Retirement Teepee Card ...

Good morning,
Today I am sharing a teepee style card I made as a Guest Designer for the Creative Creases Challenge located HERE.

This was made from 3pcs of 8 x 8 cardstock and uses a magnet to latch it onto shape.

Supplies

• Cardstock:The Paper Studio (base) and Stampin Up!
• Design paper: Happy times from Close to My Heart
• Dies: Banner & Little bird Unknown; Butterfly Profile & Dragonfly from Gina Marie Designs; Ivy & Leaves Circle from Kokorosa; Spring Blooms and Spring Blooms Mini from Fun Stampers Journey
• Stamps: Retirement Sentiments from Makers Forte
• Stash: Half pearls & Rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by and please check out the challenge!
(Hugs) Cara

Mothers Day fun fold

Good morning,
I hope you are having a beautiful day today. Even though is still officially Spring, Summer is starting to make its self known with warmer weather so the real heat is right around the corner. Thinking this year I will be missing that pool I used to have!

Today I am sharing a Mother’s Day Fun Fold card I made for a special person who I have always thought of as another Mom to me.

I'm really struggling with my lightbox these days and may have to thinking of a different way to take pictures so I can get some consistency. 

Supplies:

• Cardstock from The Paper Studio (Base) and Stampin Up!
• Dies from Sizzix *Mixed Media #2). The Rose is unknown
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Old World Paper)
• Nuvo Drops from Tonic Studios
• Stamps from The Unity Stamp Co. (Rose on inside), Mother’s Day sentiment from Halo Stamps and Thinking of you from Close to My Heart (You make me happy)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Exploding Pop-up card for the in-laws

Good morning,

I love making special Christmas cards the parents but I think this year I outside myself for the In-laws!

I found a tutorial on YouTube for an Exploding Pop-up card that just had to make …

You should start HERE on her blog or you can find the video HERE

The card itself is not overtly complicated but the folds can be fussy when trying to manipulate but seriously worth the effort when done!

Edith did an amazing job teaching how to make this card and I will definitely be making this card again.

*** Sorry about the photo quality - I just could not seem to get a really good picture of the card before I had to gift it.

OUTSIDE

INSIDE

The outside of the card based on a sketch from Scrapbook + cards found HERE

SUPPLIES: 

• Card Stock: The Paper Studio, Stampin Up! and scrap bin
• Design paper: Stampin Up! (Painted Christmas)
• Dies: Sizzix (Layered Christmas Tree) and Sizzix (Holly 3D cut & emboss)
• Embossing folders: Sizzix (Winter Snowflakes) and Stampin Up! (Subtle)
• Ink: Stampin Up!
• Misc: Nuvo Crystal Drops
• Punch: Stampin Up! (Banner punch)
• Stamps: Close to My Heart, outside sentiment (To you & Yours), Penny Black, inside sentiment (Joy & Merriment) and Stampin Up! Various star images)

THIS CARD WAS ENTERED INTO THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGES

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #222-Streamside Studios, Anything goes

Peace on Earth Challenge #56

Holly and Christmas Challenge - # 155 - Anything Christmas Goes

The Outlawz No Stamp Challenge, Christmas/Winter

Good morning!

Today is the start of a new challenge at The Outlawz Challenge. You can play along HERE

This challenge discourages the use of any physical stamps or digital images. Exceptions will be made for digital paper and stamped or digital sentiments

This month our challenge is something Winter/Christmas.

I made this fun fold card for a woman who has mentored and mothered me for years. She considers me her daughter and I love her very much even though she lives quite a bit of distance from me so I’ve been unable to see her in person for a long time!

I saw this card on Pinterest and ended up watching and following a video (HERE) created by Sam Calcott UK. Great video, well done, fairly easy to follow and the card us fun to make and when I sent out, I used 5 x 7 envelope without issue.

Supplies: A2

Cardstock: The Paper Studio (Base)

Design Paper: Recollections (Christmas)

Die: Concord & 9th (Poinsettia Quilt Top) – Sentiment; Unknown (Snowflakes)

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to don’t forget to join our Facebook Fan Page

(Hugs) Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Little Red Wagon Challenge

Merry Christmas Challenge #735

ENTRY #40

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge

Christmas

ENTRY  #38

Creative Creases Challenge

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #72

ENTRY #7

Creative Fingers Challenge

Anthing Goes #268

ENTRY #15

Cut it up Challenge Blog

Cut it up Challenge #293 - Celebrate

ENTRY #11

Most Magical Time of the Year Challenge

Challenge #15 Most Magical Anything "Halloween and Christmas" Goes - sponsored by LeighSBDesigns

ENTRY #10, Part 2

Big Happy Wishes

Good morning,
November Birthdays have come and gone so I'm sharing a fun card I made for my daughter

This is called a Bay Window card and there seems to be quite a few variations of the layout. I think I like this one best.

