A Bug Deal Birthday Card

Hello!! Wow I cannot believe that I have not posted on this blog in over 2 years! Time flies when you're busy... For quite some time, I did not have much time for crafting, and when I did I didn't have the time for making, editing videos or blog posts. Well I am happy that today I had the time to both create this fun Lawn Fawn card as well as create this blog post. 

Today's card was all Lawn Fawn fun! I received these fun stamps last year for mother's day and to tell you the truth I have not really used them much. I was really excited to create this card with them. I have tried to keep the card more as a masculine card, having three boys and lots of nephews I always seem to need masculine cards. I am happy to add this card to my stash :)

The finished card  is a 4 1/4 by 4 1/4 square. The white panel was cut with the Lawn Fawn 4 inch stitched square die.  The branch from the A Bug Deal stamp set was stamped with my Stamp Perfect, the white panel was rotated to create the wreath like effect. I saw a card like this last year sometime and I have been excited to try it out myself, and I am really happy with how well it worked! 

All the Lawn Fawn images and sentiments were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and everything was coloured with Spectrum Noir markers, all the colours I used are in the photo above.

Before I glued everything to branches I inked the edges of the card with some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks. 

Once the front was all glued and completed, I turned my attention to decorating the inside of the card... 

The inside is also cut with the Lawn Fawn 4 inch square stitched die, I used Mowed Lawn Distress  and the Lawn fawn grass stencil to create the grassy border along the bottom. I inked the top of the square with some Tumbled Glass Distress ink to create a soft sky. I glued some more cute little bugs and finished it off with the cute "bug deal" sentiment. 

This card was a lot pf fun to create, I have really enjoyed spending some time in my craft room.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Crazy For Unicorns!

Last month was my birthday and I received many crafty presents, one of them was a super cute unicorn stamp set from Simon Says Stamp! 
I was excited to get this stamp set and today was the day I got some time in my craft room to use it. I coloured  several unicorns and wound up creating two cute cards with them.
Here is what I came up with:

 Here are the supplies I used to create this card:

and the colours I used to colour everything in:

The second card I made was a lot of fun to make but caused me a lot of trouble!! I decided to make a shaker card and everything that could go wrong with this card did...lol  

I forgot to stamp the front of the card before I assembled it and then once I did everything started to leak out!! I was able to fix it but I had to alter my sentiment and put it onto a banner across the front. All in all I love how it turned out:

and here is all the supplies I used to make this card: 

I explained my process of how I created these cards over on my YouTube channel, so I thought I would share that video here too...

 

It's been a hot and rainy day here, I'm hoping that tomorrow is a little nicer outside although I did have a wonderful day hiding out in my craft room! Well until next time...

Thanks for stopping by,

 Cheryl

Pretty Roses

Well today's card was really fun to make. I pulled out one of my all time favourite stamp sets from Papertrey Ink and some pretty pink and green inks and got started. 
This card was for my mom, last week was her birthday so I had a whole rose theme going on with her gift and a coordinating card. I got her some rose scented hand cream and soap and then some matching pink roses for her home. Making the card was just the icing on the cake as far is matching everything all together!!

The roses on the card was stamped using the Papertrey Ink "The Sweet Life" Stamp set and with some Simon says and Hero Arts inks. 
The Happy was cut out with my Silhouette and the Elegance font. I cut it out three times and then layered them on top of each other for some depth. I then covered the "Happy" with some clear Wink of Stella.  The birthday was stamped 
with a stamp from a My Pink Stamper set Birthday Crazy.  To balance out the card I used some Antique Linen Distress Ink on the top left and bottom right corners  :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

My First Card For 2016

Hello 2016, I hope everyone has had a wonderful holidays and a very happy New Years :)
The holidays turned out to be a very busy period of time. It doesn't seem to matter how much I pre-plan or how many lists I make, things always pop up and there seems to be a few things that I have overlooked...lol

It took a couple of weeks but I now seem to have my house and craft room back in order. Finally last week I had some time to myself in my craft room so I decided to get crafty!!

I have thought of some crafty things that I would like to accomplish this year and one of them is to have some male orientated birthday cards ready and on hand!
I have three school aged boys and and a lot of male family members so it would be nice to have a stock pile of birthday cards (for all the parties...lol)  and encouragement and thinking of you cards that are ready to go!

With that being said I have decided to create a new series on my YouTube channel called Masculine Mondays. This new series will be devoted to creating male oriented cards or projects, which I will post on Mondays.

Today was my first card in this new series and it was inspired by a font I purchased from the Silhouette design store.  The font is In A Galaxy Far Far Away and it's design #111259.

Here is the card I created:

To find out how I made this card or to see what supplies I used here is a video I posted to my YouTube channel: 

This card was a lot of fun to make and the moment my oldest son saw it he told me it was the best card I have ever created!! So far it's a hit!! It was so simple to make that I plan on mass producing it to have lots on hand :)

I hope to be posting on a more regular bases, so if there's anything you'd love to see just let me know :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

A Pretty Watercolour Card

Tomorrow is a friend's birthday so I wanted to make her a pretty birthday card. I have not done any  watercolour painting lately, so I pull out some pretty spring colours from my Distress ink collection  and have some fun :)

I posted a video on my YouTube channel sharing the process and products that I used to make this card, so I thought that I would share that here too:

I hope that you have had a great day!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Super Boy Card

It seems like I am forever needing masculine cards, for our boys, our nephews or their friends. I don't seem to make as many masculine cards as I do feminine cards so when I saw a superhero image in the Silhouette store I was excited to get it and create a really fun card!!!

This is the super hero image and the city building that I got for my card:

and here is the card that I created:

and the supplies that I used:

To create this card I cut out the super boy, city buildings and the speech bubbles using my silhouette. 

