quote in the make now projects in cricut's design space. With iron on you have to remember to lay the shiny side down and cut the writing using the mirror image button. It will cut using a kissing technique which means it will cut the iron on and not the plastic layer. Next I had to remove the negative image (this process is called weeding) and took a LONG TIME!

Next step was to set the iron on a high setting and position the read quote on the bag. I set my iron a little too hot and ended up melting the word "aloud" I had to remove part of the "u" and recut and iron the L and U back on. Lesson learnt! Over all I'm very pleased with the end product and I'm sure my friend will love it

Tuesday Morning Sketches #278

Yikes, It's been a almost 6 months since I've posted on my blog! I have some catching up to do. My first stop was over at Tuesday Morning Sketches. I always find joy in creating cards using blogs and challenges. Todays sketch is:

 

 Please pop over to the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog and send some love to the design team and other creators using this sketch.

 

And here's the card I created for a 6yr old boy.

 

Cottage Chairs

Today I inked up three stamps. One is a favorite sentiment from Petite Pairs, the other two had never been inked. The cottage chairs are from Unity Stamps and the background is from the new Work of Art set from Stampin Up.  My inspiration came from my friend's gallery on Splitcoast Stampers. Here is Trish's card I really loved the layout, changed the shapes and left off the ribbon as this card was mailed to by brother for his birthday. I could not locate my piercing tool in my crafting mess, I really like that look of the added texture around the oval that Trish used.

And here's my card for today...