Ruff Day

I have a couple of quick get well cards to share today. I used an Art Impression image and colored each one with Copics and added an assortment of cardstock and designer papers from my stash. The first card makes use of a stitched frame die and I added some pink gemstones on the sides to match those pink slippers LOL. For the 2nd version, I used Lil Inker stitched dies on each of the cardstock panels.

Sharing with the Allsorts Challenge Weeks # 741/2

All Creatures Great and Small with an A/G option 

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Get Well Wishes

 I found time today to make a get well card by using a very old strip embossing folder by Cuttlebug and a few strips of retired dsp from SU!. I embossed the strip of white, and colored the embossed sections with Copics and glaze pens. I used 2 Sweet'n Sassy border dies to create the yellow and green borders of scallops and grass. I stenciled the sky with some Taylored Expressions cloud templates and some Tumbled Glass ink, then stamped some Sweet'n Sassy birds in the sky. The sentiment is from SU! (R) Teeny Tiny Wishes and it's backed with a small snippet of coral colored dsp from SU!

I'll share with these challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure? - A/G embossing with a twist of borders.

Krafty Chicks Challenge #648 - any occasion goes

Here's a pic of the strip embossing folder I used

I haven't been able to figure out how to post the picture of my card side-by-side with this image 😕

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you all a good weekend!

Carol

Healing Vibes

 I made this card a while ago but I don't think I shared it yet, so here goes.

 I used a SU! Blended Bloom stamp set for the pink rose, stamping with Versamark and heat-embossing it with gold embossing powder. I colored it with Copics and affixed some copper colored shiny beads to the center, adding glossy accents to hold them in place. After it dried, I add a tiny black Nuvo drop to the center; then fussy cut it and popped it up on foam tape on  a MFT die-cut stitched circle. The leaves were done with a SU! Healing Hugs stamp set and also fussy cut. The sentiment (also from the Healing Hugs set) was heat-embossed on black with white ep and fussy cut as well.

I'll enter this into the Flower Challenge #72 - add sparkle

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do!

Carol

Let's Squash It! #22

 Hello everyone, today I'm guest designing for the Let's Squash It! Challenge #22 which is to "keep it CAS." while using any embossing folder.

I used an older SU! folder called Elegant Bouquet and enhanced it with some pastel Copic markers in yellow and green, dotting the flower centers with a brown Copic. The sentiment is by Sweet 'n Sassy from an older stamp set I've had for years.

If you're anything like me, I'm sure you have a good collection of embossing folders, and I hope you'll find some time to play along. I look forward to seeing your creations!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Fun Fold Get Well Card

Today I'm sharing what's called a Fun Fold card and I used this tutorial to make it. I used a SU! set called "Healing Hugs" (2018) that has a beautiful rose image and some great get well sentiments. I used some snippets of dsp that has roses to coordinate with the stamped rose image and used Berry Burst ink and card stock.

It opens up to give a smaller sentiment area as well as a larger one for writing your sentiment. I used a retired tiny punch from SU! to make the flowers with pink glittered card stock just to add a bit of sparkle. I also added a tiny butterfly to the inside just for fun. I finished this with a few black Nuvo drops.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Retro Rubber Challenge #134 - spring flowers (must use stamps older than 1 year)

Repeat Impressions DCC M620 - spring flowers

Little Red Wagon challenge #548 - flowers

Wishing everyone a better today than yesterday, and thanks for stopping by.

Carol

Twofer Card Challenge #18 Garden

The prompt for the Twofer challenge #18 this month is "garden" and what's better in a garden than some pretty flowers, namely some colorful roses?

I made a birthday card with tangerine roses and a get well card with distress ink lemonade roses.

I started with a SU! set called "Healing Hugs, stamping the roses in Tangerine Tango ink and adding leaves done with Memento Cottage Ivy ink. The SNSS sentiment was heat-embossed with white on black; rounding 2 corners and adding some orange gemstones for interest. The stems were done with a SU! Fifth Avenue Floral stamp and colored in with Tombow markers. I thought of hand-drawing some thorns on them, but then decided that was a bad idea as I'm not good with drawing much of anything :)

This is called a "Fun Fold" card and I found the tutorial by Patty Bennett here.

I used some SU! granny apple green card stock and matching dsp, along with the healing hugs stamp set, but I did NOT properly follow the instructions for attaching the ribbon which is supposed to be tied to keep the card closed. DUH! I'd already adhered the front panel, so I improvised and just tied a loose piece of yellow gingham ribbon around the card into a knot to hold the card closed. I decided I needed a little bit of ribbon in the top corner to balance things out, so I used a glue dot to attach that little snippet.

