A Bit Sketchy and Birthday Wishes to You

Good morning and happy Saturday, I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog and it's the final day of Sketch week. I hope you have enjoyed the sketches as much as I have. Today the sketch I used came from Heart for Homemade and hostess of one of the challenges over at Sketch N Scrap for their birthday month :
 

and this is what I did with the sketch:

A masculine birthday card, what makes a sketch like this so nice is there is very little that could go wrong. Pennants or Flags are all the rage right now. The card was made with the current and last months Counterfeit Kit.

 Close up to the cluster in the corner.

 Close up of the sentiment  area.

The inside of the card all ready for a message of Happy Birthday to the recipient.


Thanks for stopping by today, later another Load14 layout, enjoy your Saturday :)

Hello with a Sketch-CADB

Hi you all and welcome to my blog. Happy Mother's Day! Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is 'use a sketch'.

 I used the current sketch from Mojo Monday to make the card.

 

This is a playful fun sketch to use. I just had finished a layout for LOAD514 so I used the scraps to make the card and I found the Recollections card making embellishments in my stash so that really worked out well. 

I brought in the yellow to the inside and 2 pieces of the red floral into also. The stickers are from my stash and had gotten 3 sheets of stickers at a yard sale they are Suzy's Zoo. A really quick card to give to give (I think this one will be going to one of the soldiers organizations :)
Thanks and have a wonderful day, stop back later to see another LOAD514 layout.

Mom, I love you because...

 Hi you all, and welcome to my blog. Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog the theme is Mother's Day. I'm here with you today with a Mother's Day card I created:

 I decided upon the card when I came across this die-cut from my stash, it's from the Better Together imagine cricut cartridge. When I seen it I thought to myself, Mom if you were here right now I would give you a big hug and tell you why I love you. (Got a little teary eye thinking about mom :)

 I inked up the doily with distress ink: Broken China. I wanted some color behind the girls.

 I used the stripe mat from the Echo Parks: Sweet Day cutout sheet from my current counterfeit kit. The salmon color background was in my stash of papers embossed (need to take a day and do that with some scraps, I'm getting a bit low :) This one was one of the spellbinders impressionable plates wasn't sure I liked it or not when I got it but here it gives a nice touch to the card.

I popped up both the girls and the sentiment block with 1 layer of foam tape.  I added a ribbon strip from some cutting the other night when I was creating some layouts and the sentiment block was in my stash drawer and was punched with SU:Ticket duo punch. The sentiment came from 3 Twenty Crafts: Say it from the Heart stamp set stamped in Memento tuxedo black ink. and I added Buttercup liquid pearls.

I blinged up the girls a little bit with some Scattered Straw distress stickles (not sure how I feel about this stuff yet) and Waterfall stickles on her belt.
The inside of the card:

I used a cut from some doily paper from my counterfeit kit, added another inked up doily and some of that paper ribbon for a border

I smudged the stamp message the first time so I covered it with another piece of the cardstock punched on the edges with the SU punch. Looks like it was to be done that way a great cover up :)

Close up of the image, from that same stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the weekend. Work today and I'm going to a crop tomorrow so I'll have a few layouts next week to show you all. What's your plans for the weekend :)

Love and Sympathy

Hi you all and welcome to my blog, today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is sympathy cards. I had two friends this past week lose their fathers so it's nice to have these card on hand so they can be sent out as soon as possible, to give some comfort.

I liked these 5 pattern papers for the cards and decide to do half in one set and the other half in another set. I made these cards for 2 different swaps, so easy to put together. I used SU 2.5" circle punch for the stamped sentiment and all the cards got this same pattern paper. I also used the white cards stock for the base for the stamped flower ad used my fiscars lac edge corner punch. I used CTMH Juniper ink for the stamping and the stamp set was from SU-Love & Sympathy.

 The inside I used that same stamp set, also the same paper from the front I only switched up the patterns on the inside the smaller strip is the same as the larger background in the front

and the the large background is the same as the smaller strip in the front. I thought it would be a nice touch that way. Another of the white cardstock with the sentiment in the same ink and punched the same way.
So when thinkig of doing a sympathy card it doesn't have to be elobrate just a note to let them know that your there for them :)
Thanks for stopping by today and tomorrow not quite sure what will be posted, you'll just have to come back and see :) Have a Fantastic Day....

Happy Easter Chickie

Hi You and welcome to my blog, today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme is Easter. The card I featured today is one I made up last year and some how never got it posted :) So now it has it debut.

Sorry about this but I can't give you to much information about the card cause I didn't right this one down, my bad :)
The chick and the card base is most likely from Cricut cartridges and I'm thinking the base came from Elegant Edges. The ribon would have came from my stash and the Happy Easter stamp came from I'm thinking a SU stamp set. I added google eyes to the chick and he is on a wobble.

