Sympathy Cards

My aunt had requested a few Sympathy cards to have on hand,

I had a few that I have shared here already, but needed more.

I checked out Pinterest & found a few ideas!

Here is What I came up with 

I used Distress ink to ink my background, 

I stamped the thistles in black & sentiment

then used embossing powder to make them pop.

I liked this paper, it's light, 

I liked it paired with the dandelion puff, 

I also added the butterfly & sentiment 

then embossed them.

 

This stamp is one of my favorite & most used stamps,

The entire stamp has a lot of  poppies but I sectioned on off.

& stamped it on this shape and popped it up.

I them added the sentiment and embossed it.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my cards!!

I would like to enter them into the following challenges

Daring Cardmakers - Embossing

  Classic Design Team Challenge ATG

 Back to Basics and Beyond Challenge - Inky Background

 Crafty Creations Challenge ATG

Birthday Gift for a Special Friend

Hello Friends - 

I wanted to share a project for a special Crafty Friend,

She better not peek until she received this gift, 

she will know its for her right away!!

I created this Tag & gift wrap with most of her favorites:

and of course I made sure that they matched up with challenges, 

hence I need to post before she sees!! eek~

 This is a tag I made instead of a card.

Most pieces on here are specific to her.

She stamps 3 Hearts for her 3 girls on 

all of her cards & creations, 

her colours she uses are primary burgundy and browns,

She loves flowers and uses swirls on her labels in her craft room.

She has several Prima Girls and she does 

amazing work with them, 

she pieces all of their outfits.

She even bought me this stamp!

I distressed a doily and added it to this bag & added 

some vintage muslin.

My girlfriend loves Shabby Chic & vintage items.

The best is that the package contains 

stamps of a show she is obsessed with!

I hope she loves it!!

It was fun to make!!

Here are the challenges I am entering:

 Little red wagon - Bling it on

 Sun More Fun - Colour Challenge

 Simon Says Stamp = Pop it up

 Craftaholics R Us - Tags

 Tuesday Throwdown - Add Texrure

Thanks for stopping by!

PaperCraft Business Challenge September - More Thank you cards!!

As you all have seen the original blog post from September 1st, 

Papercraft Business Challenge theme is Thank you with an 

awesome prize up for grabs again this month.

You can Play along and be entered to win here:

Papercfrat Business Challenge

Here are a few more cards that I made up for 

some fellow campers that were awesome this season!

Isnt this scene the cutest? 

While I would love to take full credit for the design ,

it is a spin off of a great card I found on Pinterest.

It was created by Heather and can be found on 

her blog here : Parker & Molly.

It was too cute to not play around with!!

 AS you can see I used Glossy Accents on the windows, 

Stickles on the roof & 

Wink of Stella on the door and hitch.

This one is basically the same with different background paper, 

I like to make two or more of each card - it is just easier!

The Stamp I used is Lawn Fawn Happy Trails, 

The Stars are from Lawn Fawns Upon a Star & 

are heat embossed with Lawn Fawn

 Glow in the Dark Embossing Powder Powder.

Twine is Recollections & the background paper is 

from MME & Martha Stewart.

Thanks for Stopping by - 

I hope you pop on over to 

Papercraft Business Challenge

And play along for the chance to win

any Paper crafted enters you and if it is a Thanks yo Theme - you get 2 entries!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Another Card ~ Another Challenge!

Hello Everyone I am back already with another

card made to fit a few challenges!!

  The basic design is a sketch from Global Print Project,

The colour scheme is from Sum More Fun

and I added an animal cause he was cute & I needed him 

to round out the card for Sunny Days.

Little Red Wagon is all about trends & twine was huge a bit ago.

The Stamped I used is MFT Happy Hippo.

I kept the inside simple as eh outside is simple as well.

Here are the Links for the challenges I would like to enter:

 little red wagon - trends * twine

 Sum More Fun Mood Board

 Simon Says Stamps - Wednesday Challenge ATG

 Sunny Day Crafting - Animals

 Global Design Project - Sketch

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you play along!!

MFT Magical Unicorns - Birthday Cards

As I was getting caught up with the blog I found a few

new challenges & seeing as I had to make Birthday cards 

for 2 parties Alex will be going to in the next week, 

now was as good as any to enter them.

Here are my 2 cards

  

The cards are inspired from a combination of challenges

Fairy & Unicorn Challenge was ATG Unicorn

Crazy for CAS was anything Pinterest Inspired

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge was use stamps, 

Sunday Stamps had a sketch.

So this is what I have.

I made 2 a little different as both cards are going to girls

 in his class, so I didn't want them the same.

I just love the MFT Stamps.

This Unicorns horn & hooves are done in copic gold Y28 with 

Wink of Stella clear over the top.

  The inside of both cards have a slot for a gift card or money.

That just what kids love & it's easy!

No toys sitting on shelves!

 Card two has the unicorn embossed with clear and sparkle

embossing powder that I put on with Versa Marker.

AS for the challenge that is inspired by Pinterest here was my inspiration 

created by Little Yellow Birdy.

Littleyellowbirdy's Flicker account

Here are the links to the Challenges I am Entering:

Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Stamp it on

 The Fairy and The Unicorn Cchallenge Unicorn

 Crazy For CAS - Pinterest Inspired

  Sunday Says Stamp - Sketch

As you can see I took a few liberties with this one , but I have my base ,

a rectangle on top of it, the clouds are on an angle ( the opposite angle),the Rainbow is my shape ( on the other side) and I have a sentiment.  ta da

Thanks for stopping !!

Paper Craft Business Challenge September ~ Thank You

Hello everyone!!

Welcome back for Septembers challenge 

at 

PaperCraft Business Challenge!

I do hope you come over and play along, 

simply click the link above to share your work

and be entered to win a prize!!!

This month is Anything Goes or Thank You.

 I used a Stampendous Stamp - CSD04 Bouquet & Mason Jar,

Scrapbook and Cards today Happy Easter / Spring sentiment, 

Lawn Fawn Quilted Background,

Tim Holtz Distress Markers & Inks, 

twine & washi tape by Recollections

& of course various papers.

  

 I stamped my image on watercolour paper with Ranger Archival Ink.

I coloured in part of the image with the markers and 

added more colour and shading with the ink pads using a water brush.

I notched the mason jar image at the bottom ring once cut out, 

to have the twine sit in place as it would on a real jar.

The above card has two layers of pop-dots on the flowers & one on the jar.

I wanted the flowers to come off the page more than the jar.

 I usually make the same size cards, so I thought i would shake it up a little, 

the larger square card gives the jar more blank space surrounding it, 

and makes more of a focal point.

 When I stamped the image I coloured two, 

as one usually turns out better than the other, 

and I like to try to make more than one at a time.

I am really enjoying the watercolur with distress ink, 

I may just need to do more of these!

Thank you for stopping by to see my creation 

I do hope that you come and join us at 

Papercraft Business Challenge

This Months Prize is this awesome stamp for Waffle Flower

As well as Lisa has some amazing Blog Challenge 

resources that you should check out!!