More Lawn Fawn Birthday die cards

 I was able to get 3 of these made up - using up patterned paper that is in my stash, and building up my Birthday card supply at the same time.

Stash Building

 I love giving packs of cards as gifts, so I have seriously depleted my stash!  I pulled out pretty papers that I've had on hand for a while to put a couple of fairly quick no-stamping cards together:

I love this Lawn Fawn word die!  Happy to have these in my stash.

Happy Birthday, Lora!!

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday to You

Happy Birthday dear Lora

Happy Birthday to You……………………..

 Lora, the High Hopes Rubber Stamps and One Crazy Stamper DT Divas along with some very Special guests are doing a Birthday Wishes Blog Hop to celebrate your birthday.

I made a fun 3D card for Lora using Art Impressions' Birthday Fairy Set, I gave her a sparkly wand, added some Wink of Stella to her earrings, and her skirt is on an Action Wobble to make her do a little Birthday Boogie for Lora :o) 

I met Lora about four years ago when a friend took me shopping to the One Crazy Stamper store - and I've been a regular there ever since!  I'm lucky that I'm just a short drive away.  She's such a genuine person - a few years ago when she heard that my 14 year old daughter had a cupcake business, she immediately ordered a crazy amount of cupcakes (6 dozen?) for a crop event that she was hosting - simply because she wanted to support a young entrepreneur.  She has been very encouraging to me personally, asking me to be on her design team, to teach classes at the store, and to demo at trade shows.  The thing that I most admire about her is that she is a savvy business owner, who keeps growing and changing her business, and who still has a deep love for the art of stamping.  Happy Birthday, Lora!

Hop along, be inspired and don’t forget to leave a birthday wish for Lora on the One Crazy Stamper and/or High Hopes Rubber Stamps blogs. Here is our hop list for today - your next stop is Dina Gerner's blog!

Lisa
One Crazy Stamper blog

Jane 

Sue

Donna

Natalie 

Leanne

Cheri  

Kristine

Michelle

Carolina 

Karen Day (you are here!)

Dina Gerner

Special Guests 

Karen Dedman (Your Next Stamp)

Denise Lynn (Whimsy Stamps)

Karan Gerber (Heartfelt Creations)

Happy 29th Anniversary Ai!

Can you believe that Art Impressions is 29 years old?!  Yes!  And to celebrate, the Design Team have all made cards to go with our current challenge theme which is "29 Again/Anything Goes".  So, of course I pulled out the Art Impressions set that bears the name "29 Again Set (Sku #4372)":

Patterned papers are Fancy Pants, Memories Captured; Cardstock is Colonial White & Cashmere, Close To My Heart; Pink is Bazzill Basics; Inks are Memento Tuxedo Black, and Onyx Black by Versafine.
Copic markers used : E00, E000, E11, E57, E55, E53, E51, Y26, Y23, B91, B93, G46, G43, G41, R20, R22.

Freshly Made Sketches #235

I am so happy to have a little free time to participate in this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  And strangely enough, I was able to put together two cards, using some pre-painted panels that were sitting on my craft desk.  I painted these about 6mths ago, and only bought this Lawn Fawn plaid paper pack a few weeks ago - so the fact that the colours all worked, and the design of the panels fit the challenge was too bizarre for words...

Here was our sketch:

Plaid papers are Lawn Fawn, Stamp set is Close To My Heart, YNS Gumdrops, Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

A Quick Birthday Card

Nothing special, just a quick birthday card to post today.  I often find that when I need a birthday card unexpectedly, there is nothing in my stash that works... so I'm committed to making up some fairly simple cards to keep on hand, whenever I can.  I am also committed to continually dig into my stash of paper to use it up!  So I've found some pretty ancient Close To My Heart papers, and I put together two of these this afternoon:

Patterned papers are Let's Get Together; Stamp set is You Mean the World to Me; Cardstock is Colonial White, Cranberry & Garden Green; Ink is Black - all Close To My Heart; Butterfly die is Taylored Expressions, Stitched Square die is My Favorite Things.