 Action wobble in progress :)

Thanks for stopping by today, stop back later for another post. I've been following the Stash A Thon Birthday challenges and only have a couple of days left to get all the layouts posted so over the next few day you just may see some double posting :)
I do apologize for the lack of details on this post if anyone out there in bloggy land recognizes anything, leave me a comment and I'll get the information updated. I've tried to keep records of the crafts I do, but sometimes in a hurry it will slip by me

Easter Chick Card-Card A Day

Hi you all welcome, today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme is Easter. So I looked through my stash of pre-made cuts so I could do a quick card up and found out I had very little cuts for Easter, but I did find this little Chick:

So this little guy I'm thinking came from one of the create a critter cartridges. I got him and the card base in a swap back in 2012 when I was in alot of cut swap groups on facebook. Now this is a fantastic way to build up a stash of cuts very quickly. One problem is that it can build up and you don't use them then you can have a huge mess. So with that in mind I have started the process of getting them out of their envelopes and into a binder by theme. So if I'm pressed for time I can make a card relatively quickly like this one.
I stamped the top part of the egg with SU: Teeny Tiny Wishes: Happy Easter stamp with memento black tuxedo ink, popped it up with one thickness of foam tape:

added a few sequins and a star sequin to draw i my green and a blue one too. Other than the cardbase the rest of the paper is from my March Counterfeit kit :)
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world ....

I have entered this into these challenges:

 FCCB Challenge #203 Bye Bye Birdie

Wonderful Beautiful Day-Spring CADB

Hi you all and welcome to my blog, today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is spring! And was excited to see some pop of spring this week, I'll show you that at the end of the post :)

I saw a sketch this week that I knew I would be using to make my card today, I used Jen's Deconstructed Sketch, DS142, for the layout of the card. I also used my March counterfeit kit for the card. Most of it came from the CTMH Buzz and Bumble workshop on the go paper pack, but the retro flower, also was cut from 2 pieces of SU the birch and the brown wood-grain papers.

The stamp was included in the workshop and so was the rhinestones.  I used CTMH cocoa ink for the sentiment stamp.

 The flower is a cameo cut file: Design ID #7502 called 3 nesting retro flowers by Samantha Walker

Loved the layering of this sketch and I will be sending this to a friend that has been going through alot lately, hoping to cheer her up just a bit.

Thanks for stopping by today and did you get out enjoy the sunshine this past week?

 Tuesday was crocus day the first we seen them in their glory

 Wednesday was the first I got out for a walk with Buddy through the park as we call it (the old abandon railroad bank that is next to our property), the walk is what we do nightly starting in the spring when it's warm enough to get out (at least for me) and continue all through till late fall early winter.

Special Graduation

Hi you all and welcome to my blog I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog, a blog that offers a challenge monthly, just need to do one or even all the themes it the month. We hope that you'll join us and play along:)
Graduation Week and I have had the pleasure of having tax week (yep been doing them) so it hasn't left to much time or desk space to craft this week so I thought I'd bring back a favorite of mine. I gave this card to my G-daughter for her graduation in 2012, it's a waterfall card. As you draw down on the string it flicks down like a waterfall and shows a variety of icons about graduation. If you would like to see the card in action you can stop by my blog at this post. Thanks for stopping by and stop back later for a Friday Fun-Day Challenge

It's All About the Green

Hi and welcome to my blog, I'm the designer today for Card A Day Blog We have been celebrating St Patrick's Day this past week over at CADB, we like to do a month in advance so you have time to create for your holiday and can find inspiration before it's needed. My card is all about the green:

I used a variety of greens for the card, a lime green cardstck for the scallop background and the sentiment cut, a light green cardstock for the card base, a green pattern paper for the background of the card this came from the K&Company Alleghany Plum specialty paper pack (this pack has pretty vibrant color designs and a darker green for the shamrock cut.

The shamrock cut is from the silhouette store: Design #39513 and the one thing I love about the designer software is that you can take that design and in the offset window and create that sweet scallop background with just the push of a button no thinking at all the software does for you, all I have to decide is how big of an offset I would want. I ran the shamrock through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder to give it dimension and added stickles pine around the edge for a glittery look. The background pc was cut from the silhouette also, a Lori Whitlock square that I adjusted for the card base. The sentiment tag came for a set roof tags from the silhouette store too. I used an ATD sticker pack that had the shamrock stickers and the rhinestones. The stamp sentiment comes from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (this is a great all around holiday mix of stamps to have on hand) and I inked it with memento tuxedo black.

The inside all I need to do is add a white printed sentiment for the inside. I'll have to go look online for an Irish Blessing to put in there :)
You all have a great weekend and come back Monday for Creative Cutting Challenge and  then all week blog hop for 3 Twenty Crafts while we showcase the new stamps coming out.

Heartfelt Thank You

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is Thank you cards.

