Ooops!

The Grandson of Kay, who is in my Yahoo group, fell and broke his arm. He had to go to Portland to have it set with pins, he's only 4. So a bunch of us decided it would be nice to send him some cheery get well cards.

Printed the saying from the computer and cut it and two mats with my Cuttlebug and a Spellbinders die.

Added a little white stitching to this cut out from a Wallpaper book

Just thought the bandage was so appropriate!

Butterflies and Moths

I found a challenge at the ABC Challenge blog which was O - Is For One Paper, so I created this card with one 12x12 paper from the DCWV Mariposa stack. Love this paper. I cut the flower and moth out of the paper and popped them up, added a little hemp string and some faux stitching lines.

Just added a single butterfly to the inside. Still not sure who I want to give this to so haven't added a sentiment yet.  This is one of very few cards I've made that is the size of a #10 envelope, I like the looks of it, I'll have to make more this size.

Swap Card - Live Laugh Love

I did this for our Yahoo Group Swap using Live Laugh Love. Blue background embossed with the Cuttlebug Texture folder. 3 squares stamped with Inkadinkado stamps and punched out with a 2"scalloped Marvy Punch.

Inside reads: Laugh as much as you breathe
and love as long as you live.
Saying printed from computer and then cut in strip attached and overlayed with pale blue ribbon.

Paper - Martha Stewart, ribbon from bargain bin at Michaels.

Patchwork Gratitude

I put this card in the Gingersnap Creations GC43: Color Challenge, 3 Colors You Love, mine are green (especially avacodo), orange/rust and brown. 

Squares punched with a 2" scalloped square marvy punch from the Mariposa stack (DCWV).  Base card, kraft cardstock

I Garden

This card is for the Saturday Challenge #70 - Multifold

This is more paper from the DCWV Songbird Pak along with Chipboard pieces from Me & My Big Ideas My Garden collection.

That Means You Chick

I got this new stack of paper from Michaels today called Songbird, it's a DCWV. Love it!

The friendship stamp is from Inkadinkado - called Bird Assortment.

Flower Pot of Friendship

I've entered this card in the Pile it On Challenge for this week which is Let Us See Flowers

We had a challenge this week at our Yahoo Group (Crafty Card Creators) to create a shaped card. I still had some of these cards to make from Hot Off the Press. This flowerpot was perfect!

I printed the sentiment on the computer then ran it through the Cuttlebug with my Spellbinders die and then again to emboss.

Added a little glitter to the flowers and the bow (ribbon from Michaels) and the brads to the middle (also HOTP).

Shangri-La Cards

My friend Ale, from Alessandra Designs, created this beautiful kit called Shangri-La.  I've had it for a couple of months but just have been side tracked with other projects.  Normally I would have used Ale's kit for digital scrapbook pages, but I just loved the papers so much I wanted to see how they would look as greeting cards.

I cut the lady and tiger out and then recut out just the lady and popped her up for dimension.  I added some glitter gel pen to the leash and glitter glue to her fur on her outfit.  I'm liking the finished effect.

This paper I'm totally in love with, the snowflakes are just so very very pretty.  I decided it would make the perfect card to give with a gift.  I took Ale's snowflake and reprinted it and covered it with silver glitter.

This last card is my favorite, it is so soft and gentle looking.  I took the bird and reprinted, added the silver glitter and popped him up on a metal branch.  The sentiment continues on the inside saying - Our hearts, our prayers, and our love are with you, this is a rub on from My Sentiments Exactly.  So simple and yet it has such effect.

Don't discount digital kits, they give you so much added flexibility in your card designs.  Ales' designs are here at Digitals, please check her store out.

Happy Anniversay

Don't you love this trellis???

It's a Martha Stewart punch called Garden Trellis that I just got, I love it!

This is the second card I made from the Folded Paper Frame tutorial from Split Coast Stampers. I really like this and it's just so simple to do.

Papers are from a set I got from Costco, card base, Martha Stewart paper.

Elephant Congrats

I've entered this card in the Challenge below - to use Polka Dots

 

I had to try out this new frame from Split Coast Stampers called Folded Paper Frame. Check out the link for full instructions. The only thing I did differently on this was to cut the middle of the frame out and pop the elephant through it. The next one I did I used a Spellbinders die to cut the square, which gave it a much cleaner look than what is here.

Papers, all except pink/brown polka dot from a Wallpaper book.

Congratulation is a rub on from My Sentiments Exactly.