Tigger Birthday Card

Hi All and if your stopping over from Card A Day Blog, welcome. The theme this week is die cuts and when I think of die cuts is either my cricut or my cuttle-bug that I go to for my cuts, this card has both.

This card was made for my grandson Zachy's birthday a couple of weeks ago. Tigger was cut from the cricut, I had gotten him in a swap cause this was one of the cartridges I didn't have. So trades can be good and this one was perfect for this card. The scallop piece behind tigger was die cut from Spellbinders classic scallop oval. The card base was out of a cardstock pack-celebrations. the lettering was from a pack I got at the local Dollar Tree store.

This was the inside of the card with a hand written note on the left hand side of the card. Brought in a piece of the card front to border the inside sentiment.

I love doing cards with die cuts cause it's so fun to see what you can create from paper to turn into a fantastic image.
Thanks for stopping by today and  have a fantastic day.... 

All about Purple

Wow, when I started the research on the color purple for this post I was surprised at what I found out about it. Hi I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Purple is one of my favorite colors along with gold it's a great combination but this post is all about purple.
I found this on Emily Gems:
Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.
Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.
No wonder I like purple so much and I'll have to remember to wear purple on Thursdays now. So this is my Monochromatic Card.

My sister loves purple too, so I thought this would be the perfect card for her birthday in August.

These are the materials I used for the card. The sketch is from Book: Scrapbook page: Maps 2 from Becky Fleck. I used all scraps to make the card and it's based on 1/2 sheet of white cardstock. folded in half to make and A2 card. The bottom stripe peice was cut at 3.5" X 4.25" and the top piece was cut at 2" X 4.25". I use a purple ribbon for the border inbetween the papers. Used spellbinders Lacy ovals and Classic Ovals Large for the sentiment and added a flower I had gotten in a swap that was the perfect color for the card. I used G-studio purple chalk ink for my stamping and used both the SU Tenny Tiny Wishes and the bottom inked border came for a fiskars aged to perfection stamp set. Added some bling rhinestones and all that is left is to add a message to the inside, Easy Peasy took roughly an hour to hour and half to make it. That is what I love about using a sketch everything just falls into place.
Have a fantastic day.....

A SMASH*aholics Challenge

There is a challenge that I'm getting into with the facebook group SMASH*aholics
it's a 30 day challenge but you can do whichever day when you want and in no particuliar order. Also I'll be working on another challenge in a yahoo group that I belong with too and some of the layouts/pages that I do I should be able to mix together. It's gonna be a busy summer I think but I may get alot of scraping/smashing done in the process. Here is the first page I got done for the challenge so far. Day 2-Washi Tape:

 

 

Bathtime for the boys! They tolerate it. But once in awhile if they come across the wrong thing they will beat me going up the steps to get a bath! I thought this would be a good one for this challenge and I used it for another challenge on another FB group for a page about pets. 

Below is a pic of the challenge and my frame of mind is to complete the challenge but it may take all summer to do it, LOL

 Thanks for joining me today and I look forward to seeing what you may be smashing if you leave a comment and a blogspot I'll come take a look. Have a fantastic day and stay cool if you can.....

You Rock!

 Hello to all my friends and welcome to anyone new that stopped by from Card A Day Blog
I am the designer today and brought you this Quick card for female/male teenage birthday.


My Grand-daughter graduated this past weekend and we are so proud of her! When I was thinking of this post I thought of this card I had made for her birthday and with a few changes it would also be a great card for a Graduate. The card is embossed with the Happy Birthday cuttlebug folder and Indie Art cartridge was used for the guitar and rock, Jasmine cartridge for the word you.




 
I brought the paper of the guitar into the inside of the card for the borders and the sentiment was cut for prestamped paper.

Everything on this card came from my scraps and since my husband used to be in textiles I have lots of scrap trims, too.
Have a fantastic day!

SMASH*ing Summer Challenge

Hi all, Wow it's been super busy and I lucked out and had a day full of crafting, finally! The FB group SMASH*Addicts put up a Smashing Summer challenge this weekend:
The theme for this challenge is to do a 2-page spread on summer. You can show what you love about summer, what you do during the summer, what is best in summer, where you go, what you wear, what you eat ... that's it -- anything to do with summer.
So here was my entry, but I didn't make the deadline in time:

But I had alot of fun making the pages and remembering the trip.


I decided to use my orange SMASH* book for the travels that my husband and I have been on and will be going too. I'm looking forward to getting the past trips in here and to be totally ready for the future trips ahead.
This particular trip was a 3 day weekend starting with Friday Aug. 6, 2004 at a local tractor show. Saturday morning we went to the antique tractor show in Portersville, PA (it was a lot of fun and that will have some smash pages too). Sunday was planned to go Titusville, Pa and ride the train (I think we got the info about it at a rest stop). My husband loves trains, in fact his love for trains is so strong that our house is situated in front of a set of tracks (but that is another story too). After the train ride we attempted to see the Drake Well Museum, but alas......
That story will continue on another set of pages soon.
Thanks for stopping by and if you ain't heard of SMASH*ing you may want to check out Google and find out about it's coolness!

You Shine

Hi all and welcome to my blog. Also, welcome to you all that have come over from Card A Day Blog. Red, White and Blue theme this week and when I think of that theme I usually first think of our men and women in service.

 This card came about from a sketch I saw at Sketch N Stash #65 and used it for the basis of this card. Everything about this card is easy! Just about all the cuts are sqaures or cut from a square. The red squares came from a 1" punch, the holographic red triangles came from the same punch just cut on the diagonal (paper came from Jo-Anns), and the vellum and the background piece were cut to a specific size square. The ribbon added some texture to the card but stayed right with the theme of the card. The only piece that was cut by machine was the Star and that came from Doodlecharms cartridge and 1.5". The stamp is from a Close to My Heart collection. Red, White and Blue ribbon I used for the border came from Jo-Anns.


These particular people shine each and everyday! So don't forget to Thank them for their service when have the chance.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Sunny Friendship Card

Hi all, if you came from the Card A Day Blog welcome to my blog, to my followers welcome too. I got to start off the week with the new theme, Friendship.

Friendship cards can be one of the easiest cards to make cause you could be serious, loving, quirky and fun as just a few of the options for a card. Mine today is a bit on the sunny side with all it's bright colors. I made the card in our Stampin' Up class last month and it was the perfect card for this theme.

The card base is SU Certainly Celery cardstock (A hot color with the teens right now, I have 2 grand-daughters that love this color). The background was first stamped from the Mixed Bunch stamp set in Rose Red ink on Daffodil Delight cardstock, edges inked too and then cut into quarters to give a shadowed look background. Then the stamp was stamped again on Blushing Bride cardstock with Regal Rose ink and punched out with the blossom punch and popped up.
I have to give credit here to Stampin' Up for making some cool punches to work with their stamped images they turn out so nice.
The 3 borders are Daffodil Delight border punched with SU Eyelet border, Blushing Bride cardstock strip stamped with the Regal Rose ink not sure what stamp was used for the sentiment and a strip of Certainly Celery 1/4" grosgrain ribbon. A sweet card for your sweet friend.

Thanks for stopping by my corner of the world. Have a fantastic day!