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Some Father’s Day Cards

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Since I sent Mother’s Day cards to my sister and sisters-in-law this year, I thought it only fair that I send Father’s Day cards to my brother and brother-in-law too.

This first card is for my brother-in-law Brian. He is a fan of John Deere. I used OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch Challenge #20 and the OWH Stars & Stamps Mid-week Throwdown to make masculine cards. To qualify for the mid-week throwdown, I made a second of the same card, but changed the sentiment to read “a happy hello.” This second card will be sent to Operation Write Home.

A Father's Day Card for Brian

Stamps: Riley and Company Tractor Riley; Hero Arts CL053 ClearDesign June (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Garden Green, Summer Sun
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Paper Prints Certainly Celery
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Garden Green
Markers: Stampin’ Up Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery,  Garden Green, Bashful Blue, Summer Sun, Basic Black
Accessories: Fun Flock Caramel Latte Tan (applied using a Quickie Glue pen)

For my brother Jason, I made this card using his favorite colors of blue and green. This card meets the requirements of All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #32 to use buttons and ribbon.

A Father's Day Card for Jason

Stamps: Stampendous Changito Piggyback
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Summer Picnic
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Old Olive 5/8″ satin ribbon; Papertrey Ink Vintage Holiday Mix button; DMC embroidery floss #740; colored pencils

Hang 10

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I almost didn’t get around to doing this week’s ATS Challenge #24, because I couldn’t think of a shaped card I wanted to make. Last night I was stamping some images to send off for a new friend and one of the images was this Surfer Riley (ATS used to carry Riley stamps). And it came to me, I should make a surfboard shaped card.  I penciled in the shape  on a 3.5″x8.5″ card and then hand-cut it out. I wish I had some sand to glue to the bottom, but I don’t, so I tried to make it look like sand. Do you think I succeeded? I also added some sparkle to the water with my clear atYou Spica marker.

Surfboard Card

Stamps: Riley and Company Surfer Riley; Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory Tropic Sentiments
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Brilliant Blue, Tangerine Tango, Kraft
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Fun Flock Caramel Latte Tan (to make his body fuzzy)
Markers: Stampin’ Up Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Garden Green, Summer Sun, Only Orange, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa; atYou Spice clear
Tools/Techniques: Cuttlebug Just My Type embossing border folder; Sakura Quickie Glue Pen; various brown colored pencils

Driving by with a Birthday Hi

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Our friend Justin came to visit this past weekend. His birthday was last week, so I wanted to make him a birthday card. This card was made for the ATS Wednesday Challenge 21 to use green. I think the idea behind the challenge was for the upcoming St. Patrick’s day, but I thought this was perfect challenge for Justin’s birthday card as his favorite color is green. I used the Our Creative Corner sketch from last week as the starting point to layout the card, but I changed it up slightly since this was going to be a card for a guy. I didn’t want to use a decorative edge.

Our Creative Corner - Sketch

Riley with a Blue Car

I ended up making two cards, since I couldn’t quite decide how I wanted to color Riley and his car. I actually let Justin pick which card he wanted to receive and he chose the green car. The green car has glossy accents all over the car, while the blue car just has glossy accents on the tires and lights of the car.

Riley with a Green Car

Stamps: Riley and Company Car Riley; Stampin’ Up Loads of Love Accessories (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Garden Green
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Paper Prints Certainly Celery
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Fun Flock Caramel Latte Tan (to make his antlers fuzzy); Inkessentials Glossy Accents; Dashes Dots & Checks ribbon (blue car card); Celebrate ribbon (green car card)
Tools/Techniques: paper piercing

Shout Out to SheetLoad

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I browse numerous blogs and enjoy the challenges posed by many of them. When I got together with Lori this past Sunday for some stamping time, I worked two challenges into the below 5.5-inch square card. This card is going to my brother-in-law for his birthday. His birthday was actually a month ago, but since I took a while trying to figure out what to get him and since we’re visiting them in two weeks for my nephew’s 1st birthday, he had to wait for his card and gift. So Sarah, don’t let him look at this post.  Not that I think Brian actually reads my blog.

Sheet Load of Cards is a site that puts out a free monthly ezine that contains a sketch and cutting instructions to make a sheet load of cards. The ezine also contains various takes on the sketch by their staff of sample artists. Typically, the samples use stamps by that month’s sponsor company. Check out March 2009’s issue here. They also do two monthly contests. One gives people who give a shout out to SheetLoad on their blog a chance to win. The other gives people who make their own take on the sketch a chance to win. So this post is doing double duty by shouting out and displaying my take of the sketch.

Stamp Something‘s challenge this week is to use the color green. So I used 2 shades of green cardstock, 2 green-based designer papers, green ribbon, and green markers to color part of my stamped image. The sketch challenge and color challenge worked very well together and I am quite pleased with how cute this card turned out. Don’t you just love the fuzzy  feel  that the flock gives to Riley’s horns?

Happy Birthday Card with Fishing Riley

Happy Birthday Card with Fishing Riley

Stamps: Hanna Stamps Fishing Riley; Stampin’ Up Birthday Whimsey (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up  Prints Certainly Celery, Petals & Paisleys
Ink:  Stazon Black
Accessories:  A*Muse Palm grosgrain stitch ribbon; tan flock (Riley’s horns)
Markers:  Stampin’ Up Always Artichoke, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Ballet Blue, Only Orange

Austin SCS Shoebox Swap

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On World Card-making Day (Oct. 4th), I attended a Split Coast Stampers swap held in northwest Austin. When I first heard about the swap back in August, I wasn’t completely sure I wanted to participate, but I decided it sounded like fun and signed up. However, the swap had gotten full during my time of indecision and I was put on the waiting list. About a week and a half before the swap, I found out I had a spot if I wanted it. I planned to be out of town the weekend before the swap, so I would only have 5 weekdays to prep the supplies for 45 woman to make a card of my own design. I decided to say oh well to sleep and do it anyways. The Halloween card below was the card I designed for the swap. It was the first time I had inked up  my Pirate Riley stamp. The card came out really great, simple enough for a swap yet cute enough for all the talented women that would be at the swap.

Happy Halloween Card

Happy Halloween Card

Stamps: Hanna Stamps Pirate Riley, Stampin’ Up Canvas background (on black) , SU Weathered background (on pumpkin pie), SU All-Year Cheer III (Happy Halloween)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun, Whisper White
Ink: Stazon black; Stampin’ Up Pumpkin Pie, Craft White; Versamark (Canvas background)
Markers: Stampin’ Up Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Ballet Blue, Real Red, Certainly Celery
Accessories: Hobby Lobby Halloween ribbon

Another part of the swap was the door prize. Due to the short time I had to prepare, I could have opted out, but then I wouldn’t have gotten to take a great door prize home. So I took a Hobby Lobby paper mache bag, some Halloween designer paper, some Hobby Lobby Halloween ribbon, a candy corn decorative accent and put together the following cute package which I filled with some Halloween stamps, ribbon and lip balm.

Door Prize I Created (picture was taken before I completely finished)

Door Prize I Created (picture was taken before I completely finished)

The following are some of my favorites of the cards I made designed by the very talented swappers. This cute elephant card by stampinlibby that showed me the technique of using gamsol. This tree card. Isn’t the ribbon gorgeous? This good witch or bad witch card. The googly eyes on this card are just adorable. The  colors of this card by smileytexan are just beautiful.

The following is the door prize I won. I’m not sure who put it together, but I enjoyed it. The little tin had chocolate nuggest with stamped labels.

Door Prize I Won

Door Prize I Won