Love Bear

Hello!  Today I have a cute birthday card to show you.

I made this with 2 images from QKR Stampede.

"Love Bear" (#10604)

"Happy Birthday" (#22803)

I colored the "Love Bear" with FlexMarkers and added some Glossy Accents to the balloons.

I distressed the edges of the papers and put this card together pretty quickly.

This image can be used for a number of cards, birthday, get well, Valentine's day, just a simple hello.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you would and come again soon.

And why not stop in to the QKR Stampede store and see what other versatile images they have to offer.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Purple Angel

Eureka! Stamps has so many beautiful angel stamps!

Today I'm showing you a card that I made with

"Sm. Ribbon Angel" (#21401)

from Eureka! Stamps

I stamped the image onto white cardstock and colored her with FlexMarkers.

I used the Cuttlebug to cut the image, the mat and the card.

For the card base, I simply cut to panels of the same size,

scored the one for the back at about 1/2" and adhered them at the top.

The card opens at the scored fold at the top.

This is a very simple card to make and the image was fun to color.

If you are an angel lover, hop on over to see all the beautiful angel images they have at Eureka! Stamps.  And if angels aren't your thing, they have tons of other wonderful images too.

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

One color card

Hello blog friends!

I hope your weekend is going well.

Mine is so far, beautiful weather, not too hot, not too cool.

And tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful too.

I hope you are enjoying the beginning of summer!

Today I have a card that I made for a challenge on one of my favorite blogs,

Going Buggy.

Each month Enfys posts a challenge, now I'm not good about doing challenges, but I have participated in a couple of hers.

This month the challenge was to make a card using one color.

For my card I used 4 different stamps

"Heart Background" (#57901)

"Baroque Background" (#57701)

"Celtic Background" (#31601)

from Eureka! Stamps

"Happy Birthday" (#36314)

from Biblical Impressions

I stamped all 3 background images onto

kraft cardstock with Versamark ink.

I used the Cuttlebug and Spellbinders dies to cut the outer 2 pieces.

I scored them with my Score Buddy and attached them to the inside panel that I had trimmed down with my paper trimmer.

Then adhered it to a piece of white cardstock.

I stamped the "Happy Birthday" sentiment onto separate pieces of cardstock and trimmed them into banner shapes and adhered them inside the card.

To close the card I punched 2 hearts from the left over pieces stamped with the Heart Background, glued them to white cardstock and fussy cut them. I used foam tape to adhere them to the card.  On the right side I first glued down the floss with Glossy Accents, before adding the heart over it. 

I'm pleased with the way this card turned out.  I wasn't too sure about it when I started out with all the brown, but I think it turned out very cute.  I might just send it to my Aunt Marilyn for her birthday in September as her favorite color is brown.  I think she'll love it!

Thanks for stopping by today, leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Thinking of You

Hello All!

Today I'm showing you a card I made recently to use as a sympathy card.

I find sympathy cards very hard to make and actually don't have a stamp that is specifically for that purpose.

I decided to use

"Baroque Background" (#57701) from Eureka! Stamps

and "thinking of you" from a CTMH set that my friend has.

 I like the clean and simple look of this card with that little different element of the ribbon being tied on the side.

I left the inside blank and wrote my own thoughts.

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Leave a comment if you will and come back soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Pocket card with Rose

Hello Crafters!

Today I have a pocket card to show you. 

I like making different styles of cards and I love this pocket card. 

It's simple to make.  I used a piece of cardstock cut to 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 5 1/2" I also scored it at about 3 1/2" and folded that area forward to for the flap where the sentiment is.  I did trim some of that flap off as I felt it was a bit too big for the card.

The stamps I used are

"Rose" (#17505)

"Life is Sweeter" (#9102)

Both from QKR Stampede

I used the "Rose" stamp in a couple ways.

First I stamped the entire image onto the lower corner of the card with VersaMark ink.

Then I used just some of the leaves to stamp the other lower corner

 as well as the top of the pocket.

I made a card to slip inside the pocket.

I punched 2 circles, one slightly smaller than the other, layered them, folded them and adhered them to the top of the card.

I added a little embellishment from my stash. 

You could easily add a flower or a brad like this, or punch a hole and add a bit of ribbon.

I hope this card shows you that stamps can be very versatile, you just need to use your imagination. Use part of the stamp, use all of the stamp, use different kinds of ink for different effects and have fun.

I'm so glad you stopped by today.

Leave a comment if you would and come again soon!

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Something Humorous

Hello and Welcome!

I thought it would be fun to post something

that I hope will give you a little

 laugh.

I chose to use "Out For A Swim" (#13009) and

"You Can Lead" (#13005)

both from QKR Stampede.

I colored the image with FlexMarkers.

I cut the waves freehand and attached the 2nd layer with foam tape.

On the inside of the card I stamped the

"You Can Lead" sentiment and added a few waves.

I think this card is perfect for this summer,

with the Summer Olympics coming up.

At the end of June it is the end of the term for the

design teams at QKR Stampede,

Eureka! Stamps and Biblical Impressions.

I'm hoping to stay on for another term, but my friends

Kristine and Roxie will be stepping down.

I know they have something humorous on their blogs and I hope you will pop over and get a little chuckle from them.

 I will miss working with these lovely and talented ladies,

but I'll be keeping up with their blogs and I hope you will too.

Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment if you wish and

come back again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Fussy cutting edges.

Are you a Pinterest fan? 

I am and I have found some wonderful cards there.

I seldom copy the card as is, rather I take an idea from a card and put my own twist on it.

That's how I came up with these cards.

I love the fussy cut edges and the one image done differently.

For this butterfly card I used

Small Lacy Butterfly (#58902)

from Eureka! Stamps

For this rose card I used

Rose (#17505)

from QKR Stampede

To stamp the edge, I first stamped onto scrap paper and cut out the image.

I used this as a mask.  I stamped one image at the bottom of the card, covered it with the mask, stamped another image overlapping the first, removed the mask and covered the image I had just stamped and continued this process up the edge of the card.

I then stamped one more of the image on white cardstock.

Now the cutting begins.  I fussy cut the edge of the card.

I then fussy cut the one stamped on white cardstock, the butterfly was colored first with FlexMarkers.

The cut out image is simply adhered over one of the images on the edge.

I stamped a very simple "ENJOY" onto the butterfly card, I believe this is a Close To My Heart stamp that I borrowed from a friend.

(Thanks Jen!)

The entire card front was then adhered to a white card base.

I'm thinking that I want to make another rose card and color the "different" rose.  What do you think?  Do you like the colored one or the plain one better?  If I do another one with a colored rose, I'll post it for y'all to see.

Why not stop over to QKR Stampede and Eureka! Stamps and see what images you may want to try this technique with.

It's fun and makes a beautiful card.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!