Owl always love you

Hi Everyone!

Some of you may remember Robbie's passion for owls (and turkeys).  I may give him a valentine with an owl theme this year.  Here's the card I made yesterday.

The pattern for the owl came from www.scrapbooksetc.com  There's a wonderful selection of free paper piecing patterns on that site.  Here's the link for the pattern for the owl. 

The branch I used is a chipboard branch from Maya Road that I painted with brown acrylic paint.  I punched the hearts and covered them with red flocking powder.  The text was stamped with a wooden stamp from Stampendous. 

Have a great night!
Carol

"So Good" Challenge from 365 Cards

Hi Everyone!

And now I have a card for yesterday's "So Good Challenge" from 365 Cards.   For this challenge participants were asked to "Just use the word "Good" as part of your sentiment, EXCEPT that you cannot say "goodbye".  Other than that, anything goes".

Here's where the list of phrases that I have on my clear stamps came in handy once again.  I scrolled through the list and found all of the phrases that had the word "good" in them.  I was surprised to see how many I had, but ended up selecting the one I used on this card.

I got a little carried away with this card.  I flicked water colors onto white tag to add color to my layering paper.  The turtle is paper pieced.  The lanterns were stamped with Hero Arts stamps and fussy cut.  The presents are stickers. 

Hope you have a "good" day!
Carol

"At This Moment" Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Last Friday's challenge from 365 Cards was called "At this Moment" and the specifics for the challenge were "As you're reading this post, think about where are you at this very moment, whether it's the exact place or an activity you did today, that should be the thing that inspires your card".

I glanced over at the cup of tea I was sipping...

and decided to create this card.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss my layering paper.

Hmm, I could use a cup of tea right now!
Carol

Itsy Bitsy Challenge from 365 Cards

Hi Everyone!

I love creating mini cards so I loved last Thursday's "Itsy Bitsy Challenge" from 365 Cards.  For this challenge we were asked to "Make a teeny tiny card - less than 3" by 3" - otherwise the dimensions are up to you."

My teeny tiny card is a 2.75" square. 

First I stamped the Hero Arts owls onto my card.  Then I stamped them on some patterned paper from Memory Box and fussy cut them.  "Love" was stamped with one of my favorite Denami Designs wooden stamps.

Who-oo!
Carol

365 Cards "Nautical" Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Last Wednesday's challenge from 365 Cards was to "create a card with a nautical theme".

Here's my card for that challenge.

The ships and text were created with A Muse Artstamps.  I sponged painted the sky and ocean papers.  The waves were cut from a Fiskars paper punch.  The clouds were cut with dies from PaperTrey Ink.

Looks like it was a choppy day at sea!

Carol

I've Got it Covered Challenge

Hi Everyone!

Now I am going to share the card I created for the 365 Days "I've Got It Covered Challenge".  For this challenge participants were asked to "cover the background with at least two different patterned papers, making sure they don't overlap." 

I created this card for that challenge.

My layering papers are from Memory Box and K and Company.  The ribbon is from American Crafts.  That awesome chipboard cupcake sticker is from Momenta.  The text was created with a wooden stamp from Stampabilities.

Hope you're having fun!
Carol

Color Scheme for 365 Cards

Hi Everyone!

Now I will share the card I created for 365 Cards "Color Scheme"  Challenge.  For this challenge participants were asked to use these colors on their card.

Here's my card.

I used a Martha Stewart punch to create my balloons and thin jewelry wire for the balloon strings.  The text was created with a Judi Lynn wooden stamp.

Moving along...
Carol

Super Sketchy Sunday

Good Morning Everyone!

It's been a busy week and this one is going to be even busier, but happily I found the time to create some cards.  I have an entire week of cards that I created for the challenges from 365 Cards so grab a cup of tea and get ready.

This first card was created for the Super Sketchy Sunday Challenge.  For this challenge participants were asked to create a card based on this sketch.

