Punch Art Owl Doctor

I had a request to make a graduation card for someone whose family member just graduated and is now a doctor. I knew I wanted to incorporate punch art in this card (one of my favourite 'techniques') and came across an adorable doctor/nurse get well card using the Owl Builder punch. I loved the clever stethoscope on the doctor owl and thought I would use this idea for the graduation card. Playing along with Mojo Monday's latest sketch, everything came together so nicely:

I used the Arrows embossing folder to add some texture to the card front. A strip of chevron designer paper in Midnight Muse is embellished with pleated ribbon in Baja Breeze (one of my favourite retired Stampin Up colours). I created the stethoscope using the Small Oval punch and the circles from the Owl Builder punch. The graduation cap was created using the Curly Label punch (to create the peak at the bottom of the cap) and the top of the cap was cut free hand. 

I finished it off with a matching envelope, which was so easy to make using the Envelope Punch Board! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Card Ingredients: 

Stamps: Family Reunion (ret.)

Paper: Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze (ret.), Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Comfort Cafe DSP (ret.)

Ink: Midnight Muse

Tools: Owl Builder punch, Curly Label punch (ret.), Small Oval punch, Arrows Embossing Folder

Accessories: Baja Breeze pleated ribbon (ret.)

KCRR41: The Quilting Technique

Welcome to a new KCRR challenge!

The Quilting Technique

Flower Trim

Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die

Interesting combination of elements! My first thought was... adding all three of these elements on one card could make it look quite busy and cluttered! However, there's always room for some creativity. I wanted to try out a new quilting pattern with paper. I did some Pinterest searching and came across this great pattern. I also loved the colour combo in this card so I decided to CASE it, adding some of my own detail.

I cut off a flower from the flower trim and added it to the center of the quilt design. I used Marina Mist for the butterflies and added pearls to the center of each of them. I love how this card turned out! 

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to hop on over to Karly's Creations to see how she used these elements in her card.

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Curly Cute

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Beau Chateau DSP (ret.)

Ink: Marina Mist

Tools: Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, Beautiful Wings embosslits die

Accessories: Flower Trim, Pearls (Michael's)

Inspired By... Beautiful Home Decor

Happy Friday!

It's almost the start of a long weekend here in B.C. (Family Day on Monday)!  We plan on traveling from one cold place to another to visit with family and enjoy a fun weekend at the West Edmonton mall! This has been one place I have always wanted to go to! Waterpark, TONS of shopping... what's not to like?

But before we start the weekend, we must introduce a new inspirational photo challenge!

It was Karly's pick this week and she chose a photo of beautiful home décor:

IB #34

I wanted to tie this in with another card challenge and came across the Muse Challenge. I love the design in the Muse card this week - lots of layers and different patterns!

I picked out the following colours from the photo: Baja Breeze, Early Espresso and Whisper White and came up with this design:

 

Baja Breeze is still one of my favourite blues, but since it's retired, I'm sadly running out... :( I love how it combines so well with Early Espresso, as in the photo. The detailed designer paper, delicate doily and embossed elegant lines make for a pretty birthday card, I think!

 

 

 



Thanks for stopping by! I will be back next week with a fun folded card made for my nephew, a true hockey fan!

 

In the meantime, hop on over to Karly's Creations to see how this photo inspired her!

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Fabulous Phrases

Paper: Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Festive Prints DSP, Subtles DSP

Ink: Early Espresso

Tools: Elegant Lines embossing folder, Delicate Doilies die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits die

Accessories: Rhinestones (Michael's)

Inspired By... a Shower Curtain!

I didn't get home till about 8PM last night. I had quite a few errands to run and wanted to stop at the mall. With it starting to feel like spring, I wanted to spice up my wardrobe a little with some new spring clothes (not that I need more clothes...). I ended up finding a couple of nice shirts from Dynamite. I find it's usually hit or miss at that store, and this time it was a hit! I don't have any greens in my collection, so I thought these would be a great addition!Here's a pic of my recent purchases. (I bought the shorts at Winners - love them!).

Now onto a new inspirational photo challenge!

It was my choice this week and after much thought and looking for inspiration around my own apartment, I took a photo of our shower curtain. How can a shower curtain be an inspiration to cardmaking, you might wonder...

IB #14

 



I love the flowers and colours on this shower curtain! I think it makes a great inspirational photo. I was inspired to make this beautiful Mother's Day card:

 

 

See how you can be inspired by items you see everyday?? I used a great sketch from Deconstructed Sketch as a guide. At first glance, I wasn't too sure about parts of this sketch. So I revamped it a little and left out parts of it. I still think my card resembles the sketch quite well!

 

 

The flowers were stamped in Midnight Muse (my new favourite blue!) and I sponged the edges of the oval shape with Baja Breeze ink. The Crumb Cake piece of cardstock is distressed on the edges with a distressing tool. I added bakers twine and pearls to embellish the card.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to visit Karly's Creations to see how this photo inspired her!

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Subtles DSP, 2012-2013 In-Colour DSP

Ink: Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze

Tools: Ovals nestabilities

Accessories: Pearls, Bakers Twine







Try Stampin' Challenge #114 {An Elegant Wedding Card}

I had a busy evening of crafting last night! Finished off some gift tags, made a few masculine cards and a couple wedding cards. I'm well on my way to having lots of variety for the upcoming craft fair this Sunday! Although, I must say... my craft room is a mess! Scraps of paper everywhere! I have one little spot on my desk, just room enough to make a single card. Can't wait to clean and organize everything! Once all this craft fair craziness is done, I plan on doing a series of blog posts on how I organize my craft room - stay tuned!

For today's card, as I'm building up my stock of wedding cards, I decided to follow the new sketch by Try Stampin' on Tuesday.

I just got a new wedding stamp set with my last Stampin Up order called "Love and Laughter" It's so elegant and fun! I decided to use the 3-tier cake stamp as the central image in my card. I used the colour combo of Baja Breeze and Very Vanilla for a softer look - perfect for a wedding card! Here's how it turned out:

I love the burlap ribbon I got from Close to My Heart. It's perfect for cards just like this one. I decided to overlap two different types of ribbon and I love the look! I added little punched out flowers on the cake with pearls in the centers and embellished the card with ivory roses -- this has become an essential embellishment on my cards lately!

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Card Ingredients:



Stamps: Love & Laughter
Paper: Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla
Ink: Baja Breeze
Tools: Circles Nestabilities, Itty Bitty punch
Accessories: Pearls (Michaels), Burlap ribbon (CTMH), Victoria Trim ribbon, Flower Trim ribbon

Gift Tag Set with a Fabulous Colour Combo

What a productive weekend it has been! I made several Father's Day cards, mini baby cards, gift tags, birthday cards, gift card holders... I'm well on my way to being ready for the craft fair next weekend! Still hope to complete a few more projects this week. :)

For today's post, I will be sharing a set of gift tags that I made using the fabulous colour combo challenge from The Paper Players.

Isn't it lovely?? I drew inspiration from a card I made a while ago and converted it to a tag. Here's the original card:

 

I love the Bloomin' Marvelous stamp set! I may have over-used it already... but it's so pretty! I used Island Indigo designer paper and a scallop border on the one side of the tag and then stamped flowers, popping up one of them to give it some dimension. A humming bird is stamped in Rich Razzleberry and also popped up. I completed it with stitched ribbon.

 

See how easy it is to convert a greeting card to a set of tags? I'm definitely doing this more often with some of my other designs!

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

Gift Tag Ingredients:

Stamps: Bloomin' Marvelous

Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Summer Smooches DSP

Ink: Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry

Tools: Scallop Tag Die, Scallop Border punch

Accessories: Rich Razzleberry stitched ribbon

Spring is in the Air...

Yesterday, I spent most of the day setting up a personal budget. It's a lot of work, but I'm hoping we can keep it up! It would definitely help us to save for our big road trip in June! I got my spreadsheet template from this website: Christian PF. They have some many useful household budget tools. I found this to be the best I've found so far!

I wanted to share with you a couple of fun adorable greeting cards I made for a customer. Her friend's twins (a boy and a girl) are turning 2 this week and she asked me to make "pirate-style" birthday cards. Here's what I came up with:

 

 

Aren't they adorable?? I just love that owl punch - so many characters can be made with it! I added stamped images from the Open Sea stamp set - perfect for a pirate card! 

So for today's card, I used the new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the springy colour combo from Fab Friday. I am so ready for spring! Even though the first day of spring is still a month away, I know it will be here before we know it! The snow has been melting here in Prince George and the temps have been hovering around 0 degrees for quite some time. I can feel spring in the air :)

What a great sketch! And the colour combo is just perfect. These colours go so well together and are perfect for spring. This is my first time participating in the "Fab Friday" challenge. They have some great challenges and I'm looking forward to using them as inspiration in the future!

Easter is quite early this year (March 31st), so I thought I'd create a card for that special occasion. Here is my interpretation of these two challenges:

 

I created a 5"x5" square card with a matching envelope in Wild Wasabi. I like the simplicity of this sketch. It can be used in so many different ways! I added patterned paper in Perfect Plum and Baja Breeze for the background. The butterflies are the central focus of the card. I layered two butterflies and embossed the smaller one with polka dots. Rhinestones embellish it. I added a swirl in the corner and finished it off with the sentiment "Happy Easter".

 

 

Card Ingredients:

 

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP, Subtles Collection DSP

Ink: Elegant Eggplant

Tools: Beautiful Butterlfies die, Circles nestabilities

Accessories: Rhinestones

 

Thanks for stopping by!



KCRR #2 Happy New Baby Girl

Happy Friday!

Welcome to another fun challenge with Karly & Charissa's Random Recipe! This week we chose the following two random items from our long (and growing!) list of supplies/themes/techniques/colours:

Baby Girl

Baja Breeze

 

This was a challenge! For those of you who don't know, the Stampin Up colour "Baja Breeze" is a pastel blue. Usually when I think of "baby girl", I think of pink. So I had to really think about this one! I wanted to make pink the dominant colour on the card. This is what I came up with:

 

KCRR #2



 

The card base is Basic Gray and I think it goes so well with these pastel colours! I chose Baja Breeze designer paper from the Patio Party DSP and the pink striped paper is from the Nursery Nest DSP that I bought on clearance not too long ago. I stamped the baby carriage and sentiment in Basic Gray and cut it out using circles nestabilities. The edges are sponged lightly with Baja Breeze ink and I coloured in part of the baby carriage with Regal Rose marker.

 

The satin pleated ribbon and small rhinestones on the hearts embellish the card so nicely! I think my first baby girl card with Baja Breeze was a success! What do you think?

To see Karly's take on this challenge, visit her blog: Karly's Creations!

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Fast & Fun Notes (ret.)
Paper: Basic Gray, Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Gray, Baja Breeze, Regal Rose marker
Tools: Circles Nestabilities, Scallop Circles Nestabilities, 3/4" circle punch, Small Heart punch
Accessories: Blushing Bride pleated satin ribbon (ret.), rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by!