World Card Making Day 2018!!

Hello my crafty and creative friends!

I know it has been forever since I have posted on my blog, I tend to post on my Facebook page more often. It's tough trying to balance home, family, work and blogging with the time we have each day, but I am trying to figure it all out!

Last Saturday was World Card Making Day and I missed it!! I found out about it a couple of days ago when I was checking out the Simon Says Stamp Blog and noticed a post about it where we get to participate in all the fun. Well, I quickly pulled together this card yesterday, got it photographed this morning and am now getting it up.

For my card I pulled out the new stamp sets I ordered from Stamptember and had my daughter pick out which stamp set and the colors I used. She picked out the SSS/Clearly Besotted exclusive Stamptember collaboration set called Magnificent Magnolia, and she wanted the flowers to be purple and yellow.  I think it turned out quite pretty!

For the background I ink smooshed some Broken China and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks on to my watercolor panel, then I splattered those same colors along with some perfect pearls and a little bit of black acrylic paint. 

On a separate piece of watercolor paper I heat embossed the flowers with Black embossing powder and used my Derwent Inktense pencils for my painting medium. I used the coordinating dies to cut out my flowers and adhered them onto my dry ink smooshed background panel. 

I also heat embossed the sentiment with black embossing powder. I added a few clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and used my clear Wink of Stella brush pen to give it some extra sparkle! 

Thank you for visiting my blog, I hoped you got inspired for your crafty projects!

Supplies used: 

Strathmore & Canon watercolor paper

Broken China and Peacock Feathers Distress inks

Perfect Pearls and black acrylic paint

SSS/Clearly Besotted Magnificent Magnolia stamp and die set

Versamark Ink 

Black embossing powder

Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils

#2 round brush from the Silver Brush Company

Pretty Pink Posh Clear Sequins

Multi Medium Matte adhesive

Tombo Mono Multi Glue

Scotch Foam Tape

Clear Wink of Stella Brush Pen 

See you soon, happy crafting!!

Birthday Thank You's

 I just had my Birthday on Monday and some friends of mine took me out to dinner on Tuesday night. To show my appreciation I made these little Thank You's and attached them to lip gloss. 

Simon Says Stamp: Lunch Box Notes Die Set

Simon Says Stamp: Thanks Stamp Set

Versamark ink

Stampendous Detail white embossing powder

Stampin' Up Pool Party embossing powder

Recollections small heart punch

Star Dust Stickles

Mounting tape

Kool tak clear foam

all the paper was scraps from my stash

Thanks for stopping by today, if you like what you see leave a comment or 

if there is a project you would like me to share let me know. 

August Card Swap

I want to show you my card for my August Card Swap group.  Our theme for August was Fall or Thanksgiving.  I wanted to do a fall card because then you could use it for a thank you card as well. I really like the colors and how it all came together. 

The cardstock is from my stash and the paper is from Fancy Pants.  I used and old Stampin' Up stamp set for the leaves, heat embossed them in clear, brown and gold.  I also clear embossed a Stampin' Up background stamp on the blue cardstock.  The Sentiment is a stamp from CTMH enhanced with a bronze fine tip marker. I used the marker to add some dashed lines to the dark brown cardstock also.  The dashed lines on the sentiment circle are done with a brown fine tip marker.  I used tea dye distress ink with a blending tool for the shading.  

Happy Easter and Thank You card

Happy Easter everyone, I wanted to make this quick post because I made this Thank you card to enter into some fun challenges.  First up is My Craft Spot where the challenge was Strings & things, and the other one is at the Use It Tuesday blog. Their challenge was all about spring! get out your old products that you haven't used in a while and make something.

Here is my card:

Paper is from Colorbok-(the patterned paper is the first sheet I have used out of this stack)

The Twine is brand new from Michaels

The stamp and punch were used for the first time on this card & both are from Stampin' Up

The flowers are from my stash that I have had for years.

Thanks for checking out my creations,  I hope you have been inspired!

Card Swap Cards for July!

Good Morning everyone, I hope you are all having a great summer!  It is busy around here.  I managed to get my cards done for my card swap the morning of our card swap.  I was cutting it close this month.  Our theme was Thank You cards. 

cartridge: mini-monograms

Stamp and ink from Stampin' Up

paper and ribbon from my stash

I hope you like it, I kept things really simple.

Thanks for visiting my blog!  Comments are always welcome!

Heartfelt Thanks

How is everyone this morning?  I wanted to do a quick post before we have to head out for swim lessons. 
This is a card I made for my card swap group for the month of April.  I know it's June.  We actually haven't swapped cards in a couple of months because of different things happening with all of us.  But I am caught up now, so for our June swap I will have the cards for April, May and June. 
The theme for April was just to use spring colors.  Well, I think of pastels during that time of year.  I ended up making it a thank you card, and I really like how it turned out.  So here it is:

I made my card on my gypsy with the Mini-Monograms cart.

The striped paper is from Breezy Design

Stamp set is from My Cute Stamps

"Heartfelt Thanks" stamp is MPS stamps-Simply Sweet Occasions

I stamped the images on DCWV pastel stack

Colorbox ink was used for stamping and edging

I shaded a little bit on my images with Pearlescent chalk from Pebbles Inc. (it doesn't really show in the picture but they really shimmer in the light.)

Thank you all for your support in visiting my blog.  Let me know what you think, I love comments!

Pampered Chef Thank You card

Hello

I am just finishing up a Pampered Chef Party. I wanted to give something to my consultant for doing the party. I know how much work goes into a party having sold Pampered Chef in the past, so I wanted to do something for her.  It wasn't that much, but she loved it anyway!

I put some Hershey Kisses in a little treat bag to go with the card.  Most of the paper is from my scraps.  The patterened paper is from Breezy Design.  The thank you is just written with a Hot Cocoa rolling ball writer.  I inked the edges with ColorBox chalk inkpad in Chestnut Roan.  The Chef's Hat was taken from the Pampered Chef logo. I popped up the hat to give dimension.  It was a lot of fun to do and very simple. 

enjoy!