Here's what it looks like completely opened with a large area for writing your own sentiment, as well as a small area for the stamped sentiment.

I'm entering these into the Twofer Challenge #18 which is "Garden."

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic Monday!

Carol

Masculine Get Well

I needed a quick get well card for a gentleman, and put this together in record time. I cut 3 pieces of DCWV script paper and adhered them to a white card base, then used a SU! Sincere Salutations sentiment on a white snippet, making the fishtail end with a hexagon punch, and added 3 tiny black Nuvo drops and called this one done. I think I'll make a few more for the stash with this design as it went together so fast!

I'm sharing this with the Cardz 4 Guyz challenge #223 which is Black and White (only)

Thanks for the visit, it's always nice to see you :) Have a great day!

Carol

Quilt Cards

I haven't made any quilt cards in a while, so I pulled out some hoarded snippets of the beautiful color of Gina K's wild orchid, along with some white and black card stock and used a MFT quilt die to cut one from each color; swapping negatives to make 3 different cards. They all have chipboard buttons I bought years ago and never used, and I wove thin card stock strips through the holes to look like thread. The greeting on this one is by Hero Arts.

The greeting on this one is by Northwoods, heat-embossed with white ep on a black snippet where I fishtailed the ends with a square punch.

and finally the greeting on this one is by Stampa Rosa 1999.

I'd like to enter the first card into the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground Challenge #353 -  use snippets

I'm also entering it into the Simon Wednesday Challenge which is anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by and here's wishing everyone a good day.

Carol

Healing Vibes

I made this get well card for my stash using some powder pink and white card stock. I embossed the background with a CB Geometric Rings embossing folder, adding some crystal Nuvo drops to the centers in the design. The border was done with a SNSS Lacey Eyelet border die (retired) in both colors, and I inlaid the pink bits into the white. The sentiment panel was done with a SB grommet tag die; outlining the embossed portion while it was still in the die with a matching marker. The sentiment is from the SU! Healing Hugs stamp set, and I added 2 little die-cut butterflies done with Gina Marie Designs dies, adding pink Nuvo drops on the bodies, and covered them all with clear WOS for a little sparkle.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

the Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Get Well (must use a die cutting machine)

Addicted to Stamps and More #341 - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and the sun is finally shining today, so it's  going to be a good day :) Have yourself a wonderful Wednesday!

Carol

Twofer #15 - Zoo Animals

The 10th of the month has once again rolled around and it's time for the Twofer Card Challenge #15. This time we're making cards with "zoo animals."

I chose to use a camel image, stamped and given to me by my friend who knows I crack up over this Geico camel every time it comes on TV! LOL 

Many years ago in a conversation with my husband, I was trying to say "Mike might" in a sentence, but I got tongue-tied and kept saying "Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike" (several times) until  my husband and I were just hysterically laughing because the harder I tried to say it right, the more it kept coming out "Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike" over and over again!  LOL I don't know if I've ever tried to use those two words together in a sentence since that day LOL

OK, on to my twofer...

If you watched the video link above, you already understand the first card :) Instead of "hump day" I made it into a birthday card by doing the inside like this:

The second card is a get well card with that silly camel "lookin' in on you" through the window. I know the card designs look similar, but they are definitely for two different occasions and I had fun making them and reflecting on some great memories.

Thanks for stopping by as always! May your day be filled with happy memories that bring you some good laughs :)

Carol

First Card: dark gold card, DCWV dsp from black & white paper pad, Lil inker stitched rectangles, Lil Inker stitched sentiment flag banners, sentiment done with stick stamps and black nuvo dots added to the banners with stamped question marks. Unknown Camel image colored with Copics, white glaze pen, and glossy accents to the eyes and nose, and enhanced with a fine black marker.

Inside: sentiment done with stick stamps, celebrate from Lil Inker, cut in gold and black and layered for dimension

Second Card: Die cut stitched window was a gift from a friend, colored with a blue Copic marker. Stamped birds from SNSS, ribbon from craft store, 3 blue eyelets from my stash, clouds sponged with tumbled glass distress ink, sentiment computer generated, camel colored like the first card.

Sick as a Dog

My husbands' friend has been quite ill lately with a 2nd stay in the hospital. Yesterday morning I made this card before we went to visit him. When he opened it, he cracked up laughing and smiling, so this card did what I hoped it would do. I used a Tim Holtz crazy dog image, coloring with Copics. I made his tongue a fluorescent green color (because he's sick, right?) and coated it with glossy accents. I drew faint red lines in his eyeballs too before coating them (and his nose) with glossy accents. I added an Impression Obsession die-cut bucket and added a SU! sentiment to the front of it. The image panel and striped dsp panels were cut with Lil Inker stitched rectangles, and the little grey cloud was done with a Lawn Fawn stitched cloud die, while I drew in the raindrops with a Copic. The horizontal panel was a water colored snippet left over from a previous project which I embossed with a Cuttlebug Cape Cod ef. The cardstock base and striped dsp are SU! Pacific Point while the bucket is Lemon Lime, also from SU!

