Happy Birthday for Granddaughter

Hello friends.  I am sharing the card I made for my granddaughter who has a birthday today.

For my card I used Gina K Designs Stippled Flowers stamp & die set.  I colored the flowers with SU Pink Pirouette blends and the leaves with Copics.  I added Clear Wink of Stella glitter all over the flowers and then added Sticko Glitter dots in some of the scallops in the Reverse Confetti Cover Plate.  I punched a circle and stamped the sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly Inspirational Birthday set, then glued it behind the opening in the die cut.  This is mounted to the pink pattern paper and then to the card base.

 I made a matching envelope so I am linking to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Card & Matching Envelope. I stamped the envelope flap with the same flowers and leaves in pink and green inks.  I masked the flower to stamp the leaves.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Another card for Inkspirational Challenge

I have another card for the Inkspirational Challenge.

This time I am CASEing myself with this card I made in 2016.

I made this card for my sister's birthday.  I used Heartfelt Creations Botanical Rose stamps & dies for the flower and leaves.  I colored them with Copics, die cut them, and them layered them after shaping the petals with my stylus.  The papers are from a Recollections pad and the sentiment is from Verve Cake & Candles.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

JUGS #469 - Leftovers

Good morning friends.  I am sharing a card I made for the Just Us Girls challenge - leftovers.

I had this die cut panel (MFT Diagonal Sentiment Strip) and the poinsettias (SU Watercolor Winter-retired) left over from all my Christmas cards so I decided to use them for this challenge.  The background paper is from a Recollections Christmas pad and them sentiment is a Verve stamp.  I did stamp some leaves and die cut the with a Poppystamps Poinsettia set.  The flowers are mounted with foam tape.  

Now, I am getting an early start on my Christmas cards for this year.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Happy Birthday for Inkspirational Challenge

I am playing in the Inkspirational Challenge - Word Prompt CASE.

I chose to copy this card from Lin on Sending Hugs blog.  I love her style and she has fabulous cards on her blog.

Here is my card.

I used similar colors, different papers, different butterflies, and a different sentiment.  The butterflies are from an older Hero Arts Sizzix stamp and die set.  I colored them with Promarkers and then die cut them.  I glued just the body down so the wings would stand out.  The sentiment is from SU Butterfly Basics.  The pattern paper is from Hobby Lobby.  I used SU Balmy Blue and Pear Pizzazz cardstock.  I added some blue glitter enamel dots. 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

CAS Mix Up - Bokeh

Hello friends.  I am sharing a card I made for the CAS Mix-Up Challenge - Bokeh.  I had never done this technique and wanted to give it a try.  I followed the links on CAS Mix-Up that showed the tutorials on doing the Bokeh technique.    

I used Bokeh, Stamping, Die-cutting and Sequins.

I used several blue inks (my favorite color) and sponged them on Tim Holtz glossy card and then used white craft ink and a circle template for the Bokeh technique.  After it dried overnight, I cut a white panel with MFT Peek-a-Boo Circle Frame die and mounted this with foam tape over the Bokeh panel.  The flower image is from Catherine Pooler Grateful Heart set.  I colored with markers and die cut it with the matching dies.  I mounted this with foam tape also. The sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly Inspirational Birthday.  Lastly, I added some sequins for a little bling.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Wish Big for Seize the Birthday - Confetti

Hello and Happy New Year everyone.  For our first Seize the Birthday challenge in 2019 we have the "Topping" option of Confetti on your card.

We have a Surprise Party Guest and her name is  Julie Beech! You can find her blog here.

We also have a new team member, Catherine Raffey.  Welcome to the team Catherine.

              

For my card I used some older Hot Off the Press pattern paper with confetti on it.  I die cut the white panel with Spellbinders Labels 28 and stamped some confetti from MFT Party Balloons set in inks to match the paper. It's Your Day is from MFT Happy Hippos set. The Wish Big sentiment and the cupcakes are from Verve Cake & Candles.  I colored the cupcakes with Promarkers and added some sprinkles to them.  The top cupcake and the whole panel are mounted with foam tape.   I fussy cut the black mat.

