Anniversary card for my brother and SIL

Hi!  I have a few new goodies and some time to stamp. My brother's anniversary is coming up. I wanted a card not too flowery and thought this worked pretty well.

I love plaid and I just got a stamp by Concord & 9th called Sketched Stripes Background. I stamped the stripes once in each direction in Weathervane and then again in Tattered Rose DOX.

I played with various combos of ink for the sentiment and ended up with Smokey Shadow, Melon Berry and Weathervane. It gets your attention and the shading is not too in your face.

I like the shape of the Elegant Rectangle Stax dies but really had hoped that there would be less space between the dies. I guess next time I will trim down the outer layer.

At this point something was missing and I played for a long time before realizing that a simple polka dot strip would do the trick.

I think this would be great for a masculine card for any occasion. My SIL's birthday is coming up soon so I will give her a more feminine card then :-)

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card!


Supplies:

Stamps: Shadowed Sentiments (pti); Sketched Stripes Background (Concord & 9th)

Paper: White, Weathervane, Melon Berry Pattern Pack (pti)

Ink: Smokey Shadow, Weathervane, Melon Berry (pti); Tattered Rose (Ranger Distress Oxide)

Dies: Elegant Rectangle STAX Die-namics (mft)

Masculine Birthday

My son-in-law's birthday is today and I made him a King of the Grill card.

Hope he likes his burger :-)

Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: King of the Grill (PTI)

Paper: White, Ombre Stripes pattern paper (PTI)

Ink: Fine Linen, Amethyst Allure, Green Parakeet, Summer Sunrise, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate

Other: Twine, dimensionals, scissors

90th Birthday

My husband's uncle is turning 90 today.  We went to a family birthday party on Saturday and this is the card that I made for him.

I stamped the cable car in Ripe Avocado and the accent color is Hawaiian Shores. The birthday sentiments are Dark Chocolate.

The cable car number is 90 for his age. There is also acetate in the windows but you can't see that in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by today! Happy Ides of March!!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Cable Gram (PTI)

Paper: White (PTI)

Ink: Ripe Avocado, Hawaiian Shores, Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise, Smokey Shadow

Other: Cable Gram die, dimensionals, acetate

Fire Station Open House

My husband and I are visiting my daughter, SIL and 2 year old grandson for two whole weeks. She lives in Georgia and I live in Washington state.  It is is so special to get to be with them! Yesterday a local fire station had an open house so we all went over to see the fire trucks and visit with the firemen.  In honor of that visit I was inspired to make this card.

These stamps are so small I had a hard time seeing them but I think that I managed to get them lined up fairly well. I die cut the fire station and then stamped it in Smokey Shadow and Pure Poppy. Isn't it cute how the garage door pops open. Well I didn't get a pic of that but you can sort of see it.  Next I used one of the stamps from the Plaid Builder set as the road which gave me a base to stamp the rest of the images. The little fire truck came next then the flag pole. I glued down the station, tied on Baker's twine and stamped the sentiment. This panel is popped up to give it some dimension.

I hope that you like my little fire station card!  Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Petite Places: City Station; Petite Places: School (flag); Plaid Builder (PTI)

Paper: White (PTI)

Ink: Pure Poppy, Smokey Shadow (PTI)

Other: Baker's twine, dimensionals (Recollections), 2 way glue stick

Grandson's 1st Christmas

My grandson is 10 months old so this is his first Christmas.  I pondered a long time on what to do for his card.  I wanted it to be simple and I finally came up with these mittens.

Back tomorrow for one final Christmas card!


SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Make a Mitten (SU), Think Big Favorites #8 (PTI)
Paper: Neena Solar White
Ink: Pool Party, Early Espresso (SU), Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Mitten Builder punch, white Baker's twine (SU), button, glue dots, dimensional

Titus is 9 Months Old

Once again it's time for a card for my grandson. He's 9 months and just started crawling. My daughter, her husband and Titus are coming out to visit next week and I can't wait to see them! So here's the card. This month I went with a pirate theme. I die cut the ship from Ahoy Matey and popped it up on dimensionals over the treasure map.

Hope you are having a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Ahoy Matey (Clearly Besotted), Treasure Island (TAWS)
Paper: Black, White
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Ahoy Matey die (Clearly Besotted), dimensionals


One more thing. My daughter crocheted this Viking cap for his Halloween costume. Of course he was the cutest kid out Trick or Treating!

Happy 8 Month Bday Titus!

Today is my cutie pie grandson's 8 month birthday. This is for you Titus!

I used the new PTI Cover Plate: Snow Drifts to make the hills. I cut a curve into the bottom side of the upper hill since it was straight across and I didn't think it looked quite right.  Each of the trucks is popped up on dimensionals.  I used clouds from the Little Hot Rod set as the puffs of smoke behind each truck.

Thanks for stopping by!

