First card class of the year... all-purpose

Planning for my first card class of the year.  We'll be making these cards in a variety of colors.  Good for a variety of occasions and for male/female.

Cupcake

I made this for 2 blog challenges.

Dynamic Duos - Strawberry Slush & Daffodil Delight

Clean & Simple - Fall to Layout 252

Pieced and Pierced

 

I made this card for Creative Crew SU! challenges on Splitcoast.

 

One challenge was to use the soon-to-be-retired 2011 colors.  Focus on your least favorite.  My least favorite was Calypso Coral.

 

Also the challenge was to use piercing in a different way.  I pierced a heart behind my sentiment.

 

The snail and flowers are stamped and cut out (paper pieced) on white, limeade and coral.

I inked the zigzag embossing folder with brown ink before running the calypso coral paper through.

2 for 2

I'm home on a sick day with my son, so I have some time to make cards!!  (I'm not neglecting him, he's feeling mostly better now and playing happily!)

I took two challenges - color challenge and a layout and made 2 different cards with some of the same elements.  The color challenge is from Splitcoast from last week - more mustard, old olive and midnight must (I also used very vanilla).
The layout is from Retrosketches.  I made one vertical and one horizontal.

  I made this one to be a male birthday card.  I used chevron embossing and a glimmer brad.  See how I cut the framelit shape (green) to be only behind the top half.

 For this one I embossed with pewter the music notes in the background.  The flower is 3 layers cut out and popped up on each other.  I embossed on the flag strips and also used my new Simply Scored plate for some scoring patterns on the bottom of the card.  Added two buttons to finish it off.

Yellow & Blue Secret Garden

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2311611?&cat=500&ppuser=132695

I haven't been able to add photos to blogger for some reason, which is why I haven't uploaded for a while.

Here is a card I made for the Queen for the Day Challenge (click on the link above to go to my Splitcoast Gallery page for this card.)

Queen myself - REDOs

 

Today what I decided to do for the Queen for the Day Challenge is that everyone gets to be Queen!

So you get to go through your cards from the last year and CASE yourself!

I've been having a very crafty time here as you can see.  I made 5 redos.

 

This first card uses a heart mask and sponging with piercing.  Colors - Marina Mist, white.

 

For this card I colored the flowers with two different colors, added some piercing and twine.

Colors - Island Indigo, Black, White, Not Quite Navy, new SAB patterned paper.

 

I used my square punch to punch out some fun colored patterned papers, glued it onto the card, then embossed!  I used the apothecary accents shape with the sentiment from "You're Amazing"

Colors - Old Olive, Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, white

 

I embossed with stripes (on an angle) and distressed with edges of the kraft background.

The cone is simply a triangle (embossed with lattice) and the cupcake punch.  I also used an embossed frame.

Colors - Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Midnight Muse, Choc Chip

 

Cut out the flower from Bloomin with Kindness and used some apothecary accents frames (pierced the dark purple one).

Colors - Crumb Cake, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant.

 

Here are some small closeups.

Queen 144

 

I made this card for Queen 144. Please come join the Queen for the Day Challenge on Splitcoast.

The images are from Easy Events stamp set.

Male Birthday - You're Amazing

 

I'm really happy with how this card turned out!  A great male card, and quite easy to make!

 

The image is from "You're Amazing".  It is available as a single image!

My husband even agrees that it works for a male card!

 

I glued the zig zags on the black piece, then embossed with dots.

Last two with mom

Mom and I made our last 2 cards together before they went home today.  We had lots of fun together!
We each picked a layout and made a card.

The top card is the one she made.  She used a layout from Clean & Simple Stamping blog.

The layout I picked is from Retro Sketches.

Birthday - Fabulous & Dynamic

 

My card for two blog challenges.

 

Fabulous Friday - layout

 

Dynamic Duos - colors - tangerine tango & old olive.

 

I layered some circles offset and added the ribbons with staples.  A fun birthday card for boy or girl (or adult too).

Birthday car - color blocking

 

Yippee, I'm getting back into the challenges again!  This card is for 3 challenges.

1) - color challenge - cajun craze, pumpkin pie, midnight muse

2) - CAS color blocking

3) - Clean & Simple Fall to Layout #207

 

Great male birthday card.  I love how it turned out.  The car is embossed with white and I paper pieced the 3 balloons and added two rows of piercing.

Water Stamping with leaves

I made this card for last week's layout on Splitcoast.  Such a pretty layout, although I think I took a bit of liberty with it.

The colors are: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Summer Starfruit, white, with a bit of always artichoke


I used twine, brads, oval and modern label punch.  The embossing on the mustard is houndsooth.

I made the background circle by sponging colors on glossy paper, then I wet my stamp background and stamped it on.  I used french filigree background.  I found the technique on Splitcoast - Water Stamping.

The leaves I made by coloring the image with markers and stamping on summer starfuit paper and more mustard paper and cutting them out.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out and think it makes a nice masculine card.

Happy Birthday car

This card was made for a color challenge and a layout.

The layout is from Techno Stamper.

The colors on Splitcoast today are: Choc Chip, Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke.

A really different color combo that I would not have tried. 

I like how this turned out though.  These colors make a great masculine card.

I used stampin dimensionals on the image so that the presents and balloons would pop up a bit.  I put brads in the tires.

Sweet Cake II - Boy Birthday card

This one is using the same set as yesterday - the new Stampin' Up! "Sweet Cake". I cut out and popped up the cupcake.

The layout is from Clean & Simple Stamping - Fall-to-Layout 169.

New Mini Product - Sweet Cake

It's that time of year again - I'm not talking about Christmas - it's the new SU! mini catalogue and sale-a-bration coming up in January!!!!

This is a new stamp set from the new mini called "Sweet Cake". It comes with 3 really nice sentiments.

I used crimping on the brown piece and embossed the whole card with dots.

The color combo is: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Chocolate Chip!

I punched out the sentiment using word window punch and modern label punch and added some brads and ripping. The main image is stamped on 4 different pieces of paper, cut out and glued together (paper piecing).

Celebrate Color Cupcake

I made this card for today's color challenge on Splitcoast. Blushing Bride, Pear Pizazz and Marina Mist.

I used the cupcake punch, boho blossoms punch, tasteful trim die, crimping, embossing and scoring.

I embellished with clear rhinestones and ribbon! The sentiment is from a retired Stampin' Up! set - Something to Celebrate! The cupcake is popped up on the white square with dimensionals.

Starring You Birthday

Here's a birthday card I made today for 2 challenges.
The new Free For All Challenge on Splitcoast - to use texture, one color we don't like/often use, and a patterned paper. I texturz embossed the circles and did some piercing. The color I don't like is Crushed Curry and I used a bit of paper from Tall Tales. I also used a star brad.

The second challenge was from Just Add Ink - a sketch challenge. I changed the sketch to circles and made them overlap because of how big they were. I also added the circle/brad in the corner which wasn't part of the sketch.

Here are the details close up...


I even decorated the inside!!! Bonus points for me!

Thanks for looking. Have a great weekend!

Beautiful Butterfly

Here's the card I made today.
It uses Vintage Vogue, Butterfly die, Well Scripted, clear rhinestones, organza ribbon, scallop edge and piercing (all from Stampin' Up!)
I got the idea of the layout from rachokie's beautiful card. The layout and butterfly are the same, but the stamp sets, color scheme and feel are very different.

I absolutely love how these colors turned out together - Rich Razzleberry, Pale Plum, White, Black and Cottage Wall designer series paper.

The sentiment is embossed in white. I popped up the whole flower panel. There's piercing in the scallop edge.

Here's a close up of the details...


I'm really looking forward to getting the little embosslits butterflies from Stampin' Up! Should be here any day now!
Thanks for looking. Have a great day!

Stars with Top Note

This is the card I made for Arielle's Color Q challenge. She picked really stunning colors once again. I haven't played along with this challenge for a few weeks, but today I had time to join in again. http://colourq.blogspot.com/

The colors for the challenge were: Real Red, Taken with Teal, Bashful Blue, White and Black. Of all these colors the one that I wanted the least on my card was bashful blue, so I just used it for layering. I decided to make a boy birthday card with top note and stars. I added crimping to all the Taken with Teal elements for some extra texture and interest. The designer brads fit perfectly with this boy star card!



Here's a close up of some of the layering, crimping and designer brads details.
Thanks for looking!

Birthday Boy Card

I wanted to make a card for my nephew (turning 4) and here's what I came up with - with the help of a few challenges!

Challenge #1 - The sketch + designer paper
Challenge #2 - Colors - Bashful Blue, Soft Suede, Ruby Red

I was really scared of the color challenge, but the colors worked perfectly for this boy card!
I colored the image with different color markers. I got to use a designer star brad. I also decorated the inside...

Very simple and quick. Using another stamp set with the image that I think works great for boy! I used two punches - scallop square and photo corners.