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!

Happy Anniversary My Love

Happy Anniversary my Love-19 years together! Wow!

Just like it was yesterday, I have loved the adventures we've had together and look forward to more of them.

I look forward to another 19 years that I can only imagine will be better, cheers to another 19 years!
I love you more today than yesterday....

Challenge Accepted

Hi all I hope your having a smashing day.
I recently started a challenge that was posted on the FB group SMASH*aholics, now I have had this challenge on my Pintertest Smash/Journal Board for a couple months now. But I seen it here on this group and thought this would be fun to do and this is what got me started in one of my Smash Books.

So I started my blue retro smash book for this challenge, I got the book from Two Peas in a Bucket on the for sale board, the binding was a bit beat up so I thought that it would be a good one to use for challenges. Now my plan is to do the 30 day challenge, but not day by day. Shoot if I did that I never get any work done and I need to work to be able to buy all the things I want, LOL!

So this is my finished page for Day 1: Yourself:

 I really enjoyed putting this layout together. I didn't care much for the page paper on these 2 pages so I added my own. That is the beauty of smashing you just do what you want it's all about you.

So what are you smashing and if you aren't what are you waiting for! I hope you have a smashing day!

Smashing Challenge

Hello everyone!!  Have you gotten into the new craze of smashing yet? I have and  I wanted to share with you a layout in my Smash book for a challenge on one of the Facebook Smash groups that I joined.  The challenge was to use either or all of the following-twine, lace, ribbon or fabric.  

Here is what I came up with.

With this challenge I started a Red Smash book and will use it for pieces of my life and  I look forward to sharing it with you. 

Have a fantastic smashing day!

Happy Mother's Day

This was a fun card to make (repost for Mother's Day) and I would have been proud to give it to my mother for Mother's Day.

The recipe for this A2 card is:

Dry emboss: Cuttlebug Victoria folder, Scallop cut came from Accent Essentials MoM cut came from Jasmine, Picher of flowers came from Country Life. Paper and Cardstock came from The Paper Company: Natural Fashion Colors and My Minds Eye Bella Bella collection and various scraps I had. Glitters is from stickles in yellow and gold.

I wish all the Moms out there in blog land a Happy Mother's Day, hope you all have a great day.

One Small Flower

Hi everyone I am the designer today over at Card A Day Blog. Sympathy cards can be the most trying card to do when the event is taking place, so my thoughts are that it would better to have some done and available for such an event.

 

This card was made for a swap that I was in and the sketch challenge on the Northeaster Scrapbook Friends yahoo group I belonged to.








I cut the blocks of sunflowers out and the mat for it was cut with Spellbinders: Classic Scallop Squares small die 3" X 3". The background pattern paper was cut at 4" X 5.25". The borders (3) layers: the front layer at 2" and the back 2 layers at 1"
 The recipe for the card:
Border paper is from Stampin Up, background mat and the mat paper behind the flower is from My Minds Eye Bella Bella pack. Sunflowers came from Best of Brenda Walton Stack.
Stamp: I got from Micheals
Cardbase: White cardstock from The Paper Company
Ink: SU Basic Black
Punch for the layers: Martha Stewart Doily Lace.

This was easily made with the sketch and it would be appropriate for a male or female recipient. I'm glad that I was able to share it with you all.
Wow last month was a bit busy and I plan to be on the blog more often this month. I wish you all a good day....