The flowers on the side panel were done using the stamp off technique to add depth.(Looks better IRL)

I'm slowly starting to increase my selection of  6 x 6 pads for my cards as the patterns are a bit smaller and they are easier travel with. Still loving my 8 x 8 and 12 x 12 papers though. For this card I am using a new to me 6 x 6 pad called Family ties from Pebbles. I just love the designs and color combination of the set which consists of several shades of blue and green along with a love shade of yellow and brown and lends itself well to both feminine and masculine style cards.

Size: A2

• Cardstock: Stampin Up!
• Design Paper: Pebbles (Family Ties)
• Dies: Yvonne Creations (Large flowers), Unknown (Small flowers & leaves)
• Embossing folder: Stampin Up! (Subtle)
• Ink: Stampin Up!
• Rhinestones: Stampin Up!
• Stamps: Unity Stamps (It’s a mug hug), Stamps by Judith (3 flower stubbie)

Thanks for stopping by!
(Hugs) Cara

Challenges Entered

A Place to Start

December 2023; Anything goes w/optional twist - NEW

Entry 58

Crafting from the Heart

Challenge 8; Anything goes

Entry 35

Pammie's Inky Pinky's Challenge

PIP Challenge 2349; Anything Goes

Entry 2

Dream Valley Challenges

Challenge 306; Anything Goes

Entry 121

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge

November 2023: Anything Goes

Entry 137

The Outlawz No Stamp Challenge, Halloween

Good morning!

Hard to believe we are half way through October and Halloween is almost upon us! Soon we'll be decorationg for Christmas!

Today is the start of a new challenge at The Outlawz Challenge. You can play along HERE

This challenge discourages the use of any physical stamps or digital images. Exceptions will be made for digital paper and stamped or digital sentiments

This month our challenge is Halloween!

This is the 2nd card like this I have made. It really is very easy, fun to make and looks amazing!

Supplies: A2
Bats: Whimsy Stamps (Bats & Bubbles) & Unknown
Cardstock: Stampin Up!
Design paper: American Crafts
Sentiment: Stampin Up! (Bag of Bones)
Skeleton: Gina Marie Designs
Spider: Unknown
Spiderweb: Poppy Stamps

Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to Don’t forget to join our Facebook Fan Page
(Hugs) Cara

CHALLENGESS ENTERED

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends

#216-LeAnn's World 101
ENTRY #13

Gem of a Challenge

Card Making & Paper Craft Scrapbook challenge - Wk 21 Anything Goes

ENTRY #24

Crafty Calendar Challenge

October Challenge - 'Autumn Colours/Halloween'

ENTRY #70

A Perfect Time to Craft

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge for October, #10-2023

ENTRY #192

Creatalicious Challenges

Challenge #269 ANYTHING GOES with optional Halloween

ENTRY #13

Monstrous Halloween

Good evening,

I've pretty much got my craft stuff out but I've been job hunting and not spending much time making anything but I really wanted to play with paper when I saw a card on Pinterest called a Bay Window card. It was so cool that I looked up the directions on how to make one.

People, this card is so easy to make and very fun to decorate. Of course, for my first card I just did panels but you can die cut windows into them for another look.

This card does use an A2 base but I would like to try a 5 x 7 so I need to look for that or see if I can figure out the measurements. This card is so easy that I imagine figuring that out will be fairly uncomplicated.

So here is my first Bay Window card creating a fun Halloween card using an older stamp & die set from Close to My Heart which was released in 2016 I believe. I think these guys are so adorable and adding fun googly eyes just ramps them up a to hilarious!

Size: A2

Cardstock: Close to My Heart

Design Paper: Close to My Heart (Jeepers Creepers)

Embellishments: Stash (Googly eyes)

Ink: Stampin Up!

Spiderweb: Sizzix

Stamps: Close to my Heart (Monstrous Halloween)

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Retro Rubber Challenge RRCB217

Challenge 217 | Anything Goes!