This card was made in it's entirety with cricut cartridges other than the confetti type paper that was taped behind the hearts. I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to make the card base (this cartridge has lots of fun card-bases on it) and the card mat. The Thank You sentiment came from the Artiste cartridge. The cardstock and pattern papers came from my January Counterfeit Kit. Love the red papers I chose for the kit because they have been perfect for the heart style cards this month.
I cut out the shape card on pg 37 at 5.5" and the decorative layer at 5.25" so the card would shadow behind it, added the confetti paper behind the hearts to emphasize the heart cuts. The thank you was cut from the Artiste cartridge on pg 65 at 2" in white cardstock same as the card base.

I brought the negative cut to the inside of the card, just need to add a little note and it's ready to go.
I have to give cricut credit working with Close To My Heart they came out with 3 great cartridges to use and so much crammed into them to be used on just abut any project.

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to join in for the blog candy this week:
Oh yes their is some blog candy to talk about :)
 
My intentions are to blog each day this week so you'll have numerous chances to get in for the candy. You can comment each day this week which runs from today till Sunday Feb 2 (Superbowl weekend :) ) midnight eastern time. 2 conditions you have to leave a comment and you have to be a follower of my blog. The winner will be announced Thursday Feb 6th. That's it!
 Have a Fantabulous day!

Let it Snow

 Good Morning and welcome to my blog. Today I am the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme this week is snow:

We've gotten some snow but I know other parts of the states have gotten alot of snow. This is my last post for Card A Day Blog this year and the theme was timely, with snow in the forecast for Saturday. This was one of my first cards I ever swapped with the local girls, I learned a new technique with this one

The dark blue strips were wet embossed with the snowflake cuttlebug folder ans then embossed with blue embossing powder, it gives a bit of a shiny look to the cardstock, the stripe was cut at 1 X 3.75 and it was layered on lighter blue cardstock that was cut at 1.5" X 4". The snowman was stamped with French Blue Ink and it was something I had received from a friend when she was getting rid of her stamps, I think it's a Stampin Up stamp. It was stamped on white cardstock cut at 3" X 2.75" and layered on that same blue cut at 3.5" X 3.25". the Let it Snow stamp is from a Christmas clear stamp I got that is from Scrappy Cat and was stamped with the same ink as the snowman. This was stamped on white cardstock and cut out with the Classic squares-small from spellbinders and I added dimension to that with the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder and then layered on snowflake paper die cut with the scalloped squares small. Added 3 small punched snowflakes, I'm thinking it's a fiskars punch to finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the word ans stop back later this afternoon to see who won the 100 blog follower giveaway :)

Day 6-Just About Time-CADB post

Good morning all and welcome to Day 6 of my 12 days leading up to the drawing of the person that will receive the 100 blogger giveaway-to learn more about the give away you need to go to this post, become a follower and make a comment on this post., I have a card I made for Card A Day Blog the theme this week in New Years.

Civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of each new year for at least four millennia. In the United States, the most iconic New Year’s tradition is the dropping of a giant ball in New York City's Times Square at the stroke of midnight. Millions of people around the world watch the event, which has taken place almost every year since 1907. Common traditions include attending parties, eating special New Year’s foods, making resolutions for the new year and watching fireworks displays. One of our customs is singing songs to welcome the new year, including the ever-popular "Auld Lang Syne"also to kiss the one you love at midnight.
This is what helped me come up with my card today, the time to ring in a New Year. I chose the cricut cartridge Celebrate With Flourish to create the die cuts for my card. I did the clock and hat at 3" and the sentiment at 2". All cuts came from scraps I had on hand and the card base came from the cardstock pack DCWV-Collage Musings Stack, spiced it up with silver glitter (Studio G style sticles) and few stars for the stars in the sky while watching the ball drop :) I wish you all A Happy New Year!
Stop back tomorrow for Day 7 of my 12 days......

A Digital Happy Hanukkah Card

Good Morning all and welcome to my blog. Today I'm the designer over at Card A Day Blog and the theme is Hanukkah. Mine today is a digital card that will be made into a regular card, time got away from me on this one ;)

 I created this card in Photoshop elements, here is where you can get your first start with a card. You can make all the layers in the program and shift, move and change how you want it to look.
Sometimes when I'm stuck on a card, I will check out google images or Pintrest, of cards for inspiration and then I go from there to my PE program and start creating shapes that I may want to use, add clip art and some digital papers and you can come up with a card fairly quickly. From there I will transform into a paper card to give to someone over that holiday. This way I have a visual sketch of what I want to make.
First I start with a new Blank file and put in the dimensions of the card size and then I get to work. Pick and choose all the elements that I want in the card, then decide on the various shapes and clip art I want to use for the card. The candles here are similar to the Silhouette Design ID #1532 that I will be using in my card. The digital papers I got from Sweet Nothings (free) and these are very similar to the papers I will use. The card itself will go together relatively fast now that I have a map to follow.
Do you have Photoshop Elements or another program similiar? Have you ever done any digital crafting either cardmaking or scrapping? There is alot of information out there on the subject, how tos ( here is where I found out how to first create the card: Finally Friday-How to Create a Digital Card) She uses Photoshop, but alot of the same rules apply to Photoshop Elements. Just another fun way to be crafty :)
Have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by and seeing the view from my little corner of the world

Don't forget about the big prize for the blog follower giveaway there is a few weeks to go and I'm gathering stuff for the box each day.
 

A Little Bling for the Tree

Good Day to you all, welcome to my blog today I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog, with an Ornament card. Christmas is in the air this time of the season and we like to prepare a bit early for the card giving season

 Lots of bling on this card, the blue and red piece tied up with a nice bow could also be used for an ornament for the tree too.
I have a nice collection of Christmas paper in my stash and that is where I went to get the background piece for the card. I started with a 5.5 X 5.5 card base from Close to My Heart Kraft cardstock. Added a layer holly leaves/candy canes kraft paper I got in some happy mail I received. The ornament is a design file I got at the Silhouette store for my Cameo: Snowflake Doily. That was cut out of blue foil cardstock and red glittler cardstock with red and green ribbon laced through one set of holes and tied at the top for the bow. The sentiment is on natural color cardstock, inked with Walnut Stain and stamped with Brilliance Cosmic Copper ink. Added some Holly stickles and it's ready other than a sentiment in the inside for mailing this year.

Thanks for stopping by today and check out this post (100 Blog Followers Giveaway) for a chance to win, Have a fantastic day! Stop back Monday for the new Creative Cut Challenge project.

Hearts Come Home for Christmas

Good Morning all and welcome to my blog. I'm the designer over at  Card a Day Blog today and the theme is Home for Christmas. My card for today:

This card is so easy. It's an A2 card and all the paper came from my Christmas paper scraps from few years ago, (sorry no idea what makers they are). That is one great thing about cardmaking you can do a scrapbook layout and the scraps can become a card. The card base is brown (DieCuts with a View), the striped paper was cut at 4" X 5.25", the green paper with snowflakes was cut at 3.75" X 2.75", the brown border was cut from the cardstock that was used for the card base and that was cut at 1.5" X 5.25".
The stamped images are from JustRite stamps the Hearts Come Home Set. Whats so nice about these sets is that they are interchangeable within each other. So you get 6 image stamps & 6 borders stamps in one collection. The center image has one of the borders and was popped up with foam tape and red pearls (KaiserCraft) were put on each corner. All were colored with sharpie markers. Easy Peasy!


This is a fast card to put together for the holiday, there are lots of beautiful stamps out there for Christmas that just need colored for a specially made card, nothing to fret about during the holiday and a thoughtful card for the receiver.
We started our Christmas shopping this past weekend-what!-that is a first for us to do shopping together in October, lol. The plan is to be done Black Friday with that being the final shopping day for the family gifts so we can just enjoy the month of December, how are you doing?

The Turkey says.....

Good Morning, I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. We are celebrating American Thanksgiving this week to give you inspiration for your own Thanksgiving cards.
This is a quicky card that you can make and abundance of for the holiday or any holiday just change out the pattern papers to match. Brown cardstock for the card base, 4 pieces of scrap stripes and 2 of those glued to brown cardstock to give the margins in between the other 2 to space out to look like borders. A turkey cut from the Imagine cartridge Enjoy the Seasons, but you could use any clip art online. Add the cut little saying to the tag pop it up and you got a really fun card to send out with a thankful message. Thanks for stopping by today and seeing the view from my little corner of the world

A German Christmas

 
German and Austrian Christmas customs have spread throughout the world wherever Christmas (Weihnachten) is celebrated. From the Christmas tree (Tannenbaum) to "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht") and on to the Advent calendar (Adventskalender), people around the globe have adopted many traditions that began in the German-speaking world.
Hi and welcome to my blog, I'm designer today over at Card A Day Blog and the week's theme is Christmas Around the World. With doing my own genealogy, I found that on my Dad's side I am quite german, and I have a cousin that lives in Germany and want to send him a card around that theme.

So I made some cards that showcase just the Christmas Tree:

This is a sweet card to do many of like production style if you want to send out the same card

 The silver glitter cardstock came from Walmart-Colorblock Pearlescence pad

 Put together it gives a regal look

 I popped it up on the front of the card

The inside is ready with a cute Christmas tree border and room for a personalized Christmas message.
Used paper and cardstock from various paper packs and the border was from a piece of card stock I got at Michaels. The corner and the border edge punched from fiscars punches

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing my view for my little corner of the world and stop back soon to see other projects I have been working on....