Hydrangea birthday card

Isn't this a gorgeous hydrangea stamp? My inspiration for this card came from Nicole Heady with the stamps being designed by Maile Belles, who always has the nicest designs.

I stamped an all-over background pattern in beautiful "real-life" hydrangea colors, filled in the white spaces with the adorable smaller flowers and leaves.  I then stamped the sentiment on a white panel and framed it with a smidge larger die in the lavender paper.  An added textured green panel grounds all of the floral images.  I've been hoarding my satin pleated ribbon (yes definitely hoarding not yet used), but decided to finally use it and splurged using not one, but two rows to offset the center panel.  I really like the way it stands out.

What do you think?  I'd love to hear your take on this card, I really appreciate all your comments.
Thanks,
Nancy



Supplies:
Stampin' Up card stock Lavender Lace & Whisper White
Inks:  S.U. Lavender Lace, Lucky Limeade & Concord Grape
Stamps, S.U. Happiest Birthday Wishes (1 of 2) & PTI Happy Hydrangea
Die, PTI Mat Stack #1 and Layerz Mat Stack

Freshly Made Sketches #39 Challenge

It's been a while since I participated in Freshly Made Challenges, one of my favorite blogs,  just busy doing other things, but here's my card...just under the noon-time wire.

Guess I was feeling somewhat patriotic, maybe thinking about the 4th of July holiday coming up soon.  Anyhow this challenge from Jen  at Freshly Made Sketches seemed to lend itself well to this CAS design.  Hope you like it too.

Supplies:
Stampin' up card stock and DSP-Patterns Stack, Brights collection
Sizzix star die
SU's Itty Bitty Banners die, stamp, Midnight Muse ink (love it) & Embossing folder
Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder

One more Father's Day card

Here's another FD card clean and simple.  In keeping with the nature image of bamboo I thought using the natural white card stock was perfect along with a single twine ribbon.   And of course I had to add the adorable little dragonfly.
I'm sure you notice a smaller version on the envelope too.

Supplies Used:
Card Stock-Stampin' Up Natural White
Stamps-Stampin' Up Asian Artistry & PTI's Peaceful Garden
Inks- Stampin' Up Old Olive and Crumb Cake


I hope you enjoy this Father's Day weekend with family and friends wherever you are.
Thanks for taking a peek at my blog, I'd love to hear from you it really does inspire one!
Nancy

Father's Day cards

With Father's Day fast approaching I had a few cards to make that had to be mailed like now!
In my haste to get them finished I forgot to photograph one of them and it's already on it's way, but here's one of them.

My brother is a huge Harley-Davidson biker fan so this card is right up his alley (or road). It was made from some HD scrapbook paper I had been hoarding for a few years.  I cut up the paper so that the belt would be the focal image of the card (the belt was too long so I had to adjust it).  Then heat embossed a sentiment on the seam binding and added a few silver brads. I also made the card size taller to accommodate the belt.

Here's a peek at the inside sentiment.  I first stamped off once and then stamped the motorcycle directly onto the card base.  Typed the wording on the computer onto vellum paper and adhered over the motorcycle image.  I think it
 turned out good.
Did you notice I lined the envelope with more of the denim paper to finish off the look.

Birthday card

It's a very CAS card, one layer inspiration from Simply Stamped.  I stamped the butterflies on the far right hand side of the card front, then fussy cut them leaving a beautiful edge.  Stamped the sentiment and it was done, how quick  is that and I love the results.

Here's a peek at the inside, I really like using an image from the front of the card to carry the theme to the inside (from my daughter Nance Leedy @ Canopy Crafts)

Fussy cutting the edge of this card has inspired me to try other stamp images in a similar fashion, how about you?

I'd love to hear from you regarding your thoughts on my card.
Thanks for looking,
Nancy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANCE

Another big event in the month of May for our family, it's my daughter, Nance of Canopy Crafts, birthday.  Yahoo, like fine wine...better with age!

I decided to make a CAS card for her since that is the style she prefers.   I used white card stock framed in one of her favorite colors, Pool Party.  The tree images are first stamped using Espresso ink with each  of the tree top circles in more of her "fav" colors.  I then stamped the center tree circle again, spritzed it with Shimmer Mist and popped it up. Isn't the little bird in the tree top adorable?  My inspiration for this card is from  Maile Belles of Simply Stamped.

Here's a peek at the inside, I first stamped a tree image and then stamped the sentiment verse on top of it, love the way it ties to the images on the front of the card.
I picked up this tip from my daughter.
 

I wouldn't usually publish a picture of the gift, but I was so smitten with myself for the way it turned out, had to share with ya.  The box and ribbon came from the store where the gift was purchased and I thought the ribbon needed something so... I decided to stamp on the ribbon using the same image as on the front of the card. I then added a little circle tag to tie in with the tree tops.

Here's a peek at the ribbon before it was tied.

Doesn't it look fabulous?  Well it does to me and I know my daughter will love it too.


I think she's gonna like it, how about you?


Supplies:
Ink: SU, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, basic gray, crumb cake
Inside sentiment from SU's Word Play 
Outside sentiment from PTI's Think Big Fav's #7
Outside images and dies from PTI's Trendy Tree Tops 


I'd love to hear your thoughts on this card,  please feel free to comment and thanks for checking out my blog.

Nancy

Late Mother's Day card

The month of May is always a very busy one for our family with Mother's Day for my daughter and myself, my birthday, my daughter's (Canopy Crafts) birthday, Memorial Day, whew!
So I forgot to post the card I made for my daughter's Mother's Day, here it is...better late than never!

The card is pretty CAS.   I white embossed the image after it was stamped on CS, die cut a white felt flower topped with a button from my stash, added a strip of green under the sentiment stamp (computer generated as I didn't have a medium size MD stamp).  Added 3 rhinestones then adhered the panel to a whisper white card.


Supplies:
white embossing powder, image (Fresh Cuts) and card stock all from Stampin' Up
Notched flower from Papertrey Ink
Button and rhinestones from my stash, source forgotten by now! 


I'd love to hear from you if you have time to leave a comment, thanks for looking and hope you have a great Memorial Day holiday!