Little Paris gal

It's been a long time since I posted anything but I love this card that I made for a card swap and decided to take a minute to put on my site.  She's a new stamp I bought and I love her Parisian look.  This paper pad has great colors as I love stripes with brick red and navy.  Interesting colors for a gal card but I love the end result.  The flower didn't match so I used my copic to color it for a perfect match!

This sentiment is from the limited edition "thank you" set sent at the end of the year by PTI.  It included a larger saying as well as this one.  I don't recall where I saw this card layout but had saved it for future reference and thought it went well with this paper combo and stand set.  It's hard to find masculine themes but I always like to have one handy!

Mojo Monday & City Crafters Challenges

Today I am posting a Thanksgiving card using the Mojo Monday sketch and the City Crafters' inspiration picture ...

Week 79 - Harvest Festival

The stamped sentiment is from JustRite Stamps and paper, twill ribbon, buttons, and rhinestones from Papertrey Inc.  It's hard to see in this picture but the sentiment and leaf are "popped" for dimension.

TESC146 Challenge

I've had this stamp set "Close to Nature" from Stampin' Up for quite a while and thought it went so well with PTI's paper pad.  This sketch made it a perfect match!

SSSC135 Challenge

Aren't these Halloween PTI dies the cutest?  The paper is a pad they had last year and of course had to use my cobweb embossing folder for the background on the circle.  I used some white ink to make the webbed image show up a little better and made the bats wings 3D.  The fangs on the pumpkin make me smile!

Vintage wedding card

A friend asked if I would make a vintage wedding card for a special gal and sent me the photo.  Below is the card I made for her.  My personal favorites are the paper "roses" and the inked edges making the card look old.

TESC 144 Challenge

Here is another card for the TESC 144 Challenge.  This is some new paper I got a couple weeks ago and I thought the new PTI mum die went perfectly with the flowered paper.  (The mum paper and sentiment paper are PTI as are the sentiments.)  I had to move my flower around a bit so it doesn't match the sketch challenge perfectly .. oops!

Summer Card Camp - Week 3

When I saw this color challenge I knew I had to enter this card!  I made it a while ago but it's too perfect not to include.  Now I'm off to make another one as I love all these colors together!

Summer Card Camp Challenge

I'm excited to tell you that this card was chosen as one of this week's Student Spotlight cards!

Using the color challenge for this week's camp, I created a New Home card for a dear friend. 

A few more

Here are the last two cards I made for the last craft night.  Have some ideas in mind so need to find time to try them this week!

Craft Night is tomorrow!

Our theme this month was Thank You cards.  There were so many inspiring cards with the latest PTI release so you'll see a few ideas taken from there! 

This card was from a new PTI stamp and die set and was so fast to create - just a little striped paper, a little stamping, and you're done!  Love the simplicity of it.

Another great idea from Betsy Veldman was to take words from different stamp sets and create a collage of sorts with them.  I highly recommend doing several sets at once as it's rather labor intensive to look through all your stamp sets, find different sizes and styles, then decide how an arrangement will work!  I do love the finished product though.

This layout was one a crafty friend used on a card but I changed the orientation and decided to do a black/white card with a splash of color.  (When I master the Copics, perhaps I'll make it again with color!)

Another new set was this flower one so, since I love poppies, decided this would be a great tag with the bold orange color.  I think I need a card with this set now!

And lastly, these beautiful birds were from a botanical pad which matched perfectly with the teal background paper from PTI.  A simple ribbon and few pearls make for an elegant card which can be used for anything.

On Wednesday I'll post a few more I've made but need to save them for tomorrow night!

Anniversary card

We celebrated our 24th anniversary last week so, given Mark's affection for his beloved turtle, here is what I made him ...

Birthday and Father's Day

My nephew turns 16 Sunday so I made a card from us (with the car) and one for my sister to give him (with the subway art phrases). 

When I gave my friend her "skull" card, she asked if I could make a Father's Day card for her husband with a picture of his WWII plane on it - yes, he owns and flies this plane!  Is that cool or what?! 

More for Craft Night

May's Craft Night theme for cards is Birthday and for my tags I chose some for guys. Have a few more to make but not sure yet what they will be!

Mother's Day

Now that she has received it, I can post the card I made for my Mom (didn't realize how out-of-focus it was)!  While visiting, I had my sister secretly go through some old photos of she and I with our Mom so she could bring them to me when she visited a couple of weeks ago.  I scanned them and had them printed to use on the card.  She loved it and it brought back so many memories for all of us of the days of matching dress/coat sets, gloves, Easter bonnets ... so sweet!

April's Craft Night

Hard to believe it's been a month since I posted anything.  Despite being gone part of the time since, I have been making things!  This month's card theme was "anything" that could be used for just a quick note, thank you, thinking of you, etc.  The challenge was using twine.  One gal suggested crochet flower embellishments so that's what I did.  They are hard to see in the picture but are definitely cuter in real life!  Tonight I'm going to try some crochet leaves as I found a pattern on-line.

March Craft Night

I won't have time before I leave to photograph and add the other great creations from this month's Craft Night but will add when I come home.  This month's "challenge" item was a sheet of cork and I chose to die cut flower note cards from them.  The cork is fabulous and very easy to work with.

The theme for cards was Christmas as well as Christmas tags.  I saw this, and the snowman, card in one of my monthly publications.  They were too labor intensive to make many of but I think the collage one would be a great way to use scraps.

My favorite tag ...

Because we have been creating tags each month, I thought a tin box would be a good spot to keep them ...

The tags I made on craft paper and had inside the box ...

No Time to Stamp contest

Since I needed to make an engagement card, this was the perfect contest as it had to have hearts, romance, etc. to qualify! I love the vintage papers available lately.

Supplies: Paper by Cosmo Cricket; ribbon and stamp set by Papertrey Ink.