Birthday Lion

Today's card is for my nephew who turned two.  What kind of card do you make for a two year old?  I looked up punch art lions and saw a lot of cute ones and picked one and put it together.  I heard he liked the card because he roared when he saw it. :)  I used the Paper Craft Crew card sketch challenge #65 for the card's design.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Card Stock:  Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, 

Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Soft Suede & Crushed Curry

Stampin' Write Marker:  Soft Suede

Embossing Folder:  Perfect Polka Dots & Stripes

Punches:  Blossom, 1 3/8" Circle, 3/4" Circle,

Owl Builder (heart & eyes) & Scallop Edge Boarder (retired)

Get Well Wishes

Today's get well card is made using the Paper Craft Crew card sketch #64.  I was trying to use the colors from another challenge, and after I got the card done I realized I totally left one of the colors out.  Not sure how I did that since I had all the colors out, but I'm not going back and adding it in that's for sure! lol

 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Summer Silhouettes & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Midnight Muse & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pistachio Pudding, 

Strawberry Slush & Crisp Cantaloupe

Stampin' Write Marker:  Midnight Muse 

Framelits:  Ovals Collection

Occasions Paper-piercing Pack

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

CAS - Lovely as a Tree

Today's card is a pretty clean and simple one inspired by the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge.  Since I had pulled this set out to show to someone at my stamp a stack I thought I would use it since it's been a while.  Plus I needed a birthday card for my nephew. :)  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Lovely as a Tree & Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Ink:  StazOn Black

Punches:  1 1/4" Square & 1 3/8" Square

Candy Dots:  Neutrals

Soft Serene Silhouettes

Just a quick post for today.  This is one of the cards I'll be using for this month's stamp a stack.  It was inspired by this week's Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge.  To get the blue and green color behind the stamp I used a sponge and rubbed it back and forth and re-inked it until I got it as dark as I wanted it. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Serene Silhouettes & Simply Sketched

Card Stock:  Pool Party & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pool Party & Pear Pizzazz

StazOn:  Black

Framelits:  Windows Collection

Festive Paper-Piercing Pack

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Sponges

Black & White Open Sea

Today's card is one I made early last week to send off to my cousin for his birthday.  It's made using the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge, but I made it after it closed.  My colors are from the ColourQ challenge.  I needed to use basic black, white and one spot of color.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  The Open Sea, World Map 

& Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Basic Black & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Island Indigo

StazOn:  Black

Punch: 1 1/4" Square

Walk in the Wild Birthday

Today's card is one of my masculine cards for this month's stamp a stack.  I used The Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge to help me out with the sketch.  Seems like I need all the help I can get lately! 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Walk in the Wild, Lovely as a Tree 

& Wetlands

Card Stock:  Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Chocolate Chip & Crumb Cake

Embossing Folder:  Woodgrain

Punches:  1 3/8" Circle, 3/4" Circle & 1/2" Circle

Framelits:  Ovals Collection

Sponges

 

Pretty Postage Due

As soon as I saw the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge I knew what set I was going to use to make my card.  At first I was going to just stamp the set in black making the whole card red, white and black.  That was just a little too plain for me so I used the stampin' write markers to fill in the flower.  Just the extra touch it needed to highlight that corner for the challenge. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Postage Due

Card Stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black & Whisper White

StazOn:  Black

Stampin' Write Markers:  Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black,

Always Artichoke & So Saffron

Punch:  1" Square & 1 1/4" Square

Framelits:  Square Collection 

Ribbon:  Seam Binding in 3/8" Cherry Cobbler

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Clean and Simple Floral Fusion

Today's card is going to be a quick post since I decided at the LAST minute to enter a couple of sketch challenges and one is closing soon! lol  I chose the Paper Craft Crew for my sketch and the Paper Players for my colors.  I wanted to keep it pretty clean and simple when I saw what the colors were and knew I could do it with this sketch.  However I know my daughter is going to tell me it's too white when I show it to her the next time she visits. ;)  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Card Stock:  Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Strawberry Slush,
Crisp Cantaloupe & Pear Pizzazz
Embossing Folder:  Modern Mosaic
Framelites:  Window Frames
Sizzlits:  Floral Fusion & Little Leaves
Jewels:  Basic Pearls
Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer
Sponges

Christmas Cheer in July

For today's card I thought I'd look through the blog challenges I follow and make a card using one of them since I haven't done any in a while.  Well, I ended up picking two.  For my theme I used this week's Friday Mashup...make a card using a Christmas/Hanukkah Project with Stripes.  For my sketch I used this week's challenge from the Paper Craft Crew.  The colors are a little different than normal for Christmas, but that's what I wanted, and boy did I have a bugger of a time getting a picture to come out looking nice between the gold embossed ornaments and the smooch spritz I used! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Ornament Keepsakes,

Gorgeous Grunge & Sweet Essentials

Card Stock:  Soft Suede, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Soft Suede

Versa Mark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  Gold

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Celebrate Today!

