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This card was one of three cards made at my July Make-n-Take class. I usually offer three designs and my stampers make two of each design. Their tastes run from loving to make very simple cards to a few who like to make more detailed intricate cards; therefore, I try to appease both groups by giving them a very simple, quick card, a simple, quick card with some embellishments, and one card requiring paper piercing or piecing, multiple layers along with watercoloring/coloring, you get what I mean.

This was the simple, quick card with some embellishments. I had ordered two packs of Gold Soiree DSP. I used this paper as my mats and for the butterfly. I added Watermelon Wonder ribbon and accented the butterfly with diamond rhinestones.

It is truly an elegant card anyone would love to receive or horde.

Butterfly Card

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One of my friends asked me to make a birthday card for his wife. I asked him what she liked and he responded her favorite colors were white, navy, and gold and she liked geometrical shapes. I began to think how I could incorporate the geometric shapes into the card design. I remembered geometric shapes were a feature of her wedding decorations and they reminded me of diamond, like the jewel, shapes. I did not have a stamp set of geometric diamond shapes, but I knew where I could purchase one . . . at the Duluth Scrapbook Expo.

My friends Cheyenne, Kevin (she is a female with a guy’s name), Robbi, and her friend Cindy attended the expo somewhat together, meaning Cheyenne and I were together and briefly encountered Robbi and Cindy. Kevin attended the Thursday night Make-n-Take (well worth the $$ spent), and she took a scrapbook class with us on Friday.

Anyway, back to the stamp set. I found only TWO out of a center full of stamps, glitter, ribbon, embellishments, dies, etc., etc., etc. . . . . . I went with Pink and Mains geometric stamp set. Here’s a picture and link to Pink and Main website:

www.pinkandmain.com

www.pinkandmain.com

I got busy and made a blinged out card for his wife incorporating all of her favorite colors and shapes. I used Whisper White as a base, I used SU! Brushed Gold paper, along with Night of Navy, and glimmer paper while embossing the birthday stamped image and the geometric bling shapes with gold embossing powder. I accented the geometric shapes with diamond rhinestones. I posted two different photos but neither one captures the “bling” effect of the gold paper, gold embossing, and rhinestones. Personally, I was very excited to give the card to my friend. I really think this card turned out awesomely well.

 

Anisha Bday

Anisha Bday

Supplies: (not pictured – Pink and Main stamp set “Bling”

A really great simple and quick card I made was one where I used cards from the Project Life card set. The set I used is a retired set; therefore, I am going to list a current Project Life card set in the supply list.

This is such a clean and simple/quick card I think it fits this week’s TGIF Card Challenge.  Here is their sketch:

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Using the Project Life cards for mats and sentiment holders on a card is a great way to introduce stamping to new customers that might be intimidated by more technically challenging cards. This takes away the guess work of color combinations that work and limits initial supplies to a bare minimum. It’s also a great way to make cards for those crafters that already have a full plate.

All I had to do was cut my base, fold in half, cut down the largest project life card to 4″ x 5 1/4″, stamp a sentiment on a coordinating smallest project life card, and adhere all of the cards to the card base. This took all of five minutes, at the most. It will take you longer trying to decide what sentiment to use on the card.

I think this card turned out really well.

Project Life Card

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I looking, yet again, through my retired stamp sets and espied Bronco Buster. It made me think of my friend Cheyenne and the cards she makes for her dad’s birthdays. I had looked at the SUO Challenge and TGIF card challenge for this week and felt I could use this card for both challenges.

The SUO Challenge is to use a DSP (Designer Series Paper) as a major part of your card design and TGIF color challenge is . . . . .TGIFC10

I immediately thought of the new Bohemian DSP featured in the SU! 2015-2016 catalog.

I made an initial mat out of Smoky Slate and placed the Bohemian DSP paper on top. I took the Blackberry Bliss ink pad and inked up the Hardwood background stamp, and I stamped the image onto Island Indigo card stock. It look really cool! I then cut out strips and made a frame to border around the cowboy stamped image in Blackberry Bliss on Very Vanilla card stock. I accented the card with a miniature lariat. I think the card is really cute.

SUO and TGIFC10Supplies: not pictured – SU! Bronco Buster and twine

 

One thing and another has kept me from submitting a regular card challenge to Paper Craft Crew, but this week I’m ahead of schedule. Here is the PCCS151 sketch:

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This week I have been drawn toward my retired stamp sets. I found Birthday Banter and it just puts a smile on my face. I love frogs; therefore the frog letting the birthday recipient know at least they we haven’t croaked.

Unlike this week’s Pals Paper Arts challenge, it did not take me a long time to make this card. I pulled it together with little effort and a lot of ease. I think you’ll agree it is just adorable.

 

PCCCS151

Update: On the original card there was a lot of negative space in the top right hand corner of the stamped frog image. I added a dragon fly from the SU! retired stamp set Organic Grace. It really made the card pop.

Supplies: not pictured – SU! Organic Grace stamp set, SU! Birthday Banter stamp set, Tempting Turquoise, Watermelon Wonder, and Marina Mist Stampin’ Write Markers, paper-piercing mat

Price: $5.25

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I really loved this week’s sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. The design team’s cards are gorgeous and the gallery has so many awesome cards posted. Here is the sketch for this week:

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I had been feeling as though I didn’t have enough of a selection of stamps to keep my card challenges varied (I’m sure no one out there feels like this – LOL) until I remembered I had a few retired stamps in the cabinet which are out-of-sight and out-of-mind. I chose my color palette of Watermelon Wonder and DSP paper from the Cherry On Top paper stack. I accented the card with Watermelon Wonder ribbon.

You might think this was a quick card for me, but that was not the case. I started out doing just fine. I had first stamped the chicks with the Momento ink and used some Blendabilities but the lightest blue I used was too dark and I couldn’t get it to blend with the color lifter pen. So, I re-stamped the chicks with my Staz-On and used Stampin’ Write Markers along with watercoloring for the background.

Next step, a sentiment. I had a great idea, I thought, I’ll add a die-cut “thanks” at the bottom of the card in Tip Top Taupe. Once I cut it out, it was too wide which required me cutting some of the letters apart and gluing them together with less space in between each letter at the bottom of the card. Ok, it didn’t look great (the word was too large and overwhelmed the card), but I was going to go with it until I . . . . . decided to stamp the chicken feet as a signature at the bottom of the card. Oh good grief, it just looked like a jumbled mess. Then, I had the bright idea of cutting out the thanks, meaning fussy cutting behind all the letters to keep the thanks on the white card stock because I knew I couldn’t pull it off without tearing all the letters (I used the liquid Mono glue – can I get an Amen?). As I’m sitting there cutting the word out, I think, “You know, I could have re-cut this die word at least five times in the time I’ve sat here cutting this word out.”  Hmmm. “Why don’t I just use the word that goes with the chicks?” Hmmm. I did just that and I’m very happy I did. This card looks sooooo much better than the original. I hope you enjoy it and PIN it.

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Supplies: not pictured – SU! Best of Cluck stamp set, Daffodil Delight and Tempting Turquoise Stampin’ Write Markers, Aqua Painter, Tip Top Taupe ink

I wanted to complete a Center Step fold technique card this month. I began with a card stock choice of Cucumber Crush and Watermelon Wonder.  I, then, made my cuts and scores and suddenly thought maybe one of the card challenges this week incorporates some of what I was including in the card. I began to browse through the sites of the card challenges I like to submit and low and behold there are my colors with the addition of Night of Navy on the Pals Paper Arts weekly challenge!  So, now, I feel like I’m killing two birds with one stone!!! Yippee!! 6a00e54f95df92883401b7c7a76b46970b-800wi

I think the Night of Navy really adds a lot of dimension as a mat choice. As you can see in the card pictures below, there is a border on the vertical mat at the bottom of the card. This was a case of being given an opportunity to embellish. Yes, I made a boo boo. I scored ALL the way across when I should have scored only to the cut line. I’m really bad at watching and reading directions. LOL

I thought a bright birthday theme with a yummy cupcake would be just right for this card; and, as I was putting the card together, I realized I didn’t have to keep my banners within the confines of the white mat. How liberating! I really love this card.

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I took a picture of the side view so the cuts and folds would be showcased as well.

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Supplies: not pictured (Watermelon Wonder and Night of Navy Stampin’ Write Markers, scallop border punch)

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Thanks for coming back for the details if you got my initial post. For some reason, I am always under the wire getting my PPA card challenge completed and submitted by the time deadline of 12 noon on Tuesdays. Thus, I didn’t have time to give any details on the project until I got the card submitted right on time.

This week’s Pals Paper Arts challenge are the following colors:6a011572200a0f970b01b8d12445b4970c-300wi

I had originally wanted to us the SU! stamp set Wood You Be Mine?, but I couldn’t pull the card together in my mind’s eye. Then, I thought of the retired SU! stamp set Seaside. I layered the shells from this stamp set using a mask and, quite by accident, I made a stamped image from a newly inked pad where the ink had not settled into the pad of the large conch shell. I had already stamped initial image and I cut out the darker portions of the over inked image and layered it on top of the original image. I made a double layered mat from Marina Mist card stock layered on Sahara Sand card stock and stamped coral as a back drop for the fish from By The Tide which was stamped with Early Espresso onto Pool Party card stock and highlighted with Stampin’ Write markers. The shells, fish, and sentiment (“Happy Birthday” – Sprinkles of Life SU! stamp set) are raised with SU! dimensionals.

