June '14

Today's Post is a General card or a Masculine card.. Clean and Simple.

Just Paper and a Punch...

Using Lost Lagoon, Basic Gray and a Piece of DSP.

One Punch set of each color Basic Gray and Lost Lagoon a slim Dimensional

and glue dots... Only the Basic Gray chevrons are raised..

Clean and Simple, right??

What would you use it for?? What sentiment would you put inside??

Have a Great day getting Crafty!!

June '14

This was supposed to be posted yesterday...

Happy Father's Day!!

 

I am on my way to see my Dad....I look forward to seeing his face when he opens our joint gift. It is a secret so I can not post here...

HE IS GOING TO BE SOOO SURPRISED!!

This card is for all my siblings to sign..

Yes, that is from the May Paper Pumpkin ... Perfect for this card!!

And this one was from Trevor, Joe and I... with a little gift card inside.

My Dad and I are true Starbucks Fans!! Enjoy a few cups on us Dad!!

Making a card for my Brother and Brother-in-Law and out the door I go!!

Have a Great day with you Dad and getting Crafty!!

June '14

Sorry guys just a quick post today...

Working on Masculine cards last night AND had a helper with organizing my retired stuff, I am sooo Thankful!!!

Organizing first... 

When stuff retires I pull it all and then pick thru what to keep and what to pass on to others..

Here is one of my two bookshelves

This one is now has all the stamps, paper, ribbon,big shot stuff and of course some Misc... 

Yes that is a lot of stamps.... but ohhh I have sold some 

and given some away.

Today's card is a Masculine card either birthday or even Father's Day.

Yes, posting from the craft room again....

The Hardwood stamp is such a universal stamp.

 

The Thick Bakers Twine in Baked Brown Sugar.

Yummy!!

Touches of Cherry Cobbler just add a splash of color, the Banners smallest Frame for our postage mark.

Have a Great day getting Crafty!!

April '14

Today, I figured another Masculine card would be nice...

Boy there are a Ton of cards with Flowers lately, you have to know I have be itching to get out and work in the gardens.  I can actually say I have been pulling weeds and cleaning things up out there!!

Here is another Birthday card...

The sentiment is slightly sarcastic and fun.

Using the Soho Subway DSP again (Sunday's Card), The colors and look were perfect, just a touch of pattern.

The sentiment is on one die cut from Apothecary Accents and one end is just "cut" off. 

The inside, using Washi tape from Epic Day and a scrap of Soho Subway..

The front has a clean and simple look.

Just a couple layers add the interest.

and Yes, this is a slim card and mailable.

Enjoy your day!! 

Have a Great day getting Crafty!

April '14

Happy Sunday!!

Welcome to day two of Masculine Card weekend! 

Today is with out a doubt a Birthday Card.

The Banner Framelits were the way to go...

10 different banners (including the inside)...some pattern and some plain cardstock...

Trying to figure out the arrangement was difficult... actually.

Arranging before adhering is important.  They all ended up with the same straight line across the top but to me it still did not look finished.  But what do you do when you want to change things and YUP, you adhered the banners?? Well, get your trimmer out and ...

Make it go thru to the inside.  

Normally, I personally don't like to see the ribbon on the inside.  For this one though I had an idea.   I wanted to make it look like the banner actually "folded" to the inside of the card..

See how the banner happened to go to the outside edge?  That is why I put the inside sentiment all the way to the left (picture above).

With plenty of room available to write your note!!

I know there are a "few" people that will have an issue with this card due to the different patterns... that is why I used the plain cardstock in hopes to tame all the pattern.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!! and Have a Great day getting Crafty!!

April '14

This weekend We are going to take a look at some more

Masculine

type cards... Today this one is intended as a Birthday card.

The Lovely as a Tree stamp set is a great and versatile set to own!!

using the leaves to make my own patterned paper,

the candy dots in the corners,

and the different sized Window Frames .

dimensional two layers (still mailable) and its the perfect card. 

Enjoy your Saturday!! Have a Great day getting Crafty!!

Operation Write Home .. Sketches Blog Hop..

Here are the two cards that I came up with for our hop... 

I used sketch 27 for my new Hero card....

As if anyone really needs a reason, but here is mine...

I wanted to let Operation Write Home and Kris know that Trevor is back in the states, after 7 long months of being in Afghanistan, as of  Thursday and will be home here for a visit on Sunday night....

I also wanted to thank a friend of mine Tammy (she knows who she is) for helping me find OWH.  I have enjoyed making cards for the heroes and they sure know how much we love them.  The support we give them is welcomed and appreciated.

I knew when I saw this sketch that I was going to use this big retiring ribbon.  I will miss it.  

And be nice I hand stamped each letter.... :-)

This my very 1st time in a blog hop... I hope everything turned out alright.
And that everyone gets inspired.

I do have blog candy.... you will have to check out the Friday night post to see what it is... but its a good one.   Ohh this is how you get the blog candy, you must post a comment and I would appreciate a few new followers too... 

So the other thing on everyone's mind is graduation, right?? 

Well I thought so too... I love this stamp set for that...

I got the idea from sketch number 114. 

Yes, it was changed just a little.

The footprints are the steps we have take to get where we are and where we want to go..

Enjoy your Daring Adventure and the rest of the Hop!!

Thank you for stopping by!!

Have a Great Day Getting Crafty!!

Operation Write Home Sketch 112

A Masculine Birthday for OWH.  Featuring a piece from the 

Summer Smooches DSP.

Operation Write Home (OWH) has sent over 1.5 million cards to our troops out of the United States.  Can you help out too??

The only dimension I added was the layers for the Sentiment. 

I do love the Island Indigo and Daffodil Delight together. 

Supplies:

CS: New**available April 1st, Summer Smooches, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade.

Stamp: Word Play

Misc: Big Shot, Circles #2 Die, XL Oval Punch, 2 1/2 Circle Punch.