This card was made mostly from snippets, so I'm sharing it over at the Snippets Playground #339.

Also the Happy Little Stampers November Anything Goes with Dies challenge.

Also sharing with the Happy Little Stampers November Watercolour Challenge - anything goes with an optional twist of "get well."

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope all sickness has bypassed you this week! Enjoy the sunshine!

Carol

Guest Designing for Twofer #11

  After playing a previous Twofer challenge and being named a winner, I'm proud and delighted to be guest designing for the Twofer #11 challenge this month, and the keyword is "wreath." You are to make 2 different cards with 2 different designs while using the same stamps, dies, or stencils to create your interpretation of a wreath.

I've made a Christmas card and a get-well card.

My immediate reaction was to start by making a Christmas card. I started with some traditional colors of red and green and added a piece of SU! woodgrain dsp for the background. The wreath was created with a Poppy Shasta Twigs die and dotted with red liquid pearls for berries. I added a double twine bow, and found the Kaisercraft die-cut sentiment in my doo-dad box - already layered with neutral and red colors and ready to be used.

For this get-well card, I made another wreath from kraft card stock with the Shasta twig die. I used autumn colors of very vanilla, early espresso, and pumpkin pie. The card base is kraft, while the embossed vanilla background was done with a Darice "Fall Leaf Background" embossing folder. The horizontal panel is a snippet of dsp that's printed with colorful autumn leaves, and I added a stitched die-cut banner (Li'l Inker) with a Sweet'n Sassy stamps sentiment. Next I added a stamped and fussy-cut SNSS flower that was enhanced with Copics to add a little depth to the color. The flower center was dotted with gold Stickles, and I also dotted the branches of the wreath with stickles for some subtle sparkle. The espresso panel was cut with a MFT fishtail banner die and the 3 tiny leaves were done with an EK border punch I've had for years.

I hope you find time to come play along with this challenge and be sure to visit -The Twofer Challenge #11 challenge blog to see all the inspiration from the design team! Darnell and these ladies make the most awesome cards and surely one of them will inspire you to play along with us! You have 2 weeks to join in, so come have fun with us!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great "Twofer" kind of day :)

Carol

Masculine Quilt Card

One of my husband's friends has recently been in the hospital, so I made him a quilt card to let him know we're thinking of him. I used a MFT stitched quilt die and used some black cardstock, along with some green Lawn Fawn plaid and Recollections black & white checkered dsp to put this one together. I added an Impression Obsession button to the center, adding shreds of green dsp in the center to look like thread. I added the warm wishes sentiment to the front with a get well message inside. He loved the card, and says he's saved every card we ever sent to him, so that's quite a compliment!

I'm sharing this over at the Dies R Us challenge #108 - stitched dies.

Here's wishing you a wonderful weekend, and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

TMS #474

Another week has rolled around to Tuesday already, and today we have the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge #474 designed by Debbie.

Here is my take on the sketch...

I used an older SU! retired set for the image and colored the stamp with markers before stamping to get the two-tone look. I used some Rose Red cardstock for the card base and mat, and some green snippets for the ferns which were cut with a die from Precious Mariecke. The tiny flowers were done with SU! mini punches, and they were dotted with black Nuvo drops. The sentiment is from the SU! set Healing Hugs and was matted in black. The embossed background panel was done with a Sizzix Damask ef. I flipped the sketch to a top fold for my card, overlapping the sentiment panel onto the image panel and adding the ferns and flowers for texture.

Now it's your turn and we can't wait to see what you do with this easy sketch. Be sure to have a look at what my fellow DT members have created over on the TMS challenge blog and have fun being inspired by their creativity. 

Here is the prize up for grabs this week

 Thanks for stopping by and as always, have yourself a most wonderful day!

Carol

Twofer #9 Leaves

Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing my Twofer cards for challenge #9 where the prompt is "leaves." You are to make 2 cards using the same stamps/die for 2 different occasions.

I made a get-well card along with a birthday card using a leaf stamp from Hero Arts.