For the background I used three colours of Distress Inks, Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Faded Jeans. I used my distress tool and went from the lightest to darkest.

I added some Glossy accents to the super boys eyes, his star and to the city's windows. For the sentiment I used a My Pink Stamper stamp from the Boy Crazy stamp set to finish off this cute little card  :) 

Thanks for stopping by,

 Cheryl

Happy 2015

Hello and happy 2015!!!
Today is one of the saddest days of the year in my opinion...lol The Christmas tree is down, the decorations are all put away and there is only one day left of vacation :( Only one more day until we are all back to our regular routines and to top it all off we are getting a major snow storm outside!!!

My sweet husband surprized me this Christmas with a new Silhouette Cameo!! I have been so excited to pull it out of the box and use it and today was that day!!! Throughout the week I got the software all set up so today I thought that I would make a Birthday card for a friend!
I was looking through the design store and I found a really cute cupcake card so I chose it for my first project!!

 

I added some Wink of Stella to the top floral layer and to the flame! It is so cute, I just love it!!

 

 

This card did take a while for me to make but this was my first project and using the Silhouette. I was trying out a lot of the software features and experimenting a lot. I am so excited to have the Silhouette, I have so many projects in mind that I cannot wait to try out... so stay tuned...lol

Well it is getting late and I'm feeling really tired so I'm off to bed...

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



A Boy's Birthday Card

Last month during Stamptember at Simon Says Stamp I received some birthday balloon dies when I placed my order and today I had a chance to finally pull them out and use them!!!!
It is my nephew's 12th birthday, I wanted to make him a card that he would appreciate, nothing baby or little kiddish...lol Creating male cards is always a bit of a challenge so I thought that using these balloon dies would be perfect!

Here is the YouTube I made describing my card:

 I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and to all my fellow Canadians I hope you have a very

Happy Thanksgiving!!

 Cheryl

A Cute Shaker Card and Some Star Wars Fun :)

TGIF...lol It was a beautiful day today but a busy one. Everyone was very tired here today which made for a long day full of crying boys... but it did end well so I am thankful for that :)

I had some time today in my craft room and I took the opportunity to clean it out and organize, which was long overdue!!! It has been my dumping ground over the last couple of weeks so I am very happy that everything is put away, de-cluttered and organized. I also made some time to craft ;)

After receiving all my goodies yesterday from Papertrey Ink I was dying to take them out and play, I am very happy that I was able to do that today.
I made a birthday card with my new Papertrey Ink Sparkle and Shine stamp set for the little girl who lives next door. Her favourite colours are pink and purple so I kept that in mind while creating her card. I also made her a little treat box from my Cricut cartridge Tags, Bags, Boxes and More - in pink...of course...lol

I have really been enjoying my PTI Shaker kit and I was really happy to use it once again. I used the heart confetti plate to cut out the little hearts in pink and purple and I also used some of the hearts and glitter that was included in the kit.



Yesterday there was a book fair at my boy's school and they all bought some new books. Matthew chose the final book in the Paper Yoda series,  ART2-D2's and has been busy all day making paper Star Wars things.
He was excited to share what he made, he made the Storm Troopers helmet with a trooper inside. How cute and clever is that??? This series is so cute, such fun books!!!

It's so much fun watching Matthew create these fun little origami puppets, he is doing such a great job and he is having a lot of fun too :)

I hope you have fun Friday night.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



Lots of Crafting!!! :)

Today was a quiet day for me at home. I took my moochy poochy hound dog out for two long walks and got lot of things done around the house and fit in some crafting time too!!!

I don't have much crafting to show you today, I recorded a video for YouTube that needs to be edited and posted. I made a video tutorial creating a another fall shaker card (the same as the one I posted on Sunday), so I will get that ready and posted over the next couple of days.
Here are the two finished shaker cards on a shelf above my kitchen sink waiting for me to fill them out and get them out into the mail...lol

I have crated a couple more backgrounds for upcoming YouTube videos but I thought that I would share them here today :)

The background on the right was created with some distress inks and the one on the right was make with my Inktense pencils. I love how they both turned out and I also love how different they both look!!

 I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

A Pretty Border Card

Now that it's summer my three boys are home and I am doing child care for two other boys - my house is a pretty busy place. I love summer but it seems to be just flying by...
I have not had as much time at my craft table as I would like but I've had a chance to play today!!

Watching this weeks "Make it Monday" challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do!!
I pulled out one of my favourite stamp set, Green Meadows from Papertrey Ink, some water colour paper and distress inks and had a lot of fun creating this card!!

I was all set to give my mother the Shaker and Sprinkles card that I made but now I am stumped whether she should get this one instead...lol

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Yay for Shakers and Sprinkles!!!

My Papertrey Ink Shakers and Sprinkles kit finally arrived last Monday!!!! I have been waiting for this kit for 3-1/2 months...(I kid you not!!) It was my mother's day gift from my hubby :)
Even with the wait I would order it again in a heartbeat. I LOVE it!!! It is so pretty and cool all at the same time...lol :)

And a couple of small stamp sets to help qualify for the shipping discount :)

My 1st finished card!!!

I have been thinking of what other word dies are available so I can keep on using my kit for other kinds of cards. I have found some really pretty "love", "thanks" and "hello" dies that I am thinking of ordering.
I have also found that you can buy some acetate paper (clear paper) at Staples from their copy desk for $1 each. The quality is not as good but I can buy it locally and it looks nice, you really have to look hard or know what to look for to notice a difference.


The only little hiccup I had making my shaker card was when I opened a brand new bottle of tinsel glitter and dropped it all over myself! I was covered... it was in my shirt, all over me and my chair and the carpet under my desk!! I am still finding glitter a week later...lol

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl