A Crafty Birthday Card

I have one more card to share from last week. I made this for my crafty, scrapbooking friend Leslie! 

I made this with another PaperTreyInc stamp set. This time I used the Studio Style set. I just love this set and can see me using it for lots of cards for my scrappy friends. 


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A Birthday Card

This card is different for me. It seems busier than what I usually make, but I like how it turned out. 

I cut the pennant pieces on my Cricut, then strung some ribbon behind them and held that in place with some button brads. 

Then I colored the stamped image with my Copics. I thought this was a nice springy image that would be great for a spring birthday. :-)

And here is the inside of the card. This one is going in the mail today. 


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A New Card

I really like how this card turned out. 

I used the PaperTreyInc Everyday Button Bits stamps 

for the bike. 

Here is a closeup/sideview of the bike. And now that I'm looking at the pictures it appears that the front wheel is about to fall off of the bike. I gotta fix that with a little glue dot. :-)

And the inside. 

I have a few birthdays this March, so I will be showing a few more of my cards in the next few days. 


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A Few Cards...

These are some simple, easy, fast cards that I made last week. Even though they are pretty simple, I thought they turned out nice. 

This is a Valentine card I made for a friend of mine. I stamped the hearts, filled them with red stickles, tied the twine around the red cardstock and then finished it off with some black lines to frame it. 

And this is the birthday card I made for my brother. Happy Birthday Craig!  I stamped the candles, colored them in with Copics, tied the twine around the top and stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment inside. Super Easy! 


I think I like this easy approach to card making. Sometimes I get too caught up in making bunches of layers and adding all kinds of elements. Less can be more! 


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A Fun Card

This is a fun card I made today. I love this stamp on the front of the card. It is so cute and I think it has tons of possibilities for different cards. 


But since I'm in the hating winter mood right now, I thought I would make this:

The title "Winter got you bummed?" is a combination of a stamp and rubons. The winter stamp actually has "wonderland" underneath it and I just used a post-it mask to not stamp that part. Although you can see a little speck of black there from the top of the "d" in wonderland. 

I used my Copic markers to color the snowmen's hats and scarfs and a little Diamond stickles for the snow accents. And the glitter white ric-rac ribbon came that way. I'm not even sure where I got that, but thought it looked cute as "snow drifts". 


And now for the inside of the card:

Does that make you feel all warm? Or does it depress you because summer is 5 looonnnnng months away!? 

I stickled her grass skirt. I didn't realize until I stamped her that the skirt came out black. I wanted it to have a brownish type tint to, so I used Cinnamon stickles. And the sand is an embossing power called Golden Sand. Added some rubons for my title and the Copics for coloring.


So that is what I did today. I hope you like it!


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Halloween Card

I found the cutest stamp set at Michaels a few weeks ago. It is by Recollections and is called "My Little Monsters". It was only $6.99 and with my handy dandy 40% off coupon, they only cost me approximately $4.20. I think this set has quickly become one of my all time favorites.

I colored the "monsters" with my Copic markers (which is becoming another favorite very quickly!) and then matted them on black cardstock. I matted all four of those on some purple cardstock. You can barely seen the purple, but I thought it gave the card a nice extra touch.
The Ghouls Rule stamp is an old Studio G $1 stamp that I had. The green glitter paper was cut with the Martha Stewart Goo punch. I pop dotted the sentiment so it stands up a bit.

So the card actually came together pretty quickly. The longest part was the coloring of the monsters. I will be making some more these. I just love those "Little Monsters"!

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Hot Air Ballon Sightings and Cards

Last Thursday I woke up, opened the blinds in my bedroom and was greeted with this sight.

It isn't very often that I see a hot air balloon floating by first thing in the morning. Actually I have never seen a hot air balloon first thing in the morning. lol! I thought this has to be a good sign that the rest of my day was going to go okay. I was a little nervous because I was scheduled to get a wisdom tooth pulled later that day.

My appointment went well though. I think it helped that I opted to get sedated while having the tooth pulled. I think it makes it much easier to just go to sleep and then wake up 15 minutes later and have it all done. I was pretty tired all weekend. Just felt like napping a lot. I'm not normally a napper so that was pretty unusual for me. Today I feel pretty good again. My mouth doesn't feel swollen anymore, so I think I'm on the road to recovery!

And since I felt pretty good today I decided to go in my scraproom and get a little creative. It has been awhile since I created anything, so I kept it pretty simple. I got the Everyday Button bits stamp set from PaperTreyInk.com a while ago and have been wanting to use it. It has so many cute images that incorporate buttons. Even though these are pretty simple, I like how they turned out. Hopefully I can get into my room some more this week and really get to some scrapping and card-making! I haven't been on a good creative roll in a long time.

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A card and a picture...

I haven't really done much creative in the last few weeks. So I thought I would share a card I made about a month ago. I saw this idea somewhere a long time ago and I apologize because I now can't remember where. But I have made a few of these cards and I always love how they turn out.

I just cut some yellow cardstock into the shape of a glass to represent the lemonade. Then cut a piece of transparency the same size and shape. I ran the transparency through my Cuttlebug to emboss it to give it the look of a glass. To adhere the transparency to the cardstock I used jumbo glue dots. They are suppose to look like ice cubes. :) Then cut a lemon shape with my cricut and used a regular ol'straw to complete it! It is really a pretty easy card to put together.


And this is one of my pictures for my Project 365. Spencer came home with these silly straw glasses for turning in some addresses for a magazine subscription fund raiser at school. He couldn't wait to try them out, and I absolutely love this picture of him!!

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Birthday Cards made with Black Cardstock!

And nope, they aren't "Over the Hill" cards!

I used the Core'dinations Black Magic (Spellcaster) cardstock. This cardstock is really cool! On one side is the black and the other side is all different colors. What makes this so neat is that when you tear it, sand it, or emboss it (like I did) the core of the cardstock is the colored side. This is kind of hard to explain, so I will just show you!

My cards are 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and because the card is larger than the folder, I had to run it through a couple of times. I just matched up the dots and then ran it back through. I really love how the green core shows up this way.

I then used a scrap and cut out my scalloped square with a Nestabilities die and topped it off with some prima flowers, a little bling, and a pretty iridescent ribbon.

And what I really love is when I open the card, the inside perfectly coordinates with the outside and I didn't have to glue an extra piece of cardstock inside. It is just one piece of cardstock!

Here is my purple one.

Halloween Cards

I signed up on the Creating Keepsakes message board months ago for a Halloween card swap. I love doing these swaps because it is so much better to get a bunch of creative cards in the mail than bills!

And as anyone who knows me well will know, I tend to wait until the last minute to get things done. So I finished these up last night. And I have a week to spare. Not too bad for me!!!

I used plain black card stock and the Cuttlebug Spider Web embossing folder. I lightly misted the front of the cards with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Glacier. You can't really tell in the pictures, but the glimmer mist gives the webs just a little bit of an iridescent look.

The spiders were cut on a Cricut with the Doodlecharms cart. I then embossed them with some silver to make them stand out against the card. The eyes are Orange Stickles. I put the spiders on the front with a pop-dot and then kind of bent the legs up to give them a 3-D look.

Thanks for looking at my first creative post on the blog!