Masculine Get Well Card

When I heard one of my online crafty friends DH was hospitalized and in need of some cheering up, I offered to send a handmade card. Get Well cards for men (or any card for men) is not my strong point. So I decided to take the pressure off and create something my style and just to have fun with it.  Here's what I came up with.

The A2 woodgrain base is from The Olde Town Market box of cards by The Paper Studio. I then layered scraps of cardstock from my stash. The script one is by Prima Marketing and the other... I don't remember!

My almost 10-year-old daughter helped me choose the gear stamps. I kept chanting... "I need something....MANLY!" In my best, deep, loud superhero voice and she kept me on track.

I tried to use Pinterest for inspiration but I have not pinned many masculine crafts yet and they all seem to have unrelated images with sayings. Why is that? I kept thinking I need something manly but not cutesy and it SO hard to do both with the right sentiment.

Normally I would use an umbrella image with this sentiment but I didn't feel it was manly enough. I'll be working on getting the manly cards right this year.

Supplies:

• The Olde Town Market box of cards - The Paper Studio
• Script cardstock - Prima Marketing
• Yellow cardstock - stash (DCWV?)
• We R Memory Keepers - Sweetheart inkers - black
• Inside sentiment - "On the mend" The Stamps of Life
• Gear, clock and screw stamps - "Get it in Gear" Technique Tuesday
• External sentiment - "Umbrella4You" The Stamps of Life
• Tim Holtz Distress ink - frayed burlap
• Tsukineko - Versafine: Onxy Black
• Scotch ATG
• Ranger Multi-matte medium
• Woodgrain sequins - studio calico

Inquiring minds want to know! How easy/hard it is for you to make manly cards. I'm also looking for tips/advice on how to keep my cards MANLY!! Hit me with your best tip/trick please? Inquiring minds want to know!

Please share my posts on social media. Thanks!

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Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves Canvas

I love a great find! I was milling around TJ Max and found a five pack of canvases on a random clearance table. I figured hey, this will come in handy some day! Well guess what? Today is the day! I'm dipping my toe into mixed media. I needed a daily reminder for my weight loss journey so I chose an appropriate quote and my fav stamp (that I own) by Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves.

To achieve this look, I stamped the image in the upper left hand corner with Stazon ink. Then I painted the entire canvas with gesso. When it dried there was a light outline of the stamp showing through the gesso. I used those guidelines to trace the stamped image with Stickles. After about a couple of hours drying time, I used brush stix (chisel and round tips) to add color to the leaves with Tim Holtz distress inks.

I then added the quote in my own handwriting and faux stitching around the edges using a Copic marker. Next, I sponged on distress inks to blend a two-color background. To activate the ink and leave a subtle spotted background, I sprayed on some sheer shimmer spritz by Imagine Crafts. The final touch was some bling of course!

Supplies:

• Flat canvas 7 1/5 x 5 3/4"
• Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves
• Gesso
• Stazon Ink - Forest Green
• Copic Marker - 100 Black
• Stickles - Pine
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Forest Moss, Evergreen Bough, Salty Ocean, Broken China, Worn Lipstick
• Recollections - clear bling
• Imagine Crafts (Tsukineko) - Psst! Sheer Shimmer Spritz: Sparkle, Brush Stix
• Nicole Heat tool

Here's a close up of the Heartfelt Creations - Bella Rose Leaves. I think it is a great focal point for my  daily reminder. This stamp is versatile. It can be used alone or with the Bella Rose stamp set and/or the Bella Rose Die set.

Thanks for taking a peek at my latest project. I'd love to hear your opinions on my work and Heartfelt  Creations.

La-Vie

Challenges

• Crafting from the Heart #33 - ATG
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday #50 - ATG using a square or rectangle
• Inky Impressions Challenges #174 - ATG use a stamp or digi
• Cute Card Thursday #336 - ATG
• Brown Sugar Challenge Blog #109 - ATG
• Creative Fingers Challenge Blog #46 - ATG
• The squirrel and the fox #76 - Spring or Autumn
• Creative Corner Challenges - ATG

April Challenge - Crafts Galore Encore: fav color

It's time to announce the April challenge for Crafts Galore Encore! You're going to love this one! Include your favorite color in your project. Our sponsor for this month is Kenny K Downloads  Two winners (one chosen at random and one chosen based on their submission) will be able to choose two Kenny K digis each.