Here's the card I created.

The layering paper I used is from SEI.  The cupcake in the center is a sticker.  The ice cream cones and cupcakes in the 4 corners are brads from Eyelet Outlet.

More to come!

Carol

Polka Dotted Birthday Card

Good Morning Everyone!

Whew!  I posted a lot of cards yesterday.  If time allows I will post more of them later today.  I forgot to mention that my polka dotted birthday card shown here

was one of the 3 cards featured on last week's Little Red Wagon blog.  

Hope you'll stop by to see it and to get some inspiration from the many other cards on their site. 

Have a great day!
Carol

Cupcake Craft Challenges "Born on A Winter's Day"

Hi Everyone!

While I am building up my stash of birthday cards I decided to participate in the Cupcake Craft Challenges "Born on a Winter's Day" Challenge.  The expectations for this challenge are "We'd like to see your Wintery themed birthday cards; it will need to be a wintery and birthday looking creation! ;)". 

I pulled out my favorite Great Impressions snowman stamp and got him ready for a party.   After the children built Frosty in the "Frosty the Snowman" TV special he exclaimed, "Happy Birthday!" when he came to life.  So that's what my snowman did too!  Here's my card.

Stay warm!
Carol

Pink and Green Birthday Card

Hi Everyone!

No matter how many birthday cards I create I never seem to have enough of them.  That's one of reasons I couldn't pass up the opportunity to participate in the

Colour Create #88 "Pink and Green" Challenge

and the 365 Cards (Day 327) "Shape Up!" Challenge

Happily I completed all 7 challenges for 365 Cards this past week.

Here's my card.

I used a Martha Stewart cupcake paper punch to create my cupcakes.  The "frosting" is adhered to the card with foam tape.  I used my classic and scalloped square Nestabilities to frame the cupcakes.  All of the white tag I used was embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder.  The ribbon is from American Crafts and is my favorite birthday ribbon. 

Wish I had a cupcake right now.  Maybe I'll do some baking today!

Have a great day!
Carol

"Happy Birthday!"

Hi Everyone!

The card I am about to share with you is one of my favorites.  It took a little longer than some of my other cards have to create, but I think it was worth the time.  This card meets the requirements for

365 Cards, Day 326 "Imagine This:  Breezy" Challenge

Cards for Men "Boys and Their Toys" Challenge

Crazy for Challenges "Child's Birthday Card" Challenge

Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 91  "Birthday Card" Challenge

Here's my card.

Sailboats need a "Breezy" day to move across the waters.  Put some toy boats in the water table and the little boys in our preschool classroom will play with them for hours.  The adult males that I know who sail are happiest when they're out at sea. 

The clouds on this card were cut from a die and then I paper pierced them.  There's something about those clouds.  I ALWAYS paper pierce them!

The waves were cut with a Fiskars paper punch. I paper pieced the sailboats. Their sails are attached to the card with foam tape.  Don't you just love those tiny number stickers.  They're from October Afternoon and were waiting in my sticker stash for me.  The text was stamped with a Lawn Fawn clear stamp.

Too cold to go sailing in Massachusetts today. 

Hope you'll have a wonderful day!
Carol

365 Cards "Inside Out" Challenge

Hi Everyone!

A few days ago I told you that I have the text messages that are on my clear stamps listed in a file on my computer.  I was especially happy to have that file to refer to when I got my idea for last Thursday's 365 Cards "Inside Out"  Challenge.  For this challenge participants were asked to "Put your sentiment on the front of the card, and the decorations on the inside.  Keep any decorations on the outside down to little or none".

After I decided what I wanted inside my card, I went through my file looking for sentiments that would give clues to what was inside the card.  Then I stamped the sentiments on the front of the card. 



Can you guess what's inside the card?  Here's the inside of the card.

The text that's inside the card is a little hard to read from my photograph. It says, "Chocolate is the answer".  Marie would say that chocolate is the answer to everything!