Don't forget to check out all the great cards by my teammates over at Seize the Birthday.  I hope you will join us in this fun challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Thinking of You

I am sharing a card I made for a friend who had a fall before Christmas and needed a little cheering up.  It was pretty bad but could have been worse.

I should have used a darker background as the white card base kind of fades into the background.  Anyway, I used Calypso Coral and 2 different background stamps to stamp the papers - MFT Gingham and Floral Flourish.  I stamped the flourish on Cajun Craze CS, which is a little darker than the Calypso Coral, but it showed up fine.  The image from SU Wishing You Well is stamped with Wild Wasabi and Calypso Coral inks on an MFT Pierced Rectangle die cut.  I love the bow in this set, it looks so dimensional.  The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy Poppies and Greetings and is stamped on a die cut from MFT Blueprints 13, and mounted with foam tape.

I will share this at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Happy Anniversary

Hello friends.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  Today I am sharing an anniversary card I made for a couple at church.  I used the MojoMonday  Sketch 505 and turned it sideways to fit my sentiment and used the flower for the circle element.

 The sentiment is a Verve stamp  on an MFT Pierced Fistail Flag die and the flower is MFT Upsy Daisy. I die cut it in white and colored it with a marker to match the DSP.  I added the rhinestone for a little bling.  I cut two of the leafy flourish scroll and cut it apart to make the leaf embellishment.  The paper is some older Hot Off The Press paper I found in my stash. I thought the heart paper would be perfect for an anniversary card.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish everyone a Blessed Merry Christmas 

Two Christmas cards

Hello friends.  I am sharing 2 last minute Christmas cards I made.

  The first one has a red poinsettia made with an older MFT die on a card base of Very Vanilla CS.  The embossed border was made with a retired SU embossing border..  The sentiment from Verve Weary World is embossed in gold.  I added some ribbon trimmed in gold.

 The second card is made with SU Detailed Poinsettia Thinlets die.  I die cut the base of the poinsettia from vellum and the outline layer from gold foil.  The white panel is die cut with the border die from the same set and layered over a panel of gold foil.  The sentiment from The Project Bin Luke 2 is embossed in gold.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Joy to the World

Hello friends.  I am almost finished with my Christmas cards and this is one I loved making.  It shows the true meaning of Christmas.

The Joy die is from Cottage Cutz and I have used it on several cards.  For this one I cut it from textured gold paper and mounted it with foam tape to a circle die cut.   The sentiment is from Concord & 9th Joy Stamp set.  I cut it with a fishtail die and mounted it with foam tape also.  The gold foil stripe paper is from Craft Smith Love Story 12x12 pad.

I am linking my card up to three challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christams

Time Out Challenge -  Joyful

Inkspirational - Anything Christmas Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Happy Anniversary

Hello friends.  I am sharing a couple of anniversary cards I made for couples at church.  I have 7 anniversary cards and quite a few birthday cards to make for my church family in December, plus my Christmas cards so I am a busy lady. :)  I love making them though.

For this card I used paper from an older DCWV Lemon Flower Matstack.  It has glittery papers in it.  The gray parts of the flower paper is actually silver glitter which doesn't show up in the photo.  The green is cut with MFT Fishtail Flags Stax 1 & 2 (discontinued).  The flower is MFT Upsy Daisy (discontinued) cut from SU So Saffron and the leaves are cut from SU Pear Pizzazz with MFT Stitched Blooms. The sentiment is from Just Rite Large Fancy Sentiments.  I matted them all with black cardstock and mounted the daisy and the right side of the sentiment with foam tape.  The final touch was a few rhinestones for bling.

For this one I used Talyored Expressions Weathered EF for the white panel, matted with Balmy Blue catdstock. and Altenew Painted Flowers stamped with SU Balmy Blue ink.  I stamped off once for the light layer and then full strength for the darker layer.  The leaves are stamped with SU Wild Wasabi ink.  The sentiment is a stamp from Hobby Lobby stamped in Pear Pizzazz ink and matted with Balmy Blue cardstock.  I mounted this panel with foam tape and added clear rhinestones.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look.  I appreciate it so much which you take time to leave me a comment.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,
JoAnn