My fav color for male-oriented digis is red! I started with Kenny K's digi called J-Cool. I was excited to color this image because I have not colored many men at all - specifically not African-American ones. I really had fun with this one!

J-Cool

Copics:

• Skin - E13, E15
• Hair - E29, E79
• Hankie - C3
• Glasses - R29, Y06, Y15
• Shoes - B93, R29, Signo ball white pen
• Earrings/chain - Y15
• Sweatshirt - R29, R59
• Shirt B93
• Jeans - B0000, B34, B45, B93, B95, B99
• Copic multiliner black

Once I had colored J-Cool, I looked into my stash and found a Sizzix movers and shapers Circle flip-it card designed by Stephanie Barnard of The Stamps of Life. I just knew it was the setting for J-Cool. Then I thought, let me add some brick texture, so I pulled out my brickyard Cuttlebug embossing folder and my Cuttlebug to make that happen. I added stamping and thought I was almost done.

But then I was stumped! J-Cool looked too corny by himself with the clean bricks and I had to reach out to crafty friends to help me get a clue of which direction to go in next. Shout out and thanks to Lyne, Anna, Carol, Ellen, Leila for sparking my creativity. They suggested a boom box, graffiti and street light/signs. I marinated on that for a day and then went about my task. I love the result! I wrote all the names of my household on the walls of the card.  I may have found a new way to sign my cards...who knows.

Additional supplies:

• 2" boom box  - rock princess - DCWV black adhesive cardstock, Bazzill White, silver from my stash
• 4" traffic light - Artiste - Bazzill yellow, red and green
• Core'dinations - VC Ruby and whitewashed collection
• Brickyard cuttlebug folder
• Kenny K Digi - J-Cool
• ATG, Xyron, Zig 2 way
• No Fear, Play Hard - CTMH Later Sk8r - stamped in Chipped Sapphire distress ink
• Background (card interior) - CTMH Later Sk8r - stamped in Broken China distress ink
• Sunburst, Trophy - CTMH Cricut Artiste Collection: Kudos
• 100 Copic black and Uniball Signo white opaque pen for graffiti
• EK Success powder tool
• Copic Xpress it blending card

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Challenges:

1. The Crafting Cafe - One for the boys
2. DL.ART - April Linky Party
3. Crafting by Designs - ATG
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XOXO Gap Card

As a part of the Just Us Crafty Girls craft group on Facebook I participated in a Gap Card swap for Valentine's Day. The hostess was also participating in the swap so I created two versions of the card so that she wouldn't have 2 of the same (because hostess gets one set of the swap cards regardless). There's a wealth of tutorials on this card and many others at a blog called Beccy's Place.

I'm really fond of washi tape these days! I applied 3 different patterns (polka dot, pink solid and red patterned) on the edge of the card. It helped to apply scotch ATG adhesive where the ends of the tape lay to make sure they don't curl off of the card (can't stand that!!).

Supplies:

• DCWV card stacks: parchment, speckled, DCWV patterned paper: 12x12 Sweetheart
• XOXO - Cricut American Alphabet cut at 1.25" real dial size
• Washi Tape from Anna Griffin and Recollections - 3 different widths and patterns 
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink and Applicator Festive Berries
• Zots Glue dots - bling
• Scotch ATG

Which do you like the best? The vertical or the horizontal version? I hope you enjoyed this post and will come back soon to see more of my creations. Thanks!

La-Vie

Challenges:

• LEJ Designs - Valentine's/Love
• Just B Creative - March Just Because Linky Party (ATG)

• The Crafting Cafe - Clean and Simple
• Just for Fun: ATG
• Just Inspirational Challenges - ATG
• Ladybug Crafts - ATG
• Sister Act Challenge #46 - Always ATG
• Delightful Challenges - make it simple
• Creative Fingers - ATG
• Crafty Catz: ATG
• Ali-craft: Valentines

Get Inky! Song Challenge 13: The Birds and the Bees

On September 16th, a new challenge started at the Get Inky! Challenge blog. The challenge is to create a craft based on the classic Jewel Akens song (Let me tell you 'bout) The Birds and the Bees. It's my day to post inspiration at the Get Inky! Stamps blog to get those creative juices flowing.

