Happy Birthday Kevin & Karen

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great day.

I have two cards to share with you right now. My neighbours, father and daughter, will be celebrating their birthdays soon, on the same day mind you!

So, here are their cards. 

First up is Kevin's card. He is a no nonsense sort of fella so I kept it pretty simple. I used the fox (or is it a wolf?) die cut from Spellbinders and then layered over that the negative of the cardstock that I had run through a wood grain embossing folder. The little die with the sentiment is also Spellbinders Labels 4. 

I mounted the cardstock up on pop dots to give some depth to the opening where the fox is sitting as you can see from this second photo.

Now Karen's card is entirely different. She is a very talented young lady. She weaves, is an amazing photographer and plays the piano like a dream. I wanted her card to be a bit more magical and to me, right now anyway, that means stars!

The background of her card is white cardstock run through a Swiss dot embossing folder over which I layered many stars cut from the PapertreyInk die Sketched Stars. I added the sentiment which is Boutique Borders - Birthday stamped in Memento inks.

Well, that is it for me for the moment. It is snowing, again, so I need to get out there and do a little bit of clearing before I can return and be snug in my craft room with a cuppa and enjoy my afternoon.

Thanks so much for visiting with me. Do leave me your comments as I love reading them. Have a terrific day. Cheers.

More stash busting

I am back with one more post tonight. I have continued using us my stash and made a couple of very quick CAS cards using some more of the blue card bases I found. 

I cut all the circles with a Spellbinders circle die from yet more scraps and the sentiments are from PapertreyInk Boutique Borders, stamped in Memento Teal Zeal and cut with the matching dies. They are the Birthday and Thank You sets.

These could not be simpler to do and I am happy with the way they turned out.

Thanks a lot for stopping by. Have a great evening. Cheers.

New Stamp Company for Me

Good evening all.

I recently discovered a new stamp company. Well, new to me anyway. It is called Pink & Main and Michelle draws just the cutest things. I bought a few of her sets to give them a go and I really like them.

My card tonight is using one of the bunnies from the Hoppy Easter set. It has just the cutest little face.

I stamped it out in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with Copics and then just layered away on my card base. Added the spring green bow with a button to finish off.

I have continued my stash busting so I will be back with another post shortly.

Thanks for visiting. Cheers.

Last post of the night

I am back. Again. 

I swear this will be my last post of the day. I have had a really productive day and I have just one more card to share.

I chose to use the same PapertreyInk die, Text Block - Birthday for this last card.

I have used a Crafter's Companion card base, added a strip of pattern paper down the left side cut with a Harlequin die from My Favorite Things, and then added the Text die which I first mounted on some coordinating cardstock. I added a vellum butterfly from K & Company at the top 'cause it needed a little something to finish it off.

Thanks once again for visiting, again. :)  I love to read your comments so do leave them if you have a chance. Cheers.

Make It Monday #200

Hello once again.

I have a card for you tonight that I made for the PapertreyInk Make It Monday Challenge #200. You were to use their wonderful cover plates to create a card. Well, unfortunately, I do not own any of their cover plates, yet! But, after watching the video I thought that maybe I could achieve a similar effect using the Text Block dies which are much the same only somewhat smaller.

So, here goes.

I started with a card base from my stash from Crafter's Companion. I used the Text Block - Birthday die, cut it out twice, once from a creamy cardstock and once from black. Layered them on top of each other, just to the left side and then added that to the card. I hope that you can just see the edge of the black layer looking like a shadow. I put a piece of black sparkly ribbon down the left side and added a few gems. Kept things really clean and crisp looking so the die took center stage.

I hope you can see from this photo how nice and sparkly this ribbon is. It just adds a touch of something without being too much.

Thanks ever so much for stopping by. Hope you have a great evening. Cheers.

One Crazy Stamper February Challenge

Hello again. 

Hope your afternoon is going better than mine. My DH has just told me that our refrigerator freezer is not working so that means a service call.  :(

I have a card for you which I made for the One Crazy Stamper February Challenge which is to use the colours red and white and use a die cut. I have used the Mojo Monday layout as shown here.

A basic ivory card base on which I have layered white cardstock run through an Anna Griffin embossing folder called "Circular Grid". I have rounded the corners on it as well as the outer edge of the card. 

The bottom layer of pattern paper is from my ever overflowing stash and the top paper with the tiny hearts I made with a PapertreyInk stamp from the "Love Lives Here Holiday" set using Memento "Rhubarb Stalk" ink. It is always fun to use those tiny little stamps, don't you think? 

I have used two ribbons for the banners on the bottom. I used a Spellbinders die for the hearts on which I stamped the sentiment from PapertreyInk stamp set "Heart Prints" with Memento "Tuxedo Black" ink and I added a button. It just needed a little something extra so I added a rose die cut from the KaiserCraft "Storyteller" set at the top corner to balance things.

Well, I better go and empty out my freezer and see what I can save. Thanks for visiting. Hope you have a great day. Cheers.

An assortment of sentiments

Hello my dear blog friends,

It is a wicked blustery day here with very cold temperatures and snow blowing all over the place. My DH has just left to do some errands in town. I am not really brave enough to drive in this weather, especially since town is a half hour drive away. I can go tomorrow when things settle down a little bit.

Much better to stay warm and cozy in the house and make cards. :)

I have two for you today.

First up is a thank you card. I started with a K & Company card base and stamped on the Papertreyink butterfly images with Versamark and clear powder and heat set. I then added some colour with Distress inks. Lace and a bow at the top, die cut the sentiment, also from Papertreyink, and then added some vellum and felt butterflies and buttons. 

Here is the inside. So, completely, the sentiment reads: I am thankful beyond measure.

I like to dress up the envelopes as well as the cards. I sometimes wonder what our post office people think. :)

My second card today is all about love. I used the new die from Papertreyink on a card base from Crafter's Companion. I added a few die cuts from my stash and a cute little felt heart cut with Spellbinders and sewed on a button.

So easy but I think very heartfelt, yes?

Well, I think that is it for me for now. Time to go and make a hot cup of tea. Thanks so very much for visiting, it means so much to me. Have a wonderful and warm day. Cheers.