Happy Birthday Kylie

There are a lot of birthdays in my family so birthday cards are often on my list of cards to make. Today is no exception - this is a card for one of my granddaughters whose birthday is today. 

 
When I have to make a quick card I scurry over to some sketch challenges - this time the CPS sketch caught my eye. I paper pieced the dress and colored the rest. Not a lot of explanation for this card.

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Recipe: 

Stamps: MFT
Paper: SU - Bravo Burgandy and So Safron

Designer Paper: None

Other: Spellbinder die, Cuttlebug - Stickles

Challenges:
CPS - Sketch

Aaron's Birthday

Another birthday in our family - this time for one of our grandsons. Aaron is all boy so frills and anything considered cute would not work for him. Here is the card I came up with for him.

Aaron is in a wheelchair right now because he was born with a club foot and has had to have surgery - again. His cast is a camo print so I decided to make the background of this card camo. The way I did that is using the shaving cream technique (found HERE on StampTV). I then used my Copics to color the frog and mushroom. He liked the card - but I think he liked the $10 that was in there better! :-) With soon to be 18 grandchildren that is all we do these days! 

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Recipe: 

Stamps: GinaK - Little Critters
Paper: GinaK - White, Fresh Asparagus, Chocolate Brown

Designer Paper: NONE

Other: Copics, Spellbinder Dies, twine, and a little bit of bling

Challenges: 

Celebrate the Occasion - Birthday (Must Use Bling)

Creative Craft Challenges - Boys Will Be Boys

Creative Mondays - Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft - Boys and Their Toys

Make it Monday - always Anything Goes 

The Crazy Challenge -  Anything Goes  

Fun Birthday Card

Oops - I inadvertently overwrote my post from Monday with this one - so sorry! I am uploading the first (deleted) post below this card - it was called Soft Birthday.


Here is another birthday card for one of my family. I really made each card for a specific person. Although I am not going to say here which card is for whom - I have to keep some things secret!

This card was made from one of Theresa's sets called Whimsical Flowers from GinaK. These flowers are such fun to paper piece! I found the sketch at CPS and the paper is from Basic Grey. An easy card to make.

This was the first card. I used GKD Stately Flowers and colored the image very lightly with some soft pink Copics.


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Card Recipe:

Stamps - GKD - Whimsical Flowers

Paper - GKD - white and Black

Designer Paper -  Basic Grey - Out of Print

Other -  a few gems

Challenges:

StampTV - stamped flower

Basic Grey Challenges - Favorite Things - gems and paper piecing with BG!
CPS - Sketch

Birthday Poppies

Can you tell I am back in the swing of things. I sure did miss my crafting time! The month of February is a big birthday month in my family. I have 2 daughter in law birthdays a daughter birthday and my mother in law's birthday! It is also the birthday of my son's girlfriend. That is a lot of birthday cards! 

Here is one of the cards I made this week. I used a lot of the pinks because that is the DP that was on my craft table! I was also in the mood to do some coloring with my Copics so pulled out the pinks for these poppies. I also used some Sakura pens to add sparkle which does not show up on the picture. Are there pink poppies?  Hmmm... not sure. I really liked this weeks sketch over at CPS so I used that for this card as well, just flipped it. Well, back to the craft table! 

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Card Recipe:

Stamps - MFP - Wild Poppies

Paper - GKD - white - SU - Pixie Pink

Designer Paper -  GKD - StampTV kit

Other -  Ribbon, Sakura Pens


Challenges:

CPS - Sketch

JUGS - Colors - red, pink, white (I did add some green - hope that is okay!)

MFP - Birthday Card

My Mum's Craft shop - flowers

Sisterhood of Crafters  - striped paper
Simon says Stamps - Anything Goes 

Double Birthday

My oldest two grandsons both have birthdays this week. Eleven and ten - and such handsome young men they are too! Since they are brothers and their birthdays are only 2 days apart I try to make the cards look similar. So these are this year's birthday cards. Happy birthday guys!

I made these cards rather quickly and I used similar colors and one Cuttlebug folder. The images are from 2 different stamp sets. One of the problems was that I photographed the cards on different nights and with different cameras. Yikes - not sure which I like better. I think the boys won't notice.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFP - Cupcake Birthday; GKD - Sent with Love

Special Paper - Echo Park

Extras - Cuttlebug - ribbon - ribbon slides

Challenges:

MFP - embossing

Birthday Wishes

I has a good stamping day yesterday - I love it when the creative ideas are just flowing. StampTV had their release party last week and that included a couple of challenges. I LOVE winning new stamps (who doesn't) and wanted to take advantage of it, especially when my order arrived yesterday in the mail. Nothing like new rubber in the hands to create with. 

