More Mother's Day

Two more mother's day cards - neither of which is for MY mom. That one will be in the next post.

The first one is for my dearly beloved's Mom. The sketch is from Sheetload of cards, just expanded to be a full size card. Paper is CTMH, stamped images are Verve. After taking the photo, I decided the flower image needed a little something so I outlined the flowers on the stem.



This second card went to my brother's girlfriend and I believe I used another sheetload of cards sketch here as well.


Papers are CTMH and the sentiment is Verve. Edged with my EK Success Diamond Scallop border punch. The panels are nestabilities die cuts done on my cuttlebug. See those Zellers flowers cropping up again? Speaking of crop - I made these two cards at the all day crop I attended on Saturday and just put the finishing touches on the 2nd one at home on Monday.

SASMR1 - Mother's Day

Over at Stamps and Smiles they are previewing their new release all week and are hosting sketch challenges each day as well.

For the SASMR1 sketch, I made these two VERY similar cards for two of the Mom's I know.
The first is for my sister.


This second one is for my dearly beloved's step-mother.

Both cards use the same papers from CTMH (from the Key to My Heart promo). The circles were cut with my nestabilities using my cuttlebug. One card has a slightly larger set of circles as I used two different Verve sentiment stamps and one was bigger than the other, requiring a bigger set of circles. The flowers I picked up at Zellers - $1 for 4 of them. Not too bad since they are two layer flowers, with a brad and a sticky dimensional on the back.

The cards also fit challenge 30 Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge and Challenge 29 at the Cuttlebug Spot and the day 65 challenge over at 365 Cards.

update to the previous post

Tammy Stevenson was the talented CTMH consultant who conducted the card workshop - thanks Jenn for letting me know her name so I could give due credit where credit is due!

Crop for the Cure

Phew....am I exhausted from yesterday's AWESOME all day crop. In addition to some Mother's day projects I was working on (those will be posted later...when they are finished!), I took part in a couple of workshops - of course, card related.

In one of them, we made SIX cards. Can you believe that? Six cards! This is one of them. All CTMH papers. I did not put a sentiment on it at the crop as I wasn't quite sure for which occasion I would use it. I would like to give credit to the lady {update: Tammy Stephenson} who conducted the workshop for the design but I can't remember her name - just that it begins with a "T"(I think). Jenn can probably help me out there (so I can edit this post later).


Well, my cousin's wife/chick flick pal, Jackie, called me this morning to remind me that I had tentatively planned to visit them at their new house out in the boonies today. She was doing the CHEO walk this morning and was letting me know when she would be home.

First workshop card to the rescue!



The sentiment is CTMH and is layered on three oval nestabilities die cuts. Ta da! Instant card. I think I am going to have to make a few more of these with some assorted papers just to have on hand for quick cards in a flash.

I'll have to rave about the crop in another post. Jenn and Tash (who is also from "Da Rock") did an awesome job organizing and keeping 30 women entertained and well-fed for the day. Thanks Jenn and Tash!

I'll post more photos of the workshop items and my own projects when I get a chance.

Ta ta for now...

Cakeabella

Yay, I can post this now!

So, I had the chance to use my new Cakeabella stamp from Stamping Bella .

Actually, I used her twice, but I wasn't REALLY creative. I decided to use the bellarific challenge for May 1st for the sketch.



I was so pleased with how my friend Chrissy's birthday card came out (above), that I had to use the same sketch for another friend.


Now before you say it is mean of me to point out that friend #2 is turning 40, we've known each other since we were five and my birthday is BEFORE hers. I am welcoming her to the club.

I think the black card bases and the black mats really make the colours in the DP pop. Other than bella, the other stamps used are Verve (Happy Birthday) and CTMH (wish and 40!).

Why are masculine cards so hard to make?

My dearly beloved has a friend from high school with whom he STILL plays DnD. He's been absent for several months now but is finally going to be there tonight. His birthday was a few days ago and this is the card I made for him. So instead of it going in the post, it gets delivered in person!

But boy, I do find masculine cards so very hard to make. What do you mean I can't use ribbon?


Anywho....this paper pack from CTMH comes to the rescue for masculine cards. I will definitely have to get some more on my next order. The Sketch is from the May 2009 issue of Sheetload of cards. I modded it a little to do a 4x5.25 inch card instead of a 4x4. The balloons and sentiment are Verve. The little tags were cut with my cuttlebug.

I know, kinda plain and ho-hum but....next time, I swear I'm using duct tape!

Christmas Cards - CCC09 March

Ah yes, March was a quiet month for me for card-making so you would THINK that I would have got my 10 christmas cards for March for the SCS CCC09 challenge done in time. Nope. I just finished these beauties (if I do say so myself) on the weekend. The sketch is from Sheetload of Cards (link on the sidebar).

The papers are all CTMH, the poinsettias and sentiment are from Verve Stamps. This is the outside of one of the ten cards - I'm not doing single shots of all of them here on the blog as they are all very similar - some are duplicates. They use a mix of CTMH papers for a little variety.


See that cute scalloped border? EK-Success Diamond Scallop border punch. My new favourite. I have a few more (gotta love the Michael's 40% off coupon!).

Below you can see the inside of one of the cards. The different colour on the lighter poinsettias was achieved by stamping off the ink to scrap paper first then stamping the residual ink onto the actual image I wanted to use. As dearly beloved pointed out - I could have saved time and ink by stamping my darker poinsettia and then stamping the other poinsettias with the residual from that. Oh well, next time!

The sentiment reads - Merry Christmas From our house to yours.

And this is a shot of all ten cards. You can see that the papers were mixed amongst the cards.


Oh yeah, the ribbon is CTMH as well.

So enough dilly-dallying for today. I am attending my first ever all day crop tomorrow hosted by Jenn and have not done anything to prepare except print a few (well 30 or so) old photos of my parents. I really need to get my papers ready and choose from amongst all my toys what I will bring with me to the crop. That is going to be SOOOOOO hard. I love them all! I think I may have to stick with the basics though.

I am VERY tempted to just bring card-making stuff with me though. I'm behind and need to get the Mother's day cards done and saturday would be a perfect chance for that. hmmm....I wonder if there are any rules for what we are supposed to be doing at the crop? I think I may feel a little intimidated with all the other scrappers there as I really just toy with scrap-booking.