Merry Monday #63

I’m sorry to have been missing so long:(  I have been taking care of my two granddaughters, 6 & 8, plus my grandson, just turned two, and on top of all that, I’ve been sick!    Ok, whining is over:)  Now on to a couple of cards…..   First I have my card for this weeks challenge over at Merry Monday #63.  I have missed several weeks there:(  But I have two cards to show you so keep scrolling;)

Here is the sketch this week from Merry Monday, you still have plenty of time to play along:)

Here is my card:

I used all Stampin’ Up! products, except where noted.  The very back is Very Vanilla, on top of that is Real Red, then Designer Series Paper (DSP) Candlelight Christmas (retired) from last years Christmas catalog.  Real Red again, topped with Very Vanilla that I printed with My Digital Studio.

First I made the entire background Very Vanila, then I added my digital stamp from Winter Post (retired) colored Real Red.  I also added the digital skating pair from the Winter Post, I wanted to have the same Very Vanilla background and I added Early Espresso as the color.  I then stamped the words with a clear rubber stamp from the French Foliage set in Early Espresso.

I cut the couple out using my Spellbinder plain circles and scallop circle sets.  The bottom circle is Early Espresso, topped with Lucky Limeade ( I know, strange Christmas color choice, but it matches the paper) and then the skating pair are popped up .  I finished it off with two pretty gems that I found in my stash, probably from Michaels craft store.

I know, a lot of steps, but none of them really hard;)

My second card was made for last weeks Merry Monday, but I didn’t submit it on time:(  You get to see it anyway:)  Here is the sketch that was last weeks:

And here is the card I made:

This card was for Merry Monday #62.  I will be saving this card and sending it on with other cards for Christmas to Send A Smile 4 Kids.  This is a charity to send handmade cards to children in hospitals.  I have a link on the left side of my blog.  They have a challenge blog with digital prizes, if you’re interested, or just make and send cards:)

My very cute, pre-colored, digital image is from Fred She Said, Naughty or Nice Elf. The paper is also FSS and can be found in the Christmas Poinsettia Packs: RED and/or BLUE.  Of course, it also has some wonderful Poinsettias;)  The Naughty or Nice set also includes some sentiments.

I started with white cardstock as my background, I love white backgrounds:)  On top of that is Stampin’ Up! Real Red, more white and then the FSS green dotted paper, which I print with my printer and then cut out to layer.  I also printed the little Elf and cut with a Spellbinder circle die, the black behind her I cut by hand.  The Elf is also popped up.  I printed my sentiment (all of my FSS images and sentiments were printed on the same sheet of paper), and mounted it on SU Basic Black.  I finished this card off with 3 sparkly gold brads.

This card had less steps, so I guess this one is the Simply Made one;)

Fred She Said will be having a blog hop May 31st, with prizes!   If you would like to receive a notice, hop over to the Fred She Said blog, you can sign up for the newsletters and be one of the first to know about new images and contests!

Thanks for coming by today:)  Hope to see you soon!

Freshly Made Sketches #83 and Send A Smile 4 Kids

Hmmm, well, I’m behind again:(  Had another busy week!  Anyway….Merry Monday was off this week, I think Lesley was ill:(  So we’re off to other challenges:)  First up is a sketch from Freshly Made #83, but be sure to stick around until the end because I have more cards to show you:)

I have about 5 cards in progress for this sketch!  Today, I will show you two of them.  The first one is for the Freshly Made challenge, you can click on any of my cards to make them larger:

I love the way this one turned out!  I love simple and this is truly, simply made!  All products for this card are Stampin’ Up! except for my beautiful, pre-colored, digital image from Fred She Said, simply called Parrot Tulip.  This set includes 12 colours with and without blue shadow background ( JPG ).  Also included, printable sheets of all colours and 2 decoupage sheets with larger sized tulips to print and cut out.  There is a black and white version to color yourself:)

I used Basic Black cardstock for all my backgrounds.  Next I used a sheet of Designer Paper for the Night & Day paper pack. Then I used one of my favorite stamps from Stampin’ Up!, En Francis stamped with black StazOn.  My ribbon is Basic Black Scallop Dots ribbon.

My stamped image and my digital image were both done on my favorite paper from Target, photo project paper matte.  I think it’s the store brand, it comes with a cover sheet that has a big green arrow in the bottom left corner that says, up & up.  I love how beautifully it prints!  I use my brochure setting on my printer set at normal, not best.  It might be even better with best, but I just think that would be overkill;)

My second card using this sketch, is for Send A Smile 4 Kids.  I have a link on the left side of my blog.  It’s a charity that is sponsored from time to time by Fred She Said.  They have challenges with prizes:) !  But mainly they accept cards for children in the hospital, and for the children to give cards to their family members:)  Please take a few minutes and check them out:)

I also used a pre-colored digital image for this card and the next two I will show you.  All the images of girly dinosaurs came from a set at mygrafico.  The set is actually called Girly Dino.  For all the cards I used Stampin’ Up! products except for a yellow flower.  If you’re interested in any of the products, please ask, there are just too many colors to list everything unless you really want to know, I’m happy to answer questions;)

I made two of these green ones, one is for my granddaughter:)

If these aren’t bright and cheerful, there is just no such thing!  I printed out my dinos and then just started pulling out Stampin’ Up! paper to match the best I could.  Look at all the colors, I really hope some child is going to love these!   On the challenge, they show cards made that have a lot of embellishments, but in the instructions it says not to add things that a small child might choke on so I kept my extras to a minimum.

I hope you like my cards today, they were all fun to make and not hard, mostly cutting;)

Thanks for coming by, I hope to be back with a Christmas card soon:)  I am working on a card for the Friday Mashup that I hope to get done tomorrow.  Have a great week!

 

Friday Mashup #106

Ok, I’m caught up for this past week!   Tomorrow will be another Merry Monday, but I’m sure it won’t be done tomorrow;)  This card is for the Friday Mashup #106.  There’s still time to join in, or at least pop over and have a look at what everyone has made:)

Here’s your Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a card using the colors “Sahara Sand, Perfect Plum & Wisteria Wonder”.
2. Create a card and “Mail or Deliver it to Someone Special”.
3. Or Mash it Up and create a card with “Sahara Sand, Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder & Mail or Deliver it to someone special”.

Here’s my card, you can click on it to make it larger:

This card is ALL Stampin’ Up! except for the gems.  I ran out of SU gems and had to dig through my drawer to find some.  I did use Sahara Sand and Wisteria Wonder, but I also couldn’t find a piece of Perfect Plum big enough to do the job:(  I hope that’s okay, if not, I will certainly be mailing it to someone special, my mom:)

On top of the Elegant Eggplant, I used my Stampin’ Up! En Francias stamp.  I love this big stamp and use it quite often!  I didn’t use a color, I used my VersaMark pad.  In case you aren’t familiar with it, VersaMark is a stamp pad with a clear, sticky liquid.  It’s used for heat embossing.  Here I inked up my stamp and just used it like a regular stamp pad, it leaves a gentle impression.

I used the Stampin’ Up! Manhattan Flower Embossing Folder, and cut around the top edge, using Wisteria Wonder.  Here I used the Evtra-Large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch and the Modern Label punch all combined to add my sentiment.  A favorite stamp set of mine is the Teeny Tiny Wishes set, they have something for almost every occasion:)  Oh, and I popped up the happy mother’s day with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Freshly Made Sketches #82

Two cards in one day!  I know, I have to make them when I have the time;) I was actually up very late last night making cards…..couldn’t sleep:(  This card is for the challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.   I will also be putting it into the box for Send A Smile 4 Kids and sending it off:)  The Mother’s Day challenge just ended and they are on to Birthdays, check it out!

Here is the sketch for this weeks Freshly Made challenge:

Here’s my card, you can click on it to make it larger:

I personally love this card….so cheerful and Springy:)  My pre-colored digital images are from Fred She Said, of course;)  I used three different sets here.  The pink paper with the flowers is a new collaboration between Fred She Said and Bearly Mine Designs.  The set is called, FSS-BMD Floral Surprise Papers Set, it has beautiful papers full of flowers!   I also used Wee Hummingbird & Petunias  and Hibiscus.  I took the Hibiscus to my Print Shop program, flipped it, printed it, cut it out and then popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, the Wee Hummingbird is also popped up.

I used Stampin’ Up! Soft Suede and Garden Green cardstock.  The Garden Green was run through my Big Shot using the new Stampin’ Up! Needlepoint Border embossing folder. You can’t tell very well this size, but if you enlarge the photo you can see that I used SU Dazzling Details to highlight a couple of the flowers and all over the pink paper. Lastly I used a sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! set Teeny Tiny Wishes, one of my favorite sets! I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up perfectly;)

Another card with quite a few steps, but still Simply Made   I hope you like this card:)

Thanks for stopping by again today, I’m always happy to have you!

Merry Monday #58

Wow, I have a bunch of info this week regarding challenges where you can win prizes!   Be sure to scroll all the way to the end for this exciting info!

First, I’d like to show you the sketch this week for Merry Monday #58:

Now for my card, you can click on it to make it larger:

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a little bored with all these banners.  I decided to do something a little different and used gems.  I had a terrible time trying to make them look straight with embossing under them:(  I had a number of steps, but still pretty simply made

I used Stampin’ Up! supplies except where noted.   Of course my first note would be my beautiful pre-colored digital image from Fred She Said.  This image is called, Winter Emma & The Chickadee.  She comes in 5 different colors.  You can get the uncolored version here.

