Caardvarks Wedding Card Challenge

Hi everyone. Just popping in today to post my entry for the Caardvarks Challenge. The challenge is to create a wedding card and get this, the winner will get published in CARDS magazine. How awesome is that? So, I couldn't pass up on this opportunity. Check out the challenge HERE and all the amazing inspiration.

It was hard for me to pick colors for this challenge, there are so many possibilities. But since I knew I wanted to go with the Damask background for my card, I figured I would go with bold, elegant colors because that is what came to my mind with this background stamp. I heat embossed the sentiment and added a little bit of sparkle with my frame.

Supplies:

cardstock - Papertrey Ink, Stampin' Up!

stamps - Papertrey Ink (Damask Background), Hero Arts (Sentiment)

ink - Papertrey Ink, Versamark

embossing powder - American Crafts

glitter - Making Memories

flowers - Creative Memories

brad - BasicGrey

stick pins - craft supply

border punch - Stampin' Up!

Father's Day Cards

Here are the cards I sent out for Father's Day. Actually I sent two out and just handed the one to my amazing hubby. The first card I made for my hubby, the second card for Curt's dad and the last card for my dad. It is really hard for me to make masculine cards sometimes especially when I am making a bunch at once, but I liked how these turned out. I always seem to want to add a feminine touch to all my cards and so I have resist that with masculine cards. I even carefully choose my border punches because even some of those I consider feminine. Hopefully someday this will get easier for me.

Supplies (card #1)

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Hero Arts

patterned paper - October Afternoon

letter stickers - American Crafts

ink - Colorbox (blue), Memento (brown)

Supplies (card #2)

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Stampin Up!

patterned paper - BasicGrey

twine - Papertrey Ink

ink - Memento

embossing folder - Cuttlebug

Supplies (card#3)

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Papertrey Ink

border punch - Fiskars

embossing powder - Hero Arts (white)

ink - Colorbox (blue), Versamark (for embossing)

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #6

Is it sad that I practically live for the day that Dawn posts her color challenges? I just love her color combos so much and I love how they inspire me and make me try new things. I have never been the best at picking out colors and Dawn's challenges help me with that. I seem to create my best cards because of these challenges.

I got some new Papertrey Ink goodies on Monday and I am loving every set I purchased, best buy for me in a while. I used the new stamp set bird watching for this card. I have always had a love for birdhouses and all things related. And the birds in this set are awesome. I love the decorative touches on them. How adorable. If you want to see this full stamp set, go HERE.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Papertrey Ink

ribbon - Robert Stanley Collection

ink - Memento

embossing powder - American Crafts

other - cuttlebug dots embossing folder, border punch Stampin Up!

Kristina Werner Color Inspiration #51

Hi! I have another card for you for color inspiration #51. I love the look of these colors together. I think they go good for preteen and teen girls. They are bold and beautiful colors and it shouts girl power to me. :) And because of that, I made this card with a special girl in mind who has a birthday coming up.

The butterfly on this card was done by heat embossing in white on brown cardstock and then I went back and filled in the hearts on the butterfly with cinnamon stickles to make them shine and sparkle. Every girl loves a little sparkle, right? The card itself was cut out with my Cricut using the storybook cartridge. Love all the different shapes in that cartridge, a must have for scrapbookers or cardmakers.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Hero Arts

embossing powder - Hero Arts

glitter - Stickles

ink - Memento

pen - Signo Uniball

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #4

First of all, I hope Dawn McVey and her husband, Bart, had a wonderful time on their trip to Hawaii. And Dawn was so on the ball that she set up all these posts to be ready for her blog when she was gone. And one of the posts was her color challenges. And of course I had to enter, and I love the colors. Blue and brown look so great together, elegant is a word that comes to mind.

This is just a simple card but filled with one of my favorite techniques, heat embossing. I heat embossed the background screenprint and the butterfly. Not only is heat embossing nice looking on cards and scrapbook pages, it is also so fun to do. At least I love doing it, not sure how everyone else feels about it. To finish off the card, I thought it needed a little something else and so I hand drew the frame around the screenprint background and added a few pearls.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Hero Arts, Papertrey Ink (sentiment)

journaling card - Jillibean Soup

pearls - Hero Arts

pen - Signo Uniball

ink - Memento

border punch - EK Success

Happy Birthday - Star

I know, it has been almost a week since I have posted any new stuff. I have been pretty good at posting 3 a week but it has been pretty busy around here and not a whole lot of time at the computer, only enough time for about 5 minutes here and there.

Here is a brand new card I finished last night for a special little man that is having a birthday Saturday. I have no worries he will be looking on my blog to see what is coming his way. :) I just love the star stamps from Hero Arts, they work perfectly for boy cards or boy layouts. I arranged all the individual stars on an acrylic block to make a background and then stamped them with versamark and then covered it with white embossing powder and heated. It turned out pretty good and the distressing gives it a warm feeling.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!

stamps - Hero Arts

gems - Hero Arts

embossing powder - Hero Arts

ink - Colorbox, Ranger Ink

thread - DMC

Kristina Werner Color Inspiration #49

Hi all. Here for another color inspiration challenge. I really had to make this card quick because I found out we were leaving soon to go to Easter with my husband's family and I knew I wouldn't be back in time to post this later. So, this card was made in less than 30 minutes. Not bad. It usually takes me a little longer.

But anyway, love the colors again for this week. They are so bold and I am loving that.

I hope you all have a great Easter!!

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!, Bazzill Basics Paper

patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket

stamps - Papertrey Ink

embossing powder - American Crafts

brad - Paper Studio

flowers - Heidi Swapp (large), Bazzill (small)

ribbon - ?

ink - Memento

Color Inspiration #44

This may be Kristina's 44th color inspiration challenge, but it is only my second post. I am addicted now and I truly hope I can keep doing all of these weekly challenges. It brings something new to the table for me and keeps me thinking and creating.

Colors for this week's inspiration.

Having one daughter among three sons, these colors are very appealing. I love anything that looks girly to me.

For this card I had some new Zing embossing powder by American Crafts that I wanted to use and I loved it. The color I used was rose and it worked perfectly for this week's colors. If you love heat embossing, it is worth it to pick up a bottle of their new powders, so many great ones to pick from.

Products used: CS - Stampin Up, Stamps - Stampin Up, Brad - Heidi Swapp, Ink - Colorbox, Scallop Punch - Fiskars, Dot embossing folder - Cuttlebug, Embossing powder - American Crafts, Ribbon - ?