Can't Turn Back the Clock

My other half's birthday is Monday and I wanted a special card for him.

I took inspiration from Smitha Katti's card in the May/June 2012 Paper Crafts Magazine.  

(Check out her site, Smiling Colors.)

I just loved her card (Love You Dad Card, page 80),

 it had a Graphic 45 piece of paper on it with men's shoes from The Gentlemen collection.

So cool!  But I hunted and didn't have that paper but did have this one, also Graphic 45,

that had the shirt, tie,cuffs and collar (from the Romantique collection). 

Since my guy wore a suit and tie daily to work his whole career I thought this was a perfect fit!  

 The top strip, and the envelope in the first picture, are from a paper stack
that I got years ago at Costco.  If anyone knows who made this paper would
you leave a comment?  I just love it!

I added a brad and a strip of 7 Gypsies clock face paper
from the 6x6 Paddington stack
(which I just saw at Tuesday Morning for $1.99 for the pad can you believe that!!!)

 I found the inside sentiment online and printed it out on my computer.
Inked the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink

 I finished the card with 3 small buttons
and a Happy Birthday (Hero Arts) stamp done with
Perfect Pearls in Bronze

Supplies I used:

Graphic 45 - Le Romantique Collection

7 Gypsies - Paddington Collection

Perfect Pearls

Hero Arts - All Occasion Messages

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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

Stamp Kissing

UPDATE:

I made it to the Froggin' Fantastic Four with this card check it out here.

I love Lily Pad Blog and saw a new challenge for a technique called 'Stamp Kissing'.
I'd never heard of this nor tried it so I thought today was a good time to learn something new!   Needless to say I'm entering it into the Kissing Challenge at Lily Pad.  I found the hardest part was finding the two cards to kiss together to make a nice blend.

My 'kissing stamps' were the flower branch from My Cute Stamps
the Ashley's Blossoms set

and a script background stamp from Inkadinkado

I added some papers from the 6x6 paper pad by
Melissa Frances called 5th Avenue

The inside is the same sheet of paper fussy cut to make the

corner blossom

The card base is Kraft Cardstock

This gorgeous ribbon was a closeout Offray ribbon (3 yards for 50 cnets!!)

from a local scrapbook store

I also used the script stamp on the backround mat

Here you can see how the branch stamp kissed

the script backround stamp and gave it a hint of script here and there

Working from Scraps

One goal this year for me was to use more of my stash and scraps.

That's what his card is made from, including the envelope

Dotted paper was run through my Bug with the dotted swiss

embossing folder

The butterfly is the Martha Stewart Monarch punch,

which was a birthday gift from a friend.

I love the look with punched several times and

place on atop the other letting the wings flutter

Loved the addition of the little fabric flower

Circle mat was cut on the Cricut and emobssed and then lightly

inked with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink

Thinking of You

This card is made with digital kits from 

Cottage Arts

For the flowers I used
Granny's Garden Page Pak

I printed them first on the Kraft card base then printed again several times

fussy cutting and attaching the flower heads multiple times to give dimension.

and for the sentiment I used

This is Life 5 Scrap Words 

Inside sentiment is stamped from Inkadinkado set

Masculine Birthday

Masculine cards sometimes are my challenge so when my Brother-in-laws birthday

approached I went in search of some papers that had that 'man' feel about them

I opted to use the Destinations pack

from Simple Stories, perfect!

Inside sentiment is from Hero Arts, Live Life collection

Belief

I have a friend who celebrates her Sobriety day each year.

I know, even after 25 years that this is a special time of

accomplishment for her.

This card is a celebration of that commitment

The paper was in a RAK I received so I'm not sure of the paper line.

Dashed lines done with a Signa Gel Pen

The crocheted heart is Webster's Pages

Flourish above was overlayed with Doddlebug Flocking
Inside border above and corners below

are cut with Morocco Lace EK Success border punch

Hat's Off

This is cut from the Winter woodland cartridge for the Cricut.  Just loved this sparkly white paper.

The stamp is from Recollections, darling isn't it? (Sorry they don't name their stamps)

Inside sentiment is red rubber from My Sentiments Exactly.

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

Jolly Ol' Elf

Here's another stamp from the Recollection set I got.

I stamped the tree 4 times on the print paper and then cut out each layer

of boughs and popping them up for dimension.

I also restamped and cut out all the little packages to give them a little umph as well.

After the card front was finished I added the stickles for the baubles on the tree

and sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold Mist

The Merry & Bright stamp was in a RAK I received.

This was just a design from the paper cut out for the inside.