This card is also for the JUGS sketch challenge - neat sketch isn't it? 

This was not a difficult card to make - it was fun! I used a Cuttlebug folder for the cranberry panel. I stamped the fence image twice - then used both sides for the 2 circles. The flowers in the center were colored with Copics and I used a few black fibers cut up finely for the centers of the flowers. The dots on the side were punched out of the DP. Cool idea huh? 


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God Bless,

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Heartfelt, Taglines  - GinaK 

Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury Cranberry Tart - Sweet Corn

Specialty Paper - From the StampTV kit

Other: cuttlebug folder, Copics to color, Spellbinder circle dies

Challenges Entered:

JUGS - Sketch
StampTV - all embellishments must be paper - sure hope the fibers don't disqualify me
Birthday Sundaes - Birthday Card
Come and Get It Challenges - Fall (Autumn) Birthday Card

Corrosive Challenges - 2E - Earth Tones

Birthday Pop-Up: 2 Samuel 6:14

Happy Sunday! I am so glad you could join us at Stampin' Sisters in Christ for another challenge based on scripture!

This week the creative and talented Kris is our hostess and the verse she chose this week is 2 Samuel 6:14.

"And David was dancing before the LORD with all his might, and David was wearing a linen ephod."

Okay, I admit it, I had to look up the word "ephod". In my bible (NAB) the verse reads, "Then David, girt with a linen apron, came dancing before the Lord with abandon,"  An ephod was traditionally worn by the priests and Levites, not by a king. David put aside his kingly robes to show that although he was a king - he is first a servant - a servant of God. Aha - now it makes sense. As with every verse in the bible it is always good (for me) to read the text before and after for the complete message. Just as it is important for everyone to put aside whatever "robes" they show to others - the robe of anger or regret - the robe of worry and concern - the robe of whatever it is that prevents us from dancing as God's servant - all for His glory!
 

This card was a challenge for me. I am not the best at the altered items and moving parts. But I did it! I followed a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers - it is here if you want to try your hand at it. The second image shows me lifting up the tab from the top and the image below is it laying down so that you can see the images and the words. I put some purple buttons on the corners with a red pearn in the center of them. I have to say I am not thrilled with the way it turned out, it took me a couple of days and that is a LONG time for a card. The good thing is - - my dear grand-daugher Ella will love it and that is the important thing! Her birthday is next week - 9 already. 

 

The challenge for this week is DANCING - Make a card that "moves" (ie. tilt card, slider, pop up, waterfall, etc."

Our sponsor this week is Designed to Delight with a $10 gift certificate to the store!

Be sure to stop by my SSIC design sisters (listed on the sidebar) to see what they have to share this week:

It is always great to see you, thanks for the comments!

Recipe:

Stamps: Cupcake Birthday by MFP. (this set is no longer available but there is another similar one)
Paper: SU: Barely Banana and Orchid Opulance

Designer Paper: Cosmo Cricket - Pixie-Licioous

Other: Scorepal - buttons - ribbon

Challenges:

Simon Says Challenges - Anything goes
Inspire Me Fridays - always anything goes
Wags 'n Whiskers - birthday 
The Rubber Cafe - use Spellbinder die(s) 
Southern Girls - happy birthday
Fab 'n' Funky - food
Ruby's Rainbow - Happy Birthday (2nd wk)
Your Next Stamp Challenge -  buttons (2nd wk)

CSS - Wordy Blog Hop - 6/24/2011

It is another StampTV blog hop and we are going wordy! That's right - words are the key to this challenge! Stamp TV has so many wonderful stamps sets with a huge variety of sentiments and sayings. It was difficult to choose so I made 2 cards.
You should have arrived from Peggy Wainman blog. Peggy is so creative that I am sure you lingered a bit to take in all the details!

For my first card I used the sentiment from the stamp set called "Inside and Out" and the flower image was from "Springtime Silhouettes". First I stamped the sentiment and used one of my Spellbinders Dies to cut it out. I then used another die to place behind it. The DP is all from Basic Grey's Kioshi - even the light green Cuttlebugged background. I stamped a few of the floral images using Distress Inks behind the focal image and then cut a few out to accent and bring in a little more color. No ribbons for me this time - I wanted the focus to be on the words. I did add some pearls just for fun! The card base was made using GinaK Pure Luxury Fresh Asparagus and a panel of Tan Leather. 

