Navy Blue Christmas

Hello everybody!!! How was your weekend? It's a cold Sunday here in North Carolina, but I love it. Time for leggings and sweaters.

Today's card is CAS style. All I really had to do was die cut the image and sentiment (one die), layer onto blue and white cardstock, then add the ribbon and some glitter and I was done! I really love everything about this card. It's simple to make, and I love navy and white together. The silver bow was the final touch.

I found the Memory Box die at Simon Says Stamp; the ribbon from Stampin Up!; Navy Blue cardstock from Stephanie Barnard's Stamps of Life; and the Pure Luxury White cardstock from Gina K Designs. Put together quite a mix there!

This is one card I could duplicate easily, so it's in the running for this year's Christmas card. What do you think? It could be the same design but different colors.

Thank you for stopping by today. I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

Peace

Hello everybody! I'm here with another Christmas card. After a couple weeks of trial and error, I've come up with a few cards that will be under consideration for duplication. You'll see more of these in the near future. Like I said previously, I'll need about 50 cards. While I don't want to create 50 different ones, I don't want to duplicate too many, either.

I started by stamping a Hero Arts Background Stamp in Gina K Designs Kraft Ink on Pure Luxury Ivory Cardstock. I wanted to keep it soft so it didn't overpower the image on top. For the image, I stamped and die cut a Sizzix Christmas ornament and layered it on top of a piece of GKD ribbon. The whole thing was layered onto Christmas Pine and Kraft Cardstock.

This card does not use typical Christmas colors, but I think it will work well for a masculine holiday card. I'll keep playing with this Sizzix set of stamps and dies and see what other colors I could combine.

Thank you for stopping by today! I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

Be Merry!

Hi everybody! Yes, this is a Christmas card. I decided to jump in and get started, since I should probably create about 50 cards between now and New Year's. I've already posted my Fall cards, so that's my clue to begin my Holiday cards.

Today's creation will be entered into the Hero Arts Holiday Cardmaking Challenge. I enjoyed looking at all the cards that have been entered and suddenly realized I had this wonderful big background stamp. It is called Hero Arts Triangle Tree Cling Stamp, and I love it!

This was my second attempt at this card. The first time, I just used green and white. As soon as I downloaded the picture, I realized it was too plain and needed a touch of bling. So, I remade the card and added a layer of red behind the image panel and then put a few tiny, red sequins beside the sentiment. I still think it could use more, or something like sequins that are a little bigger. Maybe my third attempt?

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, and it's called Joyous Christmas. I love the big, bold style of the words.

Thanks for stopping by today. I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

Halloween

Hello everybody! Long time no see! Sorry I've been missing in action lately. I've been working on a scrapbook, which is a surprise for somebody, so I can't say much about it here. Never know when they'll decide to take a look at my blog. Anyway, it took about 2-3 weeks to finish, and I didn't make any cards during that time so I could get the scrapbook finished. You'll see it soon!

This card is my post as a Design Team member at Outlawz Saturday Paper a la Mode Challenge. Go take a look and join in! The focus is Halloween for this week. Not hard!

The image is from A Day for Daisies, the Sponsor for this week's challenge, and is called Little Pumpkin Witch. I love it! I added Black Stickles to the mouth, nose & eyes of the pumpkin. The card was colored with Copics, and I used chalk for the background. I added the Double Scalloped Border Die I purchased from Gina K Designs. All this was layered onto black cardstock, then a piece of orange glitter paper before finally putting it onto a white card base. That's it! A fun card.

Hope you'all have a wonderful day! I appreciate you stopping by. I enjoy your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon!

Bee Square

Hi everybody! How's your day coming along? I live in North Carolina, and we've been swamped with rain, with more coming. Ground is soaked, streets are flooded. It's a good time to stay inside and CRAFT!

