2nd batch of Easter Cards

Well goodness! I forgot to keep posting cards! Before I get to Mother’s Day cards I better post the rest of Easter 2020.

I made this card for a couple customers that wanted a Christian themed Easter Card.
April Inspirational Card Challenge – embossing

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (white, Sunbeam, Heather, Pansy)
Embossing Folders: Darice (Cross with Script, Scroll Flourish Corner)
Accents/Tools: pop dots

After I made one for orders I decided to make some for my friends and family. So I made them in three colors that I felt fit the receiver.

April Inspirational Card Challenge – embossing

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (white, Limeade, Blossom, Flamingo, Blue Oasis, Tropical)
Embossing Folders: Darice (Cross with Script, Scroll Flourish Corner)
Accents/Tools: pop dots

As I was working on Easter Cards I saw this photo journaling card and got to thinking about how I could turn into a Easter Card. I came up with the ideal to add the dots and the rest of the sentiment. I had my friend make it sound good and this was the finished product. I came up with this ideal because I like the fun part of Easter but also remember that Jesus is the reason for Easter. I sent this to my new adopted Niece and Nephews and they loved it!

April Inspirational Card Challenge – Inspirational Photo – I went with the Easter theme and the eggs.

Used Create with Connie & Mary Sketch #602 for my inspiration.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Blue Oasis)
Patterned Paper and Journaling Photo Card: Doodlebug (Bunnyville)
Accents/Tools: pop dots, Queen & Co pink dots

One of the ladies wanted a card for her dad that is into gardening and native Nebraska flowers. So I learned that the daisy is a native Nebraska flower! So I added the flowers to the journaling photo card and then used Sketch #594 at Cards with Connie & Mary (I flipped it).

I made two cards so I decided to give one to my friend Dale.

April Inspirational Card Challenge – Product – patterned paper.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Blue Oasis, American Poppy, Intense Kiwi)
Patterned Paper and photo card: Doodlebug (Bunnyville)
Accents/Tools: Doodlebug Sprinkles (spring), SVG daisy cut file

So I make cards for a guy at work and then I also make cards for his mother. I made Easter cards for the mother to give to her friends and son (watercolor paper cross card). Then I made this card for the son to give to his mother (parents). She wrote me today and said she loved it! The mom likes flowers so when I saw the journaling photo card I knew to pair it with this bright happy flower paper! I cut down the journaling card and put the dotted frame around it. I used Create with Connie & Mary Sketch #598 as my inspiration. I used a flower punch to add to the strip below the egg. Because some of the journaling photo cards are big I bought 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 envelopes so this card is 6 x 6. It’s big but not too big.

I made 2 of these and sent one of these to my Aunt Barb! Happy Mail!!

April Inspirational Card Challenge – Product – Patterned Paper.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Blue Oasis, Bubblegum, Intense kiwi, Orange Juice, Mexican Poppy)
Patterned Paper: Doodlebug (Easter Parade, Bunnyville)
Accents/Tools: Doodlebug Sprinkles (spring), flower punch, Sizzix Dotted Rectangles framelits dies, pop dots

I needed a card for a lady to give her son. So he got the green/yellow one since that was more manly. I used an older image from Clearly Digi Stamps (no longer in business). Since I’m not good with inks and watercolor I used paper that was already done for me!!

April Inspirational Card Challenge – Photo Inspiration – Easter theme

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Kachina, Watermelon), American Crafts (lipgloss)
Patterned Paper: Recollections color splash 6 x 6 paper pad
Digital Image: Clearly Digi Stamps/Clear Dollar Stamps (Jesus Paid It All) (No longer in business)

Green and Grey Wedding

I made this for a lady whose daughter was getting married and her colors were gray and greens. I used VELLUM!!! that swirl sheet is vellum from who knows how long ago!

I used Tuesday Morning Sketches #395 as my inspiration.

CHALLENGE:
1) May Inspirational Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – product – vellum.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Wedding Silhouette from Clearly Digi Stamps (store closed)
Inks: my husband changed the color and look of the outline in Photoshop.
Cardstock: Bazzill (Ash, bazzill white)
Patterned Paper: vellum (unknown)
Accents/Tools: gems, The Paper Studio silk flowers (greens), glue dots, Xyron 510

Between the pages of a Book!

