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!

Masculine card

Hi there, been a while since I've posted a card, but here's one.  I needed a birthday card for a male and this is what I came up with (with very limited supplies)!

I used SU's Natural white card stock which is nice because it already has a little texture to it.  I think a "man-card" should be rather CAS, don't you?

I scored a couple of lines across the bottom to intersect with the adorable little focal frame.  Since ribbon would be too frilly or girly I opted to use a twine double wrapped with a (make-believe knot) and a brad from my stash.  Guess the photo doesn't show the score lines but they are there.

I know, I know too many shadows, but it's so sunny and bright I had to take the picture in the shade.

Notice the cute little matching envelope too.  I'd show you the inside of the card which is also decked out, but I forgot and already wrote inside.  Take my word for it, it's cute.

Supplies:
SU Natural White and Espresso card stock and some unknown striped paper
Frame from PTI's Framed Out #3
Sentiment also from PTI's Think Big Fav # 12
Twine and brad unknown.

Would love to hear your comments on this card, so please leave me a line or two.

Thanks for lookin'
Nancy

Long overdue...

Well it's been almost a month since I last posted (so much for N.Y. Resolutions).  Since all of my card making, stampin' items have been packed up and almost on their way up North I turned my crafting to making some barrettes for my granddaughter.

Here are a couple I made for her, unfortunately the photo's aren't the best quality.  The first one is made from pieces of felt and hot glued onto a metal barrette with a cute little button in the center.

This second one is made using a cute polka-dot ribbon as well as a felt flower.

This last one is made using some polka-dot ribbon and a green bow that was attached to some Christmas candy I received from a friend in MI.  (Never toss out a cute bow).

Here's a cute picture of my granddaughter wearing her choice, Isn't she a cutie-pie!

Thanks for looking.

Spring Fling...Easter Wishes

Isn't this a lovely inspiration photo from City Crafter's, the colors made me think of Easter, what do you think?






Well here's my cutsey-pa-toot-sy card.

I used pool party color for the card and stamped it with a gorgeous scrolly background stamp in white ink for the top half of the card. I cut a small rectangle of white cs, trimmed the edges with a "wavy" cutter, stamped some grass in the corner and "laid" a few easter eggs (using the challenge colors) in the grass. I colored the bunny's ears in pink to go along with the challenge colors.

















The Easter Bunny was stamped twice, once on the rectangle and fussy cut his cute little bottom so it kinda hung over the edge, I thought the pom-pom would show up better against a color instead of the white. I then cut out the second stamped bunny (minus the ears and whiskers...didn't think I'd ever be able to cut those out) added an itsy-bitsy pom-pom for his cottontail and popped him (or her) up on dimensionals. Stamped the sentiment in the corner and that's my Easter card all done.

Here's a close-up of the cute little bunny.


















Supplies:
Stampin' Up Card stock, whisper white and Pool Party
Inks- all Stampin' Up
Sentiment from Stampin' Up
Eggs,Bunny and Wrought Iron Scroll from PTI


What do you think, cute or not?
Nancy

Papertrey Blog Post

Here is the inspiration photo for PTI's Blog Hop challenge, isn't it cheerful and Spring like.


















This is my card using the challenge colors of aqua and yellow.

I scored my card at the bottom and along one side, added adhesive and sprinkled white glitter (a previous Make-It-Monday project).
Die cut two flower blossoms raised the center with dimensions and added the sentiment at the bottom. I was quite pleased the sentiment lined up perfectly with the score lines. Die cut two leaves and attached all to a white cs square.




















Supplies used:
Stampin' Up CS Tempting Turquoise, whisper white
Stamps and Dies, Papertrey Ink's Simple Sunflower, Turning a New Leaf & Pretty Peonies
Adhesive tape and white glitter


Would love to hear your comments, thanks for peeking.
Nancy