A Masculine Birthday Card

I have a masculine birthday card to share with you today, this was one I made for my brother's birthday last month. I come from a family of car fanatics so this Great Impressions stamp was a must have. I used some core'dinations cardstock on this card, I love this stuff when I want some extra texture on a card.

Some Masculine Birthday Cards

My nephew turned 17 last week, I can't believe my sister's youngest is 17 already! So I had to get a card made for me to give him and for my mom to give him. Teen boy cards are so hard to make but I think I pulled it off and word from my sis he was impressed :) Here's the one my mom gave him.

And this is the one I gave him using my new embossing folder. I saw the Tim Holtz set with the wood grain and just had to have it & wanted to try it out right away so this is what I came up with.

I'll be back late tomorrow night with my layout for Ella's Pink Scrapbook challenge.

Shabby Vintage Birthday Card

My mom needed a birthday card for her sister (my aunt) so I started off with a Hero Arts stamp I recently got that I've been wanting to use. At first I struggled with the card coming together but I really like the way it turned out, a little shabby, a little vintage. I made a flower out of tissue paper (like my previous layout), Im loving these tissue flowers. I used my spellbinders scallop circles (3 sizes) to cut the white tissue paper and then stamped them with a script stamp. I also added a bit of dyed crinkle ribbon (made from seam binding). Love this ribbon too, I could use it on everything :)

TPE Challenge #56

This week's challenge is to add green to your color combo

This week the design team was offered one of the new Puddle Jumpers stamps from Claudia and Company at Die Cuts R Us. These cute Puddle Jumpers were designed by our very own, talented Lori Boyd! There is 3 stamps in all. These images are so adorable and fun to work with.

I got to play with the Daisy stamp which comes with her own little kitten. This week I tried paper piecing my image rather than coloring it. Tina, one of the gals on the team, does this often and I love the look so I wanted to try it out. This card will be going to my niece for her 17th birthday.

You're going to want to be sure to head on over to TPE to see all the wonderful creations by the rest of the design team.

Happy Birthday Ella (A TPE Blog Hop)

It's Ella, the pink elephant's 1st birthday! And we're having a blog hop to celebrate!
You should have arrived here from Kellie's blog. If you didn't and want to follow the hop just head on over to The Pink Elephant to start from the beginning.

For the blog hop we got to go back and choose one of our favorite challenges from this past year. I am a sketch lover so I decided to work with the sketches. I actually picked two to share with you!
My first creation is a card for my great nephew's 2nd Birthday. He's a Thomas the Tank fan so I thought he'd like a Thomas card. I used the sketch from week #20. This was a pretty simple card, just cardstock, a Thomas sticker, a little fiber and some embossing. Real quick and simple card.


My 2nd creation I was inspired by Jana Eubank's Chocolate Survival Kit on Cuttlebug Challenges last week and made this chocolate box that I will be giving my hubby for Valentine's Day. I followed the sketch from week #41 to decorate the top of the box.


Here are all the goodies he'll be getting, I do hope he shares with me :)


Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find lots of inspiration through the hop. To continue with the hop head on over to visit Frances Byrne's Blog

First Card For My Birthday Card Challenge

I mentioned that I wanted to start a Birthday Card Challenge this year. I fail badly at getting Birthday cards made and sent out to family members and friends. I always have these great intentions but I just don't follow through. So this year one of my resolutions was to get my birthday card list ready the first of the month and get them made so they are ready to send out. Actually Im going to work a month ahead so this month I'll make January & February's cards then in February I'll do March's etc. so if I do slack a little it won't be too bad to catch up.

It's a pretty basic challenge just figure out what cards you need to do for the month and get them made AND sent out. I have challenged the gals over at Wisconsin Scrappers to join me, if you would like to join along feel free to share your cards with me by just leaving a comment with a link to your blog. Maybe once things get going I'll over some goodies :)

So for my first card I used a sketch I found online. I love working with sketches, they inspire me. So here's the sketch I used (and I can't remember where I got it from).


And here is the card I have made for my nephew who is turning 19 or is he turning 20? I don't remember lol. His birthday is tomorrow so he'll be getting it late but I will get it out (that's the 2nd part of my challenge, actually mailing it)

Recipe
Stamp: Northwoods
Embossing: Cuttlebug on Coredinations cardstock
Diecutting: Spellbinders (oval and tree)

I just have one more birthday for January, my mother's is the 31st. I'll be posting hers late though because she reads my blog, "hi mom over in warm Phoenix!" :) They're lucky to not have to be in this cold weather in the winter. I'll be working on my Feb. ones too, there's 3 total and they're all male cards.

Recipe Challenge Card

Time for another recipe challenge. This week's recipe was ribbon or ric rac, brads & a diecut. I had to makea birthday card for my mom (sorry mom I still haven't sent it out yet so you'll get a sneak peak of it here :) ) and I got a bunch of Making Memory stuff this weekend, it's all yummy pink, black & white & I absolutely love it (I don't remeber the name of the line right now) So I immediately had to make something with my new purchases. Here's the card.