My First Magnolia Card

I recently order a couple of Tilda stamps by Magnolia as I had seen so many pretty cards made with her. This is my first try at coloring her and also trying the Promarkers. Needless to say, I do need a lot of practice with coloring, but I think she turned out o.k. except for a couple of booboos. One is covered up by the paperpieced shopping bag.   The flower is made from EKSuccess large & med. retro flower punch. The large flower is punched with a MS punch to give it a different look.  I saw this idea on some other blogs I have visited and I really like the way it turns out.  All pieces were sponged with SU Soft Suede ink.
Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU Naturals White, Crumb Cake, and Riding Hood Red.
DSP:  October Afternoon (Thrift Shop);   Ink: Memento Black (for image) and SU Soft Suede;  Accessories:  MS Fern and EK Success Retro Flower punches; SU brad; SU Riding Hood Red ribbon;
Nestabilities.  Assorted Promarkers.

Happy Birthday

This is a BD card I made for our pastor whose birthday is this week. I guess I am like everyone else and find it a little hard to make masculine cards.  I like the frilly, flowers, ribbon, etc.

For the card I used SU Crumb Cake and Naturals White cardstock. The blue CS is some older DCWV paper and the pattern paper is from the Boys to Men pad by Hot Off The Press. The birthday stamp is an older one I picked up at JoAnn's. It is stamped in SU Night of Navy ink. The gold brads are also from JoAnn's.  The white panel is embossed with SU Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.  I used my paper crimper on the Crumb Cake strip and added the rick rac piece cut from SU Tasteful Trims die.

My card is based on Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #53 (http://inkspirations-challenges.blogspot.com/) and I am entering it in Jeanie's (http://thespottedchick.blogspot.com/) "That's Krafty Thursday" challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Faux Quilted Heart

ETA:  I found the blog with the technique for the heart.  It is http://www.juliedavison.com/ (it is called Faux Iris Twist)  Hope this helps anyone interested in this technique.



I saw this technique on a blog (can't remember which one, I will try to find it and link to it) and wanted to try it.  I used similar papers for the heart (Sending Love - retired SU), Very Vanilla CS, Real Red and Crumb Cake CS.  I stamped the Crumb Cake base in Crumb Cake ink with the En Francis BG stamp, added the strip of VV punched with the Scallop Trim Border Punch and a RR strip punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.  I then added the RR and VV layers. I used the Mat pack & Piercing tool to pierce the holes around the VV square and added little punched hearts in the corners.  The quilted heart techinque was created by punching a large heart in the center of my 3" VV square and layering the strips behind the heart. I used dimensionals to add this layer to my card.  I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by.

Days Are Brighter

This card is for Jeanie's "That's Krafty Thursday" challenge.  I love Crumb Cake (kraft) and red together and I think the Early Espresso adds to the color combo.  I used the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder (SU) on the Crumb Cake panel, the DSP is from Love Letter collection (SU). Card base is Very Vanilla  CS with a mat of Early Espesso CS and then the embossed panel. I used the Scalloped  Trim border punch (SU) on the mat under the DSP. The image is a $1 stamp from JoAnn's stamped in Riding Hood Red ink on Very Vanilla CS.  The ribbon is also Riding Hood Red (retired) from SU. I think that covers it all. Thanks for stopping by.  Comments are appreciated.

God's Beauty

I saw several cards with the pink & yellow combo and had to give it a try. The stamp set I used is an older set from SU called God's Beauty. I stamped the flower in Pretty in Pink and the leaves in Pear Pizzaz. The flowers are cut out and mounted with dimensionals. I also inked around the image with a sponge and Pear Pizzaz ink. I sewed around the image panel and adhered some Metallic Dots from JoAnn's in the corners. The heart paper is some older DSP from my stash.  The card base is Pretty in Pink CS, then a panel of Barely Banana CS, and Whisper White CS. The border punch is by Martha Stewart. 
Thanks for stopping by my blog.  Comments are appreciated.

Birthday Balloons

Another birthday card for one of my granddaughters.  We have 4 birthdays next week, 2 great-granddaughters, 1 granddaughter, and 1 daughter (Jan. 10, 11, 14, & 16th). Then a son's BD on the 29th.
O.K. this card is for one of the great-granddaughters. Jolinne (from My Favorite Things stamps) kind of favors my GD.  This card is also for Jeanie's "That's Krafty Thursday".  The base is Crumb Cake (Kraft) by SU, pink CS is by DCWV and the patterened paper is some older Hot Off The Press paper.  I stamped the balloons on the DSP and cut them out and adhered them with some dimensionals after cutting the image out with an oval nestie. I colored the image with my Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and then mounted it on a large scalloped oval nestie which is adhered with dimensionals.  The pink ribbon is by Offray.
Two more cards to go. 
Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Make A Wish

This is the card I made for my great-granddaughter's 2nd BD next week. She is so sweet, can't believe she is already turning 2 (that is why I put 2 candles on the cupcake).  I used Whisper White, Pretty in Pink & Soft Suede CS and ink (SU).  I used an EK Success punch for the border strip behind the image panel and used the little hole punchouts for sprinkles on the icing.  The stamp set is Big Bold Birthday.  (SU). I stamped the cup cake pieces, cut them out and mounted them with dimensionals on the panel cut with a Nestability scalloped rectangle, which I inked with Pretty in Pink before removing from the die.  Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Happy Birthday for grandson

Sorry I haven't posted in so long but have been dealing with family sickness, both my dad and youngest brother have been in the hospital (my dad still is).

Anyway, this is a card I made for my grandson's 15th birthday this month.  I copied a card on Mary Fish's blog http://www.stampinpretty.com/2010/12/page/2/   I used the same papers (SU Elegant Soree DSP, Crumb Cake and Baja Breeze and Basic Gray CS)  and layout but changed the sentiment panel.  I punched the circles with different sized punches)  Mary has a lot of beautiful cards on her blog and some wonderful inspiration so check it out.

Hope you all had a wonderful and Blessed Christmas. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

I'M A KRAFTY CHICK

Wow, can you believe it. I just found out I was chosen as one of Jeanie's Krafty Chicks on her blog "The Spotted Chick."  Check her blog out. Just click on the the spotted chick on the right side of my blog.
Thanks Jeanie. I love participating in your challenges.
JoAnn

Welcome Christmas

Another Christmas card done and I like the way this one turned out too.  Base is Crumb Cake CS stamped with the snowflakes from the Snow Swirled set and the spots from French Foliage in Whisper White craft ink. The designer paper is from the Jolly Holiday pack and the bottom corners are punched witht the Ticket Corner punch.   The stamped sentiment is from Welcome Christmas set stamped on Very Vanilla CS and matted with Cherry Cobler CS.  The ribbon is Old Olive 5/8' grosgrain and an Antique Brad on the bow.

This is also for Jeanie's That's Krafty Thursday challenge on The Spotted Chick blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

JoAnn

Season's Greetings

Another Christmas card done. For this one I used all Stampin Up products:  Jolly Holiday DSP, Very Vanilla CS, Cherry Cobbler CS, Old Olive CS, Peaceful Season stamp set (Level 2 Hostess Set), 5 petal flower punch, Summer Sun corduroy button (retired) and gold brads.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Thank You cards

These are some thank you cards I am sending to the staff at the Artman Home in Ambler, PA to thank them for their work with Alzheimer patients.  They are for the Heart to Heart Card Drive in memory of Carolyn King's grandmother who passed away in 2008 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. You can check out all the info on Cammie's blog, http://myblogbycammie.blogspot.com/
It is a very worth while cause and there is also a huge prize involved.

All the products used are from Stampin Up.