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| Card for Monkey57 using Sweet Treats set and the sweet treat cups. |
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| Close up of the sentiment from Flight of the Butterfly set |
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| Inside of card |
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Showing posts with label Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Birthday Card for Colton
My son's best friend, Colton, is having a birthday this week and Max is SO excited. The party is at Chuck E Cheese...enough said. Colton is a sweet little boy who is having a tough go of it this year. He lost his nanny in September and now his parents are splitting up...a lot for a 4-year-old to handle. When last we saw Colton at Max's birthday party, he seemed so sad it almost broke my heart. So I set out to make him an extra-special birthday card. Conveniently, the challenge for this week over at A La Card Monkey is a birthday+sketch:
Here is my fun birthday card for Colton:
Isn't this fun?!? I had a blast making this card! I've had the sweet treat cups sitting around for ages and finally was inspired to try using them! I am so pleased with the way this turned out...I sure hope it will put a smile on the birthday boy's face too!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
CAS Button Card for PPA 91
This week's challenge over at Pals Paper Arts is to create a Clean And Simple (CAS) card featuring buttons. Here is the inspiration photo:
Since today is the first day for the new Summer Mini, I decided to use one of my favourite stamps from it: Hellos Blossoms. Here is my card:
I love how bright and cheerful this card is! It is sure to brighten anyone's day...even on a gloomy, rainy Sunday like today! Here is how I put this card together:
Starting with a strip of whisper white cardstock, I rounded the upper corners and then stamped only the stems from the Hello Blossoms stamp, inking it with my old olive marker. I then adhered buttons to the stems using glue dots. (For the "thread" in the buttons, I cut very narrow strips of cardstock and threaded them through my buttons, securing them on the back with glue dots.) I then stamped the sentiment and butterfly from the Flight of the Butterfly set in pacific point and melon mambo ink respectively. I adhered the stamped images to a slightly larger mat of pacific point cardstock, the upper corners of which I had also rounded. I then added the daffodil delight 3/8" taffeta ribbon and the strip of "grass" in old olive. I adhered the whole thing to a card base in daffodil delight that I had embossed with my perfect polka dots embossing folder. For the inside, I stampd the sentiment in pacific point. I stamped the butterfly on a scrap of melon mambo and punched it out with my butterfly punch. I adhered it with glue dots. Fast and easy and cute!
Since today is the first day for the new Summer Mini, I decided to use one of my favourite stamps from it: Hellos Blossoms. Here is my card:
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| CAS card for PPA91 using Hello Blossoms (from the NEW mini!) and Flight of the Butterfly |
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| Inside of card |
Starting with a strip of whisper white cardstock, I rounded the upper corners and then stamped only the stems from the Hello Blossoms stamp, inking it with my old olive marker. I then adhered buttons to the stems using glue dots. (For the "thread" in the buttons, I cut very narrow strips of cardstock and threaded them through my buttons, securing them on the back with glue dots.) I then stamped the sentiment and butterfly from the Flight of the Butterfly set in pacific point and melon mambo ink respectively. I adhered the stamped images to a slightly larger mat of pacific point cardstock, the upper corners of which I had also rounded. I then added the daffodil delight 3/8" taffeta ribbon and the strip of "grass" in old olive. I adhered the whole thing to a card base in daffodil delight that I had embossed with my perfect polka dots embossing folder. For the inside, I stampd the sentiment in pacific point. I stamped the butterfly on a scrap of melon mambo and punched it out with my butterfly punch. I adhered it with glue dots. Fast and easy and cute!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Shocked and Amazed!!
This afternoon at work I did a quick check of my emails and to my shock and amazement there was a message from Linda Aarhus informing me she had awarded me the...
I sat and read the email several times before it actually sank in and I am still in disbelief that my little blog would ever be worthy. Knowing all the hundreds, thousands even, of amazing blogs out there in cyberspace I never imagined I would be considered among them. So a HUGE thank you to Linda!! Please check out her blog Polka Dots and Paper...you'll be glad you did!
Now, as a recipient of this award, I have some business to take care of. The first is to pass it on to eight other blogs I have recently discovered. So, here is a list of eight great blogs well worth checking out:
I'm also supposed to list eight tidbits of personal info about myself...here goes!
