Friendship at Paper Cupcakes

This week at Paper Cupcakes challenge blog There's Magic in the Air our lovely leader Nina May has created a sentiment that she wants us to incorporate into our design. I paired mine with one of my favs "Softly Afloat" and I thought it was perfect with it. If you are paying attention...this is two weeks in a row that I've added bling to my cards, do you think my friends are rubbing off on me?
I would love for some of you to play along with us this week....I'll keep my eye out for you.
I am also going to enter this in the CAS challenge at The Outlawz . Several of you I know are playing at this site and I want to thank Olga for sending me a link.

Card details:
card stock-Gina K designs Kraft, Stampin'Up Baja Breeze
ink- SU Blue Bayou, Watercolor pencils
Accents- GKD rhinestones, Martha Stewart ribbon, Spellbinders Labels 3, photo corners
Images- PCC Softly Afloat and Friendship sentiment

Vintage Valentine

Good evening! Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. It was so nice here today...warm temps and sunshine.
I worked organizing my cards and doing a little cleanup in my stamp room this afternoon, I have a friend coming to shop for cards tomorrow and wanted to make it as easy for her as possible.
I created this yesterday for a couple of challenges, it has been awhile since I have gotten a card ready for a challenge this quickly. Sugar Creek Hollow is asking for a vintage valentine this week. I love their images and I think you would too, so go by and check them out...they have freebies if you like to try before you buy.
For my card this week I reduced the image "vintage" and copied it several times in a row before printing it out on Stampin' Up Riding Hood Red card stock. I trimmed it to fit my A2 card base of SU black. I also printed out the freebie H+Tag after which I cut only the heart portion out with the Spellbinders scalloped hearts and one size larger in the black card stock. Isn't the striped grosgrain SU riding hood red ribbon just yummy? and I got it in the clearance rack at SU. I tied a tag that was cut in my big shot and then stamped with the flourish from SU's elements of style set. I also used that to decorate the inside...first off stamping to give it more of an aged worn look.

I am also entering this in the challenge at Mark's Finest Papers blog where Speedy the Cat's Friends challenge #40 is to create a valentine. I don't own any of MFP's stamp yet but maybe soon. Sorry to not be using anything from them as I usually like to use the host's product.
Hope you enjoy this and I'll be back tomorrow morning with my card for Paper Cupcakes.

Sympathy and Love

Hey Guys!
I wanted to combine a card for two challenges, one called for the theme to be love and the other sympathy. As I did at first, you may think that these would be two very different looks, but then I thought about it and what better love story than the one that God has for us and the welcome with open arms he gives at our death.
I used two images from Doodle Pantry for their challenge #6 expressing love. Ginkgo leaves and a verse from her set A Loving God were combined to create my front and inside sentiment. I am also entering this in the challenge for a sympathy card at Mark's Finest Papers for the Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge #39.


I love the simplicity of this card design and really love the inside sentiment, it always gives me a peaceful feeling. Ps.116:15 which is "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints". Thanks for stopping by.


Details:
Card stock: Gina K chocolate brown, watercolor 90lb, dp Memory Box Minuet
Ink: Copics BG96,VG63
Images: DP Gingko Leaves, A Loving God
Extras: Spellbinders Labels 4, SU corner rounder

Fabulous Folds at D2D

Do you like to do different folds for a little variety in your card making, then you may just want to check out the challenge this week at Card Ideas . One of my favorites is the easel card but while looking through an old copy of PaperCrafts' Card Creations I came across a fold done by Melissa Phillips. Her measurements were a little wider than a standard A2 card so I just adjusted my measurements down so that it would fit in an A2 envelope. I bought some paper by Memory Box entitled Minuet this weekend in Mooresville, NC at Stamper's Alley which I think is just gorgeous. My image by Faith at Designed 2 Delight called Beautiful Blessing was super easy to color and I love the blues and greens.
Here is a picture of the card open so that you can see the inside. I stamped a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt on another piece of the dp for the center piece.




I punched out my flowers pieces with Stampin' Up punches and then used SU's build a brad to make my center. Hope you like this and here's wishing you a happy day!

Splash of Color at SCH

Sugar Creek Hollow is having a challenge called Splash of Color, where you are to create something in black and white with a splash of any color. You can do that with a ribbon, accent or in your image. I chose to add red to mine as this is my all time fav color combo. I find that I return to it over and over, even though I did think about doing something different, but just couldn't. I used their images called Vintage and Wishing you the Best ticket which I got several months ago. I stamped the bg paper with a flourish from the Stampin' Up set Elements of Style. And don't you just love that Making Memories brad, I do! Thanks for looking...please leave a comment if you have time as I love to hear from you.