The back layer is Garden Green, then Cherry Cobbler, white with SU embossing folder Petals A Plenty, more Garden Green and a tiny bit of Cherry Cobbler.  The little stamp comes from the Tags til Christmas set, cut out with the Stampin’ Up! Small Oval Punch.  I did use a small Spellbinders oval for the Cherry Cobbler behind it.  The gems are just some misc. ones hanging around.  On Emma’s coat, I used SU Dazzling Details to add some sparkle.

Really it wasn’t that hard to put together, once I decided what I wanted to do;)

Now, if you’d like to know where there are some challenges where you can win Fred She Said and other prizes, I have a few places for you to visit:

If you can’t get enough Christmas cards, check out Christmas Stampin’ All Year Long.

Spark your Creativity at Pin and Tack.

Like Pinterest?  Here’s a challenge for you:  {Pin} spirational challenges.

Top Tip Tuesday offers tips with some of their entries.

I think two of these are for a week and two are for the entire month.  Check them out to be sure, but be sure to have a look!

I actually have my next card ready, it’s drying right now.  I hope to post it MUCH latter today:)

Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches #81

“Baby” (almost 2) Lawrence took a nice nap today, and I stayed awake!  I really wanted to make two more cards!  Today’s cards are for the challenge Freshly Made Sketches #81.  I’d still like to try and get one more card done, or at least started tonight, so here is the sketch this week:

I have two cards today, so be sure to scroll to the end:)  Here is my first card, you can click on it to make it larger:

Both the cards today will be going in the box for Send A Smile 4 Kids.  They also have a challenge blog with prizes!   Be sure to check them out!

Lots of Stampin’ Up! products used today on both cards, but both images are from Fred She Said.  This first image is from a set called Wee Hummingbird & Petunias.  There is a un-colored digi set and a pre-colored set.  You probably have already guessed that I used the pre-colored set;)  There are 7 different colors of flowers and also images of the flowers and birds separately.

I used Garden Green from  a Stampin’ Up! paper pack, and plain Daffodil Delight.  I also used glue from Stampin’ Up! and Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up my sentiment and main image.  The little yellow gems were in my stash of craft items.

Now for my second card, you can also click on it to make it larger:

Another beautiful pre-colored image from Fred She Said!  This image is from a set called Hummingbird & Columbine, you can get the images pre-colored or black and white to color yourself.  There are three different colors of flowers and also images of just flowers or just birds.

More Stampin’ Up! papers:)  The blue polka dots are from a paper pack of Bright colors, I also used Bashful Blue and Pacific Point.  The leaves on the left are from a Stampin’ Up! Little Leaves Sizzlits die.

Thanks for coming by today!

 

 

 

 

Merry Monday #57

Yay, I received an Honorable Mention for this card from Merry Monday #57:)

 

Well, I think I’m just going to have to say that there is never a “normal” day or week around here!    I’m also kinda thinking I will never catch up!    But, being me, I will still try!

This week over at Always Playing With Paper, they went back to all sketches:)  So this weeks sketch for Merry Monday #57 looks like this:

I made two cards for this challenge.  I am trying to put aside extra cards for “Send A Smile 4 Kids”.  You can click on my link on the left side to find out about this worthy cause:)

Here is my first card, you can click on it to make it larger:

I always use mostly Stampin’ Up! products, and that’s true for this card as well.  But first, I’ll tell you about my pre-colored digital image from Raspberry Road Designs.  The central image is from a digital kit called Christmas Cookies Side Clusters.  I’ve used Raspberry Road Designs before, they’re very easy to work with:)  I used one of their papers, and then topped it with a side cluster.

Under that I used Stampin’ Up! Real Red, and Gumball Green.  I used a SU embossing folder that’s not in the current catalog:( The sentiment is from SU Short and Sweet-retired. Lastly I added some basic pearls from SU and Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up the image.  A simply made card;)

Now for my second card, you can click on it to make it larger:

Yep, you guessed it, a wonderful Fred She Said image:)  Pre-colored digital images help make a lot of my cards Simply Made   This image is called Hat Tipping Snowman. This product includes both Pre-coloured and Digi/Uncoloured images.  There are 2 coloured versions plus  “antiqued” versions.  PNG’s (no background) and ready-to-print sheets are also included

I think this is a fun card for a child:)  I didn’t pop up the whole red paper, just the snowman. I used Stampin’ Up! digital paper, Frostwood Lodge (plaid), Real Red, Garden Green and Basic Black. The sentiment is a misc stamp that I had in my drawer.

Thanks for stopping by today:) !  I hope you like my cards:)  I hope to be back very soon with another card:)