fly away - large baby card.

The hubs asked me to create a card that some 30 people could sign in congratulations of his boss' new baby boy.  It measures 6x10inches - you can tell how big by the size of that onesie shape on the front!

It's a fairly simple card, but I added some little touches to give it a special something: the stitching, the 3 black brads along the bottom of the onesie, and the popped-up plane and banner.  The stamped circle in the middle of the onesie is from "tag its #2."  It didn't show up in the photos, but I used the grid-lines cardstock for the onesie - it adds some subtle interest...

Thanks for looking!

gettin' texty.

Yeah, I didn't come up with the post title, but now I'm wishing I had.  (Anyone else humming "gettin' jiggy wit it"?  probably not...ha ha.)

It's the latest lawnscaping challenge!  I love using a text background on my cards, so this one came together pretty easily :)

How have I texted thee?  Let me count the ways:

1.  Versamarked, on the grey card-base (using PTI's text style II)
2.  In "tumbled glass" distress ink, on the white mat (behind the smiling umbrella from lawn fawn's "Plus One")
3.  Broadway bound, in the custom sentiment (now you're singing something completely different, right?)

How can you not put on a happy face with all of those smiling faces staring back at you?  Impossible!

ps.  I masked the umbrella before stamping the text background and hero arts envelope pattern background stamp over top.  The umbrella and raindrops were colored in with copic markers.

thanks for looking!

Cozy home.

Time for another Papertrey Princess challenge!  Leigh wanted us to create a card using at least 2 different patterned papers...

We had a great time apple and pumpkin picking as a family on the weekend, and it got me in the mood for some fall card-making :)

I cut strips from 5 different patterned papers and wove them together to create my cozy little tapestry...

I grabbed some twill tape and stamped "home" on the side, from PTI's "wreath for all seasons".

My mat stack 4 die-cut was stamped with the image from the same set... I didn't want to hide too much of my woven layer, so I folded the mat stack around the side...

To finish off, here's a picture of my little pumpkin amid a bunch of pumpkins :)  A little taste of the beautiful, but chilly, fall day that inspired today's card.

summer colors...

It was very cold this weekend.  As in, sweaters and socks... sigh.  I'm digging in my heels and crafting in the colors of summer.  Right after I created this card, I started sewing together a garland of felt leaves... I can't help it - I love fall decor, even if I'm against the cold weather :)

I used versamark ink to create the different tone-on-tone backgrounds, and then swiped white ink around the edges to tone it all down just a bit.

supplies:
stamps (all PTI): polka dot basics II, background basics: vines, flower fusion #4, flower fusion #6 (sentiment)
ink: versamark, chocolate chip (SU)

CAS-ually adding love to lunchboxes.

I'm one of those geeky moms who likes to put little love-notes into my kids' lunchboxes.  I don't do it all the time, but it's become so normal for my kids to see a quirky-and-punny-stamped-note in their box that I hear about it when I forget.  I love that.

I have to admit, though, that I'm usually scrambling to create something at night - after their lunches have been made for the next morning.  This week's CAS-ual fridays challenge is to create a small card.  I took the challenge and ran with it - I now have 5 bitty cards to pop into my daughter's lunchbox.  Love-notes for the week?  done and done.

Each of these cards are 2.5x3.5inches.  The front of each card uses a notebook page die by PTI.  To unify the cards, I stamped a focal image and colored it with the same 4 copic markers, then masked that image and stamped the notebook lines from PTI's "it's official" in SU's pool party ink.

"For my doodlebug" uses a caterpillar image from "way to go, kiddo!" (PTI) and a sentiment from the same set.

The bee, from PTI's "baby button bits", inspired the greeting.  I stamped the word "bee" from that same set, and created "yourself" from lawn fawn's "sally's abcs".  Does the bee-body look a little funny?  Ha!  I didn't want to add a button and have that bulk, so I drew it in myself.  I kind of like the doodle-y image - very 1st grade awesome...

Also using "baby button bits", I stamped the cupcake and grabbed a "paper smooches" heart to fill in the gap where the button would go.  The sentiment is from PTI's "signature series: cupcake" set.

The kite and sentiment are from PTI's "up up & away" set.

I've saved my favorite for last.  The lamp is from PTI's "on my couch" set.  I created the greeting using some creative masking of different words from the set, as well as lawn fawn alpha sets.

Thanks for looking through this whole long post!  Hope you enjoyed yourself :)

frosty friends.

Aren't they the sweetest, little hand-holding, stripey-muff-wearing snowmen?

I just got this new lawn fawn set and had to play.  I started out with a kraft mat and stamped images from the set using memento black ink.  Dipping a small sponge dauber into fresh snow ink (PTI), I highlighted some of the snowflakes and the little snowy bodies.  All of their accessories were paper-pieced on top. I added some glitter to a few snowflakes as well, by way of a glue pen and fine glitter.  The edged of my kraft mat were roughed up to add more texture, and it is adhered to a white cardstock card-base.

The sentiment is a computer-generated one - I thought it fit the bill!

Thanks for looking!

aw, nuts!

When one of your bffs asks you to make a card, for a man who had a "lawn mower accident" and has a "great sense of humour"... well, you don't say no!  (Can I just side-bar here to say how traumatized I am to think about getting a foot caught in a lawn-mower?  I shredded my index finger in a hand-blender a few years ago, and all I can do is shudder.)

So how do you go from lawn-mower-accident to entering a CAS-ual Fridays challenge?

Um, it's a stretch, but I think it works for a fall-themed-paper-pieced-card:

"Aw, nuts!"  As in, "aw, nuts!  sorry to hear that you got your foot caught in a whirring blade and are now holed-up in the hospital..."

I started out with a kraft base, which I embossed with PTI's woodgrain impression plate.  The strip of patterned paper was cut with a PTI half & half die - love those!  The acorn is from Paper Smooches' "falling for you" set, and I created my own greeting with lawn fawn's "smitty's abcs".  All of the patterned paper is from SU.

Hope you like it!