Graphic Birthday

Just another quick card that I made this week for a family birthday.  I'd had the zigzag die cuts sitting on my desk for a while - they're negative die cuts from a card that I made a while ago.  I just received the "happy" die, and thought that they'd all work well together:

Zigzag die, My Favortie Things; Happy die, Avery Elle; Stamp is Say It In Style, CTMH; Cardstock is White Daisy, Black, Moonlight, Tulip, Sorbet & Creme Brulee - all CTMH; Enamel Dots, Your Next Embellie.

Another Deep Breath card

I am sharing a birthday card on the One Crazy Stamper blog today, that I made for my sister's birthday. I'm using an Art Impressions set from their summer Zoo Crew release: Deep Breath Birthday...

Lora has all kinds of Art Impressions available in the OCS store - you can find them all here!

One Crazy Stamper products used: Art Impressions Deep Breath Birthday

Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black

Jillibean Soup - Birthday Bisque 6x6 pad

Copics used: Blues - BG09, BG07, BG05, BG02, BG01

Greens - YG67, YG63, YG01

Oranges - YR16, YR15, YR12, YR00

Pinks - R37, R35, R32, R30

Browns - E57, E55, E53, E51

Dynamic Duos #34

We have a bright & spunky colour combo for you this week at Dynamic Duos!  Oh, what a welcome change from Christmas colours... I've used Close To My Heart's Pacifica and our retired Watermelon of which I still have a couple of sheets kicking around.  And does anyone remember Sassy Strands?  Well I had an entire package of Summer Celebration Sassy Strands that I had NEVER cut into!  I think they were retired about 5 years ago - pretty funny to be finally using them.  Here's what I came up with:

 

We would love to have you play along this week - we ask that you use just the two colours provided, but neutrals like black, grey, skin tones etc. are welcome.  For all the details and a peek at what the other Dynamos have to show you, check out the Dynamic Duos blog, or you can see their blogs listed on my sidebar.

Patterned paper is Dotty For You; Cardstock is Pacifica, Watermelon, Black & White Daisy; Inks are Grey Flannel & Black; Stamp set is Art Philosophy; Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge; Bitty Sparkles; Watermelon Sassy Strands - all CTMH.

Deconstructed Sketch #72

It is my wonderful Brother-in-law's 65th birthday in a few days... so I needed to do a masculine card.  I've used this week's Deconstructed Sketch, and a few older items from CTMH to put it all together:

Patterned papers are Lucky & Dotty For You; Cardstock is Outdoor Denim, Olive & Colonial White; Stamp set is The Present; Ink is Desert Sand; Filigree Charms; Durables; Cricut Artiste.

 

Get Your Party On!

"Get your PARTY on!" is the sentiment inside this fun card that I made for my girlfriend's 50th birthday.  Four of us have hung around together since our kids were in Jr. Kindergarten, and they're all now in high school - so when I saw this stamp set, I knew I'd use it over and over.  It gave my Copic skills a good workout, too.  With all the bright colours, I kept my background really plain:

Stamp set is Uptown Girls, by Art Impressions; Cardstock is Lagoon, Black and White Daisy, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic markers.

March Key Ingredients

Just a simple little card, since I wanted to break out my March Key Ingredients kit that just arrived in the mail - along with my new scalloped dies!  I was inspired by the card set that Jessica Diedrich made using these fun papers:

Patterned papers & decorative brad are Graceful, Echo Park; Stamp set is Happy Birthday, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Cuttlebug flower dies, Large scallop border die - Taylored Expressions.

Happy 90th Birthday!

