I don't do masculine cards...Party Preparations / Gruffie

I should clarify my subject line....I don't think I can do masculine cards. My son is turning 21 next Friday and I fussed and stewed over making him a card. I am so use to girly, pink, ribbons, flowers and bling that when I sat down to make his card I was totally at a loss as to what to do. Last year when my son left for college he asked me to please not send him any cards with cute mice or funny looking kids with no mouths...LOL! I think he was referring to two of my favorites...House Mouse and Magnolia. This year when he left for school he told me he loves to get mail and I could send whatever kind of cards I wanted. Even funny looking kids or mice. Quite the different tune he was singing this time from last year.

So I started with picking a sketch that would be clean and simple. Then I went through my stamps and quickly realized that even though I had many that weren't cute mice and funny looking kids...most were still on the cute side. So cute it is! I'm telling you, it is very hard to make a card without flowers, ribbon, bling and other embellies. I started to add some buttons then I could see him rolling his eyes so I refrained from putting any buttons on. I satisfied my urge though with adding a bit of crystal Stickles. So my card for my son is done...he will be 21 in 6 days and I'm sitting here wondering where time went. Wasn't it just yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital? "Sigh" Happy Birthday Tommy!

I am entering this into 3 challenges. All three were inspirational in helping me make this card and without these challenges I would probably still be sitting at my workspace trying to figure out what to do.

Sketch and Stash: A Sketch plus neglected and new items from stash. DP is new from a Basic Grey pad that I just bought and my neglected is the image. Sadly I bought it ages ago and never used it. So I dusted it off and finally put it to good use. The sketch can be seen below.

Our Creative Corner: ABCs and 123s

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge: Clean & Simple

Card Recipe:
Image: Party Preparations from the Gruffie line by Stampabilities (House Mouse)
Coloring: Prismacolor Color Pencils
DP: BasicGrey
Cardstock: Bazzill
Tools: Spellbinder's Nestabilities
Sketch Used:

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Friend to Friend - 3 Challenges

Back with yet another one of the CC Designs Swiss Pixies. Love these little pixies. This one is Brigitta holding a sunflower. I am entering her in the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - A sketch which you can see below
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Twos Better Than One - using two different images on your card or project- I used the masking technique to combine my two images. The tree stump is by Whiff Of Joy and the Pixie is CC Designs
Stampin' For The Weekend - Anything Goes

Card Recipe:
Images - Tree Stump by Whiff Of Joy, Pixie by CC Designs
Sentiment is by SU
Image is colored with Prismacolor color pencils
Designer Paper is by Basic Grey
Cardstock is Bazzill
Border punch by Martha Stewart

Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a great weekend. It is my last weekend with my son as he flies off to school bright and early Monday morning. Which means hubby and I are back to the empty nest till Christmas. I don't think I will ever get use to that. :)

Tilda With Presents - 3 Challenges

For today's post I'm using Magnolia's Tilda with presents. I am entering her into three challenges.
Just Magnolia - A sketch (posted below)
7 Kids College Fund - Pink & Dots - This is 7 Kids College Fund's very first challenge. A new challenge will be posted every two weeks on Wednesday...check it out!
All That Scraps Magnolia Challenge - Open Theme / anything Magnolia - This is the first Magnolia challenge for All That Scraps. They will be posting a new one on the 15th of every month.

I colored Tilda with Prismacolor color pencils. Cardstock is by Bazzill. Printed paper is from my stash and unfortunately I do not know the company name. Flowers are by Prima and the brad centers are by Basic Grey. Sentiment is Studio G clear stamps.


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Embossed Card - Paper Party Crop at CardMakers

From August 11-14 there was a Paper Party Crop over at the CardMakers swap and message board. The theme for the crop was birthdays. Each day different challenges were posted as well as some fun games to participate in. All participants have till midnight August 17th to post their creations for the different challenges to be able to be in the random drawing for prizes. Although my busy week and oral surgery prevented me from being able to participate as much as I would have like to, I looked forward to every day to see what challenges and games were posted. I have enjoyed seeing every one's takes on the different challenges. I'm entering this card in the "Go Bossy On Your Birthday" challenge which is to make a card using any type of embossing.

I used two different Cuttlebug embossing folders for dry embossing. My sentiment is by Impression Obsession which I used embossing powder and heat embossed it. I'm hoping to get a couple more challenges completed before the deadline. Hope you will take some time to check out the challenges and see every one's creation over at the Paper Party Crop. They are very inspiring!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Hello! / C C Designs

Hello friends! I am back with another Swiss Pixie design from CC Designs. This is "Heidi Among the Flowers". I am entering her into two challenges.
Stamp Something -"flowery"
CardMaker Magazine Weekly challenge on the Swap Board: Tilt A Whirl (placing elements on your card at a tilt or angle)

I colored Heidi with Prismacolor color pencils and used Crystal Stickles on her wings. Printed paper is from the Tiffany collection by We R Memory Keepers and cardstock is by Bazzill. Pearls are by Kaiser, buttons by Hero Arts and the picket fence punch is by Martha Stewart.

I'm having a hot but nice week. My son is returning from his class in Italy where he has been for the past month. I am anxious to hear all about his adventure. Hope all of you are having a fabulous week and as always...thanks for stopping by!

2 Challenges - 2 Firsts

I am entering this into 2 challenges:
Stamp Something - Something digital ( both my image and sentiment are digital downloads by CC Designs)
CardMaker Magazine / Card Swap Weekly Challenge - a sketch (pictured below)

I just recently started participating on the CardMaker message board so this is my first challenge with them and my first time to use a digi image. I don't know why I have avoided digi images, but I am glad I finally decided to try it. My image is Laying Nora by CC Designs which I purchased from allthatscraps.com. They have a great selection and wow....within seconds I had my image to size, rotate and do what ever I wanted to do with it. Plus I don't have to worry about finding a place to store my stamp in my craft room. What a wonderful idea this digi stamp thing is! I will always have a place in my heart though for wood mounted rubber stamps.! The printed paper is by Bo Bunny and cardstock is by Bazzill.




Thanks for stopping by and hope everyone is keeping cool. It has been very hot here in my neck of the woods!

Magnolia's Lapp Tilda & my fur grandbabies

I colored this image, Magnolia's Lapp Tilda, a couple of weeks ago to use for a challenge. The challenge ended, didn't have my card made.....tried for another challenge but alas that one also ended before I could get my card made. Just wasn't meant to be. So instead I made a card on the simpler side with not so bumpy embellishments so that I could use it as a note card to send to my friend in Canada. Now let's hope it doesn't take me as long to mail it to my friend as it did for me to make this card! :)
I colored the image with Prismacolor color pencils. Used some Spellbinders dies and Paper Shaper punches for the flowers and circle shapes. Cardstock is Bazzill but no idea what brand the printed paper is.


Thought I would also share my grand fur babies with all of you . No grand kids yet but my daughter has 7 dogs....yes I did say 7! All are rescue dogs. Pictured from left to right is Harley, Bear, Bugsy, Loki, Cody, Ranger and Joker. I love this picture and get the biggest kick out of it every time I look at it. One day I hope to have grandchildren without all the fur! LOL!

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