 

This card came to me while I was reading through the many sayings that GinaK's stamp sets have. I liked this saying about faith and as soon as I read it this Cuttlebug folder came to my mind. It was a perfect fit! The sentiment is form Faithful Florals and I kept is simple because I did not want to distract from that bird. I used some distress inks on the folder and thin used a sponge to enhance it a bit. The ribbons and the Spellbinder Flourish were added and then I stopped. I love to embellish but really thought that less was more for this card. I used Little Boy Blue card stock and Ivory for the images.

Your next stop is another favorite stop on this hop, be sure to give all your attention to the amazing Melissa Cash! If you want to start at the beginning  or get lost along the way, just jump directly to the links for all of the wonderful creations on StampTV.

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (June 28th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

As always, your comments really do mean a lot to me. Thank you for leaving them.

Blue Birthday Flowers

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge post please scroll down. 

Some colors photograph differently then they look IRL. This is really a very light blue. Very soft and pretty. I colored the flowers first with Copics and cut them out. Then I found the paper to match knowing that I wanted all blues to go for the MFP challenge to use a monochromatic look with the focal image popped up. It took me forever to find the blues to go together. It is a good thing that I have collected quite a few things in my years of stampin mania!

I actually took a close up to show how I did the ribbon treatment and truly the blues match much better than what it shows in this shot! 

The sketch is from Card Positioning System - it was fun to do. I really like sketch challenges or should I say sketch help! 

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Card Recipe:
Stamps: ODBD - Don't Worry - Sentiment - GKD - Stamp TV Kit.
Paper: Bashful Blue - GKD - Vanilla
DP: SU Spring Showers
Other: Spellbinders Dies, gingham ribbon, pearls and a charm


Challenges:
CPS - Sketch

MFP - Monochromatic with popped up image

ODBD - Plaid or gingham
Designed 2 Delight - White + 1
Sparkles Forum -  Something Metal

Paper Sundaes - Pop it up

Crafting for all Seasons -  Anything goes 

Hippie Birthday

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge post please scroll down. 

I may not have been a "hippie" but I certainly did grow up during that era and most of my family and friends did too. So this fun stamp set from GinaK called So Groovy was just begging to be inked up! It also called for bright colors.


This card was rather fun to make. A different sketch, thanks to Card Patterns, is always fun to play around with. I used a cuttlebug folder for the yellow panel and several different sizes of circle Nesties for the main images. The colors in the DP were perfect for this. I paper pieced the television. Added a few brads for the dials on the tv. (yes I said dials!) A button and a bow just finished it off.


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: GKD: So Groovy
Paper: SU Navy, YoYo Yellow, Pumpkin Orange
DP: BG Lime Rickey
Other: Spellbinders Dies, Cuttlebug folder, brads, ribbon and button


Challenges:

Card Patterns: Sketch

Lily Pad - embossing

JUGS - Colors

Anything Goes Challenges - paper piecing - ribbon - button

Woodware USA - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Anything goes

Fussy and Fancy -  2 papers, 2 embellishments, 1 ribbon

Wags 'n Whiskers -  Circles.

Cupcake: Proverbs 10:20-21

Happy Sunday dear friends. I hope you had a good week. I am so glad that you could join us for another challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

This week  it is Grace who chose the verse for the challenge. The verse she chose comes from the book of  Proverbs 10:20-21.

"The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver, the heart of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of understanding."

Those of you who follow my blog know that we have been blessed with 8 wonderful children (now adults) and that I am a grade school teacher in a Catholic School. One of the phrases that I used then and still use today with the little ones (some big ones too!) "Use your nice words." Do we use our lips to praise others and especially to praise God? Tonight at Mass I had the readings. Before I head up to the podium I always say a silent prayer that He might use my lips and my voice to proclaim His words. I also say that prayer when one of our adult children come over to "talk" to us about something important, asking that we (my DH and I) use words that He wants us to use.

I think that is why this challenge site is so important to me - we try to use our craft to proclaim a few of His words every week. Thank you for thinking it is important to you too. 

Create a card/ project that encourages and use a touch of silver.

For this fun girly card I chose to use two stamp sets from our sponsor this week MFT. I wanted to try the Sketches by Carly for the first time, it really was fun. 

Our sponsor this week is My Favorite Things with a $25 gift certificate to their store! 

Be sure to stop by my SSIC design sisters to see what they have to share this week:

Chris Olsen: Twinkles Glow With Stamps

Grace Nywening: Th-INK-ing of You

Linda Lucas: Lovely Linda's Craft Central

Lisa Hjulberg: The Craft's Meow 

Peggysue Turner: Roses By My Window

Rebekka Reed: Diamond in the Rough
Kristine Breach: Ink Something
MariLynn DeGroot - Mississippi McGyver
Sabrina Jackson - SJ Butterfly Dreams
Randi Barret: A New Creation (On break)

It is always great to see you, thanks for the comments!

