Linda's Madison Avenue Birthday

My sister's birthday is May 5 - cinco di mayo!  I know how much she loves the colors of the southwest, so I selected the Madison Avenue designer series paper to design my card around.  It has a lot of the southwestern colors in the pallet, so here's what I designed for her.  I even designed the kraft box, which holds her beautiful necklace, earrings, and bracelet, to match the card.

Card Recipe

Paper:  island indigo, whisper white, tangerine tango, madison avenue dsp (2013 spring sale-a-bration)

Ink:  tangerine tango, island indigo

Stamp Sets:  label love, mosiac madness (sneak peak 2013-15 Stampin' Up catalog), occasions alphabet, madison avenue (2013 spring sale-a-bration)

Accessories:  chevron EF, island indigo satin ribbon (2013 spring sale-a-bration), label love punch (sneak peak 2013-15 SU catalog), rosette, basic rhinestones.

Happy Birthday, Linda!

How About a Sweet Treat Celebration?

Who wouldn't want a sweet treat celebration?  Hummm... what is that, you ask.  Well, imagine walking up to a stand and they had nothing but cupcakes in it?  Wouldn't you just want one?  Oh yes, and all different flavors with pretties on top?  Oh I know I would.  I love cupcakes.  So are you with me?  Let's take a stroll on over to that cupcake stand and see what they have ...

See what I mean?  I think I'll have the pink one on the end.  Which one would you choose?  Hope you enjoy it ... I know I am.

Lacy Brocade Wedding Dress Card

Here's another card I made, and this time, I used the dress die.  I love that die, and I almost didn't purchase it because I thought I wouldn't have any use for it.  Well I just proved myself wrong.  I absolutely love it ...

Recipe

Paper:  tempting turquoise, whisper white, silver glimmer paper, brights patterned DSP

Ink:  tempting turquoise

Stamp Set:  wedding sweet

Accessories:  window frame framelit, dress up framelit, perfect polka dots EF, boho blossoms punch, fancy brocade EF, white 3/8" taffeta ribbon, bitty banners

I wasn't sure if I would like the turquoise on the card, but I think it gave it just the right pop.  Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by.

Family Tray

Here's a project that I made at one of my upline's Saturday craft day.  We made the Family Tray, and it's really cute. Although I don't have pictures of my family on it yet, I thought I would share it anyway.  I love the trays.  They are so nice and you can change them over and over again with your photos.  I especially like this one.  It has a bunch of the dahlia embellishments on it.  Of course, there's blue dahlias on it, so I'm loving it even more.  Here it is:

Can you see the lace doilies on it too?  You really can't notice too well in the photo, but the letters for  "FAMILY" are raised up with dimensionals, 3-deep.  They really pop out and look really nice, almost like blocks.

Well, until tomorrow, I hope you find some inspiration here and I hope to hear from you soon.

A Card for a Deacon

The same woman who asked if I could make her the "Whatever" with an attitude card also saw a sample on my board that she wanted to purchase, but it was only a card front.  She has a Deacon friend she wanted to send the card to, so I told her I would be happy to recreate the card for her.  She was thrilled.  The sample card was made by April Lopez as a swap.

When I got home, I was so glad I had everything I needed to recreate the card.  I even had the same black ribbon too.  By a stroke of luck, I had recently purchased the "Crosses of Hope" stamp set, and who knew, I was so glad I had it.

Here's the card I recreated for her, and thank you, April, for the beautiful card.

I don't know if you can see it clearly in the picture, but after I stamped the celtic cross on the cardstock using black stazon, I took the Summer Starfruit marker and ran it down the cross and across, then added glitter down the center and across the cross, and it shows a silver / gold affect.  It's really pretty.  The basic rhinestone in the center of the cross just topped it off perfectly.  I also added "God Bless You" inside the card, as I found it very appropriate.  I liked the card so much that I made one for myself too.  Hehehe.

Well, here's wishing you a blessed day today, and every day!  Thanks for stopping by.

"Whatever" with an Attitude

A woman at the Holy Rosary Regional Catholic School Ladies' Bingo Night asked me if I would be able to create a card using the word "Whatever" and make it with "Attitude", and inside, she wanted a silhouette of the Blessed Mother with a biblical scripture through it.  Humm, of course I was up for the challenge, so I said yes, I could make it.  She got the idea after looking at My Paper Pumpkin sample "Seriously", so I went home and thought and though how I could make it.  Unfortunately, I didn't have words that would fit inside the dialog box, and I couldn't fit the polymere letters in it either, so I created a totally different card front, and I think it turned out pretty cool.  The inside was another challenge, but I found some Blessed Mother images on line, opened up a word document and typed in the scripture using a script font, then placed the Blessed Mother silhouette as a watermark over top of the scripture verse and here's what I came up with.  I really hope she likes it ...

I don't know if you can see the image of the Blessed Mother in the background, but it turned out pretty cool.  I've never done something like that before, and I'm glad I could get the image and the verse just like she asked.  Now I really do hope she likes the front of the card.  I know it's plain, but all she wanted was "Whatever" with attitude.  Do you think it fits the bill?

Well, until tomorrow.... may your creation and ideas go wild!

Coloring Down the Lines - Crumb Cake

Good Day, everyone!  It's another great challenge for Coloring Down the Lines.  This week's challenge was to come up with something using the following color combinations:  Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, and Garden Green or Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red, and Not Quite Navy.  I started to make a card, then quickly realized I just couldn't make it work.  So, I reverted to another stamp set - one that I'm loving, and went with it.  I chose the first color combo to work with ... and I'm rather pleased with the outcome.  I'm sure Carol never has those blimp moments when she's designing ... it just doesn't appear that way, does it?  Anyway, here's my submission for the blog hop this week:

Card Recipe:

Paper:  whisper white, garden green

Ink:  garden green, crumb cake, cajun craze

Stamp Sets:  summer silhouettes, loving thoughts

Accessories:  basic pearls

The card was easy to make, and not a lot of accessories, but just enough to give it that special touch.  I saw a card similar to this that was made by Debra Corson, so thank you Debra for your inspiration.

Now, I bet you can't wait to hop on over to check out Joni's masterpiece.  It's so nice to see what everyone comes up with each week, as there's so much to work with and we shall never run out of ideas!  Happy Stamping!