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Supplies: Seaside SU! retired stamp set; Stampin’ Write Markers – Calypso Coral, Pistachio Pudding, Hello Honey, Coastal Cabana

This past week I received an e-mail from the daughter of my first cousin (so, she would be my second cousin) that his 75th birthday was right around the corner, and she wanted family, friends, and church members to send him a birthday card. By the way, it took me several years as a child to get down the concept of first, second, third cousin. I still don’t quite get the concept, yet, of second cousin twice removed, etc., it’s just too mind boggling. LOL

I would visit his mom and dad (his mother was my dad’s sister) every summer. I really looked forward to going to Allene’s and Ernest’s house. We didn’t do “young people” things when I visited them. Ernest owned a Piggly Wiggly store near St. Elmo’s Park in Columbus, Georgia, and Allene would take me with her to pick up some groceries. The store was located in an old, quaint strip of stores. I loved the musty smell of the store, and visiting with the employees who had worked there for many, many years. When we arrived at the store, we would go through the back door (I felt really privileged because, to my child’s mind, we went in the “secret” way), and we had to ring a bell for the door to be opened from the inside. I can remember eating oatmeal from a bowl while sitting in front of the t.v. and playing with a 4′ – 5′ tall Jolly Green Giant doll a sales rep had given Ernest. When I was very little, Allene’s mom, my paternal grandmother “Mama Storey,” lived with them and I remember going into the bathroom where her teeth were in a GLASS!!! Wow, I didn’t know anyone who could take their teeth out and put them in a glass. My second cousins, Allene’s other son – Larry’s children, would visit and play with me. We had such fun! We would visit with Allene’s best friend, Edith whose couch I wet after falling asleep on it (the things we remember from childhood), I almost forgot, they owned a small cottage a block from the beach in Panama City Beach, Florida off of Thomas Drive. I really looked forward to going to the beach for a week during the summer as a family. There are so many more great childhood memories from my summers with them, but I shall move on.

When I was really little my cousin, David – the birthday boy/man, lived with his parents. He is twenty something years older than me (my dad got a late start). He married Vicki when I was about 8 years old, and my sister and I were flower girls at his wedding. Once David and Vicki had their own home, I would go and spend a night or two with them. They were so much fun. Eventually, they purchased a house and built a POOL. Pool to a kid means fun times!!! They had two children John and Barbara. I helped out with John when he was a baby and then, I “grew-up” and had other things to occupy my time and the summer visits ended around my 16th birthday.

When my uncle died, Allene moved into a mother-in-law suite attached to their house. By this time, I was grown and had children of my own. And, every summer we would visit and swim and go to the beach. Those were some relaxing times. This was a also a season of my life where I got to know Barbara well. She and I would go to a scrapbooking store that had a weekly scrap night and we would sit there for hours making scrapbook pages.

Anyway, I made a card that reflects a beach/ocean theme. David has a boat he takes out to go deep-sea fishing,and when Barbara asked for us to send him a birthday greeting, I immediately thought of By The Tide stamp set. I made this card to send to him:

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY – DAVID!

David's Birthday

I created a spin-off from this card. It was one of my cards that made featured artisan card with Fab Friday Card Challenge website. I had the coral stamped background (rectangular piece) and the shell left over from the card mentioned previously. I took the coral background panel and stamped some more coral on top of the Bermuda Bay coral with VersaMark and then embossed the coral with bronze embossing powder (purchased at Hobby Lobby). I stamped the lobster with Staz-On and watercolored it with Watermelon Wonder and after it dried went back with the Watermelon Wonder Stampin’ Write marker and made the shadowed areas pop and I cut the lobster out with SU! paper snips. I watercolored the background oval and adhered Delightful Dijon Envelope paper (torn and stippled with a Delightful Dijon ink). I stamped the birthday sentiment onto Coastal Cabana card stock with Bermuda Bay ink. Then I adhered all the pieces.

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While looking for inspiration for card challenges, I came across Virginia’s View Challenge. I had just completed a monochromatic card for my next make-n-take, and I decided to enter this challenge. She specified Ombre & Monocromatic and gave a couple of examples:

Ombre Monochromatic

Ombre Monochromatic

I think these cards are gorgeous!

For my regular blog readers this card was featured as a Paper Craft Crew Challenge as well (might as well kill two birds with one stone). Here is one of June’s make-n-take cards as well as Virginia’s View Challenge:

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