My good friend's 70th birthday was in April.  I made this special pop-up box card for her.  The instructions can be found here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/popupboxcard/.  The pieces were cut from my Slice machine, and the "happy birthday" was cut using a die from my friend.  The paper is generic.  It was very easy to make.

I made this pop-up box card for my mom for Mother's Day.  The dies were different, some were SU, Tim Holtz, there were punches used for the flowers, labels, butterflies and dragonflies.  Again the paper was generic.  I'm trying to use up some of the old stuff I have.

This was a card I made for a friend to give to a woman who treats him like a son-in-law.  She loves birds and animals.  The flowers were a die from Provo, the stamp is Sweet Stamps and colored in with water
colored pencils.

 This was a special request card.  My co-worker's niece is turning 21 this week and she LOVES Harry Potter.  I found images on-line and printed them out.  The corner punch is MS, I fussy cut the owl and made my own scroll.












          

This was the inside of the card.  The saying is "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.  Albus Dumbledore".  I hope she likes it!

Untraditional Valentines Day Card

This is very untraditional for Valentine's Day.  I have a very good friend that doesn't like cute and mushy, but he does like American Indian art.  So I sat down and thought and thought.  I knew I wanted to do something with feathers and the below it what I came up with.  I'm very pleased with how it turned out.  Please let me know what you think.  Thanks.

The inside of the card is simple, but works with the outside. 

Hope you like it.  I'm sure he will.

Baby Shower Card

One of my oldest friend's daughter is having a baby girl in March.  So I made this card for her.  This was made in 1 afternoon.  I dry embossed the base with Swiss Dots.  I think they always work for baby cards.  The dies are Spellbinders Decorative Labels 27, the "bundle of joy", shoes, vines and baby bottle were cut using my Slice.  I am so pleased to be able to use it again.  Had some difficulty that some great ladies talked me through on Splitcoaststampers in the forum.  The papers were generic.  I was so happy it came together quickly. 

Thanks for stopping by and as always, your comments are always welcomed.

Catching Up With Posts

This post is a couple of months late, but at least it isn't a year late!  This was the Christmas card I made and sent out for the holidays.  I had fun making it, but was constantly hitting brick walls with it.  The 1st one was that I ran out of some of the paper.  I had to make an unscheduled trip to one of my favorite craft shops in Ephrata, PA, L & L Rubber Stamps.  I'll take any excuse to go there.  LOL  Then when I was doing the sewing on the background piece, my sewing machine jammed up.  My personal sewing machine repair lady (my mom LOL) looked at it and at some point I put the bobbin in backwards, so the thread wound around the gears.  Opps!  Then I was going to sew around the tag with the pointsettia on it and again the machine froze.  This time I bent something and had to give it up!  Oh well, it still turned out pretty.  The last wall I hit was that I ran out of the ribbon and thought I would have to make another trip to L & L Rubber Stamps, but my good friend, Jill, was going, so she offered to get me some.  After all that, I was actually able to get these cards out by the middle of December!  Whew!

I have to admit this wasn't my original idea.  I did case the following: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2271860?&si=wt397%20Christmas%20Postcard

I admired Cathymac's  card so much, that I had to try something like it.  I'm not a pink person, so I did purple instead.  I really like that it's a non-traditional color for Christmas.

The card form I got from Michaels in the packs of card forms and envelopes.  The papers are from L & L Rubber Stamps shop.  Not sure what brand of paper it is.  I used a lot of borrowed items from my friend Kathi.  Thank you, Kathi!  The background was stamped with Inkadinkado "post card" stamped in Memento Gray Flannel then dry embossed with a writing folder by The Paper Studio.  The strip of holy paper was gray cardstock and I used an  IO stamp in Marvy ink of Green Bottle.  The dots on that same paper was done with the stamp from Hero Arts in Marvy ink of Violet.  The poinsettia stamp is Northwoods and I did the Candy Wash technique found here:  http://www.porchswingcreations.com/2013/03/candy-washed-spring-flower-tutorial.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PorchSwingCreations+%28Porch+Swing+Creations%29
The Merry Christmas stamp was a Sweet N Sassy stamp and cut with a CM oval cutter.  On the inside, I used a sentiment that I found on line and I used corner dies to add interest.

There were lots of details, but it was fun.  Thanks for taking the time to look. 

Antique Birthday Card

I'm finally finished with this card!  My friend's 50th b-day was on 1/23 and I had a difficult time sitting down to work on the card.  He's nostalgic, so I wanted something that had some fun toys we had back when we were kids.  I used my friend, Kathi's, TH Picture Wheel die.  I took some old 35mm negatives and put them behind the wheel.  If you hold it up to the light, you actually see the pictures on the negatives!  And, yes, that is more 35mm negative on top of the reel.  Then I used my Slice to make a stand TV and put a picture of a Slinky ad on the screen.  I also have a pocket watch charm that my friend, Jill, gave me.  It was silver, but I antiqued it with my copic markers to tone it down in color, and I used an old necklace chain for it.  Lastly, I used a "Happy Birthday" Cuttlebug folder on Co'ordination paper and sanded. Then dressed the card up with some teal ribbon that I found this past October at a shop hop.

On the inside of the card I used my friend, Kathi's, TH Vintage Telephone die and attached a black cord to it.  The word bubble was on my Slice and I cut one in black a little larger than the one in white.  The stamped "Hello" was Inkadinkado stamped in Bermuda Bay SU ink.  The sentiment was printed on my computer and cut with SB dies.

Thanks for taking a look at my creation.  I hope my friend enjoys the card as much as I do.

Mom's Birthday, 2013

This is a little late being posted, but at least it's getting here.  My mom's birthday was at the end of October.  I've been very busy with life in general and kinda forgot to post.  So here it is.

This was very easy to do.  I used the faux letterpress technique found at Splitcoaststampers  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/fauxletterpressmbossabilities/
I used the Moroccan embossing folder and brayered SU Bermuda Bay on it, then pressed it on my Big Kicks and wala!  Quick and easy!  The frame is a Spellbinders double cut, the leaves are a Cottage Cutz die, the flowers actually have a pearl look to them and pick up colors surrounding it.  They were made using the Cheery Lynn Lace Corner B164.  The happy birthday stamp is SU Elementary Elegance.  I used 2 pearl topped straight pins and the little white flower was cut using an old Provo Craft flower die with a pearl in the center.  The paper was Staples white and inked with Bermuda Bay, the frame, leaves and flowers used Metallic Mix from Stamponit.com. 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Cherie

John Wayne Birthday Card

Soon it will be my friend, George's birthday.  I find it difficult to make masculine cards, but this one wasn't too difficult.  I imagined it in my head with the stamp in brown and I wanted to do some faux leather, but that didn't work out.   I just kept putting pieces together until I felt it was finished.  I almost didn't put the cacti on it, but it was very bland and monotone.  I think they finished it off nicely. 

Here's how I made it:

This is a center step card which I found the directions on the internet.  Very easy to do.  These are the measurements I used:

The paper used was a mixture.  The base is SU natural which is what I used for the stamped image, wagon wheel and label.  And the brown is from a packet of handmade mulberry paper I've had for years.  The cacti were done in a green vellum paper that has "star bursts" printed on it.  It makes them look like they have needles. The John Wayne stamp I used I've had since April.  It's a Deep Red brand.  They make wonderful realistic stamps.  It's the 1st time using it and it stamped crisp and clean.  When I saw it in the store, I just knew I had to have it for a card like this.  The Happy Birthday stamp is a Stamps by Impression.  Both were inked with Memento Rich Cocoa.  The main image and frame were cut using Spellbinders dies, the brown side panels were run through an embossing folder for snake like texture, then distressed with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, the main image, wagon wheel and label were distressed using Distress Inks Antique Linen and Walnut Stain.  The cacti, wagon wheel and label were cut using my Slice Happy Trails cartridge. There's a gun brad which I just had to incorporate into this card.  Not sure I like it where it is placed, but it's there now.  I haven't finished the inside yet, but I have an extra cacti cut out that I'm going to try to incorporate.  LOL 

It was fun making this card.  Thanks for taking the time to look!

Cherie