Mother's Day Card



The inspiration for this card came from here: Kittie747. (While you are there, check out the rest of her gallery - Amazing!)  I used a french script backgound stamp which I second generation stamped in garden green.  I then stamped the roses using three shade of pink ink and stamped the leaves using olive green - second generation for the bigger leaf on the roses.  I also added a bit of glitter to the center of the roses.

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! Roses in Winter, Hero Arts Old French Writing
Ink: SU! Positively Pink, CTMH Garden Green, Olive, Baby Pink, Pink Carnation
CTMH Olive ribbon
Glitter

Thanks for looking!
Carol

Strawberry Cards

I found this cute digital stamp at Beccy's Place.  I just love how these cards turned out.  And, I love how you can size digital stamps to any size you want.  It makes them so much more versatile than a physical stamp (of course those have their own advantages).  The above card, I ran a piece of white cardstock through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  Attached it and my colored digi to the card and added the red gingham ribbon.

On this card, I ran the card base through the Cuttlebug by putting the base in sideways so that I only embossed the top half of the card with the Swiss Dots embossing folder, attached the patterned paper from Basic Grey, added ribbon and mounted the digi using foam squares after I ran it through the Cuttlebug using the oval nesties and mounted it on red paper.

I cut an oval on the front of the card base using the same size oval as the red mat then ran the card front through the Cuttlebug with one of the 5x7 Paper Lace II embossing folders.  I then closed up the card so that I could attach the digi to card by lining it up in the oval hole.  To finish up, I tied red gingham ribbon around the card.

Supplies:

Beccy's Place strawberries digi

Spellbinder Oval Nesties

Cuttlebug folders: swiss dots, paper lace II

Copic markers

Red gingham ribbon

Basic Grey paper

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Linked to:

Tatertots and Jello

Cards for the Men in Your Life Pt 3

This is the third card I taught in the "For the Men in Your Life" class at The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique.  This is a tent topper card.  The base measures 4 1/4 x 8 /12.  Fold in half, assemble your card and place the topper so that your card measures slightly under 5 1/2.

I will be teaching this class again on Wednesday, June 6 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Supplies:

Tim Holtz stamps

Spellbinders Oval Nesties

Tim Holtz Bricked embossing folder

Twine

American Craft cardstock: blue jay and denim

Thanks for looking!

Carol



Cards for the Men in Your Life Pt 2

This is another card I taught in the "For the Men in Your Life" class at The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique.  This is a super simple card to put together.  I found the directions here: Ustamp4fun. Be sure to practice on folding the collar before you attempt your actual card.  It takes a little practice to get it folded just right. Instead of the SU tag punch for the pocket I used a Spellbinders Nestie tag and cut it down to about 3/4 inch. 

If you search the gallery on Splitcoaststampers, you will find a variety of shirt cards and directions.  I recently saw one that used an origami tie that I might try out sometime.  Also, if you don't want to use colored cardstock for the whole card, you can just make a card front and mount onto a white card base.

Supplies:

American Craft cardstock: olive

Patterned paper for the tie/kerchief

Spellbinders Tag Nesties

Rhinestone brads

Thanks for looking!

Carol



Cards for the Men in Your Life PT 1

 

I taught a card class at The Embellished Scrapbook Boutique called "For the Men in Your Life" a couple weeks ago.  This wallet is one of the cards.  I actually combined several wallets that I found on Splitcoaststampers for this one.  These were the main two: Wallet 1 and Wallet 2. I used the Tiny Mosaics EF from Cuttlebug to give the wallet texture then used Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink over top to give it more dimension.  I used a corner chomper to round the corners, a circle punch for the finger grips, the word window punch on the front to slip the strap into and a rectangle nestie to cut the opening for the "ID" pocket.  I used Tim Holtz stamps for the sentiment and decoration on the "ID." Because of the texture, I had to use red-line tape to put the wallet together.  Anything else isn't strong enough and the wallet will fall apart.

This is a great gift holder/money holder for graduation, Father's Day, birthday, etc. for a guy.

I will be teaching this class again on Wednesday, June 6 at the scrapbook store.

Supplies:

Tiny Mosaics EF

Walnut Stain - Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Corner Chomper

5/8" circle punch

SU Word Window punch

Rectangle Nestie

Red-line tape

American Craft paper

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Tulip From Punch

I found a tutorial using SU!'s owl punch to make tulips on Valita's Designs & Fresh Folds.  If you have never been to her blog, you need to check it out.  She is very creative with punches.  Making these tulips is a bit time consuming, but the finished product is beautiful.  I made these last year, but as we didn't have a blog then and it is spring now, I thought I would post these.  Here are a couple other colors that I did.

Supplies:

SU! Owl punch

Circle punch

Spellbinders nesties:  Oval and Scalloped Oval

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder:  Kassie's Brocade

CTMH cardstock and matching ink

 

Thanks for looking!

Carol

Linked to:

A Bowl Full of Lemons

Skip to My Lou

Tatertots and Jello