Happy Birthday to my Uncle

My Mom's older brother has a birthday next week so I made a card tonight to send to him. After dearly beloved MOCKED my last Carl the Cupcake card --- I won't REPEAT what he said, I decided to use a different cupcake. This one is from the Doodlefactory. Jenn, the enabler, is responsible for this as I HAD to get this set after seeing some of the cute cards she has made with hers.


Dearly Beloved's comment on seeing this one is somewhat more repeatable this time ---"ooh...psychedelic cupcake -- or is it a mushroom?"....MEN!!!

Notice the background on this card? Same as the father's day card I made for my brother. Just did a little something different with the image.

details:
card measures 5 x 5
panels: cut with nestabilities dies
stamped image: doodlefactory

Hello Friend!

One of my co-workers has a girlfriend who is very crafty - I blame her for making me get my first Cricut and then my Cuttlebug - and all the goodies that go with them! Including the SECOND Cricut. Anyhow, today she was all excited because Heather's had the Zutter Bind-it-All come in and she was on Heather's list of people to call! She got her call and DASHed off to pick it up!

So, I was telling my coworker that his girlfriend was going to need some thin chipboard to make some covers for all of her new projects she will be making. And since my dear SIL Jenn got me a bunch some time ago I would be happy to give him some for her.

I figured I would put in a cute card with the plain chipboard and found this one in my stash.


I actually made this card back in October of last year but can't seem to find it on my blog. isn't Harriet Cute? She's an image from PaperworksCo out in Alberta. There is a link to them on my sidebar. Love this little company. I got most of my nestabilities, my dewdrops and some of my cuttlebug folders from Peggy and am DEFINITELY a loyal customer.

I'm betting Steph will like this card - but not as much as her new Bind-It-All!

Happy Father's Day - Dad

For this card, I used this sketch from the Sketch and Stash Challenge blog.



When my dearly beloved saw it, a second one was requested - for his Dad, as this one is going to my Dad. Love this DP. The dark grey panel was embossed with the cuttlebug. The brads look like screw heads. The image was coloured with Prismacolour pencils and the image panel was cut with my small deckled rectangle nestabilities.

details:
card measures 5x5
image: Fixafella from Stamping Bella
sentiment: CTMH

Happy Father's Day - To my brother

With Father's day a week away, I am just starting to make my cards. I am the queen of procrastination - and express post!

For this card for my kid brother, I used this sketch from Sketch Saturday.



And this is the inside of the card.


details:
card measures 5x5
outside sentiment: Verve Stamps
inside sentiment: CTMH
stamped image: Doodlefactory
Papers: unknown brown pattern + Bazzil + Basic Grey

Happy Birthday Mom - CPS120

My Mom has a birthday this week. She will be a whopping 59 years old! The sad thing is, she looks younger every time I see her! People now mistake us for sisters instead of Mother and Daughter. I like to think it is because I haven't lived in my hometown for over twenty years so people FORGET my Mom has TWO daughters. That being said, I look just like her so if I look as good as she does when I'M 59... yay genetics!

This is the card I will have to express to her on Monday. My card making mojo was M.I.A. for a few days - focused on the garden at this time of year. To the rescue came the CPS 120 sketch for this week.


Nestabilities Small and Large Labels were used for the image panel. The Flower image was coloured twice with PrismaColour Pencils, with the second image cut out and popped up for dimension.

And this is the sentiment inside the card.


Again with the Nestabilities Labels.

card details:
card base measures 5 x 6.5
Papers: CTMH Perfect Day Paper Pack
Sentiments: Verve Because of You
Flower Image: The Greeting Farm For Someone

A reworked card

I need a birthday card this week for the son of a friend of mine. Out came this card that I made during the card workshop at the Crop for the Cure.


Now, I wasn't really happy with it. Seemed a little plain jane to me. So, I decided to tweak it a little. Off came the balloons and on went Carl.


I cut two panels, same size, from some CTMH textured card stock (used both sides to get the different colours) using my small deckled rectangle nestabilities. Turned one ninety degrees and ... ta da. Notice that Carl is identical to the previous post? I had coloured two of him as I wasn't sure if I was going to pop him up on my cousin's card or not. So, there you go. A reworked card.

details:
card measures 4.25X5.5 inches
paper: CTMH
sentiment: CTMH
image: Stamps and Smiles

The Fresh Batch - SASSC19

This week's sketch over at Stamps and Smiles- The Fresh Batch was definitely a neat one to work with. I took inspiration from one of the cards that used a nestabilities labels die and came up with this birthday card for my cousin.


Carl has become a very popular subject with cards I am making for the men/boys in my life.

This is the inside of the card.


The card measures 6x6.

paper:
black cardstock base is CTMH
DP is "Namath" from the MVP line from patterned paper (got it at Desserres)
Nestabilities Labels Two was used for the panels.
The lower grey panel was embossed with my cuttlebug. I can never remember if that one is the herringbone or argyle. Whatever.
Outside sentiment panel was cut with my nestabilities small deckled rectangles...twice to make it smaller.
Stamped image and sentiment are Stamps and Smiles. Carl was coloured with -- my prismacolours!