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that this is the 4th 90th birthday card that I've been asked to make this past year!  I wanted to do something bright & pretty, so I pulled out my Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers and my favourite pink rose ribbon:

Patterned papers are Urban Praire, Basic Grey; Rose ribbon, CTMH; Spellbinder's Die; Stamp sets are Precious Alphabet & Happy Birthday, CTMH; Inks are Cotton Candy & Black, CTMH.  Just Blooms butterfly, in Creme Brulee, CTMH; Flat ribbon & pearl, Michaels; Martha Stewart border punch.

First Birthday

Wow!  This just happens to be my 300th blog post... time flies when you're making cards?!  We have a small friend celebrating his birthday this weekend, so I had a great time making a 1st Birthday card this week... I don't get many opportunities to do young cards anymore.  This CTMH stamp set has been retired for a little while, but I still love it:

Patterned papers are Sidewalks, October Afternoon; Stamp set is Nursery Bash, CTMH; Cardstock is Juniper, Tulip & Colonial White, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers.

Happy 200th Birthday!

A couple of years ago, my sister-in-law & brother-in-law held their 100th birthday party (their ages totalled 100), which I thought was hilarious.  So last spring, it somehow occurred to me that my sisters & I would be celebrating our 200th birthday this year!  We tried hard to organize a trip to Vegas, but it was too hard to coordinate... however, I didn't want the occasion to pass without being acknowledged :o)  So I've knit them each a scarf, and made a fun 200th bday card to put in the parcel.  I'm using this week's Color Throwdown Challenge colours, and The Sketchbook Saturday sketch:

Patterned papers are Life of the Party, Basic Grey; Cardstock is White Daisy, CTMH; Buttons CTMH; Ink is Outdoor Denim, CTMH; Pinwheel die & Sentiment, L'il Inker Designs.

Teenage birthday

There's another birthday in our house today... my son turned 16.  Hard to believe that I'll have one of my children learning to drive shortly, it seems like we just signed him up for kindergarten last week?  Sigh.  He's got a fun sense of humour, so I wanted a fun birthday card for him, and I broke out the Life's a Party papers from Basic Grey.  I used a bunch of the stickers that came in the kit, which I don't often do - but they really fit the occasion.

Patterned papers & stickers are Life's a Party, Basic Grey; Baker's Twine from The Twinery; Stamp set and Cocoa ink are CTMH.

My Baby's Birthday

Yup, my baby is turning 14 today... sigh, and is in her first year of high school, sigh again.  I was reaching for some fall-ish papers to make her birthday card, but it is SO grey and miserable here, that I just had to do something cheerier.  Plus she'd like a cheery card, so I went back to these fun prints by 100 Days of Summer.  And oops!  I didn't notice until I was editing my photo - that I need to do a little trimming down the side of the card :o)

Patterned papers are 100 Days of Summer; Cardstock is Colonial White & Creme Brulee, CTMH; Stamp set is CTMH; Ink is Desert Sand, CTMH;  2" scallop punch, CTMH; Cuttlebug flower dies; Baker's Twine is from The Twinery.

A Birthday card

Shhh!  It's my husband's birthday in a few short hours... so here's what I've come up with to wish him a happy day:

Patterned papers are the All Boy Collection, My Mind's Eye; Cardstock is Black & Colonial White; Basic Craft Buttons; Stamp set is Say it in Style; Ink is Black - all CTMH; Vintage oval die from Verve.

Mojo Monday #168

I've had a request from a friend for a 90th birthday card!  So I took a break from Christmas cards to work on this one... I paired it with this week's Mojo Monday sketch, and one of my new favourite Verve dies:

Patterned paper is Urban Prairie, Basic Grey; Die is Verve; Cardstock is Hollyhock & White Daisy; Stamp sets are Precious Alphabet & Cherish; Inks are Blush, Hollyhock & Garden Green; Pink Carnation organdy ribbon - all CTMH

It's Your Day - other colours!

I've had a huge response to the Pear birthday card that I posted a few days ago, so I thought that I would post the other two colour versions that I did - Smoothie & Lagoon.  Together they look so bright and gorgeous!