Happy 4th of July!  And Happy Birthday to a stamping friend of mine whose b-day happens to be today.  She makes hundreds of cards for others, so I think she deserves one on her special day too.  I wonder if one of these years I should make her a normal every day card instead of one that's red, white and blue?  We'll see next year, but for this year I used the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge #49 HERE to help come up with her card.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Perfectly Penned

Card Stock:  Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Cherry Cobbler & Night of Navy

Embossing Folder:  Perfect Polka Dots

Framelits:  Window Frames

Punch: 1 1/4" Scallop

Sponges

Celebrate Today!

Today's card is another one of my March stamp a stack cards that was inspired by the Paper Craft Crew card sketch challenge.  I wanted to use a color I haven't used in a while, so I decided on Calypso Coral.  I also wanted to show the ladies how easy it is to make a small flower using the creped filter paper.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  Hello Doily & Perfectly Penned

Card Stock:  Calypso Coral & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pad: Calypso Coral

Embossing Folder:  Vintage Wallpaper

Ribbon:  3/8" Ruffled in Calypso Coral 

& 3/8" Taffeta in Whisper White

Spritzed Creped Filter Paper 

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Spring French Foliage

I made this card a few days ago for the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge and never got a chance to put it on my blog.  I wanted to make a spring card, but wanted to use the French Foliage set because I didn't want to wait until fall to use it again.  I know...leaves aren't really pastel, but I think the soft colors were just what I was looking for because spring is so close!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  French Foliage & Blooming with Kindness

Card Stock:  Pretty in Pink & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, 

Certainly Celery, Pool Party & Wisteria Wonder

Versa Mark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Framelits:  Oval Collection

Sponges

Delightful Dahlia - with instructions

Well, today's card is kind of a request.  I made a dahlia earlier this year and never posted pics or instructions on how to make it.  I was asked how I made it and thought it would be easier to make up another flower and take pics of each of the steps instead of trying to write every small detail.  Now if I loved to write it wouldn't be a problem, but making another flower is definitely a lot more fun for me! :)  After making the flower I looked through sketch challenges I follow and decided to use the Paper Craft Crew sketch challenge to put my flower on. :)  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Set:  Curly Cute

Card Stock:  Perfect Plum & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Perfect Plum

Punches:  Blossom Petals Builder, 1 3/8" Circle & 3/4" Circle

Embossing Folder:  Delicate Designs

Bigz Die:  Daisies Flower # 2 - smallest one (retired)

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Shimmer Paint:  Champagne Mist

Sponges

INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

Using the Blossom Petal Builder punch, punch out 16 of the large leaves and 8-10 of the small leaves.

Sponge around the edges of all the "petal" pieces.

After I had them all sponged I spritzed them with shimmer paint to add a bit of sparkle and to brighten and blend the ink that I sponged on each of the pieces.  

 Now use a dowel, ink pen or paintbrush...whatever you have...and curve each piece.  I used a smaller smooth paintbrush to curve the smaller pieces.

Punch a 3/4" circle out of scrap paper, then a 1 3/8" circle over the smaller one so you have a piece of paper that looks like this...

Now using glue dots evenly position eight of the large leaves on the circle like shown.

Add the other eight pieces in between the first layer you did.

Now add the small pieces on.  Your flower should look like this at this point. :)  You're getting pretty close to being done...hang in there!

Cut out two of the smallest daisy pieces using the Daisies Flower # 2 Biz Die.  If you don't have that any type of daisy should do.  I put a ruler there so you could actually tell how big (or small) they are.

Not sure if you can see in this pic or not, but I sponged the edges of the daisy pieces (front and back).

Next glue one on top of the other, then spritz with shimmer paint if you did it to all the petals.

Now fold them in half like shown in the picture.

Starting with one end start to roll it together.

It should look something like this when you're done. 

Now insert it into the middle of the flower.  You might need to separate the pieces in the middle so there's room to push it in.

The last thing I did was turn it upside down and put a bunch of glue (tombow multi-liquid) and let it dry for a good six hours or so. 

Now all you have left to do is attach it to a card, box or whatever else you have in mind. :)