masculine card

Paper Issues is having a great masculine challenge right now. Don't know about you but i always struggle to make a card that could pass for a 'man card'. Then, when I sat down, I whipped this one up with barely any thought. 

I cut out and mounted the bike and tried to line it up so that it sort of looked like it was lined up on the lines like a road or path. I like the happy birthday stamp.  so if you're looking for a little inspiration for 'man cards and other projects' head on over to Paper Issues

chevron thinking of you

I've been loving all the Chevron Chic Challenge in the Moxie Fab World cards and decided to make one for myself. This card is one of my favorite color combos- black, grey, yellow (and white) The grey you see on my card is actually the second generation of the black chevron (Beyond Borders by Mint Motif). Love that effect and I should use it more often.

The thinking of you sentiment was cut using a nestabilitie and my cuttlebug. This is embossed in black on vellum. It seemed a little plain, so I decided to incorporate the yellow from the chevron by sponging the color on the back of the circle. 

The flower (antique engraving- Hero Arts) was stamped in black and trimmed and mounted. Then I added some yellow glaze pen and I even colored over the black part of the image and it gave the black kind of black glaze as well. The 3 layers of glaze pen made the leaves kind of curl, so it really pops off the page. Oh, and I love the font of the thinking of you (CTMH- Card Chatter-Sympathy)

happy thoughts...

Here is a card using a couple of new stamps- the daisy stamp is a hero arts cling stamp and the sentiment is CTMH (card chatter- sympathy)

this card came together easily enough. I rounded the bottom edges of the card, stamped the daisy image in a chalk ink that created a neat 'weathered' affect and then distressed the edges using the Heidi Swapp Edge Distressor. I also added twine.

For the inside I used my PTI impression plate for the inside and then I inked the edges a bit as well did a little inking to further the distress look.

tulip birthday

I used the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge of adding B L I N G to a card as my inspo for this card...This is one of my all time favorite stamps...the tulip from hero arts. My card is pretty simple in theory but did take a little time to make the woodgrain layer and then I added a layer of white stock that I stamped just the leaves and then on a separate piece I stamped and trimmed the tulips which are mounted to the card front.

The Happy Birthday layer is glued so that it is a little wavy- I love when i see that on peoples cards and low-and-behold I tried it and it worked using glue dots. I finished it by adding a little bling on either side of the sentiment. 

Enjoy your Saturday!!

let's go for a ride

the CAS sketch was so inspiring that I came home on lunch and made a card. It came together super quick, hence, I LOVE CAS!!

I recently acquired some new hero arts stamps and I used the joy ride stamp on this card.

Here is a card that i made for a wedding. The purple got a little funky in photoshop- it is actually a little bit deeper eggplant. I embossed the background onto the purple textured stock and then mounted a flower on top of that and added some rhinestones.  The card base is white, as well as the flower.

A few rhinestones to bling it up a bit!!