Wine Thank Yous

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great and safe New Years!

I'm finally getting around to some thank you cards after the holidays. Here are two that I made for some friends that gave me some wine for Christmas. Actually when I was making them I realized one of them I didn't get a bottle of wine from, but she's a big fan of wine so I thought the card would be appropriate for her anyway.

The other one I was making for I receive an excellent bottle of wine! It's a CA wine which I'm not usually a fan of but it's from Napa Valley. And it's a strange mix of Zinfandel, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. I was REALLY surprised at how good it is as I've never been a Zinfandel fan at all! I highly recommend it...It's Ménage à Trois bottled by Folie à Deux Winery in St. Helena, Napa County, CA (www.menageatroiswines.com). The friend that gave it to me came across it from friends of his that live in CA and discovered this very delicious combination for a red wine. So now we are on a quest to find it at a local liquor store here in New England. ;p

So it was definitely appropriate to make them a wine bottle shaped card that I got from The Cutting Café designed by the very talented Regina Easter. I love working with her designs. This particular set comes with 5 circle sentiments, 2 regular sentiments, 6 toppers and an envelop.

I decided to go a step further and make the envelop a very very thin wine bottle gift bag, perfect size for a card. I'm actually very pleased with myself in designing it and got some great use with the Scor-Pal. I'm very sure I'm not the 1st person to figure out how to make one but I was just impressed how quickly I did it.

So here they are:


The Thank You images used as the bottle labels are stamps by Hero Arts from their Collage and CardArt collections:




A little spot for the personal note:


It's just a very thin wine bottle gift bag:




Grape Blends for the guy's card:
-CS: TPC "Sable" & "Espresso", Mi-Teintes "Stygian Black" and Nicole Crafts Natural Stock Paper
-PPs: DCWV "Gold Script Designer" & "Olive Script"
-Stamp: Hero Arts Collage Thank You
-Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Colorbox "Creamy Brown", "Chestnut Roan" and "Dark Brown"
-Misc: Ribbon, adhesive, eyelets, Crop-A-Dile, Scor-Pal


Grape Blends for the girl's card:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Mocha Devine" and Nicole Crafts Natural Stock Paper
-PPs: DCWV Once Upon a Time "Palace Throne"
-Stamp: Hero Arts CardArt Thanks Phrase
-Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
-Fluid Chalk Ink: Same as above plus "Merlot" (appropriate, huh?)
-Misc: Same as above

TFL!! And off to make my other thank you cards...

Happy B-day to a great sister-in-law

Here's a birthday card that I made for my amazing sister-in-law. I had the hardest time getting pictures to show the true colors of the papers and everything. The picture with the envie is the closest I could get.

Anyway, here's the cover:


I love this cupcake from a Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcakes set (which the sentiment above is from) and I just love stickles which I covered the wood flower from Kaiser:


The paper I used is double-sided which is so great when making cards to have such a pretty background on the outside and inside:


This sentiment is part of a stamp from one Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes (I LOVE those stamps):


And here's the envie:


Cupcake mixture:
-CS: The Paper Co "Antique Rose" and Bazzill Basics "Tutu Pink"
-PP: K&Company "Classic K Mango Paper Pad"
-Stamps: Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcakes and Stampendous' Scrumptious Shoes "Birthday Cake" (just the sentiment)
-Prismacolor Pencils: PC928 Blush Pink, PC930 Magenta and PC946 Dark Brown
-Blossoms: Prima Flowers and Kaiser Scrapbook Wood Flourishes "Mixed Flowers"
-Cricut Cartridge: Tear Drops
-Stickles: Pink
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-Misc: Flower Rhinestones, Gamsol, Black Pigment Ink, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Mini Pop Dots, Adhesive

TFL!!

From the bottom of my heart...