My card is a square one measuring 4.25" x 4.25" from The Paper Studio. I created the love scene to match the elements of the song by printing and cutting a pre-made scrapbook page from the Cricut Imagine Nursery Tails cart. I then embellished with Stickles, Distress Ink and Get Inky! Stamps - the bees, flower, heart, love to be exact - from the Buzzing Bees and the Love Bugs stamp sets available on Etsy.

Supplies:

• Get Inky! Stamps - Buzzing Bees, Love Bugs
• The Paper Studio - card base 
• Stickles - midnight blue, green
• Bazzill basics white card stock
• Nursery Tails Cricut Imagine Cart
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Faded Jeans

I hope you create a masterpiece to enter into Challenge 13!

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Nicole Petersen Designs class project - CKC Lancaster

I'm back with another background made in the Backgrounds by You class taught by Nicole Petersen Designs at CKC Lancaster this past July. If you'd like to see the first project I posted check it out here.

This time we took white cardstock (12x12) and created a wave pattern using a template. I was so happy to get the template I didn't know what to do! I actually lost it and took the time to go back to the booth and then back to the classroom to get another. I was NOT leaving without my wave template. Nope. LOL!

This was an amazing technique I think anyone can apply! We were given a craft mat as a part of the class materials. We added some Broken China Distress Stain and mixed it with water to make a color wash to apply to the whole sheet of cardstock.  After it dried a bit, we used the template and the Tim Holtz ink applicator to apply Broken China Distress Ink in a circle motion in order to transfer the wave pattern to the cardstock.

Here's the wave template. Simple but very effective. I am going to try to make my own templates with my Cricut and some acetate. Have you ever made your own templates and created backgrounds in this way? Do share your experiences! Thanks!

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CKC Lancaster 2013 - Nicole Petersen Class

At CKC Lancaster this year, I took a class called Backgrounds by You from Nicole Petersen Designs. This was an uncharacteristic class for me since I am not usually a messy scrapper. It was twice as expensive as other classes (because of all the products you receive), but very informative. I'd definitely recommend it! So, I thought I'd share the projects I made in class.

This butterfly paper was one of my favorites! Starting with a white piece of 12x12 cardstock, we learned how to color it and create the polka dotted butterflies using the kiss method. 

We started out by rubbing a Tea Dye Distress Ink pad directly on the cardstock to coat it. Then, we inked a foam butterfly stamp using Broken China Distress Stain. Before stamping, we coated a polka dot foam stamp with Picket Fence Distress Stain. Now the magic happens, we pressed the polka dot stamp onto the butterfly stamp and then stamped randomly across the page. I decided to go along one edge. Last, we spritzed with shimmer spray.  I love how it came out! Don't you?

It was my first time working with Distressed Stains. It will not be my last! Ha ha!! Here are the stamps we used. They come permanently attached to a hard acrylic square which makes them much easier to use (in my humble opinion).

Have you used the "kiss" method with your stamps before? If so, fill me in! Thanks for stopping by!

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Jungle Baby Shower Cupcake Picks

I love making cupcake picks! It's a hot seller for me right now - especially for baby showers and birthdays. These are for a jungle themed baby shower and I love how they came out. If you haven't tried to dress up your cupcakes, give it a whirl. It makes any occasion so much more festive!

A few tips and tricks for you... I usually create tiny die cuts to adorn my cupcake pics but I recently started using stickers. The DCWV Animal Crackers stack came with a page of glittered stickers (and a page of die cuts) in the front of the stack. It was very convenient to use coordinating stickers to bring together this look. When the stickers were too large to fit, I used a 1.5" Marvy punch to punch out just a portion of the image.

Inking the edges (sometimes with a similar color, others with an opposite color) helped to create dimension. I always add extra adhesive, Terrifically Tacky tape, to my stickers. They never seem to be sticky enough and it may not adhere to certain surfaces. Better safe than sorry! I also use the Terrifically Tacky tape between the layers of the double sided cupcake pick and to hold the toothpick in place. This particular stamp said B is for boy but since this baby shower is for twins, I added the "s" with my Copic multiliner.