I am really happy with this card!! I finally made a CAS card that I like! I don’t do CAS and it is usually hard for me but this one came together pretty easily. I also love that it was inspired by Sketch #4 at the September Card Sketch Challenge @ Scrapbook.com. Instead of 5 small hexagons I made one big one. I wanted to do this sketch but it had me stumped for a bit….but not any longer! I was also inspired by Ceal’s card @ Simply Beautiful Blog and took the sentiment from it.  I also went with the simple scheme to follow challenge #208 at ColourQ Blog – black, white and a splash of one color.

But most importantly I made this card for my niece to encourage her to read books. She is struggling in reading so I plan on sending this to her to help her along.

Challenges:

1) Catch the Bug Challenge – September photo challenge – school theme

2) A Gem of a Challenge #99 – use black on your card

3) Day 270 @ 365 Cards – Keep it Simple. Use only 3 items on your card – any three items, not including the sentiment.

4) Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge – Anything Goes (as long as it is for a kid)

5) September Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Photo inspiration category

Supplies:

Digital Image: Bookworms Digital Image (last day to get it at Clearly Digi Stamps)

Accents/Tools: Spellbinders Hexagon Dies, pop dots, Zig black pen, computer

Original Sketch: CAS(e) this Sketch #37

Happy Owl-O-Ween!

Today was craft day at the Retirement Home and this is what they made! It is a Door Hanging Decoration…..you can’t see the ribbon on top that makes it hang.

Challenges:

1) 2 Sisters Challenge Blog – Challenge #163 – Anything Goes

Supplies:

Stamps/Images: Bitty Bat and Pumpkin Digital Image

SVG file: Ollie Owl @ Clearly Digi Stamps

Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet printer

Accents/Tools: pop dots, Cricut

**NOTE: if you want the digital stamp or SVG file you will need to get it in the next 2 days!!! She is closing the store!!**

So I had a couple pieces of paper left over from the project so I made this:

Challenges:

1) September Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Color Category – Orange, purple, green, white (touch of yellow is optional)

Supplies:
Image: die cut from K & Company (Spooktacluar)

Paper: old Halloween paper in my stash!!

Cardstock: Bazzill

Accents/Tools: Embossing stencil, pop dots

Sketch: 2 Sisters Challenge #159

Our last blog hop at Clearly iStamp Blog….

If you haven’t heard Lori is closing Clearly Digi Stamps. You will have until Sept 30th to get any digital stamp in the store for 25% off.  Enter this code at checkout:  SEPT30CLOSING

Just so you know we are not going to be selling my husband’s digital stamps anywhere so if you want any of Patrick Dunnegan’s stamps that are in the store you have until Sept 30th. Then they won’t be for sale anymore (at least for awhile). His work is keeping him busy so he doesn’t have any time to draw right now and I need a break.

So this is our last blog hop at Clearly iStamp Blog and our farewell to show off Lori’s amazing product one last time. The theme is “Anything Goes” but it is also a tribute to this wonderful company that God so blessed me to be a part of.  When I met Lori I had never been on a design team and had NEVER worked with digital stamps. I didn’t have a blog!! Real stamping scares me to death and I’m not good at it so why would this lady with a stamp company would even think about letting me be on her Design Team was beyond me!! It had to be God because she sent me Kitchen Clutter Digital Image and asked me to try out using that digital stamp. So I did and sent her several samples hoping she would like one of them!! Check out the post here for all of the samples.  But here are two of my favorites:

So in March 2011 I got a blog and in April 2011 Lori invited me to be on the Design Team. She hasn’t been able to get rid of me yet!!

So when trying to decide what to do for this blog hop I was torn from using Kitchen Clutter or an SVG file since my first assignment on the team was to make samples for SVG files. But I ended up going with what I love about the company….It’s Christian. The people, the owner, the stamps… all Christian. Thank you Lori for having a Christian company out there with Christian stamps. The stamps have been used and will be used in my church card ministry and I thank you for having that product out there. That is one thing I will miss.

Inside: (verse found on internet)

Cleansed in life-giving waters,

we become the family of God.

Congratulations and best wishes

on this Baptismal Day!

I made this for part of the Card Ministry at my church. It will be the Masculine Adult card given when there is a baptism. I used Cross Messages Digital Image  and the digital paper that comes with it.

You have a chance to win this digital image, Cross Messages,  just for leaving me a comment!! Each blog gets to pick one winner from the comments to win the stamp that was used on the blog.

I hope you started at the beginning of blog hop and have seen all the wonderful images and farewell outwork being displayed today. If you leave a comment on each blog you will have 8 chances to win a digital image seen throughout the blog hop. The winner from each blog will be announced on Thursday, 09/19/2013, at the Clearly iStamp Blog. 

