Birthday Girl

My friend needed a birthday card for her granddaughter’s 6th birthday. We looked through images and she liked this image from Free Dearie Dolls. The original image had different colored dress and hair on the girl. I emailed Mary Ellen and asked if she could put straight red hair on the girl and she did! Then I colored the dress and hat in Photoshop. The other part of the image was pre-colored by Mary Ellen. I used the sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch for my inspiration.

The granddaughter’s name was below the image (I whited out most of it)

CHALLENGE:
1) Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #252 – use the sketch provided as your inspiration.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Birthday Girl @ Free Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps
Cardstock: The Paper Studio (purple), Bazzill (Kachina, Lemonade)
Patterned Paper: American Crafts (heat wave)
Accents/Tools: Xcut 5mm corner punch, Xyron X

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Love You

I made this card as a sample for one of the guys at work. He has a standing order for a Valentine and Mother’s Day card. He liked it but wanted it done in red, black and white. So another guy bought this one! I lifted a card from Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty….love her cards.

February Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Lift Category – Mary Fish At Stampin’ Pretty- Love Card

SUPPLIES:
Metel Dies: Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz ( Celebration Words: Script, Scribbles & Splat)
Cardstock: Bazzill (watermelon, raven, white)
Accents/Tools: Queen & Co epoxy dots – black, Darice Embossing Folder (wire fence), Xyron X, Xyron 510,

Poppy Mouse – Thanks

So I bought this image several months ago to make a thank you card for some co-workers that saved my butt! They re-arranged their schedule to help me and I wanted to let them know how much I appreciated them. Well life got in the way and I hadn’t been able to make the card till tonight. I saw the challenge at Cute Card Thursday – One Word Sentiment. The challenge is being sponsored by Di’s Digi Stamps and this is one of her digital stamps so I had to play along. I thought sketch #2 at February Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com would be perfect for this. I had the hardest time finding paper that I liked and could make it work with this sketch. I’m happy with the outcome! This also fits the Photo Inspiration Category at the February Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com.

Original sketch is a Skipping Stones Design. Found it here: http://craftsbybeth.blogspot.com/2016/06/using-card-maps-series-ii.html

SUPPLIES:
Digital Stamp: Poppy Mouse @ Di’s Digi Stamps
Inks: Pre-colored digital stamp printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer
Cardstock: Bazzill (Watermelon), greens – unknown
Patterned Paper: KI (Autumn Flowers Paper Pad)
Accents/Tools: Cricut, Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge, Basic George Cricut Cartridge, fiber

Bitmoji Birthday Card

So my friend asked me to make her daughter’s birthday card. She wanted to use her daughter’s bitmoji on it since it shows her pregnant with her 1st baby. She also wanted balloons on the card if at all possible. So that gave me an excuse to buy a new Tim Holtz die that had little balloons in it!! I used Sketch Saturday Sketch #496 that I had saved in my favorites.

CHALLENGES:
1) Try Stampin’ On Tuesday Challenge – Color Challenge #1 – teal, pink, light blue
2) February Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Favorite Category – used Sketch Saturday Sketch #496.

SUPPLIES:
Image: Bitmoji (sent to me)
Cardstock: Bazzill (Sea Salt, Rain), American Crafts (taffy)
Inks: pre-colored image printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Die (Side Order set – Birthday), Paper Smooches (balloons), Twine, String, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder (Happy Birthday), glue dots, EK Success 1/16 pop dots

Hooked On You

So I saw a digital image of a two hooks made into a heart. So I thought I bet that would look cool to actually use real fishing hooks….and this is the outcome. I have a couple ladies that like fishing themed love cards so I sent the ideal to them and they said go for it! So hopefully they like the outcome.

CHALLENGES:
1) Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #250 – use the sketch as your inspiration. Well I couldn’t work in the strings so I left them off.
2) Feb Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – theme – Love. This will be a Valentine’s or Anniversary card.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (French Vanilla)
Patterned Paper: The Paper Loft (Hooked on Fishing – trolling)
Accents/Tools: fishing hooks from Walmart, glue dots

Teacup Pansies

For some reason I thought this was one of the February flowers but apparently it’s not since it is a Pansy and not a violet. But it’s purple! Any who a lady needed a birthday card for her friend whose birthday is on Valentine’s Day. Decided to not go Valentine theme like a did a couple years ago. She likes flowers so thought it would work for a February Birthday. I added pearls to the cup so I decided to add pearls to the corners….not sure I like them….will look at it in the morning again!

CHALLENGE:
1) Feb Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Photo category – I went with flowers…little loose since didn’t match colors.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Stamp: Purple Pansies Set @ Fred, She Said Designs
Inks: pre-colored digital stamp printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer
Cardstock: Bazzill (rain forest, pansy) American Crafts (blossom)
Accents/Tools: Darice Embossing Folder (Stripe), Recollections (pearls)

Sending You Love

So I almost forgot to check out the monthly image at Gerda Steiner Designs. I’m so glad I checked with a few days left because it was this adorable panda. So I pulled out some new Queen & Co paper I bought and asked my husband to color it up in photoshop to match. My printer prints darker and not always the color on the screen so the first print was more green (see 2nd version) then the color in the striped paper. So after several attempts we got the color to match the papers and that is this version! I used Atlantic Hearts Sketch #248 as my inspiration.

CHALLENGES:
Jan Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites – Atlantic Hearts Sketch #248.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Panda in Love @ Gerda Steiner Designs
Inks: digital image colored in Photoshop by my husband and then printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer
Cardstock: Bazzill (Watermelon, Rain, SeaSalt)
Patterned Paper: Queen & Co (Heart Throb)
Accents/Tools: EK Success concave corner punch, black braiding cord, Queen & Co epoxy dots – Teal

I didn’t want to waste the first print out so I found paper that matched it and made this version. Well good thing I did because a lady bought one of each for her nieces!

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Panda in Love @ Gerda Steiner Designs
Inks: digital image colored in Photoshop by my husband and then printed on a Canon Inkjet Printer
Cardstock: Bazzill (Flamingo, Lagoon)
Patterned Paper: Queen & Co (Heart Throb)
Accents/Tools: EK Success concave corner punch, black braiding cord, Epoxy dots