Valerie's Gift Blog Hop

Hello, I am so excited for this day to have finally arrived. When my dear friends Olga and Mary Anne asked me if I would like to participate in a blog hop to honor our wonderful friend Colleen, I was so trilled and immediately said yes, and on top of that I got to play with this lovely image "Valerie's Gift" from Whimsy Stamps . If you have arrived from Selma's then you are on the right track. If you have just lucked on to this post you can start at the beginning at Mary Anne's and get the full story. But since most of you already know, I will keep it short and just say that this stamp was created to honor Colleen's dear daughter Valerie that died way to young in a car accident at 19. We love you Colleen and hope you enjoy our creations using this beautiful stamp. Now you are on to the next stop in this hop and that is the lovely Olga .




Card details:
Card stock Gina K Designs Kraft,Pink, dp K&Co Ancestry.com
Ink Prismacolor pencils and OMS
Accents Ranger stickles Diamond, Spellbinders Labels 4, Sizzix Flower Die,Dollar Tree ribbon.
Stamps Whimsy stamps Valerie's Gift and SU Friends

D2D Progressive Challenge Card

Hey guys!!
Just wanted to post my card for this week's progressive challenge at Designed 2 Delight . This weeks image is Bear's Big Gift...isn't it cute. Check out all the details, if you haven't already to play along and be eligible to receive one of Faith's lovely images free each week.

Hope you have had a great day...have something special for tomorrow so please check back.

Card Details:
Card stock- Stampin' Up white, positively pink, dp certainly celery prints
Ink- Copics and SU markers
Accents- Oueen&Co perals, Gina K buttons, K&Co party hat, SU punches
Image- D2D Bear's Big Gift and sentiment SU Well Scripted.

Masculine Birthday Cards

This is my second post today,but I wanted you to see some cards that I created for a friend. She buys my cards each year for all of her occasions and these are for some of her male birthdays coming up;
These first two were created using my new stamp set from Stampin' Up "Countryside".
I tried two different looks, one embossing and the other coloring the image. I love old trucks and I just had to have this one.




I found this set "The Great Outdoors" from Inkadinkado this weekend while we were away and thought it would make some great masculine cards. This is a simple design but I think it works.



This last card is for her Brother-in-law who likes to cook, I didn't have any stamps with a Chef so I used some dp that I had for a cookbook scrapbook and cut out a recipe card to mount on the front...I used some of the stickers to decorate the inside too!




Hope you like one of them....scroll on down for my card for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge that I also posted today.
Thanks for looking!

Ooh...I love Vintage!

And I do....just don't do it very often and never know if I am doing too much or not enough. I love this card, even if it is my creation. I stopped by Stampin' Sisters in Christ's blog on Sunday and found their challenge to be to make a vintage card this week. If you've never visited before, please go by as they have a very inspirational blog and I mean this in many ways. I started the card by using Gina K Designs Kraft card stock as my base and then layered their brown with a piece of K&Co dp from the Life's Journey pack. My latest Stampin' Up order included the set Elements of Style which I had admired for a long time. I used the floral and the flourish from that set. I pierced and sponged my dp, two of my fav techniques. I added a brad that I picked up this week by Making Memories...the crochet ribbon is from Walmart and that lovely grosgrain is my clearance buy from SU.

I am also going to send this in to the challenge to use ribbon on your card at Create with Bubbe . I found her through a good friend Olga, check her out at craftieodamae .
Look for a post later on, I had a commission to do some masculine birthday cards and I'll show you what I came up with.
Thanks for stopping by!

Sent with Love Challenge at PCC

Happy Monday,everyone!! I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week-end. Rick and I were able to go away for a couple of days for a much needed break and it was FABULOUS! Can you tell that I had a great time. I will tell you more about it later but now to the challenge this week at Paper Cupcakes . I am sure you saw the Tic-Tac-Toe board above....here are the particulars.
Pick three elements in a row like a tic-tac-toe from the chart above. (Example: Stitching, button, some kind of heart; or button, ribbon or flower; or tag, flower, ric-rac; etc.) You can use as much of those same elements as you like as long as you use all three of them at least once. You may also add other elements, but again as along as the tic-tac-toe elements are on your card at least once.
Now to my card: I selected the line straight through the middle.

I used a punch from Clear Dollar Stamps and the smaller one is by Sizzix. I used a border embossing folder from Cuttlebug to highlight my edge and then added pearls and a rhinestone for my bling. The ribbon is some that I picked up on clearance and not sure of the maker. I colored the lovely new image by Nina with my prismas and oms. I hope you are in the mood for a friendly game of tic-tac-toe and will join the team at Paper Cupcakes this week. Be sure and stop by to see what they have done with image, and best of all I forgot to tell you that it is a FREEBIE this week. So please go pick up your image and get started on your creation.