Hope you're having fun!
Carol

365 Days "Bold Banner" Challenge

Hi Everyone!

The cards I am posting today aren't necessarily in the order of the challenges.  I posted last Tuesday's 365 Days challenge last week.  This post is for the Wednesday, January 18 
 365 Days (Day 324) Bold Banner Challenge.  For this post participants were asked  "We've had a sort of create-a-banner challenge before, but this one requires that you make it the focal point of your card and incorporate it into the sentiment."

 I wanted my banner to be fluttering in the sky so I die cut some clouds and used removable adhesive to attach them to a piece of white tag. Then I used a sea sponge to sponge paint the tag with some baby blue acrylic paint. When the paint was dry I peeled off the clouds.

I die cut 4 banner flags and added sticker letters to them to spell out “love”. Then I punched holes through the top edges of each flag and threaded some baby white ric rac through the holes. Baby ric rac is a staple in my paper crafting supplies.

I used my Big Bite to add eyelets to the top corners of my layering paper and threaded the ric rac through the eyelets. The text was stamped with a Savvy stamp. I added some heart shaped rhinestones to the banner to give it a little something extra.

Enjoy!

Carol

365 Cards Day 322 "Feeling Scrappy" Challenge

Good Morning Everyone!

This is my second post of the day.  The challenge for last Monday, January 16 at 365 Cards for Day 322 was "Feeling Scrappy".  The specifics for that challenge were "Dig through those scraps and find 3 patterned papers and 2 pieces of cardstock to use on your card.  Aside from the cardstock base, the paper you use should be from scraps of paper."

Finding scraps is not a problem for me.  Since I have been working on valentines I just happened to have a nice variety of valentine scraps to use.  I stamped a Hero Arts flower cling stamp onto my scraps, fussy cut them and adhered them to my layering paper.  The text was stamped with a Northwoods Rubber stamp. 

I added some bee stickers, bee brads, and a button that was threaded with floss. 

Here's my card.

Stay tuned for more cards!
Carol

Super Sketchy Sunday Challenge, Day 321

Good Morning Everyone!

Yesterday was a cold snowy Saturday.  Robbie and Marie were at work and I was fighting off a bug so I was content to sit all day and work on some cards.  Today I will be posting cards for a variety of challenges so grab a cup of tea and read on.

Last Sunday's (January 15) Super Sketchy Sunday Challenge, Day 321 at 365 Days was to use this sketch to create a card.

Challenging was the perfect word for this card.  The instant I looked at the sketch I had an idea, but I didn't have a stamp that worked for that idea so I moved onto plan B.  The sketch looks as if there could be 3 layers on the card so that's the route I took.  Here's my card.

I sponge painted a sky for the top layer and the ocean for the middle layer.  I used sand paper for my third layer.  I turned the circle at the top of the card into the sun and the lines into the sun's rays.  The text at the bottom of the card was created with tiny alphabet stickers. 

Have a great day!

Carol

Black and White Challenge

Hi Everyone!

This week's CAS-ual Friday Challenge is to create a project that is only black and white.  Some of you may recall that the theme of Marie's birthday last year was black and white.  I had forgotten how much I like the look of a card that is only black and white.

The quilt patches were stamped with a wooden Great Impressions stamp.  The tex is from PaperTrey Ink's "Quilter's Sampler" clear stamp set.  The ribbon is from my stash. 
Have a great night!

Carol

 

Masculine Birthday Card

Hi Everyone!

This is my second post for today. This week’s One-Layer Wednesday Card Challenge is to create a masculine birthday card. I used an Accu-Cut T-shirt die to cut my one layer card. The text was stamped with a clear stamp from Hampton Art’s “Happy Birthday” clear stamp collection. The musical notes were stamped with a “Double Note” wooden stamp from Stampendous.

While I am thinking of it I want to share some organizational tips that work very well for me. I store my clear stamps in standard, not slim cd cases. The cd cases are stored in a cd storage holder in alphabetical order.

