Hello Sweet Friend

 
It's snowing pretty hard here in Southeast Missouri, and I am off work today. What a perfect day to sit in the house, sip coffee, and create cards, right? Today's card was created for the latest AAA Card challenge. I created my card by layering some pretty patterned papers from Studio Calico's Take Note 6x6 paper pad onto my white A2 card base. On a separate white cardstock panel, I stamped the Stampabilities Cherry Blossom Bird stamp using Memento tuxedo black ink and colored it using my Copic markers. I lightly water colored the background using Tim Holtz distress ink and then stamped the Unity Stamp Company's Small Details background stamp on the panel using Memento's London fog ink and 2nd generation stamping for a faint detail. I stamped the sentiment from Honey Bee's Sweet Sunflowers stamp set using Versafine onyx black ink. I cut the panel down using a Spellbinders rectangle postage edge die and adhered it to the card using thin foam tape. 

Thinking Of You

 

Today's card was created for the latest Color Throwdown card challenge. To create my card, I started by embossing the front panel of my A2 card base by using a Spellbinders embossing folder. I wish it showed up better in my photo because it turned out so pretty. I die cut an oval using kraft cardstock from my stash and stamped the Unity Stamp Company's Small Details background stamp onto it using Stampin' UP's Sahara Sand ink. I die cut the florals from Memory Box's Happy Daisy Stems die set, colored the images with my Copic markers, and adhered them to the oval. I die cut the Thinking Of You sentiment from Unity Stamp Company and adhered it on top of the floral arrangement. I popped the oval panel up off of the card using some thin foam tape and finished the card off with some white gel pen detail on the flowers and some pretty clear rhinestones from Recollections. Thank you for stopping by my blog today. 

Autumn Greetings-Send A Smile 4 Kids

 

Hello! Welcome to the October Send A Smile 4 Kids card challenge. This month we are creating holiday/celebration cards for kids. I recently picked up Say It With Stamps I Love Fall stamp set from Photoplay, and just had to use it right away. I pretty much used the inspiration photo on the stamp package to create my card. I started by layering some cocoa brown cardstock from Hobby Lobby onto my white A2 card base. I then stamped the text pattern onto some light beige cardstock from Hobby Lobby using Gina K Designs cocoa brown ink and Unity Stamp Company's Small Details background stamp. I die cut the panel by doing selective die cutting using a circle die from My Favorite Things and a stitched rectangle die from Paper Rose. I trimmed down a small strip of the darker brown paper and stamped the sentiment from the stamp set and cut the strip down using the same rectangle die. I adhered it to the bottom of the focal panel to help ground my adorable images, which I stamped from the same stamp set and colored using my alcohol markers. I popped the images up using foam dimensionals from Stampin' UP. I popped the focal panel up off of the card using 3M foam tape. I finished the card off by adding white gel pen detail to the images, and some brown 6mm sequins from The Ton around the sentiment. Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. Be sure to head over to the Send A Smile 4 Kids blog to see what everyone created this month. 

Happy Birthday-Coffee And Cards With Celeste And Deb

 

Hello and welcome to the February Coffee and Cards with Celeste and Deb! In honor of Valentine's Day Deb and I decided to use this sweet cookie image as our inspiration. Since I've already created my Valentine's cards for the month I decided to incorporate some sweet hearts into a birthday card. To create my card I started by layering a panel of early espresso cardstock from Stampin' UP onto my ivory A2 card base. I then die cut a slightly smaller panel using a Pinkfresh Studio A2 layering die and then stamped the background image using some Sahara sand ink by Stampin' UP and the Unity Stamp Company Small Details background stamp. Then using a Lawn Fawn heart die I die cut the hearts on the panel. I backed each of the hearts with some pretty pink patterned papers from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Market Street 6x6 paper pad. Using my powder tool I prepared some more of the early espresso cardstock, stamped the birthday sentiment from the Verve Stamp Birthday Poppy stamp set using Versamark ink and then heat embossed it using some Ranger white detail embossing powder. I cut it down into a small  sentiment strip and adhered it to the heart panel using some 3M foam tape. I then attached some soft pink/white twine from Doodlebug around the bottom of the panel and then popped the whole thing up off of the card base. To finish my card off I added a little bow using more the twine and secured it with a glue dot. I love how beautifully this turned out! 

For my coffee this month I opted for some 6th Avenue Bistro from Seattle's Best Coffee in a new ceramic mug I received from my bestie this Christmas. It has a nice lid on it so I can sip away most of the morning without my coffee getting cold! Thank you for popping by and leaving a comment. I appreciate them all! Now, be sure to pop on over to Deb's blog and see what fun she created with our inspiration photo. 

Monogrammed Cards

Okay, not a great photo but I had no other way to share all six cards at one time in my tiny little photo cube. A friend of mine is having a birthday this coming Monday and I wanted to create something special for her. To create these cards I started by layering some early espresso cardstock from Stampin' UP that I had die cut using Pink & Main A2 rectangle dies and adhered the panels directly to my cream A2 card bases. I took more cream cardstock and stamped them with Stampin' UP's sahara sand ink using Unity Stamp Company's Small Details background stamp. I cut the panel using a small Pink & Main A2 rectangle die. I then matted panels of pattered paper from the My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Market Street 6x6 paper pad onto more early espresso cardstock and adhered them to the card panel. Using a small Jillian Vance Designs fish tail banner die I cut out some fun fish tails for the tops of the cards, which I die cut using more early espresso cardstock. I then stamped the pretty wreaths from the Maggie Holmes Hello Love mini stamp set using Gina K Designs charcoal brown ink. My friend's name is Michelle so I stamped the capital M from The Paper Studios Timeless Alphas stamp set using Gina K Designs innocent pink ink. I die cut the circles out using a Spellbinders circle die and then matted them using early espresso and a larger circle die from My Favorite Things. I finished these pretty cards off with some small and medium clear rhinestones from Recollections. Love how these turned out. I hope Michelle likes them!