Recipe:

Stamps: I used 2 stamps sets from MFT - Hello Cupcake for the sentiment and Jolene - Sprinkles on Top for the image.

Paper: SU - Pink Passion
Designer Paper: BG - green at heart and nook & pantry

Other: Stickles for the frosting and some gems for the sprinkles. Some silver brads and ribbon.

Challenges:

Top Tip Tuesday -  Any Project For A Child

Crafty Sentiments - Children's cards  

Shelly's Images -Anything goes

Sketches by Carly - Sketch

Charisma Cardz - Pink Birthday

4 Crafty Chicks - Brads

Creative Card Crew - Cute & Girly

Divas by Design - For the Girls 

Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes

Claudia & Co -  Girls Birthday Card

Paper and Such Design - Birthday Card

BasicGrey - Use a Mix of BG products (green at heart and nook & pantry)
Send a Smile for Kids - Sweet Treats
Shannon's Sentiments  - Birthdays
Corrosive Challenges - 2E - Cupcakes 

Hoppin Birthday

This was a really fun card to make. With 7 grandsons I know that this card will be used. It doesn't even have to be for a kid - but for a kid at heart!


I colored the image from "Cute as a bug" with my Copics, sponged around it with some soft blue and popped it up with the green. The cupcake was from one of Melanie's sets  called Square Pegs. 



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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Cute as a bug (Rupa)- and Square Pegs (Melanie) - GinaK Designs
Paper:GinaK Pure Luxury white, and Grass Green
DP: StampTV Kit
Other: Gina K ribbon, some bling, spellbinder's dies, Copics to color


Challenges:

Paper and Such Design - Birthday Card

Top Tip Tuesday -  Any Project For A Child

Tuesday Throwdown - Baby/Child

Make it Monday - Always anything goes

Stamping Scrapping Central - Birthday Theme

Desert Island Crafters - choose 3 or more from the list(patterned paper, ribbon, die cuts, stamp)

Crazy 4 Challenges - Chocolate Related Image (on the cupcake)

Creative Belli - Anything starting with S (stamp - stickles)

Penny's Paper-Crafty - Anything Goes

Cody's Birthday

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge post please scroll down.

Right now I am trying to get ahead a little on my grand-children's birthday cards. Here is one of them. Yup it is for the one named Cody. He is all boy and loves  anything that can be done outside. He also has very blonde hair (looks just like his handsome father did) so I hope this qualifies for MFP challenge.


This was really not a difficult card. The most difficult thing is trying to NOT use bling and flowers and frills. He will be 7 and frills are a definite no-no! I paper pieced his outfit. I used the cuttlebug folder first one way then the other way to gave it a little more character. I added the brads - these do NOT qualify as bling do they?


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: GKD: Lovely Labels 3 for the sentiment, Whiff of Joy - Skater Ben
Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury Moonlit Fog
DP: DSCW: Latte
Other: Spellbinders Dies, Cuttlebug folder, brads, Copics to color


Challenges:

Card Patterns: Sketch

Mark's Finest Papers: Monochromatic Blue

7 Kids College Fund: circles

Corrosive Challenges -Birthdays

Creative Cowgirls  - Anything Goes

Lily Pad - embossing

Desert Island Crafts - use 3 - patterned paper - stamped image - embossing

Pile it on - Boys play

Birthday Boat

I made this for my DH - his birthday is next week. One of our favorite activities is to spend about an hour each day (weather permitting) on our boat slowly cruising around the lake to catch up on our day. It is "our time" and we treasure it.


The image is from GKD. I colored them with my wonderful Copics. I used some Sakura pens to color the dragonfly and give it some shimmer. Can't really bling up a man's card too much. :-) The sketch is from JUGS.


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: GKD, Follow your Dreams
Paper: SU white, pixie pink and garden green
DP: BG Pyrus
Other: Spellbinders Die, ribbon, Copic markers and some half colored pearls


Challenges:

StampTV - Mix it up Monday challenge

JUGS - Sketch

Flourishes - Anything Goes

Paper and Such Design - Birthday Card

Try It On Tuesday  - One For The Boys
Tuesday Throwdown - Die-cuts

Crazy Challenge - 2E - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - Anything goes

Stamping Scrapping Central - Birthdays

Scrappy Frogs  - Anything goes
Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Anything goes

One Stop Craft - Birthdays

Birthday Dress

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge post please scroll down.

