I have a standing order for one of the guys at work to make his wife sunflower cards for her birthday, valentines and Mother’s Day. This is her birthday card this year.
My inspiration came from this card came from Lynn’s Locker
Challenge: October Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites – Recreate a card or sketch you’ve saved in your favorites either on this site, a blog, or Pinterest.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (Mexican Poppy, Java, pinecone) Patterned Paper: Doodlebug (Kraft in color), The Paper Studio (white shiplap) Metal Dies: Gina Marie Designs (wreath), Cottage Cutz (sunflowers), Sizzix Tim Holtz (Tags) Accents/Tools: Doodlebug Sprinkles(birthday boy)
Another one of the guys at work gets a mother’s day card for his mom and her theme is rainbows. So I made two versions and then made it in other colors case other people liked the design.
He chose this full rainbow one for his mom!
Another customer chose the same full rainbow one for her 3 daughters!
I made the yellow one for another customer whose wife loves yellow and they have 9 kids so I represented that with 9 hearts and a big heart for the husband.
May 2020 Inspirational Card Challenge – Product Category – vellum
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (scraps in all colors) Metal Dies: Memory Box (Flicker Hearts), Lawn Fawn (LF492 Hearts), Lawn Fawn (Mother’s Day Border) Accents/Tools: Hobby Lobby vellum, Xyron X,
So I made several different sizes of rainbow stripes so I decided to turn this one into a birthday card.
This card is for the May Happy Mail Challenge at Scrapbook.com. Dawn.s put out a request: I do have a special request for a young lady who’s only wish for her 18th birthday is to receive cards in the mail. Her name is Julia and she is the niece of a friend of mine. Julia is autistic and will be graduating high school soon, from special needs classes, with the capabilities of a second grader. Her birthday is May 9th and handmade or store bought cards would be welcomed.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (scraps in all colors) Metal Dies: Queen & Company (words), Stampin Up (Stitched Star Dies) Accents/Tools: Hobby Lobby vellum, Xyron X,
I have been making some of the guys at work cards for their mom’s and wives for several years. This is one of my longest customers and every Mother’s Day he gets a card for his grandma (flamingos), Mom (cactus, old west), wife (sunflowers) and step-mom (garden, flowers, old trucks). So this is this years cards….
I original made this one for a guy who wanted a “bright happy sunflower” card to encourage someone. Sunflowers usually have darker colors to it because of the darker yellow Sunflowers are. But he wanted a brighter yellow so this is what I came up with. Hope he likes it! I used Sketch~N~Scrap World Card Making Day 2019 sketch #4 as my inspiration. I found a color scheme on the internet and then modified it a little.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (Blue Oases, Atlantic, African Daisy, Hillary), AC Cardstock (Taffy) Metal Dies: Spellbinders (Create a Sunflower) Accents/Tools: Darice Embossing Folder (wire fence), Doodlebug Sprinkles (Birthday girl)
So I had bought some sunflower stickers and made this version for the wife that loves sunflowers! (I have been making her cards since she was the girlfriend!)
This card was inspired by one of Karen’s (TexasMomOf4) cards that we are lifting as part of the May 2020 Inspirational Card Challenge.
This is not showing up very well in the photograph on here. I promise it looks way better in real life. It is a different style for me but I think I like it. When I started putting the plants on the popped up piece I had to hang them off to make them fit. I liked the look and realized Karen’s had a little hanging off too. Thanks Karen for the inspiration!
P.S. – the background is paper that comes in the paper pack.
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His grandma gets a flamingo Mother’s Day and Christmas card every year. So this is paper from the same line I made her card in 2014. I used Atlantic Hearts Sketch #361 as my inspiration.
This was for his step-mom and was also one of my popular Mother’s Day cards this year. The flower was cut from a patterned paper in a paper pad. The patterned paper also came from the same paper pad. Added some cardstock, twine and cute sketch and the card was done! I used the Sketch~n~Scrap Sketch #165 for my inspiration.
May 2020 Inspirational Card Challenge – Theme – card for Female. May Happy Mail Card Challenge – I sent this one to my Godmother.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Hobby Lobby (dark blue), Bazzill (rain) Patterned Paper: Craft Smart Paper Pad (Deep Blossom) Accents/Tools: twine, Fiskars Scallop Edge punch, EK Success 1/16 pop dots
I have a standing order for hummingbirds for Mother’s Day. I broke down and bought “Humming Along” by Stampin’ Up. So glad I did. Since I’m not a stamper or good at coloring I decided to stamp on paper that was done like watercolor! Then I used the dies to cut it out. I used the abstract image that comes in the die as the background. It took me a little bit to figure out how to do it since the gold was thin and when it went through the xyron it would be hard to put it on without it ripping. Finally glued the gold on some plain cardstock and then cut it.