1) I've been stamping for just a little less than 2 years but have LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
2) I just became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator this past July but have also LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
3) I am a full-time high school music department head which seriously interferes with my stamping time...except during summer break (only 4 more months to go!)
4) I am married to a super guy whom I met online before Internet dating was the "in" thing to do. Interestingly, my brother also met his wife online about 4 years later!
5) I am mom to the smartest 3 1/2 year-old-ever (ok, I might be a bit biased!). He is the light of my life and is my best stampin' buddy!
6) Although I am a musician I rarely listen to music myself! After listening to teenagers wail on band instruments all day long the last thing I want to do is listen to more music. In fact, all I want is peace and quiet, which is why I LOVE my stampin' corner...all I hear there is the click-click-click of my SNAIL...music to any stamper's ears!
7) I am addicted to the Young and the Restless and have been for the last 25 years! (pathetic, I know!) Oddly enough, the storyline hasn't changed!
8) I love to cook and entertain. I've been told many times I should be running my own restaurant...my answer..."Can't...too busy stamping!"
Now, on to more pressing matters...today's card!! Actually it is a card and gift bag ensemble I did this week. I am currently working on designs for my April classes and really like the bright, spring-like colours in this set. See what you think...
When I envisioned this set I had thought I would use a brighter ink colour for my wheeled images; however, much to my dismay, the only reinker I had in the colours from the Summer Garden DSP was old olive! I was a bit worried it would be too dark, but I actually like the darker wheeled image to off-set the brightness of the DSP. I also love the velllum butterflies...so simple to make with my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die and my Big Shot! Add a little colour with some ink and sponges and viola...a pretty accent! I don't know yet if this set will make my April line-up, but I most certainly will find someone to gift it to!
Now, as a recipient of this award, I have some business to take care of. The first is to pass it on to eight other blogs I have recently discovered. So, here is a list of eight great blogs well worth checking out:
I'm also supposed to list eight tidbits of personal info about myself...here goes!
1) I've been stamping for just a little less than 2 years but have LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
2) I just became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator this past July but have also LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
3) I am a full-time high school music department head which seriously interferes with my stamping time...except during summer break (only 4 more months to go!)
4) I am married to a super guy whom I met online before Internet dating was the "in" thing to do. Interestingly, my brother also met his wife online about 4 years later!
5) I am mom to the smartest 3 1/2 year-old-ever (ok, I might be a bit biased!). He is the light of my life and is my best stampin' buddy!
6) Although I am a musician I rarely listen to music myself! After listening to teenagers wail on band instruments all day long the last thing I want to do is listen to more music. In fact, all I want is peace and quiet, which is why I LOVE my stampin' corner...all I hear there is the click-click-click of my SNAIL...music to any stamper's ears!
7) I am addicted to the Young and the Restless and have been for the last 25 years! (pathetic, I know!) Oddly enough, the storyline hasn't changed!
8) I love to cook and entertain. I've been told many times I should be running my own restaurant...my answer..."Can't...too busy stamping!"
Now, on to more pressing matters...today's card!! Actually it is a card and gift bag ensemble I did this week. I am currently working on designs for my April classes and really like the bright, spring-like colours in this set. See what you think...
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| Gift ensemble using Summer Garden DP, So Swirly (retired) wheel and Punch Bunch and Pocket Silhouettes stamp sets. |
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| Just the bag...I made matching tissue with my So Swirly wheel |
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| Cloe-up of focal image on bag. |
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| Cute little gift tag from the Punch Bunch SAB set |
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| Matching card and envelope using So Swirly wheel and Pocket Silhouettes set (on of my fav's) |
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| I carried the butterfly theme from the bag inside the card with the Flight of the Butterfly set. |
When I envisioned this set I had thought I would use a brighter ink colour for my wheeled images; however, much to my dismay, the only reinker I had in the colours from the Summer Garden DSP was old olive! I was a bit worried it would be too dark, but I actually like the darker wheeled image to off-set the brightness of the DSP. I also love the velllum butterflies...so simple to make with my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die and my Big Shot! Add a little colour with some ink and sponges and viola...a pretty accent! I don't know yet if this set will make my April line-up, but I most certainly will find someone to gift it to!
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