Entry #3

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Blog

Penny's Challenge #557, Anything Goes

Entry #5

Wednesday Creative Inspirations

October Challenge | Autumn of Halloween

Entry #43

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Sweet Birthday

To be remembered on one's birthday is a thrill — to know others are saying with cakes, cards, and good wishes thanks for being born into our lives! ~Terri Guillemets, "Keepsake," 2013

Good morning,
I keep things like unfinished cards and projects in a binder then take with me to crops to work on. Today I am sharing a birthday card I started to make quite a long time ago and finally pulled out the pieces and finished during a crop I did a while back

After all this time I don't have the list of what all I used but I can tell you that all I really started with was just the diecut cupcake base and insert. It's been so long I don' even remember where I got the base from now. Anyway, I dug around in my scraps and found the printed design paper which I thought would make super cute decorated 'frosting'. I added the scallop border (Stampin Up!). Used a coupe more scraps to stamp the tag and punch out (Stampin Up!).

I think it turned out super cute and the recipient of this card loved it too.

Thansk for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Valentine Bow for Sister-in-law ...

My Valentine has paws. ~Patrick McDonnell, @muttscomics, Instagram post, 2020

Good morning,

Today I am sharing a Big Bow card I made for my sister-in-Law for Valentines Day. To be fair, she did ask me to make this for her to place in her hutch as a Valentine decoration after seeing one I made for my Parent-in-laws for Christmas several years ago.

Making the bow is actually pretty easy and straight forward! Of course it would be much easier if I would get motivated and upload the pattern to my scan n cut so I didn’t have to trace and hand cut out everything … anyway, I digress …

The decorating part of the bow can actually be quite time consuming as it takes patience and thought! :O)

Supplies

• Beaded embellishment from Studio Mr & Mrs
• Bow Template from sandras scrap shop (Pinterest)
• Cardstock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!
• Design Paper from Close to My Heart (La Vie Rose)
• Dies from Memory Box (Grape Leaves), Spellbinders (Label 10), Spellbinders (Reflection oval) and Unknown (leaves and vines)
• Embossing folder from Stampin Up! (Subtle)
• Ink from Stampin Up!
• Jewel from my stash

3-D Graduation

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein, unverified

Hi All,
Using an Easy shadow box tutorial from Jennifer McGuire Ink found HERE, I made graduation card for my niece. She recently graduated NAU as a dental hygienist. We are so proud of her and I know she will do amazing things with her life!

This card was so easy to make dut it sure looks like it took some time to put together!

I’d give a supply but I can find it right now but will update post when I do.

Thanks for stopping by!
Cara

Halloween Hoot ...

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo

Good afternoon,

Every month I play along with the Progressive Freebie Challenge offered by DigiStamps4Joy on her facebook page

This month, our image is the cute “Fall Owl (mp462)”

I decided to have a little fun and make a “Spring” style card which I have not made in a long time.

The overall card size is a 5-1/8 square. They are very easy to make and are a great way to use 2 sided papers.

Supplies:

• Fall Owl digi image (DS4J)
• Bow punch (Stampin Up!)
• Card stock (Stampin Up!)
• Design paper (Unknown)
• Halloween paper clip (Unknown)
• ProMarkers and Copics

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

The Character of a Man ...

“At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought but what we built; not what we got but what we shared; not our competence but our character; and not our success, but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life of love.”

~ Author Unknown

Hi Everyone!

Today I am sharing a special card I made for a special person who recently retired from an amazing career as a teacher in the medical field.

This is a Bendi card. Every tutorial I had or could find was for an A2 size card so not only is this the first time I’ve made this style of card, I also had to do math (Blech!) to change the sizing to a 5 x 7 card.

Sadly, I also made a gift box to go along with the card, but I forgot to take pictures of that.

This picture is of the card folded into the diorama position

This picture shows the inside of the card

Supplies

Cardstock mostly from Stampin Up! with bits and pieces from my scrap bin.

Metallic cardstock is from Bazzill, The Dollar Tree and The Paper Temptress

Deer family border die from CottageCutz

Design paper from Prima Marketing set “Second Wind Collection” and Momenta as well as bits and pieces from my scrap bin

Grass border punch from Fiskars

India Ink from Memories

Label punches from Stampin Up!

Pine Tree die from Sizzix

Scenic Pines die from Crafters Companion

Sentiment from Repeat Impressions
Squirrel die from Gina Marie Designs

Sun Die from Gina Marie Designs

Sunny Days (clouds) dies from Spellbinders

 

 Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

Christmas Twist ...

And, so, Christmas comes to bless us! Comes to teach us how to find the joy of giving happiness and the joy of being kind. ~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "There Will Always Be a Christmas" (1940s)

Good morning Everyone!

Today I am sharing a Christmas card ... 

This is one of those twist cards (I think they are called), first one I've ever made and still not sure what I think about them!

 Cardstock from Bazzill, The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Christmas blessings die from Crafters Companion

Deco Swirl embossing folder from Embossilicious

Deer standing & sitting die from Cottage Cutz

Rhinestone from my stash

Starlight dies from Stampin Up!

