50 is Wonderful!

I made this card for my Niece's 5oth birthday, how she can be 50 is beyond me, seems like I just had that  birthday!  This is from the Lady Couture collection from DCWV.
The paper was a gift from a friend and I just love it!!!

I used my handy-dandy new stamp filing system to hunt for the
'wonderful' stamp (Stampin UP).
The numbers are Graphic 45 and the 'is' are black glitter sticker numbers.
The lady in the bottom is also Graphic 45 - papers assorted

I used a little glossy accents on her hat after I fussy cut her and
popped her up for dimension

 

This is a number 10 size card, I often wonder why I don't make more of these
I just love the look of them.
I have several other 'ladies' from this collection that
I've made into cards and will post them soon.

Thanks for stopping by to look, comments are greatly appreciated :-)

If you'd like to see my new stamp organization you can check out my
You Tube video below

Peace

I bought this stamp at Michaels on impulse (it's a Hampton Art Stamp) and then when I started coloring realized I wasn't going to be mass producing them, took a lot of time to color.  Love how it looked when finished though.

Inside stamp is from Stampin Up

adorable

Another stamp set from Penny Black's - Mimi's Christmas

The white from her hat is white flocking (love this stuff)
stamp is from Stampin Up

I used the Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder on the front of the card base

(just before I mailed it I decided it needed a little pop so I distressed the edges of the front of the card and the ridges from the embossing with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, much better.)

The ribbon is actually cut from one of the papers from the Warm Wishes Recollections paper pak

I punched the tag with my square Marvy scalloped punch 

The little Mimi's face is done with Copic markers
her hat and scarf are paper pieced
the bow was in a rac (thanks Lori)

merry everything

Another stamp from Mimi's Christmas by Penny Black.  I am in love with this stamp set, oh wait did I say that a couple of post back, sorry it's worth repeating!  The stamps just stamp so nice I know I'm adding more of these to my collection!  I stamped the little angel directly onto the mat (papers from Recollections Warm Hearts)

Then I restamped her again on white, heavy cardstock, and on the pink which is a natural fibre paper (I got it years ago at Costco) but the paper is very fiberous, like real handmade paper.  I accented the one I stamped on the paint with just a little deeper pink with my Copics.  I colored the one stamped on white and cut her out minus the halo and feet and then paper pieced them all together.

  I painted her little halo and shoes directly onto the mat.  Sentiment is also from this collection.

Inside sentiment is Stampin Up 

 The ribbon was a super buy at a local craft store when they were selling all their spring/summer things out. 90% off!!!!  The ribbon is wire edged so easy to manipulate where you want.  

Snowflake from the paper collection.

Skating into the Holiday

This time  I used my Cricut and the Winter Woodland Cartridge to cut the Skate out.

I just tore a piece of extra heavy white glitter cardstock to form the snowbank across the bottom for the skate to rest on.

The stamp is from the dollar bin, Studio 18 - Mary Engelbret

 The little snowflakes are a Fiskars mini punch

The card base is a pad of 12x12 paper from Michaels

Recollections Classic Christmas, it's a 

colored core paper, which means you can sand the top layer away to reveal

a different color under neath, in this case white.

Inside stamp is from Stampin Up

Snowballs 5 cents

I had so much fun making cards with the leftovers of a paper pak I bought last year

It's Recollections Snowy Days from Michaels.

The cardbase is from their collection this year called Warm Wishes

The sentiment is from K&Company

Border Punch is from EK Success

Edges all inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Heart is covered with Glossy Accents

and Diamond Stickles were applied to the snowflakes on his hat

This stamp was in a rubber grab bag from My Sentiments Exactly
after I'd stamped it I realized I'd used the clear embossing on it
and it wouldn't show up so I lightly used Very Vanilla Craft ink from Stampin Up
to bring out the embossing, I really liked the way it looked after that.

A super simple card that turned out really cute.

Cherish Happiness

I made this card for a dear friend of mine getting inspiration from Melissa Phillips in the June 2010 Cards Magazine.  I layered papers which I inked heavily under the lace.  

The lighting on this photo is horrid but I wanted you to see the card from this angle so you'll have to overlook it.  The flower is one I received in a swap at YPP from Natalie Wathins, thanks Natalie, I love it!  I stuck a stick pin I had made through the flower and lace to finish it off.

The bling inside and out is from Recollections, the butterfly from Websters Pages.  Under the sentiment I took a page from an old novel and tore and inked the edges.  I used Vintage Photo, Peeling Paint and Worn Lipstick Distress inks on the print to give it the same tones as the papers.  The sentiment I printed out on my computer and inked it with the above Distress Inks.

The little ticket is from the Tim Holtz idea-ology line and the stamped sentiment on it was from a set of old Stampin Up stamps I picked up at a garage sale.  The base of the card is Kraft Cardstock.

Thinking of You

I got this great paper pack from K & Co by Brenda Walton called Oliva Rose.  I just love the papers and when I started making cards they just grew and grew.  Here's a few I've completed.

Part of the paper collection is a sheet of transpariences.  I love the look of this one.  The stamp is from Inkadinkado, Kathy Davis Flowers.

I added a couple of K & Co Handmade Gem Flowers to the centers of the ones I cut out from the paper.  I glued the tight to the edge and pop-dotted them on the inside edges to give them lift.

 Like the look the jagged swirls I added. 

Stamp is Heard from the Heart from Stampin Up

Butterfly is cut from the paper, Glossy Accented and edges sprinkled with fine black glitter.

Flowers cut from paper and pop-dotted up so that the mini tags can slide under them.

Stamps from Stampendous - Everything Happy.

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Spotlighting

I watched a video over at Paper Craft Planet about spotlighting a particular part of your card. Granted I've taken great liberties from what Diana was trying to show there. But this goes to show the concept of what you see anywhere can be the basis for a new idea for your own creating.

This fabulous paper is a DCWV called Black Current. The prints and solids are lovely, a great addition to my paper stash!  I used Stampin Up dimensionals to pop up my circular 'spotlighted' area.

The little dragonfly is a Blue Moon charm used in jewelry making, I actually got them to go on a mini book I'm making for a friend but couldn't resist using one here. I've left the inside blank (it's pale pink cardstock) because I'm not sure yet what occasion/sentiment I'll use this for.