Doily card

It is Thursday already?  This week has flown by!  I'm getting prepared to start a new job (I guess I've started, technically, but I don't get paid for the work I'm doing this week) and with all of the trips back and forth to my new office to get everything set up, I'm getting all discombobulated.  I had gotten used to all my time in my craft room.  I'm sure once I get used to living on a schedule again everything will calm down, but until then I'm happy I managed to snag a little while to make this card.

My mom's birthday is coming up so when I saw the challenge at Simon Says Stamp for a card for a special lady, I thought it was a great time to make her birthday card.  I wanted to use some new supplies, so first I pulled out the Maggie Holmes embossing folder and embossed some white cardstock.  I don't think I'll ever get tired of the look of embossed white cardstock.  Next, I put some gold washi tape along the middle of the card.  I used We R Memory Keepers gold, and layered the two slimmer tapes in a row of three.  When I saw that the gold washi tape had arrived at my Local Scrapbook Store, I hustled right over there and bought them all (...and possibly a few sheets of the gold vellum from that collection...and a ton of other stuff too.)

The doily that's on top of the washi tape I cut with my Cameo.  It's a file from Echo Park (Design ID #32385) that I bought from the Silhouette Online Store.  I removed the cuts in the center of the doily so it would have a solid center.  The shadow was cut on white cardstock and then sprayed with Heidi Swapp Gold spray so it shimmers.  Then I stamped the word "Mom" from an AmyR stamp set in gold ink.  I put the whole thing on a piece of kraft paper.

In person, the gold colors match a lot more closely.  I can't figure out why all of my photos made the stamping look so yellow, but I'm going to blame it on the lack of sunshine to photograph by, because that's what we blame everything on around here right now.  ;)

This card is being entered into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- Mother's Day or Special Girl challenge.

Father's Day Cards

Today I'm sharing this year's Father's Day Cards.  I used a dark blue card base layered with a piece of grey cardstock that I embossed with the Diamond Plate Cuttlebug folder.  I used three cut files from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons' "Tool Time" file- I love that you can either use the silly faces or not, if you want them to be more serious.  The tools I cut with my Cameo.

The ovals are cut with the Cricut from George and Basic Shapes.  I stamped both the orange oval and the inside paper with stamps from AmyR Stamps.

This card is being entered into the following challenges:

Pumpkin Spice Blog- Father      
 CardzTV- Father’s Day      

Cut it Up Challanges- Father’s Day

 Krafty Girls- Anything Goes              

 Simon Says Stamp Challenge- Masculine/Fathers Day

Mother's Day

Hi friends!  I hope you've all had some happy crafting.  I finally pulled my Cricut out- for the first time since our move- and did some creating.  I made an A2 card on off-white cardstock.  Then I layered on some MME chevron paper, then some Bo Bunny Double Dot paper on top of that.  I used an embossing folder to emboss some vellum- did you know you could do that?- and layered it on top.  Then I used more of the MME chevron paper to create some banners.

I cut the rose from Celebrate with Flourish.  I didn't use the top layer, instead I just drew on the swirls with my versapen.  The sentiment is on the branding strip from the MME paper, which I love because it's still got the chevron pattern but it has the off-white coloring, and I stamped it with a sentiment from AmyR stamps.  I added some gems in the four corners and it was finished!

This card is being entered into the following challenges: 
Fantabulous Cricut- Mother’s Day                                                                                                                  

Bitten by the Bug 2- Mom is the best                                                                                                              

Exploring Cricut- Mother’s Day                                                                                                                        

Paper Playtime- Emboss                                                                                                                                  

Die Cuttin Divas- Sketch                                                                                                                                   

Celebrate the Occasion- Happy Mother’s Day

Anniversary

We have two very important anniversaries in August: my parents and my brother-in-law/sister-in-law.  I made them each a card with cream backing and some paper from the wedding stack that I had bought for my wedding album.  I used this cut from Stretch Your Imagination.  I cut the shadow in dark gray, then I cut the main image in light gray.  You can just barely see it on the bottom of the glasses.  I cut the silhouette in light blue, the champagne in yellow, and the ribbon in dark blue.  The Cricut cut some weird little bubbles into the champagne, but it didn't work very well, so I covered them up with bling for bubbles.

I cut a strip in the light gray and stamped it with an AmyR stamp from the Wedding set.  There's a matching sentiment inside that says "A fabulous anniversary."  I forgot to take a picture of it.  Sorry that this picture is kind of dark; whenever I tried to get it in better light the colors came out looking weird for some reason and I thought that the darker light was actually a better representation of how it looks in person.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

DL Art- Wedding or Anniversary

Fantabulous Cricut- Wedded Bliss (wedding or anniversary)

A little sunshine

It's been hot lately, hasn't it?  It makes me want to relax on the beach, in a nice cool breeze- the inspiration for this card.

It's just a regular A2 card.  The cloud was cut from Create a Critter and I stamped it with a sentiment from AmyR stamps.  I think it was from the All Women set.  I just got these on Friday, and and having a great time getting used to stamping with cling rubber stamps.  The setting sun is from Doodlecharms, and has a little Diamond Stickles to give it some sparkle.  The waves were hand cut so that they would be kind of asymmetrical, and the sand was ripped.

The woman on the lounge chair was cut from Pack Your Bags.  She's relaxing on the beach with her lemonade.  ;)  I used some polkadot paper for her bathing suit (but here's a secret- I added the orange dot on her shoulder and enhanced the pink one on her side with marker.)

See the seashells?  They add a bit of dimension because they're puffy stickers from, of all places, the Dollar Tree.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Simply Create Too- Summer Vacation

Pause, Dream, Enjoy- Sunset

Pile it On- It's a Shore Thing
Tuesday Alchemy- No work, just play