New Card

I was looking at my dashboard the other day and happened upon Brenda's blog:

Sweet as a Gumdrop.

She has so many cute projects: card folds, boxes, gift ideas and beautiful cards. I want to CASE them all.

Here is a card that I made for my friend's engagement party:

This is the "swing" card. Brenda made her version into a giftcard holder.

The center of the card "flips" over when the card is opened.

I even decorated the envelope to match. Sorry the pics are so horrible.

I haven't mastered it yet.

Blue & Chocolate Challenge

This week on Southern Girls Challenge blog they had a colour challenge.

Here are the requirements:

Welcome to another challenge at Southern Girls. This week we are giving you a colour challenge, we would like to see a BROWN & BLUE colour combo on your creations. You can of course use any neutrals but we want to see blue and brown featured.

I wanted to make a birthday card for one of my friend's son.
Here is my entry:

The fold technique I learned from Sweet as a Gumdrop blog.

It is super easy to make and my favorite card to produce at the moment.

I used Meljen's groundhog digi and sentiment, Hero arts stamps,

and retro paper from a stack I bought forever ago.

 

There is a pun with the paper and the sentiment. Retro 70's and "can you DIG it?"

I had a lot of fun making this card.

Happy Birthday to US!!!

Today I'm 35! and so is my WOMBMATE!!!!

Today, My twin sister and I are celebrating our birthday and we thought it would be fun to include all of you. So we are proposing a Double Challenge. Your challenge is to create (1) Birthday project and (1) Valentine project. Be Cre8tive and make anything you want using these themes.

Don't forget to check out my sister's blog at: onecreativemomma.blogspot.com

For my birthday project I decided to create a favor that would compliment the invitation we made.Here is the invite and favor.

Since our birthday lands near or on Super Bowl Sunday we always have a football themed party.

And for my Valentine's project I decided to make a card for my husband. The "Be mine" has a wobble attached to it so it will shake when he opens it.

Now a Challenge wouldn't be complete without BLOG CANDY so here it is. I'm giving away this TPC Studios stamp set and a Crafters Dozen pack of Wobbles given to me by Stacy at Action Wobbles.

THANKS STACY!!!

Remember these posts should be new and not something you have made before today. This challenge ends Super Bowl Sunday at Midnight Pacific time.

Sketch N Stash

Sketch N Stash Challenge #54

Click HERE to see their website.

here is this weeks (2) Challenge:

This is my take on the sketch:

The background stripes are from an old 8x8 paper pack, the Heart charm is left over from my In-Laws 40th Wedding Anniversary Vow Renewal Invitations, the embossed white paper is a new technique (I used my sister's new cuttlebug machine she got for Christmas), the "Love" stamp is TPC, and the Digi is MelJen's.

I just found this blog and have instantly become a fan. Last week I made over 35 cards using up my scraps. I hope to make a lot more with the scraps I still have.

Scrappily Ever After

The Scrappily Ever After blog posted a birthday challenge. See it HERE.The inspiration was a photograph:

and this is what I was inspired to make:

Such a fun challenge.

I am especially in the birthday mood since my birthday is this week as well. :D

Sweet Stampin' Challenge Sketch

This is the sketch I followed. Check it out.

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-sweet-stampin-saturday-sketch.html

Saturday Seminar at OWH

Yesterday on the Stars & Stamps blog was the first Saturday Seminar. I really enjoyed reading all of the tips and advice giving to us by Paula. I am going to participart in the seminar but I made a card this morning utilizing the tips giving in the seminar. (I don't know why my black ink looks blue)

Organization is Key!

Over the holiday season my craft room became the dumping ground for all sorts of things.

I decided to start organizing it.

Such a mess! I cleared out the room and went shopping at Ikea.

My husband took on the task of building all of the shelving units.

They turned out excellent.

Now remember this is a work in progress, but this is what my craft room looks like today:

Now it's time to make it look "pretty"!

New Cards

S & S Sketch Challenge #54

It's Sunday and time for another AWESOME sketch from OWH's Stars & Stamps Blog.

Here is my version of the sketch:



Happy Birthday!

I was looking through all of the free digital stamps that I have acquired, over the last six months, and was inspired by two that I found from Dustin Pike.

I thought that if I layered these images it would make a great scene for my next card.

So I took out my colored pencils and got to work.

I stamped the standard with Hero Arts "Happy Birthday" stamp and the shield with a star that is either TPC Studio or Hampton Art. I can't remember which. With the help of some foam adhesive squares I assembled the card. This is how it turned out:

Thank you Dustin Pike for your inspirational Digital art!!!

Midweek Throwdown

This week for OWH's Midweek Throwdown we were asked to make: Cards 4 kids.

I decided to used Elizabeth O. Dulemba Free Robot Digi.
The "Thinking of you" stamp is from Hero arts.

I just wish my flash wouldn't dull the colors of my cards.

Any tips would be appreciated.

More New Cards

I am loving that I have more time to make cards for OWH these days.

Hello cards

I decided to create a couple more cards. They were inspired by Ann K from OWH's Friday featured cardmaker from last week

Featured Cardmaker

I really liked all of the cards made by Ann K. Who is this week's Featured cardmaker on OWH.

I CASE'd one of her cards, and here it is:

Double Display Card

My sister shared a blog post with me that gave a tutorial for making the double display card. This site is Sweet as a gumdrop: http://sweetasagumdrop.blogspot.com/2010/02/birthday-card-template.html#comment-form 

click on the link above.

Here is my version of the card:

I have entered this card in My pink stamper's birthday challenge.

I wanted to make another card using this fold technique so I made my In-laws an Anniversary card.

 

S & S Sketch Challenge #53

Operation write home has another great sketch for us to try:

I choose to use Pink, Black and White. The sentiment is from Stampin Up.

New Cards

Works in progress:

Last night I got a little creative a made 20 of these cards (4 to 6 of each). I love the first two cards but I think the other two need something. What do you think? Let me know.

Swedish Birthday Card!

My friend's birthday is coming up and since she is Swedish I thought it would be fun to make a birthday card in Swedish. Hopefully the translation is correct. 

The cover says "Happy Birthday" in Swedish.

The inside message says "I wish you a day full of surprises"

S & S Sketch Challenge #47

Hello, My name is Yvette (Cre8tiveVet). I live in beautiful Southern California with my amazing husband. I having been making cards for about 6 months. I was thrilled when I received an e-mail from Julie with a S&S  sketch to work on. Here it is:

The first card I made is for OWH's January 7th Valentine deadline. I was inspired by the dice and recreated the look using red cardstock and brads.

The second card I made is for my friend, Tammy. I wanted to give a completely different look but use the same sktech. I added a patterned background paper, the butterfly image, and distressed the pink cardstock.

So whatever theme you are making a card for, this sketch is great! I know I'll be using it again.