Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is my Mother's birthday.  Here is the card that I sent to her.  I had intended on being with her but another storm is on it's way and we could not afford to get stranded.  She said that it arrived with no problems! (Sorry, I grabbed my phone for a quick pic before it headed to the mailbox) The front is embossed

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Details:

Stamps: Vintage Verses (SAB), Sweets for the Sweet, Curly Cute

Paper: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Glimmer Paper, Retired DSP

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, VersaMark

Accessories: Toothpicks, Pinwheel Die, Mini Brads, 2-1/2" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder, Cherry Cobbler Embossing powder

Mario Punch Art

My son needed a card to go with the gift card he bought his friend for his birthday.  I went by the image of Mario on the gift card and started grabbing punches until I found the ones I think worked best. I tried to share as many as I could remember below in the Details box.  The inside is 11" x 5.25"  I scored in the center and lined up the edges and folded to get the other folds. I did all my stamping before scoring/folding. I glued all the way around and at the seam center.  The only thing glued on the pop up center is the top and bottom.  I then used my Word Window Punch to get the depth and length I needed for the card to be how I wanted it to show.  I used my retired crop-a-dile to do the eye center points.  I am sure a white pen or crayon would work well too.

Details:

Stamps: Curly Cute, Sweets for the Sweets

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black, Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette

Ink: Real Red, Pacific Point, Sponging-Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Big Shot, Honeycomb Impression Folder, Word Window Punch-inside Hat-Top- hand cut, 1" Circle Punch, retired Naturally Serif Alphabet Die, Bill-Ovals Collection Framelits Head-Ovals Collection Framelits Hair-Curly Label Punch (I trimmed off center point) Eyes, Eyebrows & Mouth-Large Oval Punch Nose-1-1/4" Circle Punch Ears-Small Oval Punch Mustache- Scallop Square Punch

Baby Card Sketch

What a fun Sketch to work with this morning!  I just could not fall asleep last night so I took a sneak peak  at the sketch to see what I might dream about doing today.  I knew I was in need of some baby cards for my stash so that was my first thought.  To figure out the colors that I wanted to use was pretty easy.  I figured Pretty Pink for girl and Bashful Blue for the boy.   I then used the color coach to find out what the suggested coordinating colors were.  I knew I wanted to use the Baker's twine to tie on the tag so the Chocolate Chip (I thought the Early Espresso was to dark) was the perfect complimenting color. The folded part of the card is 5.25" x 4" and mounted on a piece of 5.5" x 4.25 card stock. I have problems using the bigger of the rhinestones and since I have another pack (or two...) on my October 1st order I figure I better get around to using them and they fit perfect on this card.  All in all this was a very simple very quick card to put together and now I have another thing crossed off of my do to list!

Details:

Stamps: Sweets for the Sweet, Tiny Tags, A Word for You

Paper: Boy- Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip    Girl- Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Boy- Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip         Girl- Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo,  Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Big Shot, Basic Rhinestones, Perfect Dots Impression Embossing Folder,   Girl:Finial Press Impression Embossing Folder, Boy: Houndstooth Impression Embossing Folder Rattle: Circle Punch from the Itty Bitty  Shapes Punch Pack, 1/2" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Jewelry Tag Punch, Early Espresso Baker's Twine Carriage:1-1/4" Circle Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch Sentiment: Large Oval Punch, Modern Label Punch

Sweet Sweet Birthday

Since summer life is slowing down and time for starting school is drawing close I decided I can take some time a few days a week and make a card. So today I made the time to do the Sketch challenge.  I knew before I started that I wanted to use the designer brads in the center of the flower punch. When I was dusting my poor ignored stuff yesterday I saw the Tag Punch Die and so when I saw the sketch for today I knew I could incorporate that in to the card.  I think the top  looks like the wind is blowing around the pinwheel...lol. To do the pin wheel I stamped and cut out the dotted and solid and then offset layered them.  For the border across I wanted it to be Espresso but it needed some design, so I ran it through the Big shot with am impression folder and then layered it on a flat piece and it was the exact effect that I wanted.  I figured since I was going for  a breezy calming effect that a banner for the sentiment would fit the layout great.  

Details:

Stamps: Sweet for the Sweets, Bring on the Cake

Paper: Early Espresso, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Pocketful of Posies DSP

Ink: Wisteria Wonder

Accessories: Big Shot, Two Tags Die, Basic Rhinestones, Perfect Polka Dot Impression Folder, 1/2" Circle Punch, Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Designer Printer Brad

Sweets for the Sweet

 Don't you just love this set! The second I saw it it had to go on my list and it takes quite a bit to go straight to the order list for me.  I am a ponderer and sets sometimes sit on my order list until they retire...now embellishments are another thing.  It is hard to design with the kids constantly asking me questions.  It seems I make quite a bit of mistakes.  This time it worked out for the better.  My daughter walked in and asked me a question just as I was putting my card front into the folder and through the Big Shot.  I wanted the dots to pop up and did not bother to look to make sure I had them facing the right way until I removed it and noticed I did not.  So I just flipped it over and ran it through again.  This worked out so much better than I had originally intended it to.

I made the one layer out of  a Window Sheet as I did not want to cover up the "mistake" but wanted to stay as close to the sketch as possible.  I LOVE the dotted brads and hopefully I will not hoard but will continue to use them.  The new In Colors are great and everything goes so well with Early Espresso (one of my favorites).  The Wide Oval Punch fits perfect in the Designer Frames from the Designer Frame Impression Folder.  The candy is popped up on about 3 Dimensions and fit on a Shish-Kabob Skewer, so thankful I had some left over....we don't really need them all for grilling do we?!?!

Details:

Stamps: Sweet for the Sweets, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso, Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Whisper White

Ink: Early Espresso, Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Whisper White Stazon

Accessories: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Folder,Window Sheets, Skewer, Designer Printed Brads, Wide Oval Punch, Designer Frame Folder, Decoration Label Punch-Sentiment, Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, 5/8" Whisper White Organza Ribbon

Relax

I have a very dear friend who had a heart scare and is one of those people who just goes, and goes, and goes no matter what.  So I wanted to make him a special card.  Of course I had planned on using one of my new sets, but I could not think of a design I wanted so I hit the gallery at Splitcoaststampers. I found a card by the wonderful Michelle Zindorf and it took off from there.  I cannot for the life of me use my brayer to get anything to look like hers so I used my sponges (and it still looks no where near as beautiful as hers) but I am happy enough to send it out.

Card Details:

Stamps: Sweets for Sweets

Paper: Poppy Parade, Not Quiet Navy, Whisper White

Ink: Poppy Parade, Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Soft Suede

Accessories: Big Shot, Framed Tulip Impressions Folder, Naturally Serif Alphabet Die, Island Indigo 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon