I am back finally!

Well that was a crazy couple of weeks!  If the bug was out there I seemed to find it.  After laryngitis, a cold and a weird 24 hour stomach thing I am finally feeling back to my old self!  I missed out on a few challenges but I did manage to land in the Top 10 over at Heart 2 Heart!  Yeah!  I also received more Liebster Blog awards from 2 fellow CTMH bloggers Sharon - Oak Island Stamp Queen and Heather - Creative Coconut (be sure to check out their blogs).  Thank you so much ladies...I am completely honoured!  I haven't had the opportunity to pick 5 blogs so pass the award onto yet.  But I will get to that in the next few days. 

Until then I have posted a card that I made for my brother's birthday over the weekend.  It was something a little different for me.  It was a layered card.  There were 3 levels of "frames" and each had an element of the picture on it.  I used the Passage paper pack and the Beautiful Things stamp set (both retired) and I love the embossing in the center.  I used clear embossing on the Cocoa cardstock and then took some Colonial White Ink and sponged it over the image to make it pop a little.  It's not my favourite card that I've made because it is lacking something but I can't just put my finger on it.  I am thinking I should have put some brads or buttons along the bottom left corner or something.  Maybe it's because it doesn't have any embellishments...I am soooo used to have lots of embellishments on my projects.  I don't know but it was fun to do something different!

Thanks for looking!

So sorry

            

This card actually started out as a birthday card but due to some events that happened just before my friends birthday the card shifted gears to one of encouragement and understanding.  The mood just needed to be different...I figure we'll just move her birthday to a later date when she feels more like celebrating.

This summer my friends 2 year old son noticed some random pink petunias growing in their flower garden that weren't planted there on purpose.  Upon his discovery he said "Mommy...the pink flowers make me so happy!  Do the pink flowers make you happy?"  So it has become our little thing in our circle of friends that we need to think about pink flowers when we're feeling down.  That is where the inspiration for this card came from. This card was a little bit different for me but I am very pleased with how it turned out.  Inside the card I put a short letter of encouragment and dropped off the card today with some pink flowers waiting for her to come home from work.

So rememember...smile whenever you see pink flowers.  :)

                           

Baby Boy Card

Okay...two posts in less than 24 hours! I am on a roll! :)

Anyways, here is a card that I made for some friends who just had a baby. I was really happy with how this one turned out. I made a little pocket to slide a gift card into and even finished the backside of the card. I love these colours and it was a real treat doing something boyish for a change!!

Thanks for looking!

Front of Card

Inside Top of Card

Gift Card Pocket

Back of Card

All Supplies are CTMH unless otherwise noted

Stamps: Post Marked, Baby Love (I'll get back to you on the others)

Paper: Twitterpated

Ink: Cocoa, Crystal Blue

Miscellaneous: Buttons, Hemp

Tickled Pink stamp set

This is a card I made for my mother inlaw for her birthday this past weekend. I used the stamp set from the Tinkled Pink kit. I am really happy with the flowers from this set...really pretty! I used a DCWV premade card base and CTMH cardstock along with some ribbon from Walmart. The ink I used was all CTMH and the colours were Hollyhock, Blush, Sweet Leaf and Crystal Blue.

Anniversary card...

This time of year is a very busy time for our family. One of the reasonings being that my Mom and Dad celebrate their anniversary on the 9th. They have been married for 37 years...something I am tremendously proud of! I made the following card for them for their special day.

Thanks for looking!

CTMH Products...
Make it Count stamp set, Girly Girl stamp set, Playful Flourishes stamp set, Cranberry ink, Black ink, white embossing powder, white bitty brad, bitty sparkles
Other Products...
Versamark ink pad, MM heart brad, DCWV black card base, CM cranberry cardstock, CM white cardstock

Fun Times Card

Sorry for being a bad blogger. It's been crazy busy around here and on top of that everyone has been sick. I have been taking care of everyone while trying to dodge the bug myself! Here is a card I made while "playing" tonight. Very simple but I thought it turned out cute. It is inspired by a previous CTMH workshop project.

Thanks for looking!

Supply List

Card base (stripes) - DCWV

Friendship Word Puzzle stamp set - CTMH

Blush ink - CTMH

Ribbon - Michaels (unsure of manufacturer)

Cocoa Bitty Brad - CTMH

Brown cardstock - Creative Memories

White cardstock - CTMH

Sympathy Card

This is a sympathy card that I needed to make up yesterday and I found inspiration from Lisa Stenz's card. I copied it almost exactly because it is beautiful as is. She makes beautiful cards and I find her blog very inspiring.

I used a black textured card base from DCWV and then made my own background paper using some tan paper and the rustic dot stamp from CTMH Rustic Flowers set with Chocolate ink (2nd generation). I really like how it turned out. I matted some white cardstock with black and then stamped flowers stems in black using some of the flourish stamps from the CTMH Playful Flourishes set. I took some flowers (CTMH) and folded them in half to create a more 3-D effect adding a glue dot behind to hold it firmly in place. I inked the center with black using a sponge dauber and chalked the edges lightly with brown chalk for dimension. I used glue dots again to stick the flowers firmly atop the stems and then in black stamped the sentiment "Thinking of You" (from CTMH For Every Occassion set) on a scrap of the background paper. I inked the edges of this in black and then used Dimensional squares to pop this off the front of the card. A sentiment was stamped inside the card in black that says "To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven." And that's it. I am really happy with it.

Happy Father's Day!

Here is the Father's Day card I created for my Dad this morning (nothing like leaving things to the last minute!!) It uses a CTMH stamp set called My Farm. I absolutely love this set and was happy with the way it turned out...except I still need to work on my watercolouring skills!!

Have a Happy Father's Day!!

Haven't blogged much...

I suppose you may have noticed I haven't blogged much recently...well that is because I am EXHAUSTED! My darling one year old daughter has been getting me up at 5 am every morning and I am soooo not programmed to do that! I have been having problems sleeping at night and I find I am not falling asleep until around 2 or so (when DH comes home from work). So these 3 hour nights are really starting to take it's toll on me! On top of that we have been extremely busy. I hope to have my most recent project completed soon so I promise to share it when I am done. For now, here is the invitation I made for Gracie's first birthday party. I know I shared it on the board but not here. I think it turned out pretty cute.

Thanks for looking! :)

Emalyn's card...

I was watching MACM for this week and Emalyn decided she wanted to watch with me. When we were done she said she wanted to make a card with me so we scanned the site for other cards and decided to use this card as inspiration for ours. Emma helped me pick out the patterned paper, ribbon and flower and I think she has a pretty good eye for colour...especially since she's only 4!

We had fun making this card together...

Birthday card on a whim...

I decided last night for no particular reason to make this card. I made it in only 10 minutes or so which is totally not like me at all. Inspiration struck and I went with the flow...guess I should do that more often!! ;)


I embossed the vanilla paper with a square design but you can't see it well. I like the contrast in colours too.


Let me know what you think...do you like the colours? Does it need anything else?