CADB Card, Christmas Friends

Merry Christmas everyone. It's my turn once again to post a card for the Card A Day Blog. This weeks theme is, Christmas and children. I found this cute little girl, and her reindeer friend digi stamp at Whimsy and Stars Studio.

I just fell in love with this cute little girl and her friend, I just had to get them.

Here is the list of materials I used to create my card.

• 8.5 x 5.5 inch piece of white card stock, folded in half for card base.
• 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 inch piece of patterned paper.
• Copic markers, E51 and E11 for skin, R59, R17 and C-1 for the little girl's hat and suit, G14, G07 and C-1 for her scarf, R59 and R17 for gift box ribbon and bow, G14 and G07 for gift box, R59, R17 for the reindeer's collar, Y08 for star, E37 and E35 for reindeer, and C-1, C-5 and C-7 for girl's shoes and reindeer's hooves.  
• Digital stamp from Whimsy and Stars Studio
• Spellbinders Die, large Fleir De Lis Squares die
• Red card stock
• Bow Easy, and ribbon.

To make my card, I first printed the digistamp on a piece of white cards stock, and colored, using the Copic markers listed above. I then cut out the die piece using the red card stock paper, then adhered my colored image on top. I then attached the patterned paper on to my card base, and attached my image and die piece to the middle of the card. I made a bow, using my Bow Easy, and attached it to the bottom of the die cut. 

This card will be one that I will give to one of my co-workers for Christmas, along with other cards that I've created. If you have the time, please leave a comment, and tell me what you think. If you want to see more cards created by our other designers, check out the Card A Day Blog, for more creative ideas, and if you get the chance, enter the Card A Day Blog Challenges that are also offered each month. You might just win yourself a prize!

CADB Card, Celebrate The Season

It's my turn again, to post a card for the Card A Day Blog. The theme for this week is, Celebration, and here is what I created.

I got the idea for my card from the site, Mojo Monday, which is a good source for card sketches, with examples of what others have created with their sketches.

Here is the list of materials I used to make this card.

• 8.5 x 5.5 inch piece of white card stock, folded in half for card base.
• Two pieces of card stock, one in a light pink, and one in dark pink.
• Three different coordinating sheets of patterned paper. I got mine from The Ultimate Scrapbook Kit in a Stack, Christmas, from Die Cut With A View.
• Viva Decor Glitter Liner, silver.
• Cricut
• Sure Cuts Alot 
• Scotch ATG tape gun
• Pop Dots

I started by cutting a piece of background paper 5 1/4' x 4', and attaching it to my card base using my Scotch ATG tape gun. I then cut out circles, using my Cricut and the Sure Cuts Alot program, one, four inches using the dark pink card stock, and another one, 3.5', in one of the coordinating papers, adhering the smaller circle to the larger circle, and attaching it to the card base. 

To make the rectangular banner piece, I used my Cricut, and Sure Cuts Alot program. I first chose a rectangle out of the basic shapes library, and sized it to the proportion that I liked. I then created two triangles, flipped then so the top points met in the middle, positioned and sized them to create the shape I wanted, then welded all pieces together, so that when I cut it, it will cut as one piece. I also grouped them together so I can move the piece as one around the screen, and re-size as needed. I cut one banner 4.75 x 3 inches out of dark pink cardstock, (also cutting out my small snowflake at the same time ) and the top piece 4.25 x 1.75 inches, out of coordinating paper, and adhering that piece to the solid card stock.

I placed the banner on top of my circles, then cut out two more snowflakes out of light pink card stock, then adhering them to the top left corner of my banner. I then added dots of Viva Decor to the middle of each snowflake.

On my computer, I typed out the words, Celebrate The Season, added a boarder, then printed it out on a piece of white card stock, trimmed it, then attached it to my card with pop dots.

Thank you for stopping by, and I sure would like to hear what you think of my card, so if you have the time, please leave me a comment, and tell me what you think. Also, you might also like to check out our monthly challenges at the Card A Day Blog Challenge. You might just win a nice prize.

Card A Day Card; Shop Till They Drop

It's my turn once again to post a card for this week's theme, Christmas Shopping, on the Card A Day Blog. Here is my card that I made following the theme, I call it, Shop Till They Drop.

Here is the list of materials I used to create my card.

• 8.5 x 5.5 inch piece of white card stock, folded in half for card base.
• 5.24 x 4 inch piece of green card stock paper, embossed using my Cuttlebug, and the Christmas Ornaments embossing folder, and another piece of yellow card stock paper, just a bit larger than the green paper.
• Red striped bakers twine.
• Copic markers, Y08, G14 and R46.
• Tall Presents stamps from, Outline Rubber Stamps, stamped on a piece of 2'x4.5' white card stock, mounted on a matt made out of a piece of burgundy card stock just slightly larger that the white stamped card stock.
• Viva Decor Pearl Pen, yellow.
• Words, " Shop Till They Drop," printed on from my computer, on white card stock.

To make my card, I adhered the yellow card stock to the card base, then I wrapped the baker's twine around the middle of the green, embossed piece, three times, spreading them out on the sides, and bringing them together in the middle, and adhering that piece to the yellow card stock. I then placed my stamped matted image on top of that layer. I typed out the words, Shop, then, Till They Drop on white card stock, cut them out, and inked around the edges of each piece, then placed them on my card using foam squares. I then dotted  some of the dots and stars on the printed image with a yellow Viva Decor Pearl Pen. I wanted to have it appear as if one of the gifts from the stack was dropping, so I used another stamped image of a gift that I had, also from Outline Rubber Stamps, and attached it using a foam square. On the inside of my card, I stamped the words, "Christmas is on its way".

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment, and tell me what you think, and if you want to see more cards created by our other designers, check out the Card A Day Blog, for more creative ideas, and if you get the chance, enter the Card A Day Blog Challenges that are also offered each month. You might just win yourself some goodies. 

Ornament Christmas Card

It's my turn once again to post on the Card A Day Blog. The theme for this week is Christmas ornaments, and here is the card I created.

The materials I used for my card are:

• Ornament, cut out from my Cricut and using the Sure Cuts A Lot program.
• 8.5 x 5.5 inch piece of white card stock, folded in half for card base.
• 5.24 x 4 inch background paper from the Cloud 9 Design Seasonal Paper Stack
• Bow made out of yellow organdy ribbon, using a Bow Easy to create it.
• Color Box Petal Point pigment ink, dark green petal pad.
• Foam Squares
• Viva Decor Pearl Pen, gold
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Beaded Oval Dies
• Cuttlebug

To create my card, I started by adding my background paper to my card base, then after inking my oval die cut, I attached it to my card base. I then glued together my ornament front to the back, and I applied it on top of the oval with foam squares. Then using my Viva Decor Pearl Pen, I applied dots around the oval, and in various places on the ornament. After making a bow with my Bow Easy, and ribbon, I applied it to the top of the ornament. I stamped the inside of the card with a greeting. 

Thanks for checking out my car, and please let me know what you think of my card, by leaving me a comment.

Latest Operation Write Home Christmas Cards

Time is quickly closing in on the deadline for sending Christmas cards for Operation Write Home. Here are the latest cards that I have created, and I will be sending them off next week. I hope to get a few more whipped up before then, and if I do, I will try to post them as well.

This first card I made using the Spellbinders Die, Holly Motifs, That I purchased at Stamping Scrapping, one of my favorite online stores, where I find myself getting into more trouble than I should..lol!

These next three cards, I made using one of the Spellbinder Dies, Lacey Circles, and stamps from the Just Rite stamp collection, Holiday Cheer Set, also purchased from Stamping Scrapping. I thought these were just the cutest little dies, I just had to have them.  

Next up are cards I made with stamps from another one of my favorite online stores, Outlines Rubber Stamps. I just love these stamps, and often find myself getting into a bit of trouble when I visit there too...lol! I guess I love trouble...lol!

After I am done with Christmas cards, I will be starting on Valentine's Day cards. I can already feel the love...lol!

Autumn Owl

Hi everyone, I hope your having a wonderful weekend so far. I now have the pleasure of being one of the designers in the Card A Day Blog,  where I have the pleasure of designing cards and posting them for others to enjoy. Every day there will be a new card posted by one of the designers, and each week, there will be a new theme. This weeks theme is Owls, and since I love owls, I had to get in on this one. This is my first post for the group, and I'm very excited.

The card I decided to make is made from digital stamps from Tiffany Doodles Digital Stamps and What nots . When I saw this little owl, and some of the card samples that where made from these stamps, I thought they would be perfect for this project.

