Birthday Card

Today we are attending a birthday party for my husband's cousin who is celebrating his 60th birthday.  I decided to have a little fun with his card.  I just love Gus from Bugaboo Stamps and the sentiment is always good for a chuckle or two.  I chose papers that are geared for young boys to match the sentiment and used primary colors.

Inside of card:

Card Details:

Image: Gus Bday Optional from Bugaboo Stamps

Copics: E00, E04, e11, E13, E21, R20, T0, T3, T4, T7, R24, R27, R29, G05, B97, B95, B93, W0, W1, B000

Martha Stewart Button punch

Spellbinders circle dies

La La Land Stitched Circle die

Sketch from Sketch Saturday

Entered in following challenges:

Sketch Saturday: Sketch

Catch The Bug Challenge: Bingo (Stripes, Buttons and Sentiment)

Crafty Friends Challenge: B is for...(buttons, blue

Crafting With Friends: Anything Goes

Jo's Scrap Shack: boys to men

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

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Letters For Santa

The challenge this week at 52 CCT is to create a Christmas card For A Man.

We have a couple guys in our family who work for the post office so I couldn't resist making this card.

The mail truck is from the My Community Cricut cartridge.  I may have to go back and do some pen work over the word mail on the truck.  Not sure I like how it looks now.  

Card Details:

Mail Truck: My Community Cricut Cartridge

Letters: Doodle Charms Cricut Cartridge

Sketch: Sparkles Monthly Challenge

Entered in following challenges:

Sparkles monthly challenge: Sketch

Christmas Stampin All Year: Lots of layers

Jingle Belles: Use something in your stash at least a year old (I used the My Community Cartridge)

Thinking Of You

I made this card for my grandmother who is spending some time in a care facility recovering from a fall.

I love the clean and simple design of this sketch.  Sometimes less is more.

Card Details:

Image: Magnolia Stamps

Floral Oval Spellbinders die

Martha Stewart branch punch

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Spellbinders lacy circle die

Copics;  E00, E04, E11, E13, E21, R20, E37, E35, E53, B02, B12, B14, T3, T4, T7, Y26, Y23, YR20, BG70

Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketches

Entered in following challenges: 

Tuesday Morning Sketches: Sketch

Crafty Gals Corner: Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes

Peace

I made this card as a thank you for a friend.  This little Tilda looks just like my friend.

I used papers from the Free Spirit paper pad from We R Memory Keepers.  The word peace and the flowers are from the Groovy Times Cricut cartridge and are the perfect accents to this Magnolia stamp.

Here is the inside of the card.

Card Details:

Image: Magnolia Stamps

Spellbinders floral oval die

Peace: Groovy Times Cricut cartridge

Flowers: Goovy Times Cricut cartridge

Thank you: rubber stamp

Copics: E00, E04, E11, E13, E21, R20, E55, E57, E53, E50, E70, E74, E79, BV00

Entered in following challenges:

Midweek Magnolias: Anything Goes

Color Q: Color challenge Sarhara sand, kiwi kiss, not quite navy, soft sky, white.  I think my colors are fairly close to this color palette but I do have some dark brown

Through The Craft Room Door: Anything Goes

Sweet Stamps: Anything Goes

Craft Your Passion: Anthing Goes

Sunflowers

My son is spending the fall semester in Bhutan.  It's a study abroad program with the School for Field Studies.  He is a senior in college with a double major in Biology and Environmental Service as well as a minor in Psychology. While he is there he will be taking 18 credit hours as well as participating in field study projects and learning about the rich cultural history of the country. He is writing a blog titled, Searching For The Thunder Dragon,  documenting  his travels.  If interested in reading it you can find it HERE
The students are staying in a dormitory but at some time during the semester, he will stay with a local family.
He asked me the night before he left if I could make him a card to give to the family he will stay with as a thank you.  So being the every dutiful mom, I got up early and made this card for him.  I kept it simple so that it would be easier for him to pack.  

I used sunflowers since they are blooming around our area this time of year. 

I kept the inside of the card simple with plenty of room for him to write a message. 

On the back of the card I used die cut of our state along with a heart over the area where we live.

Card Details:

Image: Sunflowers from the Scrapper's Delights 

Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles die

Benjamin Border die from Memory Box

Missouri die cut from 50 States Cricut Cartridge

Copics: Y26, Y23, YR20, E27, E25, BG95, BG93

Entered in following challenges:

Crafting With Friends: Anything Goes

Crafty Catz: Autumn Colors

Simply Paper Craft: Anything Goes

Christmas Candy Cane

It was fun creating a card using Red, White and Blue.  The candy cane is from Magnolia Stamps.  After coloring with copics, I painted the candy cane with Hologram Extreme Glitter paint.  It goes right over the copics and gives a great sparkly look.  Best part is that it dries super fast (depending on how much you use, it dries in under 5 minutes).  The ribbon was colored with blue copics and then painted with Turquoise Extreme Glitter paint.  I was surprised that the paint enhanced the blue copics and didn't just cover it up.  

This is for the current challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  Would love for you to join us. What color would you pair up with red and white?

Card Details:

Candy Cane: Magnolia Stamps

Spellbinders floral oval die

Spellbinders snow flake die

Copics: BG000, R24, R27, R37, B12, B41

Sketch:  Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Extreme Glitter paint

Entered in following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday: Sketch

Christmas Stampin All Year: Anything Goes

Simply Create Too: Early Holiday Wishes

Simply Paper Crafts: Anything Goes

Baby Ellie Jane

I made this card for my niece who just had a baby girl.  This is one of my favorite images from Mo's Digital Pencil (let's be honest, all her images are my favorites) 

This is also for the current Anything Goes plus a Sentiment challenge at Aud Sentiments.

 I made an easel card but really wanted my sentiment to stand out so I added a place for us to write a message on the back side of the card (actually the bottom)

Card Details:
Image: Baby Fairy Flora from Mo's Digital Pencil
Decorative corner die from Joy Crafts
Martha Stewart Butterfly punches
Corner leaf from STorybook Cricut cartridge
Spellbinders labels 8
Spellbinders decorative labels eight
Sentiments: Stampin up
Rose corner stamp: Magnolia Stamps
Copics: E00, E04, E11, E13, E21, R20, e53, E50, R00, R000, R02, Y00, G00

Entered in following challenges:
Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge: Anything Goes with a Mo's Image
Creative Moments: Anything Goes Use A Sentiment
Crafting For All Seasons: Tic Tac Toe (Flowers, Digi Image, Lace)
Addicted To Stamps: Anything Goes
Paper Take Weekly: Things With Wings
Fan-Tastic Tuesday: make it feminine

Christmas Card

Oops! This post didn't go live on Saturday as scheduled.  

It's Saturday so that means a new challenge at 52 CCT. The challenge theme is to use the sketch.

I hope you have as much fun with the sketch as I did.

Card Details:

Sketch: 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Image: Bugaboo Stamps

Border was made using Quick Kuts nesting doily rectangle die

Copics: E00, E04, E11, E13, E21, R20, E29, E27, e25, E21, R89, R83, R81, BG11, BG00, BG000

Pink spica pen for shoes

Entered in following challenges: