By the Tide Birthday

Today's card is for my son's 20th birthday.  Wow, where did the years go!  I sure love him though, so I had to make him a special card (I must love a lot of people because it seems like I'm always making special cards. lol).  He's definitely an outdoors man, and enjoys fishing, so I figured some sort of fishing card would be the way to go.  I used this week's Paper Players challenge #173 "Any Shaped Card" to come up with this idea.  It could be any shape except the normal rectangular card so I used the Deco Labels Framelits to make this card's shape.  Instead of layering behind the card to get a dark background I sponged around it instead.  I think that was faster to do than cut and stack the layers to get them to look just right.

I had to take a few close ups so you could see the pieces I cut out to add dimension. :)

When I make a "shaped" card I don't like to have a piece of it missing, so I never fold a piece in half and leave part of the shape off the card.  All you have to do is cut two of the same pieces, score the back piece where you want the card to flip at, and put your adhesive on the top part of the back piece of the card. :)  Here are a couple of pics in case what I wrote doesn't make sense.  I'm definitely a visual person so pics help a lot!  

This is the back of the card and you can see where I scored it and attached it to the front piece of the card.

This is what the inside looks like when you flip it open.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Naturals White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Not Quite Navy, Island Indigo & Garden Green

Framelits:  Deco Labels

Sponges

Evergreen

Happy Thanksgiving!  What are you thankful for today?  I'm thankful that I will be able to spend the day with my family. :)  There's a lot more that I'm thankful for than that, but that's just the start.  Now on to today's card.  It's for the next 'Tis The Season sketch challenge.  I went with a pretty basic card this time by only using two colors, and switching a couple pieces of the card stock around to make them just a little different from each other.

I don't really know which one I like better.  

And now the group of them.  So far I've managed to keep up with making four cards for each of these challenges.  So glad I'll have cards done for next year if I manage to keep this up.  Now I just need to finish my cards for this Christmas. lol

Don't forget to check out what the other members of the design team made HERE, then play along yourself. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Evergreen & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Cherry Cobbler & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Cherry Cobbler

Embossing Folders:  Modern Mosiac, Delicate Designs,

Petals-a-Plenty & Pretty Print

Candy Dots:  Regals

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Let It Snow!!

Let It Snow!!  That's the theme of today's card using the SUO (Stampin' Up! Only) challenge #84.  I needed a card for my brother-in-law's birthday so I thought it would be a good theme to go with for a guys card. :)  Let's just hope he doesn't read his emails before he goes to work early in the morning since my cards get emailed to my sister.  Anyway, lots of sponging and embossing for this card, and I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to actually make sure the trees were a little offset from each other.  Wish I could get a better picture because the card looks so much better in person, but that's the way it goes sometimes. 

 I had to quickly stamp and do just a bit of sponging on the inside too because I think it adds just a little more to the card.  I know it's a little light, but that's the point.  I need to be able to write on the inside so the writing can be seen instead of being covered up by the stamp.  Wish I could whip out the front of a card as fast as I can the inside! lol

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Lovely as a Tree, 

Gorgeous Grunge & Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Night of Navy & Naturals White

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Night of Navy

VersaMark

Stampin' Emboss Powder:  White

Punches:  Decorative Label & 1 1/4" Circle

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Open House Mini Cards

Wow, what a week it's been for me!  After prepping for and having an eight hour open house this past Thursday, helping my daughter sew curtains on Friday and losing our electricity for most of Saturday (and getting pretty much nothing done!) I'm finally back to blogging.  I thought I'd show you one of the crafts the ladies made at my open house.  They made four 3x3 cards uisng 2012-2014 In Color DSP and made a little box to put them in.  The box was made with the Stampin' Up! Envelope Punch Board.  Love that thing.  It's so easy to make boxes using it! 

Here's how I made the box to put the cards in...

Cut your paper 6" x 6".  Using the Envelope Punch Board punch and score at 2 11/16" (between 2 5/8" and 2 3/4").  Then punch and score again at 3 1/4".  Cut out the corners on the top like show in the picture and snip the bottom so you still have tabs.  Fold and glue or tape together.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Set:  Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  2012-2014 In Color DSP & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple,

Gumball Green & Midnight Muse

Punch:  Pansy

Jewel:  Basic Pearl

Dimensionals

Let it Snow...

Today's card is my design for this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch challenge.  And like my title says the twist is Let it Snow!  I actually had a different card in mind, but another designer had the same idea as I did, so I went back to the drawing board.  I came up with this card using the colors from Dynamic Duos...black and smoky slate.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Lovely as a Tree & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Smoky Slate & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Smoky Slate

StazOn:  Black

Punch: 1 1/4" Circle

Sponges

Autumn Accents Thinking of You

Another quick post for today of one of my November stamp a stack cards.  A quick and simple card using the Bigz Die Autumn Accents.  After the leaves were cut out I quickly ran them through a few different embossing folders, then did a bit of sponging on each of the leaves.   

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Set:  Sassy Salutations

Card Stock:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler,

Always Artichoke, Crushed Curry & Pumpkin Pie

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Cherry Cobbler,

Always Artichoke, Crushed Curry & Pumpkin Pie

Embossing Folders:  Woodgrain, Stripes,

Houndstooth & Argyle

Bigz Die:  Autumn Accents

Linen Thread:  Natural

Sponges

Lovely as a Tree for Sunday Stamps

Today's cards are for the Sunday Stamps color challenge which I have the privilege of being a guest designer for.  The colors are Lime, Gray and Turquoise so I chose the Stampin' Up! colors Lucky Limeade, Tempting Turquoise and Basic Gray.  I grabbed a piece of card stock for each color to try and inspire myself, and boy did I have to think a little bit before I could use these colors.  At first I was trying to think of how I could use them with a flower or just something feminine.  Then I thought blue, green and gray...why not do some sponging?!  So that's what I did. :)

 They are pretty similar, but one card is a little darker than the other. 

 I've decided that it would be a good idea to start making two of the same card for every challenge I do.  I just need more cards on hand! :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Set:  Lovely as a Tree

Card Stock:  Lucky Limeade (retired), Basic Gray

Tempting Turquoise & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Lucky Limeade (retired),

Tempting Turquoise & Basic Gray

Embossing Folder:  Woodgrain

Window Sheets (for tree reflections)

Candy Dots:  Regals

Sponges