Oh, and here he is. It's not a great shot. We were Facetiming today and I snapped a screen shot as he tried to figure out the computer. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Boy Basics: Truckin' It, Little Hot Rod (PTI), Just Beachy (SU)
Paper: Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Real Red, Whisper White (SU)
Ink: Night of Navy, Real Red, Going Gray, Daffodil Delight, Sahara Sand, Black
Accessories: dimensionals
Tools: Cover Plate: Snow Drifts, By the Numbers (PTI), Aquapainter

RS#66 for Father's Day

I figured I better get started on my Father's Day cards. It will be here before I'm ready for it.  This card is for my hubby who loves woodworking. I used the Retro Sketches layout but reversed it.

This was one of those cards where you assemble, disasemble, change the colors, assemble, disassemble, add some embossing, assemble...... You get the idea. This is the final result.   I had some silver wrapping paper that I had saved (you can't just throw stuff like that away) so I used it on the tools. Hope he likes it. Happy Friday!

Here you can see the tools. They were flopping all over so I added a touch of glue behind each tool to hold them in place but not look like they were totally glued down.

Supplies by Stampin'Up unless noted:

Stamps: On Your Birthday

Paper: Creamy Caramel, Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Black, White, Regals DSP Stack, Silver wrapping paper (non SU)

Ink: Night of Navy

Accessories: Vintage Brads, dimensionals

Tools: Stripes EF, Dots EF, MFT Die-namics Tool Charms die, MFT Die-namics Say What die, Simon Says Stamps Full Card Triangles die

My Grandson is 3 Months Old!

This is for the 3 month birthday of my grandson, Titus.  It also sneakily is for the Seize the Birthday Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Challenge for things with wings.

The theme for his bedroom is red, white and blue and also transportation. So for her baby shower my older daughter and I made a a bunch of these little planes, some cars and trains and hung them from bare tree branches as a centerpiece on the table.  I thought it would be cute to use one on his card.  You can't see it well in the picture but the red glimmer paper is all sparkly and pretty.  Hope he likes it! Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamps: Little Hot Rod (PTI)
Paper: Polka Dot Parade, Regals DSP Stack, Night of Navy, Red Glimmer paper, white
Ink: Real Red, Night of Navy
Accessories: Silver brad, dimensionals
Tools: Little Hot Rod die (PTI), Nestabilities circles

2 Challenges

I just got this Papertrey Ink set because my daughter had the cutest little baby boy 2-1/2 weeks ago.  I thought I would give it some ink for a couple challenges this week - Inkspirational sketch challenge and the ColourQ challenge.

The card is pretty straight forward. The rocket is popped up on dimensionals and then the Caribbean/MM layer under the rocket is also on dimensionals.  I just got the enamel dots and was so glad that I actually had some in the collection that matched Summer Starfruit. (I so do not like that color!)

Supplies:

Stamps: Boy Basics: Out of this World (PTI)

Paper: Midnight Muse, Cool Caribbean, Very Vanilla, Comfort Cafe DSP (Stampin'Up)

Ink: Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit (SU) (I used both the ink pads & markers)

Accessories: My Mind's Eye "Winter Wonderland" Enamel Dots, dimensionals

Tools: Rocket die (PTI), corner rounder

Retrosketch #49

Well I finally got a card made yesterday and when I went to post it to the sketch challenge today I found out that it had closed. Ah well!  I still had fun stamping with my daughter yesterday. Here is the card I made for RS#49.  The stamps had never been used and I should have cleaned them first because they didn't stamp cleanly. A lesson to not be in such a hurry to get stamping :-)

RS#49

Supplies:

Stamps Boy Basics: Simple Circles (PTI), Heartfelt Mix for the sentiment (Wplus9)

Paper: Night of Navy, Real Red, Whisper White (SU)

Ink: Night of Navy, Real Red

Accessories: Stripes EF (SU), dimensionals

Happy Birthday Dad

This card is for my dad's birthday. I just got this paper by My Mind's Eye and when I saw the sheet that had "Celebrate" in the corner I knew I wanted to make that my focus.  I layered it on some of my hoarded Sage Shadow paper. I then die cut a tag, stamped "Dad" and tied it on with some linen thread and Baker's twine. This is popped up on a piece of Kraft paper. Simple as that and very masculine. Thanks for looking!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tiny Tags (PTI)

Paper: Kraft, Sage Shadow, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Portobello Road

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Linen thread, Baker's twine, TIny Tags die (PTI), dimensionals

New Papertrey Ink Toys

I received my Papertrey order yesterday afternoon and got right down to playing with the new Happy Hexagons stamp set and the Cover Plate: Hexagon Die.   I decided to case one of Nicole's cards to get me started.

My first issue was what Cuttlebug sandwich to use.  This is my first PTI die and I really did not want to break it. After much fussing I have found the following sandwich works best with Stampin'Up card stock:

A plate
C plate
Whisper White shim
Cover plate: Hexagon Die face up
Card stock to be cut
B plate

I also think that it is helpful to have a fairly new, unwarped B plate.

I hope that is helpful!

All Supplies Stampin'Up except as noted:

Stamps: Happy Hexagons (PTI), Thoughts and Prayers

Paper: Whisper White

Ink: Concord Crush, Wisteria Wonder, Gable Green, Gumball Green, Cool Caribbean

Tools: Cover Plate Hexagon Die (PTI)

I need a couple of masculine cards and wanted to play some more.  I got inspiration from this card and came up with the following.

