Spellbinders fleu de lis

I've been missing in action again!  My laptop stopped working over a week ago and I took it to this small company in Madison that I had dealt with previously but this time there was a new owner.  I'm a very trusting person so I left it and as we were leaving last Thursday to go to the Great American Scrapbooking Convention in Chantilly, we stopped to pick up the computer.  Well, he said the screen was gone and he had to order another one, that it would be ready on Monday.  Okay, we went onto the convention and I had a blast looking at all of the displays, new ribbons, flowers, stamps, papers, etc.  First off, I did a make & take at the Melissa Francis booth.  Oh my, her paper, ideas, albums, everything is so dreamy!  Okay, I loaded up there! and then kept looking.  I went into the Heartfelt Creations booth and spent so much time there (and money!).  Then onto Our Daily Bread Designs booth.  I left there with a hefty bag also!  Then I went back the next day and only stayed for about three hours.  Hubby was out of patience of sitting around!
Then on Monday we tried calling about my lap top and no answer all day!  On Tues. morning hubby drove to Madison.  The federal agents were at the computer store and had the guy in handcuffs!  Anyway, hubby brought the lap top back and took it to a reputable business.  We found out the guy in Madison had disconnected the screen and when he put it back on it was not connected correctly and all of the wires were cooked!  So, now I am looking for a new lap top!!
How do you like my card today?  I tried for a vintage look.  I have all of this lace I need to use up and I made the flower.  I die cut the flower and used Tea Dye distress ink to color it.  The seam binding is also dyed with the Tea Dye.  I used Spellbinders Grand Calbiur to die cut the fleu de lis patterns.  Enjoy your day!

Elijah's 5th Birthday

I just wanted to wish my youngest grandson a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!  He is five years old -- how time flies!  I started making him a card to take him tonight and got a litlee carried away!  I started out using Papertrey Ink Men of Life stamp set.  This is a great set for male cards.  I stamped the bottom of the boat in Orange Zest by PTI and the sails I stamped on the background paper which is Basic Grey.  I cut out the sails and attached onto the ivory cardstock which is by PTI.  I use mostly cardstock from PTI because of the luxury feel and the weight.  I then added a strip of orange zest and then found an old sheet of letters and cut out his name.  I used my Cuttlebug to cut out the stars.  We are taking the family out to dinner and then we have some new Cars 2 gifts.  He has been crazy about Cars ever since the first movie came out!

Happy Fathers Day

Thought I would wish all of the dad's out in blog land a Happy Father's Day.  This card could be used for any type of occasion.  I love the sentiment which is from Hero Arts -- it is one that can be used for many occasions.  The chair is from Lockhart Stamps and I use it quite a bit for masculine cards.  It is colored with Prismacolor pencils blende with Gamsol.  I used the Grand Calibur die cutting machine from Spellbinders Paper Arts using one of the nestabilities set to die cut the frames.  The green top portion is cut with a border punch from EK Success and the sentiment is punched out with Stampin Up punches. 

Sunny Days

Last week was a scorcher here in Virginia -- hitting almost 100 every day.  The weather changed Sunday night and now we are enjoying temps in the 80's.  Great, greaet.  Anyhoo, I thought I would show another picture of the shell set by SparkleNSprinnkle.  This is such a beautiful set.  I stamped the shells with white ink on watercolor paper and embossed.  Then I took several colors of the distress inks and using the Rangers Ink blending tool, I blended the colors around and over the design.  I cut out the sun and popped it up on dimensionals over brown ribbon.  You can order this set of stamps at http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/.  Have a beautiful day!

Wonderful day

I had such a great day yesterday!  Kim Critzer does all of this beautiful art work with fused glass and she had an open house yesterday and asked some crafters to set up in her yard.  She had everything arranged so nice and great food!  I was very pleased with everything, the turn out, friendly people, helpful people, etc.  Everyone needs to go to Kim's web site to see her gorgeous work -- http://www.3wishesstudio.com/.  It is a lot of hard work to set up something like this and I congratulate Kim on doing such a wonderful job.  I hope she sold lots of goddies!  Thank you, Kim, for such a wonderful day.

The card above is made with summer in mind.  I used white ink on the shells and stamped them on watercolor paper.  I then heat embosed with white embossing powder.  I then colored over the shells and the surrounding areas with Ranger distres inks using the Ranger blending tool.  I also did the sentiment Sunshine the same way except I used a brown embossing powder.  The pattern paper is from Websters pages.  The stamp set used is from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/.  Happy Sunday to everyone and hope your weekend is full of nice surprises for you! 

NOT SO MACHO MASCULINE CARDS BLOG HOP

Welcome to the Sparnkle N Sprinkle "Not So Macho Masculin Cards" blog hop.  If you hopped here by way of Shona's blog at http://www.shonasstampingstage.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right spot.  This is a hop featuring all types of masculine cards and we  hope you will hop to all of the blogs and enjoy all of the team's cards.  I have two cards for you today featuring fun baseball players.  The first card is very simple.  I colored the baseball player with Copic Markers and used the Grand Calibur from Spellbinders Paper Arts to cut out the image with the diamond shaped dies.  I then used sticky paper and cut out a larger diamond and two smaler diamonds.  I peeled off the layer of paper exposing the adhesive, stuck on the image, and then sprinkled on detail silver embossing powder to the exposed edges which I heat embossed.  This is such an easy way to apply the powder.  I then attached these silver embossed pieces to red cardstock which was layered to a black card that was cut in an A2 size.

This player was done in the same fashion as the last one except I used a new flocking color from http://www.sparklensprinkle.com/.  The color is amber wheat and I thought it was so pretty to use as "dirt".  I am donating this jar of amber wheat as part of the first place prize.  I can see using this on cattails, wheat, and many more fall items.  Whoever the grand prize winner is, I hope you will send me a copy of your card when you use the amber wheat.



lIf you missed starting the blog hop at http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/2011/05/%E2%80%9Cthe-not-so-macho-masculine-card%E2%80%9D-blog-hop then go back there and start.  Then follow each blog until you end up back at www.sparklensprinkle.com/blog/.  There is a grand prize of a stamp set of your choice together with something from each blog and the second place winner will win a stamp set of their choice.  When you leave my blog you need to hop to Patti White's blog at http://www.oursparkleadventure.com/p/not-so-macho-masculine-card-contest.html.  Enjoy your hop and don't forget to leave comments at all of the blogs for more chances to win.  Thank you for looking.

Happy Mother's Day

I'm posting my Mother's Day card a day early to coincide with SparklenSprinkle blog's showing some beautiful cards for Mother's Day and celebrating the lives of women.  You can see all of their cards at http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/.  The card I am showing for Mother's Day is:

Everyone loves flowers and pink with chocolate is one of my favorite colors.  I hope you enjoy this card and then jump on over to http://sparklensprinkle.com/blog/. and leave some comments.  Everyone have a Happy Mother's Day weekend and let your children spoil you rotten!