Flower Thank You Cards

I was cleaning up the living room tonight (seems to  constantly be taken over by card-making supplies!) and I found this little gem that I made a few weeks ago.  It had fallen under the coffee table.

I love it- I had forgotten all about it so it was like seeing it for the first time again.

Love how the paper and flower stamp all went together.  

The ribbon has a little bit of wire in it (didn't realize this when I bought it) which made the ribbon stick out a bit more and retain it's shape.  Sweet.  Makes it seem like I know how to tie a bow.  Faker!

The flower brad was a pewter one that I coloured with a copic marker.  Thank you Theresa Unrah for that gem-of-a-tip!!!   Turned out to be a perfect fit.

Can't wait to send this one off!

Love the card template though. Think I will be using this puppy again!

A Card for Kale

A card for my Kale...
Here's a sneak peak card that will be sent out for my little buddy this week.
My sister tells me that he goes on my blog and tells her about it.

"Oh, Raz likes pink, Mom!"

Hot dawg. I love that boy!

Here's a card for you, Dude!
Now it's your turn to draw me a picture!! :o)

Man-type cards... arg!

My co-worker Garret's 28th is next week. Since we give all of our employees a birthday card, I decided to whip one up for him. Ok. Fine. Honestly, it was an excuse to stamp. ;O)
I'm not entirely sold on it as is seems so simple... The challenging part was to create a card for a guy that did NOT have any of the regular girly stamps, flowers, ribbons and other embellies that are so easy and fun to fill up a card with.
Hence, a simple card.
My current fave pattern paper is definitely Chatterbox as they have such a fun and wide variety of paper that is so inspiring!
Very simple design.
Hopefully he likes it!

Congrats on your baby...

This was a fun card to make! It is for someone at my life group who just had a little boy.  

Lots of little boys lately... I have a friend who is expecting this year and another friend who is due any day now.  Hooray for more people to make cards for!

(my family and friends will be very sick of snail mail from me shortly, I imagine)

I think I spent about 2 hours trying to decide how best to fit the format on the template, and then what stamps to use.

So obvious that I am a beginner!! Two hours?!

The stamp set I chose was a really inexpensive one at my LSS which sold for less than $2. Can't go wrong there!!

Loved the small 'boy' metal tag that is adhered to the side of the card.  A bunch of them come in the Memory Makers set which I just love.

The 'Congratulations' is a Class A Peel from Stampendous.  

For the ribbon, I couldn't make up my mind on what looked better so I adhered them together and used the combination.  I was please with the results.

One of these days I will grab some courage to dabble in distressing.  At this point, I am just too unconfident to branch out.  We will see... 

Time off from work means stamping!!

Today is Sunday, my day off.

Ahhh, how I love Sundays!  Today is extra awesome because we are hanging out at home and my boy is able to go outside and chillax with the other kiddies in the neighbourhood.

Here are the two cards I finished today.

One was my first sympathy card that I needed to make for a friend who's FIL passed away.

Not so 'sympathy'ish as I wanted to work with the stamp supplies that I had.  Gotta make my new hobby fit the budget too! ;O) 

Inside sentiment is one that I found on another stamper's site and loved. It reads 'May God's love guide you, uphold you, protect you and enfold you'.  Hopefully these are fitting words for people in pain.

Second card was my foray into the de-stressing domain.  The edges of both popped up parts (the sentiment and coloured chick) were distressed using the Memory Maker's distresser tool. Stamps are from A Muse and are so fun!  Tons of fun!  Wasn't sure if I would like it but it seems to fit?

Both cards were coloured with copic markers and stickles for added 'pop'.  

Have a great rest of the weekend!

...more cards to come soon, hopefully!

Hello VERSAMARK!!

I've been a regular blog stalker for about a month now and keep hearing about this 'Versamark' stamp.  Finally was able to purchase one and WOW- so awesome!  There's a ton that you can do with this stamp pad!  

Here was my first card experiment with using Versamark in the background.

I kept thinking everyone just had a kazzillion different types of stamp shades to get that perfect one-shade-darker colour.

Love it!

I'm thinking this will be a staple for future cards! 

Loved the Making Memories charm that seemed to fit the Stampendous stamps so well.

The second card was an attempt to use some pattern paper and the small snail and bug fit so well with it!  This card came together pretty well.

Loved the ribbon and had been looking for a place to use it where it would go. Not too bad...

Cards for Been

For those of you who know me, you will know that I spend much of my time thinking about my sister who lives in a different province.

So, much of my stamping thoughts are cards for her.

Here is one that I loved after it was made and was so excited to send to her!

Very simple in blue.

Can't get enough of those pop ups that make parts of the card stick up higher than everything else- sure adds some pizzazz!!