New Stampin Up Birthday Card with Star Shaker From Framelits

Hello All!  It's been a long time and a lot has happened.   I just turned 40 last month and the day afterwards I had a stroke.  Not exactly the way I planned on starting my 4th decade, but it could have been far worse.  I'm in therapy 3 times a week and have some deficiencies on my right side, but I'm working through them and trying to gain back my strength.  One of my therapy activities to gain back my fine motor skills is to stamp!  So, I have a few cards to show you. It takes me much longer, but I'm still able to craft, so that in itself is a blessing.

Stampin Up Welcome Baby Dresser Shaped Greeting Card and Tutorial

Today I'm sharing with you a card I made for a baby swap.  I had been looking at a ton of dresser cards online and was inspired by them all!  It was overwhelming, so I used some of the features that struck me the most.

 I used various neutral colors for the "quilt" hanging out of the third drawer.  It's difficult to see in the photos, but I used two different embossing folders to add texture also.

 In this view I think you can see the embossing I did around each "drawer" for more detail.

 I used the Stampin Up set called Petite Pairs for the outside and inside sentiments.

UPDATE:
So, I've received a few requests for how I made the card including dimensions so here are a few simple photos with the details of what I did to create this card.

Please let me know if I've forgotten anything helpful for you!

Happy Creating!

Countryside Watercolor Truck Stampin Up Greeting Card

Hello!

Today's card is very CAS, Clean and Simple.  I LOVE WATERCOLORING!!!!  I was lucky enough to purchase some of Stampin Up's retired watercolor crayons, and I've been playing around with the.  This is one of my favorite stamp sets to use for watercoloring.

 The truck is from Counrtyside (retured), and the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes (current).

 Here is a closer look at the truck.

My friend Norma says less is more when it comes to coloring, and she couldn't be more correct!  Thanks for the advice Norma!

I used the lattice square embossing folder for Night of Navy and Ridinghood Red papers for simplicity and texture.

Thanks for stopping by and learning about my newest, favorite technique!

Up, Up and Away Birthday Greeting Card

Hi!  Today's card is one a made a while ago with the now retired stamp set called Up, Up and Away.  This  set is a lot of fun and I enjoy the combinations or hot air balloons that this set has.

I stamped my balloons in Ridinghood Red, Pear Pizzaz andNight of Navy.  

Here you can see that I layered the balloons for more dimension.

 The base of the card is Ridinghood Red, with layers of Pear Pizzaz and Night of Navy.  I added baker's twine to the bottom of the matted pattern paper.  I'm not sure the maker of that paper, but it worked with the color scheme I wanted. :0)

 Here is one final look at the card.

Hello Baby Greeting Note Cards

Hi!  Long time, no blog, I know!  Well, I decided that it's time to share some cards with you.  Here are two baby cards a made a bit ago, but just got around to taking pictures of and listing for sale on Etsy.  I listed quite a few new cards today, so go take a peek!

 

Here are the baby cards I wanted to share today.

 

Below are the baby girl card

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!



Bath Time Scrapbook 12 x 12 Layout

Today I'm sharing one of the scrapbook layouts I recently made.  This one is for a boy or girl and is titled Bath Time.

 

 Here is page one.  I used my Cricut to cut out the tub, bubbles, duck and title and then chalked and assembled the cute little bear.

 

 Page two.  Again, I used the Cricut for the title and the duck.

 

 I added glitter to the bubbles and I'm happy with the way the tub bear turned out.



Because I Care Black and Ivory Elegant Greeting Card

Hello everyone!  I've been gone for a while as I was at a nice scrapbook/crafting retreat and then promptly got sick upon returning home.  I haven't posted any of the neat projects I worked on while I was gone, but I'm going to remedy that today.

 

My lovely neighbor is in a craft fair at church next weekend, so I focused on getting some items made for her booth while I was away.  I also have a friend coming over tomorrow to make more items for the sale.  I'm going to show you one of my cards.  I was able to borrow a nestibilities lace border oval from one of the lovely ladies at the scrap retreat, Mary.  Her cards are GORGEOUS!!!!!  She does wonderful hand water coloring and I learned a lot from her! 

 

Here is one of the cards I'll share today.

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and stop by soon for some of the projects I made, including 3 boxed 6-packs of cards an 2 scrapbook page sets!

 

Lace Doily Thinking of You Greeting Card

Hello All!

Today the card I'm sharing uses to elements I haven't used from my paper crafting toys.  The Lace Doily Die and the Butterfly Embosslits Die.



 

I got the idea for this card after a play date with my friend Norma.  She inspired me!  I do have to admit that using the Lace Doily die was very frustrating.  I cut the doily 4 times to finally get the die to cut all the pieces through.  The combination that finally worked was 4 pieces of cardstock under the cutting mats.

 

 The doily and the cardstock with the sentiment on it are Purely Pomegranate the dots and stripes are from an old DSP series.

 I used 1/4" Whisper White ribbon, pearls, the three smallest butterflies from the die, and an embossing folder for the details of the card.

 Here is a close up of the bottom of the card.  The sentiment is from Trendy Trees, and is stamped in Basic Black.

Here is one final look at the card.

Thanks for stopping!

Featured Stamper Inspired Greeting Card

One of the weekly challenges over at SCS is the Featured Stamper.  This week the featured stamper is one of my favorite paper crafters and I had to participate.  Westie2 otherwise known as Jackie from Rockwell Designs is the Featured Stamper for FS294.  The card from her gallery that inspired me was this one.

 

Here is my card in honor of Jackie.

 The base of my card is Very Vanilla and I used two different pattern papers and a strip of black cardstock behind my rose from Fifth Avenue Floral.

 I used Prima leaves behind my rose and pop dots to adhere the rose.

Congratulations on being featured Jackie!  Keep the cards coming!  They are BEAUTIFUL!



Stampin Up Textured Quilt Card

Today's card is a quilt card that I made with scraps of my favorite pattern paper from Stampin Up (Bella Rose).  I punched squares and sewed them to a scrap piece of white paper and then ran it through my Cuttlebug with the lattice square embossing folder.

 The base of the card is Kiwi Kiss, and the accent colors are white and Pink Pirouette.

 I used white 1/4" ribbon

 Here is the close up of the stitched and the birthday sentiment.

One more final look at the final card.

Thanks for stopping by!