A Few Missing You Cards

It is beautiful outdoors and I am heading out soon but when I saw the new sketch at MFT, it did not take me long to choose making a few cards over pulling weeds.

After I made the first card, I thought maybe it would look better with a blue insert, but after finishing that one, I like the first one better.  I will keep playing around with a few more colors, ribbon, etc.
I am cutting up an old map - it will provide MANY cards. It is always fun finding a card that I can make multiples of fairly quickly so I can send them to OWH.
I used a MFT die and stamp set , You Move Me, which was perfect for cutting out the window and adding three pieces of interest per the sketch:

Okay, I'm outta here.  Have a great day - hope it is sunny where you are.

Challenges:
MFT - sketch
Craft Your Passion - things that fly
Party Time Tuesday - fussy cutting
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Crafty Hands - travel
What if Wednesday - for the guys

Totally CAS and Sunny

Today I want to share a card that is TOTALLY CAS :  print, layer, done.

Isn't this image so cute?  You can find it at Diane's Daydream Designs.   It puts a smile on my face (as does the sunshine we have been having here in the Pacific NW).
As I said earlier, I just print this out on white cardstock, ( putting a box around the sentiment first), layered it and it was done.  Even the little dots around the cloud are already on the image.  The only other thing I did was put some liquid glaze on the sunglasses so when you look at it IRL, you can see the shine.

Hope you are having a day filled with sunshine.

Challenges:
Simon Monday - yellow
Simon Wednesday - anything
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Creative Knockouts - anything
Sister Act - anything
Frosted Designs - 3words - yellow, bright, clouds

Last Card For April Release

May is almost here and the Doodle Pantry May release is in a few days.  But I am not done playing with the sets from the April release !

All elements of this card is provided in the beautiful digital set New Butterfly.

For this card I printed the pre-colored daisy onto white cardstock and then cut out another one and a butterfly with the Silhouette. 
Such beautiful paper in this set so I used a strip of it for a fish tail banner.
Here is the sketch I used:

Stay tune for the May Release.  It is going to be awesome.

Challenges:
MFT - sketch
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Simon Wednesday - CAS
Sister Act - anything
Crafty Catz - anything
Frosted Design - 3 words= flower, blue, yellow, spring, clean
Stamp and Create - flowers
Craft Your Passion - things that fly
OWH ODBD - insects
Simon Monday - yellow

For A Special Lady

The new digi makeover challenge at Paper Makeup Stamps is to make a card for a "special lady".  Mother's Day is less than two weeks away so I am sure many of you could make and enter a card with that in mind.  My card, though, is a birthday card for a DIL. 

There is history and meaning behind this card but rather than give too many personal details, suffice it to say that she loves playing the guitar, singing, and will like these bright colors.
The sentiment is by GKD.  The notes are cut out with a Cuttlebug die.
Here is the sketch I based my card on:

Paper Makeup Stamps would love to see the card you create for your special lady.  The challenge runs from today, Monday, April 28 and ends May 3rd.

Challenges I will enter:
Your Next Stamp - sketch
Through the Craft Room Door - anything
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Creative Knockouts - anything
Sister Act - anything
Love to Scrap -  3 colors(yellow, orange, green) and layout with circle in middle

Use Up Those Pieces

Taking a little time this week to use up some images that I have stamped or printed but never used.  I printed and colored this image by quite some time ago.  When I went into the company store to verify the artist, the image was not there so it is either discontinued or I assigned the wrong company to the image when I saved it.  When I first started saving digital images, I was really bad about adding the company to the description.  If anyone knows where this digi came from, I would be happy to know so I can give proper credit to the creator.
 I thought about making a "get well" card but ended up printing "well wishes" instead.

I used the sketch at MFT 
turning the panel and fish tail banner.

The background paper is Doodle Pantry from the Spring Day Papers.
After printing the well wishes onto dark Kraft, I ran it though the Cuttlebug with a wood grain embossing folder.

Thanks for looking.  Love to read your comments.

Challenges:
Through the Craft Room Door - anything
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Simon Wednesday - CAS
Crafty Catz - anything

Miss You in Multiples

As I was looking at the sketch at Tuesday Morning,  Paula's Miss You digital images came to mind.  I usually don't make multiples but am starting to do more of that for the cards I send to Operation Write Home.  I really liked the looks of this card so I did make multiples and used up some scraps in the process. 

I really like the colors on Paula's Miss You digis and using dark craft as a card base gave me lots of options to match the colors or use complimentary colors for the fish tail banners.  The banners were cut out by hand.  The circles were cut with a die.
The stitching is hand drawn with a brown marker. The stitching on the sentiment circle is part of the pre-colored digi.

Tuesday Morning Sketch

Challenges:
Tuesday Morning - sketch
Simon Monday - big stamp
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Simon Wednesday - CAS
Sister Act - anything
Creative Knockouts - anything
Simon Wednesday - CAS
Through the Craft Room Door - anything

 

April (and May and June) Showers

We had several nice weeks here in the Pacific NW which, for some reason, makes us delusional thinking we will have sun from now until October.  Ha, ha, ha.  In reality, it will rain off and on until July.  But at least it is green here ! Don't get me wrong,  I love it here but as I said in a previous post, sometimes I get tired of the clouds.
Diane's Daydream Designs has such a cute set called Sunshine and Rain.  I am having a lot of fun making cards with these images and also having fun (and frustrations) learning how to use my new Silhouette.  I did cut out these images with my machine, layering and popping up pieces.  I love how it turned out.    I cut out the sentiment with a Spellbinder oval.

The background paper is by Doodle Pantry.  I put liquid glaze on the puddle to make it look like water.
The ground is a dark light weight Kraft from the Kraft Outlet.

You can find Diane's set at the Daydream Designs Store.  

Challenges:
Kraft Journal - rain
Through the Craft Room Door - anything
Cuttin and Stampin - april showers
Word Art Wednesday - anything
Crafty Catz - b for boots
Pink Gem - spring