It was my birthday yesterday and my someday-to-be mother-in-law gave me an unbelievably generous gift...so the least I can do is make a Thank You card for her, which actually she loves to get. I got to again use this really cool stamp from Hero Arts called Collage Thank You. I used it once before for a card I made for my own mother who I could make her a Thank You card every week and it could never say how thankful I am for her, as amazing as she is and doesn't really know it.





Love shiny sheer ribbon!


The stamp in the inside I've had for awhile but have not used until now...$1 Studio G stamp designed by Kolette Hall (got to love those $1 stamps!!!):


Another item I've had for awhile that I don't use enough is this great embossing & border punch by Fiskars "Eyelet Lace":


Recipe:
-CS: TPC "Plum Tree" and "Parchment Ivory", MM "Smooth Grapevine"
-PP: DCWV Old World Stack
-Stamps: Hero Arts "Collage Thank You" and Studio G by Kolette Hall "Thank You"
-Ink: Ranger Archival Ink "Sepia" and Colorbox Pigment Ink "Black"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Wisteria"
-Punch: Fiskars Eyelet Lace Embossing Punch
-Misc: Embossing powder, heat gun, bronze sheer ribbon, brown rhinestones, adhesive and mini pop dots.

TFL!!

I have the best mother in the world!

My mother is an amazing person, so patient, so caring, so loving, so mothering, so everything wonderful...she's done a lot for me lately (well my entire life) but I really felt the need to make a card for her not for mother's day or her b-day, just because...

I used Kazan's sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You, here is her sketch:


I've been in the vintage mood lately and here is my take on Kazan's sketch:


The swirly image behind the Thank You stamp is a stamp from Stampin' Up! which I keep forgetting that I have that I love! It's SO SWIRLY!












Decided to dress up the back of the card as well:




A Mother's Love:
-CS: Bazzill "Med Pink", Bazzill Basics "Safari"
-DPs: Anna Griffin series and DCWV "Olive Script"
-Stamps: Hero Arts "Collage Thank You", Stampin' Up! "So Swirly" Jumbo Wheel and Inkadinkado "Handmade Flower Mug"
-Inks: Versafine "Vintage Sepia", Jim Holtz Distress Ink "Fired Brick" and Colorbox "Dark Moss"
-Dew Drops: Robin's Nest "DD Hyacynth"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts CK Elegant at 24 pts, CK Bella at 24 pts and LD Dirty Drusillus at 24 pts
-Misc: Adhesive, chipboard

TFL!!

More Scrumptious Shoes...2S4Y

It's someone's b-day this week and they will be receiving some scrumptious shoes! Well, at least scrumptious shoes stamped on a card...I really hope she has a delicious b-day!

I made this card using Laura's sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You, here is her sketch:


And here's my take:


Check out these gorgeous Heidi Swapp Glitter Florals that a very sweet & generous talented lady from W. Australia sent me as a gift. Thanks Jane!


The Scrumptious Shoes Birthday Cake stamp has a sentiment to it but I opted to mask it out and using this stamp by Rubber Soul instead:


And the inside of the card:




Recipe:
-CS: Bazzill Basics "Safari"
-DPs: Cloud 9 "Baby Girl Stripe" and Paper Pizzazz "Soft Pin Swirls
-Stamps: Stampendous Scrumptious Shoes "Birthday Cake" and Rubber Soul "Delicious Birthday"
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Olive" & "Warm Red"
-Pigment Ink: Colorbox Black
-Solvent Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
-Chalks: I Kan'Dee Pearlescent Jewel Tones
-Pearls: Hero Arts
-Blossoms: MM Dark Pink Daisy and Heidi Swapp White Glitter Florals
-Misc: Embossing Powder, heat gun, prismacolor pencils, gamsol, button, ribbon, adhesive, mini pop dots

TFL!!!