Your next and last stop on the blog hop is Linda’s blog – The Stamper’s Touch.

Thank you so much for hopping along with us.

Challenges:

1) Day 256 @ 365 Cards – Mean Green – Show a card with lots of Green

 

Happy Bee-lated Birthday

I made this card for my niece who turned 10 at the beginning of August. We are such horrible aunt and uncle cause I forgot about it till a couple weeks ago and couldn’t get to making the card till today. So we are SUPER late now. Hope she will forgive us.

CHALLENGES:
1) September Card Challenge – Favorites Category. I was looking at the sketch at Seize the Sketch Challenge #1 and saw bee-lated birthday card that was entered into the challenge. So my inspiration came from the sketch and Ruth’s card at Paper and Musings.

2)  Cute Card Thursday Challenge #284 – Things with wings!

3) Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything birthday!

4) Sweet Stamps Blog Challenge #132 – Birthday

SUPPLIES:
Stamps/Images: Bumbles Digital Image @ Clearly Digi Stamps
Cardstock: Bazzill
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on canon inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: Cuttlebug embossing folder (honeycomb), Making Memories tiny alphabet stickers, pop dots

Time for school!!

Come play with us at Clearly iStamp Blog Challenge #5 – School Time. Any project to do with school will work.

I used The Sweet Stop Sketch #222 for my inspiration.

CHALLENGE:

1) Alphabet Challenge Blog – N for Newest stamp or Decoupage  We would love to see your projects using your recently purchased stamp or decoupage. This is brand new digital stamp released on Aug 15th at Clearly Digi Stamps.

SUPPLIES:

Image/Stamps: Chalk Talk Digital Image @ Clearly Digi Stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill (Black, Red, Kraft, White)

Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon inkjet printer

Accents/Tools: pop dots

There is one in every bunch!!!

It is release day at Clearly Digi Stamps!  I will show you three new release today and one tomorrow! (I was really inspired by all the awesome new releases!!)  I’m going to start with the one that I just had fun with! When I saw Hoppy Frogs Digital Image this ideal popped in my head so I went with it!!

INSIDE: There is one in every bunch!!

I’m sure you can think of one person this card would be perfect for!!

I used Card Maps Sketch March 2010 as my inspiration.

CHALLENGE:

1) Aug Card Sketch Challenge @ scrapbook.com – sketch #2

The second card I started to make a school theme card but it just wasn’t working for me. So I switched gears and made it a fall Thank you card. Just goes to show you how versatile digital images can be.  I used Apple Hedgehog Digital Image. I was inspired by MOJO Monday Sketch #275

CHALLENGE:

1) Scrapbook.com -August Card Challenge – Sketch

The third card is a baby card! A friend of mine needed a baby girl card so I decided the sheep would make a cute baby card. She decided she wanted it to be more pink so I will use this card for the upcoming babies at church! I used New Pastures Digital Image and The Deconstructed Sketch #111 for my inspiration.

CHALLENGES:

 

SUPPLIES:

Hoppy Frogs

Stamps/Images: Hoppy Frogs
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Recollections
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: pop dots, cutterbee scissors, xyron X sticker maker

Thankful for You

Stamps/Images: Apple Hedgehog
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper:
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on canon inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: brown eyelets, twine, burlap ribbon

Baby Girl

Stamps/Images: New Pastures
Cardstock: Bazzill (white)
Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: button, ribbon, glue dot, pop dot, Cricut, Cricut Elegant Edges Cartridge

I did it!! 3 Calendar Pages in 3 weeks!!

Sorry for the darker pictures. My Ott light bulb decided to go out after 6+ years!

This represents my September because my husband’s birthday is the 13th so that means we go to Red Lobster or get Crab Legs from the store!! We love seafood and most special occasions are celebrated at Red Lobster!!

I used the Sketch-y Friday Sketch at Scrap Much?

I used Oceans of Joy Digital Image at Clearly Digi Stamps

Hope you will join us for Part 3 of the Calendar Challenge at Clearly iStamp Blog.

Reminder to play in Part 2 of the Calendar Challenge

Only 3 days left in Part 2 of the Calendar Challenge!!

It is not too late to get motivated to work on a calendar for a Christmas gift. Christmas is only 5 months away so time to start on those crafty Christmas gifts!!

Here are 2 pages for me so only one to go in this round. I hope to get the third one done tomorrow night! Wish me luck!

Rainy Day Digital Image

 I used the sketch from Page Maps June 2013 for inspiration.

Scoops Digital Image

I used Sketch #48 from Sketch Savvy