Start of Light Stamp set from Stampin Up!

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

O Christmas Tree ...

"It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes or bags!... Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!" ~Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Good morning Everyone!

Week one of the New Year has been lived! I hope you made amazing memories this week for yourself and others!

This week I am sharing a 6 x 6 pop up Christmas card. I have to admit, every time I use this particular die from Stampin Up, I am reminded why I don't use it often. While it makes beautiful cards it can be frustrating to put the tree together and attach to the inside of the card in such a way to ensure it pops up correctly and folds back in when the card is closed.

Outside

Design paper unknown

Green metallic card stock from Provocrafts

Merry Christmas Border die from Fawn Lawn

Wreath die from Gina Marie Designs

Inside

Design paper unknown

Fancy Vine Frame die from Gina Marie Designs

India Ink from Memories

Labels 25 die from Spellbinders

Pop up O Christmas Tree Die from Stampin Up!

Sentiment stamp from Inkadinkado

That's it folks! Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

80 Birthdays!

“Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.” ~ Author Unknown

Good morning

I am sharing a special birthday card for a special lady who just turned 80!

Although I have met the woman several times, I really don't know her on a personal level but my husband does and I have only heard good things about her from him.

Dr. Lewis appears to be thought of very highly by everyone that comes to know her. From what I understand, the woman is tough but knowledgeable and encouraging. A true educator.

I have also noticed during certain events where she is in attendance that everyone dotes on her.

It's actually quite funny to watch because, while this woman has aged quite a bit since I first made her acquaintance and now requires a cane to walk, she is still very independent and can get a bit grumpy when people try to 'help' her ... so now they all do it tag team style and on the sly!

They just "happen" to be walking in her direction when heading to and from their cars is one of the most popular tag team events to watch!

So here is the card I made for her.

This is a Tee-Pee card

Supplies

Balloon punch from Marvy

Cardstock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Darice die "Foliage Branch"

Design Paper from GCD Studios "Chocolate Kisses"

Embossing folders from Cuttlebug "Perfectly Paisley" and Swiss Dots"

Fern punch from Martha Steward

Flower stamens from Jo-Ann Fabrics

Gina Marie Designs die "Butterfly, small profile"

Ink from Stampin Up! and Memories

Ornament punch (used for vase) from Stampin Up!

Pearls from Michaels and Stampin Up!

Pink flowers from The Paper Studio "La Petites"

Silver flowers from Close to My Heart

Sizzix die "Ornate frames"

Stampin Up! die "Butterflies"

String (used on balloons) from Close to My Heart

Thanks for Stopping By!

This card has been entered into the following Challenge(s)

Love to Craft Challenge LTCCB#2 ATG

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #28 ATG

613 Avenue Create #189 ATG (Optional twist: fall colors)

A Gem of a Challenge #178 Female Birthday

Broken Fairy Designs #11 ATG (Optional twist: Girly)

Craft Friends Challenge Blog #41 Special Occasions

Another Christmas Card Share!

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

~May Sarton

I have absolutely no clue where any of the items used to make this card came from. This was a card I started to make in a card class some time ago but never completed. Not even sure I have all the pieces to the origigal card! But its done now!

Its 4.25 x 5.50 and has a tag tucked into the pocket.

(Hugs) Cara

Christmas card for Rae

Greeting for the day Friends!

I made this card for our Daughter who is in Japan for another Christmas. I got the idea for her card front from one I found on Pintrist. (Sorry - I tried to link up but kept getting a malware warning)

Anyway ... Here is the Outside:

Supplies: Stampin Up! (Cardstock & Ink), DCWV (DP), Unknown (Glitter paper used for star), Inkahootz! (Sentiment), Martha Stewart Punch (Star), Sizzix/Tim Holtz Alterations die (Townscape)

Here is the inside!

Supplies: Sizzix/Stampin Up! pop up die (O Christmas tree), Design paper for tree is unknown.

Sliding card

Hi There ...

This is a tutorial I did for Through the Craftroom Door

Please go check out this wonderful magazine on line magazine.

Love this card ... takes hardly any time at all but looks like you spent hours! LOL

Birthday for Doug - tags and labels

6-1-13 Saturday Paper Ala Mode Challenge - Tags and Labels

Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate chip & White cardstock from Stampin Up!
Copper cardstock - unknown
Triangle punch from Marcy, Border punch and cupcake punch from Martha Stewart
Candle image & sentiment from Stampin Up!
"C" is for Celebrate from The Angel Company
Brad from my stash