Happy Birthday

Today's card combines the Sweet Stop 66 skit challenge and the Our Daily Bread challenge to distress your card. My card stock is from PTI, paper from DCWV. The cake stamp is from SU! and the "BROTHER" stamp is from Verve. I distressed all the edges of the paper by inking them with creamy caramel from SU!

Sweet Stop 60 and Our Daily Bread Designs 17

My card today combines the Sweet Stop 60 sketch for this week and the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge to use blue, green, and/or yellow. This is for my Father for Father's Day. The card stock is from PTI, the word stamps are from Verve and the Damask stamp is from Fiskars. The button, I bought a long-time ago (a left-over from a sewing project) from JoAnn's I think.

Our Daily Bread 13

This card is for the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge for the week to use flowers. Usually I would try to use more flowers than I did, but I came across these tutorials by Michelle Zindorf (can't remember where I linked to her from) and really, really, really wanted to do a card like this tutorial for my cousin and his wife. Michelle's work is awesome I could just look at her tutorials and inspiration for hours. My card is very similar to the one shown, but everything is different from what she called for. Looking at it now, maybe too similar, but I give all the creative credit to Michelle.

Red White and Blue birthday

Today I combined the JUGS33 challenge to use red, white, and blue (with kraft optional), with the Sweet Stop 56 sketch with a twist (masculine). I made a birthday card for my father-in-law. Masculine cards always seem difficult, but this color scheme is perfect for a man. Stamps, ribbon and red and blue card stock are from SU! Oh, I'm so excited about this: I finally found a use for the patterned paper that I bought in big packages and don't really like. I don't want to get rid of it, obviously, but not really my style. So . . . I figured out you can use it to "line" your homemade envelopes! Use the white side for the envelope and the "liner" is built in. Custom envelope!

JUGS 30 and ODBDSLC11

Oh, how I love Lauren Meader's templates! And I used one for this week's JUGS template challenge. This is the stocking stuffer, which I turned into a little yellow rubber boot! I also combined this challenge with Our Daily Bread Designs challenge to make a mother's day card/gift. Since my mother-in-law has horses, and likes to work outside and likes ladybugs, these are the perfect work outside boots for her. :) I evened out the bottom of the stocking, added the black sole and the black trim around the top and narrowed down the loop on the back. I think I will make a little bouquet of carnations to place in the boot the actual day, but to fill it for now I made these cute little paper flowers. They are created by layering two flower punch outs with a black brad on top of a crimped 1x12 in piece of paper adhered into a circle. I hot glued them each onto a lollipop stick and inserted them into some floral foam. It's so cheery!

Sweet Stop 52, JUGS 29 and ODBDSLC10

The Sweet Stop challenge this week was to use the sketch with a twist: use bows and buttons. The JUGS challenge was to use pink, green, lavender and yellow and create a birthday card. And the Our Daily Bread challenge was to recycle something on your card. I created a big puffy bow, by layering a sheer ribbon bow, a ribbon loop, a pink flower button and and purple plastic flower. My recycled items are the pink buttons, which I cut off a pair of pants outgrown by my girls and not fit for passing on to anyone else. They actually say Baby Gap on one side, so I had to use them upside down. The purple flowers fell off a headband my oldest daughter wears. When I saw the first one lying on the ground, I knew it could be used for cardmaking. : )

Our Daily Bread Designs challenge

I made this card for the wife of my husband's grandfather (how's that for confusing!) and I think she will love the elegance of it. The navy cardstock and happy birthday stamps are from SU!, the focal image is from Damask Designs from PTI stamped over a french script stamp from an unknown source. The dp an ribbon are from Hot Off the Press. I created the medallion focal surround with one of the small die cuts from the fleur de lis pendant die set from spellbinders.