The materials I used for my card are:
Copic Ciao Markers # E37 and E35 for the tree trunk, and E53, E33 and E35 for the owl.
8.5 x 5.5 inch piece of white card stock, folded in half for card base.
5 4/8 x 4 1/8 inch background paper from the DCWV Amber Autumn Stack
5 inch piece of fall themed ribbon.
Color Box Petal Point pigment ink, dark blue petal pad.
Foam Squares
Digital images from Tiffany Doodles Digital Stamps and Whatnots

First, I printed my digital images on white card stock, the tree is approximately 4.5 x 4 inches, and the owl is 2.5 x 1.75 inches. I then colored the digital stamps.For the tree, I used Copic Ciao Markers # E37 and E35 for the trunk, and E08 and YR16 for the leaves. I used the dark blue ink on the Color Box pinwheel to ink around the tree using a small ink dauber.  For the owl, I used Copic Ciao Markers # E53, E33 and E35. I then cut out the owl, applied two foam squares to the back, and placed him in the tree. I then attached the tree and owl on my piece of background paper, placing it just below the top edge of my background paper. Then, I attached my piece of ribbon along the bottom of the tree. Last, I attached the card front I just created to the front of the card base.

I really hope you like this little card I made, as I really enjoyed making it. Please leave me a comment, and let me know what you think.

I know I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would post some pictures of the latest batch of Operation Write Home cards that I shipped out a few weeks ago. If you don't know what Operation Write Home is, click on the link on the sidebar to the right and check it out.

The above card was made from a digistamp I purchased, but right now I can't remember where I got it from, so when I get that figured out, I'll post it, or if someone reading this knows where it came from, please let me know.

This card was made from a stamp set I have, again, I'm not sure who made it, because I have it out of it's original package, and in a binder where I've put some of my stamps in for easier access.

This little guy is from a stamp I purchased from http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/ . They have some of the cutest stamps there. Even though they are from the UK, they still offer free shipping to the US if you purchase a certain amount of stamps, or at least that's what they offered when I bought my stamps.

This cute little mushroom was out of the  Woodware Clear Stamps - Woodland Mushroom set, purchased from http://www.stampingscrapping.com which is a great place to purchase scrapping and card making products. I shop there quite often, maybe more than I should...lol! Go check it out, they have a lot of neat stuff there, and some great bargains!

Here's a Halloween card that I made, again, I don't remember where the stamp came from. I guess I need to start labeling them when I remove them from their packaging so I don't keep running across this problem.

The card with the owl, above, and the Happy Haunting card, below,  are from http://www.outlinesrubberstamp.com . This is another one of my favorite places on the web to shop. They have some of the coolest stamps there.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my latest cards, and please let me know what you think by leaving a comment. Thanks for looking...:-)

Blog Candy!!!

Michelle, from Scrappin' For Kenzie is having a blog candy give away on her blog. She's cleaning out her scrap room, and she's passing on the chance for one lucky follower to win this huge haul of supplies. If you'd like the chance to win, click on the picture on the side bar to the right, and get all the details!

Springtime Easel card

Just recently I participated in a blinky contest that was hosted by Stamping Scrapping, and I won! My prize was the Woodware stamp set, It's Springtime. I made this card with it. I won't say who or what it was for, because they haven't yet received it. I used Copic markers to color it in, but I didn't take note of which ones I used exactly, sorry. But anyway, here is the card. Let me know what you think.

Birthday Cards

I have been seeing so many beautiful creations made by people using Copic markers for the longest time, and I've been wanting to get into it myself. I purchased a few a while back, but never did much with them, I guess because I didn't have much of a variety of colors, or the right colors for blending So, I decided to take the plunge, and after much research on prices, I purchased the large set of the B Ciao markers. I really love them!

Here are my first projects made with my new Copic markers. My grandsons will be going to a birthday party next weekend, and they will need cards to go with the gifts they are giving, so I decided to make the cards my first actual project. The images of Harold, the dragon, are digi stamps that I purchased from, Digistamp Boutique. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I love dragons, and I just couldn't pass this cute little guy up. The scallops I made with my Cricut, using my Sure Cuts A Lot program, and the patterned paper is from Hot Off The Press. Please let me know what you think of these little guys.

I know, it's been a while since I've posted, a real long time actually, so I thought I'd better get a little up to date on things. I thought I would start with a couple of projects that I made for Christmas gifts for my co-workers. These are made from the Kaisercraft Advent calendar kit. They were a lot of work, but well worth it. I have an extra kit to make for my grand sons, but since I ran out of time, I'll have to make it up this summer maybe, while I'm off, for then to use next year.