It’s a Girl baby cards

I needed a baby girl card for one of the guys at work. She was born in May so I’m doing pretty good for me!! Several Christmas’ ago my husband picked out scrapbook supplies for one of my Christmas gifts. He picked out this ephemera pack by Carta Bella “It’s a Girl”. Well I had just reorganized part of my scrapbook room. So with cute supplies, several card sketches and organized supplies I started with this card and ended up making 5 cards since the inspiration just kept coming.

CHALLENGE:
1) September Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites – used Try Stampin’ on Tuesday Sketch #519http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-519.html, I turned it on it’s side and made it horizontal.
2) September Happy Mail Challenge – finally getting a baby congratulation card for Campbell.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Raven, French Vanilla)
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up Designer 6 x 6 paper
Ephemera Package: Carta Bella (It’s a Girl)
Embossing Folder: Cricut Cuttlebug (Swiss dots)
Metal die: Paper Smooches (balloons)
Accents/Tools: string, pop dots

This is a card I was inspired to make with a clean-ish room and cute supplies out. This was card #2 out of the 5 I was inspired to make. Several Christmas’ ago my husband picked out scrapbook supplies for one of my Christmas gifts. He picked out this ephemera pack by Carta Bella “It’s a Girl”.

CHALLENGE:
1) September Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites – used Try Stampin’ On Tuesday card sketch #517 – I flipped it upside down.
Sketch found here: http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-517.html

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Hillary, French Vanilla)
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up 6 x 6 Designer paper
Embossing Folder: Cricut Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots)
Metal Dies: Life Style Crafts (Nesting lace rectangles)
Ephemera Package: Carta Bella (It’s a Girl)

This is a card I was inspired to make with a clean-ish room and cute supplies out. This was card #3 out of the 5 I was inspired to make. Several Christmas’ ago my husband picked out scrapbook supplies for one of my Christmas gifts. He picked out this ephemera pack by Carta Bella “It’s a Girl”.

My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #555. Original Sketch found here: https://www.mftstamps.com/blogs/news/wsc555

CHALLENGE:
1) September Inspirational Card Challenge – Bonus Category – Sewing – there is faux stitching and the black die circle also has embossed stitching.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Lava, Raven, French Vanilla)
Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye (On the Sunny Side “Parade paper”)
Metal Dies: Life Style Crafts (Nesting lace rectangles), Spellbinders (Fancy edged circles)
Ephemera Package: Carta Bella (It’s a Girl)
Edge Punch: EK Success (dotted scallop)

This is a card I was inspired to make with a clean-ish room and cute supplies out. This was card #4 out of the 5 I was inspired to make. Several Christmas’ ago my husband picked out scrapbook supplies for one of my Christmas gifts. He picked out this ephemera pack by Carta Bella “It’s a Girl”.

CHALLENGE:
1) September Inspirational Challenge – Favorites – My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #553. Original Sketch found here: https://www.mftstamps.com/blogs/news/wsc553

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (French Vanilla, Raven, Orange Juice)
Embossing Folder: Cricut Cuttlebug (Swiss Dots)
Accents/Tools: Queen & Co epoxy stars, Eyelet Outlet enamel dots, EK Success Corner Rounder
Ephemera Package: Carta Bella (It’s a Girl)

This is a card I was inspired to make with a clean-ish room and cute supplies out. I made 5 different cards (this is #5). Several Christmas’ ago my husband picked out scrapbook supplies for one of my Christmas gifts. He picked out this ephemera pack by Carta Bella “It’s a Girl”.

CHALLENGE:
1) September Card Sketch Challenge – Bonus Sketch. Original sketch: MOJO Monday 324

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Sunbeam, Hillary, Cajun)
Ephemera Package: Carta Bella (It’s a Girl)
Accents/Tools: Cuttlebug Cricut embossing folder (Swiss Dots), EK Success edge punch (dotted scallop), black string, pop dots

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

 

Encouragment Cards

A lady at work saw a card I made with this quote so she requested this quote for her BF husband who is going through some health issues. (The card for her BF is next!)
I used the colors from the May Inspirational Card Challenge – color category. I used MFTWSC182 sketch which was one of the sketches in last months April Inspirational Challenge. I used all scraps for this card.

CHALLENGES:
1) May Inspirational Card Challenge – Color category.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Wordart – Ginger’s House Blog 06/09/09
Cardstock: Bazzill (admiral, brown)
Accents/Tools: Cuttlebug Embossing folder (Wicker Weave), old button

So the lady at work wanted a card for her BFF whose husband has been injured and not healing. Been a long road but they finally found out he has something that keeps him from healing. There is no cure but they can manage it now that they know he has it. My co-worker wanted to encourage her friend during this time. She found the “hang in there” card I did for my friend and said she wanted something similar. This is what I came up with. I used MOJO Sketch #446 for my inspiration.

