From Me To You

Happy Sunday!

I CASE-ed the following card from Helen Gullett and used the colours from Your Next Stamp's Colour Challenge #58:

The stamp is a digi from Verve's Love From Me; thanks Julee!

The original plan was to repeat one of the other stamps as a watermark background (similar to the original card), but I decided to combine the sketch and colours with the following challenges:

• SSS Monday Challenge: Use your favourite tool: My Fiskars trimmer is my first and favourite tool. I love its portability and precise cutting.
• Little Red Wagon: Challenge #381 Season of Love: I love Bazzill cardstock (who doesn't?). I get happy warm fuzzies just looking at the various textures, and I have an inability to throw away scraps.

... and followed this scrappy background tutorial.

This is going to be a thank you card (with a coffee gift card inside), and I am going to write the recipient's name over the coffee sleeve area. Not how it's done in real life, but I think it works.


I am submitting this to:
SSS Monday Challenge: Use your favourite tool (Fiskars trimmer)
SSS Work it Wednesday: Make something new with a new product (This digi is new for me)
Little Red Wagon: Challenge #381 Season of Love (Bazzill paper)
YNS colour challenge #58
Coffee Loving Cardmakers CASEing DT Link Up Party #10

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Baby onesie shaker card

I needed to make a baby congrats card and thought I should fancy it up, which, in my mind, means to layer it up, so I attempted this beautifully layered Mojo Monday sketch:

Layering is always such a difficult decision for me and I have to admit I paired many combinations of the pattern paper together before deciding on this final version:

In retrospect, I wonder if, instead of the faded beige, I should have chosen a pink tone-on-tone buttons pattern paper for more baby motifs.

I am happy with the bow though! Followed the tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqLv4KCebMA using some sheer ribbon left over from my wedding invitations last year, which is serendipitous because the new dad was the best man at the wedding.

Almost forgot about the main attraction - the shaker onesie. Die-cut from Taylored Expressions' Little Bits - Onesie, and filled with red seed beads and some hearts / stars confetti Julee Tilman of Verve Stamps added to my package - thank you! 

I am submitting this to:
SSS Monday Challenge: Young At Heart (Heart confetti and I am interpreting the "young" heart literally)
SSS Wednesday Challenge: Cute
SSS Work it Wednesday: Make something new with a new product (The onesie die-cut is new for me)
Mojo Monday #483

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Meet... Beans

I stumbled across Christina Hor's Hug A Heart Card Drive and this is one of the cards I sent in earlier this week; it's scheduled to arrive right on the cut-off date, so I'm really hoping there are no weather delays en route.

Apparently, I don't have a lot of heart stamps, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I searched online and I found this super-duper cute digi from Jessa Feig (https://uselesstrinkets.wordpress.com).

Meet... Beans! I printed a sheet of him on marbled paper and then the heart again on red cardstock, which I covered with clear embossing for a bit of texture / shine. Oh, did I mention how cute he is?? I am sure this is not the last we've seen of him. In fact, I made another batch of cards with Beans, but I forgot to take a photo of them before rushing the cards to the post office...

I am submitting this to:
SSS Monday Challenge: Young At Heart (This "heart" card is going to "young" children)
SSS Wednesday Challenge: Cute ('nuff said)
SSS Work it Wednesday: Make something new with a new product (Beans is new to me; digi stamps are also a relatively new realm)
YNS Sketch and Color Challenge #57 (love the bright colours, so I used a simple colour-block style for a kids card)

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What do you call a group of marshmallows?

If you can have a litter of kittens, a gaggle of geese, and a mob of kangaroos, what do you call a group of marshmallows (falling into a cup)?

The stamp set is Your Next Stamp's Cup of Happiness. The sketch is a CASE of Terri Burson's card in the Coffee Loving Cardmakers CASEing DT Link Up Party #9 and the colors are from Your Next Stamp's Color Challenge #56:

From the sketch, I liked the placement of the sentiment in between the droplets falling into the large cup below. However, now that I look at my card again, I'm not sure how all the marshmallows will fit into the cup.

I am submitting this to:
YNS Color Challenge #56
Send a Smile 4 Kids: Anything Goes 4 Kids (I discovered the Canadian branch recently and will make some extra cards to send along!)
SSS Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
Coffee Loving Cardmakers CASEing DT Link Up Party #9

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Happy Sheep

Happy New Year! I resolve to make better cards this year, so please let me know how this card can be better :) First step is to follow along with more challenges and get inspired by different layouts and techniques.

A fun, new product for me is liquid applique! I had seen "snow" on a lot of Christmas cards and now I can create snow too <insert evil cackle>, but first... sheep:

It's great fun heating up the liquid applique and seeing it puff up! I can't stop running my hands over the "wool". And, I've already prepped extra wooly sheeps for future cards...

The sheep is from Hero Arts' Happy Day Animals (CL153), which must be a super-old stamp set because it's not sold at a lot of places. The sentiment is Lawn Fawn's So Much To Say, which I love for the variety of sentiments.

My layout, color, and general idea really, came from Your Next Stamp's sketch and color challenge #55. There are sheep in the inspiration photo!!



I am submitting this to:
SSS Monday Challenge: Start Afresh (liquid applique)
SSS Wednesday Challenge: New Something (liquid applique)
SSS Work it Wednesday: Something new (liquid applique)
A Blog Named Hero: New To Me (still liquid applique)
YNS Sketch and Color Challenge #55

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My Cup To Yours

The crafting community is so very supportive. My last post was the first in two years; now, buoyed by the cheerful and positive comments, this is my second post in one week.

Browsing the 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, I saw the Verve Stamps' digital stamp set My Cup To Yours. Thanks for making this a freebie download! This is my first card with a digital stamp. The coloured backgrounds are coloured with alcohol markers. I wasn't sure if this would dilute the printer ink, so the cups are actually printed on a transparency and taped over top. (This is why my messy crafting table is reflected...)

The sentiment is from Your Next Stamp's Cup of Happiness because I still had it out from the last card :)

I am submitting this to:

2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

CASEing DT Link Up Party #8

SSS Monday Challenge: Let There Be Snow (There are clear snowflakes embossed on the top panel too!)

SSS Wednesday Challenge: Ice Inspiration (Used 3 of the 4 colours)

Simon Says Stamp Happy National Christmas Card Day

Verve Stamps December Diva Inspirations Challenge (Used a Verve stamp and I think this counts as a colourful winter card?)

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Cup of Happiness

Saw all the fun happening at the 2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and I felt brave enough to join in:

The stamp and die set is Your Next Stamp's Cup of Happiness. The leaping marshmallows just make my heart melt!

I am submitting this to:

2016 Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

YNS Sketch Challenge #54

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday

Simon Says Stamp Happy National Christmas Card Day

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