Even though the sketch showed ink I did a die cut….which is more my style!
CHALLENGES: 1) May 2019 Card Sketch – Sketch #4. Original sketch found here.
SUPPLIES: Stamp and Metal Die: Humming Along by Stampin’ Up Cardstock: Bazzill (Rain, Seasalt) The Paper Studio (Antique Gold) Patterned Paper (hummingbird): Recollections (Bold Brushstrokes) Ink: memento black
Stamp and Metal Die: Humming Along by Stampin’ Up Cardstock: Bazzill (Lagoon, ) The Paper Studio (Antique Gold) Patterned Paper (hummingbird): Recollections (Bold Brushstrokes) Ink: memento black
Stamp and Metal Die: Humming Along by Stampin’ Up Cardstock: Bazzill (Bazzill Green, Pollen) The Paper Studio (Antique Gold) Patterned Paper (hummingbird): Recollections (Bold Brushstrokes) Ink: memento black
Stamp and Metal Die: Humming Along by Stampin’ Up Cardstock: Bazzill (Kachina, Pollen) The Paper Studio (Antique Gold) Patterned Paper (hummingbird): Recollections (Bold Brushstrokes) Ink: memento black
Needed a Mother’s Day card with birds and saw this image in the Photoplay Moments in Time collection and thought it was perfect. I used an old Stella Says Sketch #601. Challenge: 1) May 2019 Inspirational Card Challenge – Favorites – Recreate a card or sketch you’ve saved in your favorites either on this site, a blog, or Pinterest. Just make sure to link up the card in the description.
SUPPLIES: Image and Patterned Paper: Photoplay (Moments In Time) Cardstock: Bazzill (Ivy, Lagoon) Accents/Tools: Dots (The Paper Studio)
Had the Photoplay Moments In Time collection out and thought this might be for a mom that likes bicycles. The colors are different but that is what stood out in the flowers to me.
SUPPLIES: Image and Patterned Paper: Photoplay (Moments In Time) Cardstock: Bazzill (Cinder, Velvet), American Crafts (peach)
I have been making one of the guys at work Mother’s Day cards for his wife for the past 6 years (if not longer). He likes to have his kids represented on the card if possible. This year I found out she likes hippos so I remembered Gerda Steiner cute Hippo Stamp. It is no longer a digi stamp so I had to buy the clear stamp – Hippo with Butterfly. Now most of you know I am not a stamper and coloring is not my thing. Well I tried to color him and it looked horrible. After telling off my friends (Karen & Ro) that make stamping look easy God reminded me that wasn’t nice and to do what I’m comfortable with!! So I stamped on cardstock and paper pieced!! I love how he turned out. I found this color combo and used it for my inspiration.
I then had my husband design the saying for the shirt and I ran the shirt through the printer to print it on the shirt.
SUPPLIES: Stamp: Hippo with Butterfly @ Gerda Steiner Designs Cardstock: Bazzill Accents/Tools: Lawn Fawn Party Balloons, black string, EK Success 1/16 pop dots
I have to do a flamingo card for a co-workers grandmother every year. This is her 2019 Mother’s Day card. I had to use less lighting for the photo to show the 3 embossed lines on the left. Used sketch #5 from the April Card Sketch Challenge. I made the card horizontal instead of vertical. Also for the April Inspirational Card Challenge – bonus – mother’s Day.
SUPPLIES: Digital Image: Endless Summer from Digi Web Studio (no longer available) Cardstock: Bazzill (Flamingo, Lagoon) Accents/Tools: Kaiserscrapbook rhinestone (island lagoon), Stampin Up (Seaside embossing folder), scor-pal
I realized I did not post any of my Mother’s Day cards for 2018. This was the grandmother’s 2018 Mother’s Day Card. I cut an extra flower spray and pop dotted it on top of the flamingo for dimension.
*So I’m late posting this to the blog as I made it in Feb 2019.
I bought this paper at Hobby Lobby thinking it would be good for some customers. Well decided to make one for one of my bosses to give his wife. I have been making Valentine and Mother’s Day cards for her for the past 6 years (maybe longer). When she saw me she told me that she told her husband he was never allowed to buy a store bought card again for her!! I hope she likes this one….a little different than my normal style.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: Bazzill (Ivy) Patterned Paper: Vintage Valentine by The Paper Studio Accents/Tools: pearls, cutter bee scissors, lace, 1/16 EK Success Pop dots
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.
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