Eat ALL the Cake! ...

Good morning,

Been spending some time at me craft table making cards so today I am sharing a birthday card I made with a fun Unity stamp that is part of their Uniquely Unity Series that I subscribe to.

I absolutely love this plump little chick!

Supplies

• Button from Stampin Up!
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base), Hammermill Color Copy (for image) & Stampin Up!
• Crayola markers for coloring the image
• Design Paper from my scrap box
• Dies from Sizzix (Classic Circles), Spellbinders (Beaded Circles) Unbranded (Torn paper circles)
• Ink from Momento
• Rhinestones from Stampin up!
• Sketch SQSC15 (which I can’t find now)
• Stamps from Unity Stamps (Too much cake)
• Twine from Stash

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Everything Beautiful ...

Good morning,

Today I am sharing another card I made from some scrap bits I had. I keep a 3-ring binder that I store left over bits from other projects in sheet protector pockets. I decided to pull out one of the pockets and see what I could create.

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from Heide Swapp (Sugar Chic)
• Ink from We R Memories India Ink
• Judikins Diamond Glaze
• Scrap Bin: Die cuts
• Sentiment from Unity grab bag
• Stash: Pearls

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
(Hugs) Cara

Scrappy Happy Hellos

Good morning,

Today I am sharing another card I made from some scrap bits I had. I keep a 3-ring binder that I store left over bits from other projects in sheet protector pockets. I decided to pull out one of the pockets and see what I could create.

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from Heide Swapp (Sugar Chic)
• Die from Crafters Companion (Flutterby)
• Ink from Tsukineko VersaFine Clair
• Sentiment from Unity Grab bag
• Sequins from Close to My Heart
• Sketch used: Mojo Monday 29

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
(Hugs) Cara

A Gift of Scrappiness ...

Good morning,
Today I am sharing some cards I made with some design paper bits I received from an SCS BRAK friend last year.

I managed to get 4 cards from the two pices of DP and some scraps I had in my bin

Card set 1 using Sketch from I Spy Sketches ISSC12

Card set 2

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and my scrap bin
• Design Paper is a gift from SCS BRAK friend
• Dies from Darice (Foliage Branch), QuicKutz (Nesting Rectangles), Sizzix (Classic Circles) and Stampin Up! (Sweet Buttons), Unbranded (Rose)
• Embossing folders from Crafters Companion (Rose Garden) and Stampin Up! (Subtle)
• Ink from Scrapbook.com
• Nuvo Drops
• Punch from Stampin Up! (Bow builder)
• Sentiment from Stampabilities
• Sketches from I Spy Sketches

(Hugs) Cara

Scrappy Hello There

Good morning,

Today I am sharing a card I made from some scrap bits I had. I keep a 3-ring binder that I store left over bits from other projects in sheet protector pockets. I decided to pull out one of the pockets and see what I could create.

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from Heide Swapp (Sugar Chic)
• Ink from Memento and Stampin Up!
• Sentiment: Unknown
• Stash: Rhinestone
• Tag punch from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
(Hugs) Cara

Scrappy Yuletide Greetings ...

Remember This December,

That love weighs more than gold!...

~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1876–1961), "The Right Gift," 1912

Good morning,
This card is based on a sketch from The Outlawz Challenges. I love working with sketches because I feel like they give me an anchor point … sometimes I stick to sketch. Other times I wander off in another direction. Either way, it always helps.

Sketchs are also a great way to use up paper scraps!  

Most of this card are made from bits left over from a set of cards I made as well as my die bucket where I toss unused die cuts.

Supplies
Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
Design paper from Stampin Up! and my scrap bin
Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Timeworn Type)
Ink, Versafine Claire from Tsukineko
Sentiment from Close to My Heart (To You & Yours)
Sequins from my stash
Walnut ink spray from Tsukineko
Zig Zag border bunch from EK Success
Sketch: The Outlawz Challenges

 
Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Bright and Cheery Hello ...

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. ~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Good morning!

