Rainbow Birthday

I really enjoyed making rainbow cards! Here I used the rainbow strips in a vertical card. I added some crystal effects to the word "Bright" for some added interest. I really lo e how these turned out. I made a few with different colors and I changed up the curve.

Gotta Catch 'em all!

In an effort to add more kids cards to my inventory I made these. I confirmed with my son on the accuracy of the pokeball. And he came up with the layout. Then I made the cards. These came out pretty good!  My son and I still play Pokemon Go even if it is an "old" game!! We would go out of the way to hit Pokestops when I drove him back and forth to school after his dislocated kneecap.  Fun times!! The Pokestops, not the knee injury! 🙂

Rainbow Card #3

Okay I promise this is the last of the rainbow cards, at least for now! This time I made them into Birthday cards.

I added some crystal effects to the word "Bright" just for some interest. 

 Here are some additional color combinations I made. Like I said these are a lot of fun to make! And it is fun to mix up the color orders and combinations as well as use the dies at different angles.

Building Blocks

What kid doesnt like Legos? I know growing up we had a TON of Legos that my brother and I would build with. Honestly I still like to build with Legos! Sadly since my son has been growing up in a digital age he does very little Lego building. But honestly with the price of Legos these days I couldnt afford to supply home with all of the fancy sets anyway! 

So...anywho...I saw this card a few times by different people and I always wanted to make some. I added a few extra details to make it my own. The sentiment is heat embossed and I colored it in with my Copics. There was a LOT of punching involved with these cards, but they were fun!

Happy Birthday Twins!

On Sunday we celebrated the birth of two crazy amazing boys! We love these two boys and there is an ongoing joke that my daughter is the "girlfriend" of one of the boys. So of course she asked me to make cards for them both. Unfortunately the past couple of weeks I have been "out of it" as a side effect from some new medicine. I have been having stomach aches, and I haven't been able to focus on anything and I have been exhausted all the time. So making this card was a little difficult. The sad thing is that it was a card from a past Fun Stampers Journey Bloom Box. So I pretty much just had to stamp, cut, and follow directions. Easy right? Well....it took me a day and a half to make it!! The stamp set is called "Deer Friends" by Fun Stampers Journey.  I did change up some of the colors as I used what I had. I colored the deer and the hedgehog using my Copic Markers. 

The day before the birthday party my daughter saw my Lawn Fawn "Hippo Birdie"  (also known as Lawn Fawn Year Four) stamp set sitting on my craft desk and she got excited and asked me to make her BF a hippo card. So.... the next morning I got up and made a new card!   I used "Hippo Birdie" as well as "Elphie Selfie" both by Lawn Fawn I did some masking as wall as paper piecing and I added the hole border using my Stampin Up "Paper Piercing Pack Essentials"and piercing tool. I made the hat with Stampin Up's tree punch thwn I trimmed it to fit. For the sentiment I actually cut my stamp apart since I didn't want the sentiment to be all on one line. I colored eveeything with my Copic markers and then added some shine to the candles using my Gelly Roll pens. I like how this one turned out. 

More Sheltering Tree

 You may remember this card from back in May. I made it with a class that I taught. I had some unused kits due to some cancellations, so I decided to make them up and add them to my collection for Craft Shows. I wanted to change them up a little bit for some more variety. So for some of them I added a silver layer and some of them I added black layers to (seen below). The lighter purple is Fun Stamper's Journey  (FSJ) "Lavender Fusion". The darker is FSJ's "Grape Fusion". I also SU's Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzaz, and Pistachio Pudding. The fancier Birthday sentiment is by Penny Black.

Fairy Birthday

Some of my favorite people were born in June! So I needed to make some birthday cards for them! I was fortunate to cross paths with Terri through the former Cricut Message Board. We talked often and have become good friends! Now thanks to the Marco Polo app we see and talk to each other daily! Terri is also a crafter so I wanted to do something special for her card. I recently bought different fairy dies, and I knew I wanted to use one for her card. So I hopped over to YouTube to find a video for the Galaxy tutorial. I found one using Stampin Up colors, but I didn't have the colors she said to use (gasp) so I compromised a little bit. Honestly though, I don't recall the colors I used. While the video gave the jist of what to do she didn't really record where you could see the card as she made it, so I kind if guessed how much color to use and how much white to keep showing. Once I was satisfied with the ink I spritzed the card with water and blotted off the water. Then I used Tsukineko's All Purpose Ink on a painbrush and added some speckles to represent stars. Then I made a mask to make the hills and used black ink to sponge in the hills. I added some trees from SU's "Sheltering Tree" using some second generation stamping. I pulled out an old, previously uninked grass stamp to add some grass on the hills. For the moon, I punched out a circle then I distressed it a little bit on the center as well as one edge. The fairy is a die which I bought from a group on Facebook (they come unpackaged, no branding).  Unfortunately I accidently posted the card to a group that she is a member of, so she saw it there before she got it in the mail. 😔 She said she loves it though!

Stained Glass Flower

I found quite a few rubber stamps that I forgot about when I recently redid my craft room.  This stained glass background was one if them. The background is by D.R.S. Designs. The flowers (Just Believe) and the sentiment inside (Balloon Adventures) are by Stampin' Up. The little "Happy Birthday" is by Endless Creations. I colored the vackground with my Copic Markers. I really like hiw these turned out!

Mojo Monday MOJO496

I have been trying to make more cards. I am shooting for at least one a day. Earlier this week a Facebook friend posted this sketch and I figured I would jump on the challenge! I made another card but I'm not sure I love it. Today in the mail I received my Hero Arts layering Goldfish stamps and dies. I had seen them months ago and have been looking in the stores for them. I try not to pay shipping if I dont have to. Well earlier this week I found both on Amazon so.... I ordered them!!! 😊 I used them to make a card for the sketch. The sentiment is from a Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps called "Happy Ocean Friends".
I just LOVE these goldfish!!!!

Birthday Bib Card

When I was at the Heirloom Arts Rubber Stamp show I picked up some new dies. I have been admiring these types of cards for years, but I don't really like to buy precut cards. I prefer to cut my own, that way I can choose the colors. So when I saw these dies I just had to have them! I picked them up from Endless Creations. I also bought this candle border from Endless Creations. I CASed a card from the owner of Endless Creations, Beth. I colored the candles and added some crystal effects to some of the candles, and some sparkles to others using my Gelly Roll pens. I used a Birthday embossing folder on the background. I will definitley be using this die a lot!