Today is World Cardmaking Day, so I created this square, 4 x 4 card using the new Stamp TV set from Gina K Designs called Autumn Wishes. I've been playing around CASing (Copy and Share) several cards using browns and reds, so for this card I went with blues and yellows just for something different.

After finishing this I realized Gina had a Challenge to use this set for an Autumn card. Well, this doesn't qualify for that since I used "summer" paper and colors, but I like the square card size.

I colored the images with Copics and had a hard time with my brush tip getting in between the fine lines on the bee. Maybe with practice I'll get better! The ribbon is from Stampin Up!

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope everyone is staying safe and dry. Your comments and visits mean the world to me, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

A Special Flip-It

Hello everybody! How's your day coming along? Our weather has been beautiful, but rain is in the forecast for the rest of the week. Yikes!

Today's card is another Flip-It, using a die, ribbon, cardstock and patterned paper from Stephanie Barnard's Stamps of Life. I just love the little leaves on that paper! The stamped images are from The Greeting Farm. The little animals are so cute--I've been waiting to use this stamp set since summer!

Hope everybody's having a good week. I have a family member and also a close friend having surgery this week, so I'm a little anxious. Thought I'd post this card before it really gets hectic!

Thank you for stopping by today. I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

Happy Birthday, Nephew!

Hello everybody! How are you today? Another week has passed, so I thought I'd better post a new card.

Today's creation was made for my nephew, Quintin Baker. He had a birthday in August, right before my trip to California. I was so busy getting ready for my trip, I forgot all about it. Well, this nephew is very special to me, so I had to make up for it as soon as possible.

Flip-It dies are some of my favorites, so I picked that for my card for Quintin. The dies, card base, patterned paper and stamps came from Stamps of Life. I just love that tshirt set, and I like the grey and red together. The blank space on the right of the card is where I wrote a note to Quintin.

Thank you for stopping by today! I appreciate your comments and visits very much, and I hope to see you again real soon ~

Fall Foliage and a Trip to the West Coast!

Hello! How's everybody doing? I've recuperated from my trip to the Los Angeles area, and I wanted to share a few pictures and also a card I made recently.

The card was created with a stamp set by Gina K Designs called Fall Foliage. It's full of beautiful Fall stamps. This isn't a new stamp; rather, it's one I saw on sale when Gina had her Fall Specials. I've been resisting it for quite a while, and once the price dropped, I ordered it!

Since this is a new stamp set for me, and I've never used it before, I am entering this card to Darnell's NBUS ("Never-Before-Used-Stuff") card challenge. Please see her blog at: djkardkreations.com.

I used several different colors to stamp the Fall leaves onto ivory cardstock. Then I added a strip of Cranberry Tart cardstock layered with vellum after I heat embossed the sentiment. Finally, I added a wooden leaf tied with a bow right beside the sentiment.

This was a rather simple card to make but it doesn't really qualify as a CAS (Clean and Simple) style because there's little white space. I will probably send this to someone in my family sometime this Fall.

Now for the pictures from my trip:

This first picture is of me and my son, Coleman. We were at Urban Lights in Los Angeles. Every day was a beautiful day, full of warmth and sunshine.

This is a picture of my son, Coleman, and his wife, Meredith, at Santa Monica Pier. See how blue the water is!

Look what we found!!! A Craft and Folk Art Museum with a SALE in their giftshop! I actually got away with one pretty pair of earrings. Meredith bought a pair, too.

Went to the Los Angeles Zoo one day and got rather close to some of the animals. That gorilla kept putting the branch on his back so it hooked around his neck. The giraffe bent down and got right in front of me!

Although I took over 100 pictures, this was the last picture we got of the two of us. The next day, my last day there, we went to the taping of Jimmy Kimmel and then to the Griffith Observatory. What an awesome way to end a spectacular trip!

Friends, cherish the time you have with your kids, no matter how old they are. I miss mine so bad it hurts sometimes. This trip will hold a special place in my heart for the rest of my life.