Today I am sharing a card that I put together at a crop I attended using pieces I had in my project book. The flowers had already been stamped and layered onto black cardstock. In the pocket was the yellow piece of cardstock already embossed so I just did a little color matching for the flowers and this is what I came up with. A bright and cheery card.

Supplies: 4.25 x 5.50 (A2)

• Archival Ink from Rangers
• Cardstock from my scrap bin
• Embossing folder from The Paper Studio (Lines & Dots, I think) and Stampin Up! (Tasteful Textures)
• Flower Stamp from Stampin Up!
• Ink from Stampin Up!
• Sentiment from Close to My Heart
• Sequins from my stash

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Another birthday card ...

...the only possible good in the universe is happiness. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to try and make somebody else so. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, 1888

Good morning!

Here I am to share two more cards I made from scraps left from an old Close to My Heart Design Paper set called Fanfare. The card is based on a sketch I found on Pinterest but since it was created during a crop event, I wrote everything down but now can’t find it so I don’t remember the creator of the layout.

Supplies: 5 x 7 cards

• Banner punch from Stampin Up!
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) & Stampin Up!
• Design paper & brad from Close to My Heart (Fanfare)
• Ink from Palette
• Sentiment from Close to My Heart
• Star punches from Marvy and Dollar bin

 
Thanks for stopping by! 

(Hugs) Cara

Always in our hearts ...

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil... ~John Taylor, 1882

Good morning,

Today I am sharing with a Sympathy card I made with more scraps laying on my worktable.

Supplies: 5 x 7 card

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up! Scraps
• Design paper scraps from Stampin Up!
• Momento ink
• Pearls from my stash
• Sentiment from Unity Stamps
• Embossing folder, Old World Paper, from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Quails are cute ...

It's not about finding fun things to do. It's about finding someone in whose company, it's all fun. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com, 2018

Good morning!
Sharing a card that I made with cute quails. I bought the set because they reminded me of my grandmother who loved quails and would watch them in the morning sitting on her porch having her morning coffee. I finally got around to using the set.

WIth the exception of the base, the card was made with left over paper from another project and the flowers were fussy cut from a piece of scrap design paper.

Supplies: 5 x 7 cards

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base)
• Design paper from Fancy House Designs
• Ink from Palette
• Stamp set from Close to My Heart (Flock Together)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

You, me and Tea ...

Tea should be strong... I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones. All true tea-lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes... ~George Orwell, "A Nice Cup of Tea," 1946

Good morning!
Who doesn’t love a cup of fresh brewed hot tea! I certainly like to sit back an sip a good tea .. oe even a nice iced tea depending on the weather!

Today I am sharing a card I made using scraps from my project book and added a fun image and sentiment! I know that I used a sketch for this card layout but I didn’t write it down and I can’t find it so I’m sorry I can’t give credit due. :O(

Supplies: 4.25 x 5.5 (A2)

• Archival ink from Ranger
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from my project book
• Dies from Sizzix (Classic Circles)
• Rhinestones from Paper Lane
• Stamps from Close to My Heart (Treats of Friendship)Twin alcohol markers

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Beachy Hello ...

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Good morning!

Today I am sharing a fun Friendship card created bits and pieces left over from other card projects. I did use a sketch for this card layout although I didn’t put the elements in the same place.

Supplies: 5 x 7 cards

• Beachy design paper from Samantha Walker (Summer Lovin)
• Card candy from my stash
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) & Stampin Up!
• Dotted design paper from scrap pile
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Tasteful Textures)
• India Ink from Memories
• Sentiment from Studio G
• Sketch from Tuesday Throwdown

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Mmmmm Cake ...

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. ~Author unknown

Good morning!
Here I am to share two cards I made from some scraps I had of an old Close to My Heart Design Paper set called Fanfare and needed some inspiration. I searched Pinterest and found a card by Cassandra Bennett. 

This card does involve a bit of paper piecing for the cake plate and cupcakes.

Supplies: 5.50 x 4.25 (A2) card

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base)
• Design Paper from Close to My Heart (Fanfare)
• Die from Sizzix (Classic Circles)
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Timeworn Trim)
• Glimmer paper from Hambly Screen Prints
• Ink from Close to My Heart
• Rhinestone from my stash
• Sentiment from Stampin Up! (Dragonfly Dreams)
• Stamps from Close to My Heart (Cutie Pie)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Choose Joy ...

Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~Charles Wagner

Good morning!

A while ago I was going through and cleaning up bits of papers I had stashed here and there … In the mix I found several 5 x 7 pieces I had cut from some scrapbook paper. I had used part of the paper for other projects and these were areas that were perfect for card toppers.

Today I am sharing card 2 that I made

Supplies: 5 x 7 card
Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base)
Ink from Memento
Sentiment from Unity Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Thinking Lovely Thoughts ...

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.... these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts"

Good morning!

Recently I was going through and cleaning up bits of papers I had stashed here and there … In the mix I found several 5 x 7 pieces I had cut from some scrapbook paper. I had used part of the paper for other projects and these were areas that were perfect for card toppers.

Sadly I don’t know the names of the papers because they were part of a bunch that I bought several years ago from a yard sale.

Here is the first card I made

Supplies: 5 x 7 card
Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
Ink from Memento
Pearls from Stampin Up!

Sentiment from Unity Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Beauty WIthin ...

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author unknown

Good morning!

A while ago I was going through and cleaning up bits of papers that I had stashed here and there … In the mix I found several 5 x 7 pieces I had cut from some scrapbook paper. I had used part of the paper for other projects and these were areas that were perfect for card toppers.

Today I am sharing card 4 that I made

Supplies: 5 x 7 card
Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Big Wishes ..

Alas! it is not the child, but the boy that generally survives in the man. ~Arthur Helps, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd, 1835

Good morning,

Today I am sharing with another masculine card I made with some scraps laying on my worktable.

Supplies: 5 x 7 card

• Cardstock from Pen+ Gear (Base)
• Design paper left over scraps
• Embossing folder (Blistered) from Spellbinders
• Ink from Momento
• Sentiment from Studio G
• Sequins from The Dollar Tree
• Sketch by Me CCBC18

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Great Guy ...

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), "Drift Wood, A Collection of Essays: Table-Talk," Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1857

Good morning,

I had some scraps laying on my worktable and decided to see what I could do with them and now I am sharing my masculine card with you!

Supplies: 4.25 x 5.50

• Brad from Stampin Up!
• Cardstock from Pen & Gear (Base) and scraps
• Circle punch from Marvy
• Scallop border die from A-muse Studios
• Sentiment from Unity Stamps
• Silver Liquid Silk from Fun Stampers Journey
• Sizzlet die “Little Leaves” from Stampin Up1
• Tag punch from Stampin Up!
• Sketch used Cardabilities #126

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Beautiful Birthday

Birthdays! What music in the world! In these unresting times, when nothing intellectual, economic, social, political, seems stable; when customs and traditions hoary with age are mixed with explosive elements, this oldest of institutions is not in danger of yielding to destructive forces. ~J.R. Macduff, Birthdays, 1893

Hi All,

Like many crafters, I have a box of this and that items … those things I started working on and decided not to use or I was playing around wasting time or was an experiment. I’ve been trying to use the items in that box to create cards, scrap pages, gift boxes and such.

Today I am sharing one of the cards I made using a background I’d created using a die I have.

Supplies

Cardstock from The Paper Studios (Base) and Stampin up!

Prima Flower

Rangers Archival Ink

Sentiment Unity Stamps

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara

Another Halloween card ...

Gnome and elf and fairy,

Witch and ghost make merry

On this last of dear October’s days.

~Lettie C. Van Derveer, Halloween Happenings, 1921

Hi! Today I am sharing a card I made from some scrap pieces of paper I had left over from the Halloween doggo cards I made for my doggos day care.

Supplies

• Bottle image from Graphics 45
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper from Stampin Up!
• Ranger Archival Ink
• Sentiment from Inkadinkado
• Sequins from Close to My Heart
• Sketch by me CCBC17

Thanks for stopping by!
Cara