Hello again! Quick & pretty cards

Wow, it's been awhile since I posted here. Been a busy spring and summer. However, I haven't been neglecting my crafting! Just haven't taken the time to post. Lots of outside work to do. Have completely reworked 3 of my flower beds, and have a new one in the works, which I will finish as weather permits (can't take the heat & humidity!)

One of the projects I was working on was these  cards to use a game prizes for my granddaughter's baby shower.  I picked up 4 sheets of stickers from the Dollar Tree because they were so pretty. Now I have LOADS of stickers in my stash, so I really didn't need them-but..............they were so pretty!
 Anyway, I sat looking at the new ones one evening, and I had a frame embossed piece of cardstock sitting on my work area from another project that I hadn't used. I put one of the stickers inside the frame, and that's all it took! I was on a roll. I made 23 cards using a variety of embossing folders, some simple added embellishments like pearls and peel-off stickers & I completely used up all 4 sheets of stickers! In fact, I went back and bought some more of the stickers to have on had-they made such pretty & simple cards. Here is just a sample of them:

Hope you find some inspiration in my work. And I always love to hear your comments!

Blessings on your day, Jackie

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'Fishers of Men' congrats card.

I've been promising the gals in my craft group that I would post the card I made for our Pastor for his 25th anniversary as an ordained minister, since I had to give it to him before I showed it to anyone (that's what I get for putting it off until the last minute).
Our wonderful Pastor is a great 'fisherman', in more than one way. So I knew my card had to have a 'fishing' theme that reflected not only his ministry, but his love of actually fishing for fish! We are so thankful that he decided to make a career change 25 years ago and chose to 'follow Jesus'.

I used the CTMH 'Perfect Day' Stamp set and stamped lighthouse image and the birds on the outside. I also used the water image from CTMH 'Summer Breeze' set.  I stamped it all in Momento Rich Cocoa and used Copic Markers to colorthe lighthouse and water. I then masked the lighthouse and used various colors of Pebbles chalks to color in the sky, then stamped the birds and the sentiment. I added some waterfall Stickles to the water.

On the inside of the card I stamped the boat and fence image from the Perfect Day set gently added some color with the chalks. I really like how this turned out. It would also make a very nice masculine birthday card or a sympathy card. 

Please leave a comment-I love to hear from you.

CAS B-day card

The challenge over at Flourishes for their Release week challenge is to make a 10 Minute card. I really have had trouble in the past doing simple cards, but this came together very quickly once I decided what I wanted to do. (This  would also make a nice Father's Day card.)

I used a new Cuttlebug Embossing Folder called 'Pinking Borders'. I love this folder-soooo many possibilities! I used SU Whisper White and Navy cardstock. The stamp sets used are: Flourishes 'Kids Play' (the boy fishing and sentiment); Our Daily Bread "Sympathy' (cattails-just part of one stamped image); and Close to My Heart 'Perfect day' (birds). I stamped them with Versamark ink and used SU white embossing powder. I cut the blue to fit inside the embossed border and mounted it with foam tape. Quick and easy! I really like how it turned out.

We are having a baby shower next week for my 'great-grandson' Eli-one month old tomorrow! I am going to make up some card bundles to use as game prizes and door prizes. This will be one style that I will use as they really do work up quick and are really nice.

Hope you like. Please leave a comment.

More of Habitat cards

Here are some more cards I have made with the Recollections 'Habitat" paper pad. These colors are just so pretty. Fore most of them I have simply used pieces of the DP without too much embellishment-just letting the paper pretty much carry the cards. I love how they have all turned out.







The first card I made larger  (8 1/2 x 4 to fit in a #10envelope) to utilize the entire panel from the DP. The paper was monochromatic, so I used Copics and colored in the leaves and butterfly. I added Stickles to the dragonfly, butterflies and flowers. The Sentiment is from My Pink Stamper and I cut it out with the 2 smallest large deckled Rectangle Spellbinders, doing the partial cut again to make the back rectangle shorter.

I used part of another sheet from the pad for the inside of the card and centered the sentiment verse (CTMH Treasure Life) stamped on Wausau Brite White with SU Concord Grape and cut out with the Spellbinders Large Deckled Rectangles. On the background piece I cut part way, then turned the papers around and moved the die to enclose the butterfly and rolled to the first cut to make the piece longer.

This card I used to Pieces of the DP and some purple Bazzil cardstock. The Sentiment is gold sticker letters on a tag cut with a Verve tag die set. The flower is made with Cherry Lynn Designs Layered flower. It is made from and aluminum pop can and colored with Alcohol Inks.  I added a purple brad to the center and used a Recollections Rhinestone swirl sticker. 