This time I stamped right onto the card stock through the cut out template but had a bit of trouble because the hexagons had not cut cleanly and I had needed to use scissors.  After stamping the initial hexagons I went back over each one with the outline hexagon stamp.  I sponged around the edge with Tim Holtz Linen Distress ink and spritzed with Early Espresso ink.  This panel is layered on Marina Mist and tied with a piece of twine.  After adhering the hexagon panel with red sticky tape, I paper pierced down the right side of the panel.  I then stamped the sentiment. sponged around the edge of that panel as well and adhered it with dimensionals.  I think it has a rustic, masculine feel to it. Thanks for stopping by!

All Supplies Stampin'Up except as noted:

Stamps: Happy Hexagons (PTI),  All Year Cheer I

Paper: Naturals Ivory,  Marina Mist, Early Espresso

Ink: Early Espresso (pad and marker), Cajun Craze, River Rock, Marina Mist

Accessories: Twine, dimensionals

Tools: Cover Plate Hexagon Die (PTI),  Nestability Rectangle Dies, Paper Piercing mat and tool, Color Spritzer, Red sticky tape

Happy Hexagons Stamp (PTI)	Cover Plate: Hexagon Die (PTI)	Early Espresso Ink	Cajun Craze Ink	Marina Mist Ink	River Rock Ink
Color Spritzer (SU)	Naturals Ivory Card Stock	Early Espresso Card Stock	Early Espresso Marker	Marina Mist Card Stock	Nestabilities Rectangle Die

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The Open Sea for Father's Day

Here are the cards I made for our dads using The Open Sea stamp set.  They both also are for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge FMS39. 

For the first card I stamped the ship on a piece of textured white card stock in Not Quite Navy and then added the details in Going Gray to the left. This is matted on Not Quite Navy. I cut a 1-1/2" strip from Not Quite Navy pattern pack (ret) and added a piece of Real Red ribbon over that. I tied a piece of white Baker's twine at the top. The ship is popped up on dimensionals.  Then I die cut the letters for dad and glued them on.  Pretty simple but I like the result.

All Supplies Stampin'Up
Stamps: The Open Sea
Paper: Whisper White (regular and textured), Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Not Quite Navy pattern pack
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Going Gray
Accessories: white Baker's twine, 5/8" Real Red grosgrain ribbon
Tools: circle cutter, dimensionals, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies (ret)


The second card is basically the same except the card base is Very Vanilla. The ship is also stamped on vanilla although it looks kind of white in the picture. The details behind the ship are stamped in Creamy Caramel.  I used a piece of Not Quite Navy striped ribbon with the red grosgrain and tied a piece of linen thread at the top.

Stamps: The Open Sea

Paper: Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Real Red
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Creamy Caramel

Accessories: Linen thread, 5/8" Real Red grosgrain ribbon

Tools: circle cutter, dimensionals, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies (ret)

The Open Sea stamp (SU)

Timeless Type Jr die ( SU)

Not Quite Navy Ink (SU)

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Happy Birthday Mike!

This card is for a friend at church. His daughter is having all his friends bombard him with birthday cards. This is an example of how many ways you can mess up a card.  I spent the longest time coming up with a layout, moving things around, changing colors, recutting and on and on.  I finally thought I had my design and so I glued on the letters for mike.  When I laid it down on my card I realized that I had glued the letters along the wrong side of the paper so now my whole design is up in smoke. OK, new plan.  Now I'm down to the sentiment and the stamp has the words one on top of the other instead of side by side. Out comes my stamp-a-majig and a Not Quite Navy marker. After making the flag I decided it wasn't quite right. I thought it needed a brad so I stamped it again and assembled everything. OK, I think it came together. Flash forward to taking a picture of the card to post here.  I'm fiddling with the color and fiddling and fiddling and the sentiment just looks all washed out.  So I look at the card and realized that when I stamped it the second time I grabbed a black marker sitting on my table instead of the NQN marker. Oh, well. Enough is enough.  Here is the card.

Supplies Stampin'Up (except for the brad):

Stamps: Apothecary Art, On Your Birthday, Kindness Matters

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Going Gray (ret), Basic Gray, White & Nautical Expedition DSP (ret)

Ink: Black (but imagine the sentiment in NQN)

Accessories: black brad

Tools: Labels Collection Framelits, Timeless Type Alphabet Junior Sizzlets, dimensionals

CAS Four Frames Masculine Card

I wanted a masculine card that was simple and no frills. Well this is no frills all right but I think it's a bit too simple. I think maybe tomorrow I'll give it another go and step it up a bit.

The stamp set is called Four Frames and will be available as an SU 2011-2012 catalog sneak peak starting April 1st.  To see how I did the frame you can check out the video on the Stampin' Pretty website.

Stamps: Four Frames, Everyday Expressive Phrases (I think)

Paper: Not Quite Navy, So Saffron, Botanical Gazzette DP

Ink: Not Quite Navy

Accessories: So Saffron 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, Decorative Label Punch