Supplies:

• DCWV Animal Crackers stack - stickers and blue glitter leaf card stock
• Creative Memories - Yellow patterned paper
• Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Salty Ocean, Clear and Simple Stamps - Espresso Your Style
• Stamp: Recollections - Bouncing Baby Boy
• Copic Multiliner .3 brown
• Adhesives: Terrifically Tacky Tape, Xyron
• Party Picks - colored wooden toothpicks
• Punches: Martha Stewart scalloped circle layering punch, Marvy 1.5" and 2" punches

Challenges:

Great Impressions - Add some sparkle

Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything goes
D.L Art - Anything goes
Pin and Tack - Anything goes


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Doc McStuffins Birthday

I love this kind of challenge! When I get a call from a potential client in need of something essential but obscure, I am SO on the case. I got a call recently from a friend in need of Doc McStuffins party ware and was reminded of me when she looked on Etsy seeing not much artistry or selection.

It can be a challenge to find Doc McStuffins party ware. Who knew? With her being new and all the range with the young ones you'd think it would be in abundance. NOPE. So, in order to make a darling little girl's wish come true, I was hired to make 24 cupcake picks and wrappers. You will not believe how hard it was to find Doc McStuffins stickers. After calling all over town, I finally found the stickers at Five Below. I must say, that's a great store. Always has what is needed for less. Don't sleep on Five Below!

This was the first time I made cupcake wrappers. I decided to use my eBosser to add texture with their Delicate Dots folder. In 3 passes, all 24 wrappers were embossed. The folder is 8 1/2 x 11" and the machine is electric!! No more cranking!!! Woo hoo!! 8 wrappers fit in the folder at once. I love my eBosser!!! And I loved how the cupcake picks came out with all the different characters and sayings.


Supplies:

• DCWV pink glitter cardstock punched with 2" marvy circle punch
• Recollections white cardstock punched with 1.5" marvy circle punch and inked with Tim Holtz distress ink - Seedless Preserves
• Bazzill purple cardstock cut at 8" fit to length - Cricut Cartridge Life's A Party
• eBosser - Delicate dots embossing folder
• Sandylion Doc McStuffins stickers
• alphas from my stash
• Terrifically tacky tape

Kamilah turned 4, so making a special pick for her was oh so important! Using the topmost part of the sticker sheet (the label) I fussy cut the large image of Doc McStuffins and combined it with a smaller sticker. On the back, the branded bandaid and personalization complete the look.

The family was gracious enough to share some pictures of the event. Here's a view of some of the dressed cupcakes! Everyone gave a glowing review of them saying "it was some of the best handmade work they've seen!" Makes me feel good. The best review was from the birthday girl who was overjoyed and so excited. Happy 4th Kamilah!

Challenges:
Great Impressions - Add sparkle
DL.ART - Anything Goes


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Artist Trading Card, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, A Prayer

On Sunday I returned to the Heirloom's Rubber Stamp and Paper Arts Festival as bonding time for my daughter and I. We both entered the Artist Trading Cards (ATC) contest to win show bucks. The theme was Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. We went to do the make 'n takes together and sometimes I just assist. It is a joy to see my daughter learning new techniques and developing a love for crafting.

The ATC is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" with a stamped image from Another Stamp Company. I love this little brown girl with her afro. It was quick and minimal on purpose since my Saturday entry required a lot of work.

Supplies:

• Inkssentials manila artist trading card
• Copic Markers - RV09, Y26, E00 E33, Y28
• Ink: Clear and Simple Stamps - Espresso Your Style, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers
• Zig Millenium Pen .05 in black
• Star - Queen and Company Twinkling Goosebumps
• Stamp: Maryam - Another Stamp Company 

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Twinkle, Twinkle ATC

 

 

I'm headed to the Heirloom's Rubber Stamp and Paper Arts Festival this weekend. They run an Artist Trading Cards (ATC) contest based on a theme during the show to win show bucks. Last year I entered for the first time and I decided to go for it again this year. The theme is Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

Working this small ( 2 1/2" x 3 1/2") is very hard for me but I tried my best to bring across the theme. I enjoyed bringing together stamps sets to achieve this look and blending distress inks to create the night sky and the grassy knoll. Stickles in various colors seemed perfect for the diamonds in the sky! Fabric markers were used to create the grass and to color in the tree leaves and trunk. Stamping the house on white cardstock allowed me to color it differing colors and with a fussy cut, the house seamlessly fits into the scene. Wish me luck! Next week, I'll be sure to share my class projects and haul with you.