Yummy Cake Boxes...latest BBTB Challenge

Yum Yum Yum! This past week's challenge over at the Bitten By the Bug was a very yummy challenge...Regina knows how to pick them!! It was to use the Cake Box from Tags, Bags, Boxes & More ( for any kind of project). Go check out the everyone's take on the challenge you'll be drooling to eat each one! :)

One of my favorite cakes (and I say ONE as I love almost all cakes) is the Black Forest Cake so here's my slice:

Also, I've been playing around with my camera trying to figure out what works best on getting clear and true to color pics of my projects, the 1st couple pics were taken inside and the rest were taken outside, maybe you can tell me which ones you like better...also any advice is extremely welcome!











Black Forest Cake ingredients:
-CS: TPC Sable, DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Stack, DCWV The Christmas Stack
-Stamp: Hero Arts Clear Designs Cupcakes (for the cherries)
-Flowers: Gartner Embossed White Shimmer Table Confetti (found in Michaels' bridal section)
-Ribbon: Wright Creative Fabrics "Faux Pearls on Beading"
-Stickles!: Burgundy
-Cricut: TBBM for the Cake Box stretched in CDS to the largest size to fit on the 12x12 mat and AE for the Scallop Border also used in CDS to size to fit each side (as they are different lengths) and then doubled and welded.

TFL!!

Everything that is you...2S4Y - Kazan's Sketch 5

Another great sketch!!! to work off of over at 2 Sketches 4 You by Kazan this week.

This card is made for my friend, Mary, who I refer to as Rose Mary as she gives me tons advice on my rose bushes (I have over 30 rose bushes!) Her birthday is next week and wanted to give a few roses to her by card form.

So here's Kazan's sketch that I worked off of:




And here's my take on it:



















Gardening Tools for this creation:
CPs: The Paper Company's Pastel Pink, Pastel Pink Texture, Ivory Parchment & On-White Translucent Oxford and Bazzill Basics' Passionate
DPs: DCWV The Luxury Stack - Pearlized Metallic
Stamps: Inkadinkado's Coffee House Alphabet, Handmade-Flower-Mug & Get Well (cut the rose from it), SU! Jumbo Wheel Doodle, All Night Media Happy Birthday Presents and Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcake Set
Fluid Chalk Inks by Colorbox: Rose Coral, Rouge & Merlot
Pigment Inks by Colorbox: Black & Chianti
Blossoms: Prima's Got Flower? Ivory or Winter #3 (not sure which bottle I have)
Rhinestones: Darice Finishing Accents self-adhesive
Cricut: Plantin Schoolbook using the Award cut
scrapNfonts: DB Frilly Frames, DB filly Words & CK Jacque
Misc: Markers, water pen, embossing powder, pink/mauve thread, mini pot dots, MM sticky squares

TFL!!!

A B-day Card & Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #23

FINALLY, I had time to participate in Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #23 . I've only been able to do it one other time. This sketch was perfect for the card that I wanted to make for my friend (the other twin sister, Lisa) who had their b-days last week (I know I've very late!). And I'm very excited to be able to submit it to Taylor.

Here is Taylor's sketch:



And here is my take:





















Recipe to this creation:
-CS: The Paper Company - Ivory Parchment & Plum
-DPs: Deja Views - Fresh Print Plum Blossoms, Stripes & Paisley
-Stamps: Cupcakes from Inkadinkado's Birthday Cupcakes clear stamps set and Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcakes Set
-Pigment Ink: Black by Colorbox
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Wisteria by Colorbox
-Liquid Applique: Marvy White
-Stickles: Lime Green, Pink, Orange Peel, Copper, Cinnamon, Platinum, Yellow & Lavender
-Blossoms: Bazzill Collection Serendipity Bling Blossoms 2 1/4", Prima's Got Flowers? Purple, Winter & Lavender
-Computer Fonts: scrapNfonts DB Filly Frame (character "x" at 400 pt) and CK Elegant (24 pt)
-Circut: Mini Monograms for LISA using the base feature cut at 2"
-Misc: Self Adhesive Pearls, Chipboard, Zots Small Clear Adhesive Dots, All Night Media Mini Pot Dots, MM Sticky Squares, Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Provocraft Deco Scissors

TFL!