Retro Sketches #55

During my second pregnancy I joined an amazing mommies group on facebook. We are a group of 84 ladies that were all due in the September. The Alberta mommies and toddlers had a gathering in Calgary on St. Patrick's Day and this is the special card I made for our host.  There was a bit of a snow storm that turned some away from the travel but not me, I love our flex & winter tires.

 

Papers: Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, White, Beyond the Garden DSP
Extras: Pacific Point ink, Decorative Label punch, Green Ribbon (dollar store) Scallop edgelit (MFT)
And the wonderful sketch is from Retro Sketches 55 my inspiration came from Laurie card, although I did have to re-locate my bow as it was to heavy over the sentiment for my liking. Thanks for taking a look and leaving a comment. I really appreciate all the comments!

Roxy - Happy Birthday

I have to share my newest blog that I am following. A friend of mine had pinned a card box that caught my eye and when I went over to the blog I fell in love. I love Vicki's style and that she's a close to my heart consultant. I've been collecting Close to my heart and Stampin up paper to scrapbook for YEARS. It's so nice to get some great ideas to use up the leftovers on cards.

Today's card is a case of Vicki's card made with Clementine papers click here to see.

I switched it up a bit to use some scraps of Roxy paper for my dear friend Sara. Roxy was her favorite paper pack. I changed the ribbon but tried out Vicki's bow technique, love it but will try next time with a ribbon that isn't sattin.

Paper: Roxy (Close to my heart)
Ink: Hollyhock, Basic Black
Ribbon: Black Sattin (dollar store)
Extras: Chip board shape, Cricut, Xron, Sponge, Just Blooms Paper Shapes "Flutter", Rhinestones.

Wishing you a fabulous Birthday!

 

Todays card was created using this weeks sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches #77.

 

Supplies: DSP Beyond the Garden SU, Decorative Label Punch, Bright Collection Buttons, Black and White card stock, sunset ink (Close to my Heart) and stamp set from Verve "Birthday Surprise"

 

Inside of card is stamped with May your birthday be as special as you are & 3 balloons.

 

Here's the sketch used:

 

Seize the Birthday #10 (Masculine Birthday)

Here is the great sketch over at Seize the Birthday #10 (Masculine Birthday)



And here's my card for this challenge:

This card is for our nephew who turns 15 at the end of the month. Feels like just yesterday when we hurried to the hospital to meet him for the first time! I was able to use my new favorite paper pack from Close to my heart "Later Sk8r" sponged the paper edges with outdoor denim ink. The big gear is cut out with the cricut "Artiste" and the sentiment is an old favorite from "Nursery Bash"

Thanks for looking and leaving a comment!

Merry Monday #51

Good Morning,

My old printer bit the dust and I've purchased a new Epson Stylus NX430 which uses the proper ink to color images with copics. I've been collecting free digi stamps for years and purchased a few along the way. The old printer would not print digis clearly and it would smear if I tried to use a copic marker. So here is my first card using a digi stamp from Whimsy and Stars Studio

 

Supplies used: SU Festival of Prints paper stack, Cherry Cobbler ink, Yellow Stickles, Copic Markers G14, Y02, R29, R59, Tree Digi Stamp from Whimsy and Stars Studio, Sentiment from Unity Stamps

Close up of the tree to show the stickles on the stars.

 

This card was created from the Merry Monday challenge. I played by using Red, Digital and Designer Paper for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by and I would love for you to leave a comment if you don't mind. Happy stamping. 

 

Celebrate with hot air baloon...

Pretty sure my little guy is teething or going through a growth spurt. He was so clingy this morning I ran out of time posting this card.

I had made this card using the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches (which closed at noon today) using this great sketch from Allisa (love her blog) and also using the colors this week over at Dynamic Duos. I couldn't locate any of my pool party cardstock when I was crafting so I ended up using Lacoon from Close to my Heart. I used my cricut to cut out the two layers of hot air baloon, two shapes to mat, tag for sentiment and a few clouds out of scraps. I used the negative space to sponge clouds onto my white cardstock. Added a few brads and voila, a perect birthday card for a special little boy in March.

Make a wish

I'm busy working on the many birthday cards I need for March. Here is a male card I created this morning. All my paper is from my scrap bin. The DSP is an old line from SU (I think it was called Manchester) The label is a cut out from Spellbinders "Page Maps" and the stamp is from the $1.50 bin at Michael's. This card is created based on the Sketch over at Sketch Frenzy Friday.

And below is a photo of the sketch created for us by the very talented Sharon Wheat. If you have a minute please pop over to her blog and leave her some love for this sketch and the super cute bunny card. Once I'm finished with all these birthday cards I will be working on Easter.