HAPPY HALLOWEEN

With Halloween fast approaching I thought it time I posted my card even though I'm just putting in the mail to my granddaughter today. She happens to love (or at least used to) knock-knock jokes or similar things, so I put together a little Halloween humor for her to share with her friends at school. I printed the jokes on orange polka dot paper and made a front/back cover from Black cs, topped with a piece of Halloween print paper. Here's a look at the end result, I think she'll enjoy it.



And...here is a picture of the Halloween card made just for her, I'm so happy with this card. The inspiration came from a trip to Archiver's where they had this stamp set on display.




The stamp, I believe is from Hero stamps, the tree branch and the background text is part of the paper. I stamped the lamp-post and cat onto the design paper in black, masked off what I thought would be the lamp-post light and lightly sponged black ink all over the paper, when I removed the mask, ta-da, there was my spotlight on the black cat, how cool is this. Framed the whole piece in black cs and popped it up onto a textured orange cs.

I also spritzed the front of the card, this picture shows the spritzing a little better, as you know it's always hard to capture the RL image, well at least for me.







Thank's for looking...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Missing in Action!

Seems like ages since I posted (other than yesterday's baby card). Been busy traveling and getting settled in our Florida home, still waiting for all of my stampin/scrappin' supplies to catch up to me. I feel naked without them!

In the meantime here is a Sympathy card I made before I left MI, but didn't have time to post.


I love the way it turned out and the simplicity of the design. The inspiration came from my daughter's blog Canopy Crafts. I really like her idea of only embossing half the card front leaving room for the sentiment and any other embellie you'd want to use. One of my new (to me anyhow) is snipping out a portion of the card front on either side using a small circle punch which leaves a definite spot for your ribbon or twine. Found this tip on Papertrey Ink's blog.

Thanks for looking and any comments you care to leave, love hearing from everyone!

SPECIAL DELIVERY

A friend, fellow golfer and scrapper's DIL finally gave birth to a healthy baby boy Seems like all of us have been waiting 9 months along with her. I've had this card ready to roll, just waiting to hear the words "he's here" and that occurred late last night.
We knew she was expecting a boy so the colors of course had to be blue. The "Daily News Herald" stamp was stamped onto designer patterned paper with an overlay of vellum, just over the bottom 3/4 of the card front. The focal image was stamped onto the vellum and then a second "stork" stamped onto designer paper, fussy cut and popped up, along with an itty-bitty heart placed on the baby bundle.

Here's the card, I hope you like it as much as I do, it was a fun card to make and now I can mail it!


Thanks for looking.

{Freshly Made} # One!

Have you seen this new blog yet? Well you better check it out here. My card pretty much follows the sketch with just a couple of changes, hope you like it. The challenge was to use this sketch and create a card with clean lines. This is my interpretaion.

I've been wanting to use fabric of some kind on a card for quite a while and thought this would be a good opportunity. I cut a small swatch of burlap and used it as one of the layers in the sketch and applied it to the card base. My image was also stamped onto the same color cs and mounted on top of a die cut frame of Early Espresso. I extended the frame in order to use the decorative bottom of the die. You may notice I notched my card on both sides of the front of the card in order to run the narrow ribbon around the card (I picked up this little tidbit from Papertrey Ink's blog). I thought it was a fresh approach to adding ribbon to cards and I think it's one I'll be using quite a bit. I chose to place my sentiment at the top of the card rather than the bottom as the sketch showed and place the shiny dots at the bottom rather than the top. It just seemed to work better for me.

Well that's it for now, hope you like my card, would love to hear from you.

Supplies used:
Stamps-SU Nature's Pace, Curly Cute
Inks-Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant
Die-Papertrey Ink's Half & Half
Ribbon-SU 1/8" Early Espresso
Misc. Natural Burlap fabric, spray adhesive

Paper Players Color Challenge # 63

This is the wonderful color challenge from Paper Players this week, really pretty colors.

As you can see I opted to use the colors for a Halloween card, seemed perfect to me.

My card base is basic Gray cs embossed using the spider web folder and then two smaller layers of DSP topped off with a strip of ribbon. The focal point of the card is two die cut labels in R.Razzelberry and W.White one a smidge larger than the other. The smaller W.White frame is stamped using basic gray ink. I added a sticker, yep a sticker! Don't ya just love this sticker, the bats were included, several more on a strip (a real find from a Dollar Store). I added the sentiment on the lower right hand corner to finish it off.

Here's my card...

It's difficult to see in the photo, but the two bats have shiny red eyes! Hope you like it.

Supplies used:
Paper-DSP Cast-A-Spell, basic gray CS
Ink-Basic Gray
Ribbon-Rich Razzelberry polka-dot
stamps-Teeny Tiny Wishes
Misc.-Martha Stewart Holiday Sticker
Dies-Papertrey Ink Mat Stack#1 and Mega Matstack #1

NEW LOOK!

Hey look at me, I've got a new look!

Many thanks to my daughter, Nance of Canopy Crafts, who surprised me with this wonderful new design. She assisted her friend and design team member from Paper Players, Lesley Croghan, coordinating all of the colors, embellishments, and fonts. You may know Lesley, she has recently started a new business here...designing custom and premade blogs. I think she has found her niche, don't you? Be sure to check it out and see what other bloggers have new looks, you may see something for yourself!

I really like the designer paper and the little bird embellishment. I especially like the center of the blog being white, which tends to showcase any postings. Now I better get to work and post some new cards.

Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment if you wish, happy blogging!

Cas-ual Fridays - #18

Woo hoo what a great idea from Cas-ual Fridays creating a clean and simple design using a book as inspiration!

The book I just finished reading is Nicholas Sparks' Safe Haven. I thought it sounded so much like the name of a boat, plus it takes place in South Carolina in and around boats in Southport. I'm really not a boater or fan of sailing, but this image is so serene and calming I thought it was perfect for this book.




The photo doesn't show the dazzling diamonds I touched to the waves around the boat. I also ripped out a definition of "safe" from an old dictionary for an added touch, the black cs is also embossed, but again hard to see in the picture.



Hope you like my project for this challenge, thanks for lookin', love to hear from you.