Stamper in Paradise Indeed!

Well a week or so ago I was ... still in Paradise, just not so close to the beach!  LOL!

Here is a card I made for my fabulous hubby who had a birthday while we were away.

I used a lot of our new product but didn't write a single thing down - bad me!  I was just trying to get it done before we left!  

I see Treasured Friendship, Seaside Greetings, our new markers were used to colour the shells, and I used our new ink colours as well.  The Happy Birthday came from my stash.  I also see Lagoon Hearts washi tape, and Ruby Chevrons washi tape.  And some Sparkles bling and Silver Shimmer Trim!

Have a wonderful day and I hope you are at, or close to, a beach somewhere - there's simply no place like it!

Grumpy Cat

Havin' some fun playing with the Cricut Explore and finding some fun svg files on the 'net to play with in Design Space ... here is one that I couldn't resist that came from here ... it will be a good scrapbook page element for my own grumpy cat some days wanna be!  LOL!

Have a 'grumpy' day ;)

Twins!

Products Used:

Designed using Design Space

CTMH Dot embossing folder

Swiss Dots embossing folder

Liquid Glass

Have a grand day :)

Birthday Candles

Products Used:

CTMH Quatrefoil embossing folder
Liquid Glass
Design Space Make it Now project

Have a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday!

Products Used:

Ivy Lane paper pack

Cocoa ink to edge

not sure where the doily came from, most likely Art Philosophy

'happy birthday' from Over the Hill cartridge

designed using Design Space

Have a fabulous day!

Strollin - Baby Boy Version

Hello!

Everyone is loving my 'strollin' card and I had a request for a boy version which is here ... I used Sky ink to colour in the Baby Carriage and the Welcome, Slate ink for the wheels and Liquid Glass to finish it off.

Have a wonderful day!

Thing One and Thing Two

I had some fun making these little guys with Design Space, they will be an embellishment on a scrapbook page one day.

I got the files from here

Have a great day!

You Make Me Smile!

I'm seriously loving my new Cricut Explore - I'm getting even more use out of our wonderful Cricut Cartridges with it ... this card was mostly done in Design Space with Artbooking and it took me just forever to do it (j/k, it whipped up speedy quick actually!)

Products Used:

Artbooking
Hooray Bouquet
Swiss Dots embossing folder
Baby Steps font
Crayola Black Marker
Art Philosophy
Hollyhock ink
Honey ink

Have a marvelous day!

Happy Place

Hello!  Today's card is made with this month's Stamp of the Month, Happy Place.  Such a cute set and you can get it only during the month of March and for only $5 (with a qualifying order of $50) or you can just get it for $17.95 without having to order anything else :)

Products Used:

Quatrefoil embossing folder
March SOTM Happy Place S1403
Belated Birthday B1442
Art Philosophy pg 62 oval5 and layer, @ 2"
Desert Sand ink
Cocoa ink
Tombow markers 845, 055, 451, 992
3d Foam Tape

Have a wonderful day!

Welcome Kitty!

Had some fun with my Cricut and used an old favourite cartridge, A Child's Year, to make this card for a friend who just added a furbaby to her family!

Products Used:

A Child's Year
Diverse Backgrounds D1508 - retired
Say it in Style D1283 - retired
versafine onyx black
versamark
clear embossing powder
misc washi tape

Have a wonderful day!

Birthday Fit for a Queen!

A good friend of mine is having a milestone birthday and so I'm sending her a card ... I wish I could give it to her in person but this will have to do.

Products Used:

Diverse Backgrounds (retired)
Card Chatter - Birthday (retired)
One-way Borders
Chocolate ink
Black ink
computer generated saying
Artbooking (for the 50) 1-3/4" (r.d.s.)
Artiste (for the crown)

Have a wonderful day!

Dreamer

I met with my upline earlier this week and she pulled out these gorgeous cards that she'd made - one in particular especially caught my eye so I have tried to replicate it but as usual, I can't replicate it exactly to save my life!  Anyway, here's my spin on things!

Products Used:

Dreamer (B1439)
Smokey Plum ink
Cocoa ink
Take Note Artbooking stamps (D1574) - part of the Artbooking suite
Artbooking
- overlay 2-1/4" (rds) pg 62
- overlay 4" (rds) pg 42
Artiste
- shift accent 4, 1" & 3/4" pg 73
Pearl bling

Have a fabulous day!

Happy Birthday Dad

Hello!

Here's a card inspired from Pinterest - I used the Cruisin' WOTG stamp set (retired), Black ink, Diamond Plate embossing folder, Sparkles Assortment, Just a Number stamp set and You're the Best (new!).

Have a wonderful day!

Honeycomb Birthday Wishes

Hello!

I saw something similar on Pinterest and came up with these - they came together pretty quickly, using up scraps of paper, cut into hexagons with Artbooking (pg 66 @ 1-1/4"), arranged them, and stamped the sentiments with Card Chatter - Birthday (retired) using Black ink.  Easy peasy.  

Have a fabulous day!

Love You XO

Hello!

Today's project is a Valentine's Day card but could also be used as an Anniversary card ... I used Artbooking (I LOVE this cart!), along with the new Cardmaking Workshop on the Go, Lollydoodle.  I also used the now retired SOTM set from January (did you get yours?) Cross-Stitch Wishes.  Inks were Cocoa and Cranberry and Desert Sand.  I also used the Swiss Dots embossing folder.  

Did you know that Close to My Heart now has Embossing Folders? They're a wonderful 5x7" size which will work in most embossing machines.

We also have a wonderful special this month only, which is great especially if you need to stock up on our wonderful cardstock ... when you buy two packages of selected cardstock, you'll get the embossing folder of your choice free! 

Have a fabulous day!

Cross-Stitch Wishes Anniversary

This is a card that needed lots of playing around with till I finally got it right - kept taking things off and putting them on till I got just the right combination I think!

Products Used:

Artbooking at 5-1/4" for the hearts background
not sure what size the people were cut at
Cranberry ink
Say it in Style (retired)
Black ink
Artiste pg 51 cut at 1-1/2 and 1"
heart
frame cut at 1-1/2"
misc paper
January stamp of the month Cross-Stitch Wishes (Jan 1-31 only)

Have a lovely day!

Teddy Bear Birthday

Surfing the net the other day and came across a technique I'd forgotten about and wanted to revisit ... I love the background for this and it is so easy to do!

The teddy bear is adorable and I was glad to finally have a chance to use him!  I still can't believe that set is only $6.95!!  I popped up his hat and present with dimensional tape.

Products Used:

Teddy Bear Birthday
Cocoa ink
Cranberry ink
Desert Sand ink
Blending pen

Have a wonderful day!