CAS Happy Birthday

Here's a quick and cute little card I made today for my aunt's birthday.

It's a Clean and Simple design, check it out:

Card Recipe

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Patterned paper: Echo Park

Scalloped trim: My Mind's Eye

Rhinestones: Me & My Big Ideas

Sticker: SRM Stickers

I think the coolest thing about this card is that I used a leftover portion of some 12x12 Echo Park paper that I just couldn't bear to throw away.  It really came in handy to set the scene for this card.  Thanks for looking!

CP Sketch 110

Here's a little card I made inspired by Card Patterns Sketch 110

Card Recipe

Card base: Bazzill Basics

White swiss dot cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Kraft cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Patterned paper: Echo Park

Cupcake sticker: Echo Park

Twine: My Mind's Eye

Tools: Spellbinders die/Cuttlebug, Stampin' Up scalloped edge punch

EK Success circle punch

Scrappy Extras: Sewing and a button

And last, but not least is the little sticker that says "wish" - a nod to this week's sponsor at Card Patterns and one of my fave crafty companies SRM Stickers.

Have a great week!!

Relax

Here's a little card I made for my dear friend, Kalle, who is celebrating her birthday today.  The little birthday elves (my husband and me) snuck some flowers into her house (thanks to her hubby) so when she gets home from work there will be a happy surprise - one dozen yellow roses.

I made this card in the hopes that Kalle will find a little time to relax and pamper herself.  She's the kind of person who always puts others ahead of herself, and she deserves some R&R.

I used a 365 Cards sketch for this one...

Here's a close-up of those slippers.

I am so in love with those fabulous "sprinkles" from Flower Soft. 

Read on for the rest of the "ingredients"...

Card Recipe

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket

Digi Image: Sassy Studio Designs

Markers: Copic

Scalloped Trim: My Mind's Eye

Sticker: SRM Stickers

In My Beautiful Balloon Challenge at Moxie Fab World

I created this project, several days ago before I left town, for a very special person.  My husband's grandmother recently celebrated her 100th birthday, and we flew to Iowa to celebrate with her!! 

You can imagine the tall task at hand - to create something special and meaningful in card form.  I wanted her to have something of a keepsake, so I made a wall hanging that would remove easily from the card.  In fact, it is the decoration on the card.

This Moxie Fab challenge is to use a hot air balloon on the project.  I happened to have some hot air balloon stickers from E.A.D. Designs.  Portions of it are transparent, so I put them on some patterned paper (that was glued to some chipboard) and cut them out.

Here's the card version:

Now if you are wanting additional details about how I created the wall hanging, read on...

The big ring is a chipboard piece (from Stampin' Up, I believe), which I glued to some patterned paper.  I used a blade to cut close to the chipboard and some sanding tools to smooth out the rough edges.  Then I glued the ring onto another piece of patterned paper (that was glued to a piece of chipboard to make it sturdier). 

The biggest mystery is probably how I got the sentiment on the chipboard ring.  It's computer-generated, and thanks to my Word program, I was able to curve the letters to fit (for the most part) the size and shape of the ring.

I hot-glued some dotted ribbon to the back to complete the wall hanging.

Here's what it looks like in use - I apologize for the poor lighting:

It is indeed a journey worth celebrating!

Card Recipe

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: Echo Park, Sassafras Lass, My Mind's Eye

Rhinestones: Martha Stewart

Stickers: E.A.D. Designs

Ribbon: Stampin' Up

Chipboard Circle: Stampin' Up

Blossoms: Michael's brand

Shamrock Fun

Today was a super fun day that I just have to share.  I took part in my first ever Shamrock Run in Portland - such a blast.  I ran the 8K and I finished strong (for me, anyway).  I love events like that when lots of people - in this case over 30,000 - come together to have a great time and celebrate something.

Even though I'm exhausted and my legs feel like jelly, I managed to make a card.  I'm subbing for Heidi who is on a brief hiatus.  The challenge is titled "Fresh Baked Goodness", and to me that means something sweet and delicious.

Here's my card

That's some yummy Hambly paper in the background, and a Cosmo Cricket coffee cup in front.  A little sentiment stamp from Papertrey Ink, and the card is complete.  Oh yeah, I should mention the pierced "steam" coming off that coffee.

We've got some new and fabulous DT members coming your way later this week, and more great challenges as well...

Cityscapes are on the Rise at Moxie Fab World

I am so excited about this card!  I hadn't been over to Moxie Fab World in ages, and when I popped on this morning, they had just issued a challenge to create a cityscape.

Being primarily a cardmaker, I was looking for inspiration to create a card...specifically a 60th anniversary card for my great aunt and uncle.

So I read the challenge and the first thing I thought about was one of my favorite children's books, The Little House.  Here's an image I grabbed off of Amazon's website so you can see what I'm talking about:



It's about a little house that starts out in the country and the big city grows up around it.  Eventually it happily gets moved back out to the countryside.  Although the book is not necessarily about durability, it really does stand the test of time -- as if no matter what happens around it, the house stays the same.

So that's how I arrived at my card design...

I used my Cricut to cut out a cityscape (using a portion of it to sponge a background image) on both patterned paper and chipboard (to give it dimension).  Here's the card:

I thought this swirly paper from Basic Grey would be perfect, depicting how hectic and crazy the world can be.  You'll notice the sweet little house in the middle (with a sparkly red heart above the door).

The clouds are actually petals from some Scenic Route paper that seemed to work with the other paper I chose.

Here's a close-up of the front so you can see how I raised part of the cityscape off the card using Pop Dots:

The inside reads "Happy 60th Anniversary"

I was truly inspired to create this card and very happy to share it!

Feeling Fierce

Nope, not me actually - but that's the challenge I threw down on the 365 Cards blog for today!

Here's my card:

I love Glitz and this patterned paper and the sticker frame with some built-in blink really did the trick!  The color scheme and the faux diamond, plus some edge distressing complete the look I was going for.

And of course I've got an SRM Sticker on there as my sentiment ;-)

It's almost time to select some new DT members, so stay tuned at 365 Cards for that big announcement next week.

And did I mention that we just hit 1500 followers??  Woo hoo!!!