The order starts out as alphabets, baby, bicycle, birthday...That’s helpful to me, but here’s the most helpful part of what I have done. On my computer I created a file that lists the text content of each of the cd cases. So when I am trying to decide what text to put on a card I scroll through my file to see all of the messages I have and select the text that works the best for that card. This works another way too. Sometimes I scroll through the file to see the messages I have, select one and create a card that works with the text.

Have a great night!

Carol

365 Cards "World's Collide" Challenge

Hi Everyone!

The theme for Tuesday’s 365 Cards Challenge is “World’s Collide”. The guidelines for the challenge are to mix some Vintage Style with Clean and Simple. When I read about the challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to use on my card. I dug through my stash and found a sheet of Chip ‘n Stick from October Afternoon’s "Modern Homemaker" collection that I bought a while ago. I bought the set because one of the chipboard stickers is a Felix the Cat clock.

In the fifties when Jeanne, Bobby and I were growing up Jeanne and I had a black Felix the Cat clock hanging in our room and Bobby had a golden yellow one hanging in his room.

My card was easy to assemble. The layering paper which reminds me of the floral wallpaper that hung on our walls is from the dcwv Nana’s Kitchen collection. I used 2 of my oval standard Nestabilites to cut the frame of my desk chair.   I cut ¼ inch strips to use as spindles for the chair.

The text is from PaperTrey Ink’s “Everyday Buttons” clear stamp set.

Have a great night!

Carol

Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone!

Last night I created a card that fulfills the requirements for the

CAS-ual Friday Scallop challenge

4 Craft Chicks Recipe challenge

Sentimental Sundays Ribbon and Sentiment challenge

I am very pleased with this card and have already thought of variations for it that I will try sometime soon. 

The shimmer background paper is from SEI. It’s called “Forget-me-dots” and is from their "Ally’s Wonderland" collection. I don’t think that my photograph does the beautiful metallic shimmer of the paper justice so you’ll just have to take my word for it when I say it is Bee-U-T-full.

I used my classic and scalloped square and rectangular Nestabilities to help create some of the layers on my card. I paper pierced the white scallops to make them look lacy.

The cupcake was created with a cling stamp from Hero Arts. I used Color Box Frosty White pigment when I stamped the “cupcake wrapper” on a scrap of Memory Box paper and fussy cut it. I colored in the thin stripes on it with a marker and then I ran it through one of my crimpers to give it texture.

I stamped the “frosting” onto white tag, embossed it, colored it with markers, and fussy cut it. The heart buttons are from Favorite Findings. The text is from Lawn Fawn’s “Sophie’s Sentiments” clear stamp set. The adorable cupcakes ribbon is from American Crafts.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Carol

Little Red Wagon and CPS Challenges

Hi Everyone!

I truly love checking out challenges each day before I start to create my cards. I cannot believe that I have pretty much ignored them until now. One of the things I love about paper crafting is the problem solving aspect of it. I sit here looking at my stamps, papers, embellishments, etc. and think of ways to use those products to make something that I enjoy creating, that pleases me when I finish creating it, and that makes others happy. The challenges I am now trying also involve problem solving along with the other aspects of paper crafting that I enjoy.

If you also enjoy problem solving and paper crafting or just need a little inspiration

be sure to visit my friend Shirley’s blog to see her amazing cards and the list of challenges she has posted.

This week Little Red Wagon is having an Itty Bitty Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Challenge. The creation can be itty bitty, yellow, polka dotted, or have a bikini.

Card Positioning Systems has a fun challenge based on this sketch.

I decided to create a card based on the CPS sketch that incorporated yellow and other polka dots. I had SO much fun.

Here’s my card.

The balloon and bird images are from the Hero Arts Wonderful Birthday clear stamp set. The polka dotted papers are from Memory Box.

Have a great night!

Carol