A simple birthday card. I had still not used this cute stamp from GinaK Designs called Celebrate in Style. This image just begged to be paper pieced! And with 2 daughters and 2 DIL and 6 granddaughters I am sure I will use this card! 


I had that polka dot paper in my scrap bin and no clue where it came from! I am usually pretty good about putting things back but that one escaped me! I used my Swiss Dot Cuttlebug folder and that yellow ribbon worked.



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Card Recipe:
Stamps: GKD Celebrate in Style
Paper: GinaK Pure Luxury White and Lemon Drop
DP: Scraps
Other: Ribbon, Cuttlebug folder, Spellbinder Dies


Challenges:
Stamp TV: Color - white, bubblegum pink, lemon drop
Card Patterns: Sketch

Stamping Scrapping Central -  Anything Goes
A Spoonful Of Sugar - All Things Royalty 
DDH Challenges - 2W - Paper Piecing
The Outlawz - Sentiment required - Anything Goes

Another Birthday Wish

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ post please scroll down to the Sunday post!

Made this quick card on Sunday. I had planned to stamp for several hours but the wonderful treasures in my life interfered. A visit from our oldest son with his wife and their 6 children. A call from my wonderful MIL. An hour of sunshine with my DH. But I did get this card done for a sketch challenge on StampTV that I ended up being too late for - Grrrr...

The card was done in shifts. I had the flower colored and ready to cut. I had the paper picked out and the Spellbinder die already did it's work. Those last minute things held me up. Cutting the flower was a bit time consuming and then I needed the right embellishments. I kind of threw those on  but still missed the deadline by about 15 minutes. Still like the card though!


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Little Critters - from GinaK designs
Paper: Gina K Designs Sweet Corn
DP: Basic Grey - Kioshi
Other: Nestabilities, green sticker nail heads, ribbon


Challenges

Stamp TV - Sketch
Happileigh Scrappin' Challenge - Recipe - 1 plain cardstock - 2 DP - 3 embelishments.
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge -  Birthday Card
Paper Playtime - Challenge 1 - Mardi Gras Colors - Green and Purple
Woodware USA - Spring
Ally's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes
Gingerloft Challenge - Flowers
Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes

 

Dino-Mite Birthday

To see the Stampin Sisters in Christ post please scroll down to the Sunday post!

Birthday cards for kids are always on my list of cards to make. Lots of little ones in my family! I thought this would be right up the alley for one of my grandsons! Boys like dinosaurs!

I also made this card for the release challenges on StampTV and for the Card Patterns 2 year birthday. I stamped just the heads of the dinosuars and used the circle nesties to cut them out and backed them on some circles. I used double tags on the sentiment to help it stand out. 


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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Dino-Mite - from GinaK designs
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Moonlit Fog, some rocket red and sweet mango
DP: Basic Gray - Sugar Rush
Other: Nestabilities,Copics, and some twine kind of background.


Challenges
Stamp TV - release party challenge to use twine
Card Patterns - sketch 
Easy Craft Projects - something for boys
Simon Says Stamp - make own embellishments - cut out the bone and the hats

Birthday Cup

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This was made for several challenges. I did have fun with it. Do you notice the matching envelope? How fun is that? That was a StampTV technique video. It really was easy yet finishes off the card so well!

I took the cup and saucer image from Melanie's Mugs and Kisses stamp set available at GinaK Designs and stamped it twice, once on Draft and the other time on Turquose Sea after which I ran that through an inked stripe Cuttlebug folder. I paper pieced the cup together. The tag is from Spellbinders Lattice Borders. 

Do you think this qualifies as a masculine card? Probably not but it was fun anyway!





Card Recipe:
Stamps: Mugs and Kisses - GinaK
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Kraft and Turquoise Sea and Chocolate
DP: Basic Grey - cappella
Other: Spellbinder Nestabilities, Cuttlebug stripe folder


Challenges
Mark's Finest Papers - Embossing
JUGS - Matching Envelope 
Stamp TV - color challenge  
Card Patterns - Sketch Challenge

Sweet Sugar

I made this card just for fun! Having 6 granddaughters who have birthdays doesn't hurt either. It was a fun card to make and the colors are a little different for a girls birthday card but they are colors that I love. 

I was also practicing on using my Copics. The hair was difficult for me and will have to practice a bit more on that. I used some pink Stickles on the cupcake.   

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Card Recipe:
Stamps: Sugar by CC Designs
Paper: Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Lipstick Red and Sweet Corn
DP: Cosmo's Material Girl
Other: Spellbinder Nestabilities, Stickles, red flower


Challenges

Mark's Finest Papers - Something new - the heart charm
JUGS - Sketch 
Crazy 4 Challenges - Celebrate (birthday)