A little Love

I was inspired by the this week's Sunflowers and Dragonflies challenge to make a card with red, pink, and cream. I used a pink sparkly card base then stamped the hearts and love with red ink onto cream cardstock. I made a little ruffle out of an old sewing pattern and added brown satin ribbon, a red flower and a metal rimmed canvas tag. I know Valentine's Day is over but I think my boyfriend will still like his "love card."

stamps used: Rubber Stampede, Co-Motion, and two unknown stamps

I'm also working on a little sewing project. There may even be a tutorial involved. Here's the teaser:

Thanks for stopping by today. And, thank you to everyone who has offered to help with my Birthdays Project.

A Personal Note

I think it's always a good time for a love card. This one is for Dean. When we were dating 10+ years ago, we exchanged cards often. When we got married, the cards came less often. Sometimes, when we got in an argument, I would make him a love card and hide it. When he found it, he would give me a kiss and say, "I'm sorry." Unfortunately during the 5 years we were married the cards, kisses, and apologies came less frequent. We were divorced 4.5 years ago.

Two months ago we decided to put the past behind us and move forward. We are even talking about getting married again. So, I made him this love card to celebrate our new beginning.

I know you are busy getting out your Christmas cards but I hope that you take the time to send a love card. It's always a good time for a love card.

Details on my card:

Pattern papers: Bo Bunny

Stamps: Stampin Up!

Cardstock: Prism

Brad and ribbon are from my stash

I was inspired by this week's CPS sketch. CPS145.

Thank you for stopping by.

Falling Leaves

I love fall. We don't get a lot of fall where I live so it's a real treat to visit somewhere with changing leaves and crisp fall air. I made the card and tag below for 2 different WCMD challenges: Tracy's fall colors challenge and Godelieve's card and tag combo challenge. I brayered white cardstock with every brown, orange, gold, and copper ink that I own. Then I stamped OBP leaf with ink and embossed with chocolate scented brown embossing powder. mmmm. I rubbed some Perfect Gold Perfect Pearls powder over each leaf and cut them out.
The leaves are really shiny and multicolor IRL.
OBP just for you sentiment stamp.

Shrinky Dink Fun

As a child of the 70s I'm a little ashamed to say that I never tried Shrinky Dinks until this past Saturday. They are so fun. I chose the OBP plain cupcake because 1)it's super cute 2) it's huge and 3) I didn't have to color a lot of detail. Wow! Super easy. The green card was for Teresa's Hey Cupcake Challenge.
The blue card was for Mandy from Limelights Birthday Card Challenge.

WCMD Continued

Thanks to everyone who participated in my challenge. I loved seeing your interpretation of the theme. I made a lot of cards yesterday. I'll show them throughout this week.

The top card is for the Limetart spring card challenge (since it's spring in Australia.) I used 3 different sheets of Flair Designs paper and OBP Flora Hugabudous and Thank You.

I made the diaper card for Emi's challenge to make an unusual shaped card. I used Sherry's template from the Stamp Shack with various OBP stamps.

I'll do the drawing for the WCMD winner tomorrow. I'll accept enties until midnight my time (PST) tonight.

Oh Baby

I love making baby cards. For this one I used OBP Waltzing Mathilda alphabet with some Prima flowers, Making Memories paper, ProvoCraft star brads, DCWV cardstock and white satin ribbon.

I can hardly wait to get my hands on the new OBP baby images. A couple months ago, Johanna asked if we had any image requests and I said a baby pram. Check this out. I'm so excited. It's exactly what I had in mind. I think it will be lots of fun putting different characters inside.

I'm In Stitches

I made this card for the SCS Inspiration Challenge a few weeks ago. My photo looks bad so I'll describe the card. The base is brown cardstock. On top of that is white cardstock that I handstitched with red embroidery floss. On the squares, I stamped Odd Bird Planet Scrolly Border, Shrubbery, Flourish Right and Thank You with brown ink.
On the left, my niece talking on her zucchini phone. I swear we check our 3 zucchini plants daily but somehow this guy was missed. We had zucchini enchiladas for dinner tonight and I think there will be zucchini pancakes in the morning.

A Little Christmas in July

One of the challenging things about design team assignments is that often you are working several seasons ahead. I had a hard time thinking about Christmas when I needed to work on these so I watched a Christmas movie to help set the mood.
I used Flair Designs Holly Jolly Collection O Christmas Tree and Cardstock stickers with Odd Bird Planet Lacy Circle Medium.
On this one I used Flair Designs Holly Jolly Collection Holly Jolly Stripe paper with more Cardstock stickers and OBP Joy to the World sentiment.

Flair also has a new line of Christmas paper called Merry Little Christmas. I am in love with the Holly Berries paper.

Is This A Record?

I used 8 patterned papers on this one card. This is the larger scale version of my cupcake-turned-flower pot card. This time I used OBP Frosting Only Cupcake and Flora Hugabundous with Thank You. I also cut into the paper I have been hoarding that I bought in France. It's the top flowers with the French script.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Last month Amy Westerman from Heartfelt Greetings posted the most adorable card that she made using a random draw of paper scraps from her stash. She does this every Saturday for what she calls, Scrap Stash Saturday. I loved her card so much that I bought a used SU Mon Ami stamp set with the intent on creating my own version of her card. I'm not usually a card "CASEer" but I had fun putting my own spin on Amy's card.

Valentine Tree

I wish you could see all the sparkle on this tree. I painted the wooden tree from JoAnn's pink and outlined it with bubble gum Stickles. I used 1 inch and 1 1/4 inch punches to punch out images that I had colored with Marvy and Tombow markers. Actually, this part of the project was super easy because I stamped 2 of each image when I made the Valentine's Day Advent Calendar. Then I just added the ribbons that came with the tree. All images Odd Bird Planet.

Cookie Sheet Valentine Count Down Calendar

This is a 14 day cookie sheet advent calendar. I started with an inexpensive cookie sheet that I spray painted red and flecked with pink paint. Using the Crop-a-dile, I punched holes in the top and bottom for ribbon (American Arts and unknown). I made the grid using Microsoft Word. The scalloped strip was made with My Mind's Eye paper and my dot sticker method. The lacy white strip was made using a Fiskars border punch. Each magnetic number has a stamped image and Dymo Label Maker number. I also used metal rimmed tags, wooden squares, puzzle piece, wooden and ceramic heart and chipboard piece. Colored with Marvy and Tombow markers. All images and sentiments are from Odd Bird Planet:

• Love fancy
• Heart Trio
• Paisley Heart
• Inverse Heart
• Madame & Monsieur
• Louise Right and Left
• Lacy Circle Medium
• Happy Valentine's Day
• I Love You Flourish
• Floral Flourish Left
• Lacy Border
• Nigel the Owl Left and Right
• Bigger Nigel the Owl Left and Right
• Waltzing Mathilda (L and O)
• Intertwined Kitties