Supplies:

• Inkssentials canvas, self-adhesive artist trading card
• Anna Griffin watercolor markers
• Tulip Fabric Markers
• EK Success scallop edge punch
• DCWV Stardust Stack
• Bazzill Basics white cardstock
• Glitter glue: Stickles - Crystal, Star Dust, Black Diamond, Gold, Copper, Goldenrod
• Ink: Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen bough, Mowed Lawn, Broken China,Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans
• Zig Millenium Pen .05 in black
• Stamps: Stampendous - Changito in Space, Stampin' Up! - Good Neighbors
• Adhesives: Tombow Stamp Runner Dot Adhesive, Xyron 1" and 5"

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Friendship Card

Did you miss me? I took a little break to go see my family last week (including my baby nephew!) I'm back in my craftroom (oh how I missed it so...) and have created a Friendship card as my entry into 5 challenges.

Supplies:

• Cardstock - hand cut card base and layer: Bazzill, hand cut News print butterfly tag: Graphic 45, Olde Curiosity Shoppe
• Stash - buttercream colored button, ribbon, Friendship sticker
• Clear star - Twinkle Goosebumps colored with V15 Mallow Copic Marker
• Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink in tea dye and dusty concord
• Anna Griffin Cuttlebug and D'vine Swirls embossing folder
• Paper Shapers decorative edge scissors, Provo Craft
• EK Success powder tool

 

I started out with this sketch from Sketchy Friday (see above), added an Action Wobble and newsprint for their challenge (see below), a button for the Craftin Desert Diva's linky party, the colors lavender, buttercream and vanilla (black and white are ok as well) for The Play Date Cafe (see color scheme below) and last but not least, there's a freestyle challenge going on at Hiding in My Craft Room (HIMCR).

Challenges

• The Play Date Cafe challenge #175
• Sketchy Friday #13
• HIMCR #91
• Action Wobbles
• Craftin Desert Diva's Craft it up & link it up party #3

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So thankful for you card

 

It's always nice to have a collection of thank you cards stashed away for your own use. Here's my latest creation hot off the press to enter two challenges today. The first challenge at Sketchy Friday offered the sketch and the second challenge called for the use of chevrons - Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs. The combination came together quickly once I started digging through my patterned scraps. I've never worked with these colors together (I love pink and lighter colors) but I am glad to have dabbled in richer colors. It also has been fun to make a project and post it right after. Big fun!

 

Supplies

• Stamp: Inkadinkado Filigree Fall
• Bling: orange gem and dimensional swoosh - Jolee's Bling
• Flowers: yellow and white, Sprites 2 - Prima
• pre-cut card: 5x7 green - American crafts
• Chevron layer: Fly a kite "spring" zag paper - Lime Twist by Jen Allyson - My Mind's Eye
• Circle layer: Oh Baby! Girl -  OBG-443 Natalie - Basic Grey
• Purple layer: Recollections
• Green layer: Bazzill
• Chevron die - The Stamps of Life cut from DCWV yellow dotted cardstock
• rough edge scissors - Paper shapers - Provo Craft
• Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink - dusty concord, walnut stain, spiced marmalade
• Seam binding orange
   

Provided sketch for the challenge

 

 

There's still time for you to join in on the fun! Check out both of these fun challenges!

 

 

La-Vie

Easter Flip Card Using Tim Holtz Distressed Inks and Markers

One of my goals this year was to create and post videos. Here's my first one! I am looking for a video editing software that's easy to use, inexpensive... any ideas crafty friends?

Another goal I have for 2013 is to do more charity work. I donated 52 cards to Humble Hearts for Hope, a local non-profit that supports military families and troops deployed from our area. They needed Easter cards (secular and religious). I made them earlier in the week and wanted to share them right away! My first card is a flip card. The video shows the card in action.

I made several of these cards and used different colored eggs on each. However, I colored the chicks with their eggs exactly the same each time.

Supplies:

• swing card base and basic instructions - repeat impressions
• Easter stamp - Hampton arts
• Sending Springtime Smiles, Easter egg and happy Easter stamps - Stampin' Up! Easter Blossoms (used the masking technique to only stamp "happy")
• Black ink- Ranger Archival ink
• Colored ink - Tim Holtz Distressed Ink - spun sugar, wild honey, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, salty ocean, mustard seed
• Markers - Tim Holtz Distressed markers - spun sugar, tumbled glass, shabby shutters, tattered rose, mustard seed
• Pen - Sakura souffle pen - orange

I love knowing that this card will make someone's day and spread love across the world and back.

I decided to enter this card into a challenge! For more info and to enter check out Creative Kuts: Easter Card or Layout Challenge

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Mini Monsters Trick or Treat bags

 

To promote my craft business in my neighborhood, I decided to make 100 decorated Trick or Treat bags filled with dum dums and my business card for Halloween. Unfortunately, Hurricane Sandy forced us to postpone trick or treating and I was out of town. However, my wonderful husband was here to give out bags for one hour (he missed the first hour) so about half the bags were given out.

 

 

 

 

This is a great project for any event - birthday, Christmas, welcome to the neighborhood etc. And kids love to help. My 7 year old daughter helped the most and my 3 year old son came in from time to time to lend a quick hand. Both my children are becoming very crafty. The key to making this easy for kids is to use DCWV adhesive cardstock. I cut it like vinyl so that I can peel the pieces off like a sticker rather than having to fight with the backing being cut as well. 

 

I used Halloween stickers, paper and cardstock from my stash - some were from The Paper Studio and some where from SEI, to create toppers for the bags. The solid cardstock was from Bazzill and DCWV. All of the monsters were cut and layered using Cricut Cartridge Mini Monsters. All but the spider were cut at 2.75". The spider was cut at 2.25". In hindsight, I would've liked to cut the witch larger - maybe at 3".

 

 

The treat bags are from Michaels Crafts. I liked them because 100 came in a pack, they are shaped like a vase with a wider rounded bottom and a tapered top. The google eyes of all sizes really made these mini monsters come to life! Instead of cutting the mouths and glueing them on, we used a Zig writer to draw along the guideline cricut created for the mouth.

Some papers were so bold I decided to just stamp a halloween message. Goblin Greetings is from Stampin Up and Happy Halloween is from Imaginisce. All monsters and shapes were inked on the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

I absolutely love the google eyes with eyeshadow and lashes that I found at hobby lobby. My son got in the act by placing the eyes in an angry fashion on this spider. I think it worked out very well and was something I never would have thought of myself. Thanks Aidan!



This candy corn girl reminds me of my brown beauty Zora and is my favorite of the bunch! Isn't she adorable???? But not more adorable than my hard-working kids! This was a major undertaking for us. Oh, and I printed my own business cards on the Avery business cards from Staples. There's 10 to a page and they snap out perfectly. I was able to print on the back as well to share my fb fan page, pinterest and blog address. The template was on the avery website. I'm very pleased with it.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

La-Vie



Dinosaur Birthday Card

Usually when we need a boy card we go right to the cars or super hero themes. But this time we wanted to try something different. So we pulled out thge Cricut cart Dinosaur Tracks. This simple dino cut was embellished with millenium zig pen outlining and inked with a brown EK Success sweetheart inker. The pre-cut card is from DCWV.

In order to make a scene for the dinosaur I used a Martha Stewart punch called cracks along the bottom and inked it with Tim Holtz distress ink called Iced Spruce. We decided that the scene needed a sky so we included a blue layer punched with a Martha Stewart punch named laurel leaf. No sky is complete without puffy clouds so we added two felt ones from Pebbles. Once the scene was set, the dinosaur was added... perched on pop dots.

The sentiment was built from several stamp sets. The brackets were part of a stamp in the Art by Design set from Stampin' Up! I only inked the brackets since that's all I needed. The font we used to spell roar is from a $1 set I bought Micheal's.  I freehanded the "=" and Zora stamped Happy Birthday from the Inkadinkado Birthday Fun set. We are excited to have stepped out of the norm and created a super cute project together.

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