Father

These were a couple of cards I made for Father's Day this year. I love the sentiment which comes from Verve Visual's "Dad's Day". Pretty simple straightforward stamping. I rounded the corners on one of the cards for a nice variety and the other has DP punched with fleur de lis' inside and out.

I love the textured DP by Stampin' Up; such great colors.

You can't tell from the pictures, but I colored the word "Father" on each card with a light gold glitter pen - adds a nice shimmer IRL.

Thanks for stopping by; this will most likely be my last post for a few weeks; we leave Wednesday for a mega-vacation!! Take care; hugs, ~M.




WHAT'S IT TAKE?
Stamps: Verve Visual Dad's Day
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper: Gina K Designs 80 lb. Pure Luxury White, PTI Kraft, DP by SU!
Accessories: Dimensionals, Gold Glitter Pen, Button, Hemp, Fleur de lis border punch, PTI Dark Chocolate Twill, Nestabilities

Thank you...for the difference

Once again I stepped out and used colors outside my norm...and I liked it! :D

I love this sentiment, "Thank you...for the difference you've made in my life." - isn't that great? It's from Verve Visual's Because of You stamp set. I cannot find the name of the DP I used - it's from Stampin' Up; but I don't see it in any of my catalogs and I didn't find it online.

Isn't it amazing how the flowers on the white panel match the DP? I stamped them in SU! So Saffron and rock & rolled them into SU! Pumpkin Pie; I stamped them 2nd generation also, so the colors are pretty light. One of the flowers is stamped in 3rd generation. The flowers are from Papertreyink's Green Thumb set.

Rather than just setting the pearls on the main panel, I punched some small circles out of the DP and then put the pearls on top - kind of a nice and different look.

The layout was a sketch from SCS, #201; an old one that I had never done, but it's another great one that I'm sure I'll use again!

Thanks for stopping by; for my USA friends, I hope you have a fabulous 4th of July!! Hugs, ~M.

Skimpy Bikini!

So...you were brave and decided to venture over to check on that bikini did ya? LOL!!

I won these images - bikini top & bottom (actually all one stamp) and sun glasses a couple of years ago and have NEVER used them! Sad eh? I won them through a drawing on Amy Rysavy's blog (Prairie Paper & Ink); they are so very cute but I'd just never found a way to use them...until I saw this really cool board book made by Jody Morrow - yeah you know her - TEXASJODYLYNN of Confessions of a Ribbon Addict. Check out her board book, it's amazing! Turns out Jody sells these Circle Cut Out Mats which in turn led me to remember a card along these lines that Amy had done and voila, the idea was FINALLY born; yeah, it was painful!

This is a square little card, just 4.25" x 4.25", I love the DP used on the card; it's probably my all-time favorite paper - Bittersweet by Basic Grey.

The main card is white layered with pink DP, each image was stamped inside the circle in SU! Real Red and then colored with a clear atyou Spica glitter pen; not sure you can see the shimmer in the photos? It's very sparly IRL.

I then layered a striped piece of DP onto the pink DP but used dimensionals in mounting the striped DP - I think you can see the 3D effect in the first photo (& don't forget, you can click on any image to see it larger).

I thought the card was pretty cute so I ventured a little further on my wild side and used MFT's "Twisted Sentiments" set. Oh what fun! I added a layer of pink DP on the inside and stamped the sentiment in SU! Real Red.

Yep, that's the sentiment I chose "Slippery When Wet" - how fun is that? Come on, what hubby wouldn't love receiving this card?

It's summer time, go swimming, get that bikini on, have a great time and remember ***CAUTION:*** Slippery When Wet! LMBO

Thanks for popping in! Hugs, ~M.



WHAT'S IT TAKE?
Stamps: Inky Antics Tweens, MFT Twisted Sentiments, Amuse
Ink: SU! Real Red
Paper: Gina K Designs 120 lb. Pure Luxury White, Bittersweet by Basic Grey
Accessories: Dimensionals, atyou Spica Glitter Pen

Wish BIG!

I love how this card turned out; not my typical colors at all, but I love all the dots!! I used Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge #234; what a great layout!

The polka dot star is from PTI's Star Prints set - lots of fun stars in this stamp set as well as fabulous sentiments; can't wait to get the rest of the set inky! The sentiment says "wish big"; I just love the fonts used.

I made this one into a b-day card with an appropriate greeting inside. Below I've listed "What It Takes" for more details if you're interested.

And later this week? Oh yeah, I'm taking a walk on the W-I-L-D side; I'm going to show YOU my bikini. YIKES!!! I know, I've totally lost my marbles! Wanna sneak peek?

Do you? I can't HEAR you? I know, the thought scares me too!!

Skimpy little thing isn't it?

If I haven't scared you off, I hope to see you again later this week; thanks for popping in! Hugs, ~M.



WHAT'S IT TAKE?
Stamps: PTI Star Prints,
Paper: SU! Tempting Turquoise, Gina K Design 80 lb. Pure Luxury White, SU! Pink Flamingo DP
Ink: SU! Tempting Turquoise, SU! Basic Black, all edges inked in SU! Tempting Turquoise

Easy Peasy Thank You's

I made these 2 cards MONTHS ago, but found I had never shared them on my blog! Now I can't find what sketch I used to make them - OOPS!

Nothing fancy, just straight-forward stamping. Thanks for popping in; after a really long, hot weekend, I found some stamping time tonight (might have ignored the laundry, kind of, sort of - LOL), can't wait to share some new creations with you.

Hugs, ~M.

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To Love & To Cherish

I was asked to make another wedding card recently - the colors were black, white and pink. Well, I really liked the last wedding card I made, so I basically CASE'd myself! :D

I did make this one a typical A2 size card and used Papertreyink's Piece of Cake stamp set for the main image. Isn't that cake beautiful? I stamped the cake using Versamagic Pink Petunia and Pixie Pink. I added glitter to each flower and then a pink half pearl to the center of the medium and large size flowers. I just love how cool the cake looks!

As you can see, I embossed the front with the Birds & Swirls Cuttlebug folder and then gently rubbed ink on the embossed images.

This time I also added decorative paper to the inside of each front panel and punched it with a Martha Stewart border punch - I just love the touch it added.

This last picture shows the inside and the decorative paper I added. One of the best compliments I can receive is someone seeing one of my cards and saying "how much did THAT cost?"; they're always shocked to find it is handmade and cost less than anything you can buy at Hallmark! :D

TFL; I hope you're having a great week! We have a ball tournament this weekend; the temps have been 100+ and we've been under a heat advisory every day this week. Our little ones will need to drink lots of water - trips to the ER for dehydration are NOT needed! Have a great weekend.

Hugs, ~M.