Thinking of You - FMS #28 Challenge

This weekend I had the opportunity to make a card for a good friend and boss who suffered a great loss.  These cards are always difficult for me to make, I always want to put my personal sympathy into the card to let them know I care... So without further ado, here is my card:

 Of course I had to use my cricut to help decorate, and one of the techniques was using a "fake" embossing look.  I used the Paper Lace cricut cartridge to cut the same cream shapes to match the background of the card, so it was a subtle look. What do you think?

Supplies Used:
Patterned paper (K & Company); Card stock (Recollections); Die cuts (Cricut cartridges: Paper Lace; Elegant Edges, Damask Decor); adhesive gems (Recollections); Stamps & Ink (Studio G).

Happy Birthday - PDCC 123

Uggghhh! For being March I am NOT please with our weather! Rain, snow, and hail, with the smallest bits of sunshine. It is not optimal... hopefully it goes away soon and begins to cooperate with my need to start a garden and get my fingers in the soil!

I made this card for the Play Date Cafe Challenge 123. One of the reasons I love the color challenge's is because they push me to use colors that I normally don't use of pair together. I am always amazed at the end product and how fun it looks, not something I quite expect at time.  So this challenge had tangerine, teal, jeans, and electric green! This one probably is my biggest stretch to date on a color scheme, way too bright and definately not together, but I pulled it together, what do you think?

First I took this beautiful tangerine patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket and then layered the jeans card stock with the decorative border over it, then adding the electric green sentiments and teal embellishments for the top pop of color.  It is quite appealing, isn't it?

Supplies used:
Patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket); card stock (DCWV); Border punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); Stamp & ink (Studio G); Flowers (Recollections, K & Company); Adhesive gems (Recollections); Brads (Making Memories); Die Cut (Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge)



Delight in the Small Things - FMS#23

So despite having a fun, amazing new die cutting machine, I have been so swamped with the many other things in life, I really have not had too much of a chance to play!  This weekend I spent a couple of days playing around, and seeing what I could do for a couple of challenges, and this is one of my new creations! I created it for the  Freshly Made Sketches challenge #23. What do you think?

The sentiment is a stamp from Studio G - Delight in the Little Things!  It reminds me of my six year old daughter who has been losing her teeth - she is on her fourth lost tooth!  Nothing is cuter than seeing one pop out and her sweet little face as she holds it up in delight. It really is just the little things!

Supplies used:
Kraft paper (Recollections); brown and red patterned paper (Colorbok); other patterned paper (DCWV); border punch (Fiskars), flower punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); die cuts (Paper Lace 2 Cricut Cartridge), adhesive gem (Recollection); stamp & ink (Studio G).

Collage Stamping Challenge

Greetings from a very wet, rainy Oregon!  It has been raining constantly for the past couple of days. Accumulating two inches in one day, and another inch is expected today.  I am hoping we get a slight reprieve soon....

Just Us Girls is hosting a challenge this week - #119 that requires a card made by collage stamping.  An example of collage stamping would be where you stamp a background and then stamp over it.  Here I applied that technique.  The cream paper I used is very thin, almost to the point it is like vellum, which I love the texture.  I used some swirl stamps for the background, using silver and gold ink.  Then over that I stamped the sentiment Happy Birthday.

What do you think? I really love the way this one turned out. It seemed to fit really well with the background papers.  And it was really fun to try a technique I have seen quite a bit for myself!

Supplies used:

Green patterned paper (DCWV); creme paper (scrap); border punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); swirl stamps (Inkadinkadoo); gold & silver ink (Studio G); adhesive gems (Recollections); adhesive (Elmer's).

Valentines Day Card - Play Date Cafe #114

Look at the fun Valentine's Day card I made for the Play Date Cafe #114 challenge!  The challenge had my use three different colors: burgundy, gold, and plum combined together on a card of my choice.  Since most of my gold came with this "wedding" pack of papers, it inspired me to do a love card for Valentine's Day!  I used my Cricut George to make the heart shapes including the lettering. It cut a total of three hearts for the layering, and I was very impressed that is cut through the gold glitter card stock, it was quite thick!  I layered the hearts over decorative papers and then added the sentiment. What do you think?

Supplies used:

Die Cuts (Cricut, Hoot n' Holler Cartridge); Stamps & ink (Studio G); Gold patterned paper (Me and My Big Ideas); plum card stock and patterned paper (DCWV); burgundy papers (vintage scraps); Ribbon (Multi Craft Imports); Border punches (Martha Stewart Crafts and EK Success); adhesives (Elmer's and Pop Dots);

Freshly Made Sketches #17 - Celebrate Card

Here in good ol' Oregon it is snowing, which for anyone on the west side of Oregon means something different from the normal rain we have every winter.  Many people are outside playing in it, and I even took my cute lab out to play in it for the first time (he was not sure what to do with it), but I am back inside comfy and warm. 



I made this lovely card for the Freshly Made Sketches #17 challenge, which meant I had to follow their layout for a card. Often the sketches are the harder challenges for me to do... but this one came together.  I used my new die-cutting machine - Cricut, who Becky helped me fondly name George. He is still amazing.  I am having trouble NOT using him. I think I might have an addiction! :)

So what do you think of my card?  I love the tree....  It just spoke to me... vibrant and full of life, and NOT covered in snow!

Supplies used:

Patterned paper (DCWV); Card stock papers (Recollections); Teal ribbon (Offray); Adhesive Gems (Recollections); Die Cuts (Cricut & Hoot n' Holler cartridge); Border Punch (EK Success); Stamps & ink (Studio G), Adhesives (Elmers and Pop Dots);

Mojo Monday #223 - Birthday Card

For Mojo Monday's #223 challenge I made this very girly card! It reminds me of my one of my best buds, Becky.  She loves pink and black. :)

This one is quite busy for a "Tiffany Original" as my sister coined my cards that I make. I normally try to keep mine more simple, but I had fun making it nonetheless. I probably would never have put this together without the neat inspiration of the sketch below, but after making it I really am quite proud! What do you think?

Supplies used:

Patterned paper (DCWV); Black glitter paper (Colorbok); Ribbon (Celebrate it); Brads (Making Memories); Plastic flowers (Making Memories); Stamp & ink (Studio G); Border punch (Fiskars); Adhesives (Elmer's, Pop Dots)