CHALLENGES:
1) May Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites Category – used a past MOJO sketch.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Hang in There from Deedee’s Digis (no longer in business)
Cardstock: Bazzill (Flamingo, Artesian Pool)
Inks: colored in photoshop by my husband and printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: Taylored Expresseions embossing folder (cloudy days), EK Success double embossd dotted lace edge punch, EK Success 1/16 pop dots

Just wanted to wish you…

So I needed a card for 21st birthday and was trying to use a wine bottle. I thought I could make this sketch work for it but it didn’t. So I had all these pieces cut out so I decided to make the original sketch without the wine bottle.

CHALLENGES:
1) April Card Sketch Challenge – Sketch #1 – original sketch was from Pagemaps
2) April Inspirational Card Challenge – Product – I used black string.

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock: Bazzill (Berry Sensation, Nelly, Kachina)
Accents/Tools: Martha Stewart balloon punch, Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder, McGill stamp punch,

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Lots of Love

So last month I made all the categories in the Card Challenge except for the technique….I actually had it all laid out on the last day but didn’t have time to put it together. But I also used a sketch I had saved in my favorites so I will put it in that category this month since I used a saved sketch and saved technique!

CHALLENGES:
1) Feb Inspirational Card Challenge – technique category – saved sketch – Clean & Simple #125 and saved technique – color blocking with cardstock.

SUPPLIES:
Digital Image: Lots of Love by Deedee’s Digis (shop closed….but it was the last Freebie on her blog so go get it!! http://www.deedeesdigis.com/
Cardstock: Bazzill (brown, cranapple dark, kraft)
Inks: pre-colored digital image printed on canon inkjet printer
Accents/Tools: Sizzix embossing folder, black twine/string, Cricut, Basic George Cricut Cartridge

A Turtle-riffic Birthday!

Still got this cold but have a little more energy today so since it is the LAST day to enter Deedee’s Digi of the Month challenge I dragged by bottom into my scraproom and came up with this! Not bad for having to blow your nose every 5 min!

I did a mixture of using the pre-colored digi (the base of the turtle) but then colored the shell and balloon in photoshop and glued them on top of the base. Then I printed the hat out on red cardstock and cut it out.

CHALLENGES:

1) Deedee’s Digi of the Month – Make a project with the stamp provided and next month’s image will be FREE!

2) March Card Challenge @ Scrapbook.com – Favorites Category – Use a sketch or card you have saved in your favorites as inspiration. I used Sketch Saturday Sketch #294.

3) Simply Create Too Challenge #56 – Shop in your stash. This is my 2nd entry…as I said I need to “shop in my stash” a lot!! Everything from my scrap drawers except for the green diamond paper…but I bought the pack last year sometime. The punches had forever!

4) Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything goes – no topping this week. This is my 2nd entry.

5) Card Makin Mamas Challenge #81 – stack it up! 3 layers or more.

SUPPLIES:

Digital Image: Turtleriffic Day @ Deedee’s Digis

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned Paper: Echo Park (A Boy’s Life)

Inks: pre-colored digi printed on Canon Inkjet Printer, shell colored in photoshop, hat paper pieced

Accent/Tools: circle punch, corner rounder, X – sticker maker, EK success border punch

Oh it is NEW and EXCITING!

I’m so EXCITED to announce all the NEW stuff we having going on at Clearly Digi Stamps! So hop on over to Clearly iStamp and see what all the EXCITEMENT is about!!

Yes, CDS is moving to a new store tomorrow, 05/15/2013, which brings a ton of EXCITEMENT…BUT I also have something else NEW to reveal to you!! My husband, Patrick, is going to be a CDS illustrator!! His first set of digital stamps come out TOMORROW so don’t miss the MAY RELEASE at Clearly iStamp.

Since the old store is down and the new store is getting prepared to launch tomorrow we decided what better way to spend our time waiting then playing in our craft rooms! So CDS  is having a  ONE DAY CHALLENGE for you at Clearly iStamp. So here is an introduction of my husband’s stamp called Dragons and my example for the challenge at Clearly iStamp – CELEBRATION!

I’m so lucky to have a talented husband that draws and a wonderful friend, Stephanine, that is amazing at sentiments for cards! They make my job a lot easier! I just love love love how this card turned out. It was all based off the wonderful sentiment. The sentiment isn’t included in the digital stamp but feel free to use it…..I just printed it out in word.

Hope you will come play with us at Clearly iStamp!

CHALLENGES:

1) Clearly iStamp Challenge – Celebration

2) Card Makin Mamas Challenge # 69 – Punches. All the balloons are punched from a Martha Stewart Balloon Punch.

3) Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #44 – CAS

4) A Gem of a Challenge #79 – Things with wings!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Dragons @ Clearly Digi Stamps
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Echo Park (Hello Summer)
Inks: pre-colored image printed on Canon Inkjet Printer
Accents/Tools: Martha Stewart balloon punch, black string, pop dots, computer

Challenge 2 – Balloons

Now for the next challenge at Clearly iStamp in celebration of National Scrapbook Day:
CHALLENGE #2: Balloons! 
Must have one or many on your project.

When I was deciding on what challenges to do I thought of all the wonderful Balloon stamps that Clearly Digi Stamps has in their store. This is Hot Air Balloon is one of my favorites and I guess I like it for Masculine cards as this is the 2nd or maybe 3rd one I made with it! It is so fun and easy to paper piece too.  I used a March 2012 Card map from pagemaps.com as inspiration.

CHALLENGES:

1) Addicted to Stamps Challenge #55 – Button

2) Creative Inspirations Challenge #212 – Birthdays

3) Cute Card Thursday Challenge #267 – Come fly with me

SUPPLIES:

Images/Stamps: Lifting You Up Digital Stamp at Clearly Digi Stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill (Ivy, Pinecone, Lakeshore)

Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye (On the Bright Side)

Accents/Tools: notebook edge punch, button, twine, ribbon

Sketch: March 2012 Card Map from Pagemaps.com

Happy Birthday Bugaboo Style!!

Inside: Happy Birthday!

You can only call your good friends “old Fart” and get away with it! So that is who I made this card for. Also, to give her a chuckle.

Bugaboo is the sponsor at For Fun Challenges this week as we celebrate “A Friends Birthday”. Not just ANY birthday card but it must be for a FRIEND!! If you are needing an image to be able to meet the challenge check out Bugaboo there is something for everyone!  And the winner at For Fun Challenge will get 7 free stamps from Bugaboo!!

CHALLENGES:

1) Cute Card Thursday – Challenge 188 – Sketch. Use the Sketch provided. I think you can see the sketch. I took the bottom piece and made it go diagonal instead of it going horizontal across the bottom.

2) Creative Craft World –  Have  ‘numbers’  or  ‘add a sentiment’. This challenge will run until 5th November at 10pm GMT

Inside: BUY IT!   Happy Birthday!

I have another friend that this image fit perfectly so I decided to make two cards! Plus I wanted to play in The Play Date Cafe color challenge. It was fun going out of my norm and I ended up with a cute card. I probably would of went with bright colors if it wasn’t for the challenge.

CHALLENGE:

1) The Play Date Cafe (PDCC105) –  This week’s color story is from our terrific Color Story Coordinator, Jaclyn Miller and her suggested color palette this week is… Kraft/Taupe…Flesh…Cadet Blue

2) Bows & Berries Challenge #13 – Clean & Simple

3) CAS-ual Fridays (CFC26) –  Create a Clean And Simple card using the sketch

**Upcoming Event**

Clear Dollar Stamps is having a SPECIAL blog hop THIS Sunday (11-6-11)

We will be featuring a new stamp. For hopping with us TWO lucky people will have a chance to win the digital stamp!!

See you Sunday at www.clearlyistamp.typepad.com

SUPPLIES:

Old Fart Card

Stamp/Image: Stella Birthday – Aged to Perfection by Bugaboo

Cardstock/Papers: Cardstock – Bazzill Navy/OP, Green, Patterned Paper – Carolee Creations (college friends)

Inks/Markers: Canon inkjet printer (colored in Photoshop)

Accents/Tools: orange brads, Fiskars frame template, pop dots

Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4

If the Shoe Fits

Stamp/Image:  JJ Tequila and Shoes – If the Shoe Fits by Bugaboo

Cardstock/Papers: Cardstock – Bazzill

Inks/Markers: Canon inkjet printer (colored in Photoshop)

Accents/Tools: computer, black pen

Card Size: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

Clear Dollar Stamps Day 4 of New Product Parade!

Welcome to Day 4 of the Clear Dollar Stamps Product Parade!  This is the time where the DT shows you the some different ways to use the newest releases from Clear Dollar Stamps.  The best part about it all is that, you can order everything RIGHT NOW!  You don’t have to wait!

I will be only showing one set but if you want to see the ALL of the amazing new stamps go to their blog Clearly iStamp.

SUPPLIES:

Stamps/Images: Don’t let anything burst your balloon @ www.cleardollarstamps.com
Cardstock/Papers: Cardstock – Bazzill, Patterned Paper –
Ink/Markers:
Accents/Tools: Martha Stewart balloon punch, black floss, pop dots

Don’t forget This Sunday, October 16th,  is the Monthly Blog Hop at Clearly Istamp.  One lucky winner will receive a $25 Clear Dollar Stamps gift certificate for  digital images!