Week of 7/1/18

 FS595 - Congratulations to Cheiron Brandon on being our Featured Stamper this week! I love your stunning gallery. I found this fantastic Card.

I die cut out the heart rather than stamping it and added DP. Popped the top layer on dimensionals and die cut the work LOVE from the Heartfelt Creations die cuts and popped the letters on dimensionals that are over the heart. Finished off with the sentiment and some tiny hearts.

Anniversary Love

 MMTPT519 - A Manly Tea Party

Masked off the left side of the card. Stamped and masked the deer. Masked the bottom of the card. Sponged orange, yellow and pink. Pulled masked edge and masked deer off and colored the deer with copics and stamped the trees and sentiment.

This stamp set is an old Stampendous Christmas set and I am stretching the use of it to make a great masculine CAS card. I love finding new ways to use stamps.

Thinking of You

 SC704 - Today's Sketch (Did anyone notice the sketch number is 704 for July 4th? - I thought that was a fun number for today)

DD9ABC20T - Tomato Red used on the sequins and the red paper

CCC18JUL - Cool off using snow

Used red and green DPs for the base sketch, die cut the JOY letters from the Memory Box die cut, finished off with some punched snowflakes from left over scraps and some sequins and added stickles to all of the snowflakes.

Joy

 WT695 - Whatever the Weather

Stamped the House Mouse image and colored with pencils. Stamped the Heartfelt Creations flowers, sponged colors, cut, layered & shaped. Cut the circled out of the shimmer blue paper and layered papers and image. Finished off with the sentiment and ribbon.

Umbrella Anyone

IC657 - A Beautiful Mess where I found this Image of the blue and orange styled collared shirt. I reversed the colors and put the orange for the graduation gown and a blue tie.

Colored the Unity image with copics and layered. Die cut the Congratulations 2 times in white and once in blue. Finished off with gold sequin stars.

Finished off the layered Congratulations with Nuvo drops to give a glossy finish.

Congratulations Graduate

Week of 6/24/18 Cards

 MMTPT518 - Be Glad to be Plaid

Stamped the Concord & 9th plaid on red CS. layered on black CS, stamped the sentiment and layered. Finished off with a die cut Scotty dog and sequins.

Scotty Dog

 WT694 - Coronation Day

Stamped the Stampendous kitty and colored with colored pencil. The tiara was sent to me in a teapot Tuesday exchange and I thought this yellow kitty needed to wear it.

The sentiment is computer generated. My friend that gave me a yellow kitty will be getting this for Christmas this year. I give him a yellow kitty card every year for Christmas and this is so perfect. The inside is going to say, "Thank you for giving me to a family that understands". LOL!

Princess Kitty

IC656 - today is Serengeti Fashions where I found this stunning TOP.

I loved the black and silver and that is what I based my card on. Used two different DPs and layered. Added some punched trim. Heat embossed the sentiment and the hearts and layered and finished off with the ribbon.

I think this makes a great guy anniversary card for my DH.

With Love

Week of 6/17/18 cards

This week I was traveling and not able to make as many cards. Hopefully I can get some craft time this next week and make a few more cards.

 MMTPT517 - she's the cats meow

Sponged 3 different blues on the BG for an ombre look. Die cut the heart, cat and mouse and stamped the sentiment. Finished off with the ribbon.

Sending Kitty Hugs

 WT693 - This is for Cathy's challenge Summertime Fun

I love the flowers in my garden. I am not in to gardening but my MIL who moved in with us last year loves to garden and she has done an amazing job adding beauty to our house with stunning trees and flowers.

Stamped and die cut the flowers, and sponged then used the HFC flower shaping kit to create the flowers. Added stickles to the flowers, Cut the oval frame from spellbinders and then cut out the center. Stamped the sentiment and popped the frame and sentiment on dimensionals.

Birthday Flowers

FS594 - Today's featured stamper is Shannon Cole aka GracelynsMommy and she has a fantastic gallery. I found this great card.

I grabbed my tie die cut and cut three of them in different paper scraps from my bin and layered the knot on the ties with dimensionals. Stamped the sentiment and added nuvo drops to the sentiment strip.

Father's Day Ties

Week of June 10th Cards

 MMTPT516 - Frame It

This darling Heggie was sent to me in a teaparty exchange. I colored him with pencils and sponged in the clouds and grass. The frame was also sent to me and it was ivory so I sprayed it with black spray and then found it would not dry so I used modge podge and got it to stick to the frame. Finished off with a heart sentiment and some hearts sitting on my desk.

Heggie Birthday Love

 WT692 - World of Sponges

Printed The Paper Shelter image and colored with copics. Sponged in the BG. Die cut the sentiment 3 times in white and layered the gold die cut sentiment on top. Layered the image on dimensionals and die cut some music notes. Finished with the bow tied ribbon.

This card was made for my son's band director who was to retire this year. Well I guess he likes teaching because he is staying another year. So I guess I will hold this card for when he does retire. And even though their show last year was about the brick wall this will still be perfect for his card because every year he tells the kids the brick wall and the importance of each brick and how it holds up the wall. If you want to hear about the Brick Wall and the story behind it you can learn about it on YouTube here: Brick Wall 

Retirement Congratulations

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IC654 - we are going to the Vera Bradley store online to be inspired where I found this Planner.

I loved the row of boxes and the colors. I did one in blue and one in purple for 2 different graduates. Added a row of boxes with the year and die cut the congratulations for the sentiment.

Graduation

Week of June 3rd Cards

 FS591 - the incredibly talented Janja {aka Janja Albreht}. I found this Card . The name said it all and I went with it.

I used a lighter lavender. When I saw the name of the card I thought of these giant leather flowers my mom gave me about 10 years ago. I am trying to use stuff up and these needed to be used.

Cut down the layers and stamped the sentiment. Finished off with adding the leather flowers. Quick cards and totally uses up some of these large flowers taking up space in my craft room.

Lavender Birthday

 MMTPT515 - TPT Tic-Tac-Toe

My Tic Tac Toe is diagonal from upper left to bottom right.

Die cut the edge of the card and the green layer. Embossed the green layer. Stamped and layered the sentiment on dimensionals. Used a bunch of flowers from my stash and added nuvo drops to the center.

Summer Flowers

I was the volunteer hostess this week for the Ways to Use it on SCS. The challenge was to put drinks on our cards.

WT691 - Drink Up

Printed this super adorable Di's Digi Stamps image and went through the coloring class from December 2017 from Kit and Clowder. I totally love Alyce's great coloring classes. I have learned so much.

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Cocoa Christmas

IC653 - we are visiting Lang by Calendars. I found this great Calendar.

I am trying to use up these giant leather pieces my mom gave me about 10 years ago and when I saw today's site and saw that calendar I was really drawn in to the butterfly.

Grabbed this leather butterfly, cut down the layers and added rick rack and edged the DP. Finished off with the birthday celebration. 

Butterfly Birthday