The flowers and leaves are both from Hero Arts, and I stamped and fussy-cut all of them, placing them on a GMD stitched die-cut oval which was placed on an embossed background done with a Cuttlebug Geometric Rings ef. The leaves were stamped on green dsp that has wood grain printed on it, and I curled them around a pencil and popped them up on mini foam squares for dimension. I colored the flowers with Zig markers and dotted the centers with markers and glaze pens in green, brown, yellow, and black. The sentiment is by SU! and I added 3 Nuvo black dots before placing it on a rose red cardbase. I also dotted the centers of each design on the embossed piece with Nuvo glitter drops just to fancy it up a little more :)

The birthday card is on a Hello Honey card base, and I used an EK punch to create the lower border; inlaying the punched negatives back into the border with assorted autumn colors of cardstock. I used the Hero Arts leaf to stamp the black panel with Versamark and heat-embossed it with gold ep. I stamped several more images again with Versamark ink and this time I embossed with a cadmium colored ep which gave the leaves a copper and gold two-toned look. 

 Here's a close-up and if you click on it, you can really see the two-toned effect. It looks better IRL but it's hard to photograph.

So there is my Twofer #9 for September 2018. I hope you liked the cards, and thanks as always for stopping by. Make it a great week ahead while you're at it!

Carol

TMS #469

 Here's hoping nobody is feeling like this poor pooch after too much celebrating their day off yesterday! LOL Welcome to Tuesday, and another Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge. This week we're working on sketch #469 and this one took me quite a while to come up with something, I must admit. It's the embellishment on the left side that I didn't have a clue what to do with, so I just used some twine. It kind of reminds me of the ups and downs of not feeling well! LOL

The image is from an older 2011 SU! set called Wellness Wishes that I don't often use, and I layered it with black and Wasabi green cardstock, die-cutting with stitched squares. The dsp was a random snippet from my overflowing box, as was the black & white polka dot border strip that was done with a SU! scalloped border punch. The white scalloped border was done with a SNSS scalloped border die, and the black Nuvo drops were the finishing touch for this get-well card.

I hope you'll find time to play along with us this week, but before you do, be sure and check out my DT members creations for some great inspiration. You can find them all HERE.

I'm also sharing this with the Retro Rubber Challenge #94 - a/g

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Carol

Get Well Card

I recently won this fun Art Impressions stamp set and have been playing with it non-stop. I used the dachshund image, coloring with Copics, and coloring the bandages with fluorescent Copics. I used some wood grain dsp along with 2 polka dot panels found in my snippets box.

Here's what the inside looks like. Another dog with a bandage on his tail and wearing a cone. Too funny :) I added some matching strips of dsp on the side to coordinate the front and inside together.

I'm sharing this with the Cardz4Guyz challenge #201 which is "get well soon."

Also sharing with Addicted to Stamps and More challenge #306 - anything goes

and Repeat Impressions challenge #A2218 - anything goes

I think a little guy or a big guy will get a chuckle out of this as they recover :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday!

Carol

Get Well Card

I was fortunate enough to win an incredibly cute stamp set called Doggie Kisses by Art Impressions from the Snippets Playground, and it arrived just in time to make this card which is going into the mail today to Darnell's grandson. You can read about his unfortunate accident in this post.

I colored the dog with Copics and added some white gel pen (for slobber) along with glossy accents on his tongue and slobber puddle :) I used a SU! scalloped top tag punch and corner rounder to create the tag and used some yellow gingham ribbon from my stash. All the papers are by Teresa Collins from a long-time favorite paper pad called Every Day Moments, and I matted with navy cardstock. The sentiment is included in the stamp set and was done with navy ink.

I'm sliding in on the seat of my pants to get this posted over at the Tuesday Throwdown TT#404 before it closes in a few hours. The challenge is anything goes.

Stay safe out there and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

TMS #465

Hello and welcome to another fun Tuesday Morning Sketch. Today we're working on sketch #465.

 I flipped this sketch to make a wide fold card instead of the way it's shown in the sketch. I guess I just dance to the beat of my own drum sometimes :)

To make this "get well" card, I pulled out a piece of Tim Holtz dsp from a retired paper pack called Vintage Shabby and added a strip of blue cardstock with the sentiment stamped in black. I added a vanilla border done with a Martha Stewart doily punch and a few sponged, stitched clouds from Lil Inker, and stamped a few birds from a SNSS Serene Silhouette stamp set and called this one done.

Be sure to check out my DT member's blogs too as they always make some wonderful cards to inspire us all.

Debbie

Jenée

Melissa

Patti

Here's the prize up for grabs by playing along with this week's sketch...

I'm also sharing this with the Shopping our Stash challenge #366 - silhouettes

Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing what you'll do with this sketch in the coming week!

Carol