Thinking of You

A friend was just diagnosed with breast cancer - they found it early, and the doctors are very optimistic, but it's still a scary thing. I wanted to make her a card, and yesterday's sketch challenge seemed like a good place to start. I grabbed my black & white DCWV stack (can you tell I'm making an effort to use these?) and selected the prints. The sentiment is even from the pad, so there's no stamping at all on this card. The chipboard heart is from Cosmo Cricket - I went over it with an ink pad, and then sprayed it with pink taffy glimmer mist. Final touch was just a bit of ribbon tied on - I think the final result is rather playful, and hopefully my friend will like it.

All lovey dovey

Needed to make an anniversary card - I'm not feeling so hot (first cold of the season!) so I pulled out the BasicGrey Blush card kit. No stamping here - just adhering a few shapes, tying on some ribbon, and adding a small charm. (I'll be hand delivering this, so bulk wasn't an issue...)

Sweet Sixteen

Our niece - the adorable little flower girl at our wedding - turned sixteen yesterday. Man, I'm feeling old! I put off making her card to the last minute, and grabbed the BasicGrey Blush card kit that has been sitting on the back of my workspace for months. As pretty as it was, I could't bring myself to actually use the pieces. Well, yesterday was the day! I started with a square Fabriano notecard, then layered on the paper pieces and hearts. After I came up with my basic layout, I accented it all with some distress inks. I die cut the numbers from some shimmery paper, so they actually stood out quite nicely. The final touch was the velvet ribbon and stick pin.

I must say, I liked using the kit, and will be using more strips like this on future layouts. Great way to use up scraps but they also make fabulous accents!

Circle Card

I'd been wanting to play with a round card for quite awhile, and the this week's bonus sketch on SCS was just the nudge I needed. I started out with this great BasicGrey paper - the design has rounded elements in it, so I thought it would work well. After playing with a number of different elements, I settled on using the chipboard frame (Cherry Arte). I stamped the words (Limited Edition Art Warehouse stamps - Danelle Johnson) and then circle punched them. I accented the frame with a bit of brown ric rac just to add a bit of texture, and then then finally added a bit of chocolate chip cardstock to the spine (embossed with the fiskars leather texture plate). The circular shape definitely took more effort than a standard card, but hopefully my hubby will appreciate it!!

Happy chipboard

I dug out my neglected chipboard for this one. My new mantra seems to be, "I will not hoard!" Anyway, I started out by covering the flower with vanilla craft ink, then Irridescent Ice EP (which is just clear EP with dazzling diamonds glitter already mixed in). I accented the middle with an image from Big Pieces. BTW, don't waste your time trying to glue an accent down to embossed chipboard - go right for the glue dots!

I played around with various colors and patterns for the background, and finally settled on fine lace (almost amethyst stamped on apricot appeal), dotted (certainly celery on very vanilla), and then a soft sky card base (sentiment from Happy Everything, stamped with almost amethyst).

Hope your day is happy!!