This one is just the DP with a butterfly cut with a Cheery Lynn butterfly die from purple CS and angel wings die cut from a coordinating DP from the pack. I added some gold border stickers around the edges and the sentiment is gold stickers.

For the inside I used another piece of the same sheet and inked the edges with Memento Bamboo Leaves. I also inked the edges of the sentiment from Stampendous Sincere Sentiments stamped in SU Chocolate Chip .

And below are 4 more using the same DP.

Butterfly challenge

Oh, boy. A cold, rainy spring day in the U.P. goes right through you right down to the bones. But we really do need the moisture-everything was really dry. Good day to stay in and play with paper.
This card is made for the Flourishes 'Timeless Tuesday 167', the challenge being all about butterflies.

I actually made 3 cards, and it's really hard to choose which one to enter. I am still creating with this new Recollections paper pad 'Habitat'. It is full of butterflies, dragon flies, ferns and mushrooms. Gorgeous color combinations-such pretty papers. All 3 DPs are from that pad, the purple cardstock is Bazzil, and the green is SU. I cut the butterfly out with the Cheery Lyn Butterfly dies, put them together with just a piece of tacky tape in the middle, added some recollections rhinestones for the body. The sentiment and frame stamps are from one of the Our Daily Bread Designs Mini tags sets. The ink is Stampin' Up. I wanted that panel to remain small so I cut around it by hand, put it on a piece of green, cut again, then on a piece of purple for the final cut. Mounted it with foam dots.
Hope you like.

lovely mushrooms!

Quick post here tonight. I got this awesome paper pad at Michael's last week. It's a Recollections 12 x 12- Habitat. The colors and textures in the paper are soooo pretty. Greens, tans, purples and browns, Flowers, ferns, mushrooms, dragonflies and butterflies. So here is my first card using the papers.

I used the sketch from Card Patterns #162, and just let the Patterned paper do the honors. I love the mushrooms and fern-fiddleheads on this paper-they are already "heat embossed" on the pad. I cut the piece to highlight the butterfly in the background. I mounted the piece on some SU Old Olive cardstock, then on Bazzil purple cardstock. I stamped a border on the purple with a border stamp set I have had since I first started stamping-I no longer have the package, so don't know what it is. I cut out one of the mushrooms from another sheet of the paper and mounted it with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment on cream cardstock with ColorBox ColorQue-a green but I don't have the color name (first set I bought-didn't realize there were color labels in the package until  I bought another stack sometime later and discovered the labels. Someday I will have to investigate and see if I can figure out the colors). I used clear embossing powder and heat embossed the sentiment. I cut the mat for the sentiment from the S.U.O.O. cardstock with the smallest die in the Spellbinders Fleur dis Lis rectangles die set and attached it to the card with foam dots. The ribbon is a piece I salvaged from a gift I received for my birthday! I added 2 dragonfly brads and a Basic Grey green rhinestone to the little flower.
Enjoy!

Thinking of you

Hello again. Another post today. So, I did find my blog again-we'll see about tomorrow.

A former member of my Prayer Shawl Circle is going through a tough time, so wanted to make her a card for our group to sign and send to her. 

I will enter this in the Pal  Paper Arts 133 sketch challenge, and also at Repeat Impressions Designers Choice Challenge DCC411, to use a bird or birds as the focal image on your creation.


I was at Michel's on Friday and found this cute rhinestone bird sticker. Now, I am a frugal crafter (I don't know why-I have tonnnns of stuff)-I usually don't use a whole sticker on one card-I'll try to get as much milage as possible out of them But this is so stinkin' cute I just had to use the whole thing. I put it on a piece of DP from the MME Lost and Found Market Street 6x6 pad and cut around it for the bird. Isn't he cute? I Used other pieces of the MME pad for the rest of the card, and some Bazzil (green) and DCWV (pink) cardstock. I ran the pink cs through the CB with Cuttlebug Cindy Lou embossing folder and sanded it to bring out the embossing. I cut some of the green cs with SU sweetest stem embosslit and slightly inked the edges. for the flowers I stamped the little flowers from Verve Blessings stamp set, cut around them and layered 3, 2 and 1. I shaped them slightly with a stylus and foam mat. I added flowersoft to the centers fo the flowers and the single leaves from the stems that I put under the bird. I used a piece of embroidered ribbon from my sewing stash that I have had for years-I made my daughter a dress that I used this on when she was in early elementary school-she's now in her 30s and a mom herself!
Hope you enjoy!