Masculine Valentines Card

My brother is a Valentine's baby... So every year I like to make him a masculine valentine's card for his birthday.

The inside will contain his birthday wishes.

The pattern paper is part of the Gossamer collection from Memory Box. The hearts are cut from the Sizzix die cuts original dies. The swirls and flourishes is Hero Arts - Heart Flourish. The lovely pearls are from Recollections - Autumn.

The sentiment is a Memory Box stamp. I stamped the green card stock with a wood finish stamp from Hero Arts and love the effect. It didn't fully stamp but picked up the grain of the card stock.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Heart Flourish
• Hero Arts - Wood Finish
• Memory Box - Gossamer Paper
• Memory Box - Happy Valentines Day
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Sizzix - Hearts
• Recollections - Pearls
  

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

Cards for Kids Drive

Jennifer McGuire is hosting an on-going card drive for kids who are ill and for their families too. I usually dont' have too many kids cards on hand, so I decided to create a few to send off to the card drive.

I told my daughter I wanted to do a knock knock card with a frog and she came up with the knock knock joke and wrote it down for me.

The papers are Cosmo Cricket and all the stamps are Hero Arts.

I had to switch to orange frogs as I ran out of the green pp. :)

Hope you are having a lovely day... I think I can start sharing some of the new Memory Box images and I have some other fun news I can share next week.

Suzz

Impression Obsession Weekly Challenge - Shapes

This week the new Impression Obsession Challenge is to create a card that is shaped. The challenges are fun and the prize is a 25.00 gift certificate to IO. I already was selected once before and it was so much fun shopping for my stamps!

I wanted to create a flower. This sent me searching through my punches and dies to see which one might make a good petal. I decided to use my trusty Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 4 die.

This is how it looked when I was finished...

The laying flat view:

Recipe:

1. Cut 6 petals from white card stock of each size. The sizes started from the second to smallest die and up two more sizes.
2. Spray all the pieces with a lovely shimmery coat of Lemon Zest Glimmer Mist.
3. Lay the medium petals in the center of the largest petals and spray them with Tuscany Sun Glimmer Mist.
4. Spray the smallest petals with Tuscany Sun Glimmer Mist.
5. Stamp the largest and smallest petals with red pigment ink.
6. Stamp the middle petals with orange pigment ink.
7. Sponge the edges of the large petals with brown dye ink.
8. Spritz the white card stock for the bees with the Lemon Zest glimmer mist.
9. Stamp the bees using a black pigment ink.
10. Apply orange stickles to the bees and the button for the center of the flower.
11. Each petal was rolled onto a pencil first the long way and then in half.
12. Die Cut two circles for card base. 3 1/2".
13. Attach the largest petals on the bottom of the petal to the circle. Push the petal up in the middle and flat again at the end.
14. Repeat for all petals.
15. Attach button in the middle.
16. Cut out bees and pop dot onto card.

Products:

• Impression Obsession - 8129, A8128 Left & Right Bee Side
• Impression Obsession - F2051 Small Swirl Background
• Versafine - Crimson Red, Habenero
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels 4, Large Circles
• Button
• Embroidery Thread
• Ranger Stickles - Orange
• Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist - Lemon Zest, Tuscany Sun

The next project I am working on is a few cards for Jennifer McGuire's Cards for Kids Drive.

As always thank you for stopping by... It is greatly appreciated!

Suzz

Mojo Monday Challenge #121

I wanted to play along in the Mojo Monday sketch challenge because sketch challenges are the hardest for me and it is good to stretch your creativity. This also fits into the Hero Arts theme this month of friendship.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card...

I think cards form their own personality. I start with an idea but have to follow the card's personality once it gets started. (Just like your children) This ended up being a masculine type of card and I wanted to add frills but couldn't make it work. :)

Products:

• Hero Arts - Friends Definition
• Hero Arts - Designblock - Tree
• Memory Box - Tree (Hearts)
• Versafine Vintage Sepia, Crimson Red
• The Stamp Barn - WOR 183 F
• Ranger Distress Inks - Spiced Marmalade, Mustard, Faded Jeans, Shabby Shutters

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Little bits of love

I have been wanting to play in the Hero Arts Challenge for Valentine's or Friendship this month but have been busy playing with other cards. Last night I decided to create a few valentine's cards for my kiddos.

We have a 14 year old boy, 12 year old girl and 8 year old girl. The idea was to create a valentine's card for each of them.

The first one is for my darling Kaeli... She is such a smart cookie. I created this card because she loves doing puzzles. She will love the puzzle and the charm will be something she can put on a necklace and wear.

The second one is for my youngest Tanya. She will love the dog on the card. I think she will think it is fun that he is red and white.

The last one I tried to create something more masculine and used the tickets as my starting point but I always struggle with teenage boys. This was intended for my son Zac, but I will probably create something else for him.

Have a lovely Friday... We have a nice long weekend because not only are the kids out of school on Monday, I have off work too! Yeah!

Suzz

Love birds

Just playing around with some stamps from Memory Box.

The background is stamped in Antique Linen on Ivory cardstock to give a shadow effect. I sponged the edges with brown dye ink.

I added the little heart notes with the Just a Note sentiment using a red dye ink. The ribbon is this gorgeous ribbon I purchased at my LSS. The birds are colored using my watercolor pencils.

I have been working on lots of other projects that I can't share just yet...

Products:

• Memory Box - Alpha Background E996
• Memory Box - Love Birds E1173
• Memory Box - Just a Note - B864
• Memory Box - Heart Notes A1171
• Ranger Distress Inks - Antique Linen, Fire Brick Red
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Label 4

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

I'm Nuts about you!

This is my valentine's card for my husband... The Hero Arts challenge all month is to create a valentines or friendship card. I joked previously about using duct tape on a masculine card....
Well.... I started with some duct tape hearts and created my first version of the card. The shape is to represent a nut. Trying to go all out handyman theme... My husband is very handy and can fix lots of things. After my son saw the card he said it needed to be more masculine. So I created a second version which I die cut from duct taped cardstock.

The inside on both cards says "I'm nuts about you!"

Recipe:

1. Duct Tape a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock. My rotary cutter cut the duct tape off the edges for me. Cut a second piece of white cardstock in the same size.
2. Take the second largest octogan die cut and center in the middle of the white cardstock and die cut the paper. Repeat with the duct tape cardstock.
3. Lay the cardstock with the center cut out on your cutter. Line up the center side of the octogan with the 1" line. Cut off the excess paper. Turn to the next inside side and repeat. Continue until you have cut all the way around. Repeat with the duct tape cardstock.
4. Die cut a few hearts from duct tape covered cardstock.
5. Decorate as desired!
   

I think he will get a big kick out of his valentines card.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Valentines Sayings
• Hero Arts - Happy Dads Day
• Silver Embossing Powder
• StaZon - Jet Black
• Twine
• Washers
• Spellbinders Nestabilities
• Duct Tape

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz