Card A Day Blog Entry: Red, White, and Blue

The theme this week at the Card A Day Blog is Red, White, and Blue, and here is my entry, inspired by Mojo Monday designer, Debbie Carriere. Here is my take on her creation.

How I made my card:

First, I started off with a 5.5"x4.25" white card base,then I added a piece of red and white striped patterned paper, 5.25"x4" to the front of the card. I then cut out a piece of white card stock, 4.75"x2.25", and attached it on top of a piece of blue and white star patterned paper that measures 5.25"x2.75", I then attached that to my red and white striped paper.

For embellishments, I made four banners using the same star patterned paper that I used for the mat, placed them going in alternating directions, and then added a red button with a piece of red and white baker's twine tied into it, and placed them on the ends of the banners.

For my sentiment, I stamped the words " Thank You" on a piece of white card stock, cut around it, then added it to a mat using the same star patterned paper. I place it at the bottom of my card in the middle.

This card will be sent with my next shipment of cards to Operation Write Home, and be used for an Any Hero Card.

As always, I would like to know what you think of my card, so if you have the time, please leave me a comment. Also, if you like challenges, please stop by our blog and enter our monthly challenge. We offer a prize to one lucky winner each month.

Card A Day Blog Entry: Friendship

Hi everyone, here I am again with another entry for the Card A Day Blog. This months theme is " Friendship".

How I made my card: 

First, I started off with a 5.5" x 4.25" card base. I then cut a piece of patterned paper from the Bo Bunny Alora collection paper pack 5.25"x4", and attached it to my card base. I then cut out a piece of patterned paper from the Die Cut With A View Mariposa paper pack, 2.25"x5.25" and adhered it to the middle of my card on top of my first patterned paper.

The bird is from a stamp set from "ditto", which I purchased from a recent trip to Micheal's. I really thought this bird looked real neat, and it also came with a coordinating heart stamp. I stamped the bird image on a piece of white card stock, and colored it with 3 different Copic markers in the R and RV families. I can't remember which ones exactly, because I decided to clean up my craft area before I wrote this post, and put away all the markers I had been using. I guess that will teach me for cleaning up....lol!

I cut out my stamped image and placed it on the left side of the strip of Mariposa paper. I added an eye for my bird with a Viva Decor, Holo Iridescent glitter liner . For my sentiment, I used two stamps from the Woodware, Thank You 4, stamp sets. I like this set, because they have little sentence strips, one that says, Thank you for..., then several others that could be used to finish the sentence for several different occasions. I stamped next to the bird on the left, Thank you for..., then on the inside, " being such a good friend". I also added lace across the top and bottom of the Mariposa paper, that I purchased from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

I hope you like what I did with my card, and if you would like to leave me a comment, and let me know what you think, I would really appreciate it. Make sure to check out our monthly challenge, and if you enter it, you might just win a fabulous prize!

Card a Day Blog: Happy Birthday!

Here is my entry for the Card A Day Blog for today. The theme this week is birthday, and here is what I created.

To create my card, I started off with a 5.5"x4.25" white card base. For my card front, I added a piece of peach colored card stock, with the edges inked with pink. The patterned paper that I used to add my image to was from the Mariposa Stack by Die Cut With A View, cut at 4.5"x 2.75" and matted with a piece of  black card stock, 4.75"x3". 

The stamp that I used for my image was from a set I bought used, and since it was not in it's original packaging,  I'm not sure who made it, but if anyone recognizes it, and you know who made it, please let me know. It came with other bird images on the sheet. I stamped my image using clear Versa Mark watermark stamp pad, then I used black embossing powder to create my embossed effect. For the sentiment, I used the words Happy Birthday , from the Woodware stamp set, Pretty labels, also stamped with Versa Mark, and black embossing powder.

I thought it could use a little something more, so I added a piece of lace trim along the edge of the patterned paper, and a string of clear beads along the top of that. OK, I'll confess, I got a little glob of embossing powder stuck to the edge, and I needed something to cover it up with...lol! But I think it worked out pretty good.

I hope you like my little creation, and if you would like to leave me a comment, I would surly appreciate it. I love to hear about what people think of my creations. If you like challenges, please stop by and enter the Card A Day Blog monthly challenge, for the chance at winning a prize!

Card A Day Blog Post: Operation Write Home Any Hero Thank You Card

Here is my second of three entries I'm scheduled for, for the Card A Day Blog, this month. This weeks theme is " Thank You", and I chose to post a card I made for Operation Write Home, to be used as an Any Hero card.

To make my card, I started off with a 5.5 x 4.25 inch white card base, and since I am using it for an Any Hero Card, I usually like to use red, white and blue, so I decided to use a red white and blue striped paper that I had on hand. I cut the striped paper, 5.25 x 4 inches, and adhered it to the front of my card base.

For my embellishment, I decided to combine three different Spellbinder die cuts from three different sets. The first was from the Pecot Edge Circles, I used the second largest, and with my Cuttlebug,  I cut that one out in red. My second layer, I chose The Lacey Circles set, and used the next to the smallest die, and cut that one out in white. For the third cut, I used a die from the Moroccan Motifs set, and I used the next to the smallest die, and cut it out in blue. I stacked my white cut on top of the red one using a pop dot, then added my blue die on top of the white, and added a blue rhinestone to the center, then adhered it to the left side of my card.

For my sentiment, I stamped the words " Thank You" from one of the stamp sets I have, then matted it in blue, and then in white, and attached it to the bottom right side of my card.

Thank you for taking a look at my card, I was really pleased with how it turned out, and plan to make more of them to send with my next OWH shipment. If you would like to let me know what you think of my card, please leave me a comment. I always love to hear what others think of what I've created. Don't forget to visit the Blog A Day Blog often, for lots of wonderful card ideas from some really talented card creators. Make sure to enter our monthly challenge, for a chance at winning a prize.

Card A Day Blog post: Happy Father's Day

It's my turn again to post on the Card A Day Blog, and this weeks theme is Father's Day. The card I'm entering is a card I made a while ago for Operation Write Home.

Material used for my card are:

• A piece of white card stock, 8.5" x 5.5", folded in half, for card base.
• 4" x 5.25" piece of patterned paper.
• 3.25" x 4" piece of green card stock for mat.
• Digital stamp from Digi Stamps Boutique.
• Copic Markers.

I started off by printing my image on white card stock, then colored it with Copic markers. Since I made my card a while back, I don't remember what color Copic markers I used, all I can remember is that I used various browns, greens, black, and grays. I matted my colored image on green card stock, and then attached that on my patterned paper, that was attached to my card base. I didn't have any Father's Day sentiments either stamps or digis that would work well, so I printed the words Happy Father's Day in green, using my computer. I cut it to size, then inked the edges with brown ink, to make it stand out.

I hope you enjoyed checking out my card. I would really love it if you left a comment, and let me know what you think of it. Make sure you check out our monthly challenge. We offer a prize to one lucky winner each month.

Jill...:-) 

Two New Swaps!!!

Hi everyone. This Saturday, when I came home from a day of shopping, there was a notice on my door from the post office saying that they tried to deliver two packages, and I wasn't there to receive them, so I wasn't able to get them till today, but I did have an idea what they were. Sure enough, I was right, it was the two swaps that I was expecting.

The first one was an Easter egg ornament that Adrienne sent me for the Easter ornament swap at Lil Scrap Of Heaven. The second one was an altered Easter basket that was sent to me from Marisa. This swap was also through Lil Scrap of Heaven.

I made videos of what I got, so if you want to see everything, just click on the videos below.

Thank you so much Adrienne and Marisa. These swaps were a lot of fun...:-) Thanks to Cynthia also, for organizing these swaps for us! 

CADB Card, The Best Teacher Ever

It's my turn once again to put in an entry to the Card A Day Blog, and this weeks theme is " Teacher Appreciation ". Here is my card, The Best Teacher Ever.

Making this card was pretty simple, and here is what I used to make it.

• Die Cuts With a View, The Grade School Stack.
• Red, white and green card stock.
• Printer

I started off with a 5.5 x 4.25 white card for the base, then added a piece of 4 1/8 ' by 5 3/8 piece of the diamond patterned paper from the DCWV stack, then placed a strip of  5 3/8' by 2' piece of red card stock at the bottom of the card. My apples came from the apple patterned paper in that same stack. I cut out three different apples, and placed them across the red card stock, and then mixed up the stems, so each apple would have a different patterned stem. For my sentement, I typed out " The Best Teacher Ever! " on a piece of white card stock, and cut it down to  4 3/4" by 3/4'. I then placed that on a piece of 4 7/8 x 1' green card stock, and adhered it in the middle of the diamond patterned paper.

I hope you like my simple and quick card, and if you would like to leave me a comment and let me know what you think about it, I would surely appreciate it. Don't forget to enter our monthly challenge. We are offering a prize to the lucky winner.